Zymaster Series No. 7: Potrero Hill Sour Mash IPA
Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco, California, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Sour / Wild Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.86
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The mash is sour but the beer is not. Instead, the sour mash we blend with our regular mash results in this IPA’s unique piquancy. The dry tartness from the sour mash, the bitterness from the Nelson Sauvin hops, and the subtle spiciness from the rye meld to create a singular, thirst-quenching IPA with a clean, crisp finish. Dry-hopping with Nelson Sauvin adds tropical complexity with notes of grapefruit, mandarin orange, and passion fruit.
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5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On tap at City Beer SF. Clear copper with a small head. Aroma and taste of citrus, earth, rye and floral hops. Also something that reminded of brown sugar. Drinkable but a bit strange.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Feb 2015
at 08:11
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap at GABBF
Clear golden with a big off-white head, good lacing. Aroma is malty and earthy. Flavor is citrus, malty, earthy and floral
Ok. I didn’t get any sour/tart out of this
Clear golden with a big off-white head, good lacing. Aroma is malty and earthy. Flavor is citrus, malty, earthy and floral
Ok. I didn’t get any sour/tart out of this
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Jan 2015
at 17:10
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at GABBF: Poured a hazy copper color with off white head. Aroma is dank and spicy. Taste is sourish, lots of spicy/rye, hops, and bit bready.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jan 2015
at 21:08
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Goblet glass draft at Barley’s in Leawood, Kansas. The pour is a lightly hazed copper with an off white head. Nice lace is left on the glass. The aroma is some glass cleaner, cracker malt and softly tart. The taste is pine citrus hop, along with sweet malt and only a faint taste of the tart from the nose. The palate is medium to low bodied with active carbonation and a finish of the grain and some sweet soft sour.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Jan 2015
at 15:33
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours deep gold into a Sam glass. Off-white head with excellent retention recedes leaving spot lacing. Citrus and tropical fruit aromas. Medium bodied with caramel and nuts upfront turning to spicy rye in the lasting finish.
Tried
on 06 Jan 2015
at 17:09
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Amber beer with a big cream head. Light grapefruit aroma. Caramel and light grapefruit flavor with light berry. Medium bodied. OK bitterness. Caramel and light grapefruit linger with light berries and light darker malts.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Jan 2015
at 13:05
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 8.5
Sample at Ale Alpharetta, thanks to Hamp. Clear copper, with a thin, off-white head. Nice honey and syrup nose, with some caramel, biscuit, and straw. Sweet and a little tart and dry. Low bitterness. Medium body, sticky, and clean. Good malt character, and drinkable. Nothing too special, but nice.
Tried
on 18 Dec 2014
at 20:34
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Rated November 2014. Enjoyed at gabf 2014. It pours with a pure clear deep shiny gold body that supports a nice tight light tan head. The muted aroma offers up bits of citrus hops, a bit of fruitiness and then a slight sour sensation that doesn’t smell all that sour mash like. All in all it smells pretty good. The taste has that classic Anchor malt base where there’s plenty of malts, a bit of biscuit and a dash of roasted malts. Next it starts to pick up spicy old world noble hoppiness with just a subtle sourness well underneath everything else and like the aroma it doesn’t seem very sour mash like. Still this works pretty well.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Nov 2014
at 04:48
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
I didn’t enter this, so not responsible for lack of description. Bottle from Total Wine in Folsom, CA. Pours coppery gold with a foamy/creamy beige head. Aroma is somewhat rye, and has an aroma that suggests "food". Best I can do. Full bodied. Flavor is rye spice, and something sweet, like brown sugar, and fruity hop? Finishing sweetly ryeish. There’s hop bitter, but this IPA is heading towards Barley Wine with the level of malt sugar. So this is a nearly huge beer, which is incredibly tasty. Yum.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Nov 2014
at 19:29