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.

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.

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.

Fruity, fragrant, mellow Light citrus and apricot.

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

Buttery.

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?

Sweeter than I expected, an orange agua fresca quality with almost a hint of watermelon (that could be lingering from the cucumber sour). Spicy in the end.

A hoppy dark lager, smooth, roasty, caramel. Bit of a brackish mouthfeel.

Juicy opening, medium mouthfeel, unsweet. Bitter backbone.

Coffee, roast, round, earthy hop flavors. Leans towards a CDA, nice sweetness from the honey though.

Juicy opening, medium mouthfeel, unsweet. Bitter backbone.

Super clean Hefeweizen, bright banana and clove. Dry, crisp, beautiful finish.

Really solid west coast IPA, not too fruity, good amount of malt. Pine, clean finish.

Thick and goopy, citrus (grapefruit) concentrate.

Fruity, hazy, hops up front and on the nose. Clean finish, although this definitely is closer to an IPA than a pilsner. Sweet fruit lingers on the aftertaste.

Booze bomb, sweet and syrupy but not quite at the level of the Slow Burn from yesterday. Notes of chocolate syrup, pineapple, caramel.

Sweet, roasty, not at all over the top. A really nice example of a beer that evokes a chocolate pastry.

High alpha hop bomb that is tempered considerably by a drying fruit finish. Lemon-pine-stonefruit. I think I sense a theme in the yeast here?

Quite tart, vinous. Apricot-grape. A little too sour for me to love, but it’s only a little funky and finishes clean.

Starts with a candy bar kind of sweetness but has a touch of the same tartness that was in the blonde that dries it out fast. Almost briny.

Lightly sweet, wet hay, light cinnamon and vanilla with a tart, drying kind of finish.

Syrupy, vanilla. Extremely hard to take in quantity.

Very sweet but not syrupy. Vanilla, cinnamon.

Smells a bit minty after the Quintessence. Too sweet! Almost fruity, with a candybar quality that is not unusual for this type of beer, although the mint herbality is different.

Smoky, sweet with a burnt sugar/campfire 'smore quality. Based on my memory of the Breakside Oligarch variant, that's the candy cap, with some umami. Coffee and vanilla follow. Normally I'd class this as too sweet but the flavors are so interesting!

A clean, lemon-pine IPA that leans toward the pine/spruce family of flavors. Very dry. There is something slightly acerbic in the smell.

Sweet, nectary peach flavor. Almost reminds me of an Asian soda in its candy-like fruit flavoring, although the finish is definitely tart. One of those sour peach gummies, maybe?

I don’t know if it’s my mood or if it’s that different out of the bottle, but this was waaaaaaaaaaay over the top for me this time.

Sweet up-front but with a bitter, grassy finish that gives it an assertive character. The only thing that hurts it is a bit of a dishwatery aftertaste.

Definite coffee porter, light, creamy, the coffee bean flavors come through as vegetal and earthy.

bavarian wheat beer in bavaria. on a beautiful summer night. the only thing missing is you.

Decent amber. Malty, lightly floral, medium roast. The hops build in bitterness the more you drink.

Exactly what it says, a light wheat with clear honey notes. Not a lot of backbone but it's very drinkable.

Toasty, cocoa, light and dry with just a hint of tannic red wine. If you didn't tell me it was barrel aged, I wouldn't have immediately guessed, but the hints are there and it's very nice.

Chcolatey, smooth, sweet but not thick. A little prickly despite being on nitro, which honestly is a plus for me.

just a little hint of orange peel in a typically wheaty wheat beer. Perfect after a long arduous day of shopping and chocolate tasting.

it’s better this time. but i’m also really thirsty and tired so pretty much anything was gonna be at least decent

It's kind of weak. A little bitter, maybe some fruit. There's really nothing there.

Bitter. Certainly an IPA. Good thickness (which I note because I just had a thin POS), but it really doesn't have a lot of flavor (I like the juicy IPAs). It's fine I guess.

Bitter, citrus, but it's rather thin. I guess it's adequate, but it's certainly not good.

Not bad. Slightly sweet, slightly sour, effervescent. For some reason it doesn't quite taste like an honest sour.

Chocolate, light roast, the flavor is good if an little murky; ends tackier than I like.

Sunny citrus, nice and juice. Back end is quite bitter and a little oily.

Coriander, banana, somewhat bracing yeast bitterness followed by a dry backend. It's summery!

Pretty good, fruity wheat ale. Apricot, clean, a bit of a musty cereal finish. I don't know how much the Ferran Adria name is influencing my reaction, but if it is, it's working.

A strong whiff of skunk upon pouring. Not too offensive in flavor, although there is an acrid, metallic aspect to the finish.

Creamy, sweet-bitter. Tastes somewhat strong. I liked this.

Light, piney, hoppy, refreshing.

Grassy and sweet, wet hay. A little bitter. Leaves a prickly feeling on the tongue.

Similar to the Mahou but without the bitter buildup. A little bit of resin but overall it's clean (I could see how this might seem astringent if I wasn't in the right mood).

Grassy, lightly fruity, not too bitter. Reminds me of Estrella Damm, maybe?

Blackberry, juicy, medium tart. Not funky, but also not vinegary. Pretty good, altogether.

Solid, roasty, coffee stout. Creamy finish, faintly sweet.

Strongly lemon-pine, sweet. Finishes light, but laced with strong herbality. Hard to take in quantity.

Thin, cereal flavor, lightly sweet. A bit over the top on the finish, reminded me a little of Hi-Fi's weirdly funky yeast. But not bad.

Strongly-flavored pilsner. Got more and more bitter as the glass went on and I can't say it felt very refreshing on a very hot day either.

I can't find any reference to this beer online. Tastes like a malt-forward red IPA; can't tell if I'm imagining chili pepper or if it's the patatas bravas I just enjoyed.

Doesn't taste particularly Belgian and I wouldn't know what myrrh tastes like. if I had to guess, a honey amber ale is what comes to mind. There is a berry-like dryness to the finish though.

I guess "demi-sec" brings this in line with the Brut IPA style? This one tastes Belgian, like a vinous saison. Grapey, bitter, lightly sweet.

A very pleasant caramel lager, with some prickly hops at the end.

Not sure I can detect mustard seed other than a higher front-side bitterness, which combines with pine and pith to follow you the whole way.

Sweet honey, grassy hops. Features some musty cereal but a pleasant, light flavor overall.

Decent European macrobrew, lightly fruity. Apple, cereal.

Malty pilsner. Caramel, a bit metallic.

Though this is a "biere de garde" according to the bottle label itself, there are many similarities to the lager. The fruitiness tends toward a baked apple and it's way more carbonated.

Dry up-front, slightly vinous, white grape and apple. Finishes with an intriguing cereal funk.

Looks much lighter than I'm used to in a dunkel, and this is not a hint of roast in this one. Caramel and smooth, if a little lacking in personality.

This is roasty up-front, but finishes very smooth. A nice standard stout.

Dry, Caramel IPA, bit of resin bitterness.

I mean, it's a Sam Adams! Caramel, light, clean hops flavor. Happy to be setting out on vacation, which helps.

Smells like a cocktail with bitters; sweet, dry, couldn't tell if this is what it would taste like fresh, much like some of the other FW "cocktail" beers we've had aged. I don't know my liqueurs enough to dissect the flavor here.

Resinous but clear IPA. Not sure I had a clean enough palate to properly judge this, but it didn't seem to be in my wheelhouse.

Plesant-enough creamy stout, but just a little bit too much on the sweet side; it got harder to drink throughout the glass.

Easy-drinking, light, caramel.

Tastes like a red

Quite tart as you'd expect from a lambic, although there is a tannic dryness and a sharp tinge to the surness to the finish that may be the "terroir" here? Will be the first to admit I have no idea what a green walnut is supposed to taste like. It wasn't nutty.

Pleasant, Candi sugar and malt, smooth. Doesn’t strike me as strong as I’d expect a quad to be, but it’s nice.

Actually good on tap. Went from yum to solid with the food

Didn’t hit like it did in the past. Felt it was a little too tart and syrupy. Definitely tasted like mango, though.

Extremely bitter, somewhat thick and brackish.

Light, juicy, very, very much raspberry. A much better fit for a hot afternoon than the stout was.

A little less clean, a little more tart than I remember.

Fizzy, sweet but clean wine grape; this really doesn’t taste like whatever underlying lager is here (except some caramel) but more like a slightly funky wine seltzer. Which is to say it’s pretty tasty, but I do miss the beer of it all.

Roast and toast, but not very much body, at least in comparison to the Background Guys. Suffers in the comparison, but it’s decent.

Dark bread, pretzels? Clean, a tiny bit sweet but dry, nice body.

Starts bracing and tart, primarily guava, some citrus, but also quite a bit of toasty coconut coming up to mellow out the flavor. Clean-finishing.

Could have been mislabeled as the server seemed unsure, but this does have a classic wit flavor up front. It was the amount of cereal, lager-like, that really appealed to me.

Roasty but also somewhat thick and sweet. The coffee is definitely on the earthy, vegetal side. It's a little too sweet for me, but it's pretty good.

Candy-like, pleasant, and you definitely get that minty mojito flavor at the end. A little bit of syrup on the finish.

Round and peachy, good spice on the end, but doesn't taste like chili on its own.

Definitely sweet with a bourbon-like caramel sweetness on the nose and finish.

Delicious

HBC-586, Luminosa, NZH-106, Riwaka, Zumo. Pine, lemon, cereal, bitterness. High and dry aftertaste.

A well balanced sour with pomegranate taking a bit of a backseat to the orange. Not too much complexity but decent finish.

Light citrus with medium finish. Nothing spectacular but well executed

Light citrus with medium finish. Nothing spectacular but well executed