How now brown cow! My father used to say that to me when I was a kid. That was the first thing that popped into my head when I saw D9 Brown Sugar Brown Cow Mocha Brown Ale on tap at Harrah’s Cherokee Valley River Casino. Harrah’s has three bars offering a number of craft beers, two that are really the same bar but situated halfway on the gambling floor and halfway out. The other is in the bowling alley area.

Brown Sugar Brown Cow Mocha Brown Ale was featured as the bartender’s choice and was hard to miss. This is the second D9 beer I’ve tasted, the other being their Carnaval ale in a bottle. D9 is located in Lake Norman, North Carolina, well to the east of Murphy.

D9 says:

This Mocha Brown ale needed a fanatical bovine with a brown sugar sweet side and a kick of Colombian coffee. Brown Sugar Brown Cow is brewed with chocolate, vanilla, brown sugar and Colombian coffee. We added a hint of lactose, and this brew is a mocha coffee and cream concoction so good you’ll say its name.

D9 Brown Sugar Brown Cow Mocha Brown Ale has an alcohol content of 6.9% by volume with 15 IBUs. This is a year-round offering by D9. I paid $4.67 for a pint at Harrah’s and Total Wine sells it for $10.99 for either a 4-pack of pint cans or a six-pack of bottles.

My cup of D9 Brown Sugar Brown Cow Mocha Brown Ale arrived dark mahogany in color with a thick creamy tan head and coffee and brown sugar in the nose. Taking a sip, caramel-toffee, coffee, molasses and brown sugar all appear in the palate, rounded out with a gentle balanced hop bitterness. Almost like a Sugar Daddy dipped in coffee and brown sugar, this was one tasty beer indeed.

It had me saying “How now brown cow!”. It might have you saying it too.

And remember, try a new beer today, and drink outside the box.

*Pricing data accurate at time of review or latest update. For reference only, based on actual price paid by reviewer.

(B)=Bottled

(D)=Draft

(G)=Growler

 

 

 



Home