12 ounce bottle from Whole Paycheck. Pours a dark copper color with a large white head. A light toast and caramel nose. The flavor is caramel, Crystal malts, some citrus. Hmm. Very sweet like a Oktoberfest. OK. Drinkable for sure.

355ml can. Cloudy amber colour with average to huge, thick, fluffy, creamy, fairly lasting and lacing, off-white head. Intense, citrusy and piney, hoppy aroma, lots of grapefruit, lemonnotes, a sweaty, resinous touch, biscuity malty background. Taste is crisp, bitter, citrusy hoppy, grapfruit and orange notes, hints of lemon and mandarine, candied orange zest, minimally sugary, caramel malty basis, widely choked resinous interludes somewhere between sweat and purulence; seems almost to be a bit watery due to too weak a malty backbone, not able to fully get on with the hoppy overload.

Blind pilsner tasting yesterday. Bomber. A: Light skunk, light sweetness. A: Hazy yellow pour, white head. T: Lightly sweet, dry finish. O: Not too bad, but a little bland. Decent New World example.

Citrus and good dose of pine here. Pours golden with good head. Good balance, and good beer all around. Nice bitter finish with hay notes in aftertaste. Subtle and very well done.

Can in ABZ. It pours hazy golden amber with a medium white head. The nose is bitter - sweet, sticky, pine needles, resin, toffee, apricot and tinned peach. The taste is assertive bitterness upfront, pine needles, earth, resin, grassy, mild astringency, tinned peach, alcohol heat and cracked peppercorn with a dry finish. Medium body, fine carbonation and sticky mouth-feel. A touch rough around the edges. Not bad.

12o bottle. Foamy beige head on top of a deep brown body. Looks unfiltered. Sweet toffee aroma. A pretty solid Stout, pretty straight forward. Medium to full-bodied. Not much going on but clean enough body, decent balance. OK.

Sample at Hoof Hearted during the Dragonsaddle Triple IPA Can Release on 11/15/2015. The beer pours a slightly hazy orange color with a medium white head that burns away steadily. Spotty lacing. Aroma of fruit, wheat and malt. Medium body with flavors of cherries, herbal wheat and biscuit malt. The finish is fruity with a mildly tart cherry aftertaste. Decent overall.

12oz bottle poured into Alaskan Smoked Porter snifter glass. Pours very dark brown, not black. Ghost white head. Oh, boy, what is wrong with Hale’s beers. There is a normal stout somewhere underneath the plastic, industrial metal. Its not sweet and its not hoppy. Its just the worst way to make a stout taste.

330ml can from Hop Hideout, Nether Edge -Cloudy golden yellowbody with a large lasting white head. Nose is soft bubblegum wheat, banana and a hint of clove. Flavour is wheat, light banana, light clove and some yeasty notes with a lightly sweet finish. Nice soft and efficient.