21st Amendment Fireside Chat

21st Amendment Brewery
Brewed at Cold Spring Brewery
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
San Francisco, California USA

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Pours reddish brown with a tan head. Nice spicy aroma. Taste is full of spice with a quick finish. Nothing special.

On tap. Pours with a hazed deep brown hued body with a small tan head. Aromas are malty, caramel, brown sugar and light spice. Flavors are grainy, wheat, soggy malt, brown sugar, light spice, some clove and cinnamon. Lively bubbles, medium bitter.

Dark brown with ruby tint and tan head. Malty aroma with cloves and cinnamon. Sweet malty taste some raisins. Kind of tart for my liking and then cinnamon and cloves in finish.

Disappointed with this one, looks and smells great, tastes totally boring and average. Drinkable, but not something I’d recommend.

Can. Pours clear dark brown to black with an average, frothy light tan head, medium retention with fair lacing. Aroma is cookie, caramel, nutty, and toast malt, light perfume alcohol, spicy and earthy hops, dark fruity esters of dates and plums with light spices (cinnamon, nutmeg). Flavor is toasted malt with caramel and nutty notes, cinnamon, nutmeg, dates and plums, spicy alcohol, light hops and bitterness with a sweet mouthfeel yet dry finish. Full body, medium-high warmth, and medium carbonation.

Disappointed with this one. These winter warmer brews are starting to piss me off. Smelled of clove, raisin, booze, and ginger. Taste was ALL over the place. I feel like they had no direction with this ale and just kind of threw ingredients in at random. Blah. I’ll stick to the hop crisis.

Can. Pours clear dark copper with a thick and rocky tan lacy head that fades without much ado. Aroma is dominated by spice with a little brown sugar behind it. Medium body, moderate carbonation. Spicy sweet taste with subtle bits of roasty malt and a dry, spice-laden finish.

12 oz can served in HFB stemware. Pours a clear copper with a billowing tan head. Nose includes lots of spices(nutmeg, clove, cinnamon) and some sweet malts. Spices dominate the taste as well, maybe a bit of fruity ale yeast. Way too much carbonation and quite dry in the finish. I just don’t know.

Pours a very dark ruby color that’s pretty much brown with mahogany edges and a two finger light beige head that slowly settles into lasting ring. Streaks of soapy lacing left behind. Very spicy aroma with lots of dark fruit and slightly roasted malts. Potpourri like with flower petals, cinnamon, brown sugar and clove. The spices really overpower the aroma in an unpleasant way but underneath there is some dark fruit and others berries. Medium bodied with a harsh, overly aggressive spice presence that lingers over the sweeter notes into a acrid, bone dry finish. Lots of potpourri spice with bark, cinnamon, pepper, ginger and clove which creates an unpleasant dry flavor that dominates. Underneath there us some sweet malt and dark fruit along with a syrupy, medicinal character. This beer is overly spice but also cloyingly sweet. Just all over the place and a bit if a mess.

Nice dark brown pour with a tan head. Sweet brown sugar malt aroma with spice and a hint of vegetables. The flavor is similar but more reserved. Much like the description it tastes like an English ale with some spice added. Middle of the road winter ale.