Pours clear with a few inches of medium sized bubble, tan foam. Retention is bit above normal and froths on the top as it recedes. Lacing is sporadic, tiny, and slippery.
Aroma is light on the sniffer with touches of roast, caramel, nutty, and toasted malts. Sweet.
Taste is sweet up front as caramel flavor touches the lips, the middle is quickly greeted with a sudden build up of hops and bitterness hiding toasted flavors, while the end brings it together with a splash of nut and herbal hops that leaves a lingering effect.
Medium body with quite the spritz carbonation with a dryness to the palate.
This has all the aspects of a brown you would want with just enough hop profile to almost balance out all the sweet malts. The only shortness here is the aroma not keeping up it's end. Enjoy!
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Reviewed: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 21:02:45
Tasted: Tuesday, November 15, 2011
$0.00 for 22 oz. bottle
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Beer Notes
This beer originated as a prize-winning homebrew many years ago. When Darron, the Brewmaster, began designing the beers for the Pelican Pub & Brewery, he adapted his old 5-gallon homebrew recipe to his new 15 bbl (465 gallon) brewery. It was well worth the effort, for not only has the Doryman's Dark Ale been a perennial favorite here at the Pelican, but it has garnered prestigious professional awards.
"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this... A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers." - Cliff Clavin, of Cheers