Long Beach Beer Lab

Microbrewery in Long Beach, California, United States 🇺🇸
Associated Venue: Long Beach Beer Lab

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518 W Willow St, Long Beach, CA, 90806, United States
Description
From place of Pure Imagination, curiosities are crafted into flavorful elixirs. IPAs, Ales, Lagers, Sours, and mixed beverages all on a spectrum to satisfy a searcher with incredible zeal.

Add in the artisan, handcrafted Sourdough Bread and Pastry, you will find yourselves down a rabbit hole you couldn't kick your heels 3 times fast enough.

Welcome to the Long Beach Beer Lab!

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6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Grapefruit and tropical fruit aroma. Tropical fruit and grapefruit flavor. Medium bodied. Good bitterness. Tropical fruit and grapefruit linger.
Tried from Draft on 05 Oct 2019 at 21:17

7/10
Tried from Draft at Murphy's Law on 04 Sep 2019 at 00:44

7.3/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
Bottle @ Carnivale Brettanomyces. Deep dark brown color. Berries and roast in the aroma. Sour flavor with blueberries. Thinnish, bretty. Loads of fruit.
Tried from Bottle on 26 Aug 2019 at 08:34


8.1/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Bottle shared thanks to the brewer at BeerTemple, Amsterdam. Brown with a ring beige head. Aroma of oak, chocolate, caramel, tart ripe dark fruits, vanilla and grapes. Flavour is heavy sweet and moderate sour. Full bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried from Bottle at BeerTemple on 23 Jun 2019 at 15:30

7.3/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 7 Overall 7
Carnivale Brettanomyces 2019. Pours very dark, almost black with hardly any head. Aroma's of dark chocolate and blueberry, with additional sourness retronasal. Flavour is sour with cheap cocoa. Medium bodied. Long finish with cocoa and vanilla.
Tried from Bottle from De Bierkoning on 21 Jun 2019 at 23:40

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 6.5
10 oz draft champagne flute at the Long Beach Beer Lab in Long Beach, California. Version I had was listed at ABV 2.8%, though description matches others notes. The pour is hazed pinkish golden, with a ½ inch whitish pink head. The aroma is raspberry tart fruit, a bit of sourdough bread and lemon citrus. The taste is the raspberry fruit sweet and tartness, sourdough follows that along with a bit of lactic in the back joined by some dirtiness. The palate is light to thin bodied with fine carbonation and fruit in the finish. Interesting.
Tried from Draft on 07 May 2019 at 17:35

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
A deep dark brown ale with a thin mocha head. In aroma, sweet chocolate with vanilla, light acidity, pleasant and sweet. In mouth, a sweet fruity chocolate malt with light acidity, light cherry, vanilla and dark fruits, very nice. On tap at City Beer Store.
Tried from Draft on 09 Feb 2019 at 05:08

5.8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 2 Overall 6
(Draught at Beer Temple, Amsterdam, 22 Aug 2018) Pinkish red colour with frothy, white head. Fruity, slightly sourish nose with notes of cherries, white bread and almonds. Fruity, tart taste with cherries, cranberries, raspberries and bread. Thin body, with a slight sweetness. Hardly any bitterness. Odd and interesting, but refreshing. Quite enjoyable.
Tried on 09 Jan 2019 at 22:08

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
This beer is astonishingly not like kvass. It has no bread character or mouthfeel, bread sweetness etc. Everything that makes kvass, kvass seems to be absent in this beer, it almost feels as if they did not use bread at all, I can overlook the definitely less common addition of cherry but I cannot overlook the rest. This tastes in every way like a bit lesser low ABV USA sour and as such it is quite fair especially keeping the ABV in mind but going by style this is a train wreck. Now having gotten that out of the way, appearance was the first sign of how un-kvass this was, weird pink orange, vaguely almost pinkish-head. Nose is dirty water & some rotting fruit sourness with a sweet candy fruit quality, cherry lemonade with vague sour & dirty lemon, taste is the same dirty water sourness with vague almost lemonade-like sweetness, problematic but fair for the ABV sour. Enjoyed draft glass @ BeerTemple.
Tried from Can on 10 Aug 2018 at 17:06