Episode 64: Samuel Smith Nut Brown Ale – Over the Chunnel and through the woods

We finish up our brown ale series with Samuel Smith’s Nut Brown.

News

The news story this week comes from the Lehigh Valley, one of the many places Jim has lived courtesy of Sam Adams. The have recently opened the Sam Adams PA brewery, located right outside Allentown, PA. The brewery has had several different owners over the years including Strohs, Pabst, and most recently Diageo, who SA bought it from for $55 million.

Samuel Smith Nut Brown Ale

• Brewed at the Samuel Smith Old Brewery in Tadcaster, England, the beer is one of the best, if not the best, brown ale on the market.
• The Old Brewery at Tadcaster was founded in 1758 and is both the oldest brewery in Yorkshire and the only surviving independent brewery in Tadcaster.
• The beer has a minerally essence that can be detected due to the use of local water in brewing. Brewing water for ales and stouts is still drawn from the original 85 foot well.
• The beer itself weighs in at 5% ABV, so a pretty good evening drinker, and comes in a brown bottle with a gold foil cap.
• The pour is dark brown with a white head with some brown highlights around the edge.
• The smell is a lot of malt; think of caramel, and maybe some butterscotch there as well.
• When you taste this one it is mainly malt with only a little bit of hops. Think of a nice biscuity flavor, a little bit of a buttery flavor too boot.

Next Week

That is it for the brown ale series. And to be perfectly honest, I am not sure what we are going to talk about next week. It may be an amber series, it may be an IPA series, who knows. It will be something summery though, so tune in.

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