Roast, chocolate, strong alpha hop bitterness that lingers. Something a little burnt as well.

Caramel, tacky, lightly sweet. Pretty balanced.

Fizzy, spice-forward. More caramel than roast, the impression is almost like a root beer.

A generally-mild tasting IPA with a very pungent apricot/resin nose and finish. Definitely gives the impression of an oily aromatic layer coating the surface of the beer.

Really nice, actually! A touch of dried fruit, cinnamon, some herbal bitterness, but also a drinkable, light, porter at heart. I think I prefer this to the more naked spice character of the Festivus.

In context, this was a very weird followup to the other beers. The increased fruity hop character was jarring. Lots of caramel. Definitely prickly.

Very nicely balanced, roasty stout. There's a vegetal/earthy coffee base here with a sweet cream finish. I don't know if you can taste purple, but aside from that (this just looks like a stout) it did make me think of an ube latte for sure.

Sweet, tart, jammy, with a butter cookie-like aftertaste. Very much tastes like the filling of a blueberry pastry.

Caramel, lightly roasted. Coffee. Carbonation's a bit spiky, but this is really pleasant to drink with a very dry finish.

Can't believe they served this in a pint glass.

Juicy and lightly fruity; apricot and citrus. Mild cereal finish.

This 100% Real Carbonated Beer was 100% that. it was better than Hite even. in fact, my new standard when thinking about ordering a beer is now, this MF better be carbonated and it sure as hell better be real.

Solid export stout although it's probably not as hopped as the style might demand. It's yummy, though.

Caramel, light flavor, what you probably want from a dark lager. Honestly, my taste buds are probably completely burnt out by now.

Light, almost watery, but not quite. Decent example of a simulated macro lager. I liked it, but I bet there would have been more nuance in this if this wasn't where it was in the order tonight! Will have to try again.

Cacao, a hint of coconut. Much thinner than some of these other bombs. A really nice change.

Molasses, sugar, dates. Raisin. A little too sweet.

Caramel, plum, spice. I'm running out of nuance in my taste buds, but this is delicious.

Cacao bomb. Sweet and thick. But quite tasty.

Smells like vinegar but the taste is actually not so sour. Masa and salt... definitely getting a tortilla chip quality here.

Sour and berry-like. I don't like raspberries, and this does taste significantly like raspberries (despite the fact that this is labeled as a blackberry lambic).

Jet says this tastes like a Christmas tree and I can't disagree. It's like spruce tips and hps without any of the bitterness or resin. I cannot remember what Anchor's Holiday Ale tasted like but this is good.

Grapey, a bit bitter, vinous, funky. Really delicious!

Very tart, but clean. Passion fruit forward. Puckery.

Tastes like a very nice coffee golden ale; not sure if I strongly detect pumpkin--and if there's spice, it's subdued--but maybe it's there in the fruity/sweet character.

Oversweet, intense vanilla is the leading flavor. Very thick. Not surprising for this brewery, but yeah.

Very sweet, boozy, mellow and buttery coconut, but this is definitely candy-like.

Thick, milky, light coffee. A bit too sweet, maybe. Finshes somwhere clean but with a sense of evaporated milk.

A good czech lager that takes me right back to Wenceslas Square Aaaahhhhhh the sweet acrid smoke from the klobasa stands and $1 gallons of beer….

So mellow but just a tad of spice in there to make it lively. Perfect for a cold December night. Reminds one of the brighter days ahead. Liquid hope you might say.

Reminds me of sweet sweet sweetness.

It’s like I just brought home the christmas tree and there are pine needles all over the house and sap trailing from the garage all the way into the living room that I won’t get out until we sell the house years later. More bottle it and drink it.

Smells like Tabasco and tastes like watered down Sriracha

Musty but good

Creamy and affable.

wine barrel aging yes

The coffee-est and roastiest of the three barrel vintages. More chocolate as well. The last one was Scotchy, this one has the most bourbon-caramel character.

Not as peaty as I thought I detected in Kenmore the other day, but this still has the "Scotchiest" character of the flight.

The alcohol burn has very much mellowed out here, and it's still light in mouthfeel but with strength. I didn't get this one in the flight last weekend, so I feel very fortunate to have gotten a second chance.

A perfect coffee stout, lighter in mouthfeel than expected. Medium roast, lightly creamy.

Tastes a bit of soy sauce. Goes well with clam rice.

Woody and oily, slightly vinous. Quite dry. Nice finish: grape, buttery, clean.

Pretty agreeable for an IPA - lighter on the hops (maybe more floral than pine / citrus) and drier tasting.

Basic warm weather lager - easy drinking. Evidently they import to Japan

Very much like the 2023 but a little more raw, spiky, maybe a little more chocolate up-front. About as hoppy on the finish as the maple.

Roast, thin mouthfeel stout, whiskey and peat, almost? Very mellow, dark finish. Had the most subdued hop character of the three.

Caramel, sweet, just a tinge of smoke and a very present bourbon backing. Definitely a barley wine, with some hop fruit and round bitterness on the finish.

Pruney and dark, the opening resembles port or brandy rather than bourbon, but you get the latter about halfway through and then a sweet, liquor finish. Tacky finish, definitely strong.

Plummy and tacky, drying finish. Definitely feels like a very strong beer.

Extremely pungent, resinous, dry, woody. There are times when I appreciate a beer like this but I kind of wanted something drinkable?

Surprisngly simple for a Deschutes barrel-aged beer - but maybe that's just in comparison to the Baptista. I t's somewhat thin in mouthfeel with a sweet but not syrupy liquor-forward flavor. Some high-key bitterness in the finish.

You get a hit of that mezcal right up front - smoke, a little brine. This is otherwise a balanced stout, not too sweet, a bit tacky on the finish, with a mellow vanilla-chocolate flavor that results in a long finish. Strong!

Sweet coffee, not syrupy, a decent amount of pumpkin spice, but also a very vegetal component that might be the coffee bean, or maybe the pumpkin. Nice to taste real flavors though.

A nice Oktoberfest, sweet, a bit metallic, but there’s a juicy hop sheen that is a little off for me.

There's a disturbingly accurate Tootsie Roll quality about the flavor of this beer. I can't say it's bad, but it also doesn't really taste like Joe-Joe's either?

It's fine.

Bitter and effervescent

Not as awesome as I hoped, but fine.

Both a dry lager and a mildly sweet pumpkin ale, cola-like, lightly spiced. Very drinkable.

Indeterminate sour flavor, mellowed with buttery funk. But really nice.

Extreme strawberry jam character, with a tart finish. Has some funk but is primarily fruity. This all leads to a pleasing opening that becomes a bit hard to endure through an entire pint.

Sweet but drying, cloudy, cereal, brackish finish. This isn’t toasty, and the color is light to match - a wiesn maybe?

Quite nice - comes across more in the Kolsch camp than IPA. It's fragrant but not overly fruity; there's a lager-like turn to the flavor that finishes slightly uric. I liked it.

Very delicious. Not too sweet, just a hint of maple, a nut-butter overtone. You can definitely feel the strength over time but it's balanced, not over-the-top.

Blueberry-forward, slight butter-bitter funk. Evocative of pie.

Mellow sweet grapefruit, slightly herbal finish.

Definitely a Bavarian flavor profile, but decidedly less sweet (watery?) than expected.

Vinous, ultra-dry, apple-grape, butter-bitter finish. Just exactly the right amount of funk. Gorgeous beer.

Like an extra strong version of the Icicle Helles I had earlier today but with a touch more banana. Finishes dry, bitter, tacky.

Grassy, lightly sweet, somewhat buttery/tacky/metallic, it's been a while but I wouldn't be surprised if this was fairly similar to the Hofbräu Original Lager.

I admire that Urban Family is always around to do offbeat sours. This is characterisitically tart but otherwise light and festive. Not sure if there's anything specifically pumpkiny about this but the pie spice is light but present.

Bracing; clean; fragrant. Piney without any other over-the-top qualities. This was great!

There’s something really off-putting about the fragrance of this beer, it’s like vegetal and herbal and sour and bitter like a sanitary puck. Flavor-wise it’s … fine? Pine-lemon, acrid bitterness. But I can’t not smell it.

Banana, slightly smoky, sweet finish. Nice example of the style.

Lemon-pine, thin up front like a soda. Finishes more Pilsner-like, brackish, grassy.

Extremely sweet if not syrupy, but ironically, tastes like syrup. Bit of burnt sugar, caramel. The syrup character is so accurate that it feels tackled on, surely these didn’t ferment with the beer?

Spiced, dark, caramel. It’s a lot drier than I expected, finishes like dried stone fruit. Thin in body.

Lightly sweet, lightly smoky. Definitely less smoke than other rauchbiers I’ve recently had.

Don’t know if this was mislabeled but it felt way less than the listed 12.3%. There was, however, a bit of whisky on the nose. Fruity, mildly sweet ale.

Extremely creamy pour. Lightly sweet, caramel cream ale with just a hint of cold fizz at the end. Perfect for what I wanted.

Pine-lemon IPA with a cloudy flavor and mellow finish. Bought it because of the name; worked better than the Redhook IMO.

Peach, lemon, very mellow, surprisingly unbitter. Kind of found myself actually wanting this to be more of a hop bomb.

Pineapple-forward, juicy, slightly tangy going to a high herbal bitterness. Clean finish.

Orange, hop oil, intensely fruity aftertaste.

Started off great, a little murky, dark citrus, smooth finish. By the end though I felt like I was sucking on grapefruit rind.

Not that different from the Fresh Bois, a little more lemon, more bitter, uric tackiness. Pretty good but love the can.

Fragrant of melon, lightly sweet. Other than that, a bit like a malt soda, I could hardly detect alcohol.

Orange-forward and very not-bitter. Slightly drying finish with not much cereal at all.

Definitely a beer in the lemon-pine strata-sphere. But very good example of that. If I have any complaints it's that it's overwhelmingly in the juicy-fruity arena with not much counterbalance

It's deifnitely spice-heavy, so if that's not what you like about pumpkin beers you might want to avoid. But it does seem balanced by the overall strength of this beer for me. This might appeal more if you're in the mood for a spiced liquor rather than a beer though.

A much better experience than the Evasion. Bright, only a hint of orange, lots of banana, finishes spicy. Kind of wish there was a stronger orange quality but at least this tastes like a beer.

Only learned after the fact that this is a gluten-free brewery. Maybe that's why it's missing any trace at all of cereal? Starts with a perfumey orange-flavor, a little candy-like, and then proceeds straight into bitter oils. Did not like.

A nice, earthy coffee flavor up-front followed by caramel. I don't really like how this finishes though, very tacky and a bit metallic-tart.

Starts with Apple-hop dryness, finishes with pithy bitterness. I liked this, but a little less than the Lumberbeard.

Early pith bitterness, with a lemon-pine flavor that carries straight on through. Finished clean. Brian thinks the opposite though.

Light, chocolate, caramel. Really excellent. Enough barrel to show itself but not in your face.

Light and fragrant. There's the typical rice sweetness, but also a little more of a bitter edge than I was expecting for the style.

Bright up front, citron, pine, without that sweet lemon cleaner sheen. Finishes closer to the Kolsch than I was expecting: cereal, yeast. Very clean though.

Yeasty, lightly estery Kolsch, finishes with cereal funk. Just one step removed from an American hefe. There's not a traditional fresh hop sheen on this, but it does seem to give a clean, bright crest to the flavor wave.

Buttery, bitter, pine, dry.

Lager with a drying, apple/cereal opening. Very light, clean and tasty, but the opening salvo of flavor is welcome. It does get increasingly tacky in the finish as it goes on.

Unlike last time I very clearly tasted the taro in this, which was super interesting. That said, there was also a very strong, musty smell about it which wasn't at all carried through to the flavor but was somewhat off-putting.

It has nice, Thai character, star anise, clove, coriander? But I've been making a lot of homemade phở lately, and I can't help but think of phở broth when I drink this, which isn't a great association. There's also a quality of Orange Crush too.

Bitter pine and hints of lemon. This is oilier than the beer from earlier.

It's fragrant all right. High-alpha, juicy citrus oil and a uric finish. Just a hint of acridity.

Smells like cherry; sweet, molasses, caramel. More subtle in flavor than expected. Dry, very strong alcohol. Warming like a whiskey. Tons of cherry molasses. I wouldn't buy this in a bottle full price, but it was nice to try.

My palate may be muted today, but this seems exceedingly pleasant. Grassy, cereal, bit of toast on the backend. Finishes dry and clean. Not sure I’m getting fresh hop, but it is tasty.

A little bit more sour than expected. Goes well with mussels done every way. Will have to try with Snackachangi Chips next.

Nice Asian-style lager. Goes well with modern Korean.

Fine for a hazy - nothing extraordinary

A robust pilsner, but also the kind that if you don't log it for eight hours you won't remember anything specific about it.

There is so much going on here. It's like a racecar in my mouth. Not everything in a racecar tastes good. The cherry cough syrup is out of control. Man. The non barrel aged is so much more on point. But at least it's not used coffee grounds in bad beer.

Complex. lots of corny corniness and cornish cornundrums cornucopiating

Stolen from Jet. It's like someone took burnt motel coffee, watered it down, and added it to a mediocre Marzen. Smells like you took some used coffee grounds and put them in a lot of water.

Ummmm it’s like used grounds of a burnt coffee were poured into my lager.

I started to like this but as the lemon hits there is this kinda unpleasant waft of almost medicinal scent that disagrees with me. that and the mango was undetectable which is unforgivable in a product with the word mango in the name haha

This is pretty close to canonical.

I cannot believe i’m saying this but this might actually be too stouty too bourbony too barrelly

Wonderful sweet cherry dark chocolate smell. Syrupy stouty chocolate cherry taste. My only hesitation is that I suspect this will give me a headache if I drank too much. (Otherwise I'd rank it higher. )

Really complex and well balanced. nutty but also sweet. toast. a little char even forest floor. it expanded my perception of what a dark lager is.

Sweet and caramel, actually a lot like a Marzen.

really balanced light lager. good flavor, a little herbal. goes down easy

Sour yet a bit sweet. Puckering but effervescent. It's good.

This is good. It's like sweet version of a Czech Pile.

It’s like having a chocolate covered frozen banana. Only it’s liquid. And fizzy.

Dark wheat and some sweet. They say banana and chocolate, and that's not too far off. It doesn't quite get all the way to banana, but it is close. After a few sips, it does start to feel a little watery like a European dark, but still pretty decent. High end of decent, close to solid.

A little too bitter on the first impression. And there are hints that it could get complex and maybe even a bit malty but then it kinda dies out and is just meh.

It's a little like a combination of a Marzen and a red ale. Some of the Marzen flavor with a bit of the harsh bitterness of a red. I'm torn between Hmmm and Decent.

Really nice. Lightly tart, clean (if a bit candy-like) strawberry flavor. Just a touch of funk on the finish tempers the drinkability a bit, but if you're in a fruity mood this is a good one.

A robust milk stout, lots of bitter roast and lots of lactic tackiness on the finish, but this isn't exactly sweet. Pretty good.

Clean, unsweet lager. A little bit of a metallic tang. Not sure I was able to identify any taro.

Sweet caramel Scotch ale. Lightly fruity, bitter finish.

Spicy and bitter, piney hops.

Fruity, fragrant, mellow Light citrus and apricot.

Smells way more tart than it actually is; nice, tart, vinous. Very tasty.

Buttery.

Orange grapefruit, thick, opaque, extremely juicy. Oily bitterness on the backend but finishes clean.

Probably influenced by the wide swath of flavors in today's tasting, but I definitely tasted the gochujang this time. It's still good, although it's definitely more eyebrow-raising.

Much less sweet than the AleSmith (anything would be), and nicely spicy. Some fruit body from the habaneros, though I would say there's not a ton of vanilla here. Really quite tasty.

Very, very, very, very sweet. Vanilla and chocolate, mostly. It's not unpleasant but I cannot imagine drinking an entire glass of this.

Quite tasty and clean, although it didn't scream "margarita" to me. No real hints of tequila and there's very little salt contribution (unlike what I remember from Savage last week). It is a tasty lime-forward citrus sour though.

A nice easy Kolsch with a bit more body than usual but nothing too special. Some light orange zest vibes and a hint of spice.

Well-balanced hazy IPA, pineapple-forward juicy character and devoid of any bitterness. Finishes very clean for the style, IMO.

Much sweeter than expected, thick, pungent, boozy, slight licorice flavors on the top.

Drinking a campfire, but in a good way. Lightly caramel, sweet, smoky, but completely balanced.

A very enjoyable light dry chocolate stout, and while there's just a hint of light gochu in the aftertaste which turns into a lingering heat, there is little to no discernible jang.

Starts with a really tart white peach flavor, almost candy-like, but resolves into a bit of drying bitter lemon, ensuring a clean finish.

Yo, it's a Guinness. More than anything, we just needed something to reset the palate after the chilies.

Starts up front with cacao and a bit of burnt sugar, and then the heat comes. The chili is actually quite fruity (the habaneros?) in a way that isn't super enjoyable IMO. Sits tacky in the throat afterwards.

Mellow roast, not explicitly briny but measured in a way that manifests as super-balanced. Really liked this, and it seems that oyster stouts remain on an all-time winning streak.

Citrus, smooth, cereal. Sunny D? Smells like a hop bomb but it isn't, and in fact isn't bitter at all. Very enjoyable.

Unsweet IPA, lightly grapey, turns to a nice cereal right when you think it’s going to turn bitter (which it never does).

yum

I definitely seem to have evolved since I last had this, nine(!) years ago. Brut, grape and wood, some light bitter funk, sparkly. A hint of licorice on the finish? Only thing holding it back may be its lightness.

Starts out great, citrus, malty… but the citrusy finish gets cloying after a while.

Brackish, lightly sweet, a bit uric and tacky. Faintly floral, alcohol on the finish.

Toasty amber, lightly tart and dryingly bitter in a way that recalls a Brett saison? Not exactly what I expected but it was enjoyable. Finishes bready and clean.

Less citrus, more herbal than the Carpool Lane. This one's not sweet. Still oily, quite bitter.

Lemon pine backbone with a light, bright, lager finish. Bracing bitterness but it's not unpelasant.

Sweet, hint of tang, bright fruit; I know this is mango but there's a beautiful POG-like quality. Clean finish, definitely not cloying.

Citrus, a bit acrid in its bitterness, oily. Wears its alcohol plain on its sleeve.

Fantastic rice lager IMO. It's floral, sweet, light, but also brackish, cereal, almost a little salty. Great balance.

apparently firestone walker can make a beer i don’t like

Haven’t had too many of this style. Not too different than a porter with a bit of stout coffee flavors. Very dry, maybe a bit too much.

Extremely delicious, I feel like this may have been the best straight peanut butter stout I've had, maybe?

Boozy for sure, and stronger than you expect even knowing the ABV going in. If you can get past that there’s a nice caramel coffee stout underneath it all. You probably want to call it one and done though.

Intense but actually also well-balanced. Chocolate on the nose, notes of plum, cacao, toffee, caramel. Finishes clean. Comparison: Stickee Monkee?

Very floral, slightly tart, but so, so clean. Pith backbone but without some of the oily aftertaste you'd get from, say, a hazy IPA.

Clean dubbel character. Caramel, clove, and... licorice? Maybe not, but the flavor is hinted at for sure. Two exemplary beers so far.

Wonderful. Opens light, caramel, wood smoke that blends into a sweet but clean finish. Perfectly balanced.

Roast up front, creamy/lightly sweet finish. Drying aftertaste.

Definitely what I was hoping for- really bright cucumber and a puckery but not lingering acid tartness, passion-fruit like?