Brown Ale
Bottle picked up at Huckleberry's in Spokane for $1.19(?). Poured a transparent garnet color, with a medium sized off-white head. Head dropped fast, with virtually no lace. Smell was of caramel malt, with a mild rostiness. Slight cola-ish scent. Pretty much smelled like an average brown ale. Tasted very similar to the smell. First there's the sweet caramel malt, then the roastiness. There's a mild hoppy dryness at the swallow. Again, very typical brown ale here. Fits the criteria of what a brown ale is supposed to taste like without standing out even slightly. This is a medium bodied ale, perhaps a bit toward the lighter end of the medium spectrum. Carbopnation is about normal for the style. This is a typical brown ale - nothing more, nothing less. It would work well as a decent session beer, especially for the novice beer drinker that is trying a dark beer for the first time. Personally, I'm not that into sessioning brown ales - too much caramel sweetness for too many pints. This goes down easy enough, though.