Can't believe they served this in a pint glass.

Pruney and dark, the opening resembles port or brandy rather than bourbon, but you get the latter about halfway through and then a sweet, liquor finish. Tacky finish, definitely strong.

Don’t know if this was mislabeled but it felt way less than the listed 12.3%. There was, however, a bit of whisky on the nose. Fruity, mildly sweet ale.

It's deifnitely spice-heavy, so if that's not what you like about pumpkin beers you might want to avoid. But it does seem balanced by the overall strength of this beer for me. This might appeal more if you're in the mood for a spiced liquor rather than a beer though.

Starts out great, citrus, malty… but the citrusy finish gets cloying after a while.

Good blond ale flavor with plenty of cereal but tinged a bit sour

Seems thinner than my memory, with a lot of spice. Clove candy. Wish it had more body.

Pretty far away from what I expected in a wit. Musty and vegetal, thin and a bit tart. Reminds me more than a little bit of a ginger or ginseng tea. Did not clock cranberry in this.

So it says key lime, but don't think pie. This is more like a lime creamsicle with an overtone of... nutmeg? Maybe? Still, it was unusual, and therefore nice.

Juicy orange/grapefruit citrus reminiscent of a hazy pale, but with a kind of buttery, brett-like funk over it. Finishes clean, just a touch uric. I imagine I wouldn't always be in the mood for this but today it was very nice.

More in the vein of a wheat IPA, dry and citrus, with a lighter ABV and flavor profile. Basically, not at all an American Hefe. Very drinkable, needed with the super salty takeout it accompanied.

Piney and fresh but with an abundance of pithy bitterness thqt borders on the acrid.

Very thin body, strong on caramel, rye whisky, bit of hop dankness at the end. Slightly dry on the finish; pumpkin, baked apple, caramel.

Cinnamon and apple smell, very fall. Light, fizzy, clean body and not too sweet.

It tastes better with the special moon landing labels.

Pleasant and fruity while also being a gose. Not my usual thing, but it was nice on a hot summer afternoon.

A light pale with a tangy lime brightness on top. Light hops and very clean. Surprisingly, the second very good Elysian beer I've had in a row. I'd gotten used to thinking of them as having gotten a bit uninspired.

Very mellow for an IPA, with a lightly sweet, very pleasant and not at all boring flavor. Surprising and tasty!

A light, sweet lager-like beer with more than a little fruit on top, slightly tangy and ... I think pretty clearly a peach flavor? It was definitely the better beer of the two.

Mellow, caramel barleywine with a good underpinning of whiskey. There's some vegetal, cider-like tartness, from the pumpkin? that just balances everything out nicely. This is a bit more simplistic than some other standouts in this category (Rumking anyone?) but it was very, very tasty.

Simple and sweet. Pretty good, as usual.

A more standard IPA with some rindy bitterness. Not as good as the fresh hop.

Quite tasty.

Not too sweet, lots of spirit flavor. This seems much, much stronger than this beer used to be, and the numbers seem to back it up (server said this was 11+%!).

Sweet helles funk. Sharp hop bitterness and plenty of resin. The smell gets more strongly funky over time.

Light IPA with cucumber and melon notes. Very mild.

Lightly sour gose. Sweet finish. Faint, but present watermelon.

I think they do these every once in a while but still felt special because we got the insider connection. I've never seen it anywhere else, anyway.

I know somebody who works for Elysian now so of course it’s good.

I might have changed my mind on pumpkin beers after this one. It's not sweet but has enough sweet pumpkin to give it character but remains generally dry and bubbly.

The Ex-husband left me two bottles of his favorite pumpkin beer as a gift a few weeks ago. Roy thinks it tastes like metal and could be poisoned but I know I'm still worth more alive than dead, so this heavily spiced pumpkin ale just tastes a bit like non-poisonous metal.

A light, sweet, not too tart blueberry opening with sweet honey wheat notes. Juice-like with some cereal. Hides its strong (10+%) alcohol really, dangerously well. Glad it comes in a schooner, and for a great cause! ♀

An IPA which is pretty much your standard northwest hop-fest. Opening is pleasant and seems well balanced with pine and fruit, but lots of alpha on the finish turns me off a bit.

Surprisingly good, with a sharp pineapple flavor, tinged sour with habanero, moving into a sour, bitter finish with some malt smoothing out the character and reminding you that this is a beer. I was afraid this would be fruitier, or sweeter, both of which would have been minuses. As it is, it's a sour I can easily imagine finishing a bottle of, which says something.

A resinous pale with... well, the coffee blends in a little too well with the alpha hop bitterness, to the point that it's hard to tell where one begins and one ends. Sweet, too. None of this made for a super-pleasant beer.

Creamy, lightly sweet, malty beer with definite-but-not-overboard pie spice presence. Very lightly fruity, or is that the pumpkin? An easy drinking option, and cheap.

Peculiar grape juice smell? Very peculiar taste. Some kind of weird grape sourness maybe? Maybe some ashes flavors?

A lactic sweetness on this, tasting a bit like a pumpkin spice milkshake. That was a promising start. But there's something artificial-tasting about that sweetness, kind of like candy sour sugar.

Spicy dark warm aroma, like a molasses cookie. Dry stout start, pumpkin spiced finish.

Cold brew coffee smell. Acidic fizzy beginning bite, toasted toasty short bitter finish. Coffee malt body.

Not very bloody orange. Not terribly great...

Great mix of smoke and a slight coffee note. Not at all over powering. A true hard hitting, yet smooth, stout.

Somewhere between a pale ale and a kölsch, with a bit of fruity, yeasty tang and what seems like fragrant dry-hopping, closing with cereal sweetness and pilsner-like bitterness.

Citrus yeast hop smell. Tangy cereal taste, moderate hop finish.

A bourbon-barreled... pilsner? Well, I had to try it. It's not much like a pilsner, although there's plenty of bourbon, which plays with the yeast to make an almost fruity flavor. I thought it might have been a pale ale at first, but the absurdly clean, slightly bitter finish went in another direction.

Smells like a crisp evergreen mountain. Good dimensional bitterness from start to finish but ending lingers like resin. Mild pleasant cereal sweetness.

Woah, this was bad :/ The resinous hops bitterness is too powerful and unpleasant. I'm also getting a pretty strong iron flavor. Bleeeh. Gets worse as you drink it.

Way more resinous than I would expect from a standard pale. If you'd called this a single IPA it would have probably been appropriate. Even so, this had a strange metallic tinge and a lot of bitterness - making it not very enjoyable.

Bright green-hop smell, almost cedar in quality, mango qualities. Solid cereal body, faint sweetness, with pleasing fruity bitterness.

Reminiscent of cinnamon graham crackers; sweet and spiced. I think I may be done with holiday beers, because I actually felt a real sense of letdown on getting those flavors.

Sweet and pumpkiny. Boozy, I think, but who can tell anymore?

The description still seems apt, but somehow I was much more in the mood to enjoy this today. Funny how these things can be so finely tuned.

A gloriously strong IPA with a hint of sweetness at the finish. Love hops? You'll love this!

So glad you are back, even if it is briefly.

Interesting take on winter ale. Fruity and hints of sweetness. Just the right amount of hops on the finish.

Slight tacky finish. Good sweetness but finishing spice mix sticks around a bit.

This is so different every time I try it. In the context of this site tasting, out was actually nice.

I'm not going to lie, the color of this beer was really unappetizing - somewhere between pepto-bismol and melted watermelon Jolly Rancher. Flavorwise it wasn't bad, but if you asked me I'd probably pin it as a berry grapefruit soda. I need more wheat in a Berliner Weisse to remind me it's a beer.

Gingerbread smell. Thin waterish body and cinnamon taste.

Cinnamon and clove smell. Tangy, spiced, and malty middle. Flat finish.

Pleasant spiced coffee aroma. Moderately strong spice on from of the taste and warm cinnamon and nutmeg finish. Meaty cereal body and pleasant coffee bitterness.

Very smooth, full bodied, a nice spiced flavor

Didn't get any of the smoke that I tasted so strongly on draft, and instead got just a total cinnamon bomb.

First impression is of a pumpkin spice latte in a beer, strong, nutmeggy, & sweet. Not bad, but after a while the coffee begins to take on a murky, thin quality of dishwater, which was not a welcome turn of events.

Cinnamon, a bit too thin, bitter finish.

Pumpkin spiced latte as beer. Very sweet, a bit thin

Smoke and spice. Didn't work for me.

Light, hoppy blonde. The aftertaste to me tasted like celery seed, and I just couldn't get past that.

An odd experience in that it tastes considerably better if you chug it. Otherwise it tastes like hop juice with no real body.

Berry beers never seem to work out for me.

Coriander-heavy wit with good wheat flavor and subtle citrus tang. Nothing exciting, but pretty good.

Subtle strawberry-hopped aroma. Luckily out doesn't taste strongly of strawberries, the fruit flavor comes out as a thin aftertaste like as if eating strawberry leaves gets you some strawberry flavor. Tangy finish. Middling body.

Clean, lager-like cereal flavor, with some fruity hop juice character as counterpoint. Dry, bitter finish. Quite tasty, I thought!

Thick, puree like appearance, but it feels a lot lighter in practice. Flavor is more grapefruit than strawberry, with a strong pithy bitter finish.

Smells a touch fruit-musty in a non-identifiable way, and far more sour than it actually tastes, which is to say: not at all. Fruity and sweet, with some Brett funk, and no bitterness, and totally believable as persimmon. That was good. The knock is that it's a bit too sweet.

I don't know what to say about this. It's beer.

I don't always drink sour. But when I do, I make it Woo Tang.

Good, tart sour. Just light and effervescent otherwise, no highlights that I can detect. I'll note, the scent is almost pure sourdough. Which is somewhat odd.

Um. Very disturbing. But it happened to catch me in a transitional phase so I'll just say that it's the tyranny of evil men and I'm a 9mm.

AHHHHHHH! IT BURNS.

I felt like I needed the bell bottoms.

Citrus and resin lead, with enough malt to keep the bitterness at bay to it finishes a bit on the bitter side of clean.

Still one of the tastiest beers around

Tropical fruit and citrus smell and taste. Malts round it out and give a nice medium body, low bitterness.

Citrusy pale ale, fresh citrus.

Slight hopiness

Amazing beer! Hits you with intense hop flavor then smooth's out to a soft lush finish with no bitterness. Also..that label!

Smells like passion fruit. Citrusy hops with bitter finish.

Tropical fruit smell, passion-pineapple, with a fresh, spicy hop flavor, dry body and clean, moderately bitter finish. Reminded me a lot of Six Degrees of Collaboration, but maybe a little fruitier.

On tap this had a much more overt cereal malt finish than I remembered from the bottle. Still dry, still very fresh tasting, still tasty.

Starts off tasting a lot like a raspberry ginger ale - not bad, but an odd flavor for a beer. Almost immediately you get a strong hit of dank, medicinal bitterness that lingers a long while. All of this contributes to more of an IPA feel than a brown ale. Still, it was surprisingly drinkable, although really, really weird.

The ginger and berry starts okay, but ends with an unpleasant bitter.

Not quite the barrel aged.

So good I had it twice.

Oh, yum. Basic Dragonstooth with well-integrated whiskey and barrel flavors. Like the Dragonstooth itself, it's much lighter than you'd expect from a barrel aged imperial stout with a slight acidity in the flavor and a clean finish.

Very dry flavor, almost overtly sour, with some India rubber-like peppery overtones. It's not terrible, but the weirdness makes it suffer badly in comparison to the other dark beers in this flight.

Nice roast malt flavor. Too thin? Too thick!? Usually in a porter you're afraid of what you'll get, but this was neither - perfect mouthfeel. Flavor is good but nothing remarkable, but who cares? It does what it does, and very well.

It's not watery, but it's a one-note bitter pilsner. The main thing it did was make me enjoy the Hombre even more.

This was a good lunch

Dishwater

I guess this is the house beer at Poquitos? Good cereal body with a slightly sweet corn flavor. Light in flavor, but with a rounded tang at the end that was quite appealing. And the fact that it wasn't watery automatically makes it better than any other Mexican lager I've ever had.

I regret nothing

Corn sweet body. Resinous moderate bitter finish. Not complex.

Extremely fragrant, fresh tasting session IPA, tending to the fruity side without being syrupy. A small hit of pithy bitterness at the finish but it goes away fast. Really, really pleasant.

Never again.

Omg cumin why

Pretty much exactly what you'd expect a Session IPA made by this group to be. There's distinct but not overwhelming hop flavors shining through making this earn the "IPA" title, but not so much that a non-IPA fan would dislike it. This is a Session IPA (emphasis on IPA) done right. Not the deepest flavors, but good for what it is.

So much jasmine.

Solid stout, good flavor if a bit watery + not a ton of depth in the flavor.

Smells great -- fruity and fresh. Tastes really subdued compared to that. I know that sounds completely different than last time. Who knows?

Much less umami than 21st Amendment's Marooned on Hog Island, there's a faint salty brininess that comes across more as charcoal and a spicy bite. So from that standpoint it was disappointing, but it wasn't bad overall.

Didn't love this one. Nothing particularly wrong with it, but not a fan of whatever hop varietal they used. They were bitter without having any great hop flavor.

Great milk coffee flavor, not too sweet. Exactly what it claims to be, which is better than I expected.

Great sweet malt body with pleasant cereals. No off finish, just some mild hops.

Creamy medium bodied stout, not surprising given its lineage, with great bourbon barrel character. The only problem was a high-and-dry burnt bitterness that seemed strongly out of balance. But enjoyable nonetheless.

Light and crispy sweet body with warm peppery hop finish.

Smells a bit sweet-funky, Tastes sweet malt with a sort of light peach-honey character. Spicy hopped finish.

Every time I drink this beer, the Seahawks win. It's only weird if it doesn't work.

Seemed better than last time, even though this can came from the same box.

The most pumpkin-beery beer of the flight, with a good mix of pie spice and pumpkin complementing the light Belgian base. Definitely tasty, but the body was really thin & I found myself wishing for a little more... something. Slightly bitter on the finish.

Tart and refreshingly fruity, starts a bit like a pumpkin cider and then ends with an assertive citric bite. And nicely, the pumpkin character seems to come from pumpkin and not pie spice. Very clean and yummy!

People, they are not joking around about the cucumber here. The smell and taste open all cucumber seed, high and bitter (maybe also from the spices used), finishing slightly tart and dry. The overall impression is of an IPA where the bitterness and florality come from cucumber instead of hops.

A lavender pumpkin saison? You know I had to try this. The scent is identifiably lavender, but not overwhelming (thank goodness!) and mixes well into a apricot-like fruitiness. Dry saison fits the overall character, which finishes clean and tastes subtly of malt. But where's the pumpkin?

What I'd call a spiced stout. I'm not convinced yet that you can have a dark beer with what I'd call a meaty, recognizable pumpkin character. But you can definitely spice a beer, to varying success. This one was middling-to-enjoyable.

A decent strong pumpkin ale, with a bit too much of spice to really have a chance to shine.

I wanted to like this so much, but the ginger was overt to a medicinal degree and mingled with the pilsner grassiness to form a kind of herbaceous, shampoo-like Voltron of disappointment.