Belching Beaver
Microbrewery
in
Vista,
California,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 3 Venues
Established in 2012
Contact
980 Park Center Dr, Ste A, Vista, CA, 92081, United States
Description
Launched in 2012 by by Thomas Vogel, Dave Mobley, and brewmaster Troy Smith, Belching Beaver Brewery evolved from a desire to make great beer and have a ‘Dam Good Time’ doing it. The award-winning craft beer company is focused on two things: First, have a brand that offers quality craft beer, while also being whimsical and fun to inspire good times. Each Belching Beaver beer release carries its own individual style and personality. Second, make beer for everyone and all palates. Our San Diego Brewery hosts 5 different locations serving craft beer you're going to love, of which the Oceanside Brewhouse is the production brewery.
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
22oz bottle from Bevmo
Clear golden with a medium sized white head, good lacing. Aroma of rye, caramel, sweet malts and dusty. Taste is floral, rye and caramel
Ok, mild
Clear golden with a medium sized white head, good lacing. Aroma of rye, caramel, sweet malts and dusty. Taste is floral, rye and caramel
Ok, mild
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2014
at 10:30
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
22oz bottle picked up at BevMo
Black with a medium sized tan head that dissipates quickly, light lacing. Aroma of roasted malts, vanilla and chocolate. Taste of vanilla, dark malts and peanut butter
Ok
Black with a medium sized tan head that dissipates quickly, light lacing. Aroma of roasted malts, vanilla and chocolate. Taste of vanilla, dark malts and peanut butter
Ok
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Oct 2014
at 10:23
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Poured from a bottle it is a dark brown with a slight head. The aroma isl like Reese’s peanut butter cup: chocolate and peanut butter. The taste is a cold Reese’s peanut butter cup with coffee overtones
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2014
at 16:27
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
From a 22 oz bottle shared courtesy of Ryan. Pours a dark cola with a tan head. Coffee aroma. Flavors of mocha chocolate with a hint of peanut butter. Bitter roasted finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Sep 2014
at 16:25
6.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Pitch black. Coffee head. Smells like peanut brittle and walnuts and cashews and caramel. Taste starts great with a ton of peanut butter and sweetness. Then that fades fast and you’re left with a creamy dry English stout with a lot of protein powder and shoe polish. Not a great beer overall. Smells awesome
Tried
on 16 Aug 2014
at 23:30
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Reviewed from notes. Thanks Matt!
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance had a decent yellow color with a light transparency about it allowing some light carbonation streams to be seen rising.
The aroma had a light honey arising about it.
The taste was sweet and sticky honey slapping my lips in nicely but not overbearing.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium (yeah for a blonde showing a heavier body, hmmm...interesting, I diggin’ it). There was a slight honey aftertaste that bled into a sweet sticky finish.
Overall, this one may come across as a fairly sessionable beer but if anything this blonde has some flavor to it. Don’t take this one for granted.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance had a decent yellow color with a light transparency about it allowing some light carbonation streams to be seen rising.
The aroma had a light honey arising about it.
The taste was sweet and sticky honey slapping my lips in nicely but not overbearing.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium (yeah for a blonde showing a heavier body, hmmm...interesting, I diggin’ it). There was a slight honey aftertaste that bled into a sweet sticky finish.
Overall, this one may come across as a fairly sessionable beer but if anything this blonde has some flavor to it. Don’t take this one for granted.
Tried
on 15 Aug 2014
at 22:24
6/10
Tried
on 14 Aug 2014
at 21:16
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hoppy, but not enough for a DIPA. Hazy dark amber with silky beige head. Hops dominate aroma and taste, pine sol finish.
Tried
on 17 Jul 2014
at 15:57
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle from roylefkowitz, thanks! Pours deep black with a large brown creamy head that dissipates slowly with great lacing. Aroma is peanut butter, cocoa, vanilla, lactic sugars; kind of like a reeses milkshake perhaps. Flavor follows. Pretty sweet and just a light bitterness. Lots of PB, vanilla and chocolate going on. Gets cloying and old after a while, but at the beginning at least it is a pretty interesting beverage. A bit of lingering bitterness. Medium body, creamy mouthfeel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2014
at 17:25
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
It pours a pitch black with a 1" head of tannish foam. Tilting my glass and voila. Lots of nice lacing.
The smell is unmistakenly that of peanut butter! Imagine that. There’s a bit of a chocolate aroma coming through as well. Hmm...the smell sure lives up to what I hoped for slash expected.
Holy crap! The taste is even better than the smell. Yep, plenty of peanut butter, wonderful notes of or more like cocoa nibs, AND coffee. But there seems to be a mild fruity thang going on way back in the way background. I sense it infrequently but I’m pretty sure it is there.
Silky smooth mouthfeel, I kind of feel overwhelmed with how this is so much better than I had hoped for.
If I ever have another brew calling itself a Peanut Butter beer that doesn’t involve doughnuts and bananas, it has a BIG chore ahead of it to come close to what this here brew has accomplished.
The smell is unmistakenly that of peanut butter! Imagine that. There’s a bit of a chocolate aroma coming through as well. Hmm...the smell sure lives up to what I hoped for slash expected.
Holy crap! The taste is even better than the smell. Yep, plenty of peanut butter, wonderful notes of or more like cocoa nibs, AND coffee. But there seems to be a mild fruity thang going on way back in the way background. I sense it infrequently but I’m pretty sure it is there.
Silky smooth mouthfeel, I kind of feel overwhelmed with how this is so much better than I had hoped for.
If I ever have another brew calling itself a Peanut Butter beer that doesn’t involve doughnuts and bananas, it has a BIG chore ahead of it to come close to what this here brew has accomplished.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2014
at 08:19