Scent is sweet coconut. Not off-putting. Bit the taste is instant diabetes. My heart hurts.
Draft at Pollyanna Brewing St. Charles
A little too sweet but at least the mouthfeel isn’t syrupy. It’s simplistic but still drinkable, but I don’t think you could easily do more than a taster.
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Very balanced hefe, banana, clove, a little dark on the finish but it’s clean.
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Exemplary of the style, I think, makes me think of a really dark pretzel that someone turned into a beer.
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Wow. Like a sweet fruit seltzer. I guess it's sour, big in all the wrong ways. I don't strictly mind it, bit I don't think I'd pay for it again.
Draft at Pollyanna Brewing St. Charles
Flavorful, cloudy pale. Primarily pineapple in flavor, especially in the aftertaste.
Draft
This is actually a really good example of a hefeweizen. Notes of coriander with a subtle backbone of banana. This is really good.
Draft at Pollyanna Brewing St. Charles
This is fascinating. Vanilla forward. But a nice base of earthy coffee grounds. Nothing bad. Honestly, I'm impressed. It gets a little musky as I get down the drink.
Draft at Pollyanna Brewing St. Charles
I mean, if I wanted to drink cranberry juice, I'd buy cranberry juice.
Draft at Pollyanna Brewing St. Charles
Extremely sour, puckeringly tart in a fruit concentrate sense. Honest blackberry flavor but this is only for those who dig this level of sour.
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This is both very English and very mild. If I were in an English pub I'd be happy drinking this the rest of the night.
Draft at Pollyanna Brewing St. Charles
Sweet, coffee, a bit earthy, as coffee blondes tend to go. Quite vanilla-forward.
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Kind of a light IPA. Maybe a tiny bit of citrus/tropical fruit. It's fine, I suppose.
Draft at Pollyanna Brewing St. Charles
Chocolate/roast porter. Thin body. Strong, bitter finish.
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Has the corn syrup sweetness of a lot of American light lagers but more assertive. A little bit of wet bay character too. It’s decent but not as clean or crisp as you might look for in a lager.
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Banana-forward, light pepper. Starts sweet with a darker finish.
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A pungent pale ale—heavy on the essential oils but remains light-bodied. Lemon-pine, lightly sweet. Bitter finish.
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I dunno. Bitter. Almost brackish. Meh.
Draft at Art History Brewing, Geneva
This is just an easy, normal American beer. I feel bad about that low rating. If I were out at a BBQ, this would be awesome to drink a bunch of.
Draft at Art History Brewing, Geneva
Maybe pineapple and pepper? I don't find it all that bitter. I'm happy to steal Mike's pour.
Draft at Art History Brewing, Geneva
This was fascinating, because I've never had a totally flat net that wasn't terrible. I can acknowledge the tropical fruit mentioned in the blurb. Seems fine, but the flatness is just . . . wow b
Cask at Art History Brewing, Geneva
Peppery, bitter, overtones of sweet pith. It’s so bitter that it Is getting in the way of drinkability for me.
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Very banana! It smells good, but the flavor is very banana. Did I mention banana? I don't mind this at all.
Draft at Art
Flat, as you’d expect… more citrus-pine than I expected but good flavors… but I still think I’d prefer carbonation.
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This is no Czech Pills!!! So much sweetness! So much amber flavor! But it's not brackish. It's more like a marzen, honestly. Bit, for all that, not bad.
Draft at Art History Brewing, Geneva
Nice, light coffee and caramel flavors with a soft, cola-like finish. None of the pungency there Gravitace had.
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Surprisingly sweet and almost tart, this doesn’t at all make me think Czech Pilsner. The smell reminds me of a dry erase marker, which tells me that the hop oils are really kind of overwhelming here.
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Like the big brother of the Lil Boots, a little less pointed but more sophisticated.
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This is a lot. Burnt sugar up front, syrupy, with a bitter finish that makes me think I’m licking the barrel staves. The third barrel aged beer in a row on this trip that I’ve been unable to finish.
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Still don't feel like there's much going on here. I guess it works as a pallet cleanser.
Draft at Penrose brewery, Geneva IL
Sweet with almost overwhelming cherry flavor. But it doesn't have the horrible backbone of other barrel aged beers. I couldn't drink a lot of this, but it's not terrible. Oddly, the visual impression is more like a European dark. It looks a bit like a soda through the edge. As Mike says, "it tastes like it should be a lot more opaque than it is".
Draft at Penrose brewery, Geneva IL
This does taste like a New England IPA, but with muted bitterness.
Draft at Penrose brewery, Geneva IL
Distinctly different from the Lil Boots: sweeter, orange only comes in at the end, but bright and sunny. Enjoyable.
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Still citrus sour with a strong bitter backbone. I still think it's pretty good.
Draft at Penrose brewery, Geneva IL
Lemon forward, tangerine, cleaner, crisper fruit finish than I’d usually expect from a hazy. Quite nice.
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Very light, like a macro lager, with some grassy aspect.
Draft at Penrose brewery, Geneva IL
Very light, on the watery side of th me line. But you could easily imagine crushing several of these if you were out in the sunlight.
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Draft at Warren's Ale House
2026. Sweet hoppy lager, candied citrus peel overtones, but otherwise very clean.
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Not for me. So many things going on. Not one of them good. Like a clown car of flavors!
Draft at Warren's Ale House
Not as juicy as other times, but still good for a drink.
Draft at Warren's Ale House
Way too much, and doesn’t evoke S’mores. It’s thick, molassessy, sweet. Almost exactly like drinking a Fig Newton.
Draft
It's fine. There's really not any interesting flavor in this one. Oh well.
Draft at Lazy Dog Naperville
This was good. I'd have absolutely no problem drinking all night long.
Draft at Lazy Dog Naperville
Just a nice drinkable thing.
Draft at Warren's Ale House
Actually mine of tasty. Good spicy flavor.
Draft at Warren's Ale House
Does not seem to correspond to the description I gave the original. Banana, light spice, pretty assertive bitterness, a little bit of funk. Nice.
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