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Deep auburn brown with a dull glow moderately capped by a light tan foam. Lacing creeps around with some psotty stringyness and spots.

Aroma is well rounded with deeply sweet nuttyness, malted well with a light, delicate touch of dark fruity tang that seeps raisin and date, has some soft toasted bread, buttercream, and a hint to some nice dry grain husks.

Taste is super soild and yummy for a Brown ale. Great tone and length of nutty warmth and sweetness work together well with a light and soft mapley touch. Breathy vanilla hints, bready, butterey, bold, mildly tangy with a solid malt girth and weight behind it. Nuanced with a remarkably soft, nearly ghostly hint to dry grain husks and a bit of herbal hoppyness as it trails thru to the finish. Which is simple, but lasting.

Has a nice solid medium body with excellent length of malty flavors and mildly sweet tones that keep on giving a firmness of wholesome breadyness and low ended tangy sweetness. Most Browns are short on the tone factors and length of flavors provided. Ring Neck surpasses that and goes to whole nother level of boldness and weight thats just ample enough to give it its wonderful length yet lightly eager enough on the back end to allow for some superb drinking ease. Nearly Porter/Bock like in a number of manners but does keep to its overall Brown ale nature.

By far Brau Brothers finest offering. An American Brown ale(English?, not bloody likely) that is quite possibly one of the top Browns I've enjoyed, and will continue to enjoy, in quite a long time. Right up there with New Glarus Fat Squirrel, Surly Bender, and Rogue Hazelnut.

Served In: Pint Glass

A: Pours a really fizzy muddy auburn color with a depleted very light tan head. Once the fizz stops, the beer mellowed out to a peaceful level.

S: Red apple juice, cinnamon, pumpernickel and caramel.

T: Tastes a lot like it smells. Whole lotta fruity flavors including apple, yellow pear, passion fruit, pineapple and wheat grass. Good low level of caramel and vinous woody flavors. After the swallow, the malts really show themselves with a lot of spiciness following suite. Finishes mildly sweet with hints of red grapes.

M: Medium body with smooth mouthfeel

D: Decent beer with nice flavor. Almost too sweet but just barely walks the line.

Served In: Pint Glass

A - Pours a slightly opaque, muddy brown colored body. Starts with a small, but substantial beige head made up of tight, uniform sized bubbles. Reduces quickly to some whisps on the surface and a ring around the glass.

S - Lots of rich caramel malts. Robust nuttiness. Nice and toasty.

T - Much like the smell, but with one thing that didn't come out in the smell at all. Chocolate. Nutty malts throughout. Nice rich caramel tones. It's like a cross between a hiked up brown ale and a dubbel.

M - Medium bodied. Carbonation is a bit fizzy. Surprisingly filling.

D - Very good beer for a brown ale. Full flavored with decent complexity. Some qualities remind me of New Glarus Fat Squirrel, and that is definitely a compliment.

Served In: Pint Glass

Thanks to TT for the bopple = poured into a pint glass.

Pours a medum dark brown, slightly cloudy, with an offwhite dense head that settles quickly.

Nutty, toasty grains with a slight coffee/cocoa undertone, solid malty sweetness in the nose. The aroma carries over, with a nicely balanced caramel and cocoa sweetness that never gets cloying. Earthy hops in the background, but this one's all about that flavorful maltloaf of a thang. Medium bodied with decent carbonation, nice and round and smooth. Almost like a big version of an English dark mild, and drinkable as all get out for it.

Very solid brown ale - go get some!

Served In: Pint Glass