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.
Cola-like, definietly has some spice synergies with the Timber City which is why I can clearly taste it now as opposed to before. Lots of caramel and a dry finish.
Dry, bracing, fruity on the finish but the flavor is more along the lines of the oils than the juice here.
Effervescent, tropical-citrus hazy, thick but quite balanced. Like a fizzy hard candy of a beer. Really pungent but it's doing it for me todya, and let's face it, you brew a Mariners-themed beer I'm going to drink it.
Roasty, robust, a little prickly, makes me think of tobacco. Bitter on the finish but good for a real weighty stout.
Decent IPA scent. Taste is bitter and perhaps a bit brackish. I've had worse, but it's not the sort of IPA I like.
New Glarus Champda Blanc (2024)
(Brewed 1-24, bottled 11-24)
This is amazing. Sweet, tart, effervescent, the slightest hint of some bitterness. amazing balance. I guess if you NEED a mouthful of bitterness then this might not be for you. Otherwise, this is the best bet ever.
It's kinda rough and brackish. Makes it seem more German than Czech to me. They do talk about "an old school blur off German and Czech styles" on the bottle. I fear that adding Czech into German results in nothing good.
I don’t know if it’s the unusually bright hop presence or the chewy malt sweetness or the lightly umami finish, but this beer felt kind of relentless.
Has an unpleasant opening flavor of dishwater with lemon cleaner. It's momentary but hard to ignore. Finishes well, with a cereal sweetness.
Citrus, pine, a little bit simplistic. Bitter finish.
A little more lager-like, a little more uric than the last log. I think it helps, although it still finishes quite bitter.
A sweet, cereal lager with a pretty intense peach flavor upfront. Peach breakfast cereal? It’s interesting but also quite weird.
A little too sweet - it's not syrupy but there's something over the top about the tail end of the flavor. And it winds up tacky in the throat. It's tiny-bit headache inducing.
Apricot gravy with some fragrant funk that could be ascribed to the tea. Maybe?
Matchless Easy Being Green (2025)
Mild and fruity, citrus. It’s fragrant, almost too fragrant—one sip is very pleasant indeed but it’s a lot to take over a glass.
New Holland Dragon's Milk Reserve: S'mores (unknown release)
We've replaced their s'mores with barrel aged nonsense. Let's see if they notice . . .
Fairly bitter with not much in the way of juicy flavors I was led to expect.