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Cable Car Amber Ale

Cable Car Amber Ale  - Amber Ale

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19
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Brewed by City Brewery (Melanie Brewing Co)
Style: Amber Ale

La Crosse, Wisconsin USA

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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
342.6/5.02.63/5.05.7%13.4English pint, Shaker
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Commercial Description:
Harkening back to old world brewing styles, Cable Car handcrafts each and every small batch. This Amber Ale is 100% all-malt brewed in the Marzen Style. Rich and malty, it's balanced with mild hop and smooth flavor. Enjoy the ride!
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 GG (1609), NorCal, California, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/55/102/511/20
Oct 26, 2009  
Not quite the Cable Car beer I would like to try, but sometimes you just drink what you got. BevMo has this and the blonde on sale, so I figured what the hell.

The beer pours out a clear, rusty brown color with a smaller sized 1/2" white head. Aroma is light caramel, a touch of apple juice and musty hay. Flavor is a bit better than the aroma. Sweet caramel malts are pretty underwhelming, metal and some light bread round out the flavor. Seemed watery and spritzy like a mineral water. Nothing to see here.


 drowland (1337), Tallahassee, Florida, USA
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/103/58/20
Oct 3, 2009  
Pours like clear apple juice with a small fizzy white head that goes away quickly. The aroma is all sweet, almost like a lager, with dusty malts and fresh cut apple. The flavor is similar but adds a fair amount of sour bite in addition to a dry finish. High carbonation and thin body.


 Barreras (120), Diamond Bar, California, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/511/20
Sep 11, 2009  
Pours a see through amber color with minimal foam. A very airy and light amber ale. Decent hints of caramel but taste of high carbonation. Overall an okay beer.


 rmussman (905), California, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/54/103/59/20
Sep 7, 2009  
Sampled in a 12 oz. A pretty good amber brew. Nothing too special but nice and smooth. Mild malts, limited hops. Light brown with small head.


 marcus (1821), Sacramento, California, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/104/54/102/59/20
May 29, 2009  
This amber ale poured with a generous white head and a faint caramel aroma. The flavor is a bit sweet with some caramel taste and little else.


 bhensonb (4180), Woodland, California, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/104/54/103/511/20
May 12, 2009  
Batch 00014! Pale amber color with a foamy off-white head. Aroma of light caramel. Somewhat watery caramel flavor with minimal hop. Quite clean though. Might be a good food beer.


 Aurelius (2643), Tallahassee, Florida, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/102/59/20
May 1, 2009  
Slightly sweet, lagerish aroma. Clear Vienna colored beer, with a very thin head. Good label, great cap, twistoff longneck. A slightly sweeter version of their lager, maybe a little more metallic/astringent hopping. Pretty crisp finish with caramel popcorn notes. An attempt to pass off contract brewing as microbrewing. Why did I buy a six of this? Winn DIxie, on Special.


Edgekrusher (83), , Alabama, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/511/20
Mar 30, 2009  
So I’m travelling through Florida trying to find a liquor store to buy some beer... I ask a gas attendant, and they tell me to go to a Winn-Dixie..... Well, I found this beer at the Dixie. I feel sorry for the southerners, because this was the best the grocery had to offer.... Not bad.



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