Brewery: Avery Brewing Co.

Name: Ellie’s Brown

Style: American Brown Ale

Origin: Colorado

Bottle: 12 oz can

ABV: 5.5%

Appearance: Lovely reddish brown color, reminds me of quality wood furniture. Has a healthy inch thick head as well, which doesn’t last long.

Pours: with glass tipped counter to can I had nothing to be alarmed about.

Smell: Of brown sugar and old fashioned candies like root beer barrels and horehound.

Taste: As it smells but with dry finish, like a treat denied and taken away, then offered again. “You want? You like yes? Too bad!...Have another, go on, tastes good yes?...”
But, if they simply just, gave you the sweetness, you would soon grow bored with it.

Mouthfeel: it’s just at the edge between watery and flavorful like the brewer knew exactly what they were doing and kept a keen, magnifying-aided eye on every step of the process.

Rating: 7.73 I’ve had probably a half dozen brown ales before this and it’s a style I usually avoid as they’re so well balanced that any mouthfeel or flavor cancels each other out into nothingness. Like a rugby or American Football match where both teams are so evenly matched the game never leaves the 50 yard line and neither team ever scores (or it’s rugby equivalent), or a chess match with constant simultaneous checks. This is the first for me to make a decision and tip the scales, good or bad, one way.
Honestly it’s just about as good as the the King Sue I sampled previously on the same day so I will admit to some bias.