I love pecans. We travel through Southern Georgia a couple of times a month so we have ample opportunities to get rich, fresh off the tree nuts and we tend to keep a stash of them around all the time. I use whole nuts, crushed nuts and even use the pecan meal to add a nutty base to bread and gravy – lots of good uses and they all taste great.
Same for this beer: it’s a great use for a very tasty nut and the team at Lazy Magnolia did a good job using pecans to make this ale, an English Brown Ale. You get a nice nutty flavor in the ale as it goes down and it makes for a very nice flavor profile. While there is a hint of sweetness this is not a Southern Pecan Pie …. It’s a beer, an ale, and it’s aptly named and deftly brewed.
As Ale’s go this is in the lightweight division: 4.5% ABV and only 19 IBU’s which I found surprising – it pours and looks like a European Brown Ale and I expected a higher ABV than the 4.5% this gives us. This is just my opinion but I think using the nuts may reduce the need for hops to add a malty flavor to the ale. You do get a very nice malty flavor, very smooth, a feel and taste that I’ve been used to finding in Belgian Ales. It pours with the color of a Belgian Ale too, a nice, rich deep color, almost mahogany in color with a very slight, almost imperceptible haze.
In summary this is pretty good beer; not the best one I’ve ever had but a beer that I would drink again if given the chance.
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