Ale Camino
Santa Maria Brewing Co. / Tap It Brewing Co.

Ale CaminoAle Camino
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From:
Santa Maria Brewing Co. / Tap It Brewing Co.
 
California, United States
Style:
American Amber / Red Ale
ABV:
5.5%
Score:
81
Avg:
3.48 | pDev: 10.92%
Reviews:
9
Ratings:
42
Status:
Active
Rated:
Nov 25, 2016
Added:
Apr 07, 2013
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  6
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Rated: 3 by MonkeyPilates from Minnesota

Nov 25, 2016
 
Rated: 3.4 by Texasfan549 from Texas

Sep 15, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by Marvicsin from California

Jul 31, 2016
 
Rated: 3.44 by tomb_ride from California

Jun 02, 2016
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Reviewed by Offa from California

3.03/5  rDev -12.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
This is to me quite a standard, boring, American/west coast ale and not of the kind I like a lot.

Dark red-brown-copper with medium big ale tan head soon thinning to thin foamy top, some lace.

Aroma is mild toasty caramelly orange & pepper and mossy old pipes.

Taste is vaguely caramelly toasty with hints of sweetness under dominant orange-pepper-grass bitterness. It's a touch too bitter and one-dimensional.
Apr 08, 2016
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.54/5  rDev +1.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
12oz bottle - haven't seen any new stuff from these guys up here in a long while!

This beer pours a clear, medium bronzed amber colour, with one fat-ass finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly ecru head, which leaves some topside iceberg profile lace around the glass as it gently subsides.

It smells of bready, lightly doughy caramel malt, mixed orchard fruit (red apples and overripe Bartlett pears, mostly), a bit of wan yeast, a further dark sugar sweetness, and a bit of estery alcohol. The taste is grainy, bready caramel malt, a twinge of biscuity toffee, some muddled pome and citrus fruitiness, a low-key diacetyl slickness, and some very plain earthy, weedy, and leafy hop bitterness.

The bubbles are pretty sedate in their underwhelming frothiness, the body a so-so middleweight, and more or less smooth, just a small yeasty acridity barging around the premises, like a small bull in a big china shop. It finishes on the sweet side, lots of caramel and lingering fruitiness imprinted on my tongue.

Overall, a simple and kind of brain-dead sort of offering - easy to drink, sure, but nothing going on here that would incline me to revisit the single serving that I have thus far procured. Oh, and I'm getting similar vibes to my local large 'microbrewery', Big Rock, so take that for what it's worth.
Nov 10, 2015
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Rated by vikinggary28 from California

3.71/5  rDev +6.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Slightly above average amber ale. It does the trick in a pinch.
Nov 07, 2015
 
Rated: 3.77 by utvol from Tennessee

Oct 02, 2015
 
Rated: 3.5 by Gobzilla from California

Sep 29, 2015
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Reviewed by erconn0r from California

4.44/5  rDev +27.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
I am an Amber fan. Loved it. Could tell they use Melanoiden malt... Or there were a lot of Melanoidens in the grain, spicy hops used (ekg?) (not American citrusy). It was great..
Sep 03, 2015
 
Rated: 2.88 by jeffgee10 from California

Aug 26, 2015
 
Rated: 3.4 by WillieThreebiers from Connecticut

Jul 12, 2015
 
Rated: 4.14 by scuttlebutt21 from California

Jun 29, 2015
 
Rated: 3.25 by MisterKilderkin from California

May 19, 2015
 
Rated: 4 by Beermazter310 from Nevada

Apr 27, 2015
 
Rated: 3.52 by MIrvine from California

Feb 14, 2015
 
Rated: 3.71 by kiki3drt292 from California

Jan 31, 2015
 
Rated: 3 by aquazr1 from California

Dec 14, 2014
 
Rated: 3.75 by Reginato from California

Dec 11, 2014
 
Rated: 3.5 by Alpha309 from California

Nov 27, 2014
Ale Camino from Santa Maria Brewing Co. / Tap It Brewing Co.
Beer rating: 81 out of 100 with 42 ratings