I must admit to avoiding this Roast Dinner Brown Ale from the Northern Monk Brew Company. It has been produced in collaboration with Aunt Bessie's, using her Yorkshire Puddings and Roast Potatoes. Having said that I do like both Aunt Bessie's Yorkshire Puddings and her Roast Potatoes, as well as I have a keen love for brown ale, just not the concept of all three in the same glass. I thought I had better have this Roast Dinner Brown Ale first though, as I have Aunt Bessie's Jam Roly-Poly with Custard beer for afters to write about later in the week. I wish I was joking!
At 5.7% volume this Roast Dinner Brown Ale was made with malted barley, oats, Aunt Bessie's Yorkshire Puddings and her Roast Potatoes, as well as salt, maltodextrin, hops and yeast. It promises to be an experience to say the least. I have no idea what the Jam Roly-Poly and Custard beer is going to taste like, but last time I had a cider with rhubarb and custard it wasn't good!
On opening the can of this Roast Dinner Brown Ale there was a hearty fizz and a good brown ale aroma. I could smell the malted barley and the lightly floral hops, and I could just about smell the Yorkshire Puddings and a little Roasted Potatoes on pouring this deep brown ale. To be honest, I'm not sure if I was imagining the last bit, but I was already fancying a Sunday Roast Dinner on cracking open the can - it's just a shame it's Wednesday and I have a noodle cup and toast for dinner later!
On taste this Roast Dinner Brown Ale is like nothing I have tasted before. It's a brown ale with bells on. The sheer depth of flavour is like diving into the depths of a vat of brown ale and wallowing somewhere at the bottom with every mouthful. First to hit my tastebuds was the sweet brown malt. This malty flavour was lip-smackingly fulsome and tasty. The sweet malts were followed pretty closely behind by the bitter lightly floral hops like a tap to the punch bag of my tonsils. It was then that something odd happened… The depth of flavours just kept on giving. Usually my tastebuds go off into the aftertaste of a beer and that is that until the next mouthful. Here the flavour of sweet brown malt and possibly caramel malt, as well as those floral hops, and there was just that something else akin and certainly complementary on top of those sumptuous malty hoppy flavours. Roast Dinner Brown Ale didn't quite taste of Aunt Bessie's Yorkshire Puddings and Roast Potatoes, but this beer made me feel as if I was enjoying a good heart Sunday Roast dinner none-the-less!
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