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Tröegs Rugged Trail Nut Brown Ale

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Beer-a-Day #328 Troegs Rugged Trail Nut Brown Ale

Designed as our session beer, Rugged Trail Nut Brown Ale is bronze in color with a velvety smooth taste and subtle chocolate note. Rugged Trail’s lower alcohol content and subtle hoppiness make it the perfect beer to enjoy during the day and into the night.

Rugged Trail Nut Brown Ale is the perfect complement for spicy Mexican and Asian dishes and and spicy, broth-based soups.

It’s a pretty, dark brown color with ruby highlights. Aroma is clean and has that “subtle chocolate note” they mention. Taste is light, but not too light, with a bit of roastiness. I’m not generally a fan of nut browns, but that’s pretty good.

Tröegs Rugged Trail Nut Brown Ale

Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown Ale

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Samuel Smith's Nut Brown AleBeer-a-Day #60

This is the beginning of Samuel Smith’s week. Samuel Smith Brewery is an independent British brewery in Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England. The brewery itself is Yorkshire’s oldest brewery, and was founded in 1758.

I always worry about beer from across the pond, especially when it’s not one of the really popular ones on this side. But, I took a chance and picked up the seven different styles my retailer had on hand.

Medium brown with a finger’s width of off-white head. Nice, malty, bready aroma, with a bit of molasses. Nice mellow flavor with a smidgen of roastiness. This one, at least, made the journey well. I’m not much for Nut Brown’s, but this is pretty good.

Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown Ale


Mountaineer Brewing Nut Brown Ale

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Mountaineer Brewing Nut BrownBeer-a-Day #27

Owned by the same folks who own Barley and Hops, Mountaineer Brewing Company is one of the few breweries in West Virginia.

Medium brown color with two-fingers of off-white head. Aroma is lightly nutty with cherries and burnt apple. Creamy mouthfeel with a little sourness.

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