Really quite a good stout, light, creamy coffee-noted, with just a hint of effervescent cola-like flavors right as the beer starts going down the throat. One of the better beers I've ever had here.
Very decent Oktoberfest. Slightly perfumey; this may just be something of a common character for this brewery. Suffered a bit from the Cubs losing at the moment I was drinking it.
Quite hoppy, a fresh-tasting IPA with some extra spice on top from the rye. Tasted a lot more alcoholic than its < 5% ABV would predict, so it wasn't super-quaffable in my opinion. From the name I was hoping for something with a little more cereal to round out the flavor.
Thinnish porter body with a strong, sweet-ish coffee sheen and some prickly roast flavors. Underneath there was a hint of sourness, which might be from the English ale yeast that was used. I'd call this a solid coffee porter.
This tasted like a firmly boozier version of the hopper, which threw it out of balance for me. I didn't think the other flavors were proportionately made stronger to compensate.
I had a hard time pinning down the flavor here. The owner said this also used English ale yeast, and maybe that was throwing me off a little. I'd say -- hoppy, fragrant, a touch of caramel roast on top. Similar hint of booze to the Pale. I never wrapped my head around this, so this suffered a little compared to the others.
Dry session IPA flavors, with lots of hop fragrance but not much noticeable malt. A bit of booziness pokes through, but this was still nicely balanced in flavor. Some prickliness from the amarillos. I preferred the Blonde, but this was a good backup.
Trying out the new brewery in Kirkland - very friendly! This was the best of the flight - a bit of yeasty tartness, like a Kölsch (and I'm told it started out as a Kölsch recipe), but with nice hop fragrance from the dry hopping. The only one of the beers to have a strong cereal finish, and this was a nice one. Very tasty.