Wanted to try a house beer. Coffee, vanilla, thick, only lightly sweet, but with a heck of a lot of roast bitterness that builds and builds and makes it hard to enjoy more than a taste of this beer.
If this is a pilsner at heart, either the tartness of the blood orange or some dry hopping have masked it considerably. A tart-resinous flavor with just a hint of finishing cereal and funk. Crisp, this isn't, but in a different mood this could have been a lot more successful for me. OBVIOUSLY the can art is excellent.
On the dark side for an old ale, with many similar characteristics to the Enegren. Still, this was a bit roastier, bitter, toffee-like, so it was a little harder to enjoy at the end of a night of drinking.
Dry, lambicky, curly sour beer. Beet is there but more like a faint overtone than a dominant flavor, due to the sharp tartness and funk. Good but I'll stick with the small pour.
You can tell from the smell that this beer is not as advertised. This is another IPL in disguise, with a slightly toasted barley character that is overwhelmed by what tastes like hop syrup. Concentrated resin and a thick, bitter finish, and more than a little metallic.
Tastes like a wood fireplace crossed with a touch of sweet coffee. A little too much smoke for me -- either it needed some more thickness or less of the wood.
It smelled wonderful, and fresh, and fragrant, but the flavor just couldn't live up to it. This had everything I dislike about both saisons and IPAs (alcoholic flavor, lingering bitter finish) without very much in the other direction.