Cable Car Ale
The Lost Abbey in San Marcos, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Rotating|
Score
8.05
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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.
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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8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Slight haze, pale, nice peach aroma, mostly lactic maybe a touch acetic. Peachy, bright, drinks well with lactic focus and complex bugginess.
Tried
on 28 Mar 2026
at 23:22
8/10
Sour and tart, lemony citrus, stone fruit, mainly apricot. Smooth, low acidity, excellent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2025
at 16:45
8/10
Still great. Funky, mineraly and tartish with mild sourness and fruitiness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jan 2025
at 16:44
8/10
Still great
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jun 2023
at 16:26
7.9/10
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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
8/10
Still great
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jul 2022
at 12:24
8/10
Sharp sour, acidic, apricots, dry.. too sour..
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Mar 2022
at 21:38
8/10
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
9/10
Yassss I finally got to try it
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2020
at 21:39
8.2/10
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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