Barbary Coast Gold Rush Style Beer
Minhas Craft Brewery in Monroe, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
California Common / Steam Beer Regular|
Score
5.32
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Note: this revew was on the same brand brewed by Local Color Brewing Co., Michigan...Purchased as part of an Beers of America Historical Collection 12 pack, beers contract brewed to their original recipes. Poured with a light head, with copper color and medium lacing. Aroma is right in the wheelhouse for an American amber. Flavor is clean, appropriately bitter...a nice break from the German and Belgian styles I’ve been drinking.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 1.5
Deep brown coloured body with a thinnish tan head. Aroma of rust, mold, malt, blood and metal - not very nice at all. Light-bodied; Strong bitter taste up front makes way for a very mild and bland malt taste with almost nothing else following behind. Aftertaste shows a cardboard and super bland malty taste. Overall, pretty bad and definitely not worth trying. There was simply no character and substance for this one. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased (after many attempts) at Super H-Mart (Korean Grocery) in Fairfax, Virginia on 26-January-2008.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle. Sweet crystallized caramel malt aroma. Reddish amber color with small head. Slightly sweet starchy malt flavor - rather watery but luckily not as cloying as the aroma would lead you to believe.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Bottle Pours medium amber. Small offwhite head. Nice thin lacing. Pale grains/malts, loittle hops in the aroma. Slightly woody, medium flavor, modest hop bitterness and a fairly clean finish. Unspecatular, but no complaints really.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 3.5
Pour is a amber with no head. Very small aroma of hops with no malts. Flavor is just water with a little malt kick to it. Very watery and thin. No where near the quality of anchor steam.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Not labelled as a steam beer but I was certain thats what it was, both from aroma/flavor and hints on the label. (iceless fermentation, 1894 style, Gold Rush style beer, etc.). Anyway: light head, with copper color and med lacing. Aroma is strongly fruity -pear? Flavor is cleaner though, mainly bitter...an interesting contrast to the aroma.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Dull amber without much head. The aroma is caramel, abundant fields of grain and a light fruitiness. Palate is strange - like pear juice, with some caramel. There’s a weirdness I can’t put my finger on. The body is somewhat watery, and maybe a bit thin, but it’s also doughy. Very strange. The finish is sweet, again with a somewhat innocuous pear juice note. When I first had this sample pack, 9 1/2 years ago, I kind of like this beer. Now, I really don’t. The sweetness is mild and body sufficiently soft that it should be at least pleasant if not pleasing. But it isn’t. Maybe it’s too cloying. Maybe it’s a bit strange, like dirty yeast or ancient brewing equipment strange. That might be it. This beer smacks of old Communist-era brewing equipment. Hmm.