Sierra Navada Beer Camp, Simmer Down Brown, Brown IPA

[Bizier]

I was jealous before. I'm more jealous now.

 

[bonj]

What a great beer! Browndog and The_Scientist took some tasting notes, so look forward to those.

 

[browndog]

So... the beer presented like your typical american brown ale, the colour was spot on and sporting a nice slightly off white head. Clarity was excellent. The aroma up front was a mix of a roasty note with some caramel and toffee behind it. A pronounced resiny, piney hop note rounded out the aroma. The flavour mirrored the aroma, with a nice subtle hit of roastiness backed up with some caramel. The piney resiny hop flavour was a perfect counterpoint to the roastiness and the bitterness was in perfect balance with the malt and hops. The beer finished quite dry and at 7% is dangerously sessionable. We could only wonder as to how the beer tasted some 4 months back when it was kegged. I think it is a testament to the efforts Sierra Navada put in to the QA with three separate Labs throughout the brewery. At 6 bucks a pot we were pretty impressed for a beer that had sailed the Pacific.



cheers

Browndog

 

[WSC]

Tried it and it rocks, well done guys

 

[Snowdog]

Enjoyed a few schooners of this at The Burrow on Friday (day off) and one again on Sunday (stopped for lunch after getting back in town).
A most excellent brown, much better than Sierra's Tumbler! Well done, and thanks!