Pelican Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in Pacific City,
Oregon,
United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 1996
Contact
33180 Cape Kiwanda Dr, Pacific City, OR, 97135, United States
Description
Pelican Brewing Company was born at the beach in Pacific City in 1996. Here, in front of a rundown old building at the water’s edge, stood three enthusiastic young folks whose thirst for great beer overshadowed their understanding of what it would take to build a brewery. They did it anyway. And now twenty years later, older, and wiser, Pelican Brewing Company is a craft beer industry leader with fans throughout the Northwest and around the world. Today we’ve taken our breweries and our values to other Oregon coastal towns where we wake up each day in a place that reminds us that amazing is possible. Cheers fellow fanatics. This is as good as it gets.
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
12 oz from a six pack. Aroma has notes of chalky candy, grain, citrus peel, bread, B.O., sex. Pours hazy golden with a one+ finger bone white head with good retention. Taste has a moderate to high pithy bitterness with flavors like the aroma. Alcohol is very noticeable.
Tried
from Can
on 29 May 2022
at 04:13
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
12 oz from a six pack. Aroma has notes of coffee, bell pepper, vanilla. Pours hazy golden with a bone white head that falls into a ring quickly. Taste has coffee flavors with a lightly bitter hoppy edge.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2022
at 05:22
4.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottle from Mid Columbia. Pours a toffee colored brown with a big beige head that quickly fades. Aroma is sweet, somewhat muted. Didn't get good vibes with the flavor either; it's sweet and muddled with an odd spice/earthy thing. No graham cracker whatsoever, if that is indeed what they were going for here.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Apr 2022
at 15:55
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tall 19.2 can from Mid-Columbia. Pours a hazy yellow with a large white head. Big aroma is sweet citrus and tropical fruit. Sets the tone for juicy. Sweet and fruity, citrus and tropical fruit. Nice modest bitters to finish. Juicy and tasty.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Apr 2022
at 17:54
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle from Tavour. Pours clear, dark coppery brown with a tan head that lasted mere seconds. Aroma of smooth roasty/dry toffee malt with vanllla and wood notes. Some dark fruits. Approaching full bodied. Flavor of dark toffee, dark fruits, vanilla, non-musty wood, heat. It's not dry, but quite far from sticky. There's a bitterness equivalent from heat and something else. I will not say there's burnt malt. There just isn't. It's very like a malty port wine in some ways. Excruciatingly delicious.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2022
at 00:14
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
12 oz from a six pack from the grocery store. This year's version is 6.5% ABV. No sports theme on the label, either. Aroma has notes of pine, coconut, lemon rind. Pours clear golden with a one finger bone-white head with good retention. Taste has a moderate bitterness with flavors like the aroma. Nothing wrong with the palate. A little mediocre, but not bad.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Mar 2022
at 21:08
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Taster at Growler Guys. Orange golden pour, ring of white head. Aroma is banana, bubblegum and clove. Taste is all of those plus some fresh baked bread. Aroma and taste are right on, body is a near miss.
Tried
from Growler
on 11 Mar 2022
at 20:21
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
12oz bottle from Homebrewstuff. Mildly cloudy amber pour, sparse head. Strong coffee aroma. Coffee dominates the taste too. Any roast malts are buried under the coffee.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Mar 2022
at 05:46
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
12 oz. Aroma has notes of peach, apricot, malt, cinnamon (?). Pours hazy peachy-orange with a one finger off-white head that falls into a ring immediately. Taste is lightly sweet, lightly tart, lightly bitter, finishing dry, with flavors of peach, hops, malt.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Feb 2022
at 02:03
6/10
Tried
on 20 Feb 2022
at 16:36