 JoeMcPhee (5025), Jackson Heights, New York, USA
| 2.9 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 5/10 | 2/5 | 11/20 |
Dec 30, 2008 Bottle. Pale amber colour with a creamy white head. Aroma is pretty decent. Soft and fruity with alot of orange marmalade character. EKG and Fuggles gives a fairly prominent hoppy aroma. Malts smell lightly crackery. The flavour comes across a bit muddled however. Fairly watery palate. There are a lot of good components in this beer, but it just never really comes together all that well. It’s pretty authentic, not terrible but not great either.
mgoy (343), Oak Brook, Illinois, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 4/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 5/5 | 16/20 |
Dec 29, 2008 From a bottle at Hop Leaf in Chicago. I drank this during a dinner with Graham, Tara and John during my first vacation.
Anchor Small Beer is a cloudy copper color with a steady off-white head. Whitle the aroma is faint at best, the flavor is very nice. This is a beer that I could drink all day in the sun and enjoy thuroughly.
I also find it fun and interesting to try a bitter. I like the history behind the brew.
oh6gdx (9047), Vasa, Finland
| 2.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 10/20 |
Dec 26, 2008 Bottled (thanks whoever sent this is a trade, found in my cellar). Pale ambery golden colour with small off-white head. Aroma is wood and quite harsh skunky earthyness. Flavour is earthy, grassy, a bit wooden and also has some slight fruity notes lurking in the background. A bit harsh as for the earthyness, but otherwise quite nice.
CheersMate1 (817), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
| 2.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 5/10 | 2/5 | 6/10 | 2/5 | 11/20 |
Dec 24, 2008 Very clear. This beer looks like ginger ale. There is a nice foamy head that lasts. Too filtered for me. There is a slight pilsner/bitter aroma. Not very pungent. A kind of weak skunky pilsner taste. This beer was sort of cheap, so I am not too upset. There is a nice bittering and flavoring hop. The beer is watered down, but I like the bitter aspect of it, and really that is all. Also, the ABV is crap. Just a weak bitter/pilsner if you ask me.
lithy (1800), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 3/5 | 13/20 |
Dec 23, 2008 Pale golden caramel color that gets darker at the center and lightens at the edges. A thick finger of off white head that leaves sticky bits of lacing. Aroma is tannic second runnings, light toffee and caramel. Taste is grainy malts with a hop bitter and tannic finish.
esjaygee (1578), Oak Creek, Wisconsin, USA
| 2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 4/10 | 3/5 | 4/10 | 2/5 | 7/20 |
Dec 21, 2008 Deep golden yellow to orange with a thin fading white head. Aroma of pale malts, citrus, malt and sewer funk. Taste of burnt malt and funk. Weak, watery, not a lot going on here.
carruthm (1167), Seattle, Washington, USA
| 1.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 2/10 | 3/5 | 2/10 | 1/5 | 3/20 |
Dec 20, 2008 Maybe I got a bad bottle, but this tasted rather poor and passing it around, three people all agreed. If I had done a blind taste test, I think this would have lost to coors lite.
AlabastorJones (765), San Francisco, California, USA
| 3.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 3/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 12/20 |
Dec 9, 2008 crystal clear yellow/orange, no head, has that anchor steam nose, bittered all of the way through the flavor, piney flavor, light body, this beer is really lacking a bready biscuit toast flavor that could totally turn this from sort of a blah beer to a true bitter, but i understand that’s not possible with the whole ’small beer’ concept, maybe make the foghorn toastier too ;)
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