Old Dominion Brown Ale

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

This beer is an American brown ale by style, making it a bit more flavorful and much more hoppy than its British counter part. Dominion Brown ale is a fantastic example of this style. This beer is dry hopped with Cascades to get that signature citric, piney, hop aroma in the nose, and bittered with Galenas. Three malts are used in this beer, including caramel, carapils, and chocolate malt. This is a sweet malty and hoppy brown ale, one of the best examples of the style I have ever tasted. This beer is available on draught only, but growlers can be filled to go. One will often find this beer on one of the beer engines in cask conditioned form as well. Dominion Brown ale pours to a deep brown/mahogany color with nice white head, and good carbonation. The nose on this beer is very fragrant with piney, citric hop aromas, no mistaking it, it is Cascades. But there is also a nice back drop of chocolate and caramel malt aroma as well. The palate is a firm malt back bone of sweet caramel, and chocolate malt flavors. This beer finishes with more good malt character up front then dries out to a nice, bitter hop bite. Really a complex and flavorful brown ale, and as stated a perfect example of this style. This is a great drinking beer. I would match this with a big juicy burger and a heaping order of fries doused in Dominion All Malt Vinegar. This beer really goes great with a good cigar as well. I've been known to smoke a Te Amo or two in my day, and a growler of this goes quite well with that cigar.