Smells sweet and candy-like, but counteracted nicely by a dark-bread, slightly bitter opening. Follow through isn't there - I'd have liked more bready body. But this wasn't bad.

Nutty-funky and slightly rooty, like a less weird version of their Vienna lager and its successors. Nice caramel but the funk lingers tackily in the throat.

Like a sweet peppermint shake, built on the slightly smoky but very mellow woofer base. I think Hi-Fi is best at these dessert-like concoctions, and I certainly liked it better than Ballast Point's Peppermint Victory at Sea. Finishes clean, but the peppermint sticks with you; drink this last or it'll ruin your palate.

Doesn't really live up to the barrel-aged moniker, but this wasn't bad at all. Takes the thin, slightly savory woofer base and adds some wood complexity, with a touch of bourbon caramel (if not any expected sweetness thereof). Complex without being profound.

A little thinner, a little curlier in flavor, and less peanutty than I remember from last time. It was still OK, but not quite as good or memorable this time.

Smelled exactly like an orange creamsicle, which was weird and enticing. The flavor is more dank; like an herbal lemon drop, and without any sweetness whatsover. Made it taste a bit superficial, like a perfume. Wish it tasted like it smells; still, I drank the whole thing.

The must have changed up the recipe. This was pretty bad, like drinking pumpkin spice Pledge. Perfumey and way too much cinnamon. I couldn't even finish the taster.

The chai spices are a little strong and the overall character maybe over-sweet. There's a bit of lemony sourness as well which was off-putting at first but became almost decent after the pumpkin ale.

A hoppy amber with a nutty, funky turn that reminded me of that very first Vienna Lager here. Dat yeast, right? Some roast. Okay.

Initial, weird hit of sweet lemon candy, but resolves into a firm, very pleasant malt cereal flavor, almost toasted in character. Best glass of the flight, by a fair margin.

Smells a bit disturbingly of pine cleaner, but tastes better than that. Nice roasted notes, coupled with a pithy, high alpha hop bitterness. It builds up a bit much, which by the end was really hard to take.

Slightly watered down in character from what I was expecting, but once the fruit hits it's actually quite appealing. A very clean, semi-dry tartness, with a touch of sweet-funky wheat to close. A bit of a palate-wrecker, though... Watch what you plan to drink afterwards.

Not a whole lot of sesame - maybe some mild toastiness - and a plummy, but also tart (dragonfruit?) character layered on top of the Diablo base. It's not as good as the Diablo (I miss the purity of flavor) but it was still enjoyable.

This one is really great! Peanut butter flavors mix just great with the underlying beer.

Very subdued almost watered down sourness. Nice fruity flavors but the blueberry is very subtle. Tangy character with faint sulfur smell.

Beurk, it has a strong taste of cough medicine. Like these analgesic cough candy. Or dentist analgesic. Very bitter.

A little bit too strong tasting for my pilsner taste. Old dank cabbage/hops flavors.

Starts cola-like, like a lot of other Hi-Fi beers, but very quickly moves to a kind of sour, herbal, musty flavor, which seriously brought to mind spit and tobacco. If this was a showcase of yeast flavors, it was not a good kind of yeast. A literally sour note in an otherwise decent flight.

Thin, with a lot more vanilla than whiskey, but avoids being cloyingly sweet. The somewhat acidic, spiced base porter combined with the vanilla very much brings to mind a root beer. Very pleasantly drinkable, nothing profound. And it would have been nice to taste whiskey.

Light cereal body with a light sweet followup. Clean finish with a pleasing follow through.

I taste peanut butter, brown cereal. Thin body.

A light nutbrown ale with a creamy, very peanuty, mildly sweet flavor. In contrast to the other peanut butter beers I've had, this was a lot further toward the peanut butter cookie end of the spectrum (where the other end is chocolate peanut butter cup). I really enjoyed this, and could probably have had a lot of it.

A piney, fragrant session IPA of the sort with no discernible cereal body. This beer goes straight from hop juice to a medium, pithy bitterness that doesn't linger and finishes clean. In a lot of ways, this resembles the Sculpin from yesterday, although with less body. Still, it was rather pleasant.

Nutty cereal smell. Nutty finish carries the peanut butter, not a sugary sweet pb taste. Smooth finish.

Thin acrid bitter edge, burned hops. Thin body, light malts cause this to not come off as balanced.

(5 oz taster)

(5 oz taster)

A light hint of clove and a rounded banana-not-banana-bread flavor open this light, easily drinkable (even at 7+%!) Belgian. I don't know if the yeast they use for this is related at all to the regular house yeast, but it has a similar kind of tanginess, and this beer finishes a lot like the Pils, with clean cereal notes. (two 5 oz tasters)

I don't know if it's me, or the brewery figuring itself out, but the balance between the tangy house yeast and the rest of this beer seems to have been perfected. Good tang gives way to a sweetish cereal finish, and though it doesn't have much of the grassy bitterness I consider true to the style, it's now really enjoyable. (5 oz taster)

Wasn't sure what to expect, given my history here. But this was actually quite fun to drink. A thinnish milk-stout flavor with strong, sweetish cinnamon leading into a late chili heat. This was pretty much a Red Hot stout, guys. I wasn't exactly in love, but I was so pleasantly surprised to like it that I think it gets an extra point. (10 oz schooner)

Coffee on the nose and in the flavor, along with a kind of undefined malt sweetness to smooth it out - nice basic flavor. However, on CO2, the finishing hoppy bitterness is a bit much to take. I wonder if nitro would have made it easier to swallow. Thinnish, cola-like mouthfeel.

A nice roasty stout. The smell of the Hi-Fi taproom makes it hard to enjoy though.

A fine IPA...

Same kind of fruity-sweet fragrance typical of Hi-Fi's beers, although thankfully it doesn't intrude on the flavor too much. It's still not what I would call a pils; there's not really any bitterness and the bready malt, while tasty, is a bit on the sweet side. (10 oz schooner)

More or less a piney Fresca - light and perfume-y with a barely detectable malt finish. Weak cask carbonation didn't help. (10 oz schooner)

A little less weirdly out there, but still possessing the funky-tangy-nutty flavor the Session Brown had. Unusually appealing, but cloys after a while. (10 oz schooner)

A High Frequency club special release - starts nice but has some of the soapy sourness I associate with nitro (even though this was a cask pour). (10 oz schooner)

Not nearly as good on nitro as it was on cask, but then again I've never liked nitro. Still strong, considering.

Good, bready malt, not too sweet. Smells exactly right. A little bit too much alcoholic bite for my mood, but not bad at all. (10 oz schooner)

A nice frothy head for a cask pour, this stout is extra-thick and creamy with a semi-sweet, almost malted-milk-ball flavor. Keeping it honest is a touch of tangy bitterness on the finish. The flavor is simple, but this is easily the most successful Hi-Fi brew I've tried to date. (10 oz schooner)

Part of a flight. Smells noticeably funky, like the other beers here, but had a clean, honeyed flavor with nice cereal, malty notes. Best of the lot in that it started good, defied the palate wrecking properties of the Vienna Lager, and remained good through to the end.

Part of a flight. The notes I wrote down say things like "smells a bit like asparagus pee" and "a background flavor of bad halloween candy" but this cloudy brew actually was fairly drinkable -- until I tried the other beers again and realized this was a palate wrecker of extreme proportions.

Part of a flight. Strong, coffee aroma and a dry, coffee-like flavor but without the deep roasty flavors I typically expect to go with it. That was actually a nice change, and accentuated the coffee. Fairly thin, soda-like body, with a faintly sour, bitter finish. Over time, it started tasting a bit like burnt bacon and I had a hard time dealing with that.

Part of a flight. Hoppy in a floral way, without being resinous, with a fruity, almost apple-sweet middle with some malt and a mild, bitter finish. Drinkable, but unremarkable.

Part of a flight. Right off the bat, an unusual, nutty, but funky smell. The flavor was dry, with some briny funk, a slight, savory hit of nut butter and then a dissipating finish. I liked it -- but it was nearly undrinkable after a taste of the Vienna Lager later.

The hint of hopiness is a nice touch to this lager

Just like coffee