21st Amendment Bitter American

Brewed by 21st Amendment Brewery
Style: Bitter
San Francisco, California USA

Draft at the brewpub. Orange-amber with a thin top. The aroma is nice! It comes across with a brewery-nice sweet and orangey aroma. A schtuffy brew with a musty hop, mild malt, ESB-ish feel, if light. (#3413, 4/11/2008)

This was my favorite beer for the sampler I got at 21st. While everything is hoppy in this place, there is nothing as good as a hop only beer that is 3% (it was listed at 3% on the menu). This is definitely the most hop bang one gets for the abv buck. The brew is a clear dull golden color and has a very sticky lacing. The beer is all clean, crisp, and bitter hops. The malt is almost a non-factor. Long bitter finish, damn the bitterness never goes away. This is the most hoppy beer I have had that was only 40 IBUs.

On tap at 21st Amendment, June 2007. Clear copper with a white head. A big rush of fresh PacNW hop goodness in the nose. Light session beer with a boatload of hops. Notes of light toffee, light malt heft along with a prominent cascade/centennial hop characater. Medium/light bodied with fine-beaded carbonation. An "IPA Lite" - quite drinkable and enjoyable.

On tap at brewery. Pours a clear deep gold with white head and mild lacing. Nice crisp hop aroma that jumps out at you. There’s citrus grapefruit hop bitterness and faint malt sweetness in the nose. Great session flavor with fresh grapefruit hop bitterness that isn’t too crazy bitter but about right. The bitterness hits then midway it tastes very fresh and almost green with wet hops. At the finish a mild malt sweetness joins in. There is a mild grapefruit hop bitterness that lingers into the after taste.

Growler from brewery. Pours copper, nice white head. Nice hop aroma. Good bitterness in the front, smooth going down. Very good.

I had this on draft at 21st Amendment. I thought this is a very nice example of a flavorful, yet low in alcohol, beer. Dry citric hoppy flavor and aroma, but at 3%, a fine session beer.

At NorCal Brewers Guild Festival at Raley Field. Pleasant smell of piney hop. Coppery gold color with a disappearing white head. Starts with strong grapefruit, trailed by a hint of pine. Malt is not in it. The finish is refined grapefruit, and the bitter lasts.

Draught at the brewpub Clear and sparkling golden. Creamy white head. Grassy, slightly yeasty, aroma. A bit thin body. Fresh with a very high bitterness.