Both coconut and vanilla are the faintest hints, but there’s an overall mild sweetness that works well with the cask flatness. Slightly tart and tacky but cleans up quick.
Cask
A clean if unremarkable lemon-pine IPA. Maybe if this wasn't my third I would have a more defined opinion on it.
Draft
A really nce citrus hazy with notes of orange and mango. No bitterness and a clean finish.
Draft
Intense citrus/grape fruitiness, almost over the top but stats on the right side. Bright and finishes mellow.
Draft
May ahve been a mispour, sinc ethis tastes very much like a wit. Peppery and estery, dry and very drinkable. (Tap was one away from Holy Mountain White Lodge - possibly that?)
Draft at Flatstick Pub, Redmond
Fragrant and flavorful, a robust lager with fruity/citrus overtones.
Can at Odin Lounge
Thick and sweet, like most Bottle Logic stouts. Smells very nutty and tastes like smooth chocolate sauce, and booze. In my memory this isn't quite as great as the Shell Theory, but it is very nice.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Fragrance of banana hard candy. Flavor is not so much cream pie, but is very roasty coffee, candy banana. Thick and tacky.
Can at Odin Lounge
Grapey, unsweet, light buttery notes and some dry bitterness bring out the vinous aspects nicely. Alcohol pokes through a bit strongly.
Draft at Flatstick Pub, Redmond
The fragrance is super strong. Berry candy and coconut, I think the same dominant aroma as the IPA. Tart, dry, hibiscus-lime. High, sweet aftertaste.
Draft at Fieldwork San Mateo, San Mateo
Much fruitier than I expected. There's a tart saison quality to this. Liquour-soaked raisins, vinous.
Draft at Fieldwork San Mateo, San Mateo
More of the same toasted sesame but has more of a coffee candy follow-through. There's an unusual florality to it too.
Draft at Fieldwork San Mateo, San Mateo
Fragrant, floral, strong buttery coconut that is strong but melts into the flavor. Long candy aftertaste. Wow.
Draft at Fieldwork San Mateo, San Mateo
Toasted sesame on the nose. Sparkly but roasty, unsweet, light-drinking.
Draft at Fieldwork San Mateo, San Mateo
Surprisingly fragrant, sweet but with a citrus rind perfume and bitterness. Definitely more strongly characterful than most in this style - really interesting!
Draft at Fieldwork San Mateo, San Mateo
Whiskey and cherry syrup, some light roast. Thin but boozy. Honestly would have liked less overt cherry flavor but this isn't bad at all!
Draft at Alpha Acid Brewing Company, Belmont
Sour peach, a nice flavor but somewhat over the top.
Draft at Alpha Acid Brewing Company, Belmont
Hazy, citrus, oily but not perfumey. Firm pithy bitternesson the end. Clean.
Draft at Alpha Acid Brewing Company, Belmont
One of the cleaner rice lagers I've had, lightly fragrant, sweet, grassy, clean finish. Yum!
Draft at Alpha Acid Brewing Company, Belmont
Perennial Take 10 (2025)
Sweeter than Shell Theory, thinner in texture. Does make me think of chocolate sauce, with a nutty finish that comes out of the background. Less boozy, but also less decadent.
Draft at IBU Taproom & Bottle Shop, Milpitas
Smooth, milky and chocolate. The caramel is in the silky texture rather than an overt flavor. Strong as all Bottle Logic beers but more smoothed over, delicious.
Draft at IBU Taproom & Bottle Shop, Milpitas
Sweet, smooth. Pretty much as advertised, even if it tasted stronger than it soudned.
Draft at Cow Palace
Grapefruit / pineapple / vanilla. It's like a weird cross between a creamsicle and a citrus smoothie. For its style it's not bad, but a few too many flavors to be truly enjoyable.
Draft at Flatstick Pub, Redmond
(5.6%) Sweet and spicy brown but the ginger tastes very much of the dried root: sharp, bitter and medicinal. There's a mild candy quality when the flavor turns to aftertaste. It definitely does not make me think of gingerbread... intense ginger snap? But that's still underselling it.
Bottle at Big Block Brewing, Redmond
Prairie Okie Noir (unknown release)
Lots of the wood here, caramel, fruit, toffee. It's smooth but also quite sweet and intense - at 13+% it's a lot.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Clean and lightly sweet,, with a primary orange kind of flavor.
Draft at Thirsty Hop, Kirkland
Fremont Barrel Aged B-Bomb (2025)
Surprisingly smooth, plummy. I'm used to this feeling more raw and boozy.
Draft at Thirsty Hop, Kirkland
Unsweet brown but with a really mellow caramel that rounds out to the finish. No spice profile, lightly estery. The effect is kind of like a nut bread, warm and wintry.
Draft at Postdoc Brewing, Redmond
Much thinner than other variants; clear cinnamon that I also think turns into a spice bitterness that dominates the finish. Maybe the least successful version I’ve tried.
Draft at Postdoc Brewing, Redmond
Piney, hop oil; very little fruit or body. But a nice, bracing, grassy bitterness. For that flavor profile, this is actually pretty good.
Can
Grape-forward, fragrant and hoppy, A little on the sweet side, and finished quite bitter.
Can
Roast, thick, lightly sweet. Been a while since I had the non-barrel version of this and it's actually a relief (in the past, I might have thought this was too roasty).
Draft at Black Raven Brewing Company, Redmond
Light plum, toffee, thin mouthfeel but lots of whisky.
Draft at Big Block Brewing, Redmond































