Started this beer with the Cubs tied and a rain delay. It tasted okay. Finished with the Cubs as world champions. It tasted great! Pretty good lager in the Sam Adams mold. Full flavored.
Same beer in a Stovepipe can instead of a 12 oz. It was canned only two months apart from the other, but the flavor was definitely different, interestingly enough. This one was slightly more ashy in flavor, overroasted, but still very good. Just different.
I liked this a lot. A creamy mellow coffee porter with an extremely clean finish. The aftertaste was... I can't remember what I thought about it exactly, but it was... soothing?
Very smoothed out roasted stout flavor with a fair bit of complexity. Hard to identify the side flavors in here, but cacao was probably the dominant one. No detectable sourness. I don't typically like this beer, but aging really helps it.
Much better on nitro than I remember out of the can, but then again you expect a kind of flatness on nitro. Pleasant, sweet, caramel, and very creamy. Definitely a beer-mustache kind of glass. Twenty ounces disappeared in a hurry (which given its strength, might be dangerous)!
Disappointing given its reputation. Thick, but has the astringent sourness of a bad stout. Especially doesn't fare well after the Serpent Stout, although that isn't exactly fair.
Basically in India Pale Lager, with some additional rye spice and a touch of wheat sweetness in effect. Way too hoppy for me, though. Piney and super-bitter on the finish.
Hazelnut, roasted malt, chocolate (in that order) on the palate. Sweet but not heavy/funky finish. A bit more bittering hops would have cleaned up the finish a bit which I would like, but they due market this as an ode to malts so it accomplishes it's goal. Sits between a stout and a true scotch ale flavor wise, pretty yummy though!
Super-smoothed out and sweet on nitro with a lot of sweet malt. No detectable hops or bitterness, which I guess is kind of the strategy when highlighting a rare grain. 8% ABV is seriously stealth. Unusual and noteworthy, if not especially delicious.
Big citrus hit up front, a minor bit of bitterness on the back end. One of the hoppiest-leaning pale's I've had, but no resinous character at all. Good stuff
Lots of Belgian spice, coriander and cinnamon, with a bit of apricot-like fruit character. Not bad, but not really my cup of tea, and too one-note to overcome that.
I think I'm getting the hang of this pilsner thing. This one had just enough grassy funk in the fragrance that I knew it'd have that nice nutty transition in the middle, without making it smell gross. Some nice malt. A little bitter at the end, but nothing excessive.
Floral, hoppy, and bitter like an IPA but with a strong malt presence as well. Some fruitiness & a clean finish but I'm still not used to beers this bitter - working my way up.
Like drinking an opened growler of a better Scotch Ale on the second day. The basic flavor is fine, but everything feels unpleasantly flat out of the can.