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TBW is... actually, I don't remember how good they are. I remember that their cans are kind of cool, but they are also kind of bland. At least they are easy to distinguish from each other, and that is something other breweries could learn from. Yes, a can design like Bud or Coors Light is iconic and easily recognizable, but if you want taste in your beer, you shouldn't be relegated to squinting at labels and trying to remember if they were any good. "I'll take a brown ale." Well, I guess you know going in what color it'll be. The off white head is pretty anemic, and it fizzles to a shadow of a ring around probably 1/16th of the sides of the glass. If you look really hard, you can see the barest of dustings on top of the beer kind of huddled in one corner. One thing you won't have an issue detecting is the aroma. It smells of roasted nuts, wood, and (if it's possible) autumn itself.
First sip is pretty nice. The nuts are mixing with some light spices and the malt is kind of... not creamy exactly, but it's like a very light syrup in that it's smooth and silky. It's molasses in taste, but I think the texture is a lot less challenging. The smoked wood is doing a good job of complimenting the nuts, and the whole sip seems like it's making a case for brown ales in general.
Tip-in is actually pretty dry while being sweet and filling with roasted nuts. The middle continues the dryness as carbonation hits the roof of the mouth and the nuts are joined by brown sugar with the molasses malt coming along. The finish is a much stronger dryness with bitterness in tow to hit the nut husks as the sweetness leaves entirely before the trail off.
Bottom Line: Pretty good.
3.0/5
