Cable Car Small Batch India Pale Ale
World Brews
- From:
- World Brews
- California, United States
- Style:
- American IPA
- ABV:
- 6.3%
- Score:
- 69
- Avg:
- 2.6 | pDev: 28.85%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 12
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 13, 2016
- Added:
- Apr 14, 2011
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
SCORE
69
Poor
69
Poor
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
2.25/5 rDev -13.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
2.25/5 rDev -13.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
Copper pour, white head of a 3/4" average white appearance. Aroma was not hoppy. Total fail as an ipa for producing hop aromatics.
Taste was bitter, almost no hop mouthfeel, just that copper penny ipa kind of vibe. Everything this World Brews place seems to make is terrible. This is no exception.
Mar 13, 2016Taste was bitter, almost no hop mouthfeel, just that copper penny ipa kind of vibe. Everything this World Brews place seems to make is terrible. This is no exception.
Reviewed by Celtics17 from California
2.97/5 rDev +14.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
2.97/5 rDev +14.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
This wasn't a bad beer, but as for IPA's it's not even close on what I look for. I get some notes of caramel and slight apple. Bitter finish on this beer, I picked this up in a mystery box at Bevmo, and for the price it's not bad, but I would never buy a 6 pack by itself.
Copper pour, average white head.
Sep 01, 2013Copper pour, average white head.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
2.11/5 rDev -18.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5
2.11/5 rDev -18.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 1.5
12oz bottle. Sigh. Another in a sadly long line of apparently duplicitous offerings (but they have different American-history specific marketing campaigns! Fuck off and die if you believe this) from the increasingly difficult to engage entity that is the Prestige Wine Group Canada. What, is it too cold in Winnipeg for you to respond to your bloody emails? Christ on a crutch, man!
This beer pours a hazy medium golden amber colour, with one finger of somewhat foamy, puffy, dirty white head, which leaves a low vista of rainforest lace around the glass as it steadily bleeds away.
It smells of sweet, sugary malt, not really caramel, more of a stale, sour bready sort, some watery pine and thin citrus juice notes, and a stoney, flinty character that appears where I might have been expecting some bitterness. Oh well. The taste is more indistinct, plain, and neutered generic hops, echoes of citrus, pine, and herbs wailing as from the underworld, some equally pithy bready, wet crackery malt, with a growing metallic sheen.
The carbonation is pretty sedate, the body medium-light in weight, with a growing cloyingness, and sneaky, picky sourness that precludes any delusions of actual smoothness. It finishes off-dry, the mildly sour grain doing none of us any real favour in its longevity, as the hops and alcohol don't seem able to pull up the collective socks of this offering.
Trick me once (or five times, who's really counting, eh?), shame on you, trick me twice, shame on me. After barely getting through the majority of this bottle, I assure you, I won't be making that mistake again. Not an IPA, especially one of the oft-maligned American variety. Avoid with moderate prejudice.
Feb 22, 2013This beer pours a hazy medium golden amber colour, with one finger of somewhat foamy, puffy, dirty white head, which leaves a low vista of rainforest lace around the glass as it steadily bleeds away.
It smells of sweet, sugary malt, not really caramel, more of a stale, sour bready sort, some watery pine and thin citrus juice notes, and a stoney, flinty character that appears where I might have been expecting some bitterness. Oh well. The taste is more indistinct, plain, and neutered generic hops, echoes of citrus, pine, and herbs wailing as from the underworld, some equally pithy bready, wet crackery malt, with a growing metallic sheen.
The carbonation is pretty sedate, the body medium-light in weight, with a growing cloyingness, and sneaky, picky sourness that precludes any delusions of actual smoothness. It finishes off-dry, the mildly sour grain doing none of us any real favour in its longevity, as the hops and alcohol don't seem able to pull up the collective socks of this offering.
Trick me once (or five times, who's really counting, eh?), shame on you, trick me twice, shame on me. After barely getting through the majority of this bottle, I assure you, I won't be making that mistake again. Not an IPA, especially one of the oft-maligned American variety. Avoid with moderate prejudice.
Reviewed by TheMarkE from California
3.18/5 rDev +22.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.18/5 rDev +22.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Appearance: Amber, with a decent head.
Smell: A hint of caramel, not much else.
Taste: Slight citrus hops, a bit of malt. Definitely more of a pale ale than an IPA.
Mouthfeel: Clean, crisp, thin bodied.
Overall: Fair. A drinkable beer that I picked up at an excellent price at World Market.
Jan 09, 2013Smell: A hint of caramel, not much else.
Taste: Slight citrus hops, a bit of malt. Definitely more of a pale ale than an IPA.
Mouthfeel: Clean, crisp, thin bodied.
Overall: Fair. A drinkable beer that I picked up at an excellent price at World Market.
Reviewed by TheSixthRing from California
3/5 rDev +15.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2
3/5 rDev +15.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2
Appearance - Pours a hazy golden amber with a thick, 2 finger head. Average retention. Decent lace with fair stick.
Smell - Malt forward aroma with soft caramel, though moderate citrus hops shine through decently enough.
Taste - Predominant caramel malt flavor upfront and throughout. Hops come through, though weakly, near the finish as somewhat citrus and floral. For an IPA, the lack of a strong or even moderate hop presence is somewhat baffling.
Mouthfeel - Medium body. The carbonation is soft, though bubbly. Smooth and drinkable.
Overall - IPA? This is, at best, a soft English pale ale. This is not a bad tasting beer, in fact it's somewhat enjoyable, but I have to knock the overall rating based purely on the fact that this is nowhere near the style it's trying to represent. Not too far off from the Cable Car Pale Ale; the minor difference being there's a slight increase in hops. Emphasis on slight.
Dec 02, 2012Smell - Malt forward aroma with soft caramel, though moderate citrus hops shine through decently enough.
Taste - Predominant caramel malt flavor upfront and throughout. Hops come through, though weakly, near the finish as somewhat citrus and floral. For an IPA, the lack of a strong or even moderate hop presence is somewhat baffling.
Mouthfeel - Medium body. The carbonation is soft, though bubbly. Smooth and drinkable.
Overall - IPA? This is, at best, a soft English pale ale. This is not a bad tasting beer, in fact it's somewhat enjoyable, but I have to knock the overall rating based purely on the fact that this is nowhere near the style it's trying to represent. Not too far off from the Cable Car Pale Ale; the minor difference being there's a slight increase in hops. Emphasis on slight.
Reviewed by elNopalero from Michigan
1.3/5 rDev -50%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
1.3/5 rDev -50%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 1 | feel: 1 | overall: 1
This pours a murky light-orange color. There’s a musty, muddled aroma, best defined by what it is not: not crisp, not hoppy, not floral, not pleasant… Metallic flavor and harsh finish. Doesn’t taste like an IPA I’d want to spend any more time with. Went in not expecting much but this was worse than I thought. Simply awful. Drainpour.
Mar 09, 2012
Reviewed by Duff27 from Illinois
2.62/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.62/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Pours a big three inch frothy head on a medium amber body.
Average head retention and pretty good lacing.
Not much in the way of aroma, faint citrus perhaps.
Slight citrus hop taste. Decent malty backbone. Very pedestrian in the way of flavors.
Medium mouthfeel, a little low on the carbonation.
Closer to a Pale Ale than an IPA. I don't know, I'm not really impressed. One thing this Cable Car IPA has going for it is drinkability, if only because of lack of flavor.
Jan 15, 2012Average head retention and pretty good lacing.
Not much in the way of aroma, faint citrus perhaps.
Slight citrus hop taste. Decent malty backbone. Very pedestrian in the way of flavors.
Medium mouthfeel, a little low on the carbonation.
Closer to a Pale Ale than an IPA. I don't know, I'm not really impressed. One thing this Cable Car IPA has going for it is drinkability, if only because of lack of flavor.
Reviewed by ChugginOil from Illinois
1.58/5 rDev -39.2%
look: 4 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
1.58/5 rDev -39.2%
look: 4 | smell: 1 | taste: 1 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
Pours a transparent golden hay color with about a fingers worth of white head. Not much lacing.
The nose is, well, macro smelling. I get some barley, and some malt but thats about it. Smells kinda like a Miller Lite. Eeek. Where they got IPA from this is beyond me.
The taste is also misleading. This is in no shape or form an IPA.
There are zero hop offerings and there is a complete lack of bitterness. Some malt and a corn taste ia noticed.
The mouth feel is pretty thin and lacks body. Not dry, but drinkable...? I guess
Overall, this beer is extremely misleading in it's title and is a wolf in sheeps clothing. I'd rather drink a PBR.
Dec 09, 2011The nose is, well, macro smelling. I get some barley, and some malt but thats about it. Smells kinda like a Miller Lite. Eeek. Where they got IPA from this is beyond me.
The taste is also misleading. This is in no shape or form an IPA.
There are zero hop offerings and there is a complete lack of bitterness. Some malt and a corn taste ia noticed.
The mouth feel is pretty thin and lacks body. Not dry, but drinkable...? I guess
Overall, this beer is extremely misleading in it's title and is a wolf in sheeps clothing. I'd rather drink a PBR.
Reviewed by pBRale from Iowa
3.01/5 rDev +15.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
3.01/5 rDev +15.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
From tasting notes 9-27-11
Poured into a snifter
Appearance: Pale amber pour with a 3-finger foamy off-white head that settles quickly but leaves delicate but thick lacing.
Smell: A surprising amount of malts in the nose, mostly biscuity. Also, some nice floral and earthy hop notes.
Taste: Bready malts up front, quickly overpowered by bitter, earthy hops that hold through to the dry, very crisp, bitter finish.
Mouthfeel: Fairly thin-bodied; ample carbonation and a very crisp finish.
Overall: A decent beer, but not my favorite because it isn't the best tasting nor most exciting.
Oct 12, 2011Poured into a snifter
Appearance: Pale amber pour with a 3-finger foamy off-white head that settles quickly but leaves delicate but thick lacing.
Smell: A surprising amount of malts in the nose, mostly biscuity. Also, some nice floral and earthy hop notes.
Taste: Bready malts up front, quickly overpowered by bitter, earthy hops that hold through to the dry, very crisp, bitter finish.
Mouthfeel: Fairly thin-bodied; ample carbonation and a very crisp finish.
Overall: A decent beer, but not my favorite because it isn't the best tasting nor most exciting.
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