Beer Review- Lost Coast Brewing

My parents are snowbirds that spend their winters in Tucson, Arizona and summers in Wisconsin. Before making the journey back to the Midwest my dad told me to look up a beer superstore he'd been going to called Total Wine and More and pick out some beers I wanted him to bring up. The selection was impressive and it was hard to narrow down the list. Aside from Alaskan Brewing Company, the rest of the beers I had him bring up were California breweries. Out of all the beer he was going to pick up, the one my dad insisted I needed to try was Lost Coast because he was impressed with their brown ale he had picked up before. My dad brews one of the best browns I've had, so I figured it must be good. He picked up their Alley Cat Amber Ale, and 8 Ball Stout along with the brown, Downtown Brown, and all three were outstanding. Onto the reviews:

Downtown Brown: Pours a nice mahogany brown with ruby red highlights and a finger of off white head. Nice aromas of toffee, malt, caramel and nuttiness. Right away there's a nice malty sweetness with great flavors of brown sugar, and nuts. Sweet and slightly roasty with a faint bitterness in the end. Very well balanced and a great creamy mouthfeel. An outstanding brown ale.

Alley Cat Amber Ale: Pours a cloudy amber with a thin white head. Nice aromas of malt, biscuit, and flowery hops. There's some nice spicy notes and caramel flavor right away. Very nicely balanced between biscuit, malt, and hoppy spiceness. Great mouthfeel, creamy with some hoppy bitterness in the finish. A perfectly balanced amber ale.

8 Ball Stout: Pours dark, chocolate brown almost black with a finger of tan head. Wonderful aromas stout aromas of caramel, roasted malt, coffee and chocolate. Smooth, creamy mouthfeel, with a great roasty flavor. A lot of caramel and chocolate milk sweetness going on as well. It finishes sweet and malty with a lingering roasty backbone. Another outstanding beer from Lost Coast.

Overall, I was really impressed. All very well balanced and highly drinkable, I wish I had access to more of their product. In the coming posts, I'll be reviewing the rest of the beers I got, which include Green Flash Brewing's Hop Head Red, a couple Alaskan Brewing Company beers, Anderson Valley Boont's Amber Ale, and a couple beers from Mad River Brewing Company.
Salud!
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