All about Eden
Eden is a member of Odin DBRD.
Eden has logged 5366 beers a total of 7032 times.
Eden's most often logged beer so far is Black Raven Splinters Bourbon Strong Scotch Ale:
87 (logged 23 times)
87 (logged 23 times)Eden's favorite type of beer seems to be Stout.
Eden's Log
Candy fruit up front, appropriately tropical but kind of stays sweet.
Draft
Yet another aspect of these spices, in this case there's a fruity-tartness that opens and subverts most of the perfumey overtones that this beer has suffered from in the past. What it does do is make it very cola-like, spice-forward; ginger, cinnamon?
Draft
Prominent chili pepper bitterness, not a little umami, cinnamon, chocolate. I actually think this is much better than the regular Gunpowder Plot flavor profile.
Cask
Clove, candi sugar, a little spicy. Dries really fast and is fairly bitter so there’s a bit of whiplash. Does feel a lot like Fall.
Draft
Opaque, jammy, like a berry sherbet melted down into a cup. No funk at all; very hard to even tell it's alcoholic. But it's strikingly tasty.
Can
Berry opening, tastes like it’s going to have a tart follow through but does not. Dries into a vinous, crisp lager flavor. I like this!
Can
Citrus up-front, lots of pith. Bitter back end. A little acrid.
Draft
Cola-like, definietly has some spice synergies with the Timber City which is why I can clearly taste it now as opposed to before. Lots of caramel and a dry finish.
Draft
Dry, bracing, fruity on the finish but the flavor is more along the lines of the oils than the juice here.
Draft
Effervescent, tropical-citrus hazy, thick but quite balanced. Like a fizzy hard candy of a beer. Really pungent but it's doing it for me todya, and let's face it, you brew a Mariners-themed beer I'm going to drink it.
Draft
Roasty, robust, a little prickly, makes me think of tobacco. Bitter on the finish but good for a real weighty stout.
Draft
Savage The Big Dark (2024)
Generally I like this beer but today it has a murky, dishwatery quality.
Draft
I don’t know if it’s the unusually bright hop presence or the chewy malt sweetness or the lightly umami finish, but this beer felt kind of relentless.
Draft
Has an unpleasant opening flavor of dishwater with lemon cleaner. It's momentary but hard to ignore. Finishes well, with a cereal sweetness.
Draft
A little more lager-like, a little more uric than the last log. I think it helps, although it still finishes quite bitter.
Draft
A sweet, cereal lager with a pretty intense peach flavor upfront. Peach breakfast cereal? It’s interesting but also quite weird.
Draft
A little too sweet - it's not syrupy but there's something over the top about the tail end of the flavor. And it winds up tacky in the throat. It's tiny-bit headache inducing.
Draft
Apricot gravy with some fragrant funk that could be ascribed to the tea. Maybe?
Draft
Matchless Easy Being Green (2025)
Mild and fruity, citrus. It’s fragrant, almost too fragrant—one sip is very pleasant indeed but it’s a lot to take over a glass.
Draft
Has a lot of what I like in a pumpkin beer; a touch of caramel, fruit, not much in the way of pie spice, but this is sour, and feels like it’s accidentally so.
Bottle
Unsweet, pine-lemon, cereal, pepper. Complex melange of aromatics right on the backend. Finishes bitter but clean.
Draft
54 home runs! This is both a sweet lager and grassy; assertive. Slightly uric, brackish finish. Really like this.
Draft at Flatstick Pub, Redmond
Very light on pineapple but the chili is assertive and pleasant, and more than a little spicy. I'm a sucker for (non-stout) chili beers and this one hits the spot.
Draft at Big Block Brewing, Redmond
Definitely lots of lime, with a primarily citric tartness. There's a faint tinge of sweetness but this is more lime than it is pie to me. Lime ain't a bad way to go though.
Draft at Big Block Brewing, Redmond
It's possible this is on the other side of the aging hump but you can't tell. Lots of coffee, so smooth. Bourbon/caramel and no alcohol harshness. Just about perfect.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Smooth, definitely nutty, definitely marshmallow. It's thick in a way that I've never experienced in a beery, as if they added xanthan gum to simulate the feeling of a marshmallow. Ever had thick water? It's not that far off.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Very smoothed out, just on the edge of getting raw on the alcohol side, but this is still so nice. A little more smoky, tiny bit tart, bourbon finish.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Toasty, lightly malty, light fragrance of apple or pumpkin. Solid Oktoberfest.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Every "golden stout" I've had has overcompensated in some way that breaks into the uncanny valley, and this is no exception. A little too sweet, a little too milky, but still, overall not bad.
Draft at Thirsty Hop, Kirkland
Tastes like light cocoa, maybe marshmallow, just a hint of coconut. Light, sweet, but not cloying, really tasty and remains so for the full pint.
Draft at Thirsty Hop, Kirkland
Tart; blueberry; lemon; clean.
Draft at Black Raven Brewing Company, Redmond
Still boozy, but approaching sublime levels of smoothness. Chocolate, caramel, woody bitterness.
Draft at Black Raven Brewing Company, Redmond
A citrus mix, prickly carbonation, really mellow finish despite what is quite an oily beer. Sweet with some cereal in the finish.
Draft at Monsoon, Bellevue
Not gonna lie, I could drink an infinite amount of this. It's a pineapple coconut drink. It does not at all taste alcoholic.
Can at Melody's
Son of Man Sagardo (2023 Harvest)
Extremely dry, thin body and no lingering tartness. I liked this a lot.
Bottle at Melody's
The lime combines with the hibiscus to give this a real nice, dry bite at the end of a juicy cider.
Bottle at Melody's
Smooth, light milk stout - maybe the cleanest milk stout I've had? Light roast, smoke. The finishing bitterness is roasty, like a dark pretzel. It's extraordinarily well-balanced and light-drinking.
Draft at Flatstick Pub, Redmond
Sweet, toffee, lots of booze. The sweetness is very strong and brandy-like.
Bottle at Flatstick Pub, Redmond
Very smooth, still good, if sanded away a bit much and exposing the raw flavor of alcohol.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Too old, gone bad. Extremely sour, undrinkable.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
It’s a good IPA, dry, bitter, but not overly pithy or resinous. A significant ding for tasting nothing like guava.
Draft at Flatstick Pub, Redmond
Fragrant, citrus, sunny. Very nostalgic flavor, and not a bad fit for breakfast.
This thing is suffused with the spirit of chocolate; the thickness, the fruitiness of the cacao really comes through. It's decadent and luxurious rather than refined and luxurious - this feels like it would have been a lot to take when it was young, but it's still a lot now.
Bottle at Work
A little watery, especially in comparison to the Melons. If this is the base, it's missing more than the watermelon. Still, good basic flavors, just feels like it could have been more flavorful.
Draft at Old Stump Brewing Company, Pomona
Now this is a beer that tastes like watermelon! Juice, not candy-like. Uric and cereal, cloudy, refreshing.
Draft at Old Stump Brewing Company, Pomona
A rounded, fruity (but not juicy) IPA with some cereal funk and clean finish. I don't especially get a lot of mango here but I also understand my palate may be fried.
Draft at Baldy Brewing Company, Upland
Not the sweetest dessert stout I've ever had, but this is up there. Starts with some roast and marshmallow but the sweetness goes on and on. Boozy, too.
Draft at Claremont Craft Ales, Claremont
This one's weird, honestly. Light, but with smoky white pepper notes like you get with a Belgian IPA. The lemon sits a bit uneasily on top of that. I appreciate they tried it, though.
Draft at Claremont Craft Ales, Claremont
Jammy, sweet, medium sour. Not much funk and a lot of fruit. It's well-balanced, and interestingly if you have a sip directly after the S'more, there's a real PB&J effect.
Draft at Claremont Craft Ales, Claremont
This one actually tastes peppery. Spicy rye notes and a bit of malt. Not fruity at all, which is nice for an IPA these days.
Draft at Claremont Craft Ales, Claremont
A smooth red, Irish-like, with a dry bitterness and pine tar character. Lightly sweet.
Draft at Claremont Craft Ales, Claremont
A light lemon-pine IPA with distinct peach flavors. I don't think I really get peppercorn here, other than a slightly shimmery bitter finish, but this is tasty.
Draft at Claremont Craft Ales, Claremont
Thick, peanut butter flavor with some cereal. This is somewhat reminiscent of Peanut Butter Crunch Cereal, which in the past has been famously in tune with my tastes. This one has some backbone too, though.
Draft at Final Draft Brewing Company, Redding
Caramel, coconut, cocoa. This is dessert sweet avoids being thick or cloying. Really quite tasty.
Draft at Final Draft Brewing Company, Redding
Tart but not puckery, not at all funky. Peach with maybe some vanilla? The effect is sour-sweet.
Draft at Final Draft Brewing Company, Redding
Czech-like, brackish, grassy. Has a sweetness running through it.
Draft at Zaucer, Redmond
Sweet, creamy, peanut butter candy. Very much a dessert beer.
Can at Home
Extremely dry and toasty, kind of like drinking a Rold Gold pretzel.
Draft at Postdoc Brewing, Redmond
Continues the tradition of amazing can art. A fragrant, fruity lager, sweet finish. A good tasting IPL that avoids being a hop bomb.
Can at Home
Disturbing brittle head, like that of a root beer float, but this was actually quite decent. Tart cherry candy with overtones of lactose or vanilla, tart but not at all funky.
Draft at Odin Lounge
Now this is a bet that tastes like watermelon juice rather than watermelon candy. Complex but beerlike. Nice to see one of these that isn’t a sour.
Can at Odin Lounge
Flavorful and yet somehow insipid at the same time, like a watery macro version of a malty northwest amber ale.
Draft at Pint & Pie Public House, Redmond
Boozy and sweet, lots of vanilla and oak. A significant hoppiness comes in at the end. Still maintains a light mouthfeel. Pretty good!
Draft at Valley House Brewing Company, Duvall
Malty, metallic, hay, tingly on the tongue. I like it because it tastes slightly electric.
Sweet, vanilla, coffee, a little prickly. A very milk stout milk stout… I suspect would be better off the vanilla was slightly toned down. Should appeal if you’re in a dessert mood.
Sweet, chocolate, hints of cinnamon. The chili is very subtle but there’s a very woody bitterness on the finish that’s a little less than awesome in the overall flavor profile.
Prairie Caramel Puf't (unknown release)
Not gonna lie, this is very similar in flavor profile to the Bottle Logic. Less thick, less booze, a little bit more roast and bite.
Draft at IBU Taproom & Bottle Shop, Milpitas
Strongly candy cherry, cream, fizzy soda. Finishes tart and bright. It's a little too intense, maybe, but it walks the fine line without blowing through it.
Draft at IBU Taproom & Bottle Shop, Milpitas
Strong fudge notes, sweet, thick. Strong whisky. Finishes surprisingly clean for how overt it is.
Draft at IBU Taproom & Bottle Shop, Milpitas
A sweet, brown, roasty, toasty, maple beer. Clear as a bell.
Tart, lightly funky, dry. Lemon and prickly pear and hints that remind me of guava, maybe.
Apricot/fuzzy peach. Juicy more than sour although it ends with a nice tartness. It lets the actual fruit through in a way that's rare for this flavor profile.
Flavorful IPA. Fruity, cereal, dry, but finishes light enough.
Black Raven La Mort Rouge (unknown release)
Yup. Back on tap.
Draft at Black Raven Brewing Company, Redmond
A mellow, lightly sweet + roast stout. Very pleasant to drink... although I kind of almost wanted something more prickly given the name!
Draft at Redmond's Bar and Grill, Redmond
I'm a little congested from allergies today so I didn't really get the whiff of lime that I'm told is there. Without being told what the fruit was I actually got a lot of tart apple in the flavor, along with some sweet cereal. Maybe it's just lime, but I really enjoyed this.
Draft at Redmond's Bar and Grill, Redmond
A brackish, rich blonde ale that’s a little dark in flavor. Dry, uric, which... It was sunny and warm out, I think I wanted something more refreshing?
Pretty tasty, mellow (especially for an IPA from this brewery). The flavor gets a little more pungent through the glass but it's very drinkable.
Draft at Black Raven Brewing Company, Redmond
Métier Manumission (III)
Delicious, less sweet than you'd imagine with good body and barrel;.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Black Raven La Mort Rouge (unknown release)
Comparing this directly to La Petit Mort, this is at once sharper and fruitier, with the caramel (and tannins) coming later. Whatever was lacking in the wine front before is back.
Draft at Black Raven Brewing Company, Redmond
Citrus/grapefruit, cloudy, but with a super-mild follow-through. Stays juicy rather than transitioning to cereal. Coats the tongue.
Draft at Halcyon Brewing Company, Seattle
A clean rice lager, fragrant, clear, with a little sharpness up front. Fruitier than typical - apple? pineapple? Slightly tart finish.
Draft at Halcyon Brewing Company, Seattle
Very sour. There's a decent guava flavor and it ends with a bit of sweet cereal but it's too sour for me to really enjoy. Compare to Lokahi's, which I really enjoyed.
Draft at Halcyon Brewing Company, Seattle
Maibock-type, sweet and brackish with alcohol poking through. The most cereal out of the three lagers, but it's still subtle.
Draft at Halcyon Brewing Company, Seattle
More strawberry and less mango, but still quite sour. I like the fruit forward stuff here, but I did prefer the guava.
Draft at Lokahi Brewing Company, Honolulu
Recognizably guava, quite tart, but really quite appealing. I had a second!
Draft at Lokahi Brewing Company, Honolulu
Still a bit salt-forward although some of that might be residual from the Pickled Mango. Otherwise this is a nice clean sour, even if it’s got the kind of nondescript fruitiness of dragonfruit.
Draft at Beer Lab HI Beretania, Honolulu
Yup. Nope. See my comments on the Ice Cake; still no love of Li Hing, and the mango is definitely evoking something familiar even if it’s something I don’t like. The saltiness sits on the tongue.
Draft at Beer Lab HI Beretania, Honolulu
Tastes generically toasty, dark; a bit of acid.
Draft at Beer Lab HI Beretania, Honolulu
Nutty and strawberry, lightly tart and creamy, but I don’t necessarily feel the chocolate here, nor anything especially pistachio.
Draft at Beer Lab HI Beretania, Honolulu
Caramel, plum, hops. A little prickly, a little raw.
Part pale, part strawberry syrup. Not in a cloying way. This probably shouldn’t work, but I quite liked it (maybe because women rock)
Juicy, opaque, dry up front but with a very nice mango/citrus flavor and a sweet cereal finish.
Feels similar to my previous description except… I didn’t really like it this time. Feels very sour, a little funkier than I’m comfortable with; I’d call the flavor off.
Draft at Maui Brewing Company, Honolulu
Prickly, dry, coffee. Lightly acidic. Bitter backbone but finishes clean. I liked this!
Draft at Maui Brewing Company, Honolulu
Brackish, super dry. You’d be forgiven for calling this almost tart. Finishes on some mild cereal, which is nice.
Draft at Maui Brewing Company, Honolulu
Caramel, malty, pine, jalapeño, bitter, drying, lightly spicy. Waikiki took over the old Aloha Beer location.
Draft at Waikiki Brew Co, Honolulu
Hoppy, dry, high alpha bitterness. A callback to hop bombs of 20 years ago.
It’s not bad but if you’re going to advertise mango, coconut, mochi, you’re going to have to deliver on that. Instead you have a mellow but otherwise unremarkable tropical IPA.
Draft at Maui Brewing Company, Honolulu
Vague stone fruit, perhaps a bit of nuttiness, a little sour, a little funky, but not too much in either direction.
Draft at Watershed Pub & Kitchen, Seattle
Fragrant and sweet, citrus; a hopped Mexican lager? It’s still very light but really does not scream the typical style.
Bready, dark, sourdough-esque. Hints of coffee, but this is definitely on the brown rather than stout side.
Lemon pine with the emphasis on lemon. Oily, drying, bitter and drying.
Bottle at Flatstick Pub, Redmond
Fruity opening, very malty, perhaps overly malty. Turns a corner into almost going sour. Grassy/wet hay aftertaste.
Draft at Savage Brewing Company, Kirkland
Chocolate, roast, milky. Somewhat brackish mouthfeel.
Draft at Savage Brewing Company, Kirkland
Citrus, fruity, some wheat funk that mellows it out and gives some sweet, cereal milk character.
Draft at Postdoc Brewing, Redmond
Postdoc Bourbon Barrel-Aged Binary Barleywine (unknown release)
Caramel, sweet, boozy, balanced. This was really nice.
Draft at Postdoc Brewing, Redmond
Toffee/caramel, smooth, maybe a little vinous even? These are always so reliably good, even while being slightly different every time.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Butter caramel, acidic, roast coffee, smooth and assertive at the same time. It delivers on the name, for sure.
Can at Home
Fremont Miscere (2024)
This beer is a lot, in a 2013 this would have been an unprecedent experience kind of "a lot". Lightly smokey, very sweet.
Draft at Thirsty Hop, Kirkland
Clean but not exactly bright; coriander, cloudy funk. Ends with tartness.
Draft at Savage Brewing Company, Kirkland
Sweet, whiskey-forward, caramel, cherry. Smooth. The net effect is almost like one of those coffee hard candies. It's not profound, but it's extremely enjoyable.
Draft at Black Raven Brewing Company, Redmond
Pretty good, mellow, slightly lemony. Cereal finish. Somewhat unusually opaque/thick, in an almost disturbing way, maybe? It tasted good though.
Draft at Big Block Brewing, Redmond
I'm guessing the only difference between my previous log and this one is the flatness. This was decently carbonated and it offset the bitterness a bit (although it was still quite bitter). Probably made it less authentic though.
Draft at Big Block Brewing, Redmond
Orange forward, pithy. This is a juicy pale for sure, although the bitterness is pretty strong.
Draft at Lumen Field, Seattle
Thin, unsweet stout with forward spice. It is pretty much accurate although I’m pretty sure the gingerbread version of this made for a more enjoyable beer.
Draft at Mox Boarding House, Bellevue
Blueberry and lemon together is definitely going to land on the tart side, and this one defnitely is. The clean sourness of the lemon mixes pretty well with the cloudy, slightly funky blueberry flavor. I think this would totally depend on your mood (and I didn't really seem to like this last time).
Draft at Black Raven Brewing Company, Redmond
Grapefruit forward, a little bit of pith bitterness, but overall very mild. I liked this.
Draft at Thirsty Hop, Kirkland
A pleasant, inoffensive lemon-pine IPA. Not bitter.
Draft at Thirsty Hop, Kirkland
What if Cherry Coke, but a beer? Seriously, though, it's not cough-syrup like, and it's not really an authentic cherry flavor either. Once I had the realiziation I definitely couldn't untaste it.
Draft at Thirsty Hop, Kirkland
Fairly bitter, clean, thin mouthfeel. Caramel and hop oil, sweet but with an astringent finish.
Draft at Watts Brewing Company, Woodinville
Very weird having this right after the sour, it took a few sips to recalibrate. Hoppy, rooty, plenty of caramel, clean finish. Wood rather than booze.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Immediate up-front tartness, a fruity, grapey-apple flavor that isn't too far off from a fancy Martinelli's. Fairly sour.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Banana/stone fruit; a very mellow, summery beer. Bit of bitterness on the backbone but it’s a nice, yeasty beer.
Can at Home
Spicy, malty, bready. There's a hint of smoke and caraway and some rounded hop flavor too; other beers do these flavors and I'm a little offended but it's really well balanced here.
Draft at Fast Fashion Tasting Room, Seattle
Sweet, bready. Firm flavor of coriander here, along with an almost-hint of apple+cinnamon? It's very pleasant.
Draft at 4 Stitch Brewing Company, Mill Creek
Grapefruit+citrus sweet hazy IPA. Lightly herbaceious. Fruity hops seem to be the signature at this brewery.
Draft at 4 Stitch Brewing Company, Mill Creek
Fruity/hoppy lager, pine-lemon. Mildly sweet finish but not much cereal. This is like a pale ale that finishes more like a lager than the other way around.
Draft at 4 Stitch Brewing Company, Mill Creek
Interesting stout base for peanut butter; it's more of a cola-like stout with fruitiness and round hops poking through. Definitely has peanut butter but it's a strange mix.
Draft at 4 Stitch Brewing Company, Mill Creek
An unpleasant odor right away, sulfur and dishwater. The flavor isn't quite as off-putting, but it's hard to get over that first hit.
Can at Odin Lounge
A bright, lightly hoppy golden ale where the fruitiness of the watermelon is right there on the finish rather than being a weird tacked-on flavor. My palate is famously finicky with watermelon so maybe it’s just a good day, but yum.
Draft at Maelstrom Brewing Company, Kirkland
A summary, sweet-lemon saison with peppery clove notes. Just a tiny bit on the oily side, but it's nice.
Caramel, light raisin, delicious and smooth. Definitely boozy and slightly tacky, but it's delicious.
Slightly spicy, but otherwise so smooth. A creamy-roast unsweet stout; notes of pumpernickel.
Sweet, Helles-like, but with some interesting Belgian-ish spice notes lingering on top. A little funk. My taste buds might be seriously compromised by the Petite Mort, but I appreciate that this isn't actually coming across as "just another lager"
Draft at Black Raven Brewing Company, Redmond
A sweetish lager, lightly fruity, with some wet-hay-like funk. Tastes English if you ask me.
Draft at Savage Brewing Company, Kirkland
Intensely pungent lemon-pine IPA with vegetal overtones and a drying middle. Light diacetyl butteriness. Finishes clean but this is not a light-hearted beer.
Draft at Savage Brewing Company, Kirkland
A caramel amber lager with an assertive roast bitterness breaking through an otherwise cereal sweetness. Ain’t a Sam Adams.
Draft at Beardslee Public House, Bothell
Some white pepper and corander up front followed by vinous white grape notes. Tart and drying. Love this!
Draft at Level Beer, Portland
Sweet, lightly yeasty ale with some floral hop, funk, and bitterness coming to the forefront from the cask pour. Saison-like.
Draft at Level Beer, Portland
Cascade Where There's a Willet (unknown release)
Cocoa and roast, smooth but also flattish. The barrel is there but the finish is more bitter than boozy. A little of a chore to finish.
Bottle at Commensal Fermentation, Portland
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