Fireside Chat
21st Amendment Brewery in San Leandro, California, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular|
Score
6.63
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Like FDR’s Depression-Era Radio Addresses, which were like a kick in the butt and a hug at the same time, our Fireside Chat is a subtle twist on the traditional seasonal brew. We begin with a rich, dark, English-style ale and then we improvise with spices until we know we have a beer worth sharing with the nation. Celebrating the right to be original.
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7/10
Pleasantly spiced
Tried
on 30 Oct 2022
at 19:59
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12-18-21 Grand Liquor
Tried
on 19 Dec 2021
at 01:53
7.1/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 01 May 2021
at 19:24
7/10
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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.
Tried
on 27 Sep 2017
at 14:01
6.9/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Aug 2017
at 00:08
6/10
Tried
on 16 Jan 2017
at 19:05
4.5/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Dec 2016
at 16:54
5.6/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Dec 2016
at 21:43
7.1/10
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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.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Nov 2016
at 21:07
6.2/10
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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
Tried
on 13 Oct 2016
at 18:50