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Brown Ale

Dark amber to brown, and named by London brewers in the late seventeenth century for an ale brewed entirely from brown malt. Northern English versions run strong, malty and often nutty; southern ones darker, sweeter and weaker; American ones drier, with citrus from their own hops.

Origin

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

On record

Countries

On the recordcounted from 9 beers

Strength

The median is 5.6% ABV. Half of them fall between 5.3% and 6.4%.

Strongest Johnny Awesome8.0%
Weakest Newcastle Brown Ale4.7%

Where they come from

Most in one town: Amsterdam (2), Helsinki (1), Oudenaarde (1).

Oldest with a sourced year: Newcastle Brown Ale, 1927.

These are facts about this record, not about the world. They are counted from the beers on file, and the atlas is as deep as its sources, which cover modern craft brewing far more closely than anything else. A country at the top of this list is where the most examples have been recorded, which is not the same as where the most are brewed.