Istmo Brew Pub

Brewpub in Panama City, Panamá, Panama 🇵🇦
Associated Venue: Istmo Brew Pub (El Cangrejo)

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C. Eusebio A. Morales Ave, Panama City, Panama

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5.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Draught@brewpub in Panama City
Clear amber color, good beige head. Nose has some wort and hints of vegetables. Medium-bodied. Crisp. Malty, some caramel, but not really sweet. Light bitterness in the finish. Dusty notes.
Tried on 10 Mar 2012 at 03:06

5.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Draught@brewpub in Panama City
Deep amber-brown color, good beige head. Chocolate, brown sugar and vegetables in the nose. Medium-bodied. Chocolate, caramelly flavor, whiff of vegetables. Decent Vienna.
Tried on 10 Mar 2012 at 03:04

5.2/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5
Draught@brewpub in Panama City
Pale yellow color, good white head. Aroma of cereals, metal, malts and some wort. Light-bodied. Citrus hoppyness and sweet maltyness. "Typical" brewpub-product. Not too bad.
Tried on 10 Mar 2012 at 03:03

4.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 4.5
Draught at the brewpub
This small brewery utilizes a craft brewing equipment with 5 different tanks (?) that can produce 200 litres of beers each time; they brew 5 times to fill up the fermentation tank of 1000 litres. The beers are made of 65% barley malt and 35% of malt extract, following recipes by an old brew master who used to work in some colombian macrobrewery (Bavaria?) for 35 years. They use Perle hops (but I haven’t seen any label, and the owner didn’t seem very confident). They swear that it’s a low fermentation, but they also say that it occurs at 10-13°C...
All their beers have a fermentation/maturation problem, evident through a moderate tart sourness.

Dark brown color. Light aroma of malt. Some malt flavor, caramel, light roasted malt. Low bitterness (apart from the bitterness derived from the burnt sugar) and light sourness.
Tried from Can on 13 Apr 2006 at 04:12

3.4/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Draught at the brewpub
Light blond color; poor head. The aroma is spoiled, sour. The flavor is soft, with cereals, but spoiled too (sour). Low bitterness. Simple beer (but it loses some points because of the fermentation/ageing sourness).
Tried on 13 Apr 2006 at 04:10

3.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Draught at the brewpub
Cloudy amber color. Almost no aroma. Soft flavor, light residual sweetness, some light malt, and this one as well is spoiled by a light sourness, due to some infection.
Tried on 13 Apr 2006 at 04:06