Karl Strauss Brewing Company
Regional Brewery
in San Diego,
California,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 7 Venues
Established in 1989
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
12 oz bottle from Total Wine, Las Vegas, NV. Pours a semi-clear orange-bronze color with a small off-white head and fair retention. Minimal spots of lacing. Caramel malt aroma. Nicely sweet caramel malt flavor throughout. Medium body. High carbonation. Crisp mouthfeel. Not bitter. Very clean, smooth, and easy drinking. Nice sweet lager.
CraftBeerNick (10783) reviewed Tower X from Karl Strauss Brewing Company 8 months ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Good beer at La Jolla, Cali, with the team, 24th February 25, bitter and resinous with citrus,, enjoyable
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 6
Botte from a random liquor shop in A’dam. Pours deep golden with thin, persistent white head. It showed pineapple, tropical fruits, interestingly some coconut and a good proportion of bitterness in aroma and taste. Light bodied with average carbo, easy to drink. Although it wasn’t super fresh, but it was still a nice session ipa.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at home. Aroma of liquorice, malt, caramel, chocolate, coffee, roasty notes, hint of vanilla, some dark fruity notes. Flavour is sweet with a light bittersweet finish. Body is medium. Decent Imperial Stout, but not top tier.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home. Aroma of citrus, tangerine, orange, pine resin, malt biscuit, some caramel, grapefruit, hops. Flavour is moderate sweet with a dry generous hoppy bitter finish. A bit boozy, especially towards the end. Body is medium to full. Rich and heavy IIPA, lots of citrus with a big bittersweet flavour.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle at home. Aroma is tropical fruits, grapefruit, pine resin, orange, mandarin, palt malt, some floral notes hops. Flavour is light sweet with an almost medium bitter finish. Body is medium. There’s a smooth delicate balance to this beer, it delivers on the fruity piney front and I dig the sweetish/bitter flavour. Delicious.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at home. Aroma is piney, pale malt, biscuits, caramel, citrus, grapefruit, leafs, hops. Flavour is light sweet and just about medium bitter. Body is medium. Rather mild malty piney APA, but enjoyable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Botte at home. As "Karl Strauss Mosaic Session Ale". Aroma is tons of tropical fruity hops, citrus, grapefruit, pine resin. Flavour is lightly sweet and moderate to medium bitter. Body is medium. Exquisite fruity hoppy Session IPA, very easy and refreshing yet aromatic.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured up on tap at Tipsy Cactus where it exhibits a crystal clear copper colored body that has thin golden hues and supports a near white head of foam. The aroma offers up some modestly roasted malts, a dash of biscuit and then hints of lager yeast esters. The taste delivers some roasted to slightly crystal malts bleeding into a pleasing biscuit like maltiness. To midway light notes of sweet lager yeast esters shoulder their way into the experience. This never gets too sweet but stays clean and crisp. Nice one.
bhensonb (22552) reviewed Tower X² from Karl Strauss Brewing Company 1 year ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Can from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours translucent gold with a decent foamy white head. Lots of hop resin/pine maybe even spruce for aroma. Med body at least. Flavor doesn't bite harshly, but it's pretty strong. Malt is discernible but well held down. Hop resin/pine is the main thing. Zesty grapefruit. Lots of other stuff I can't parse. Not the best I've ever had, but it's really pretty good.
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