Best Of Beer Camp: California Common - Beer Camp #8
12oz bottle poured into a Bruery tulip. A - Pours a crystal clear, rich golden color, perhaps with a gentle copper hue to it. A finger of fluffy white head lingers for a bit and finally dies to a thick skim coat on the surface, a foamy collar and some sparse lacing on the glass. S - Floral hops up front, sweet, a bit fruity and a background bitterness. T - Very fruity and estery, floral/perfumey hops, sugary sweetness, a green/fresh cut grassiness. A bit of buttery diacetyl too. M - Not a very clean fermentation, lots of esters in here. Strong carbonation over the top of a medium body. O - Interesting and pretty good take on the style. This really fermented out very estery, not really surprising, but more than I would have expected. A solid beer, but not sure I'd rush back to have another of these. Something is missing/not exactly right here...just can't place exactly what it is.