Fireside Chat
21st Amendment Brewery in San Leandro, California, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular|
Score
6.60
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cuso (17193) reviewed Fireside Chat from 21st Amendment Brewery 4 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Can. Hazy brown with thick white head. Aroma of spices, chocolade, sweet malt. Taste, dark malt, chocolate, nutmeg, cinnamon.
MrSpooks (5447) reviewed Fireside Chat from 21st Amendment Brewery 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Decent winter warmer, a modest English brown that never goes overboard with the seasonal spices. Toffee and nuts mix with restrained cinnamon and nutmeg notes, and the finish stays unexpectedly bitter. Gingerbread nose seems a bit weak, but the pour's pretty enough and the texture's nice and full, hearty enough for a winter seasonal. Not bad.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Can at Mariano’s Westmont. Turns out this was from Oct. 2016. But the server said there’s a guy who keeps asking for it, so they’ve kept it on hand. In fact, it seems to have held up pretty well. Dark, reddish-brown pour under a tan head. Smell has a nice note of Christmas beer spices like cinnamon and possibly coriander. I think there’s some wheat malt in this, too. The spice is obvious but not overwhelming. Rather pleasant. The high abv seems to have kept it in shape.
cellio (387) ticked Fireside Chat from 21st Amendment Brewery 9 years ago
Kleg (3852) reviewed Fireside Chat from 21st Amendment Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
12 oz can. Clear ruby red pour with a large khaki head and great retention. Decent lacing. Ugh, way too much Belgian yeast taste. Light spice. 7.9 ABV is well hidden. Pass.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Can into a snifter showing light bodied translucent caramel brown with very sparse latte foam around edges. The nose shows lightly roasted malts with hints of tea, cinnamon, ginger, and a bit of nutmeg. The palate is well carbonated and very light bodied. Immediate flavors of Christmas spice in the background (think cinnamon and ginger) but quickly subside with a moderately strong hoppy bitterness on the finish that is out of place and overpowers most of the other delicate flavors of the beer. Either way, it is a winter specialty beer, just not the best.
tfontana (7277) reviewed Fireside Chat from 21st Amendment Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can pour into taster cup at One Stop Market 30th Anniversary. Appearance is fairly dark brown (dark cola), mild sparkle, tiny ring of white head, decent lacing. Aroma is fairly mild malt, spicy. Taste is fruity, earthy hops, spice (cinnamon? cardamom?). Palate is medium-to-full bodied with thick texture, average-to-lively carbonation and finish like taste (dark fruit/malt/light spice), mixed with yeast and bitter. Overall, there is some complexity here, which makes for an interesting beer.
theplanck (7492) reviewed Fireside Chat from 21st Amendment Brewery 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
The beer is overall okay in every regard. There's nothing wrong with it per se, but nothing that makes it really good. The spices are very mild, the body is a bit thin. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
beerhunter111 (50581) reviewed Fireside Chat from 21st Amendment Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Klares orange braunes Bier mit einer geringen leicht beigen Schaumkrone. Geruch nach Kürbis, Gewürzen, dunkles malz. Geschmack würzig, Kürbis, Zimt, dunkles malz.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
From a can into a tulip glass, reddish brown with slight head. Full-bodied spiced brown ale, creamy with a hops finish. Hops overpower the spicing, the mix of flavors is not winning.