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Description:
Ben & Jerry’s and New Belgium Brewing are coming together in a sweet partnership to help fight climate change. While pleasing beer and ice cream lovers, each pint of Salted Caramel Brown-ie Ale ice cream, and bottle of Salted Caramel Brownie Ale beer will benefit Protect Our Winters (POW), a group that is engaging the snow sports community to fight climate change. (Description provided by company)
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ABV:
6.30% ABV
Availability Frequency:
limited
Containers Available:
bottle
draft
Locations Where Available:
nationwide
Store/Serve Temperature:
close to 55 degrees F
Comments
Not bad
Salted Caramel Brownie Brown Ale by Ben & Jerry's and New Belgium is a very dark caramel with very little light penetration for a brown. Beige cap of a head blew away to a hazy ring nearly instantly.
The cocoa gets to my nose first, then the caramel slides in. The caramel isn't quite light enough to evoke the salted caramel aspects I'm expecting from the name.
The chocolate and caramel traits are mixed more evenly on the taste. There is next to no aftertaste and that sudden loss of flavor gave this beer a flat finish and kind of wore on me as I drank my pint.
This could have been so much worse!
New Belgium Salted Caramel Brownie Brown Ale has a robust, dark and chocolatey nose. I can’t comment on the look of it since I had it in a bottle, but I imagine this one would be tough to see through. The flavors really are what you’d expect: chocolate, nuttiness, and some caramel sweetness that, to my taste, isn’t too much. For what really can only be considered a novelty beer, this one is surprisingly well executed and not overly sweet.