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# Bearwood at The Brass Bear Delicatessen
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/alamo-the-brass-bear-delicatessen-bearwood/
- Published: 2026-10-03T05:08:15.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-07T10:39:08.000Z
- Description: Turkey, roast beef, ham, salami, swiss, mustard, mayo, lettuce, tomato, pickle, onion on sour roll. Sandwich Score 66, very good. At The Brass Bear Delicatessen, Alamo.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: USA, California, #shop-sandwich, #auto-imported

A sandwich at [The Brass Bear Delicatessen](https://onesandwich.com/alamo-the-brass-bear-delicatessen/), a deli in Alamo, California.

SourdoughOnionPickle (cucumber)TomatoLettuceMayonnaiseMustardSwiss CheeseSalamiHamBeefTurkeySourdough

**66**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · very good

Very good, with one move worth +10.

A cubano with layers outside the form; six of six roles.

**Holding the summit:** a focused, restrained build

Balance

100

Harmony

100

Contrast

100

Structure

81

Focus

42

Composition

74

Quality

100

Envelope

100

Each bar is one pillar of the score, 0 to 100\. The tick marks what a sandwich at the summit needs; an amber bar is the one holding this sandwich back.

**sour roll**, served cold: turkey; roast beef; ham; salami; swiss; mustard; mayo; lettuce; tomato; pickle; onion.

## Balance

salt2.1 · 90thacid1.2 · 78thfat2.0 · 44thsweet0.3 · 44thumami2.1 · 78thheat0.2 · 69thbitter0.2 · 59th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 2.1   | 90th               |
| acid   | 1.2   | 78th               |
| fat    | 2.0   | 44th               |
| sweet  | 0.3   | 44th               |
| umami  | 2.1   | 78th               |
| heat   | 0.2   | 69th               |
| bitter | 0.2   | 59th               |

**100** Balance, out of 100

The seven flavor axes of the whole sandwich, each summed across its layers. The shaded ring is the catalog's middle 80%; the small number under each axis is where this sandwich falls in the catalog. A shape that sits inside the ring is in the range most sandwiches live in; a spike past it is where this one stands apart.

## What each layer brings

| Layer                             | Role    | Flavor and texture                      | Points    |
| --------------------------------- | ------- | --------------------------------------- | --------- |
| sour rollscored as Sourdough      | bread   | soft chewy crusty                       | the frame |
| turkey                            | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender               | **−9**    |
| roast beefscored as Beef          | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender        | **−9**    |
| ham                               | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender  | **−5**    |
| salami                            | protein | salt 4 fat 4 umami 4 chewy silky        | **−5**    |
| swissscored as Swiss Cheese       | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty         | **−8**    |
| mustard                           | sauce   | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth       | **−7**    |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise          | sauce   | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy               | **−10**   |
| lettuce                           | texture | crunchy juicy fresh                     | **−3**    |
| tomato                            | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | **−3**    |
| picklescored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid    | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled     | **−10**   |
| onion                             | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh             | **−3**    |

Points: what the Sandwich Score would lose if that one layer were left out, everything else the same. A negative number means the sandwich scores higher without it. Flavor runs 0 to 5 on each axis.

## Pairings

- **Turkey + Swiss Cheese**: turkey and swiss, the deli default
- **Turkey + Mayonnaise**: turkey and mayo, the deli default
- **Turkey + Tomato**: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
- **Beef + Swiss Cheese**: roast beef and swiss, the deli melt
- **Beef + Mustard**: roast beef and mustard, deli logic
- **Beef + Pickle (cucumber)**: pickle brine against rich beef
- **Beef + Onion**: onions sweeten seared beef, philly style
- **Ham + Salami**: salami and ham, the deli's double cure
- **Ham + Swiss Cheese**: cured pork and nutty swiss, an old alliance
- **Ham + Mustard**: deli constant: hot mustard on cured pork
- **Ham + Pickle (cucumber)**: the cubano lesson: brine cuts cured pork
- **Salami + Mustard**: hot mustard against fatty salami
- **Mayonnaise + Tomato**: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich

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Menu read 2026-09; items and prices change. The score is the site's opinion of the recipe as listed, not a review of the shop; tiers and house-made marks follow the menu's own wording.