Sierra Nevada Tumbler Autumn Brown Ale
Pours ruby brown with a thin taupe head. Kola and toast on the nose. Milk chocolate and brown sugar malts, a bit of band aid phenols and slight pine resin and mint hops. Tingly, slightly chewy and medium. This is a pleasant but thin and indistinct ale that should really be called an English Brown, not American. The low rating, though, is based on expectations: SN on the label should mean it brings the hops, and this just doesn't. At all. Maybe that's not fair, but would this be an average of B+ if it was from some small anonymous brewer? Understated to a fault.