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The Brown

Millpond BrewingMillstadt, IL
  • Brown Ale
  • 5% ABV
  • Label approved Sep 17

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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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Millpond Brewing's Brown Ale. Label approved 17 September 2026; not spotted yet.

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

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 155–180 calories and 15–20 g carbs

About 100 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.

Readers' scores

About this beer

This is the 7th of 8 labels we have from Millpond Brewing. It is one of 19 brown ale labels approved in September 2026. Its label was approved 1 day after it was submitted. The label carries the Brewers Association independent seal.

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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.

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