Wet Wednesday: Downtown Brown by The Lost Coast Brewery

I'm sneaking this in without confirmation from our more knowledgeable beer drinkers here at FIWK, but since I hadn't seen a Beer Wednesday post, I thought I'd toss my hat into the ring. I'm keeping this short cause, as I've said before, my taste buds aren't the most powerful in the world. I picked up a 6-pack of The Lost Coast's Downtown Brown, and really enjoyed it - the one word that comes to mind immediately is 'smooth'. I'm this close to bumping it above out benchmark brown (Newcastle) - your thoughts?

Beer Wednesday: Our benchmarks

These beers are all at least OK and possibly good depending on your tastes and preferences. If you care about any of our other posts regarding beer, such as the Ballast Point - Victory at Sea or the Stone Ruination IPA, then you have surely tried some of these beers as you have explored the spectrum to identify your beer tastes. If you consider yourself a beer drinker, but don't care about those posts and have never tried any of the above beers, then you surely drink weak macro brews whose only purpose is to deliver alcohol from an aluminum can to your blood stream. We'll give these a 10 on the chugability scale and a 1 on the taste scale. It would be an insult to good beer to even consider rating these on any other scale.

As for the beers pictured...a few initial thoughts before opening it up to the floor for multiple opinions. (If there is any defining characteristic here at FIWK, it's multiple opinions.)