Smells a bit minty after the Quintessence. Too sweet! Almost fruity, with a candybar quality that is not unusual for this type of beer, although the mint herbality is different.

Smoky, sweet with a burnt sugar/campfire 'smore quality. Based on my memory of the Breakside Oligarch variant, that's the candy cap, with some umami. Coffee and vanilla follow. Normally I'd class this as too sweet but the flavors are so interesting!

A clean, lemon-pine IPA that leans toward the pine/spruce family of flavors. Very dry. There is something slightly acerbic in the smell.

Sweet, nectary peach flavor. Almost reminds me of an Asian soda in its candy-like fruit flavoring, although the finish is definitely tart. One of those sour peach gummies, maybe?

Like a simplistic accentuation of the previous lemon pine hops but kicked up a notch. Significantly more resin, although it does still culminate in a clean finish.

Extremely hazy, and really weird-tasting after the first two beers. Peppery, spicy, acrid. Butter and pine in the aftertaste, but more like an '80s scratch-n-sniff pine. Didn't work at all for me.

My favorite of the set, has the sweet mellow cereal of a German pils with a bit of the same lemon pine that characterized the Fancy Pants. A cleaner finish, marvelously balanced.

Bright, lemon pine, a touch of wine grape? Doesn't succumb to a perfume quality and a brackish finish brings the lager in and grounds the flavor.