Wingman Brewers

Commercial Brewery | Tacoma, WA, United States of America

Vital Statistics

Beers

Overall average: 54 (logged 24 times)
Wingman Ace IPA: 75 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Wingman Beazle ESB
English Pale Ale / Bitter
Wingman Black Currant Saison
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
Wingman Blood Orange Brett IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Wingman Brux 2 the Cu Cucumber Farmhouse Ale: 46 (logged 2 times)
Wild Ale
Wingman Coconut P-51 Porter: 35 (logged 6 times)
Porter
Wingman Kewl Hand Cuke: 75 (logged 2 times)
Wild Ale
Wingman Lime Gose: 75 (logged 1 time)
Göse
Wingman Maori Warrior ISA
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Wingman Mighty HighPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Wingman Miss-B-Haven Tripel
Belgian Tripel Ale
Wingman P-51 Porter: 25 (logged 1 time)
Porter
Wingman PB&J P-51 Porter: 67 (logged 1 time)
Porter
Wingman Peanut Butter Cup P-51 Porter: 71 (logged 4 times)
Porter
Wingman Pocket Aces 2x IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA (Imperial / Double)
Wingman Prop Wash IPA: 67 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
Wingman Smores P-51 Porter: 42 (logged 1 time)
Porter
Wingman Stratofortress Aged on Cedar Planks
Belgian Strong Dark Ale (Aged on Wood Chips, Rum)
Wingman Tacoma Common Ale
California Common / Steam Beer
Wingman The Queen's Peach: 52 (logged 4 times)
Fruit Beer
Wingman Wit
Witbier

Logs for beers from this brewery

Sour base like the other P-51s, a little smoky, although that's balanced out really well by the peanut butter and especially raspberry notes in the mix. It manages to taste dessert-like without being actually very sweet. It's not superb, but it's interesting and enjoyable enough.
Can at Home
The server assured me this wouldn't be sour like the other P-51s. The server was wrong. I mean, it wasn't as bad as I remember, slightly sour, slightly burnt. Otherwise decent smores flavors on top, but still not great.
Mildly sour, mildly salty gose with an appealing lime pucker. Another good beer from Wingman after an initial disappointing stretch.
Pleasant-enough citrus IPA. Moderately bitter hop finish. Bright character. Didn't buy a bottle after the sample.
A sample at Whole Foods. Surprisingly good, malty and yeasty like an unfiltered Kolsch with clear but not overwhelming cucumber flavors. Didn't taste overt brett, the funk was pleasantly normal. I guess the main thing is that I bought a bottle right after trying this.
Sharp but deep dark chocolate and roasted peanut smell. Acidic taste starts the mood and lingers a bit before the bitters of chocolate and a mild peanut flavor start to develop. Surprisingly acidic.
Bottle
The problem is you don't get any of this cucumber on the nose so you think you're just drinking a Belgian beer, but then you taste it and whoa! Someone spilled cucumber water into my beer!
Very light, some banana esters mixing with a light essence of cucumber. Touch of yeasty funk on the back. A lot of the recent cucumber beers I've had have a similar flavor profile - I'd love to see one that incorporates citrus someday. But this was fine.
Smells great, almost unnaturally coconutty. Smooth coconut flavor to body and solid bitter finish.
Bottle
The peanut butter flavors are interesting but you can tell the underlying porter has some flaws. It's bitterness is annoying and it carries a sour and somewhat metallic flavor.
I didn't know what to look forward to here, because the other P-51's have been horrifyingly bad. So this turned into a really nice surprise: lots of peanut butter candy aroma and flavor, which spreads out over the tongue in an appropriately oily fashion. It really cuts the sour aspect of the base porter, which is still clearly there but with, well, grossness neutralized. Not quite as good as other peanut butter beers I've had, but still solidly enjoyable.
Excellent subtle fruit notes compliment this hop foward ipa. Excellent beer!
Can
Smells hugely of peach, so much so that I was almost expecting the flavor of a sour ale and was slightly shocked when it wasn't tart at all. I think that may have ruined me for this beer, because it tasted weak from that point on. There are some nice scotch ale-like malt notes that unfortunately never seem to meld with the peach flavors. Not bad, though.
Peachy cereal smell. Tangy peachy taste.
Acidic start and metallic taste. Coconut middle taste and finish but the bitter metallic taste distracts too much from it. It's a clean taste for sure but with a thin body it's hard to find something remarkable.
Bottle
It was pretty sour and a little burnt. I normally don't like sour beers, but I didn't mind it this time.
A very unpleasant sourness.
Unusually sour in the foretaste along with burnt notes. Ashtray water comes to mind. Slight coconut and a burnt bitterness follow and build up over time. It takes a lot to make coconut gross for me, but this one nailed it.
Might have been a bad batch, but there was a really tart yeast that made it hard to taste anything else. Not so bad that it was for sure a bad batch, they might just have a really bad yeast selection.
Can at Pool