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Not as cherry as other cherry red beers but good otherwise.

A middling quad with a little more clove than I loved. But not bad.

A light, dry lime bitterness at the start which fades into a thinnish, clean, cereal blonde ale finish. Slightly salty.

Very much cranberry juice at its heart, super fruity with a gradually drying finish. Some lingering sweet juice prevents this from finishing totally clean, but it's quite tasty, if not super-complex.

Excellent sour, vinous white grape fruit and sour, assertively round. Fades away very cleanly. Delightful beer, and a step up from the cranberry which was already very good.

Natural to compare this to the Hope. It's less tart, less fruity, less mellow. Hop juice is the dominant flavor, and there's a yeasty bitterness at the top of the flavor that offsets the slight tartness.

Slightly tart, white grape like fruit. Finishes with some very faint Belgian notes of white pepper and banana. Pleasant enough.

Building on similar flavors of the Biru Sencha, though this one is overlaid with some considerable yeast funk. First sniff is a little off-putting, but the end effect isn't bad. Lingering aftertaste is slightly smoky.

Slightly sweet Helles-like beer with a slightly fruity curl at the end. Green tea comes in a grassy, faintly smoky way that fits right in with the lager flavor. Really nice.

Mild not quite tart cranberry. It's fine

Dry, tart-but-fruity beer, with a flavor very reminiscent of champagne but with some wheat funk underneath it all. Clean finish. Another really good beer from Mollusk!

A really appealing sour; medium but clear tang, some wheat sweetness, but counterpointed by the dry, somewhat bitter funk of the brett. The sweetness lingers a bit in the throat which is the only thing that keeps it from being perfectly clean. But very enjoyable!

Rooty, flat, fruity. A little weird.

This one was much harder to get into - the smell is very weird, almost turned. Definitely sour. Not a whole lot off from an Oud Bruin style beer, but there is definitely some additional funk here. The flavor as it warmed up became quite agreeable and by the end I think I quite enjoyed it overall.

Base is a typical Euro black lager, medium thin in body, but with some strongly roasted coffee notes. There's also a bit of a strange spice bite that might be attributed to the squid ink (but I have absolutely no idea, not having had squid ink before). Unusual and pretty tasty.

Surprisingly good. Medium sour, slightly funky with a mellow unsweetness that was very much like roasted parsnips, if you squinted. Mollusk is definitely hit or miss, but I think they hit on this one.

A murky stout, slightly savory, lots of roast. Not noticeably umami, at least not in balance with the other flavors -- more smoke than oyster. Not bad, but I've definitely had better oyster stouts.

Weird, woody and rooty. Not at all summery from my taste. Mollusk does some weird stuff sometimes, and this one counts as weird.

A coffee-like brown with some whiskey notes. There's some good caramel overtones but a very dry flavor and a moderate bitterness kind of gives this an edge. Would be interesting to see how this ages.

This smells sour, and definitely tastes sour. Not sure how this could be classified a wit, other than having an obvious sweet wheat funk on the finish. It's more like a sour saison, with a solid if not overpowering sourness and mild coconut water-like flavors mellowing out the edge. Still, aside from the style weirdness this was pretty tasty.

By far the beetier of the two beers. This was about exactly like drinking a beet salad, with a sharp vinaigrette flavor and a sweet, super-earthy beet follow through. I think I liked this? But it was hard to imagine I was drinking a beer while I was doing it.

Pungent sour odor. Clean acidic fizzy taste with some metallic qualities, like a beet soda but without the sweetness.

Tons of banana in both the nose and front. Finishes slightly tart but not overwhelming so.

This wasn't bad at all, but it was very confusing. I couldn't pin down this style at all. On the one hand, it was similar to all the other beers in the flight, but with a slightly off-kilter balance. Maybe that was the buckwheat... but who knows? Maybe one to explore on its own.