Cable Car Small Batch Amber Ale - World Brews

jadpsu

Georgia

3.43/5  rDev +24.3%
look: 2 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Purchases this at a Wynn-Dixie in the Villages, Fla. Poured in a Pilsner glass, it has a light golden color with a one finger head that did not last 30 seconds.
Smell includes malts,minimum hops,some sweetness, grain and pine nuts. Mouthfeel is far more bodied than I would expect from a beer that loses its head so quickly.
The falvor/taste provides some of the nutty sweetness in the smell.
Outside of the disappointing head retention and appearance of a urine sample instead of beer everything else was quite positive.

Serving type: bottle

05-30-2008 01:27:55 | More by jadpsu

Beermazter310

Nevada

2.75/5  rDev -0.4%

05-10-2013 06:26:08 | More by Beermazter310

biboergosum

Alberta (Canada)

3.15/5  rDev +14.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25

12oz bottle. Ono more in a relative cavalcade of style over substance brews brought to we unlucky souls in Alberta by the collectively, and respectively not so good folks at Liquor Depot, Prestige Importers, and eventually, Genesee Brewing.

This beer pours a clear, medium golden amber colour, with two fingers of foamy, mildly bubbly dirty white head, which leaves a few thin streaks of bridge-like lace around the glass as it quickly bleeds into the ether.

It smells of musty caramel malt, semi-sweet orchard fruit, a bit of overripe black berries, and some mildly funky earthy, leafy hops. The taste is grainy caramel malt, a touch of sour breadiness, bland earthy fruitiness - peaches and apples, mostly - and dead-eyed (anthropomorphized, apparently) leafy hops.

The carbonation is quite neutered, and barely noticeable, the body a so-so medium weight, and too pithy and cloying to be deemed all that smooth. It finishes on the sweet side, the grainy caramel malt still buoyed by a stale fruitiness, as the hops seem to be truly absent by this point, replaced by a small, finally evolved plastic twinge.

I'm not really getting that unpleasant from the get-go impression that its colleagues seem to engender, so colour me surprised, a little, I suppose, but its overall essence still gives me an increasingly case of the willies. 'Worthy', if truly only there's really nothing else on offer to make me change my mind.

Serving type: bottle

02-13-2013 03:54:46 | More by biboergosum

kp29

Arizona

2/5  rDev -27.5%

02-02-2013 04:31:29 | More by kp29

CyBEERooster

Florida

4.5/5  rDev +63%

01-23-2013 02:47:32 | More by CyBEERooster

kevinthedriven

Illinois

3.5/5  rDev +26.8%

12-05-2012 01:39:14 | More by kevinthedriven

t0rin0

California

2.5/5  rDev -9.4%

11-15-2012 03:07:16 | More by t0rin0

TFMyriad

Arizona

4/5  rDev +44.9%

08-26-2012 04:41:49 | More by TFMyriad

Sm00thM0nkey

4.5/5  rDev +63%

07-08-2012 07:02:56 | More by Sm00thM0nkey

bluerabbit

Massachusetts

2.5/5  rDev -9.4%

05-31-2012 01:44:41 | More by bluerabbit

livingtodie

Wisconsin

2.75/5  rDev -0.4%

04-06-2012 14:28:33 | More by livingtodie

creez

California

3.5/5  rDev +26.8%

03-16-2012 02:02:43 | More by creez

KingRascal

3/5  rDev +8.7%

02-28-2012 00:08:15 | More by KingRascal

sd123

California

2.5/5  rDev -9.4%

02-06-2012 02:16:38 | More by sd123

bootsdomino

Wisconsin

1.5/5  rDev -45.7%

02-04-2012 01:46:58 | More by bootsdomino

DM1293

California

1.5/5  rDev -45.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 1 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5

Bottle into a small glass.

Appearance - dark gold. Definitely nice to look at...

Smell - Smells light. Reminds me of cheaper beers I buy, like Corona or Bud Light.

Taste - ...A bit of malt. Thats about it. Dissipates FAST. Leaves a with a slightly bitter taste.

Mouthfeel - A little thick.

Overall - ...I have no idea how you screw up a beer, but if I was to direct anyone to a really flavorless brew, this would be the textbook example. If the only positive I can give is "It looks pretty", one really should reevaluate their drink.

Serving type: bottle

01-27-2012 05:25:01 | More by DM1293

djaeon

California

3/5  rDev +8.7%

01-22-2012 23:58:24 | More by djaeon

dsauter

Florida

1.5/5  rDev -45.7%

01-17-2012 00:25:40 | More by dsauter

Brewin

California

1.58/5  rDev -42.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5

Appearance: This beer stands true to the amber color. It was a nice amber color. It had not head and was very flat.

Smell: Sweet caramel flavors, with a vanilla overtone.

Taste: Diet Soda. This has a strange taste to it. I would categorize this as a diet beer. It doesn't taste like a real beer. At first taste, it is very sweet, but not a natural sugar taste, more of a aspartame taste to it. Someone forgot to add hops to this beer. It is very light with no balance of hops.

Mouth feel: This beer has the consistency of water. There isn't any body to it.

Overall: If I was given the option of having this beer or a malta goya, I would prefer malt goya. At leasts drinking malta, I would expect a malt flavored soda.

Serving type: bottle

12-05-2011 08:36:38 | More by Brewin

codynevels

California

2/5  rDev -27.5%

11-16-2011 20:50:31 | More by codynevels

allstar255

California

2.75/5  rDev -0.4%

11-14-2011 09:40:48 | More by allstar255

lacqueredmouse

Australia

1.23/5  rDev -55.4%
look: 1.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1

Interesting colour, a burnished, coppery golden hue, almost like very pale yellowish brown. It's oddly difficult to describe. Head is almost non-existent—it dissipates soon after the pour, leaving nothing but the suggestion of bubbling around the edges. Carbonation is weak and large-bubbled. Looks extremely insipid. Even the colour, which is curious, looks unappetising, ultimately.

Nose is generically grainy with a touch of sweetish malt. Perhaps a touch of bitterness, but it could be just the action of the carbonation giving a seltzer hit. The sweetness is too much, and what other characters it has only manages to move it into the realm of sweet-savoury, like Pizza shapes. Eh.

Taste is sweet and cloying, with a falling back palate that suggests the wateriness of Bud. Almost an unfermented grape juice character on the front, before the carbonation bites in a feeble attempt to claw something back. But it's useless, this is appalling.

An absolute train-wreck of a beer. Cloying but flavourless, sweet where it shouldn't be and utterly undrinkable. This is a disaster in a glass. Stay well away.

Serving type: bottle

10-18-2011 01:25:29 | More by lacqueredmouse

mocktm

Virginia

2.93/5  rDev +6.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

Never heard of this brewery before, but its what I found in my girlfriend's fridge, so I'm going to run with it.

Light golden in color, minimal white head that quickly dissipates. Nothing amber about this at all.

Smells of light spice, malt, some tea like aromas and honey.

Taste is honey all the way, almost cloying, with a faint hop presence in the back. Some spice is there as well, hints of cinnamon, but its pretty one dimensional.

Prickly carbonation, light bodied, sessionable if you like it, but one is enough for me.

Overall, a unconventional take on an amber, but nothing particularly memorable.

Serving type: bottle

09-16-2011 21:05:23 | More by mocktm

BucannonXC5

California

2.95/5  rDev +6.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

Poured from a bottle into a pilsner glass. Slight head, maybe ¼ inches. Small amount of lacing with hardly any film on the sides. As the beer went on down, the lacing just about dissipated, but the film stayed on the sides. Was a light, honey color.

First smell was pure alcohol and it was a heavy odor. That went away quick to mainly honey and a slight hint of grains.

Initial taste was honey, followed by a small amount of malts. Simple taste.

Not a bad feel. Smooth, refreshing and an easy drink, unlike some ambers I’ve tried lately. Average carbonation.

It was my first beer of a 10-pack variety and it was so-so. Smooth and refreshing, but not much else.

Serving type: bottle

08-20-2011 05:32:15 | More by BucannonXC5

r3dsix

California

2/5  rDev -27.5%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

Poured into a glass.

Smells sweet, faintly like honey.

Color is more light orange than amber.

Tastes is very sweet. It's almost like martinelies sparkling cider. This beer may be good on a real hot day but honestly there are so many better options. The beer doesn't have any hugely negative aspects to the taste but its very bland and its pretty overwhelmed by sweetness. After drinking I feel more like I drank juice than beer. "Rich and malty, balanced with mild hop and smooth flavor" the bottle describes, I'll give it smooth, but I wouldn't describe this beer as malty or hoppy at all.

I'm really glad I only bought a single.

Serving type: bottle

07-16-2011 06:04:53 | More by r3dsix