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Boxcar Brown

The Crossing at Big Creek BreweryCottonwood, AL
  • Brown Ale
  • 6.6% ABV
  • Label approved Jul 30

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90 seek it out · 80 would buy again · 70 fine, wouldn't seek it · 60 disappointing · 40 flawed or drain pour

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The Crossing at Big Creek Brewery's Brown Ale. Label approved 30 July 2026; not spotted yet.

Stronger than 78% of the 137 Brown Ale labels we've read.

From the label

“Don't Gamble on Taste and Quality.”

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

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

Where to find it

No account neededTell me when it's out

Not spotted yet. We'll write the day it is.

One email when it's first spotted — on a list we check, in a scan, or in the brewery's announcement. Nothing else, and a stop link in it.

We track beers, we don't sell them, so no stock promises. These are the searches we'd run for this one.

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About this beer

This is the 17th of 29 labels we have from The Crossing at Big Creek Brewery. It is one of 11 brown ale labels approved in July 2026. Its label was approved 1 day after it was submitted.

The artwork

A steam locomotive rendered in sepia and cream tones dominates the centre of the label, pulling a cargo car marked with dice, set against a honeycomb pattern that fills the dark brown background. The beer name appears in ornate gold serif lettering with decorative flourishes above and below the locomotive. Typography is arranged vertically along both side edges, with the tagline 'Don't Gamble on Taste and Quality' in gold caps at the top and 'Honey Brown Ale' in gold caps at the bottom.

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Brew it

A starting-point recipe from the style and the ABV on the label: derived, not tasted, and the sheet says which is which.

The bench sheet

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