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# Turkey Club at The Brass Bear Delicatessen
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/alamo-the-brass-bear-delicatessen-turkey-club/
- Published: 2026-10-03T05:08:50.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-07T10:38:39.000Z
- Description: Oven roasted turkey, bacon, avocado, american cheese, mayo, lettuce, tomato on toasted sliced sour dough bread. Sandwich Score 76, excellent. 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.

SourdoughTomatoLettuceMayonnaiseAmerican CheeseAvocadoBaconTurkeySourdough

**76**

Sandwich Score  
out of 100 · excellent

Excellent, with one move worth +17.

Reads as a fully realized club, six of six roles on the board.

**Holding the summit:** balance 0.80 or better

Balance

62

Harmony

100

Contrast

100

Structure

98

Focus

100

Composition

100

Quality

93

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.

**toasted sliced sour dough bread**, toasted: oven roasted turkey; bacon; avocado; american cheese (low tier); mayo; lettuce; tomato.

## Balance

salt1.4 · 68thacid0.5 · 50thfat2.9 · 78thsweet0.3 · 35thumami1.6 · 57thheat0.0bitter0.0 · 37th

__Flavor axes__
| Axis   | Value | Catalog percentile |
| ------ | ----- | ------------------ |
| salt   | 1.4   | 68th               |
| acid   | 0.5   | 50th               |
| fat    | 2.9   | 78th               |
| sweet  | 0.3   | 35th               |
| umami  | 1.6   | 57th               |
| heat   | 0.0   | n/a                |
| bitter | 0.0   | 37th               |

**89** 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    |
| -------------------------------------------------- | ------- | --------------------------------------- | --------- |
| toasted sliced sour dough breadscored as Sourdough | bread   | soft chewy crusty                       | the frame |
| oven roasted turkeyscored as Turkey                | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender               | **+1**    |
| bacon                                              | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy       | **−6**    |
| avocado                                            | fat     | fat 4 creamy soft fresh                 | **−2**    |
| american cheese (low tier)                         | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 2 gooey creamy melty | **−12**   |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise                           | sauce   | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy               | **−1**    |
| lettuce                                            | texture | crunchy juicy fresh                     | **+6**    |
| tomato                                             | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | **+14**   |

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

- **Sourdough + American Cheese**: grilled cheese law: melted cheese, tangy crust
- **Turkey + Bacon**: lean bird borrows the pig's smoke
- **Turkey + Avocado**: california club logic: green fat on lean bird
- **Turkey + Mayonnaise**: turkey and mayo, the deli default
- **Turkey + Tomato**: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
- **Bacon + Avocado**: smoke and salt lift buttery avocado
- **Bacon + Lettuce**: cool crunch against hot smoke
- **Bacon + Tomato**: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- **Mayonnaise + Tomato**: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich

## How to raise it

- Between you and 90: balance 0.80 or better (0.18 short).

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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.