The Pine Box

1600 Melrose Ave

Seattle, WA, United States of America

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Hazy, oily, like concentrated hip essence. Borders on spicy. It’s definitely extreme without feeling over the top but it’s not exactly refreshing. One to explore if you just want to feel one with the hops.
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Hit much nicer today, but I was fresh. Very smooth, light spice, murky and pumpkiny. Plus it’s nice being back at the Pine Box.
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A very dank, hoppy, musty smell, almost like a locker room. The flavor is syrupy and sweet and boozy - a gin and tonic made with beer. Lots and lots of grapefruit on the palate.
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A bready, spicy porter with definite Belgian notes and a thick, malty head. The berry flavors are clear and fruity but not sour. Smooth for its strength. An unusual but tasty beer.
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Dark, thick, boozy beer with mellow chocolate notes and a hint of cherry, I thought. I think it may have come from wood (although it wasn't noted as wood-aged), as well as a strong, building bitterness typical of wood chips. I enjoyed this a lot at first but couldn't finish the glass.
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Exactly as advertised. Without being overtly sweet, there is a creamy chocolate shake characteristic to this beer, with a note of espresso nibs on top. Very enjoyable.
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Very sweet, but ridiculously good. Slightly effervescent, with a nice apple-y twang and a boozy, complex caramel sweetness. 18% sneaks up on you quickly, though.
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Starts creamy, like an oatmeal pale, but dries out quickly, revealing some alcohol in the flavor. Finishes with some abrupt resins and woody bitterness. Unusual and disjointed.
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Dry sourness, puckeringly so. But a sweet wheaty finish.
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A little too bitter, but really nice tropical fruit flavors and a clean spicy hop finish. A bit of resin on the tongue and alcohol is a little on the nose in flavor, and gets stronger.
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Smells sour, but flavor is only mildly tart. Sweet malt with coriander. A little musty.
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Someone mixed a piney IPA with bitter lemon soda. The effect is, unfortunately, a bit Lemon Pledge. Intermittent prickles too, which is a bit like what I imagine drinking something mildly poisonous is like.
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Holy jalapeno. I like chilies - don't get me wrong - but this is absolutely on the more extreme end of a chili beer, with lots of pith and seed in the flavor.
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Light,effervescent, just a hint of sour. A nice summery drink .
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More barrel than whiskey, a roasty, medium-thick porter with a slight sour tinge. Drying wood bitterness to close.
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Without any kind of carbonation, this was pure resin syrup. Bitter and dank and very unpleasant.
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A medium-thick stout of the Old Rasputin variety, with a smooth, light roast coffee sheen and a full body. Very enjoyable.
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A thick, pungent stout gets even moreso. The Randalled ingredients come through extremely clearly - the chocolate and coffee are both pretty good, although syrup-thick. The wood chips are a bit of a problem, woody and bitter and building fast on the finish. I couldn't imagine finishing a full glass of this.
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A bourbon-barreled... pilsner? Well, I had to try it. It's not much like a pilsner, although there's plenty of bourbon, which plays with the yeast to make an almost fruity flavor. I thought it might have been a pale ale at first, but the absurdly clean, slightly bitter finish went in another direction.
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Dry, saisony pale with a bit of white wine hat the front and back of the flavor. Subtle tartness and a pleasant late cereal entrance. There's a strong, yeasty funk bitterness that pervades the flavor and builds up over time. It overwhelms the flavor a bit, knocking it down a notch.
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Had just a taste of this. Pleasantly funky-tart with a pleasant malt flavor. I will definitely try this again, and in a larger portion, if I see it.
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Inky-thick stout with a roast malt flavor. Unlike other oyster stouts, there isn't a clear saline aspect or any kind of tongue-coating umami flavor -- at least not that I could detect. Instead, there was a hint of something around the edges giving a sense of depth. I think that gave it a sense of Imperial strength, despite it being only 6%. Quite good.
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An interesting sour -- opens slightly plummy but the sourness is unexpectedly umami; Worcestershire-like. It's not savory, per se, but really recalls flavors that wouldn't be out of place in a steak sauce. Finishes tingly but clean. It's more interesting than it is delicious, but I'm glad I tried it. (6 oz goblet)
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Prickly cinnamon and light cocoa; a nice change from the procession of cinnamon beers lately in that it no way resembles Red Hots. Finishes very mildly; whatever base stout doesn't assert itself. This is very much a cinnamon drink. Very tasty but not the life changer it was hinted as. (6 oz goblet)
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Alcohol a little more pronounced than I remember. Still quite tasty. (6 oz goblet)
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Hair of the Dog Fred (unknown release)
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Seriously, the sweetest cider I've ever had. Basically apple juice.
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