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Matthew has logged 909 beers a total of 1149 times.
Matthew's favorite beer so far seems to be New Glarus Serendipity Happy Accident Fruit Ale: 
(logged 2 times)
(logged 2 times)Matthew's most often logged beer so far is Two Brothers Atom Smasher Oktoberfest Lager: 
(logged 10 times)
(logged 10 times)Matthew's favorite type of beer seems to be Wild Ale.
Matthew's Log
It's kinda weird, to be honest. It's a slightly caramel-y lager.
Dark for a pale. Some hints of caramel. It's almost like a mixture of a pair and an amber.
Not bad. Bright with some bitter lemon taste. Perhaps a little too much like a shandy though.
Dry, a little hint of rye. It's not bad, but doesn't stand out overly.
It's Saisony. I dunno. Don't know that I'm happy to have a full growler of it.
Slightly bitter, slightly spicy. I dunno.
My honesty first work was "meh". It tastes flat and floral, even though I can see tons of bubbles rising continuously. It's just not very good. Like fake raspberry combined with fake blueberry.
And it's not getting better as I drink more.
Fresh fruit and effervescent. Bit of a hop backbone. This is decent, not the best of the type (that being hazy IPA)
Not very good. Just a bit bitter or something, that catches at the back of my throat. Otherwise flavorless and weak.
Still mostly bitter, though not hugely. There's some flavor after you acclimate, but it's not worth it.
Bitterly effervescent? It's just like colored bitter soda water. Maybe like tonic water?
Meh. It's like cranberry, vodka, and soda. It's not really like a beer. It is pretty tart.
This is interesting. Juicy like that sort of IPA, except it's not really very bitter.
I thought this was pretty clear. Or is a bit sweet but has the underlying flavor of a good Czech pils.
Meh. I guess it's fine.
Maybe it's less flavorful after the Strawberry Rhubarb.
It's just a low flavor hint of apple spritzer.
Super tart strawberry. Not really a beer in any sense.
It did make me headachy before I even finished. I don't know if it's because of the "beer" or some other reason.
It's kind of like an unfiltered hard apple cider.
It's obviously not very much like a beer.
Alcoholic and sweet. I don't feel like it's anything related to a normal spotted cow. It's actually really good, but in a St. Bernardus high alcohol way.
It's still LIKE a Czech pils, except it's sweet this time. Which is wrong.
It's like a marzen.
Uhhhhhh.
Sweet. And artificial banana flavor. The bad artificial banana from when I was young.
Wow that's terrible.
Seems like a good brett. A bit tart and almost spicy, clearly not from any fruit.
Light lagery, slight bitterness, basically what you expect from the type. This is clearly what the old macrobrews came from.
I feel like I'm the wrong person to be here drinking this.
It's sweet and bourbon-y on a stout.
On second and subsequent sips, I start to get the cherry cough syrup taste.
I expect the usual suspects would like it but not think it's the best of it's kind or anything.
This is a bit much.
Puckeringly sour, like they extracted it from actual cranberries.
It's more like an awesome cranberry drink than a beer.
Dark, tart, reminds me of Quad until the barrel aging kicks in and stabs me at the back of the throat.
Where is the option "I'd drink this beer if it were given to me and I didn't want to offend the giver"?
Hey look, the advent box is back.
This was horribly foamy, overflowed badly.
I'm not sure I'm liking this. I'm getting some perfume flavor, bit I'm also wondering if that's left over from the nasty gingerbread I poured down the sink.
It is gingerbread, but it's somehow floral. And I hate floral. It's like perfume. I really don't know that I'm going to finish this.
Okay, I can actually taste the sweet peppermint in the porter.
I like it!
That's tasty. I presume this is a combination of IPA and kolch or some such.
The peanut butter isn't off-putting in the stout. More like peanuts than peanut butter (which is a good thing). Otherwise it's a thick and heavy stout.
Very very sour, and very peachy.
It's a bit too much . . .
Dry and super bitter. And it does remind me of the old Morton Arboretum juniper beer.
That said, it's not the sort of IPA I like. But it does seem well done?
New Glarus Black Currant (2022)
Wow. That's dark and fruity. It's dark fruit, with an undertone of dryness.
Actively sour. Not fruity. I guess I appreciate that, but it's slightly much.
It's good. Dry but flavorful (you know, and bitter)
It's like bitter pumpkin with an aftertaste of pie spices that have give bad. I can drink it. I kind of wish I hadn't pass for it.
(As I drink more, it's a bit like driving bad perfume)
It is very sour. The flavor owes more to raspberries than peach I feel.
It's an AMERICAN pilsner, maltlog just doesn't have that option.
It's a sweet pilsner like what would come out of Milwaukee.
It's decent for all that. Cold, sweet, metallic.
It's kind of sweet and hop juicy. I guess it's a combination of IPA and kolch, so perhaps that is too be expected.
Yeah. It's like it's Miller time.
I mean, I don't hate miller. I wouldn't spend money on it, but it's not awful to drink.
I'm between a Solid and a Yum. It's just a really good example of a porter.
I guess it might be a dopplebock. I think the barrel aging caramel-and-nasty-cherry-medicine flavor (and scent) overwhelms it.
It's also possibly a little skunky.
Sweet and syrupy stout. The barrel age is not forward.
Bright, just on the edge of dry, IPA. Strong but not overwhelming bitterness.
I think an IPA aficionado would like it even more.
It's decent beer. It's not any better, honestly, nothing to write home about.
It's pretty much a mimosa.
I mean, it's not offensive . . .
It's like an orange creamsicle. Or maybe cream soda.
Mike Lee is correct as he insists it's more tangerine than orange.
It's good. A little bit of bitterness, but some juicy hop flavor notes.
On further consideration, I've increased the rating.
Like a balsamic reduction after cooking a steak.
And surprisingly, as a hater of bourbon barrel aged, this was really not bad.
Very dark, a little thin. Kind of a dry roasted flavor in a very wet drink.
Does taste European. But lighter and more effervescent than I expected.
It's also slightly sour-beery.
Honestly, it just tastes like an anonymous pale ale. It's fine, I suppose . . . but not the cat's meow.
;^)
So, they literally take six minutes to pour this. It's frankly just a decent drink. You don't drink it to savor notes of this or that. You just drink it.
Strong caramel backbone, More than a bit like the European Darks that are soda-like. However it does have notes of nutty.
It's pretty mediocre. But then, what does "limeade" make one think when it comes to beer.
Pretty much what it says. The cherries give it a bit of a barrel aged flavor, bit it's pretty reasonable.
Last beer from the advent box!
Pretty tasty. But I had a problem in that it partially froze. So I'm not sure the character here is justified.
It's sort of sweet and surypy and has no carbonation left.
There's a hint of barrel taste.
I wish I had an unadulterated bottle . . .
Spicy, fruity, not quite sweet.
The flavor is really striking, it sparks on the tongue.
21st from the advent box
It's mostly just a porter.
It seems like a pretty decent one, but there's only a subliminal hint of any peppermint bark.
Actually, I guess I can smell it after hiccupping. So that's weird.
19th from the advent box.
This is actually really tasty. Hop-juice and a bit of sweet.
I think this was the 17th from the advent box.
Which means I'm officially over a month behind.
Where's your alcoholism now!?!
I don't know. There's a little sour, it's not really sweet, but there's also just not much there.
It's like a pineapple Bubly that I guess is alcoholic.
(December 18th from the advent box)
Wow. It really is peanut butter and banana.
Peanut butter on the nose. Not too awfully sweet, but not dry peanuts.
Banana and peanut butter on the flavor with a little efforvecence.
I think this was December 14th from the advent box.
Clearly I have failed at my alcoholism.
Hard bitterness with nothing else.
So much for the 13th. Very belated.
This was good. Nothing exciting, just reasonable beer.
Standard problem of something good with something bad.
Oh well.
Plus it's six days after the 11th
Wow, this punches one in the face.
Super bitter, a burnt woody flavor, if you can sense past the bitter.
I believe this was day 10 of the advent box. Clearly I've fallen off the wagon.
Like I've said before. Caramel, barrel, bit of aged bitterness.
On the eighth day of Christmas, I skipped one beer, and had it all the next day.
This might qualify as a pale at this point, but it's still not an IPA.
Yeah, pretty much. .
It's rather fruity and sweet, though I can taste the IPA bitterness underneath.
I dunno. Faking it with actual fruit is kind of cheating when it comes to beer. It's not bad or anything, it's just not super exciting.
Tastes more barrel aged than I remember.
Okay for day six
Bitter, smooth, and a head that won't go away.
Seems like a pretty decent IPA. Nothing particular to state about the flavor profile. Middle of the road on the dry/juicy spectrum. Maybe slightly on the dry side.
Day 4 of the advent box (belated)
Bitter with this odd dry spice flavor that I can't place.
Day three is not the best
This was darkly flavorful like a bourbon barrel aged beer, but without the parts that stab at your tongue like the proverbial scorpion.
I was really surprised to like this.
Hooray for the Two Brothers Advent box.
This is interesting.
I can smell the barrel on it, but it's fairly mild on the taste.
It's a hard, slightly bitter sour with no fruit. I.e. a correct sour.
Honestly it had a good, complex flavor profile
Sweet, fruity, but not really along the direction of a sour, or even really a beer.
It was nice to drink, but not like a beer.
Bitter, but pretty tasty.
It dragged after a while, so I reduced it from a solid to decent.
Pretty much what it says on the tin. It's like a macrobrew, but it tastes good.
Strong juice and hops. Mild bitterness. It's very tasty though I can only take small sips at a time.
Light, lemony. Barely bitter at all. But at least it's not a shanty.
Bitter, little bit of orange.
Not bad. Clearly an IPA
This was billed as a pilsner on the menu.
My comment at the time: "Tasty. Light. Lemony. Not bitter. I'll admit it doesn't seem like a pils. Light, sweet, tasty. "
Yeah, it's not a pils, it's a Fruit and Field beer.
Not bad as a drink.
Bitter, somewhere between brackish German and clear Czech. Reasonably heavy and bitter.
Reminds me of some Claim Jumper ale, maybe the red (though this was not at all red).
This is actually the best of the Bunch. Clean, effervescent, reasonably tasty.
I'd have this again.
A bland, timid entry suitable perhaps for patients recovering from surgery.
It is a quad, which I like. But it is also barrel aged, which I don't.
Those who like their barrels would enjoy this. I wish one of those folks were around to give my last can to.
Tasty.
Dry, bitter like dark chocolate. Maybe hints of caramel, but there's no sweetness here.
Sweet and kind of fruity. I'm not sure why this is considered an IPA, but I like it.
This tastes skunky, so I don't know if it's a fair review.
It's a fairly clear taste underneath the nastiness at least?
Dry bitter IPA that nevertheless has some of the flavor notes of a juicy IPA.
It's a nice, mild red. Not too bitter or brackish, but not super clear.
Feels like it would appeal to the mass market.
This is nice. Though maybe I was influenced by reading about the pilsner malt. It was clean, both lightly bitter and lightly sweet. I didn't really think it tasted anything like gummy bears, which would have been a bad thing.
It's very bourbon barrel aged.
Hard for me to drink.
But I appreciate my friend for trying. :^)
Not bad, but more like one of those European dark soda-like beer than a real beer beer.
I don't expect a stout lover would love it.
More bitter and less flavor than the love of hops. But has a clear refreshing character that reminds me a bit of a good pils, except that there's some sweetness.
Actually, I'm really liking that. And that's despite it tasting a little skunked (this is not a great restaurant)
It's a nice marzen flavor cut through with a sharp bitterness.
I think this would be way better work food.
OTOH, beer feels necessary anyway.
Goose Island Matilda Belgian Style Ale (unknown release)
Initially, I really liked it. The bottle tagline is "Rustic, Complex, Alluring". I'll give it at least the first two. Complex. Mineraly, pretty interesting.
It is indeed Amber.
Actually had a nice hard bitterness as an Amber should.
It was pretty good. Not too sweet, somewhat bitter. I don't know, go drink it yourself.
It's okay. This time was sort of watery orange-flavored with very little of the hefeweizen spices.
I immediately said "ooh, ow". So that's not a good sign. It's hard and bitter with little in the way of redeeming qualities. I'm guessing the hard core IPA folks would like this.
I don't know. It's pretty tart, but I'm not sure if I like it. Weird efforvescence, some wateriness, I don't know man.
Light, but kind of tastes fake, like the Raspberry flavor is from a packet. I'm guessing that's not true, but it's how it tastes.
It's like a brunch of Cherry skins have been steeping in some beer. I'm impressed how dark Cherry it tastes.
Honestly this isn't doing it for me. Maybe I don't really like Oktoberfest beers.
Luckily for them, the marginal cost of the next 5 is in fact free . . .
Actually tastes a little barrel aged, which makes it interesting. But not too offensive to my taste.
Sweet and spiced, honestly I think the beer base might be really good, but I don't really like the perfumed spice on top of it.
So, this tasted like a very normal marzen that had been skunked. However the server (who notably was terrible at his job) made a sotto voce comment about it being tapped yesterday. So, it's possible it's just a very bad beer.
This was very tasty, the sour flavor was forward but had a nice base in the IPA bitterness.
As usual, if you want something stupidly sour, Destihl delivers.
Pickeringly sour, though I've had worse from them.
The pineapple sweetness completely cancels out any APA bitterness. It's actually a little weird drinking it on its own. With food, the sweetness comes out a bit more making it easier to drink.
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