Beer Works Boston Common

Brewed by Salem Beer Works
Style: California Common
Salem, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Lager glass

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This was my regular beer while living in Boston. SMooth, fruity, pleasant beer that goes down almost too easy.

5th August 2009
Cask at GBBF. Very slightly hazy brown beer. Soft palate. Low carbonation. Sweet malt, a little saison like. Undertone of apple. Mmm -ok.

Draft at brewpub from awhile back. Pours light amber. Nose/taste of grassy hops, light breads and malt. Medium body. Decent.

Pale malt aroma with mild fruitiness. Looks like an average lager. Has the processed sweetness of say, gummy worm candy and a hint of hops. Easiest drinker of the night.

A: This one pours amber in color with a smallish off-white head. S: Sweet malt in the form of toffee and bread to begin with. There’s a bit of yeast and very faint hops. A few mild fruit esters and some straw and grass notes. T: Bready malt along with some toast and toffee. Like the aroma, the hops are fairly mild, though there is a bit of grass and straw, maybe a few floral notes. Just a light bitterness to it. M: Medium in both body and carbonation. O: The more steam beers I try, the less I like them.

UPDATED: JUN 23, 2010 On tap at Beer Works Airport. Clear deep golden color with a small white head and good lacing. Aroma is decent - grainy and malty with a hint of hops. Pilsner malt, grain, and some mild hop bitterness on the flavor. Clean, crisp, and light-bodied. Like a California Common and golden ale hybrid in a way. Drinkable.

Cask @ GBBF 2009. Pours a pale amber color with no head. Has a fruity malty and slightly hoppy aroma. Fruity malty hoppy flavor with hints of caramel. Has a sweetish fruity malty caramel finish with some hoppy hints in the aftertaste.

Cask (gravity) @ GBBF 09, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Unclear medium amber orange color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, moderate hoppy, overriped orange - mandarin. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090805]

Cask Stillage at the GBBF, Earl’s Court 05/08/2009 Floral and slightly spicy aroma. Golden coloured smooth on the palate strong in alcohol and hoppy with a crisp and bitter malt finish.

Cask at GBBF. Golden with a small white head. Aroma of citrus and grass. Dry citrus hoppy flavour with some yeasty notes. Nice hoppy finish.

A Mes rate. Gravicask at GBBF.
Semi cloudy orange amber colour. Quite fruity. Some peach and an unusual strawberry note. The malt is ok, the hops are ok too but a little too faint. A strange one but not an epic one.