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Boxcar Brown
- Brown Ale
- 6.6% ABV
- Label approved Mar 16
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Big Creek Brewery's Brown Ale. Label approved 16 March 2026.
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How to serve it
- Serve at
- 48–54°F (9–12°C)
- Glass
- Nonic pint: the bulge gives you a grip and room for a head
- Goes with
- Mushroom dishes, Steak, Thanksgiving dinner
About 195–215 calories and 17–22 g carbs
About 130 of those calories come from the alcohol.
General guidance for Brown Ale. Calories and carbs are estimates from the ABV and how the style usually finishes; numbers the brewery prints beat ours. More beer tools
About this beer
This is the 1st of 16 labels we have from Big Creek Brewery. It was submitted and approved the same day.
A freight car rendered in flat geometric forms occupies the upper centre of the label, printed in brown and cream. Below it, the beer name appears in bold sans-serif capitals, followed by a brown rounded banner containing the style descriptor in white type. The composition is vertically centred on a cream ground, with regulatory text running vertically along both edges.
From the label“We Don't Gamble on Taste & Quality”
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A starting-point recipe from the style and the ABV on the label: derived, not tasted, and the sheet says which is which.
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Style: Amber/Other AleBrewery: Big Creek Brewery