Bear Republic Peter Brown Tribute Ale

Peter Brown Tribute Ale is malty American Brown Ale, brewed with molasses, brown sugar, and hopped with Cascade and Centennial. It’s just the way Pete would have wanted it.

GABF 2004 Gold

GABF 2006 Bronze

GABF 2015 Silver

3.5

660 reviews

Cloverdale, United States

Community reviews

3.6 Pours a deep brown with a tan head and lacing. It has a mild aroma of malt, toast, and a bit of coffee and chocolate. The flavor is slightly toasty malt up front with a sweet backbone and faint chocolate finish over a medium body.

2.8 Draft at Pico. Mildly sweet, light roast, underhopped finish. Low complexity but high drinkability. Ehhhh.

3.0 Bomber thanks to RespertFTW from notes. Opaque brown with a light head. Overly mild and unmemorable.

3.5 Bottle @ THT November. Pours a clear brown, reddish beer with a small ring of off white head on top. Aroma of coffee, chocolate, malts, caramel. Flavor is soft, sweet, some chocolate present. Aftertaste is also sweet, very subtle and nicely balanced. Good stuff.

3.5 Sampled from bottle @ THT November. Clear red-brown color, small off-white head. Smell and taste malts, slightly coffee, hops, lightly bitter. Medium body and soft carbonation.

3.6 Bottle @ tht. Aroma is roast, mocca, coffee, liquorice. Flavour is caramel, roasty, liquorice

3.3 Poured dark reddish brown with an off white ring. Aroma of sour berries, liquorice, treacle and caramel malt. Medium body, flavour as the aroma, sticky sweet finish.

3.2 Bottle at THT. Clear deep copper red pour. Aroma is caramel forward, light toasty notes. Taste is sweet, malty, a bit bland, caramel toffee, maybe not super fresh. Palate is med bodied, light carbonation. Meh.

3.7 Bottle from Beers Of Europe. Poured a clear dark brown with a frothy broken off white head. The aroma is rich malty caramel nutty. The flavour is moderate bitter with a rich creamy roasty nut light bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.

3.4 Bottle shared thanks to Jmgreenuk. Pours dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma of caramel, fudge, malt, light cocoa and light sweet overripe dark fruit. Flavour is moderate sweet and bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

3.5 Bomber courtesy of and shared with JMGreenUK. Thin off white head. Clear amber pour. Nice hoppines.. Very nice

3.0 Brown in colour, treacly taste. Not bad. Just had a small taste from a bottle at an SF beer festival.

3.7 "this was a good brown ale with a slighly higher abv than normal and a nice malty backbone and a slightly hoppy finish. very well done for a style that’s hard to stand out in."

3.1 Draft at Mudville 9 NYC. Pours a deep brown color . Hints of nuts, malt and coffee chocolate. Very flavorful and easy drinking

3.9 Bomber @ 8th Shrewsbury Bottle Share. Pours very dark brown. Sweet dark fruits, smooth sweet malts, some nuttiness, but exceptionally drinkable. A great interpretation of a Brown Ale.

3.4 Bomber between four at the September 2014 Shrewsbury bottle share. Chestnut brown body with a white crown, semi-sweet malt molasses in both the nose and taste. Mild wood and nutty feel to the medium depthed body, those malts completely ruling the flavours and not allowing the hops to assert themselves. I quite liked it though.

2.8 Pours a murky dull-copper color with a sizable, sudsy, khaki head. Roasted malt and toffee aromas. Both of which are mild. Medium-bodied with some mild burning, scrub. Toffee, a little fruit, and roasted malt. The roasted flavor takes on a bit of that home-brew-syrup malt off flavor.

4.3 Mike, thanks a ton for this. You da man! Two bottles, one poured into a pint glass and the other was poured into a mug. The appearance was a hazy brown color with a one finger white foamy head in both glasses. The head lasted a bit longer in the mug than the pint and once the head died the lacing was the same in both, kinda messy and all over the place. The aroma offered a strong caramel to molasses sweet nuttiness. There was a light toffee lightly pervading. The taste followed the aroma in pretty much the same way. On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a pretty good sessionability about it. This one just rolled right on over my tongue in such a graceful way - wow! Overall, this is quite an impressive Brown ale that I know I would have again. This was very worth seeking out.

3.6 Bona cervesa, és bastant equilibrada i gustosa. Buena cerveza, es bastante equilibrada y sabrosa.

3.9 Bomber from Steve’s in Fitchburg, no bottle date and cellar aged about 2 months before I got around to it. Pours a cola color (brown with nice reddish highlights) with a beige colored spongey head. Some drips of lace down through the glass. Aroma has sweet molasses, caramelly malts and some nice roast. Not expecting the coffee component - from a Brown! Taste is of sweet caramel, some brown sugar and some molasses, yet not overly sweet, as roasty nuttyness fought through. Medium to full bodied with a bit of an alcohol presence, and thick enough to be a porter. Finishes to the sweeter side of the bitter - sweet scale, but nothing cloying about it. This is a nice brew; quite unexpectedly so. Kudos to Bear Republic. 14.8

3.8 Pours brown with a khaki head. Malt, caramel, toffee, toast, chocolate and nutty aroma. Malt, caramel, toffee, biscuit, chocolate, nut, hop and brown sugar flavors. Medium body and carbonation with a dry caramel and toffee finish.

3.1 Draft at the mutha fucken bear killa bar. Nose is burnt bread. Some toast taste is very dark bread. A little dry and thin.

3.8 Well its a brown ale. Actually its a pretty good brown ale. About the best I’ve had, right up there with CC Maduro. Tawny brown color, modest foamy thick head. Nose is a touch nutty, molasses, caramel. Flavor similar, with touches of chocolate, more nutty and a light herbal hop finish, hint of spice (almost nutmeg but not) and possibly citrus, and balanced clean finish. Overall very clean fermentation profile. Very drinkable with flavor.

4.0 Good brown ale . Smokey, with slight brown sugar taste. Kinda a more hearty beer,Very nice beer served cold.

3.9 Pours a deep ruby red brown. With a small off white head. Aroma of faint fruit and syrup. Tatste is sweet dark syrupy with a nice faint bitterness in the finish to offset the sweet nicely. Well balanced b

3.4 Alliswell, Brooklyn tap ($7): Pours muddy brown with a beige head. Aroma is light chocolate, with some caramel malts, and brown sugar. Taste is a substantial brown ale. Quite malty. It is not too sweet. Subdued hoppy undertone. Pretty good.

3.6 Cerveja com aroma equilibrado de maltes e lúpulos, porém intenso. Na boca o que predomina é o amargo.

3.3 Bottle. Aroma of molasses and brown sugar and chocolate, tobacco. Pours brown thin head. Taste was okay, a lot of flavors but didn’t care for how they all played off each other. Medium-full body, malty finish. Just ok for me overall.

3.6 Appearance: dark, dark cola brown, beautifully backlit a deep maroon; two fingers of thick, frothy light tan head that slowly shrinks to a creamy, almost nitro-looking cap; generous lacing. Aroma: smells great -- brown sugar is prominent, with caramel, some toffee, root beer, leather, chocolate, and cherry pipe tobacco. Taste: molasses, burnt caramel, chocolate, raisins, vanilla, cream, cherries, brown sugar, and werther’s originals, because my grandson is special, too. Finish: seemingly full-bodied (likely due to low carbonation), with lingering burnt sugar, leather, cola, and tobacco notes. Notes: Not as light bodied as expected. Palate was quite full and the flavors were pretty rich for a brown ale. Clearly well done, and I enjoyed it well enough.

3.2 Bottle from chans wine world, destin, florida. Dark brown color, smooth tanned head. Aroma is roasty, nuts, suryp and fruity. Low co2, light body, roasty, some coffee, raisin.