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Review – Tesla CyberBeer from Buzzrock Brewing

The winner of must clunky beer packaging award goes to, well, you read the post title so you know it is the Tesla CyberBeer. Boy howdy is it the least cool bottle and mug (?) that I have run across. Which would be of little import if the beer inside outpaced the bottle.

But it doesn’t so having to peel off the shrink wrap from the neck, then manhandling the strange top off, you then still have to pop a cap and then try to carefully pour into the lopsided mug. The choice of an Imperial Helles seems odd. If the goal was just unique then mission accomplished but if the goal was instead to be a thoughtful gift or promotional item then why not just a simple lager?

Maybe this bottle was old but it tasted mostly of pear and malt and had a lot of viscosity to it and a weird alcohol-y after taste that was not quite burning but was there in too much abundance.

I hope that Buzzrock Brewing was paid well for this because this must have been extra, extra work to get from tank to bottle.

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Buzzrock Tasting

Thanks to the crew at Hopped LA, I got the opportunity to test out beers from new Torrance brewery, Buzzrock. (and be filmed for an “unCanned” segment too)

Gary Magnone received a whopping 12 crowlers. Basically covering all but a couple of the beers that Buzzrock makes at their Brews Hall at Del Amo location.

Considering the brewer lineage of Stone and Monkish, it was no great shock to find that the beers were all above average. There was some weirdness though, the pale ales were all dark orange in color while the IPA’s were uniformly golden yellow. The Witbier was made with peaches and boy was it dripping with the actual fruit taste, then there was the Sabro Hop Double IPA which was a straight up coconut bomb.

Of the group, my pick for what to try is the Hazy IPA because it too, was weird, but it grew on me. It had the right color and haze profile. The aroma was spot on but when you sipped, it was Cascade hopville. Picture a hazy with the fruit taste removed, replaced by pine. More classical was their Oatmeal Stout which ticked all the boxes for the style. Coming in third for me was the Oat Pale Ale which was bright with fruit and had a nice hop/malt balance.

Between the George Lopez and Colin Cowherd sub-brands, I would steer to the Cowherd. Both the Pils and IPA were down the middle whereas the Lopez beers seemed to be trying to hard and ended up not working well for me.

Promising start though for Buzzrock, enough to make a visit to their Torrance brewery a better bet.

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Brews Hall at Del Amo

A comedian and a sports pundit walk into a food hall. That is both set-up and the punch line as it appears, according to Eater LA, that George Lopez is enlarging his branded restaurants with the Brews Hall. With an assist from Colin Cowherd.

And there is a beer facet to the operation, “The first is Buzzrock Brewing Co., which will operate off of a four-vessel, 20-barrel on-site brewhouse, and the second is a sub-label called George Lopez’s To Loco Brewing Co. Brewmaster Justinian Caire, who hails from the famed Stone out of San Diego, is on to oversee the brewing.”

I will keep you updated on the progress.