Barbary Coast Gold Rush Style Beer

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

no nose in this guy. Lager taste that hangs pretty long. Not much to say, but its not too bad.

Grainey aroma,could be malt ,or wheat or even corn,and hopping much like a Bud product,all which dissapears fairly quickly.taste is your standard slight grain taste, totally lacking the slight fruit ester you should experience, a little caramel,but nothing esle. Don’t really taste the very off flavors described below,so I’m not docking it tomuch. Thanks Kingpin

Pours brown with a thin light brown head. Smells of vegetables and very metallic with some caramel and nuttiness underneath. Tastes of caramel (thankfully the vegetal hints aren’t there on the flavor), some earthy hints. Finish is overly sweet.

Deep brown coloured body with a thinnish tan head. Aroma of rust, mold, malt, blood and metal - not very nice at all. Light-bodied; Strong bitter taste up front makes way for a very mild and bland malt taste with almost nothing else following behind. Aftertaste shows a cardboard and super bland malty taste. Overall, pretty bad and definitely not worth trying. There was simply no character and substance for this one. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased (after many attempts) at Super H-Mart (Korean Grocery) in Fairfax, Virginia on 26-January-2008.

Pours a nice amber with a decent sized head. Aroma of light tinny caramel, some nuttiness as well. Bland. Ugh.

12oz bottle poured in a lager glass. BCGRSB pours a beautiful copper with a large creamy linen head that melts like ice cream. There is no sign of sediments or yeast pulp. The aroma is typical lager with a subtle sweet malt tinge and a strong metallic scent. The metallic scent ruins what would otherwise be a pleasently aromatic beer. Not surprisingly for Minhas this beer has very little taste. What taste it does has is very similiar to mass produced beers and is likely designed to be unoffensive to mainstream beer drinkers. It is slightly malty and the metalic odor carries over into an aluminum after-taste. This beer remindes me an awful lot like a Michelob Amber. (That is not a compliment).

Bottle from gift back. Aroma reminds me slightly of the stock ale, however has some sweetish pale malts and soft gren hop character. Taste is similar on the sweet side of balanced but relitivly unoffensive and easy drinkin.

12 oz bottle. Pours a deep red with a large white head, hmm not looking bad so far. Aroma, oh dear God what have I done to deserve this? Smells like a cellar with lots of mustiness and piles of dust. I actually mustered up the nerve to sip this and with deep meditation and the concentration of a Buddhist monk contemplating the meaning of life I was able to detect an ever so slight malt prescence. Do I really have to go on or do you get the idea of just how bad this beer realy is?