Really tasty. I don't like raspberries, honestly, but what this beer evokes is the smell of a frashly bought box of berries before you eat them and realize you don't actually like raspberries. Fragrant and dry and clean with a hint of white chocolate and cereal funk.
The least remarkable beer here. Sweet and hoppy with a kind of oily resin following through in the flavor.
Surprising and delicious. You have the banana and just hint of white pepper here, present from the other beers here, but there's exactly enough fruit flavor and tartness here to create a profile that's not exactly apricot and not exactly anything else - just a really bright, berry-like bell ring of a flavor. I love this.
Banana, clove, white pepper. Light and pleasing, and the sweetness counteracts the characteristic closing bitterness here realy nicely. I do like this.
A bit acerbic, strongly medicinal herbal quality about this (ginseng?) with strong white pepper and a touch of clove. Otherwise sweet and light.
Flavorful pilsner, cereal, lightly sweet and grassy.
Super-fragrant; lemon, pine, touch of apricot. Very clean and mellow but oily finish.
I don't remember how I felt about this, other than clearly thinking this tasted more like ginger snaps than what I think of as gingerbread.
Tart, extremely thick, kind of like drinking a melted mango sorbet (complimentary!). Almost unidentifiable as beer.
Maybe it was having this after the Jinju, but this almost felt like drinking vinegar. It was just so much!
Really nice and mellow but to be fair it's hard to start strong and work down. I liked it but there's no way I can accurately describe this.
Intensely fragrant, over the top I think.
Fort George Matryoshka (2025)
Boozy, sweet, caramel, slightly tart. There's fruitiness in the lingering aftertaste. As usual, it's a lot, but it's nice.
A piney, pithy IPA, with some mellow/bitter sweetness that I can only imagine is coming from the tea. I like tea beers but I kind of wish it wasn't sweet-on-sweet; I think the effect is best when there's something in opposition to mellow.
They renamed this "Benevolent Blonde" for charity. Tastes a little fruitier, a little less lagery than my previous description. Not bad.
After the previous two beers this really kind of stuck out as gimmicky. A bit over-roasty and tacky with cinnamon coming through first, and then a not super integrated apple flavor.
A really fine dubbel ... brown sugar and biscuit up front, with a unexpectedly fruity, dry finish. Raisin-ish, maybe.
This is absolutely no knock on the beer; it was just under 12 years old! In fact, in its defense it was surprisingly palatable for a beer that age: no weird sediment, some molasses caramel syrup, a clean but prominent raw alcohol flavor. Enough left to hint at past greatness, even if we waited too long.
Very dry, very peachy - like the flesh of the fruit and not at all candy-like. Assertively tart but not puckeringly sour. Extremely clean.
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.
A clean if unremarkable lemon-pine IPA. Maybe if this wasn't my third I would have a more defined opinion on it.
A really nce citrus hazy with notes of orange and mango. No bitterness and a clean finish.
Intense citrus/grape fruitiness, almost over the top but stats on the right side. Bright and finishes mellow.
May have 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?)
Fragrant and flavorful, a robust lager with fruity/citrus overtones.
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.
Fragrance of banana hard candy. Flavor is not so much cream pie, but is very roasty coffee, candy banana. Thick and tacky.
Grapey, unsweet, light buttery notes and some dry bitterness bring out the vinous aspects nicely. Alcohol pokes through a bit strongly.
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.
Much fruitier than I expected. There's a tart saison quality to this. Liquour-soaked raisins, vinous.
More of the same toasted sesame but has more of a coffee candy follow-through. There's an unusual florality to it too.
Fragrant, floral, strong buttery coconut that is strong but melts into the flavor. Long candy aftertaste. Wow.
Toasted sesame on the nose. Sparkly but roasty, unsweet, light-drinking.
Surprisingly fragrant, sweet but with a citrus rind perfume and bitterness. Definitely more strongly characterful than most in this style - really interesting!
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!
Hazy, citrus, oily but not perfumey. Firm pithy bitternesson the end. Clean.
One of the cleaner rice lagers I've had, lightly fragrant, sweet, grassy, clean finish. Yum!
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.