1.   Y., are chicken wings or short ribs braised with a malty brown ale.

2.   Is that why you drink brown ale?

3.   An English-style brown ale is a dull beer.

4.   Another microbrewery, the Frederick Brewing Co., in Frederick, Md., incorporates hemp seeds in its Hempen Ale, a light, easily drinkable brown ale.

5.   As an accompaniment to food, a brown ale is usually relegated to the nuts and the side dishes.

6.   But this is a brown ale that can stand up to steaks and to slathery burgers.

7.   Domestically, Solstice Winter Ale is an excellent version of an English Strong Ale, fuller bodied and higher in alcohol than its tamer cousin, a brown ale.

8.   For a main course of grilled salmon, Finkel would recommend a brown ale or even an oatmeal stout.

9.   It was looking for something to set its Hempen Ale apart from so many other brown ales.

10.   Light to medium in body, brown ales are somewhere between the maltier, fuller-bodied Scottish ales and the hoppier pale ales.