Short's Bellaire Brown Ale - Short's Brewing Company

tectactoe

Michigan

4/5  rDev +6.1%

07-02-2012 00:55:43 | More by tectactoe

DrunkinYogi

Connecticut

3.75/5  rDev -0.5%

06-18-2013 20:11:18 | More by DrunkinYogi

kyle86

Michigan

3.5/5  rDev -7.2%

06-15-2013 21:40:01 | More by kyle86

GinsuDave

Michigan

4/5  rDev +6.1%

06-14-2013 21:32:16 | More by GinsuDave

HardyA

Michigan

4/5  rDev +6.1%

06-01-2013 00:12:20 | More by HardyA

Misfit2209

Indiana

3.25/5  rDev -13.8%

05-31-2013 04:14:28 | More by Misfit2209

DanGeo

Michigan

3/5  rDev -20.4%

05-30-2013 03:30:05 | More by DanGeo

Texasfan549

Texas

3.75/5  rDev -0.5%

05-29-2013 23:47:02 | More by Texasfan549

kjkinsey

Texas

4/5  rDev +6.1%

05-28-2013 23:01:50 | More by kjkinsey

bobbyr5

Michigan

3.5/5  rDev -7.2%

05-21-2013 23:23:24 | More by bobbyr5

MatterOfOpinion

Michigan

4/5  rDev +6.1%

05-20-2013 03:54:14 | More by MatterOfOpinion

NJB145

Michigan

3.5/5  rDev -7.2%

05-19-2013 01:35:04 | More by NJB145

Dave_in_GR

Michigan

4.04/5  rDev +7.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

Served in a pint glass from a 12oz bottle.

Appearance is a dark reddish brown with a small amount of tan-colored head.

Smell is a mix of malt, chocolate, and sweetness.

Taste is really pleasant, the chocolate and malty sweetness balanced by a slightly sour and bitter hop finish. Delicious.

Mouthfeel is medium bodied, nicely balanced through the light carbonation.

Overall one of my favorite brown ales.

Serving type: bottle

05-19-2013 01:10:40 | More by Dave_in_GR

Roman5150

Michigan

4.04/5  rDev +7.2%
look: 5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4

bottle into tulip

appearance: beautiful dark amber brown with slightly off white 1 finger head with aggressive pour

smell: hay, oak, earthiness, heavy malt presence

taste: sweet oak flavors with a hint of rye, tastes like maris otter malts, very english and has that sweet funkiness to it. Earthy resinous tones throughout.

mouthfeel: not very carbonated, medium bodied

overall: A highly drinkable brown ale, probably in my top 3 for the style. I could drink this all day.

Serving type: bottle

05-18-2013 03:54:09 | More by Roman5150

Marti403

Michigan

4.25/5  rDev +12.7%

05-17-2013 20:42:34 | More by Marti403

allisonastra

Michigan

4/5  rDev +6.1%

05-16-2013 17:05:12 | More by allisonastra

jduprey007

Michigan

4/5  rDev +6.1%

05-12-2013 23:14:47 | More by jduprey007

TheBrewo

Michigan

3.6/5  rDev -4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5

We pour a brew of dark mahogany, giving up a one and a half finger head of creamy, sandpaper colored bubbles. This shows nice retention, with mountainous sheets of lacing left around the glass. No haze or sediment was noted, and carbonation appears to be active. The aroma gives sweeter brown and nicely roasted coffee malts. Sweetness comes from raw honey, melted chocolate nibs, white sugar, fruity red cherry, and juicy ale yeastiness. Balance comes in the form of mineral earthiness, metallics, peanut dust, and soured lactics. With warmth comes light booziness and rotting fruit, but in a good way. Our first impression is that the malts give nicely contributory sweetness, but otherwise show a cheaper, overly light, adjuncty, and metallic side that doesn’t quite do the beer justice. As we sip, the flavoring opens with freshly soaped plastics, amber and brown malt sweetness, soy sauce saltiness, tinny metallics, English yeastiness, and light cinnamon spiciness. The peak comes with granular white sugar sweetness, bittered roastiness of the darker malts of the bill, light coffees, almond skin, mores soaps, and a sweeter Belgian caramel maltiness. The end finishes with a wash of fusel booziness out of nowhere, light Tootsie Roll sugars, light floral hoppiness, herbed honey sweetness, bittered chocolates, hazelnut, metallics, and garbage bag plastics. The aftertaste breathes of musk and dust, earthy mineral, standard browns and toasty ambers, sweeter pink bubblegum airs, fusel booze flavoring without any of the offensive punch, plum sweetness, walnut, citric hop gas, and mildly soured dried cranberry. The body is medium and chewy, while the carbonation is medium. Each sip gives nice slurp and smack, with slightly lesser cream and froth. The mouth is initially coated with an oily bite, to be left chalked and bone dry by the end. The abv is appropriate, and the beer glugs rather easily.

Overall, the most enjoyable thing about this brew was its flavoring. The look started things off nicely, giving good color and a nice head. The aroma is where we lost points, as it lacked general robustness and let the malts fall too far to the back in their inherent aromatic contributions. To contrast, the taste showed every side of the grain, with bitterness, bready sweetness, caramels, roast, and earthiness, giving a little something different at each turn, and with each sip. The drying roast on the feel was the icing on the cake, helping to keep that nice flavoring flowing.

Serving type: bottle

05-11-2013 01:07:17 | More by TheBrewo

Slay40

Michigan

4/5  rDev +6.1%

05-10-2013 18:55:49 | More by Slay40

AnnArborJoe

Michigan

2.5/5  rDev -33.7%

05-10-2013 16:48:37 | More by AnnArborJoe

tazzman

Florida

3.75/5  rDev -0.5%

04-21-2013 20:37:18 | More by tazzman

GeePee

Wisconsin

4/5  rDev +6.1%

04-11-2013 23:16:20 | More by GeePee

fredmugs

Indiana

3.5/5  rDev -7.2%

04-04-2013 22:23:14 | More by fredmugs

Sparky44

Illinois

3.75/5  rDev -0.5%

03-24-2013 23:31:00 | More by Sparky44

SimcoeJoe

Michigan

4/5  rDev +6.1%

03-16-2013 13:07:25 | More by SimcoeJoe