My fondness for dapper, gentlemanly anthropomorphized mascot characters has been well documented. So this pint glass sporting a monocle, mustache, and a rather dashing top hat has me already pretty jazzed about this beer. Let alone the fact that the last Parallel 49 beer I had was quite good. I'm pretty excited about this English ale. Unfortunately, that's the best I've got as far as a style for this one. Parallel 49's web site doesn't say anything about style, Beer Advocate has it listed as an ESB, and Rate Beer calls it a brown ale. So who knows. To the beer!
Old Boy pours a deep reddish brown topped by a finger of off white head that recedes pretty swiftly.
The aromas here are a nice malty mixture of toffee, caramel, and some bready, cakey, chocolate. Simple, very malt forward, and quite nice.
Old Boy is pretty light in body. It leads with flavors of caramel and toffee that gives way to a mild chocolatiness (is that a word?). The chocolate is bready, almost cake-like, but it never weighs the beer down.
This is a pretty solid little ale. I'm thinking it's something in the brown ale, porter type range. Well, whatever it is. I like it. Mild, sweet, decent malty complexity. Good stuff.
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