Tastes like a liquid grapefruit rind, though not that bitter. Not my favorite style at all.

Mellow caramel, lightly fruity, tannic dryness. Reminds me of a caramel apple, without being syrupy.

Seemed extremely overhopped for a blonde. I see previous notes like this, maybe it's always been this way?

I thought this was the brut on the menu and it turns out it was a hazy. So I wasn't really looking for this style; that said, it was perfectly fine.

I taste it! I taste the Light!

A very quaffable beer. A mild hopped start and a sweet cereal finish. Hops reappear after finish, like a sneak attack after disabling your satellites, but a lot better than trapping the Traveler. More like a sweet new dance emote. Finished the fight..er, beer. Bungie's the best, they gave us two bottles each.

"Ooooooooooooooooooh. Wah? It isn't soapy! Shut yo mouth, Roy."

Slightly funky blonde saison with Belgian spice. Fruit flavor is round and believably strawberry (without tasting fake, thank goodness!). It wasn't as well-balanced as the Stoup, but it was a nice beer, second best in the flight.

Excellent. Smooth.

This was a lot to take. A little too much raw whiskey and maybe too sweet. I know I liked this before. Maybe this suffered next to a bunch of less ostentatious beers.

Pretty good for a very hoppy IPL. Very pronounced hop perfume and resin, with a moderately bitter finish, but with a sweet, cereal lager character creating a very firm backbone. It's still not my style, but this is a beer that makes me think it could someday be.

Nice, fruity ale with just the right amount of dry berry tang. I wouldn't say this was overtly fruity, but you could divine the character of the fruit clearly.

Delicious. There's a richness to the mouthfeel that matches up really well with a sweet, milk chocolate flavor, all on top of what was already an excellent milk stout in the Nemesis. The touch of whiskey just enhances the effect. One to watch for.

Strong rye and coriander flavors are supported by a faint honey sweetness. Quite good overall, but the bitterness is a little bit too strong for the mix.

Pleasant honey sheen on this tripel, although it is a bit strong in the coriander direction which makes it a little musty instead of bright. The alcohol is a bit in your face after a while, as well. Still, not bad at all.

Smoked hop smell. Sweet start and full sweetness in body bit without actually being sweet. Smoke shows up at finish again.

The smokiness is very light, easily lost in the roastiness of the beer. Quite tasty but it's bitterness gets slightly anoying after a while.

A spicy-rather-than-funky saison, with a sheen of clove and white pepper to start. The body was clean, not too sweet. There was something else about it that kind of set it apart from other beers with this spice profile (which is not my favorite), but not quite enough to raise it to the next level.

Opens creamy, with an oatmeal-like sweetness - wouldn't be surprised if the OATstanding was the base beer here. Mouthfeel is thin, although the foamy head reinforced the sense of creaminess. The smoke manifested more as a kind of tobacco-ash roastiness than as the kind of wood smoke that I've commonly encountered lately. Pretty good, although the bitterness builds up faster than I liked.

I normally like this one but especially after the Whistling pig, this one seemed overhopped today.

Rich and sweet without getting too thick. Perfect amount of roast but somewhat bitter on the finish. Obviously the barrel aged version of this is better, but this was still quite good.

A CDA firmly on the well-roasted side. Nice, malted-milk head. Round hop flavor rides into roasted malt-hop bitterness, which makes it go well with cooked food. The bitterness does build up, though.

A pretty good porter.

First time I've had this on its own rather than following up another beer. There's a lot to like here - mellow cereal, a bracing, bitter pilsnery finish. It is strong for a blonde, at 6.9%, and it shows, which may be its main flaw. But it's still quite tasty.

A mild red ale with a slightly toasty malt flavor. At first I was a big fan of the beer but it had an off-message bitterness that built up quickly. Still, it was decent.

Opens like a nitro stout usually does for me; that is, with a kind of sour dishwater flavor that nobody else seems to notice. But the strong cereal malt finish that followed was unexpected, and also completely redeemed this beer for me.

Refreshing beer, the orange taste is noticeable but not too overbearing.

Boozy for a blonde, with some bitterness. I'm not sure I was tasting everything after the flavorful beer I had right before it.

Musty, yeasty wheat leading into the puckering tartness of blood orange. Not much malt, and definitely not crisp, which is the main issue here, esp. on a beautiful, sunny day. Still, there's enough to like that I can't complain.

Real nice milk stout. Nice smooth texture with a great roasted taste. I'd say the only downside might be a somewhat strong alcohol taste.

This beer smells unambiguously peppery, and you can just tell it's going to be spicy. Once it's in your mouth, the taste of fresh chili (poblano? jalapeno?) dominates but doesn't completely destroy the light malt flavor of the underlying beer. The heat's assertive & sticks with you without ever getting too uncomfortable. A workout, but I think, really well-done.

Lightly flavored but with more substance than most blondes, probably due to having nearly 7% ABV. As the weather heats up, I could get very used to this.

Smooth, boozy barleywine with great bourbon and oak character, but not too far out in any direction. Great beer for a beautiful day!

Reminder: don't eat Jimmy johns with this beer.

On the sweet, boozy side, but with a lot of creamy, malty body to offset it. A slight, dry sourness typical of milk stouts - pretty tasty!

Funky, uric fragrance that did not promise a good time and a flavor that lived up to it at first, but mellowed out into a typical nitro cream ale smooth maltiness. Perversely, I actually started to appreciate how that skunky opening brought something interesting to this beer.

Clean hop smell. Nice spicy bite with a resinous sort of finish. Lovely biscuitness.

Slight soapy hop smell. Cereal lingers just as long as a thin bitterness. Real nice hop pepperiness in body and aftertaste. Tasty!

A sweet, almost too-alcoholic flavor with a steady but light smoke character. We're not talking bacon here, so that's nice, at least. On the other hand, a kind of unpleasant, woody bitterness did build up through the glass.

A nice peppery-hop start, not syrupy or resinous but notably fragrant. Too much lingering bitterness made me reluctant to finish it (but I did!).

Good malt/barley presence, tasty. But even through spicy chicken lunch its bitters are readily present.

A really nice start, with a clear shot of whiskey to open, and the base beer is fine, but I think this could have used more aging to mellow the sharp, alcoholic follow-through and the sticky, woody finish in the throat. Alternately, I think a little added fruit or tartness would have helped balance the flavor.