Uncommon Brewers Bacon Brown Ale
It’s a simple fact of life: bacon makes everything better. From eggs to ice cream, delicious bacon is turning up just about everywhere, Our uncommon contribution to this cured pork renaissance is the Bacon Brown Ale. This is a West Coast Nut Brown Ale brewed with toasted buckwheat and a generous serving of bacon-cured pork.
3.1
166 reviews
Santa Cruz, United States
Community reviews
On tap at Bøker & Børst, Stavanger. Pours clear dark brown, small creamy beige head.Aroma is sweet malty with a whiff of flower, more specific rose. Taste is sweet, bordering cloying, fat and sugary mouthfeel,almost no traces of bacon or smoke, mediocre beer.
16 ounce can. Pours a mostly clear dark red brown color with a small white head. A nice smooth coffee and chocolate toast nose. The flavor is berries, toast, light smoke, fruity hops. Very flavorful and smooth. Nice. I love me some hoppy brown ales, and pork is a bonus.
Can. Pours a mostly clear very dark brown color with a moderate tan head on there. Nose has hints of roasting and toasting, and a bit of caramel underneath. Taste is toasty and has just a hint of bacon, though I wouldn’t have guessed based on flavor alone. Not bad.
Can shared by Bruce pours Brown with white head. Taste is roasted malts. With some sweetness
Pours two and half fingers of tan head on a brown body.
The aroma is mild: toasted malt and lemon.
The taste is fairly lemon hoppy, sharp bitter, slightly metallic and just a little nutty.
The texture is crisp and fizzy.
An okay brown ale.
Very slight bacon aspect that you probably wouldn’t recognize as such unless it said so on the can. that said, this was a pleasant brown ale, robust in flavor and smooth. Enjoyed, just not as bacon-y as i hoped :)"
Can. Darker brown pour. Aroma of caramel malts. Flavor is a little bacon and some maple syrup like sweetness, along with a little bitter character.
Keg, pours dark brown, aroma has caramel malt balancing with mild smoke, not much bacon. Texture is creamy, carbonation is average.
Keg in the North Bar, Leeds. Deep brown with a cream head. Disappointingly there’s very little in the way of bacon notes. Tasty non the less. Toasty with caramel and coffee and an ashy finish.
Can at Craig’s. Pours brown, nose is light toffee, smoky, taste is a little smoky, dry, toffee, it needs more bacon.
Keg at The Hanging Bat. Pours clear dark brown with a thin off-white head. Aromas are light smoke and light brown malt. Taste brings more sweetness than smoke. Medium to light body, clean finish, little thin in the mouthfeel. OK.
16 oz can pour. The curiosity got to me on this one. Pours dark cola like with fizzy tan head. A decent nutty flavor with a little smoke to it. Not really getting any bacon out of this, but it tastes good as it is. Flavorful. Not bad.
From the bottle this poured a medium brown colored body with a tall (too tall) rocky tan head. The aroma had a faint generic maltiness with something "off" that may or may not have been bacon. I was expecting more from the flavor. This was pretty much like a standard brewpub brown ale from years back that has a charred bitterness that (again) may or may not have been bacon. One’s enough for me.
Split a 16oz can with some friends. Poured a medium-dark brown color with a medium sized tan head. Aroma was some roasted malt, sweet caramel character, maple and a touch of meaty smoke. Flavor was maple, some light candy, and smokey bacon character. I was hoping for a bit more bacon notes in this.
16 oz can. Pours dark brown. Thin white head. Scent of smoke and malts. Taste is nice and smoky. A little peppery. Not bad.
16oz can pours a slightly hazy brown color with a thin off white head that leaves light lacing. Smells of caramel, salt and toasted malt. Tasted the same. Mouthfeel is thin and watery with light carbonation. Pretty disappointed in this bland beer. More salt than bacon in the flavor. Not worth the price in my opinion.
Semi-opaque brown with little to no head. Aroma is basic brown, with very little smoke evident. Taste is brown with bitter phenolics, like cheap liquid smoke. Overall, not much smoke or anything else character, but it does have a worty aftertaste. $3/pint-can
No bacon really. Very malty, slight smoke, and slight slight salt. Slight hops.
Way too thin. For a bacon beer, it should be thick and greasy and oily. Good coat on the tongue. Great brown ale, but no Bacon
Tap. Color brown with small white head. Aroma malt, roasted, caramel. Taste sweet, roasted, caramel, nuts, bitter.
Rating #966 - February 10th 2014 - First #BOTW at Coop (bit of a flub, only got two flats and they were gone the first day, so more like a #beerofthesunday - $4.29 CAD for a 500mL tall boy can. Pours a rich nut brown colour. Aroma is a little bit of smoke, mostly dark roasty notes, mild coffee, mild cocoa. Palate has more depth, get the rich smoky cured notes from the bacon and lots of pleasant sweetness, caramel, nuts, and a delicate bitterness. Awesome start to #BOTW.
Tall can in Seattle. Dark ruddy brown, soft tan foam. Odd beer- this really doesn’t work. Sour malt aroma, no smoke. Creamy under developed body, sweet cream. Nothing crisp, dry or smoky. Not a good brown ale, nothing bacony either.
Keg at the Euston Tap, 22/01/14.
Dark chestnut brown with a big old beige head.
Nose is toffee, subtle smoke, oatmeal tones, biscuit.
Taste is fairly sweet throughout, toffee fudge, bubblegum, less of the smoke, brown sugars.
Medium bodied, soft carbonation, sweet closure.
Ok offering, a little overly sweet and sugary, lacks depth for 6.8%, would struggle with more than a half of this.
Pours a sorta semi clear brown with a massive beige head that leaves average lace up the glass. Aroma is caramel, light smoke, brown sugar, mildly nutty, and yeah actually slightly bacon like though I don’t think I would have come to that without knowing. Flavour is brown sugar, nutty, caramel, mildly bitter, fizzy, moderately over carbonated, kinda salty, a touch acidic(possibly Carbonic acid), and mildly smokey. Interesting idea though an average result.
Visual: Comes in an aluminum tall can like all their other brews. Pours cloudy brown with a lasting creamy head, lacing, and lots active streams.
Nose: caramel malts, brown sugar, but just a hint of smokiness. (2)-aromatic strength.
Attack: incoming acidic caramel malts, fizzy/creamy
Mid-palate: alcohol detection, (MAIN) roasted caramel malts, brown sugar
Finish: (6)-sourness, (2)-mild meaty saltiness, (5)-hoppy bitterness.
Summary: A decent drinkable brew but it doesn’t have much bacon flavour that it advertises. (Note: numbers above are on a 10-point weak-strong scale)
April 4, 2016 Tasting:
Visual: Pours muddy brown, 1cm super foamy stick head, very active singular micro streams.
Nose: bright sweet brown sugar toffee malt, caramel apple (lvl-6)-pungency
Attack: crisp-cream/fizzy
Mid-palate: toasted brown sugar malt, (lvl-6-sweetness), alcoholic toffee malt, tangy-light sour
Finish: subtle smoky exhale, residual sweet malts
Summary: Quite an enjoyable toasted malty brew with a hint of savory twist. Like my initial review, not a whole lot of distinct bacon flavour.
Canned 09NOV12
It’s a light brown on amber with a near solid sheet of fine light tan foam. Brilliant clarity. Smells of some urine, a little tallow and some sweet malts. Really unappealing nose. Flavor is grain, bitter, some bread, some biscuit and toasted malts with a hint of coffee. No real bacon flavor. Medium on thin for the style with moderate carb. Really nothing I can find particularly appealing about this beer, poor execution.
can, from lets pour.com. medium to lighter bodied brown pour. higher carbonation. fizzy head and mouthfeel. Nutty brown ale, bready, little to no pork/bacon notes. average brown ale
Can from the Nugget Market, Woodland. Brown pour of medium depth, a finger of creamy brown head. Nose of light roast and smoke, along with a noticeable amount of sweetness. Must be the buckwheat. Carries through to the taste... minus any real bacon taste. More sweet than expected... not bad, but I had different expectations.
16 ounce can received in a trade with bytemesis. This pours opaque amber brown and has a creamy one finger head that leaves a layer. The aroma is cocoa and, yes, bacon. The flavor is those plus earth and some citrus hops. Nuts, brown sugar, and light smoke. Some really rich malts are heavy. This has a lot of nice stuff going on but not enough bacon. It falls a little short of hopes.
Clear copper color with light tan head. Black licorice, herbal, minty aromas. light body, average carbonation. Dark caramel, mild dirt, nutty flavors with rootbeer spices-------------no comment
Can: Deep copper, thin sudsy tannish head, little lacing. Seems like soft smoked malts on the nose.
Almost seems like some mesquite, or that charred wood one would use for smoking meats. Moderate biscuitiness on
the tongue, sweet, not sticky but I could see where too much of this might wear on someone. Faint smokiness.
Got more on the nose. Body and mouthfeel are moderate. Does feel a little like cough syrup on the backside.
Not all that hoppy, sweet, biscuity, with very faint smoke/mesquite. Not as good or as interesting as I had
hoped... as I do love bacon!