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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Extremely delicious, I feel like this may have been the best straight peanut butter stout I've had, maybe?

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.

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

Wasn't a huge fan - hits you with a ton of whisky up front and the aging is on the sour side. It's not quite as "turned" tasting as I've encountered at places like Big Block, but this isn't really my favorite kind of stout.

A consdierable increase in funk from the Alexandra and has none of the lightness or mellowness that tempered the tartness. This is much more one-note and I can't exactly claim to have detected hints of the sea.

A light, slightly tangy saison with a scent of grape and a mellow, lightly bitter grassy fragrance that is tea-like and subtle. Very nice and light.

A lightly tangy gose, with a big hit of watermelon candy flavor. Not a huge fan when a watermelon beer basically turns into a Jolly Rancher over say, something more like fresh juice.

Really nice, cinnamon forward and slow build of heat from the chilies. It was nice and straightforward after the Foggy Noggins.

This one is not nearly as funky, but also maybe the most straightforwardly hoppy of the bunch. There's hints of sourness but the primary sense I got from this was hops and malt.

The most wildly complex of the three, and definitely the one that foamed the most. There's similarities to the 2018 but also a lot more funk: mushroomy, maybe? Or bleu cheese-like. Hard to say I loved it but it was interesting.

The most like a wild saison, and the driest of the three. No idea whether these have turned because my notes on 2020 last time did not give a hint of how wild and sour these were.

Thick, extremely sweet and rum-like, with a candy-like coconut character. It was way over the top, I thought.

This was really good. I wish I could remember more details, but I do recall it was very red wine-like with some tannic dryness, but delicious.

It's a Guinness!

Toffee, bourbon.

Funky and dry, lightly tart and vinous. Very tasty.

Sweet, caramel, a hint of cinnamon. Thinner than I remember Dragon’s Milk being, but it’s been a long while. Tasty.

At once candy-bar sweet and profoundly complicated in the usual manner of The Abyss, which is an aspect I don't usually enjoy. In particular the woody, inky, tobacco-like finish is not very harmonized with the opening sweetness.

I've been told the apple makes this feel "less special," but I do like that the musty tart-sweet of the apple neutralizes any of the hints of syrup that a beer like the Belgian Red had. Both of these were Glarus-typical barely-beers, but quite pleasant.

Definitely avoids the cough syrup-ness of the last tasting, although it does very much skirt the edge. Nicely tart up front; there's just a hint of too-sweet on the aftertaste.

I don’t know if this turned, which would be surprising after 2+ years, but this wasn’t great. Murky, caramel, astringent. Lots of sediment which was unpleasant.

Smells more tart than actually comes through in the flavor, which is a very pleasant grape/peach. Ends with some funk and is maybe too sweet, but is nice.

This went bad, very bad. This was basically rubbing alcohol with a fungal aftertaste.

Caramel, faint spice, brandy. Tastes a bit like a boozy, less-sweet ginger-molasses cookie. It's fairly mellow. The flavor doesn't totally resolve into something unified but it is tasty overall.

I mean, this is almost like drinking strawberry preserves fresh from the jar. It's so, so jammy. It's not cloying, though, I think the rhubarb halts the sweetness right at the very end into something a tiny bit funky and tart.

Again, need to take away points for this not at all tasting like kimchi. But if you're in the mood for a tart but effervescent ginger drink with a hit of heat, this might fit your needs.

Tastes like a sweetish pale with a bitter brett funk that is pleasant, but comes off a bit like leather perfume.

A funky beginning, kind of like musty peach, but resolves to a clean, tart plum flavor. Ends unsophisticated but enjoyable.

A really nice counterpoint to the House of Pancakes. Smells strongly of peanut butter; the beer itself is thinnish and only mildly sweet, which is nice and kind of lets a base flavor of beer poke through. More peanut butter cereal milk than it is a brownie, but I liked it.

Undoubtedly weird. More campfire than bacon but you can squint and taste it, but the weird thing about this is that it's quite sour. Tart citrus, like someone took lemon juice to the cast-iron after finishing the bacon? It's an interesting smoky sour, but what I don't get at all between all of it is maple or pancakes.

I think if there was an ideal West Coast IPA this would be pretty close to it. Lager-like in opening, with clean cereal notes, which transitions to measured piney hops. Finishes with a strong but not pithy bitterness.

Sharp citrus on the nose compared to the Pizza Pals, more lime. On top of a cereal IPA base with some lager-like dryness. I found this very enjoyable.

Sweet, citrus, recalls childhood memories of Five Alive.Slight bitterness, but very drinkable and accessible.

This one fizzed out the bottle and kept going for a long time, which made me fear something a little over-yeasted, but it was fine. Hints of pepper and spice on top of a roasty, medium thick stout. Not sure I tasted much bourbon, but the Tweak may have changed my palate.

Couldn't find a batch number on the bottle. Delicious, roast coffee and smooth booze, certainly not oversweet and not raw either.

Definitely not drunk fresh, but this was still really good - fizzy and drying up front with a caramel sweetness, kind of like a Vienna lager crossed with a pale.

Lots of caramel, but if there was apple in here I couldn't detect it. Tough beat for the palate going third though.

Smells more tart than it tastes, and it tastes very wine-like, like a bubbly dry champagne with some berry notes and some deifnite funk. I liked it a lot.

Sour, a little funky, vinous and buttery on the finish. Slightly better than the Firestone Walker. (Bottled 9/17/21)

The taste of sweet, good coffee.

Quite sour with a buttery funk at the end. Good but also challenging.

Juicy but clean, the can is old so the hop presence is muted but it’s quite good.

Quite tart, typical for Matchless, but with a bright, jammy, strawberry flavor. Cereal sweetness on the end.

Clove forward, a bit like a banana muffin although the yeasty tartness kind of cuts the esters.

Sweet, a bit syrupy. Cherry and an unusual spice profile… it made me think a little too much of sweet Italian sausage- fennel maybe?

Malty, clean, just a bit of toast.

I don't know if this has turned or something? But it does have more of a metallic, hoppy resing, drying finish than I would have expected from a nut brown. It was ok, but ok at best.

Unusual! More like a hoppy pale with pumpkin spice added. I have some more cans of this, which is lucky, because I need to revisit this.

Extraordiarily drinkable... a dry fruity haze with a pleasant woody, botanical gin flavor that builds up over time but never gets boozy. Really loved this.

Very hoppy for the style, tastes more like a west coast pale. Not what I wanted. Then again, what was I expecting from a Costco beer?

After the Sir Isaac this tasted like a moderately-but-not-too-sweet Almond Joy-esque candy bar. After the Hoppin' Honey this somehow didn't taste very alcoholic despite being stronger. Weird day, but I really loved this one.

Tastes like a sweeter Bourbon County, which is maybe a bit much? But you definitely get that raisin/fig molasses caramel on top. Not sure I really got Graham Cracker in here (other than, well, sweet).

Hazy, tropical, smooth. Quite nice.

Smells strong. Tastes strong. Sweet and boozy, reminds me of the Helldorado, I think? Pretty raw.

Okay, this is legitimately weird. I thought this was going to be a stout at first and when it poured bright violet I was surprised. Thick, almost sludgy, the smell is intense peanut butter. First sip is very berry jam, which is a weird transition, and then it goes peanut butter again. I've never really had a beer like this before, but it actually did satisfy my desire for a stout.

It certainly tastes like black currant, which is nice and unusual, but like most of these New Glarus fruit beers, is way more juice than beer. I usually have a hard time drinking intensely fruity berry juices, and this had more or less the same effect on me.

Really a tasty lager. Starts very Bohemian but finishes with a bit of hay and cereal, brackish finish. Nicely balanced. Not sweet like a Helles, but has a good body.

Really nice, mild on the pumpkin spice, but most of the flavor is a rounded one from pumpkin flesh.

Clean, white pepper. More Belgian-tasting than expected.

First impression is that the tangerine is dry and essence-y. This isn’t a juicy radler, and makes it a less-refreshing experience. That said, the flavors are pretty good here.

Nice light, smooth weizen with floral citrus notes.

I didn't take notes on this one, unfortunately. I have a vague recollection that I didn't taste any mint at all, which would have been a disappointment for something staking its claim on the Frango name.

Just lightly roasted, not sweet, not thick. The right amount of peanut. I thought this was delicious.

Maybe it was in opposition to the Hanami but this was very much on the edge of syrupy.

Dry, champagne-like. Dries out on the tongue which is probably from the tea. Delicious.

Starts off with a weird herbal taste, but gets better.

The first swig of this is super weird, the fenugreek gives it a bitter, Chinese herbal medicine like quality. There's a really nice brown ale behind it and as your palate gets adjusted it ends up being quite pleasant. However, "it burned my taste buds until it was fine" is not really a ringing endorsement for a beer.

This... wasn't bitter at all? It tasted awesome. I don't know if my taste buds were burnt after two strong beers, but this just tasted light, sweet, and unexpectedly refreshing.

Pretty good, hazy grapefruit-citrus. Spicy rye on top and a somewhat bitter finish. I liked it, but it wasn't as good as the beer that came before it or the one that came after.

Pours clear, tastes of mellow caramel and bourbon. Lightly sweet and finishes clean, not a hint of bitterness. Very yummy.

Sweet and vegetal, about where you start asking the question: “how hazy is too hazy?” At least it’s not bitter.

Like drinking a spruce tree. Very bitter finish.

Quite good, wish I had my wits about me.

Ends like the Misguided Youth but the start is more bitter.

Starts the same as the summer IPA but gets resinous fast.

Smooth. Burnt bitterness. I think this one is now clearly on the side of over-aged - it's definitely missing a lot of the complexity and there's nothing to buffer the finish.

Molasses, smooth florality from the lavender. Just on the edge of a fruitiness. If Botan Rice Candy were a beer this would be it.

Smooth, unsurprising lager flavors. Sweetness from honey and alcohol combine nicely.

Best of the bunch, just slightly better than the Reuben's. But I mean, this is a barrel aged dark beer, so it had an unfair advantage.

This is... not much like the regular Crikey! at all. Super hazy, thick and juicy. Smells super dank but the flavor is much more balanced - I think the resin is there but it's just balanced out enough by the tang and citrus. Liked this one a lot.

Slightly better than the Bruery, but not by much. Strong vanilla, strong clove, A little too sweet. Not great.

Fake cherry syrup and chocolate flavor. Sticks in the back of your throat. I've been pretty disappointed with this whole series so far, and from a brewery that's usually quite strong.

More immediately enjoyable than the Hazelnut Vanilla Latte variant. There's a rich chocolate scent and flavor that really meets the expectations of the name.

Quite tart, dominating blueberry flavor. I've enjoyed the berry flavors from Cascade maybe less than their other sours, but it was still pretty good.

Thin and cola-like, down to the flavor, which is effervescent and tangier than I expected. Hints of nutmeg or cinnamon and maybe cardamom. At no point during this glass did I come close to thinking "baklava."

Light, sweet, another beer that really evokes the memory of Captain Crunch Peanut Butter Crunch cereal milk. That's a flavor you'll never hear me complain about, sooooo....

You know when you go to Panera and get that hazelnut drip coffee? This is like the beer version of that. A little thicker, maybe, but the basic flavor matches and seems to work much better as a beer than as a coffee.

The bottle says "white stout" but there's nothing stout like about this. It tastes like an intensely raspberry wine cooler, juicy rather than tart, and since I dislike raspberry, oh well.

Quite good. The ingredients on this beer were interesting and usually strong flavors, but none of them came through especially clearly. Not in a bad way, though! I'll chalk it up to good balance.

Light, sweet, buttery coconut and chocolatey stout. Feels a little insubstantial, but it was certainly tasty at face value.

Very not-tart for a Gose; sweet and pie-like with a light lime flavor. I'd say that here the strong emphasis is on the sense of "pie" rather than the other components.

Smooth, sweet, thick. Primary flavor is molasses, brown sugar. Hints of spice though I would not say licorice is overt.

Mellow then sharply sour then mellow again. Stone fruit, hints of cinnamon, floral tea.

A creamy, mellow milk stout. Not quite as impressive as the IPA but a very solid stout.

One of the best juicy IPAs I've ever had, fruity, mellow, not bitter at all.

Much better than expected, though it is quite sweet, but it's balanced by a strong burnt sugar finish that suddenly drops in sweetness. Very maple; the underlying flavor is dark and fruity. Liked this a lot.

Very good; slightly sweet, smooth coconut; creamy Merlin flavor.

Weird, but somehow less offensive than the Belching Beaver from earlier today. Smells very much like Pledge, but drinks more subdued; slightly sweet, cloudy. The only real problem is the aftertaste, which has an herbal bitterness that isn't super pleasant.

Smells strongly of canned peaches, very curly. But flavor is good; sharply tart but moderated by vanilla and cinnamon. It does a good job of evoking peach pie.

Medium-strong tart, clean nectarine-grape flavor. Very little funk, compare to yesterday's Mandarine.

Very much in the vein of the Pickle Gose although this was decidedly less cucumber and more pickled chilies (think Mama Lil's, maybe?). It's got the same sourness level but is decidedly spicy. I liked this just as much, if not more. I KNOW I KNOW.

This was surprisingly good, I thought. I can't exactly say delicious, but I'd drink more of it. The smell is very much cucumber more than dill pickle, but you can get a hint of the pickling spices as you drink, leaving this clearly in the savory camp. Medium sour, slightly more refreshing than you'd imagine pickle juice. YES I'M WEIRD.

A real raspberry cordial kind of flavor but intensely -- disgustingly, even -- sweet. It doesn't help that I don't like raspberries, but I really don't think that was the problem here. Couldn't drink any more than a couple sips.

Thick Baltic porter, milky, a fair bit sweeter than expected but pleasant. It's decidedly medium-good, we've definitely had a lot better in this category.

Honestly, this felt like a big disappointment after the other two - especially right after the Molé Merkin. In comparison, there was a bit of a vegetal weirdness to the flavor here. It evened out after the palate adjusted, and it's hard to argue the easy appeal of sweet, but it definitely colored my experience.

This was super yummy! Not overwhelmingly sweet, but just smoothly dessert-like. A bit of heat on the backend.

So many winners from Firestone. This one was exactly as advertised, a sweet bourbon Manhattan flavor; cocktail-like until it veers back to beer territory right at the end. Boozy without being punchy or strong. Smooth, refined, and delicious.

This beer has been sitting around for quite a while but ended up still tasting fairly good. One of those concentrated hop juice flavor IPAs but somewhat milder, maybe due to aging. I wouldn't drink a lot of it but it was fine.

The flavor was nice at first, creamy with vanilla and an actual... grainy cloudiness that actually evoked graham crackers for once. But the overall texture was thinner than expected and there was a dry bad-porter sourness that cut the flavor short. A beer that screamed for a little more oomph.

Thick and syrupy with a strong scent of brown sugar. Rich esters and a moderately sour finish. A bit much to take, honestly.

Quite good; an IPA with a clear, round exotic fruit flavor. Just slightly resinous near the end.

Tasted like a German hefe - slightly spicy, strong banana esters. Strawberry? Not so much. No bright fruit flavors, just a kind of dry fruit sourness lingering behind the rest of the flavors. If they used as much strawberry as they claim, they need to find a better approach to getting that flavor into the beer.

A dark belgian, caramel and figs. Quite boozy but with a very enjoyable flavor; it's more of a straight alcohol character rather than the bourbon in the description, which was ... not really detectable to me. With some aging this should be superb.

Smoothed out a bit with age. Almost gritty on first sip after the sours, but it got better. Thick and sweet, with a long, mild vanilla following the initial alcohol hit all the way to the finish. Sticks around a little in the throat afterwards.

Much, much better than the Museum Dose. Tamarind is clear on the start and in the aftertaste, dry and tart. The late middle is tea-like and mellow, probably from a combination of the lapsang and the cocoa (but the latter is not really distinguishable). Still weird, but actually enjoyable.

Smells woody/birchy, with maybe a hint of smokiness. The flavor is... really weird. Fruity sourness and the sarsaparilla and birch clash in a way that creates odd illusions of mint and herbal medicine on the tongue. If you squint this is interesting. If you don't it's just almost nasty.

Love wine barreled stouts, and this is ... big winner. I foolishly didn't take notes and this was a couple weeks ago, but I have another bottle so I'll write more then.

Puts the syrup in syrupy, oh lord. At this point I'm not sure I have liked any of these maple breakfast stouts; the coffee is just inspidily sweet, but the maple seems tacked-on and thin, not natural. By the end of my glass I was having a real hard time. (FWIW, I really didn't enjoy CBS, either)

Actually quite similar to the Hoof Hearted to the point where I had to take a double taste. The differences were in a slightly oilier character and a more exposed alcohol flavor. Otherwise, pretty much the same.

A fruity, orange-grapefruit hazy beer. Some oily rind bitterness, and an intensity of fruit flavor that makes me think IPA more than pale, but it doesn't finish bitter, which is nice.