Road Trip
Sweetwater Brewing Company in Atlanta, Georgia, United States 🇺🇸
California Common / Steam Beer Regular|
Score
6.24
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Road trips are balls-out adventures loaded with unexpected twists, just like when this beer hit black ice and got spun!. It started out as an IPA recipe, but halfway down the road it blew a tire and a Pilsner yeast was pitched as a spare; an IPP yo! The fiery Pilsner backbone adds a nitrous-like boost to the van load of hops that would make any German pucker up when those hop afterburners singe their lederhosen!
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5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
12 oz. bottle. Pale gold pour, with a small, off-white head. The aroma is pilsener, with some hay, and very light resinous hops. Sweet flavor, with a bit of sharp bitterness in the finish. Light body, with a hard, crisp, and pretty lively mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty good beer, for the style. Very understated and sessionable. Not my kind of beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 May 2013
at 20:49
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Draft @ Brewhouse Café, Atlanta, GA. Pours a clear pale yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty flavor with weak caramel and weak hoppy hints. Sweetish fruity malty weak caramel flavor. Has a sweetish malty weak hoppy grainy finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Jun 2011
at 00:50
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Fairly standard seasonal from Sweetwater. More in line with what you’d expect from a summer beer, what with the strong lager overtones (despite what yeast is used.) A mild fruitiness from the malts offsets the grainy middle, but the pilsner comes through strong on the finish. Yet this aggressive end doesn’t pair well with the mild front of the beer. Eventually Road Trip begins to disappear in the rear view, left in the dust with all the other well-intending but average American pils (see how I tied it all together with a reference to driving? I’m a good writer!)
Tried
from Can
on 28 Apr 2011
at 17:13
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 ounce bottle shared by maniac at the 12th Richmond Ratebeer Gathering on 9/18/10. Pours a clear golden color with a medium creamy tan head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of pale doughy malts, corn and faint citrus hops. The taste is nutty malts, citrus hops and a grassy finish. Thin-medium bodied.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2010
at 11:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at the 12th Richmond Ratebeer Gathering on 09/18/2010. Very clear pale golden body with a large frothy white head. Sweet floral and pils malt aroma. Sweet pils and honey aroma. Medium light body with moderate carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Sep 2010
at 18:47
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
draft at ATL-Hartsfield airport. pours medium golden, thick white head. aroma, definitely some pilsner yeast, cardboard / moldy nose of yeast and some bready malts. flavors, dry finish, light floral, smooth and creamy vienna flavors, mix of citrus hops and bready malts that remain a little weak on the palate.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Jun 2010
at 01:56