Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
355mL can, pours black with a medium brown head. Aroma is full of cinnamon and chilis upfront, followed by cocoa, and some subdued barrel notes. Flavour is rich, with lots of chocolate and cinnamon upfront, light vanilla, fairly gentle chilis, and some bourbon in back. Pretty nice addition of adjuncts. The copious adjunct bill hides some of the harshness in the barrel that was dominant in the 2025 version of Catching Moonlight and, to a lesser extent, Lights Out. The palate is a bit sludgy though and could use refinement—this kind of beer benefits from an oilier, silkier palate, which this is far from. All in all, very enjoyable, but not near the peak of past incarnations of this beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Black colour, with a dark brown head. The aroma has mainly cinnamon, vanilla, and maybe a bit of ancho if I'm being generous. On the palate, it's got a good body, cinnamon, light vanilla. The ancho sort of slides into the finish a bit. Good bourbon character rounds it out. This is quite good - not peak from a few years ago, but I'm enjoying it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Dark brown. No head. Rich umami, cocoa, bourbon aroma. Bourbon on the palate, too, nice richness. Good body. Lowest coconut quotient of any Lights Out so far. Still, solid stout.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Ah, Wild Turkey. The best barrels money can buy. Ok, this pours dark. Not much head. The aroma has a slight soy sauce to it - better than kikkoman but not as good as the really good shit. Sort of a heavy-handed bourbon layered over top of that. On the palate, good body. Medium bitterness and sweetness alike. The bourbon isn't as rough. The sugars aren't super rich, but they are decent. Less soy sauce. It's solid - glad to see my house stouts from Twin Sails and Backcountry are back after last year's hiatus.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
On tap at Twin Sails, pours jet black with a small tan head. Aroma has plenty of toasted coconut upfront, followed by bourbon barrels, and light dark chocolatey roast. Flavour is intensely coconut-forward, bringing out an impressively deep coconut character, moderate bourbon barrel presence—but that perfumey character does show itself a bit—a touch of roast, and cocoa. Massive coconut bomb with plenty of depth. Somehow, the Catching Moonlight wasn’t great, but throwing tons of coconut in made it really good…? Far from the first incarnations of this beer, but this is a pretty satisfying comeback.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Chill Bru from Twin Sails Brewing 2 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at Twin Sails, pours a clear pale golden with a small white head. Nose is pretty faint—I’d never guess there are NZ hops in here—with some toasted grains but not real hop content. Flavour is quite mineraly, with gentle grassy hop bitterness and toasted grains. Again, no real NZ character and needs more hops in general. It’s okay but pretty underwhelming.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
On tap at Twin Sails, pours jet black with a small brown head. Nose has a rather brutal bourbon character, moderate roast, and some cocoa—very abrasive. Flavour is brutal, with massive bourbon character that comes very harsh, moderate roast, iodine, some booze, and a little cocoa. Lacking integration, quite brutal, and possesses none of the elegance that the earlier years had. Not bad but needs a lot of work.
mcberko (47456) reviewed Still Got It from Twin Sails Brewing 2 months ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4
On tap at Twin Sails, pours a clear murky orangey blonde with a small white head. Aroma is full of yogurty lacto, artificial lemons, and some sugar. Flavour is a yogurt bomb, with tons of lacto, artificial lemons, and plenty of acidity. Extremely low-quality kettle sour.
RennyDoig (4553) reviewed Still Got It from Twin Sails Brewing 2 months ago
Appearance - 5 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 5 | Overall - 5
On tap at Twin Sails. Pours clear blonde with a white head. Very faint pink lemonade on the nose. Flavour has lemon juice, dry wheat, some lacto. Mild to moderate acidity. Pretty bland and uninteresting.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at Twin Sails. Pours nearly black with a tan head. Tons of toasted coconut, roasted malts, and bourbon barrels on the nose. Flavour has a really nice toasted coconut character, dark chocolate, dark malts, and nice accents from the bourbon barrel. Very nicely done, though it gets a bit rougher and perfumey as it warms.