It is time for another beer from the Notes.  For any who don't know about this series of blog entries, here's the scoop:  I stumbled upon an old file that contained tasting notes from approximately two and a half years ago, possibly even older than that (definitely older than that - more like four or five years old).  I decided to post these very sparse notes and I hope to eventually find these same beers again and evaluate them once more, just to see what differences are manifest. 

This third beer of the Old Tasting Notes series is:  Downtown Brown, a brown ale from ...  well, I'm not totally sure(nor could I capture a good pic!).  Here's the deal:  I wrote in my notes "Downtown Brown - Acme."  So, I looked up those terms and came up with North Coast Brewing, who carries the Acme beers (though not the brown anymore?); and Lost Coast Brewing, who has a beer called Downtown Brown, though Acme is not associated with it. 

The Lost Coast label looks very familiar, but that could be deceptive.  I like their Great White beer, since that's my favorite shark.  So, I may not be remebering the label from the day of the tasting.  I just don't know.  I may be getting the label mixed up with Beertown Brown, too.  The "Acme" thing just threw me right off. 

Thus and so, on to the notes.  The scorecards used contained five categories:  Color, Collar, Boquet, Mouthfeel, Taste, Overall.  At the bottom of the card there is a space to score the beer from 1 to 5.  They're very generic scoresheets and notes.

COLOR - Orange/Brown

COLLAR - Spectacular - thick & foamy

BOQUET - Malty

MOUTHFEEL - Light - smooth

TASTE - Cologne/perfume - missing the nut of brown

OVERALL - Color is off - almost a brown hint, but not quite

SCORE (1-5) - 2

COMMENTS - Should be a red, then would be to style

The notes are kind of boring.  It almost sounds like I got a bad bottle, foamy and solventy. 

Whatever.  The next Old Taste will be a "specialty ale".  I don't know what that means.  I think it's a winter beer.  Until then, have an old pint.  Er, no, just have a pint.