Barbary Coast Gold Rush Style Beer

Brewed by Minhas Craft Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Monroe, Wisconsin USA

In the bottle from the ridiculous wooden tool box packaging. This is a lousy beer. Steam beers are easy to make and there is no excuse to produce a weak one. Pours dark amber with an off-white head. The aroma and the flavor is way too much corn. This just does not resemble a steam beer. eeck! I know that "historically" poor people made beer using whatever was available, but that doesn’t mean it tasted good.

deep reddish copper color with a little head.... malty sweet aroma with a grapelike presence and a little bit of stinky hops behind it all. plain nutty bready flavor, some vinous earthy flavors as well, but nothing worth remembering.

Dark copper with a large head. Slightly sour aroma with lots of grains. A little sweet maple in the taste. Pretty earthy barley. Oddly drinkable.

Bottle. Pours copper color with a thin white head. Very little aroma. Faint taste of nut bread with a clean finish. Not a bad beer but certaintly not an exciting one.

Pours a clear amber color, small white head. Aroma is apples, caramel, and grain. Flavor is fairly boring, a little bit of beer in there.

not much good to say about this one. uninspiring beer for sure. medium amber, 1/2 inch white head. few hops, mild malts. beer like this is so plentiful and bland.

Bottle Pours medium amber. Small offwhite head. Nice thin lacing. Pale grains/malts, loittle hops in the aroma. Slightly woody, medium flavor, modest hop bitterness and a fairly clean finish. Unspecatular, but no complaints really.

Wow.... another winner in the Beers Across America sampler from Sam’s.... (I am inclined to sarcasm here). Pours with a small head, and dark copper into the glass. Nose is slightly fruity with a bit of candy malt accents. I honestly don’t taste a whole lot going on here. There’s a bit of hop contingency on the very back of the palate, but not a lot, and it doesn’t seem to finish very well.... Again, it tastes like a light beer macro hiding in a micro’s clothing. I seem to taste a lot of carbonation, and very little beer. As it warms up and breathes a bit, I will admit that it’s "flower" does open up a little, lending a little more malt/hop flavor, but I’m still not blown away. It’s drinkable, and I’m having one, so that’s something, I guess.... Oh, and I will have another.... but that’s just because two came in the sampler.