A light drinking, fruity pale that isn’t too challenging… reminds me of a Manny’s. Works really well with this curry.

Interesting mix here, definitely tastes like someone threw a red velvet cake into the raspberry blonde. Sweet cocoa, light fruit. The finish is a little out of balance in its bitterness, maybe.

Don’t know if my palate is off but I don’t taste any of the tartness I noted last time. It’s still got some bitterness but it seems more in balance with the sweet cereal. I think I like this better now!

A little spicier, hoppier than I’d expect for an Irish Red. It’s got a nice sweetness, but it’s a bit simplistic.

Not bad - grape/apple/pine with a kind of resin sweetness that lingers. It does become a bit metallic and/or cloying by the end.

I think I"m going to upgrade this to delicious. A light chocolate flavor, dark, with definite notes of gochujang in the mix. A really inspired combination.

Smells like candy. Flavor-wise, it’s quite tart but clean. You can’t avoid the feeling that you’re sucking on a lemon wedge though.

Doesn’t scream peach, maybe underripe plum. Slightly tart, a little funky. Finishes sweet.

This can is over two years old so I’m not sure how accurate the flavor is. Piney, bright, somewhat sweet/alcoholic. Faint notes of bubblegum. Bitter finish.

Frothy, sweet, somewhat boozy. Not what I expected from a “dry stout” but it’s tasty.

Caramel, biscuit-like, sweet and mellow. Bitter backbone.

Clean, slightly metallic, sweet, alcoholic. Bit of a burnt sugar aftertaste.Nice to hit the Rhein Haus after a long absence.

Intensely boozy, intense. The smell is almost harder to take than the flavor, which is good. Made it easier to drink.

The biggest disappointment is that this doesn’t bring tiramisu to mind at all. It’s not as sweet as my memory of the Dark Persuasion but it is lightly sweet.

Definitely doesn’t come across as watery this time. Thin but creamy, roasty, a touch of licorice root maybe.

Hints of pear applesauce, sweet puree; ginger, nutmeg. It’s sweet up-front with a muted tart-funk follow-through. The aftertaste is sweet cereal.

Tastes like fresh tree with a bit of woody backbone. If this helps at all, imagine licking a block of violin rosin.

Sweet, definitely reminiscent of a Japanese lager but has a bit of a syrupy quality that lingers tackily on the tongue.

Malty, Graham cracker sweetness. Bitter finish with just a bit of tartness and vodka to close it out.

Malty, roasty, hoppy. Good but I was hoping for something a little more idiosyncratic or remarkable from an imperial.

My palate is in a different place today. Mostly this is the same but instead of ginger it tastes more genetically rooty and maybe I’m imagining it, but more of a briny flavor.

Clean, tart pomegranate flavor with just a bit of funk and cereal sweetness in the end. This is in contrast to the blood orange sour which was really musty up front.

Caramel and mellow up front but has a bracing grassy bitterness. I think I might slightly prefer it with coffee but it’s very nice.

Light and sweet, with a creamy overtone. Might be a but under-bodied but I find it really drinkable.

Lemony and pungent, although it finishes quite clean. There’s a medicinal quality to the aftertaste.

They've renamed this beer so I don't know if they've reformulated it. It's a pleasant, lightly sweet caramel ale without much character, and I definitely don't taste anything that makes me think of pecans, pie or otherwise.

Dry, darkly fruity and vinous. Grape/currant. Very much like a lightly carbonated wine. I like this very much.

Lighter than I expected. Very chocolate, touch of cinnamon. I guess I can see marshmallow int he follow-on sweetness, but it's more of an overtone that lingers after the flavor.

Cola-like spice and mouthfeel; coffee, light notes of ginger. Finish is sweet-ish, somewhere between the coffee ESB and the rye. Not sure I"m connecting with it, but it is unique.

Caramel, slightly medicinal with notes of licorice and caraway (?). Sweet finish that tastes slightly like the vapor off of a cough drop.

Curious to try the base beer. This is nice, if a little dominated by the coffee. Unsweet, slightly tangy, dry finish. Solidly drinkable.

Bitter up-front, lightly brackish. Slight notes of apple with a cereal finish. Uric. I like this one quite a lot!

Ginger-forward here, giving this a very cola-like quality. Tastes a lot like what I'd imagine a coconut Coca-Cola to taste like, but (of course) as a beer. Pretty nice, if a bit gimmicky.

Hoppy, spicy dark amber with sweet caramel, chocolate notes. Prickly on top with a lasting roast bitterness. Not sure how this relates to the Industrial IPA.

Somewhat spicy up front but there’s a lot more hop oil than I expected. It coats the tongue, a little too dank to be crisp.

Tasty, minty, light-bodied for an imperial.

I can’t detect cinnamon today. A caramel, malty lager with some fruitiness. Smoothed out around the edges but fairly flavorful.

Still very good. Trans beer, or the transest beer?

Grassy lager, only slightly sweet. Czech-like at first, but the cereal lingers on in the aftertaste. Brackish finish.

Touch of caramel, dark bread, but not really sweeter than the Lawn. Really do like this.

Oh yeah, this Rauch is a mouthful of campfire. Woodsmoke on top of a base which is (understandably) similar to the Lawn. I think this brewery may be a winner, folks (at least for Euro lagers!).

Malty-sweet, prickly, with the most naked hop character, rounded, sap-like. Tastes festive but this is my least favorite of the bunch.

Crisp, caramel, sweet, significant roast bitterness. The smoke is an undertone, but a nice one. This isn’t a campfire.

Creamy, coffee, roast. I have been assured that this is not the same beer as the Knotted Porter.

Just a hint of sesame in the initial nose. This is really nice, subtle spices and caramel mellowness followed by candi sweetness. Way more balanced than the cinnamon ale, which I felt I should mention given the similar description.

Lightly sweet, caramel. There’s definitely cinnamon, but there’s also seems to be more holiday spices in the flavor profile. Bitter on the finish to remind you this is a beer.

Sweet and tacky with a spicy nutmeg overtone. Plummy. Lots of backend bitterness.

Lightly sweet, nutty, and like, really bitter? I don't know if my palate was burnt out, but this did not taste like my memory of this beer.

Creamy coffee, prickly carbonation. Somewhat high roast, and more than a little hop, resulting in a quite bitter finish. It's fine!

High alcohol, sweet, a bit rooty and vegetal.

Intensely hoppy, piney, alcohol-sweet. Leaves the tongue very dry.

The primary distinction after the Baja lager is that this sweet. A bit simpler in flavor, not surprising for a Märzenbier. Grassy finish, lingering bitterness.

Easy-drinking adjunct lager, reminiscent of corn chips and salt. Good depth of flavor. Long cereal finish.

They called this summery (perfect for December), and it pretty much was. A clear, bright witbier with a light banana flavor before the fresh, cloudy, watermelon flavor starts coming through. Did not taste candy-like, although the watermelon did recede over time.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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).

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.