On tap at Pompton Craft House, homage to Anchor Steam Beer brings sweet honeyed sourdough breading and biscuity dry lagered respite to lemony floral-spiced Fuggle hop herbage. Serve to amber ale fans.
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KEY CHESAPEAKE COMMON LAGER
On tap at 98 Cannon – Chestertown, Md., resilient amber lagered ‘common beer’ (a.k.a. California-styled Steam Beer utilizing lager yeast at warmer ale temperatures) brings fruity pale ale disposition to lightly pungent piney hopped herbage contrasting toasted caramel malting. Modest grapefruit-peeled orange rind bittering stays easygoing while rustic earthen grain minerality rides below.
TOPPLING GOLIATH DOROTHY’S NEW WORLD LAGER
On tap at Ambulance, flagship steam lager (a.k.a. California Common) blends raw-honeyed lemon rot with peaty compost earthiness, herbal notions and vegetal tinge above modest sourdough bottom.
SIERRA BLANCA OUTLAW LAGER
Beginning with caramel-spiced glass sugaring and unrealized citric splotch, cardboard-like lagered steam beer reaches bland grassy-hopped raw honey finish.
SMUTTYNOSE EAST COAST COMMON LAGER
Sturdy 2017 dry-hopped spring seasonal utilizes highly carbolic lager yeast to re-create San Francisco-styled steam beer. Mildly bitter citric spritz seeps into delicately pungent resinous hop astringency. Lemony grapefruit spurt and teasing fig-date conflux linger lightly above grainy earthen malts.
LOCAL OPTION DAMPF LOC
Ambitious Medieval Bavarian forest recipe of all-barley steam beer offers honeyed cereal graining to caramel-spiced creaming and sinewy molasses sap. At the midst, nutty toffee sweetness reigns on sugared citrus and bruised banana fruiting. Tertiary brown-sugared buckwheat, spelt and oatmeal notions fill the ample backend.
LIBERTY STREET STEAMY WINDOWS CALIFORNIA COMMON-STYLE ALE
Sharp yellow-fruited grassy hop affability ascends above musky pale lager yeast (fermented at colder ale temperatures) for smoothly crisp yellow-bellied middleweight. Zesty lemon, grapefruit and orange tang stays brisk as musty floral earthiness settles behind honey-soured caramel malting.
ANCHOR STEAM
Easily one of America’s finest and well-known lagered ales. Affluent tangy fruit bouquet perfectly meshes earthen-grained dry hop center of musty-wafted lager. Hints of mandarin orange get casually strewn across bitterly muddied finish.
ORLIO ORGANIC COMMON ALE
Magic Hat’s boutique organic division brews Orlio series. Astringent moderate-bodied gold-hued steam beer retains off-putting orange-oiled sour lemon tartness and vagrant vegetal zeal. Caramel malts hidden faraway.
SLEEMAN STEAM BEER
Slim barley roast, soft Scotch smokiness and fluffily foamed creaming caress delicate tangerine tang for simple middle of the road amber lacking distinction. Word has it Sapporo Brewery now makes these.