Light piney pale ale with a dry, bitter backbone. Faint resin aftertaste but largely clean.

Starts lemon pine and gets deeply pungent very quickly. Murky, resinous and finishes with almost a numbing tingle on the tongue, and yet this is much more compelling than this type of beer would normally be for me. Reminds me of that old Stone Belgian IPA with its pepperiness and yeasty bitterness.

Pretty much an exemplar of the kind of hazy IPA I like. Clearly primarily hoppy, light hints of fruit (citrus, pineapple) and a mellow cereal finish. Bitterness is subtle, but does build.

My favorite beer of the night, although you'd have to be into the idea of something unusual. A mellow apple flavor crossed with a cloudy cereal funk, with a lot of barrel/wood to smooth it out really nicely at the end.

Like Apple-y beer.

Fruit, pine, citrus

Piney, fruity IPA, clean with just a hint of sweetness up front and then a fizzy, dry, but Bale Breaker-typical bright followthrough. Just a hint of cereal, which was the right amount. Really tasty.

Reallly tasty, orange-citrus fruitiness and some juicy hop flavor. Just a touch of resin but otherwise not bitter at all.

Pine and sweet cereal, an IPA flavor profile I like. However, there’s a bit of rubber-tree bitterness that intrudes more and more over time.

Opens chocolate and roast, but very quickly ends up with creeping hop florality and a strong sense of licorice. The combination makes for a rising acrid bitterness that gets worse over time, by the end I just gave up.

Smooth Irish whiskey notes but with a bit of a funky, tart "infected barrel" kind of overtone, mixing with some hop dankness to kind of muddy the flavor a bit. Probably intentional, and it wasn't bad by any means, but it gave me some Big Block flashbacks and I didn't love it.

Quite hoppy, if you told me this was a CDA I would have believed you. Dry, roast with mellow, slightly chalky chocolate. I really didn't taste the Jameson at all but the White Chocolate could very well have burnt my taste buds.

Next to all the sour flavors, this came out almost bracingly acrid. Settled down over time but I definitely didn't enjoy this near as much as usual.

Pure resin. I'm sure a lot of folks I know would love this beer, but me not so much.

Absolutely delicious. Very dry brett bitterness, a vinous, fruity grape middle and clean cereal to finish. This was like a better, much cleaner Pour les Oiseaux, which was a beer I used to love very much.

Listen, I wasn't looking forward to this and it blew my expectations out of the water. A superbly balanced, light IPA, with Bale Breaker's typically fragrant approach to hopping. The mango is not sweet or syrupy at all, just somehow a bright, fruity, realistic, essence-of-mango. I mean, drop the mic. This worked.

A delicious IPA, round citrus and pine without being too sweet, super mellow finish. No bitterness at all. Not a surprise, from these two breweries. More like this, please.

Fragrant, fresh-tasting, piney IPA, not bitter or pithy at all.

What I'd expect from this brewery - bright, fresh hop flavors but also refreshing and super-drinkable. Light bubblegum and pine, with a fruity/wood resin finish totally without pith or bitterness.

Roast coffee, nutty, somewhat savory. Not.bitter, smooth, slightly uric finish.

Very fresh hops, yet it is drinkable. If bet people who like this sort of thing really would .I just think it's fine.

Awesome pale with hints of pine on the nose and finish!

Cold. Crisp. A lovely IPA with no bitterness. Clean finish.

A taster. Malty-sweet resinous IPA. If there's spice in here it's hard to tell because it goes straight to pithy bitterness almost immediately and stays that way.

Light pumpkin ale in the vein of a Night Owl, but with a good, vegetal pumpkin presence and well-balanced spice. Some hop presence to balance everything out. I think Bale Breaker knows what it's doing here!

Very nice cereal body and pleasant bitterness. Hints of pine.

Smell and taste are mainly citrusy, some tropical fruits. Lighter body, hint of bitterness.

Stylewise, I want some more cereal body in a pale ale, so expectations ding this a bit. More like a dry session IPA in the vein of Stone's Go To in flavor, this is actually quite good for what it is. Next time I'm in the mood I'll go into it with no preconceptions and it will, I'm sure, rate better.