Cable Car Ale

The Lost Abbey in San Marcos, California, United States 🇺🇸

Sour / Wild Beer Rotating

Score

8.04

ABV: 7.0%

IBU: -

Ticks: 83

You’ve made it to 547 Haight Street. This destination is more San Francisco than Rice A Roni, Chinatown, and Lombard Street combined. Welcome to Broadway for brewers everywhere. Everyone who is anyone has poured their kegs here. For the last 20 years, this place has launched careers, confirmed legacies, and since 1987 the only name you need to know is David Keene.

Take a seat. Tip Strong. Nod appreciatively and don’t ask stupid questions. Welcome to Big Daddy’s House known to most simply as "The T-Room." Here the bartenders are fluent in English, German, Flemish, French, Waloon and Czech. But they’re most known for their American Lip Service. Watch it. The lady with the jet black hair behind the bar eats idiots for lunch.

At 547 Haight Street, you won’t find any Cable Cars except for this one. But if you’re standing outside the Dutch Doors of the World Famous Toranado, you surely found the most interesting place in all San Francisco. Its’ about RESPECT. Dave you continue to have ours. Here’s to 20 more years of punishing livers everywhere.

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CoccoBill (10287) ticked Cable Car Ale (2020) from The Lost Abbey 1 year ago

Sour and tart, lemony citrus, stone fruit, mainly apricot. Smooth, low acidity, excellent.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Jan 2025 at 16:45

tiong (21350) ticked Cable Car Ale (2020) from The Lost Abbey 1 year ago

Still great. Funky, mineraly and tartish with mild sourness and fruitiness.

Tried from Bottle on 11 Jan 2025 at 16:44

tiong (21350) ticked Cable Car Ale (2018) from The Lost Abbey 2 years ago

Still great

Tried from Bottle on 22 Jun 2023 at 16:26

7.9

Weihenweizen (7385) reviewed Cable Car Ale from The Lost Abbey 3 years ago

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Refrigerated 75 cl 2020 bottle corked and capped. Slightly hazy golden with medium white head. Aroma is delicate light malt, medium body, medium carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is sour citrus.

Tried from Bottle on 30 Dec 2022 at 00:49

tiong (21350) ticked Cable Car Ale (2017) from The Lost Abbey 3 years ago

Still great

Tried from Bottle on 09 Jul 2022 at 12:24

ShivanDragon (10851) ticked Cable Car Ale (2019) from The Lost Abbey 3 years ago

Sharp sour, acidic, apricots, dry.. too sour..

Tried from Bottle on 05 Mar 2022 at 21:38

rami-pl (12989) ticked Cable Car Ale (2019) from The Lost Abbey 5 years ago

Bardzo kwasne, za brdzo. bardzo fajna, niecodzienna, jasnoowocowa? Jablko kwasne z cytryna? Nieco przyprawowosci? Slonawemineralnie? Sianowate? intensywna paleta. Wytrawne. Chlalne byloby gdyby nie ten level kwasnosci.

Tried from Bottle on 02 Jan 2021 at 16:56

allinthenameofbeer (11688) ticked Cable Car Ale (2019) from The Lost Abbey 6 years ago

Yassss I finally got to try it

Tried from Bottle on 28 Jan 2020 at 21:39

8.2

tiong (21350) reviewed Cable Car Ale from The Lost Abbey 6 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

750ml bottle. 2018 vintage. Tart, mineraly and funky with some sourness, farmyard and earthiness. Quite good.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Dec 2019 at 12:28

8.8

SHIG (13882) reviewed Cable Car Ale from The Lost Abbey 6 years ago

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle that I have wanted to try for years, thanks for sharing Markwise: Poured a hazy yellow with white head. Aroma is pungent sour fruits, oaky, barnyard. Taste was lip puckering sour fruit, oaky wood tingle, lots of sourness.

Tried from Bottle on 10 Nov 2019 at 22:00