Anchor Small Beer

Brewed by Anchor Brewing Company
Style: Bitter
San Francisco, California USA

Serve in English pint

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Presentation: It was poured from a brown 1pt. 6oz bottle into an imperial pint glass. The neck label has a short description of the beer but there is no freshness date or abv%. Appearance: The body has a light amber to orange amber color with good clarity and some visible carbonation. From the pour I got an average size head (about two fingers) with a just off white color. This head fades slowly and makes some nice lacing on the glass as I drink. Smell: It light overall and has a light pale biscuit like maltiness with some mild grassy/herbal hops. (This was not what I was expecting at all.) Taste/Palate: The flavor closely matches the smell. It starts with a thin pale malt with light bready and biscuity notes. This is then quickly over run by a slightly citrusy, almost astringent, grassy hop character. It finishes with this acidic bitterness hanging on to the tongue. The body has a light and fairly thin feel with plenty of scrubbing carbonation. Notes: For a beer based off the second running of there Barleywine this was not what I was expecting and not a beer that I would seek out again.

Stubby 22oz bottle picked up at Bevmo
Appearance: Pours clear golden with a medium sized white head and good lacing
Aroma: Pilsner malts, skunky and honey
Taste: Malts, grainy, citrus and mild bitterness in the finish
OK, but couldn’t finish the bomber.

Bottle. Clear light orange pour with a large white head. Nose is kind of off-putting - kind of cardboard like. Thinner palate. Taste is grassy hops, and other than that is fairly mild. Wasn’t really digging this one.

22oz bottle from Discount Liquor Milwaukee. Pours a light amber color with a white head. Aroma is lightly hoppy, pine. Medium on the palate with average carbonation. Flavor is mild, malty up front, with a light bitter hop finish. Tasty at 3.3%.

It poured a golden color with an off-white head. The aroma was grainy pale with some grassy hops. The flavor was pale and light hoppy notes. Not what was expected as a bitter.

Strangely and disappointingly shallow beer. It had a magnificent frothy white head that lingers. It has an amber/peach hue. But then you smell thin beer alcohol... the flavor is watery with slight barley. 3-j 2.5-B

Golden amber color-good carbonation level-has a decent head. Somewhat hoppy aroma.Bitterness is right upfront with minimal malt. A bit unbalanced in my opinion. Average mouthfeel.

Light aromas of grass and grains. Pours a clear orange color with a white head. Flavors of grass, grains, some caramel and fruit. Fuller body than I was expecting but the finish leaves an unpleasant taste in my mouth. Overall......eh, I gues I’m glad I tried it.

A small beer! cool. 3.3% abv! I love it. Simple hazy happy gold compliments Belle and Sebastian well. fizzy, ok head retention. Aroma of moderate caramel, and a flat grass hops smell. Flavor is dry grain lightly bitter grassy leaf hops. It’s good, light on alcohol, yet almost medium-bodied and fairly flavorful with hops/grain and a caramelly aroma. As it warms, the flavor (and the hops in particular) become a more astringent and less enjoyable.

22 oz bottle. pours a pale orange with a 2+ finger white head. pils nose with wheat and faint citrus. med body with bright lemon, bread notes, orange peel and light pale malts. spicy and bitter finish with lemon, orange and some light wheat.

This beer is exactly what I thought of and heard about "Small beer" a low alcohol and lightly bodied beer brewed with the sparged mash of Anchor Foghorn. It was more bitter than I expected but not overly so. I thought that it is a good example of the "small beer" style.