Canned October 2018. This beer smells amazing, smooth pina colada and maybe a hint of cola, but the flavor is quite dense, intensely roasty and umami in a way that ends up being off-putting very quickly. The pineapple and coconut counteract it fairly effectively but the beer still finishes very tacky in the throat.
Really nice, sweet wit, with a hint of citrus and ginger giving this a kind of ethnically ambiguous, exotic flavor. Oddly, I thought it seemed coriandery, although the website seems to imply it wasn't used. From the yeast? And I usually don't like coriander-heavy wits, so maybe it was something else after al.
After the others, this one tasted distinctly whiskey-like (others didn't think so, though). The lemon was a bit jarring after three lime beers, but after a while this settled down nicely, I thought. Less sour than the others.
More intensely sour than the others, probably accentuated by the salt. Very puckering. Nice flavor though, although I didn't necessarily get a whole lot of tequila or barrel in the flavor.
Best one of the lot, I thought. Complex gose, quite tart, but with an almost coconutty smooth finish, maybe from the mint, maybe from the sugar notes on the rum. Really, really good.
Chandler brought in a tasting flight of four Westbrook sours, and this was the one that wasn't barrel aged. I liked drinking this a lot, although the flavor is more straight lime juice than it is beer. Malt and salt were just hints rather than actual flavor components. A nice palate-setter for the rest, though.
A sweet spiced chocolaty stout with a thick character. The habanero comes in at the finish and is moderately strong, building up to a nice heat. Still, I'm not sure the habanero was completely necessary or even helpful overall to the flavor profile. Or maybe I'd just had too many at this point.