There's a tinge of the sourness that usually afflicts these beers but for once it's just background noise and easily balanced by the chocolate and roast of the stout. It's still not something I'd go out of my way for, but maybe there's hope.

Not bad at all, somewhere between an American Hefe and a Kolsch, estery and buttery, with a big, bright hit of juicy pineapple. It’s on the edge of syrupy but not bad at all.

I don't know if this is the same as the old Nut Brown so I'm logging it separately for now. This is a very solid brown, with a toasty, dry cracker character.

Less toasty than the brown, slightly fruity on the nose. Finishes bitter. This is hoppy for a Scotch ale.

Briefly tastes like a pilsner but gets very hoppy very quickly. I'd say this ventures clearly into IPA territory. It's especially bitter on the back end, but I guess I do taste honey?

Prickly and acrid. I guess you have to go somewhere if the Boss was already where an IPA usually is.

Once again, this was quite sour, Flanders-like, but with a brightness that is IMO off-putting. Bears no resemblance at all to the Brown Ale in this flight, which is what I'd hoped for. I don't know why I keep taking chances with the barrel aged beers here; they've all been like this.

Okay I get the idea of making this moon sour… it really brings out the raspberry. But I’m not sure I like it?

Blonde ale first with a light berry flavor on top. Not tart at all.

Quite tart, very passion fruit. Finishes clean although with a bit of cereal funk to make it more interesting than one-note.

Fool me twice. Sour, vinegar-like, burnt sugar/caramel. Buffalo Trace barrels used, we preteneded the first time that it was a wine barrel and we could excuse the taste, or something went wrong, but now I have to assume this flavor is by design.

Just a good solid kolsch, even if it is a bit on the sweet, uncomplicated side. At this point I'll take uncomplicated.

Opens with a really rounded ruby red grapefruit flavor but very quickly gets super dank, to the point where I started thinking of armpits. That's not a good place to be when you're drinking a beer.

Opens with a lemony pine but gets unusually dry really fast, almost salty. Weirdly, after the grapefruit IPA this one tastes more like grapefruit.

Kind of a watery cola opening, pretty thin mouthfeel. Finishes pretty strong in both bitterness and an almost smoky roast.

A little simplistic, sweet. Water fruit. Detergent finish? A bit of that rubbery, acrid bitterness.

Sweet, smooth, a little uric. Leaves the tongue a little tingly. Bitter finish. Pretty standard, decent lager.

Sweet, slightly rooty, caramel amber. Simplistic, but ok.

Caramel, smooth. Bitter finish.

Watery and rooty, which isn’t helped by nitro. A big disappointment after the Holy Mountain earlier today.

Bright, unexpected pineapple notes up front. Finishes with a buttery cereal that becomes a bit of a funky bitterness on the back end

Tart blackberry opening moved to a cloudy sweetness. Finish is a bit weird, a bit rubbery?

Either this was wine-barreled or Big Block's barrels are infected. Given I've just tried their plain scotch ale and with my memory of both the plain RIS and barrel-aged Scotch Ale, the barrel-aged beers come out extremely sour and funky, just a bit more than Bellevue's similar-tasting results. Fine if you imagine wine, terrible if you imagine bourbon.

Not a scotch ale, but decent as a sour.

This was in no way a Scotch ale. It was much more like an Oud Bruin, sour, maybe a hint of caramel. Definitely weird for what I was expecting, and I wasn’t alone in this opinion.

Belgiany vinegar to sour. Scotch ale? Acrid finish.

Don't taste Pineapple at all. Pithy/grassy bitterness but otherwise mild.

Easy-drinking dark ale; a good roastiness giving way to notes of dark chocolate. Thin body.

Slight honey graham opening. Pleasant, biscuity flavor, but finishes quite bitter, and together with the somewhat flat texture added up to a "meh."

Translucent porter with a thinnish, somewhat watery body. Mildly roasted with some distinct licorice notes and a rooty flavor that might be from hops or something else but which gave a weird medicinal, Chinese-herb character to the beer.

Definitely hoppier than I was looking for at the moment. Pretty good flavor, but not enough time to explore more as I was shopping for something specific.

Musty, yeasty ale, and the tartness of the blood orange didn't really help matters. Very little freshness of flavor to balance this out.

A solid imperial stout on the roastier side; kind of the logical end of the progression of beers in this flight. Sweet, but maybe a bit strongly alcoholic in flavor.

Maybe my palate was off? But this seemed unusually dry and tart to open. The finish was delightful, with smooth cereal. But that opening was just weird. I'd like to try this again on another occasion.

Standard nut brown character, with a bit of yeast funk bringing the nutty flavor in. Smooth and very drinkable. So far this brewery has hit all the right notes.

It's not mentioned anywhere, but this beer has a very pronounced coffee & cream flavor, and it's a good coffee. This is in the general neighborhood of a Sump in terms of excellent coffee stouts, even if it doesn't quite reach that level.

Assertive body, coffee aftertaste.