Thorn Brewing Company

Microbrewery in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues

Contact
3176 Thorn St, San Diego, CA, 92104, United States
Description
(Previously Thorn Street Brewery)

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5.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

19.2 oz. can. Pours a murky, pinkish color, with a bubbly, fleeting head. The aroma is heavy tomato, tabasco, lime, straw, habanero, and brown sugar. Quite savory and spicy. Some salt and light acidity. Light body, with a sticky, hot mouthfeel. I literally recoiled from the glass at first smell, but it goes down okay. The second half was significantly better.

Tried from Can on 12 Jul 2021 at 16:57


8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9

32oz crowler pours with a deep dark mohagony colored body that supports a thin dark tan head of foam. The aroma offers up kind of boozy chocolate and fudge flowing into a mild sense of coffee in the background. The taste delivers a pleasing richness and depth of chocolate that ebbs back and forth from fudge to chocolate to dark chocolate milk steeped in booze. Beneath the chocolate depths is a thin layer of sweetened dark roasted coffee. The comes together nice where the booze is there but at just the right level to give this some umph that's counter to the sweetened chocolate and roast.

Tried from Crowler on 08 Jun 2021 at 03:48


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at SAN airport. Pours cloudy golden with a medium sized off-white head, light lacing. Sweet tropical fruit, pineapple, orange. Good

Tried from Draft on 28 May 2021 at 23:19


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Dark yellow colour with light haze and thin head. This one starts soft and fruity with subtle mango and lime zest. The bitterness builds up to a nice dry finish.

Tried on 25 Apr 2021 at 15:01


7.5
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Can at home. Hazy yellow orange color, medium sized white head. Smell and taste malts, hops, decently bitter. Decent body and carbonation. Alright.

Tried on 04 Apr 2021 at 14:18


8.3
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Can at home. Golden color, full sized white head. Aroma is light to moderately malty, fruity hoppy, mandarins. Flavor is malts, again fruity hoppy, overripe fruity notes, mandarins again, some resin and piney notes. Medium to full body and carbonation. Very nice.

Tried on 04 Apr 2021 at 13:47


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 8

Can at home. Orangy color, medium sized white head. Smell and taste malts, hops, somewhat resinous, hoppy bitters, decently bitter finish. Medium body and decent carbonation. Quite good.

Tried on 29 Mar 2021 at 18:51


7

Best lekker. Redelijk lafjes, maar de smaak die er is, is prima.

Tried from Can on 20 Mar 2021 at 22:01


7.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8.5

Quadrupel from this craft brewery in San Diego, in its bourbon barrel aged edition; bottle from Bier Bazaar (I think) shared with Craftmember and Johan. Slow gusher, but manageable. Medium thick, pale yellowish beige, quickly opening, dissipating head, misty bronze-brown robe with orangey amber hue. Aroma of caramel sauce, dried plums, ‘boerenjongens’ (liquor-soaked raisins), vanilla, jasmin blossoms, bourbon, Brazil nuts, brown honey, toffee, candied dates. Sweet onset but in a kind of crisp, fruity way and not cloying at all, dates, figs, raisins, softish carb, smooth and bit oily body – feeling lighter than its ABV would suggest so the whole remains ‘dangerously’ drinkable. Caramelly, bit peanutty malts, a tad brown-bready in the end, carrying this candied fruitiness onwards to a noble finish where oaky tannins provide balance against the sweetness, a function also fulfilled by oaky tannins and warming, indeed bourbon- but also somewhat rum-like booze. Honey, something perfumey (violets) and a lot of oaky vanilla fill the retronasal part in a most delightful way. Wonderful American interpretation of a Dutch-style quad (think La Trappe Quadrupel Oak Aged) – the American craft brewers do not often tackle the traditional ale styles from the Low Countries and when they do, rarely even come close to the best in Belgium and Holland, but this one pleasantly surprised me, in being at a comparable level of quality and complexity as the La Trappe Quadrupel Oak Aged series or the Chimay Barriques series. Worth every penny.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Feb 2021 at 16:08


8

Lekkere hopsmaak. Beetje abrikoos. Goed.

Tried from Can on 19 Feb 2021 at 22:27