Cable Car Small Batch Lager
World Brews

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From:
World Brews
 
California, United States
Style:
American Adjunct Lager
ABV:
4.8%
Score:
68
Avg:
2.7 | pDev: 22.59%
Reviews:
30
Ratings:
45
Status:
Active
Rated:
Apr 12, 2016
Added:
Jul 28, 2007
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  1
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Photo of rodbeermunch
Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada

2/5  rDev -25.9%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
If this beer were a song, it would be "have I told you lately how much you totally suck at being beer?"

Yellow, muddled. At least Budweiser looks professional. This looks like turdy homebrew. Aroma was soapy.

Taste was soapy and industrial fluid. Bad off flavor. Like those sulfur mineral water baths. No hop flavor, no malt flavor, some off ish corn based shit.

I can't figure the market for this, guys who buy the cheapest thing in the 'craft' section I guess.
Apr 12, 2016
 
Rated: 2.5 by midnitesun11 from California

Jan 23, 2014
 
Rated: 2.75 by rabbitguy from Illinois

Aug 12, 2013
Photo of biboergosum
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

2.67/5  rDev -1.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
355ml bottle, 4.5% ABV. My inquiries into the conspiracy-prone nature of this offering in relation to all its shelf-adjacent friends, have sadly fallen on deaf ears, from retail store, through black-hooded distributor, all the way to the obvious brewers themselves. Fuck it, fuck 'em all.

This beer pours a somewhat hazy medium golden straw colour, with two fingers of puffy, foamy, bubbly off-white head, which leaves some streaky alien alphabet lace around the glass as it surprisingly lingers in its ebbing out of existence.

It smells of grainy, stale hay bales, hollow lemon cleanser, and old partially melted plastic toy soldiers. The taste is semi-sweet corny, grainy malt, a touch of stale cereal, underwhelmingly pithy, bland citrus fruit, admittedly tame stewed veggies, and a lingering, and mostly obtrusive petrochemical essence.

The carbonation is present, perfunctory, and little else, the body barely above the light side of things, weight-wise, and smooth with a rather ungainly, well, white noise nothingness. It finishes just off-dry, the sweet, corn-fed graininess and now established vegetal skank really offering nothing more than what you should rightly imagine.

Not the worst example of the style, I suppose, but it shows enough of the 'standard' attributes to make me gag just a tad, and pushing forward, does nothing for beerdom, or likewise my stomach, as a whole.
Mar 08, 2013
 
Rated: 3.25 by Strwrs777 from California

Dec 17, 2012
 
Rated: 3.5 by shanemcp

Nov 19, 2012
 
Rated: 2.5 by LJWalker from Indiana

Oct 16, 2012
 
Rated: 3 by Beermazter310 from Nevada

Aug 15, 2012
 
Rated: 2 by jesus808 from California

Aug 02, 2012
 
Rated: 1.25 by terence from California

May 12, 2012
 
Rated: 4 by TheBeard89 from Alabama

Feb 19, 2012
 
Rated: 2.75 by allstar255 from California

Feb 14, 2012
 
Rated: 2.5 by sd123 from Georgia

Feb 06, 2012
 
Rated: 2 by DaBubs from Illinois

Jan 02, 2012
 
Rated: 3 by bdeast1 from Alabama

Dec 06, 2011
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Reviewed by elNopalero from Michigan

2.15/5  rDev -20.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Pours a light yellow with a lot of foam. Thin, fizzy, yellow? Smells like it. Doesn’t taste like much, either. Corn and adjuncts? The sweetness is there, as is the flat finish. An easy drinker if you don’t care what you’re drinking. Used this to cleanse my palate and moved on.
Nov 23, 2011
 
Rated: 3 by TicoCali from California

Nov 21, 2011
 
Rated: 2 by codynevels from California

Nov 16, 2011
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Reviewed by BucannonXC5 from California

2.22/5  rDev -17.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 2
Poured from a bottle into a pint glass. About ¾ inches to an inch of head. Color was a clear golden. A slight lacing with a bit more white film on the sides of the glass on the initial pour. Fairly bland look.

Light malt, almost sweet, leads the way on the nose. The malt comes back with a deep sniff, more of a malty corn.

Initial taste was a bland, malty corn mix of average. That was about it, hardly an impressive following. Miller Lite comes to mind and I hate Miller Lite.

I guess I would call it refreshing, but bland and blah could replace refreshing. High on the carbonation. Corn and Miller Lite kept coming to mind.
Aug 25, 2011
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Reviewed by DonnieNarco from California

3.16/5  rDev +17%
look: 3 | smell: 2 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Settles down immediately with no head, no aroma. Couldn't be less exciting....Taste begins a tad bitter but goes down smooth and somewhat refreshing. Tastes like a Pilzner similar to Miller Lite. Looks like typical "beer" but does have some refining taste to it. Have had better for cheaper.
Aug 01, 2011
Cable Car Small Batch Lager from World Brews
Beer rating: 68 out of 100 with 45 ratings