This was about as good as you could expect of a non-barrel aged stout; creamy, sweet, slightly boozy and roasty. I still don't know what I had back in Chicago, but it could have been this. Who knows?

Watery caramel scotch ale. Bit of wet hay.

Main flavor here is hazelnut, creamy and nutty. It really manages to overcome the sweet umami heaviness that usually characterizes this family of beers. Only real complaint here is that the chili was pretty much a non-entity here. I didn't taste it at all.

Very similar to the pale, but with a fair bit more high bitterness at the end.

A mellow pale with a medium resin-on-the-tongue hop presence. Really drinkable and fairly tasty.

Smells like a fruity red, tastes like a fruity red. Well, with stout caramel on top, which makes it taste a lot like prunes. Tacky sourness lingers in the throat. Maybe this'll get better with age, but ... meh for now.

Sweetish drip coffee but with an unpleasant vegetal flavor right up front. Not so convenient.

This was... kind of nasty. Smells good, but you're hit by a really funky, sweaty-something flavor to open. It goes fairly quickly to a sour, decent peach flavor, but the very next sip starts 100% funky all over again. Unlike many sours, this doesn't get better the more you drink.

NOOOO FRANCIS, FAREWELL I CRY FOREVER

Absolutely disgusting. Sickly sweet, smoke is like a tire fire, acrid and bitter.

Really interesting. Bracingly tart on open, with a hop-bitter-sourness (not at all salty). Finishes clean, and all fresh grape. Each sip was a flinch followed by pleasure. Basically unlike any other sour I've had.

A profound stout. Starts thick and malty, a combination that very often turns to overwhelming sweetness (see: Skookum). This one, though, turns a bit bitter, almost savory. A very nice way to finish. Yum!

Don't smell or taste bergamot, which is most disappointing. Honey-like sweetness, some bready, tripel-like Belgian body. Pleasant but forgettable. And not Earl Grey! For that, try Breakside.

This had turned, I think. Smelled like a scotch ale, but tasted like sour celery.

A middling quad with a little more clove than I loved. But not bad.

They keep making these POG beers, and very few of them taste anything like POG. This continues the trend. The fruit flavors are oily and bitter, and the whole thing ends in a foamy, pithy mess.

Absolutely delicious. Very dry brett bitterness, a vinous, fruity grape middle and clean cereal to finish. This was like a better, much cleaner Pour les Oiseaux, which was a beer I used to love very much.

A hoppy, malty, amber barleywine. I mean, it was beer, and it wasn't bad, but it also wasn't exactly the most memorable thing. And it was priced like it should be memorable.

The utter flatness of the beer is strange at first, but it passes by quickly. Very solid stout, and omg, this tastes like a Manhattan. Sweet and lightly woody, fruit and caramel. This'll knock you out quick, but you'll have a great time while it happens.

This was a lot better than it sounded, but it wasn't great. A lot of resin in this IPA, smoothed out quite a bit with what does seem very much like marshmallow. The sweetness is both weird and appealing, and I can't tell which side wins.

At first I thought this was the best one, although with some more distance between the beers the tequila is a little wooly here. Wooly in a good way for sure! But some moods might prefer the straightforwardness of the Scotch version.

Directly after the brandy version this was a bit dry and a lot bitter, but with more separation this really grew on me. I think this may have been the best one in the end.

Fruity, sweet and very smooth. Really, really tasty. It may not have ended up at the top of the flight, but there's no way to really fault this beer.

A strong banana lager. That's basically my takeaway here. Untappd called this a maibock, which does seem appropriate. Beeradvocate says German Pilsner, which... well, this would be a bad one. Another generic beer from the Costco Advent Calendar box.

Always good. Maybe a little funkier than I remember?

Excellent, mild, creamy milk stout with very light coffee and pronounced coconut flavors. Mildly sweet, not too thick. None of the metallic aftertaste that Belching Beaver's other stouts can have. This was delicious.

Very sour, puckeringly so. Tons of peach, with a kind of coconut aftertaste, which may have been an interaction with the floral flavors, but nothing tasted floral outright. A little too sour for me to love.

Unrelentingly sour, with the most intense peach flavor. A lot to deal with.

Sour enough that I think this bottle has turned. If it hasn't, it's unpleasant.

Sour. I didn't much like the original Brunch Weasel, but I'm absolutely sure I like this one less.

A concentrated hop juice IPA, plenty of resin and a lot of pine. Relatively smooth finish for such an intense beer, which puts it a step above most hop bombs. Thanks to Nate for bringing this!

A little less overtly enjoyable than I remember; maybe because the growler wasn't fresh? It was still good though.

A great palate cleanser after the stout. Better than I remember, clearly hoppy but also sweet and cereal, finishing cleanly and without overt bitterness.

Pours dark and thick, super umami and tacky-sour. The comment was made that this tastes like Vegemite. The residue in the throat lasts much longer than is reasonably necessary. At any rate, it wasn't pleasant.

Rich wood smoke combined with a light, sweet wheat beer with more than a little unusual florality (as in flower, not hop). The overall effect is both pungent and light, like a chrysanthemum tea. I really found this compelling.

Disgusting, I thought. Very sweet lemonade and cold coffee. That combo wouldn't work for me, even before bringing beer into the equation.

If the peasant king was like a Squirt, this was like an Orangina. Bitter citron. Definitely a double IPA in terms of intensity. Pretty good, though!

Flavor is in the same ballpark as the Peasant King, although less intense in every way.

Very New England. Thick, juicy, opaque, like a beer version of a Squirt.

Fresh tasting and intense, pithy. Undoubtedly this is a legendary beer, but it's not my ideal IPA.

Light, non-descript, caramel-hop amber.

It's like they took the slightly tangy yeast of an American hefe and mixed it into a sweet helles lager. Not estery or spicy, and the dry hops come across as a kind of round, lightly grape-y flavor. Very refreshing light, but bright and tasty.

Smelled like any number of blunt whiskey stouts, but this was a hugely pleasant surprise. Clear whiskey notes that immediately smooth out into a clean, vanilla-caramel finish. No tackiness, sourness, or even moderate roast. Delicious!

A standout, a light dark lager with light, rich wood smoke melting into a smooth caramel finish. Ghost of a peaty scotch in the finish. Really, really tasty.

Tastes a lot like an English or Scottish lager, grassy, wet-hay. Light finish. Pretty good but not especially remarkable.

Very tart, slightly salty on the lips. Clearly recognizable as strawberry.

Very, very hazelnutty. Only issue with this beer is that the base brown ale is very thin, would have liked more creaminess to add some backbone to the pleasant nut flavor. My memory of the Rogue puts it a couple notches above this.

Okay, I liked this? Sweet-ish, light Mexican lager. But I absolutely got no hint of habanero, which, if you're gonna list it on the can, you really need to back up. Right?

Smells like eggnog. Tastes like an eggnog candle. Next.

Tastes like gingerbread. Slightly spicy, definitely smooth. I don't exactly remember what Sam Adams' similar beer tasted like, but I think I enjoyed this about as much, which was plenty.

Yeahhhhh. No.

This was... definitely a double IPA.

Smells deliciously of coconut, no doubt the dominant flavor. This is an unabashedly sweet beer, very dessert-like. Light coffee slightly counteracts it, but it's still very intense. This is a hair less balanced than the basically-perfect coconut B-Bomb, but it's definitely delicious.

Smoother than the Doctor, although there is a subtle bitterness that gets stronger over time. Likewise the chili flavor, which is subtler than in other beers, but was quite warm and lingery by the end.

Delicious, smooth stout with a fragrance of... sesame? That toasted, unique nutty flavor made this a delight to drink. Yummmm.

Semi-flat from an intercontinental trip in a... plastic soda "growler?" Still, very decent flavors, a light citrus-pine-hop opening and a pilsner-like bitter finish. You can definitely see the lager side here, which is more than many IPLs can claim.

I thought the smell was a bit odd. Flavor is more chocolate than cinnamon, medium-thick, fairly smooth and milky. A bit more dry sourness than I was expecting, and a nice roasted / subtly smoky finish. Aftertaste is tacky, unfortunately -- from the lactose?

Unpleasantly sour, like a dry export stout but with a more lasting, tacky finish. The real crime, however, is that this doesn't even pretend to taste like cookies. Or even chocolate.

Listen, I wasn't looking forward to this and it blew my expectations out of the water. A superbly balanced, light IPA, with Bale Breaker's typically fragrant approach to hopping. The mango is not sweet or syrupy at all, just somehow a bright, fruity, realistic, essence-of-mango. I mean, drop the mic. This worked.

I had a less-witty description for this and I forgot that too. Let's just say this Costco box is not filling me with "the holiday cheer," okay?

I had a really witty description for this ready and sometime in the past two weeks I totally forgot it, sorry.

Still a superb beer. Not profound, I think its lightness prevents that, but so, so smoooooth.

Despite having plenty of concentrated hop juice, this worked really well. The additional flavors (mint, mango, chili) come through as a brightness and a non-alpha bitterness that round out and balance the flavors very well. No detectable spice, though.

A very nice German pilsner, a definite step up from the previous two beers.

Day 4. This had a really strange flavor at the front, that didn't connect to the main flavor of the beer, which was like a light Belgian pale base. The extra flavor was ... sweet hay?

Day 3 of the Advent calendar. Some really nice foreflavors; a gingerbread/banana bread hybrid. Finishes pretty dry; it certainly felt like it should have been a little sweeter.

Day 2. Pours a rich amber. Caramel festbier, lightly sweet. Not much toastiness or cereal. Pretty boring Festbier.

Day 1 of the Advent calendar! A golden lager with wet hay sweetness leading to a firm bitterness which balanced the opening nicely. Not crisp at all.

At once richly malty, like a holiday-spiced dark banana bread, and also very yeasty-dry. This beer feels like it wants to be sweet but doesn't quite get there. Finishes tacky. I liked the flavors but it stuck in the throat.

Had a bigger taste of this. There really isn't any detectable smoke in the flavor of this beer. It has a light touch, more like a soft German chocolate cake; lots of caramel sweetness and some smooth cocoa on top. It's not super-compelling, but it's decently tasty.

Super, super sour. Almost a savory pineapple. Dries out your mouth almost instantly, although that moment a minute after your sip where all the saliva suddenly comes back is... pretty neat.

Mounds? Mounds. Rather less sophisticated than I would have expected from this brewery, but... Mounds.

Yasssss... Super-smooth dark chocolate cake opening. Creamy texture, biscuity sweetness. Habanero's hard to taste at first, just a bit of fruity tingle on the front of the tongue, but builds up into a pleasant warmth after a couple ounces. Pretty darned tasty.

Rounded orange flavor, like a Satsuma Mandarin, leading into a very front-of-tongue bitter hop-resin flavor. Finishes clean. It was ok.

I mean... Does it even have to be good with this name? But it was. Oh, yes it was.

Yeah, this tastes fresh all right, but also very bitter for a pale. Piney rather than fruity. Alcohol pokes through in a way I didn't quite like.

Last review holds.

Thick, syrupy, candy-like, like a liquid Ferrero-Rocher candy. Chocolate, nut-butter, a lot of sweetness. This wouldn't ever hit my top tier as a beer, but as a dessert, it's quite lovely.

Really strange. Like, this is definitely an IPA, with lots of fragrance and hops, but with a very tropical turn into coconut and pineapple. Manages to stay light instead of nectary. I liked this, weird as it was.

Pours rich, and thick, and this is BOURBON! above all, but what makes this beer work is that despite the BOURBON! and the clear, rich coconut flavor, this manages not to be cloyingly sweet, or even sweet as a first impression. That's a really delicate thing to accomplish. This was a really, really good beer, you guys.

Jake brought in a beer! I really liked this. Pretty strong hop presence in the opening, with pungent pineapple notes, hints of grapefruit. Finishes with a malty cereal smoothness. It's been a while since I expored Full Sail's lineup, might be time again.

Much less sweet than expected; a savory banana cake of a beer, super smooth finish. Just a bit of yeasty tang sticks in the throat. Very nice from this brewery, as usual.

Sweet banana bread and a lot of yeasty tang to cut through the sweetness at the end.

Smooth, caramel, light flavored scotch ale with a pleasant but very bourbon-forward flavor.

What would be a light, banana-clove-white-pepper Belgian pale ale is shot in the face with a huge hit of wet-wood-smoke flavor. It's a little bit (lot bit) like drinking a doused smoke bomb.

Same great Pumking flavor, but this is enhanced by the rum to give kind of an apple-cider-syrup hit of both fruit and sweet. I liked this a lot, although there is a significantly strong bitterness in the finish.

Smell and opening flavor are a really nice green apple fruitiness; almost candy-like. Some sweet cereal in the meantime, but very shortly, hops and funk combine for a pretty musty finish. I found myself really wanting this to be brighter.

Starts with a high roast opening and then smooths out with a sweet, cloudy honey-funk flavor. I actually thought it was too sweet, too mellow; it removed any kind of edge on the finish and I think this beer needed that.

Yup, this is pretty much what I'd want given a beer with this name. Forward flavor of dark chocolate, with buttery, toasted coconut. Dry, lightly-roasted finish. Tastes exactly like a dark chocolate haystack or truffle. I can't say I picked up a lot of whiskey flavor though.

The background here is an indistinct acidic fruit flavor, like a bitter tomato, maybe. Still, the main beer is a pleasantly medium-sour beer with a slightly salty aftertaste. I would have liked a little more distinct tomatillo-ness.

Sweet and dessert-like opening, smooth caramel. Thinner in feel than you'd think given that description, and I thought the saltiness came across as unpleasantly briny. The salt makes the turn from sweet to roasty less appealing.

Definitely a close relative of the Kristallweiss, so the differences are interesting. First, it's definitely stronger in alcohol. It's also somewhat murkier in flavor - more funk, not as bright. It is, however, still very nice. I don't know why you'd pick this over the other, though, unless you're trying to build up the courage to put on that Drindl.

Bright, unsweet, banana-spice biscuit flavor, I don't always like banana-spice, but when I do, it's this beer.

A light, dry lime bitterness at the start which fades into a thinnish, clean, cereal blonde ale finish. Slightly salty.

Oddly, this tastes more like a pina colada sour (strongly pineapple; coconut impression could believably be a result of honey & diacetyls). Little to no funk. Less floral than I'd have expected. Still, this was interesting and quite tasty.

Like dark, molassesy zucchini bread, more bready than sweet. V. slightly on the thin side but a really good, smooth, flavor. Tastes like autumn.

Not as good as Widmer's take on the same subject, but still ok. A lightly sweet, creamy porter with a roastier-than-expected finish. Lots of caramel in the flavor but wispy or nonexistent amounts of nut and coconut flavor. No cherry at all.

Bubblegum and grapefruit IPA. Fragrant and light, but after some of the remarkable IPAs of the past few days this one is pretty unmemorable.

Has an herbal, thyme-mixed-with-hops flavor that is an unusual opening. It's not a bad thing, but it does mask the wasabi quite a bit. The wasabi itself come through as an barely detectable spiciness that pokes through at the end, and more in a numbing tingle of the tongue that persists after the flavor.

Definitely doesn't taste as strong as advertised, and also doesn't have any characteristic Wit spice flavors. Instead, this tastes more like a sweet, creamy... I don't know, "milk blonde?" There isn't much grassiness from the tea, but more of a smooth matcha-latte Kit Kat effect. Tasty, if simplistic.

Okay, first of all, this smells a little unappetizing, like dish soap. But... it tastes pretty good! A mellow, buttery honey flavor offsets the herbal, surprisingly strong bitterness of the basil very nicely. Flavor borders just a bit on that soapiness but doesn't quite cross over. Science succeeds!

A strongly caramel / date barleywine, very sweet and boozy, although it finishes more with a smooth, sugary malt than with any harshness. Very much a dessert beer. Medium-thick.

Wet hay sweetness, slightly cloying. Have not been impressed with this brewery so far.

Smells of clean tropical fruit; I don't know if I'd say Dragon Fruit but it's less dank than your typical passion-pineapple mix. Flavor is bright and fruity, very mild resin and good effervescence. Finish is clean and not bitter. Very, very tasty!

And basically perfect, coffee edition.

Um, basically perfect, as usual.

So this loses some points just for being misadvertised. This does not taste at all like a Czech pilsner - it's got a lot of bright, dry hopped northwest hop flavors and the cereal is subdued. Moderate to strong bitterness. Decent for what it is, but I wanted something else.

A quite-tart, but super-balanced, round fruitiness, somewhere between grape and apple. Not too funky, but still complex. It didn't quite taste like other sour beers, but it was definitely sour, and very, very tasty.

Ugh, totally not my thing. Very yeasty amber; barely any "Belgian" flavor profile despite the label, but a dry, almost sour flavor and a harsh bitterness. Rare Unibroue total miss.

The lemon tastes weirdly tacked-on, like lemon drop perfume. The beer flavor underneath pokes through in the end and is relatively pleasant, but the progression between the flavors doesn't feel natural.

The Reserve series continues to outshadow the regular Dragon's Milk. This one is pretty much exactly as advertised, with chocolate, clear marshmallow notes and sweet-but-somehow-not-too-sweet flavor through the duration. Yum!

Syrupy thick, like other strong Avery stouts. Strong peanut flavor - not peanut buttery, but more like straight peanut. Some described it as "gritty." I liked the peanut. The rest of the stout was maybe a bit much.

Sweetish lager, pungent of wet hay. Makes me think of English beer more than it does German. Was okay.

Banana - clove - white pepper saison. Yeasty bitterness on the finish. Not bad, but not the style of saison I like.

Really good. I wish I'd taken better notes at the time. At least I know there's another bottle in the fridge.

Smells really nice; a bit like stewed peaches. Flavor is less overt, although still peachy, a little buttery. Medium-tart but not puckering, clean finish. Only faintly salty.

It's really kind of unforgiveable that with a setup like this I could not really taste anything umami about this beer. It certainly didn't have any of the unctuous brothy / fishy notes you'd expect from bonito. Instead, it's an okay IPA with distinct Belgian notes, on the sweet side. Huge minus points for the bait and switch.

Roasted, light coffee notes. Finishes with a lactic smoothness / curl. Experience makes me bucket this in with Baltic porters or other black lagers in a general crowd.

Dry, clear fruity sourness; starts fruity and ends quite tart. Not huge amounts of funk. Finish feels salty and gose-like although I'm not sure any actual salt was involved. Pretty good!

Roast porter with cream and coffee notes, topped with a jammy blackberry flavor that is super-clear in the fragrance but comes in as a background flavor on top before settling into the aftertaste. Might have been a clearer flavor if it hadn't been so strongly carbonated.

I think I liked this more than the regular Dragon's Milk by a fair margin. Not super bourbony, but otherwise the rest is as advertised, with light but clear spice and molasses flavors melding nicely with the base stout. Delicious.