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.
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.
Sweet, smooth. Pretty much as advertised, even if it tasted stronger than it soudned.
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.
(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.
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.
Clean and lightly sweet,, with a primary orange kind of flavor.
Fremont Barrel Aged B-Bomb (2025)
Surprisingly smooth, plummy. I'm used to this feeling more raw and boozy.
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.
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.
Piney, hop oil; very little fruit or body. But a nice, bracing, grassy bitterness. For that flavor profile, this is actually pretty good.