Barbary Coast Gold Rush
Minhas Craft Brewery

Barbary Coast Gold RushBarbary Coast Gold Rush
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From:
Minhas Craft Brewery
 
Wisconsin, United States
Style:
California Common / Steam Beer
ABV:
Not listed
Score:
69
Avg:
2.86 | pDev: 18.88%
Reviews:
71
Ratings:
85
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Nov 22, 2021
Added:
Jan 09, 2003
Wants:
  2
Gots:
  3
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Ratings by generallee:
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Reviewed by generallee from Virginia

2.53/5  rDev -11.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 3
Presentation: This is one of six beers from an eighteen pack labeled Beer of America, Historical Collection. The 18 pack also came with a nice book titled, The History of Beer in America. It was poured from a brown 12oz bottle into a pint glass. There appears to be no freshness date on the bottle.

Appearance: It has an amber colored body with some visible carbonation. The head on top is light, fluffy and tall. It is off white in color and it is slows to fade, leaving some spotty lacing on the glass as I drink.

Smell: The aroma is full of lemony citrus and leafy hops with sweet candy like sweet malt flavors underneath. Also I am picking up a light mineral like presence.

Taste/Palate: Leafy and mineral hop notes are up first with some smooth buttery, sweet honey and caramel malts in the middle. The finish has moderate hop bitterness and lemony/orange citrus hops as well as more odd mineral notes. It has a solid medium body with lively, almost fizzy carbonation.

Notes: The only thing that comes close the style is the appearance. After that it goes way off the map. It is drinkable but boring and I have noticed that all the beers in this mixed 18 pack are oddly similar to each other. The best part of this 18 pack is the book that came with it.
Oct 08, 2009
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 2.62 by LesDewitt4beer from Minnesota

Nov 22, 2021
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Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho

2.84/5  rDev -0.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Note: this revew was on the same brand brewed by Local Color Brewing Co., Michigan...Purchased as part of an Beers of America Historical Collection 12 pack, beers contract brewed to their original recipes. Poured with a light head, with copper color and medium lacing. Aroma is right in the wheelhouse for an American amber. Flavor is clean, appropriately bitter...a nice break from the German and Belgian styles I’ve been drinking.
Jan 21, 2016
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Reviewed by 31Sam13 from New Hampshire

3.44/5  rDev +20.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
It sounded good..however it tasted almost artificially flavored. That is with perfumery tastes and candy and vague floral notes. It really had a strange ersatz quality to it. I don't know, it could've been old an I didn't check if it was or not. However, i'm guessing by the other ratings that this is what it is.
Mar 15, 2015
 
Rated: 1.75 by XmnwildX12 from Minnesota

May 09, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by Shafaegalo from Texas

Jan 13, 2014
 
Rated: 2.75 by JamLand from District of Columbia

Jun 26, 2013
 
Rated: 3.5 by Slatetank from Pennsylvania

May 25, 2013
 
Rated: 3.25 by Noelito76 from New York

May 05, 2013
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Reviewed by emerge077 from Illinois

2.18/5  rDev -23.8%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Hmm... How old is this beer? Last years holiday leftovers?
Found it among a cooler shelf of random singles at Warehouse Liquors for $2 and change. Guess we're about to find out... honestly not expecting much from Minhas. Label says "1996, MDII" on it, and "iceless fermentation" oddly enough.

First whiff out of the bottle is sweet oxidized malt. It pours a deep amber color, with a feeble patch of skim on the surface and a few stray bubbles rising.

Tastes a bit strange, sweet and tea like, honeyed malt mostly and a touch of something floral. Vague fruit candy sweetness. Seems like any given Euro strong lager past its prime. A little yeast fruitiness, though the flavors merely sit there and don't coalesce at all. Watery and a touch metallic also. Not recommended.
Oct 13, 2012
 
Rated: 2.75 by bzach from Indiana

Oct 12, 2012
 
Rated: 1.5 by jds16 from Ohio

Aug 16, 2012
 
Rated: 3 by Goldfishman from Massachusetts

Jan 30, 2012
 
Rated: 1.5 by areich6 from Illinois

Jan 06, 2012
 
Rated: 3 by SargeC from California

Dec 30, 2011
 
Rated: 3 by casualfan from New York

Dec 18, 2011
 
Rated: 3 by rab53 from Washington

Dec 02, 2011
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Reviewed by vfgccp from New York

1.8/5  rDev -37.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
A - Mandarin amber brown. Very little head.

S - Light sweet malt. Mild barney character.

T - Sweet acorn squash. Strong, artificial, almost plastic taste. Slightly sour.

M - Watery body. Sweet finish.

D - Poor flavor and body kill the drinkability.
Feb 09, 2011
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Reviewed by biggred1 from Indiana

3.53/5  rDev +23.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Honey amber with a creamy tan head. Untoasted grain and sweet malt in the nose. Barley and honey flavors with a faint touch of earthy hop bittering. Medium light bodied and creamy with fizzy carbonation. This is the last of the strange historical beers 12 pack and they were all pretty mundane, this one is the pick of the litter I think.
May 09, 2010
Barbary Coast Gold Rush from Minhas Craft Brewery
Beer rating: 69 out of 100 with 85 ratings