Frisco
Brains Craft Brewery in Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales 🏴
California Common / Steam Beer Regular|
Score
5.96
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A California Common brewed with San Francisco Lager Yeast and a trio of American hops; Cluster, Willamette and Chinook. This style of beer is often referred to as “steam” beer due to the relatively warm fermentation temperature.
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5.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2014, Great British Beer Festival, London Olympia, Hammersmith Road, London, England W14 8UX. [ As Brains Craft Brewery Frisco ].Clear medium orange yellow color with a small to average, frothy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, pale nuts, earthy notes. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, sweet malt, pale nut notes. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft to flat. [20140813]
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Jul 2015
at 03:00
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From cask. Pours clear and golden orange with a small white head. Aroma is fruity, light citrusy. Bitter, toasted and light sweet malty. Slight toffee. Bitter and toasted malty finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 30 Dec 2014
at 00:39
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask @ GBBF 2014. Pours a clear pale yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity malty grainy aroma. Fruity malty grainy flavor with weak hoppy flavor. Has a fruity malty grainy finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Oct 2014
at 02:33
4/10
Tried
on 03 Oct 2014
at 08:48
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
On tap at the Bowl Inn, Almondsbury. Pale yellow colour with a tight white head, that lasts. Aroma is buttery, and the taste is light with malt. Served very cold, a bit to cold for me.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Sep 2014
at 12:00
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4
13th August 2014
GBBF Day 2. Cask. Almost clear gold beer, few pale cream colour bubbles not being a head. Light dry palate with light fine carbonation. Dry malts. Whisper of sulphur. Insipid orange hops. Light dry finish. Meh.
GBBF Day 2. Cask. Almost clear gold beer, few pale cream colour bubbles not being a head. Light dry palate with light fine carbonation. Dry malts. Whisper of sulphur. Insipid orange hops. Light dry finish. Meh.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Sep 2014
at 02:21
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at GBBF
Clear golden with a medium sized white head, good lacing. Aroma and flavors are floral, dusty and grainy
Ok
Clear golden with a medium sized white head, good lacing. Aroma and flavors are floral, dusty and grainy
Ok
Tried
from Cask
on 25 Aug 2014
at 08:50
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
Sampled @ GBBF day 2. Clear golden color, small off-white head. Smell and taste malts, German or European hops, slightly a touch of pineapple, lightly bitter. Not bad. Average body, soft carbonation.
Tried
on 19 Aug 2014
at 09:47
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask at GBBF 2014. Light gold. Clear. Very little head. Buttery aroma with elderflower and slight hint of clove. Some of the sweetness shines through in the taste and lifts the beer above the acrid bitterness I was expecting in the aroma. Actually it taste pretty good. Body is weak and fairly oily. Not great overall, really just tastes like another golden beer, or maybe a mediocre attempt at a Kölsch.
Tried
from Cask
on 14 Aug 2014
at 06:17