Columbia Common - Widmer Brothers Brewing Company

Chucker17

South Dakota

3.75/5  rDev +5.6%

02-05-2013 04:18:08 | More by Chucker17

TheManiacalOne

Rhode Island

3.74/5  rDev +5.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

Poured from a 12oz bottle into a US tumbler pint glass.

A: The beer is a dark gold color, with a short off-white head that fades quickly and leaves a thick lace on the glass.

S: The aroma contains citrus, lager yeast, caramelized malts and some hops.

T: The taste starts out bready with flavors of lager yeast and a hearty malt character. Then some sweet flavors of caramel and citrus come in. The hops presence is mild and brings a good balance. The after-taste is slightly sweet.

M: Smooth and a little crisp, medium body, medium carbonation, finish is slightly sticky.

O: Tasty, goes down easily, not too filling, mild kick, good representation of style, this is a solid sessionable beer to drink for a while.

Serving type: bottle

06-18-2013 03:53:49 | More by TheManiacalOne

EagleTalon

Arkansas

3.5/5  rDev -1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Pours to a thin white head, minimal lace and copper color. Aroma is malty, sweet and spicy hops. Flavor is biscuity malt and spicy hops and balancing bitterness. Mouthfeel is light and CO2 is appropriate to style. Overall, this is a good tasting beer.

Serving type: bottle

06-18-2013 02:17:50 | More by EagleTalon

JMUbrewz

Virginia

3.25/5  rDev -8.5%

06-13-2013 18:18:55 | More by JMUbrewz

KTCamm

New Jersey

3.75/5  rDev +5.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.75

Poured from a bottle into a pint glass. Mix a six pick up.

Pours dark amber with thick 1/2 inch foam. Heavy blackish tint. Malty nose. Bready. Light flavorful malt, backed by a flowery hop. Thin body. Not much carbonation. Quite good.

Nice job on a Cali Common brew.

Serving type: bottle

06-09-2013 12:56:06 | More by KTCamm

DrewsBrews450

North Carolina

3.09/5  rDev -13%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3

Pours a dark copper with tanish head that foams up pretty good with a hard pour. Head sticks around in a thin film, lacing sticks to the glass ok. Smells like bread, fruity mango or peach maybe no hops really. The taste very much a bread craker taste, not really tasting the fruit I smell. There are no hops just a slight bitterness and not to sweet. Mouthfeel is medium, it has body just not really flavor to match. Overall I would drink this anytime and could problay drink a ton, its easy to drink and has more flavor then ur standard beer i guess.

Serving type: bottle

06-08-2013 00:18:36 | More by DrewsBrews450

mrmitsui29

Illinois

4.25/5  rDev +19.7%

06-07-2013 04:55:37 | More by mrmitsui29

TheMultiYeast

Pennsylvania

3.5/5  rDev -1.4%

06-07-2013 02:35:51 | More by TheMultiYeast

Wedcat

California

3.5/5  rDev -1.4%

06-07-2013 01:34:56 | More by Wedcat

gpaulson

Washington

3.75/5  rDev +5.6%

06-05-2013 03:05:54 | More by gpaulson

sansho

Tennessee

3.5/5  rDev -1.4%

06-04-2013 05:18:38 | More by sansho

PatrickKlopfenstein

Iowa

3.5/5  rDev -1.4%

06-02-2013 00:34:47 | More by PatrickKlopfenstein

dmorgan310

Panama

3.25/5  rDev -8.5%

06-01-2013 22:30:52 | More by dmorgan310

zestd

Idaho

3.25/5  rDev -8.5%

05-31-2013 07:56:42 | More by zestd

hef

Maryland

3.25/5  rDev -8.5%

05-30-2013 01:13:50 | More by hef

ninaturner

Florida

4/5  rDev +12.7%

05-27-2013 04:13:03 | More by ninaturner

woodychandler

Pennsylvania

4.19/5  rDev +18%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

I plucked this from the cooler at the Knickerbocker Hotel last weekend, a story in and of itself. That said, this is the Bros.' Spring Ale, following closely on the heels of Penn Brewery's Winter Ale. What day/season is it today? I have no idea after sitting through a bone-chilling baseball game yesterday.

I know/understand the style and I am not going to even touch the in-fighting of some of the previous reviews. Please, look at the style descriptor(s) and do some reading before launching into one another.

I went with a fairly aggro pour which resulted in a surprisingly brief finger of light-tan head with relatively low retention. It is a cool day and there is little to no humidity and the lack of head retention was surprising. Color was a deep-copper with NE-quality clarity and if there was a way to cash it in at my local recycling center, I would be on my way there now. I had a babe of a g/f in the early 1990's and her hair was both copper-colored and coarse as wire. I wonder if she braids it up and sells it as scrap? Man, what a beauty! Both the g/f and the beer. Nose was solidly malty with a slightly minty/grassy scent underneath. I was vaguely reminded of Girl Scout mint cookies. Taste was semi-sweet and quite tasty. It occurred to me, in writing this review, that I have never reviewed Anchor Steam, despite it being one of the first micros I ever put up to my lips, I wonder how the two will compare. This was worthwhile.

Serving type: bottle

05-25-2013 22:06:21 | More by woodychandler

wrightst

Maryland

2.76/5  rDev -22.3%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75

Good name for this one. Not a bad beer, well above the adjunct axis of evil - you know who I mean. But in the current craft environment, this just blends in. It's even on the label - common.
The look is of any spring ale, maibock, pilsner, etc., which is to say medium to dark, but as I like to say, you don't drink the look.
Smell and taste are indistinct, this beer does not want to stand out. I won't call it lazy, but it certainly is not working very hard. I'm not asking them to put cherry blossoms or grass nibs in the fermentation - I don't need a beer to be so exotic, but a range of flavors would be nice. There is a mild hint of grass, citrus or pine, but not much. More malt than hops, in fact very little hop aroma or flavor at all.
Widmer is in the Redhook Kona Pyramid family of beers and they are starting to seem like the GM of beers to me. Decent, working vehicles, some really good, but there's a whole lot of overlap between them leaving you to wonder, if there wasn't a label on the bottle, could you tell the difference?
Drink Beer, Be Happy!
Cheers!

Serving type: bottle

05-24-2013 01:06:12 | More by wrightst

jaswilson2

South Carolina

3/5  rDev -15.5%

05-23-2013 21:27:29 | More by jaswilson2

KlayWey

Idaho

2.75/5  rDev -22.5%

05-23-2013 14:04:37 | More by KlayWey

bh123

California

3.5/5  rDev -1.4%

05-22-2013 17:04:49 | More by bh123

khargro2

Georgia

3/5  rDev -15.5%

05-20-2013 01:43:22 | More by khargro2

bcuz7

Florida

3.5/5  rDev -1.4%

05-19-2013 22:07:24 | More by bcuz7

mwar

Kentucky

3.75/5  rDev +5.6%

05-19-2013 14:03:01 | More by mwar

UCLABrewN84

California

3.55/5  rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Bottled 12/15/12.

Pours a clear honey orange with a foamy beige head that settles to a film on top of the beer. Foamy streaks of lace form around the glass on the drink down. Smell is of malt, biscuit, grain, and grassy aromas. Taste is much the same with malt and grassy flavors on the finish. There is a mild amount of hop bitterness on the palate with each sip. This beer has a lower level of carbonation with a slightly crisp mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty good beer with a distinct grass forward aroma and flavor.

Serving type: bottle

05-18-2013 06:09:23 | More by UCLABrewN84