AleSmith Nut Brown English-Style Ale (Bottle and Draft)
AleSmith Nut Brown is a tribute to one of our favorite British styles. Deep mahogany in color, its rich, malt-forward flavor profile balances notes of biscuit, mild cocoa and earthy hops. A creamy mouthfeel and full body enhances its drinkability, making Nut Brown an extremely sessionable ale that embodies our commitment to quality.
3.6
895 reviews
San Diego, United States
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12oz in shaker. Deep brown, some haze, medium ecru foam with appealing lace. Subtle toast nose. Grape Nuts soda, more or less, is the general thrust in flavorspace. Clean palate helps in delivering refreshment. Competent but not very daring.
Sweet bready caramel malt aroma with light earthy hop
Pours a dark amber brown with small creamy white head
Toffee slight burnt woody malty flavor with earthy hops.
Medium bodied with medium co2, lingering earthy finish.
Well balanced and easy to drink. Porter like brown.
Deep leathery mahogany brown in the glass. Way delicious cocoa aroma with a hint of coffee. Same goes for the flavor, with and added hint of nuts, pine and almond. Over all, the BEST English brown ale I've had... EVER.
12 fl oz can (yup American). Pours dark brown red with medium fawn head. Nuts & sweet malt on the nose. Medium body & same flavours carried through from the aroma. Well moderated touch of malty sweetness, balanced by slight bitterness & that cunning nuttiness. At least I think it's cunning - no ingredients disclosed so we have no idea what they put in the can.
Bottle. Milk chocolate, hazelnuts, light bitter, light creamy mouthfeel. Simple and tasty.
Brown with a dark off white head - Malt aroma - Malt body with some caramel and some hop bitterness - The malt goes into the finish with some bitterness - This was nice
Truly good. Sweet bread and nut aromas and flavors. Dark brown sugar color. Medium weight.
很易饮。打马车一盘一口，没注意味道……比 stone 喝过的一款棕艾偏淡
From a 355ml can on 26/11/2019. Pours a a deep brown with a medium head. The nose is malty with lots of biscuit, cocoa and milk chocolate. The flavour features the same, particularly the biscuit malt, with a bit of brown sugar. Finishes with an extremely gentle bitterness. Has a slightly creamy mouthfeel and moderate carbonation. Solid drinking but unexciting.
Solid, smooth finish. Easy drink, would get a 6 pack of these for sure.........
Tap at PAMP. Brown with small white head. Roasty malt but balanced with light hop and grain. Rich biscuit. Very tasty for this style.
0,3 litre Bottle from Total Wine And More, Laguna Hills, Ca. Clear brown with little offwhite head. Malts, Caramel, sweetness,
Cask at Golden Cross, Bromsgrove. That’s more like it! Delicious. Dark brown with patchy off white head, foam clinging to glass. Aroma is treacle. Taste is malty biscuity sweetness, sugary treacle, coffee, smoke, ending in a dry finish. Good. Brewed by Shepard’s Neme exclusive to JDW apparently.
Cask, William Wygston, Wigston. Dark brown with an off white head. Sweet bready toffee malts with earthy coffee. Tangy berry notes. Creamy body. Nice brown ale.
It's a brown ale, if you like browns you should know what to expect. I'm not going into aroma, flavour or whatever as this is another from Ryan Smith, a name always worth looking for and once again bringing a welcome touch of US craft to the handpumps of the UK-wide Spooneria beer fest.
Compared to the ubuitous corporate sugar sludge-pit known as Newcastle Brown (and some indie UK browns, sorry) this is great. It seems daft that once again a US brewer has taken one of ours and turned it into what it should be and maybe once was. And that's coming from a man with a preference for hoppier, paler beer varieties. We have great indie companies in the UK but many US breweries are genuinely better with flavours and ingredients.
So why can't Alesmith Nut Brown be permanently available? Because it's got 'stuff' in it, that's why. Costs money. Or maybe it's just had more care put into it, either way is fine by me.
So come and set up over here Ryan, we're behind you. And if you need someone to look after the UK marketing, Fat Carlo has the stomach of a concrete rhinoceros...
Surprised to find it in the Spoons Fest. Pours mahogany body with thin lace top. Aroma of roasted malts. Taste is medium sweet to bitter with more treacle than but in my opinion. Decent without any pretensions to being more.
Pint at the three John Scott's Jdw.
Thin creamy beige head. Clear amber pour. Served too cold.
Pours a dark caramel brown. Malt, toffee nose. Malt forward flavours, bread, burnt caramel, spice. Quite dry but a hit of bitterness at the end to freshen it up.
Pours deep brown with light head. Medium body with soft mouth feel. Malt forward with astringent finish. Very nice refreshing beer.
Bitter chocolate and cocoa flavor, sweet, fairly mild.
Can, 9C (too cold?). Clear brown with a pale beige head that settles to a cm. Aroma of chocolate, bread, mildly earthy and spicy hops. Fairly light bodied. Moderately sweet with a dryish and spicy bitter finish. Fine but not much character.
Taps translucent sepia with a fair buff head. Aroma delivers toasted malt, nutty and earthy tones with hints of spice. Flavor supplies toasted malt, caramel, nutty, earthy notes with a hint of clove. Texture presents peppy fizz and good body. For those who are nuts about brown ale.
Enjoyable English brown, like a cocoa-dusted toasted biscuit underlined by subtle dark fruit notes and a mild floral-mineral bitterness on the back end. Caramel sweetness peeks through the yeasty finish, but the fade remains dry with hints of almond, pine, and pumpernickel. Perfect beer to combat summer pale lager proponents. ("Refreshing" is not a flavor, dammit.)
On tap at a pub. Medium chestnut brown with a thin tan head residing. Scent is mild to scentless. Taste is somewhat mild, toasty brown ale without much excitement. Finish is too cold. Served too cold. A bit of capsaicin. Very good.
Aromat karmelek i orzech laskowy ze skórka. Aromat mało intensywny. Ciało lekkie, niska goryczka, trochę orzechowego posmak. Ot do bólu klasyczny przykład brown ale.
Barwa ciemnobrązowa, przejrzyste. W zapachu lekko tli sie aromat skórki od chleba, przypieczonego spodu od ciasta i karmelkowych landrynek. W smaku dochodzi parzona, czarna kawa i toffi. Goryczka niska, niewyczuwalna. Lekko wodniste, bardzo klasyczne.
Smells of nut and chocolate. Little coffee. Dark brown with a reddish tint. Taste is nutty, malt, slight coffee, and slightly earthy, with some toffee.
Butelka 0,33 litra, zakupiona w Bierland - Kraina 1000 Piw. Barwa miedziano-brązowa, klarowna.
Flasa. Tmavo jantarova, az hneda farba, slaba nahnedla pena. Vona lieskove oriesky, karamel, prezrete ovocie. Chut sladova, nasladla, karamelova. Prazdnejsie telo, stredna nasytenost.
Bottle, thanks Vesna. Nutty, chocolate, caramel and roasted malt. Clear brown color with no head. Fresh hazelnut, Nutella. Medium body, soft carbonation.