Santa Fe Nut Brown Ale
The Brown Ale style originated in the pubs of England, where beer drinkers desired a beer that was both flavorful and complex, but at the same time mild enough to be a session beer. The Santa Fe Brewing Company's interpretation of this style uses a combination of high mash temperature, hard water, and low-alpha acid hops to produce a product that is both true to the style and distinctly Santa Fe. Brewing jargon aside, Santa Fe Nut Brown Ale is an easy-drinking beer, mild, smooth, and always a favorite. Try a keg at your next party!
Malts: 2-row pale, 30-37 l. Carastan, Chocolate
Hops: Willamette
Malts: 2-row pale, 30-37 l. Carastan, Chocolate
Hops: Willamette
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246 reviews
Santa Fe, United States
Community reviews
Bottle. Pours a mostly clear darker brown color with a moderate tan head on there. Nose is nutty and toasty with just a little bit of bread coming through for me. Taste is lightly toasty and slightly nutty on the back end. Decent beer.
bottle at club w, shared with pals, pours clear brown dar with thin white head, aroma is sugar and malty nuts, taste is similar, decent
Clear dark Amber with a thin beige cap. Interesting nose of very light Costa Rica coffee and herbal hops. Chewy toast flavor with a kiss of herbal bitterness and toasted dough.
Mid aroma of malted grain, cereal, hazelnuts, and caramel. The mouthfeel is on the thin side, with moderate but adequate carbonation, making for a very sessionable drink. The taste mostly follows the aroma notes, for a nutty, caramely sweet with a slight grainy bitterness to it. The finish is clean and gently dry. Straightforward, simple, unexciting, but it gets the job done and goes quickly.
"Light caramel and nuts in both the aroma and flavor, but both aspects are fairly weak, with the added benefit of a watery thin feel. Not offensive, but not real good either."
Beer #3 of NM 100. On tap at Gecko's. Hazelnutty. Too syrupy and sweet. Finishes dryer though.
12 oz bottle into a pint glass. Pours a dark brown, with a medium light khaki head that quickly fades, leaving fair lacing. Nose is medium roast malt. Taste is mild malt, with an odd iced-tea-like flavor. Very short finish. Moderate carbonation. OK for a session beer, nothing special.
Deep brown pour. No head. Toast, nutty, roast and burnt sugar aroma. Medium body. Enough carbonation. Flavor is balanced. Burnt toast. Bready. Mild to no hops. What hoppiness there is seems to be earthy medium dry finish. Mild bitterness.
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I had this on tap. It has a pretty nice malt flavor, although understated, and it is very under-hopped, so it lacks anything to distinguish it. It is a golden brown color with a nice head.
Pours a dark reddish brown. Crystal clear. Thin tan head. Aroma is lots of sweet malt with some floral. Flavor is malty and nutty. Very smooth. Very clean medium sweet finish. Nice beer.
Twelve ounce bottle from Beer Of The (Every Other) Month Club. Medium dark amber/brown color, sweet malty nose, sweet malty flavor compromised by chemical notes, astringency. Probably not the best introduction I could have to this particular brewery.
Bottle brought back from New Mexico by my buddy Holt. First NM beer I've tried. Nice brown cola color. Aroma of nuts and roasted malt. Taste is smooth. A good brown ale.
Cannot get any of Santa Fe’s brews around here but we got lucky and got this 1 bottle. Love this brewery, visited it in the fall of 2012, great time.
Bottled, somewhere in Santa Fe. Red-brown colored, medium head. Malty nose, some hops, caramel. Caramel malty flavor, some licorice, dry in finish. Not bad, but not really my kind of beer.
1/27/2014: Santa Fe Nut Brown Ale... Nutty and roasty with a bit of hop flair in the finish; textbook Nut Brown that’s quite good; beautiful deep amber color. 12 fl. oz. bottle (5.13% ABV) from Brian. Thanks! Rating #216 for this beer.
Red brown and translucent. Little lacing. Very nutty aroma. Nutty taste a little sour. Lacks complexity. Medium body and fizzy.
This is a pretty good brown ale overall. Not as good as some of the higher rated browns, but nice aroma and taste.
Pours a reddish brown into pint glass. Has faint aromas of honey, brown sugar and molasses. Nutty taste of almonds, wheat and honey. A slight dry smokiness in the finish. Nice finish on the palate.
Pours a clear dark brown with a light tan day. Aroma is smoked toasted nuts. Taste is malty and sweet up front followed by a clean nuttiness that finishes dry. Very nice.
Beer of month club. Pours a clear brown - looks like a dark nice tea. Nose heavy on malt. Taste of malt, nuttiness, and some caramel sweetness. Ok.
Crystal clear medium brown with a modest off-white head and ok lace. Aromas of cashews, hazelnuts, toffee and coca. Flavor is mostly caramel and bready malt, with plenty of nuttiness and a gentle hop kick. Medium body and carbonation, sticky mouthfeel, and a sweetish finish.
12 oz bottle into an over-sized stemless wine glass. Brown and clear with a white head and light lacing. Aroma and flavor of toasted malts, toffee, caramel, nuts, light chocolate, light roast and earthy, light bitter hops. Smooth and session-able with a light to medium body. A solid brown ale.
From bottle, pours a Ceylon tea color, aroma lightly caramel, nutty, toasty, with the palate showing kiln-dried malts, nice light balanced hop bitterness and malt sweetness, finishing like a refreshing lager. The scores are low here on this beer, but I think the style is more finesse, a style reviewers just aren’t getting.
11/2/2013. From bottle. Pours copper color with a tan head. Caramel aromas with malt, fruit and nuts. Semisweet flavors with honey, nuts, spice and caramel. Easy to drink but boring.
Pours a cinnamon brown with a minimal head. Flavor is mild chocolate with a rough palate.
12oz bottle, thanks to my parents for bringing this back from a road trip. Mostly clear red / brown color. Minimal off-white head. Nutty, chocolatey nose. Smooth, crisp lighter carbonation. Medium body. Lightly sticky in the finish. Some caramel malt. Light bitter taste. Moderate sweet. OK brown ale.
I am not a big fan of nut ales but this one has a good kick to it that I don’t mind. It’s a little strong on the palate so be careful.
This isn’t a bad brown, but I am again discouraged by the fact that they like to mix English and American. I know hops are expensive, but if you make an English brown, then the hops should be imported. I like a good roasted brown with hints of chocolate, but the wrong hops can ruin it.
Chestnut coloured with off cream head. Malty aroma. Light sweet malt taste, slight bitterness. Almost like a mild. Very nice actually, I really liked this one!
Pours dark brown with a white head. Aroma is roasty. Taste is sweet with roastiness that fades quickly.