Dark Horse Brewing Co. Boffo Brown Ale

Boffo Brown Ale

 

Dark Horse Brewing Co. in Marshall, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

Brown Ale - American Regular
Score
7.01
ABV: 7.0% IBU: 26 Ticks: 32
The Boffo Brown ale is a beer that we brewed years ago and then put it in semi retirement for a couple years while we focused on other brands at the brewery. We have recently put it back onto active duty and are brewing it all year. The beer itself is delicious and is a favorite to many of us here at the brewery. Just as most of our beers it's on the "full body" scale pushing the envelope of what an American Brown Ale is to most people. The beer is a very deep/dark color of brown with a nice creamy tan head. The mouthfeel of the beer is very soft and is very drinkable. Flavors of malt, caramel, toffee, and a mild earthy nutty finish allow this beer to be paired with hearty food and sips of bourbon.
 

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7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle from the Great Beer Bar, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. Poured a slightly hazy medium brown colour with a mostly lasting frothy, light tan head. The aroma is roasty malt, toffee, caramel, nutty, slightly fruiy, light floral dry hop. The flavour is moderate sweet, light bitter, with a smooth, rich, burnt treacle toffee, nutty, woody hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Dec 2018 at 19:49


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Botella de @Vivalabirra, Oviedo 13/08/2018
Color marron oscuro, aroams caramelo notas a malta, sabor maltoso, notas cacao, cuerpo medio, agradable.

Tried on 15 Aug 2018 at 16:43


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draught @ Valhalla. Murky dark brown with slight reddish tint, small foamy beige head, very faint mocha aroma, medium carbonation, lightly bitter roasted malt taste, thin body, medium bitter finish. Quite smooth and well rounded

Tried on 27 Sep 2016 at 11:46


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Tap at Stella’s. Dark brown with light brown head, served in a goddamn jar. Cocoa, sweet roasted malts, maple, brown sugar and light wood. Medium sweet and almost medium bitter. Slightly over medium bodied.

Tried from Draft on 05 Aug 2016 at 07:22


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bottle (from beergium). Pours dark ruby brown with beige head. The head stays for a moment. Aroma is very sweet, caramel candy, malt, slight peanut butter. Flavor is sweet and bitter, caramel, malt, nuts, some fruits. Finish is dry-nutty bitter with some lingering sweetness and slight alcohol burn. Overall: well-made brown ale (maybe bit too boozy), but by the numbers brown ale is very boring (because brown ale is boring style...).

Tried from Bottle on 17 Jul 2016 at 15:42


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Dark briwn, small airy beige head. Malty, roasted aroma, some dried fruit. Flavour is sweetish, has more dried fruit which turns slightly boozy. Finishes roasted with decent bitterness.

Tried on 24 May 2016 at 09:44


7.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Bottle from Beergium. Pours dark reddish brown with creamy off white head. Aroma of toffee, chocolate, red berries and light xxx. Aroma of chocolate, vanilla, burnt caramel and a light roast. Dry, lightly roasted chocolatey finish. Quite light on the palate and medium carbonation.

Tried from Bottle on 09 Mar 2016 at 14:17


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7.5

Older bottle bought online. Milky, irregular, coarse, off-white head over a clear, deep brown beer with warm ruby hue. The aroma is a treat for maltheads (as it ought to be in an American brown ale): chocolate paste, hazelnut oil, butterscotch, fresh toast, raisins, maple syrup, cocoa butter, candied orange, tea, marzipan. Soft sweet onset, candied dates, raisins, marmelade, countered by a very subtle berry-like sourishness; soft carbo, thinnish body as expected from the style, lovely smooth caramelly and lightly nutty maltiness with a chocolatey accent, a bit honeyish here and there, with more toasted bitterishness in the end as well as a spicy, herbal hop bitterness of medium duration; juicy caramelly and nutty maltiness persists as well as a subtle lingering candi sugar sweetness sticking just a little bit to the teeth. English brown ales are clearly in decline in their country of origin, but their American offspring is still going strong yet often a bit overlooked; I would recommend this to anyone trying to get acquainted with Anglo-Saxon brown ale in general. It is a typical example of its style, very malty but light and quenching at the same time, elegant, sweet and ’friendly’. It’s the lovely chocolate and marzipan qualities in the nose which make this appealing more so than the actual taste, but in all this is a very enjoyable Dark Horse beer once again.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Oct 2015 at 17:37


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Dark brown with thick, lasting head. Some grassiness in the aroma. Seems very overcarbonated which seems to limit the chance for the flavours to develop well. There’s some malts, dried fruit and a bit of caramel before a fairly bitter finish.

Tried on 22 Jul 2015 at 15:28


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Sehr dunkel orangebraune Farbe, fingerbreite beige Schaumkrone. Geruch nach Kaffee und Toffee, leicht hopfig. Geschmack nussig, leicht röstmalzig, Vanille, wenig Kaffee.

Tried on 11 Mar 2015 at 16:47