After a bad experience many months ago, I swore that I would never return to this place, but after seeing this beer listed on their website, I had to break my vow (I love rye barleywines!) - served in a small snifter at the brewpub - this beer pours a hazy dark red, with a small but lasting head - semi-sweet aroma, with fairly apparent amarillo hops, caramel, vanilla, even some bourbon and touches of oak, with warm alcohol underneath it all - the palate is creamy at first, but the body thins out pretty fast, and some faint notes of oxidation are noticeable (I guess that’s its age showing) - it is much more dry than the aroma suggests, with just a hint of sweetness (for the style, anyway) - the rye is pretty forward for it only being 20% - a bit of cherry and other slightly fruity characteristics through the middle - as the body starts to thin out, some vanilla settles in, and the hops make their presence known at around the same time that a spicy alcohol bite surfaces - as it warms, the alcohol takes over quite a bit in the finish - it’s a decent beer, but in hindsight, I probably should have kept my vow.

Going around twice on this beer, once a growler at Hoboken gathering and just today a sampler at the brewpub. Its a pretty basic IPA, a bit musky and tea like hops. Low on the bitterness with a bit of a slick and sweet malt presence. Decent stuff.

Sampler @ brewpub. Basic fine brown ale. Looks like one with a slightly sticky head. Basically, lightly sweet dark malts with a low hop presence. Easy drinking with just enough light sweetness to keep me interested.

growler @Pauls Hoboken#1-thanks pilsnerpete–pours a light tan ring for a head and hazy amber color. Aroma is musty medium malt, spices, secondary pine/resin. Taste is musty medium malt, spices, secondary pine/resin, finishes with some bitterness. Easy drinking.

I’ve got to go along with Peter on this one - this is one fine IPA - really hazy strawberry-colored beer - a nice sweet orange marmalade aroma, with potent, crisp, earthy hops - soft and full in the mouth - sweet orange and cherry is balanced quite nicely with grassy, almost peppery hops - quite lively, but easy to drink because of the soft carbonation and balancing sweetness.

Fresh growler from the brewpub. Apparently, this was hard to even pour off tap because of the seeds. It pours headless with a thick, murky muted golden colored body. I am surprised that its headless, seems like a full pour in the growler but maybe something about it was off. If I had some head on this baby it would definitely be a 4 for appearance. Aroma hits you right away with strong dry and green jalapeño. Its genuinely spicy and hot, fresh jalapeño, I am loving it. Taste is not as dry jalapeño but still full of spicy green pepper which follows some light white bread and finishes with a burst of hot jalapeño. I feel the pepper burn in my throat and I love it. This is fresh and amazing and still very easy to drink. I like jalapeño in general so this is right up my alley. I will confirm that this is unique.
Growler consumed within 2 hours of purchase, Southampton Weizen glass.

Tap at the brewpub - first of all, I’m pretty sure that this beer is a lager - hair-splitting aside, let’s get to the brew - dark brown with a reddish tint and a small but lasting head - the aroma is full of pine/spruce, tree sap, some gentle smoky character - I give them props for being crazy enough to actually steep their old Christmas tree in the beer, but the result is a brew dominated by spruce flavor - some mild sweet/tart fruity interpay is there, and the smoky component augments the wood, and makes it work somewhat - however, the overwhelming pine keeps this from being more enjoyable.

Pint @ brewpub on a snowy day with JoeMcphee, I think this beer was made for just such an occasion. The beer has a thick brown color with some ruby tints. Aroma is oily malts and medium-light citrus. Some rusted metal, which could be smoke-esque. Taste is WHAM in your face crazy citrus pine tree. It’s all super green and talk a walk through a forest, so natural, like. Cool stuff, never have I tasted so much pine. And I did not get all that much smoke in this.

Pours dark brown with red/dark amber tints and a small head. Too dark to see through, even in direct light. One can see, on the light, that it is a clear beer but still cannot see through the beer. Aroma starts with a very breezy/airy smokiness, which seems to hide the imperfections in the beer that come with the flavor. In the flavor it is mineral, leafy and kind of empty with a surrounding light smoke. I like rauch beer but this could have been done better. A light beer with a light bitterness at the end of the flavor. I just keep drinking the grolwer and nothing new or special comes out of it, just a cheap bock flavor.
Growler from brewpub poured into St. Paul cross between snifter/tulip glass.

Murky orange beer - very strong fruity and floral characteristics in the aroma - honey sweetness up front, followed by medium bitterness, then the strong fruitiness comes through, as well as a grainy, almost wheaty flavor - a very non-traditional, but sadly, not very tasty, oktoberfest.