California Street
56 Brewing

 

 

The beer smells like a tropical fruit cocktail. Not the canned Del Monte kind, a fresh tropical fruit cocktail without the heavy syrup with an assortment of tropical fruits augmented with pear, something close to peaches and orange. It pours gold with a slight haze filled with streams of rapidly rising bubbles joining a 2.5" off-white to cream foam cap with good retention. As you drink the foam creates a lattice-work of lace on the glass. As the bubbles settle down and the beer warms it turns brilliant. It is also a tropical fruit cocktail on the palate with a little more pomme and stone fruit flavors. With each sip I savor different nuances of fruit. The fruit flavors are medium high. There is a trace of biscuit, a light sweetness, and medium to medium high hop bitterness that pulls everything together. California Street dries on the finish and there is a slight astringency from the hops. The body is medium with creamy soft carbonation. The balance of this beer is exquisite.