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Ale Camino
Santa Maria Brewing Co. / Tap It Brewing Co.
- 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:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 25, 2016
- Added:
- Apr 07, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 6
No description / notes.
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Ratings by Offa:
Reviewed by Offa from California
3.03/5 rDev -12.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
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, 2016Dark 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.
More User Ratings:
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
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, 2015This 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.
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
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, 2015Reviewed 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
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
Ale Camino from Santa Maria Brewing Co. / Tap It Brewing Co.
Beer rating:
81 out of
100 with
42 ratings
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