3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
12 oz. bottle in lager glass. This beer grows on you. Initial aroma is malty and slightly caramel. Nice amber color with a creamy, but short lived head. Nice roasted flavor. A little thin, but with a very nice quick bitter finish that makes it slightly arid.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Pours amber and clear with a average off white head aromas are basic malts,hopsand cramel taste is of the same with a slightly bitter dry finish this just doesn’t live up to all the hype
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
12 oz bottle from TC Craft. Pours with a straw color and a nice foamy head. Aroma and taste are quite a bit like a normal macro-brew but with a little bit more body and flavor. Slight hops presence both in the flavor and in the finish. Admittedly, I’m not too familiar with the "California Common" style of beer so it’s tough for me to know what they’re trying to do but it’s a decent beer.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle pours a see through yellow with a small white head. Aroma is lightly sweet, malty, and a hint of spice. Taste is sweet and crisp with a slightly bitter and spicy finish. Very smooth and easy to drink.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
12oz. bottle, pours a murky gold with a medium white head. Aroma is mostly yeast, and some hops. Smooth buttery mouthful - flavour is caramel malt, yeast, with a nice bitter aftertaste. Great beer.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
(br-btl or-lbl with anchor, "San Francisco since 1896, 5%)
lct-cpr, thin-wh-head, ^eff, med-full-body, ^smooth, ^co2.
sweet-malt fruity-hop aroma.
§sweet-malt §fruity T1, sweet-malt spicey-hop fruity-hop T2, bready pretzel-crust T3.
^drinkable session especially with food.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Anchor Steam is elusive to rate, simply because it’s not particularly a bad beer, it only bottoms out in mediocrity. The carbonation pops and buzzes in the glass, and gives the flavor a fizzy and light consistency. The taste is bitter and yet curiously blank. I’d site the amber color and the archaic looking label as the most noteworthy aspects of this underwhelming brew.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: JUN 9, 2010 (12 ounce bottle - pint glass) Pours a translucent yellow liquid with frothy white head that leads to little lacing. Aroma is fruity. Taste is mostly fruity. Has a roasted malt quality that is balanced with an assertive hop characteristic, but is overall sweet. Lively carbonation and a pleasurable bitter aftertaste.
3 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draft at Arlin’s in Cincinnati. Pours orange-gold with a creamy off-white head. Light aroma of pale malts, hops, vegetal notes, and hints of fruit and caramel, especially late. Flavor of malts, citrus, hops, bread, yeast, and caramel. Very malty and bready mouthfeel. Medium-bodied. Not a bad beer, but nothing really stands out here.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
pours out murky clear gold with a nice lumpy white head that was very frothy. the body is a clear white zinfandel in color with bubbles rising up in the center of the glass. the aromas are very moldy with notes of yeast, and hops. there is some malt and sweet spices also present. it is almost medium bodied and has a nice bubbly mouth feel as it rolls over the tongue. it is a little grassy and floral but still pretty balanced. the flavors all meld together and is almost like a "bright lager". very nice and refreshing beer. pairs well with fried poultry and other breaded meats that arent too strong in flavor.
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