Placerville Brewing Company

This is a companion post to the one about Gold Hill Vineyard's brewing operation.  As we continued on our meanderings through gold country we found ourselves in Placerville, California.  Thanks to the GPS we were able to find Placerville Brewing Company.  Their sampler is a BEAST.  You get 10 beers for $7.95.

Here's the beers:

Golden Ale -- 5.5% ABV; its white wheat and yellow corn.  Tastes like Bud so its not so great.

Tangerine Ale -- 5.5% ABV; its the Golden Ale but with citrus added to it which makes for a very tasty and fruity beer.

Pale Ale -- 6.4% ABV; it is made with Chinook and Cascade hops making for a bitter beer that was quite filling.

Boysenberry Ale -- 6.4% ABV; this is the Pale Ale with boysenberry added making for another fruity beer.  I like boysenberries so this was a treat for me.

Strong Blond -- 8% ABV; a very malty beer that was sweet and strong.  It was not bitter although it did have Columbus, Hallertau, and Tettenang hops.

425 (seasonal) -- this beer was a hop explosion.  The waitress told me that the head brewer adds four pounds of hops to five gallons of Pale Ale.  Very strong floral hop flavor.

Copper -- malty and copper color.  Nothing glamorous.

Pumpkin -- they were trying to get rid of the last remnants of their pumpkin beer so they threw it with the sampler.  Nutmeg and cinnamon made for a spicy beer.  This was probably Kiki's favorite.

Stout -- 6.8% ABV; this was creamy like a Guinness but more chocolaty.

Vanilla Stout -- 6.8% ABV; this is a chocolate beer with bourbon vanilla.  Yum.  Kiki gave a thumbs up for this one and she hates dark beer.

I honestly didn't think I could finish all of these.  But I conquered the PBC.

Placerville Brewing Company was kind of like a sports bar, but with its own brewery.  Placerville Brewing Company is not quite as out of the way as Gold Hill, but Placerville is still a trek.  Anyone heading to Lake Tahoe on Highway 50 should make a pit stop.