Cable Car Ale
The Lost Abbey in San Marcos, California, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Rotating|
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8.04
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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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_angst_ (8410) ticked Cable Car Ale (2012) from The Lost Abbey 9 years ago
Love the balance between a simple bright citric and stone fruit forward US sour and almost gueuze-like funk. Yum!
_angst_ (8410) reviewed Cable Car Ale from The Lost Abbey 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle courtesy of linusb. Pours hazy burnt golden with a fairly small frothy offwhite head that leaves plenty of spotty trace on the glass while dissiapting. Smell is fruity and funky with sourdough crackers, lemon juice, stone fruits, white grapes, moist wood, hay, dry soil, barnyard, leather, lemon zest and hints of rubber. Taste is sour, tiny malty, fruity and funky. Mouthfeel is dry, tart, slightly fruit skin astringent and light to medium bodied. Finish is sour with lemon juice, apricots and complex barrel and funk character. Love the balance between a simple bright citric and stone fruit forward US sour and almost gueuze-like funk. Yum!
ippopotamo36 (4383) reviewed Cable Car Ale from The Lost Abbey 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at Liquid On tap at the source in Seattle-USA. Bottle. Yellow cloudy pale pour, little white foam. Nose: fruity, apricot, funk. Mouth: mild body of Brett, peppery finish a bit chili. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone
Gyllenbock (17517) reviewed Cable Car Ale from The Lost Abbey 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9
Bottle at Toronado, vintage 2014. Hazy golden with a small white head. Nice aroma of funk, citrus and hay. Similar taste. Elegant and nicely balanced. Really a great one, I am glad that i finally tried it. (the bottle cost 80 usd)
Ferris (26026) reviewed Cable Car Ale from The Lost Abbey 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle - Funky stone fruit. Cloudy gold with a decent white head. Tons of tart stone fruit, light acidity and a bit of a dry finish. Nice and balanced.
Buckeyeboy (18941) reviewed Cable Car Ale from The Lost Abbey 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
750ml bottle thanks to Toby. pours out a cloudy wheat color with a ring of head. Nose is great fruit tart some sweetness lots of funky sour notes. Taste is more of the sour tartness some fruit peach apricot great.
RichTheVillan (12489) reviewed Cable Car Ale from The Lost Abbey 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Bottle cheers to K Man; crystal clear golden amber pour with a creamy off white head, aroma has mellow funk with some lemon, taste has nice lemon action, some brett, peach, unexpected whale.
Dogbrick (24210) reviewed Cable Car Ale from The Lost Abbey 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Sample at Denver Rare Beer Tasting VII on 09/25/2015. Cloudy orange-gold color with a thin off-white head that dissipates quickly to a sparse outer ring. Short strings of lacing on the glass. The aroma consists of citrus. oak, yeast and malt. Medium body with flavors of tart citrus and apples, yeast, oak and malt. The finish is moderately tart with a lemon and funky yeast aftertaste. Good beer all around.
andrewje41 (7962) reviewed Cable Car Ale from The Lost Abbey 10 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5
I always enjoy the opportunity to enjoy and rate a beer that the hype that surrounds it is destined to leave me less than impressed, because sometimes, it lives up. At this price, I wouldn’t try this too often, but for the first time, it’s a no brainer. 750 mL bottle split with Eugene, and poured. Enjoyed at the Toronado Seattle release. Pours a cloudy, light orange color with little to no head. Sour citrus fruit. Maybe a little apricot. Love just looking at the bottle. Reminds me of all the times I was wishing I was drinking this beer. Medium body with a nice pucker up sour lemon and white grape flavor. Well worth the wait here. My type of beer. Loved it.