Probably accurate for cola, but there's a corn syrup quality to this that is too sickly sweet for a beer. Flavor is reminiscent of cola with a noticeable ginger heat, and a strong tang. Feels like it should be more dilute or fizzier. Sticks in the throat.
I had my doubts but I actually quite enjoyed this. The lemon is just bitter enough, just tart enough, to offset a clearly sweet vanilla/lactose finish. Out of balance this could have been horrible but instead is about as good a gimmick beer (in this case, highly accurate to the name) tends to get.
Deeply unpleasant, like when you accidentally buy the unsweetened blueberry juice at the supermarket. There's a tiny bit of a wine cooler note at the end but otherwise there is nothing beer-like about this at all. Do you have a UTI, or want to remember those good times? Maybe, and only then, this might be the beer for you.
Canned October 2018. This beer smells amazing, smooth pina colada and maybe a hint of cola, but the flavor is quite dense, intensely roasty and umami in a way that ends up being off-putting very quickly. The pineapple and coconut counteract it fairly effectively but the beer still finishes very tacky in the throat.
A classic Evil Twin flavor, which means... eh. Hoppy and pungent, extremely roasty. Not what I really like in a stout, but there was no false advertising here.
Thick, syrupy, Almond Joy-type coconut stout, although it smells sweeter than it tastes, thankfully. Caramel and not much overt hazelnut; maybe in the overall smooth finish. Just a hint of smoke/roast but not as over the top as the usual Evil Twin stout story.
This beer is almost savory, roasted, a little too thick in the Evil Twin fashion. I thought I tasted barrel but it's not in the description. Not bad, but didn't love it.
Thick texture, somewhat thin flavor, but sickly sweet. Smells odd, though not quite pizza in my mind. I don't know how different this is from before, but this time it was just really gross.
Main flavor here is hazelnut, creamy and nutty. It really manages to overcome the sweet umami heaviness that usually characterizes this family of beers. Only real complaint here is that the chili was pretty much a non-entity here. I didn't taste it at all.
Yasssss... Super-smooth dark chocolate cake opening. Creamy texture, biscuity sweetness. Habanero's hard to taste at first, just a bit of fruity tingle on the front of the tongue, but builds up into a pleasant warmth after a couple ounces. Pretty darned tasty.
Yams and chilies in this beer; neither comes through very distinctly but add up to a mellow, medium-bodied, sweetish porter with a bit of a smoky lick on top.
Smells very chocolatey. The flavor, though, is kind of umami-thick with a sourness that wasn't very appealing. The chocolate gets kind of lost in that. I think the right description is "tacky." Other folks liked it, though.
Very roasted, bitter stout; chili comes through with an almost dried, Mexican chili flavor with moderately strong spiciness. It's cut a bit by the bitterness, though, and not in a wholly pleasant way. Wish this was less on the roast, with maybe the same amount of chili.
An inky, thick black stout with alcohol and slight tomato on the nose. Flavor is halfway between yeast extract and worcestershire sauce, super-umami, smooth, a bit bitter on the finish. Very dry, and less alcohol-tasting than 17.5% would predict. It had one job, though, and this is super-disappointingly un-pizza-like.
A very dank, hoppy, musty smell, almost like a locker room. The flavor is syrupy and sweet and boozy - a gin and tonic made with beer. Lots and lots of grapefruit on the palate.
Hoo boy, does this smell of green olives. It doesn't taste so much like them, but that briny, vegetal overtone is hard to shake. The rest of it is like a standard Berliner weisse, with a strong tartness and sweet wheat aftertaste.
Weird fruity aroma, reminds me a little of sweet corn. Strong candied fruit sweetness. Way too sweet to be enjoyable.. almost like drinking cheap candies.
Weirdly neutral smell with maybe a slight tartness. I don't know what to think of this one. Some fruity flavors, but they feel like artificial candy fruit flavors.
Much tamer than usual for an Evil Twin Beer - positively normal after the Lil' B. Basically tastes like an oatmeal or milk stout, medium thick. Not very memorable, but it may have suffered in its company. Doesn't taste like its Imperial moniker nor the 10+ % ABV.
A musty, dank hop smell like a brewery on cook day, not the best first impression. The flavor, on the other hand, was just really way too sweet, almost as if it had been sweetened after the fact. Big sad face.
Lots of Brett funk give this a forward bitterness, mixed with a touch of fruitiness, clove, and a whole lot of dank hops. Not going to lie, this felt a little like work.
I mean, this beer tastes completely 100% as advertised. Biscotti with a light cuppa with creamer. If that's your mood this beer will hit all the right spots.
What you'd expect from Evil Twin - a profound, roasty stout with penty of hop presence from the IPA side. The hops are most prominent in the smell, which is very roundly floral and CDA-like, but the flavor is much more on the stout side. The hops do come back as a pronounced bitterness at the end.
The keg blew on this one. A little bit of unpleasant nitro-esque sourness right off the bat. Otherwise, this beer is characterized by sweet, thick malt and just a bit of roast. Smooth, but a lot to take. I'm kind of glad it was just a taste.
Scent carries a strong impression of barrel aging. There is a brief moment where I taste a barrel aged caramel almost-sweet before it is washed away by pure alcohol power, somewhere between strong medicine and something that would leave you very very blind. Very very bad.
It's always dicey trying to predict what kind of smoke you'll get in a smoked beer. This is firmly cooking-wood smoke, strong but not gross, and thankfully the maltiness is toned way down. Nice, prominent noble hop bitterness evens out the finish. I might have been the only one in the room who liked it, but I liked it.
Thick and creamy with sweet overtones of coffee vanilla custard on a solid imperial stout base. Smells absolute lovely! A much more well-integrated version of Southern Tier's Crème Brulée Stout.
Characteristic spicy hop aroma & flavor of Stone dark beers, although more balanced than their smoked porter -- I think the Belgian yeast is what does it. Smoke is subtle and nicely done. Still, it was work to appreciate this beer.