Steam Beer
Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco, California, United States 🇺🇸
California Common / Steam Beer Regular|
Score
6.50
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Anchor Steam Beer - brewed for the first time in 1896 - owes its deep amber color, thick, creamy head, and rich, distinctive flavor to a historic brewing process like none other. It is a process that combines deep respect for craft brewing tradition with many decades of evolution to arrive at a unique approach: a blend of pale and caramel malts, fermentation with lager yeast at warmer ale temperatures in shallow open-air fermenters, and gentle carbonation in our cellars through an all-natural process called kräusening.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
12 oz bottle, clear copper without a lot of head. Medium to full body. Bready aroma, malty taste with mildly bitter hops finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2019
at 22:50
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Fluffy off white head stayed on a translucent copper coloured still body. Spices, tea, malt & sugar aroma. Medium bodied, sharp on the palate with thinner cloying back. Bitter tangy tastes with pine, resin, malt, tea & spices.
Tried
on 19 May 2019
at 17:19
5/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 May 2019
at 16:39
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap (Pinta, Wrocław). Fruity, very light even a little bit watery, dry with small bitterness but long and astringent a bit. Generaly nice for hot day but nothing special for taste.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Apr 2019
at 14:13
5/10
Another ultra memorable beer from the dark ages, pre craft beer explosion, this one was damn near in every store. Wonder if it was this malty and flat back then too. Oh how we've grown!
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Apr 2019
at 00:00
7.5/10
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Apr 2019
at 20:35
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Shared bottle at Mi2 at Cardinal 25.03.19. Dark golden. Diminishing off-white head. Fruity aroma and taste of pale malt, a hint of darker malt, pine, succade and bitterning hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2019
at 18:30
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Shared bottle at Cardinal, Stavanger. Pours hazy amber with off-white head. Aroma of ripe bananas, light bread, floral and herbal notes. Tastes slightly bitter with little sweetness. Thin bodied, dry mouthfeel, bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2019
at 18:23
6.5/10
Certainly a unique flavor. Don't think it'll become a new favorite style of mine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2019
at 18:57
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pours dark amber with a thin white head. Aroma similar to that of an amber or Vienna. Taste is malty-toasted but without the smoke influence. Dry mouthfeel. Palate includes muted hop notes as well as a rich malt tone.
Tried
on 22 Dec 2018
at 23:12