Two years on since the last time I had this, it can only be mellower. It’s is extraordinarily mellow. Lightly sweet, the faintest hint of dried plum, a burnt toffee finish.
Malty, molasses, hoppy. Hints of herbal candy; medicinal. Smooth and homey.
Thickish, very chocolate, with a nice, after-dinner kind of consistency. Reminded me a lot of an Andes Mint without the mint, strangely.
Fairly bitter and alpha forward, but clear honey notes and cereal on the way to the finish.
Fizzy, cherry up-front on the top of the flavor going into a ong cacao finish. Prickly finish with very light smoke.
Sweetish, juicy IPA, extremely cloudy. Grapefruit-forward. Acrid but light finish.
Roast, coffee-forward, slightly thinner than your average barrel-aged stout. Caramel booze, believable as Basil Hayden. I like the base beer here, and I like this barrel-aged version.
Super fragrant hop opening with a clear nutmeg and clove poking through. Sustained sweetness and smoothness from the lactose. Surprisingly enjoyable.
Funk up front but mostly turns into a candy fruit sweetness. Dragonfruit and strawberry jam? I went back and forth whether I was vibing with it or not through the course of the glass.
This is good. The nice juicy sort of IPA that I actually like!
It's fine, but not really interesting. Not overly bitter. Not at all fruity. Not particularly clean not crisp.
I get a little brackish Pale Ale as I drink more.
Meh.
It like wants to give you all three flavors and some of them seem like they’re about to be pleasant but then they all get jumbled and it’s cough syrup
It's got this weird perfume essence that does not do it for me. Might be a good thick stout otherwise.
i imagine lots of people fall over themselves for this sort of hoppy bitter thing but it’s just not for me
nice. almost a little sweet and fruity for me but it manages to stay under control
This is good. Smooth, Good thickness. Nice sweetness. A little bit of spice.
Even better or the same as last time. which is to say great. a little tinge of cinnamon too this time
It actually wasn't as terrible as I remember.
Not bad.
Clean, roast, bready. Dark pretzel, caramel sheen. Really very tasty.
Tastes like someone took a caramel-forward winter ale and hit it with a huge dose of apicot. It's nice but it's definitely going to depend on how much you like apricot, because it's overwhelming.
Earthy coffee flavors with a sweet, caramel finish. Feels like a nightcap. Reminds me a lot of the barrel-aged coffee I got at Starbucks Reserve Roastery a few years ago. The quality of this beer varies year to year but this year's is nice.
Candy fruit up front, appropriately tropical but kind of stays sweet.
Yet another aspect of these spices, in this case there's a fruity-tartness that opens and subverts most of the perfumey overtones that this beer has suffered from in the past. What it does do is make it very cola-like, spice-forward; ginger, cinnamon?
Prominent chili pepper bitterness, not a little umami, cinnamon, chocolate. I actually think this is much better than the regular Gunpowder Plot flavor profile.
Clove, candi sugar, a little spicy. Dries really fast and is fairly bitter so there’s a bit of whiplash. Does feel a lot like Fall.
Opaque, jammy, like a berry sherbet melted down into a cup. No funk at all; very hard to even tell it's alcoholic. But it's strikingly tasty.
Berry opening, tastes like it’s going to have a tart follow through but does not. Dries into a vinous, crisp lager flavor. I like this!
Citrus up-front, lots of pith. Bitter back end. A little acrid.
