Smells rooty, but flavor is very pleasant and mellow. Honey notes, slightly buttery. Nothing poky on either the fruit or yeast spectrum, but this is not a "lite" beer, either.

Interestingly savory smell. Wood smoke is front and center, although it is not as overpowering as some beers. Body is slightly sweet, slightly umami, and the Carolina reaper is understated but clear. Heat builds up but never to uncomfortable levels. Very well balanced flavors.

How can you go wrong with mesquite! Smoke em if you got enough!

Quite good though apparently mesquite smoking does wonders for this.

A bunch of citrus leading to a large malt roastiness, finish on the roast

Slightly bitter with amber malts leading to a big roastiness.

Not as appealing as last time. Picked up a trace of skunky fragrance, and the sweetness was a bit much by the end.

Pleasant, round west coast amber with a surprising and welcome hit of toasted malt flavor to add some sophistication. Very nice.

Getting a urinal cake odor and starting taste.

Sudsy taste and good bitterness. Mellowed out possibly by the cloudiness.

Maltier, citrus and resin. Not too bitter but more bitter than a.

Clearer than b. Light and thin body. Clean pure bitterness but soapy taste in finish.

Holy grapefruit! Some pine as well. Not too bitter on the palate or finish

It's clearly a quality beer and related to the other one, but this passes over into gratuitous pithy bitterness from beginning to end. In my mind, A wins this round.

Yummy grapefruit, passing through nice malt and moderate bitterness. Very balanced, and light, like a session IPA.

Basic amber malt flavors and some hazelnut. Very smooth

Roasted chocolate, medium bodied and a clean finish make this an awesome porter!

Crisp, wheat cereal body which works well with the bright, citrusy nature of the house yeast, with a slightly bitter finish that cuts sweetness & serves the flavor well. Definitely one to have again.

Bitter sharp end. Funky tangy cereal taste finish. Pleasant sweet body but finish distracts after a few sips.

For all intents and purposes, this was a CDA. Hoppy and bright, with what started out as a touch of coffee for good measure but mellows out into cola-like effervescence over time. Good, but I would also have enjoyed an actual brown.

Lots of fruity, fragrant hop juice flavor to open, with a candy-sweet fragrance that should have been cloying, but somehow resolved into just the right amount of sweet cereal malt. Maybe on another day this would have been terrible, but I liked it a lot today.

Similar to A on basic principles, but without the syrupy finish, resulting in a light, creamy stout that, even though it tasted slightly boozier, was a lot more drinkable.

Nitro smooth imperial stout with a kind of thick, syrupy umami finish. It was on the edge of cloying at first but at some point I got used to it and it started to taste a lot better.

A good-tasting, thinnish porter. The wood character is a little hard to pin down at first - if anything, it comes across as a kind of disconnected smokiness - not bad, but it didn't harmonize with the flavor. Possibly this would have tasted less dry if I hadn't just had the malt-bomb scotch ale.

Another new brewery, and I think that this first-try wee heavy is a winner. Malty sweet scotch ale flavor with a kind of rough-and-tumble rawness of character. That is, it's not as refined or smooth an experience like BBC's or Black Raven's scotch ales, but it can sit with the gang.