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Yankee Brew News Archive
A Brown Ale Style Primer
Originally Published: 06/97
By: Gregg Glaser
Some beer writers and critics divide brown ales into several sub-categories: Mild, Southern English, Northern English and American. The mild and southern English styles are not found in the U.S. The mild is said to be a draft-only beer in England, and the Southern English brown ale a bottled version of a mild.
The characteristics shared by all brown ales are a rich, malty sweetness balanced with varying degrees of nutty, chocolate-like or roasted flavors from the use of dark grains. Northern English and American brown ales, the styles most closely linked to what New England craft brewers produce, have these characteristics, plus anything from a low to high level of hop flavor and bitterness, a color ranging from dark amber to dark brown and a medium body.
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