Dry-Hopped Steam Beer
Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco, California, United States 🇺🇸
California Common / Steam Beer Winter|
Score
6.78
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Anchor Dry-Hopped Steam Beer has flavors of light malty sweetness and a lingering, bitter hop finish with distinct aromas of citrus and pine with hints of ripe fruit and subtle maltiness. Brilliant amber in color with a tight, tan head, Anchor Dry-Hopped Steam Beer is moderately full in body, smooth and velvety.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Trader Joe’s. This is considerably better than the original. Gold color is nothing special, but there is much more flavor, and most of it hops. Where I find the original rather boring, the dry hopping gives some flavor. Dry malt flavor, and bitter finish. good session beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2016
at 23:52
7.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Tap. Pours hazy Amber, medium creamy beige head, dissipates slowly, good lacing. Aroma of floral and pine hops, caramel. Docks is light plus sweet, light plus bitter, interesting. Medium body, lingering bitterness.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Oct 2016
at 18:30
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Deep, lightly hazed gold with a tall white head. Light toasted malt, sweet citrus, light floral, and mild earth. Soft yet noticeable bitterness in the finish. Medium body. I really enjoyed this variation. Refreshing and flavorful but easy drinking, too. Something I’d be happy to have a few of in an evening.
Tried
on 11 Oct 2016
at 19:07
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours deep amber into a shaker. Off-white head with excellent retention expands to top hat rim. Sweet over-ripe fruit and feet aromas. Sharp with sour over-ripe apricot, plums fruit and bitter earth front to back.
Tried
on 04 Oct 2016
at 20:56
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
$2.20 bottle from Wine Warehouse. Pours an amber-orange with a small off-white head. Aroma is mildly fruity, mildly floral without anything specific jumping out. Taste is crisp! Mildly citrus without feeling like an IPA or APA, some puckering spice, definitely good malts in the end... it finishes with a mild indiscernible fruitiness. My guess is that I like this better than the original - it’s been quite a few years since I had an Anchor Steam, bit I don’t remember enjoying it quite this much.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Sep 2016
at 16:15
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 ounce bottle. Amber orange pour capped by a huge rocky beige head. Subtle citrus hops in nose. Flavor is light sweet malt with dry bitter hops. At first fruity citrus, then spicy bitter, with peppery notes. Long dry bitter finish. Easy to drink. As promised, much more hop-centric than the original Anchor Steam.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2016
at 20:15
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
I have an idea! Lets take a meh beer and add shitty hops to it! What could possibly go wrong? +++ Sampled on draft at 3R6P this beer poured a bronze color with a large foamy orange-white head that left excellent lacing. The aroma was very faint with a bit of citrus, perfume and cactus. The flavor was bitter, dry and perfumey with a bit of citric hops and absolutely nothing else. Medium length hoppy finish. Medium body. Meh.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Aug 2016
at 11:17
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours coppery gold with a creamy off-white head. Med body. Flavor is that maltiness of California Common, but there’s some interesting hop flavor. Not super strong, but somewhat complex. I’ll go with floral and mildy earthy. Making me think of the hoppier English Ales. Tasty in its way.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2016
at 18:53