Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

@Feria de Noblejas’16. Pale golden colro, white head. Aroma with a good presence of yeast with some pepper hints. Flavor is slightly sweet at the beginning, spicy and bready notes. Light bitterness in the final, yeast is present as well.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Draft at Rustico. Poured a slightly hazy amber color with a small white head. Aroma was notes of wood, whiskey, some light woody barrel notes. Some wine notes. Fruity notes. Some funky tart and sour notes. Not sure if I get all the barrels here. Nice tart finish.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Tap at the Birch. Missed the Zymatore series. Pours clear deep golden, no real head or lacing. Aroma is heavy on the Brett, white wine vinous oak. Flavor has a hint of residual sweetness, light tart, light funk, hugely woody and vinous, plums. Light body, no tally carbonation. Quite interesting.

Very nice. Med honey sweetness; lemon/pear/apple/peach/floral/wood/earthy chili. Balanced sweet/spicy finish; mild building pepper heat.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Draught at OEC/B. United Festivus 2, 12/12/15.
Dark amber body shows moderately-high clarity and a dark beige head that shows moderate retention.
Strong pine and papery notes with a big sprucey character and lots of acidity/melanoidin character. The fruity/berry character mixes with some light caramel to give an almost sweet-and-sour character to the nose. Light hints of vanilla on the end.
At first it’s lightly astringent, with caramel and melanoidin sort of softening things. The pine character is very much spruce-like, juicy and with woody dryness as well. Low carbonation, lightly loose and an oily-soft, juicy body. Very, very strange, but it grew on me a good deal as it warmed. Perhaps more novel/unique than actually good, but it’s certainly fun to experience pine barrel aging.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Draught at OEC/B. United Festivus 2 on 12/12/15.
Dark cola-ebony body is topped by a medium-sized, dark beige head showing moderate retention.
Milk chocolate with light lactic suggestions and a pinch of cocoa and chili. Not intensely fudgey or roasty. Seems more Belgian Royal Stout-like than American Imperial. The fruitiness grows with warming, adding prunes and light plums. Soft vanilla-cream and light caramel balance easily. No alcohol, flaw.
In the flavor, the "sourness" is just a tart lactic character that is easily balanced by the chocolate-caramel character. Light carbonation, mostly engaging, with a highly attenuated, lightly malty-soft texture. Lots of raisin, dark chocolate and light prune/plum lingering. Very drinkable and I like the (relatively) low abv here and the tastefully-done chili pepper (adds a strong spicy element but otherwise is not overbearing.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Draft - Nice sweet lemon and oak barrel. Cloudy gold with a decent white head. Nice tartness and light oak notes. Tart and salty with grape at Woody notes. Acidic but nice ody barrel notes.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Bottle- pours hazy yellow white head- nose and taste of red wine, lemon, lactose sourness and funky lemon - lighter medium body

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Draught at Row 34, 6/15/16.
A dark chestnut-mahogany with very deep, barely perceptible crimson edges and a low clarity with a light tan head atop showing moderate to moderately strong retention.
Smoke is about as apparent as the roja (I think they meant rioja) and seems to be a pretty good match for it, the tobacco, deep plum and cherry mixing with the fruity, somewhat less meaty smokiness of the weizen version. Earth, ash, banana and vanilla all certainly don’t sound like they’d work, but I was pretty intrigued....No alcohol or flaw and no big wood flavors.
Very soft, wheat and wood tannin-laden texture is improved by tight carbonation. Red wine and enjoyably restrained smokiness has campfire notes, char and light saltiness. Vanilla and wheat, as well as fruity esters take some stress off the smoke here and there’s a good deal of maltiness tying things together. Tastes about what you’d expect for a wine barrel-aged, smoked hefeweizen; which is to say, very wacky. But awesome.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Draught at OEC 2nd Anniv., 6/4/16.
Lightly to minimally hazy, blonde beer with a white head atop that shows moderate to low retention.
Moderate fruitiness (yellow fruits, apples, strawberries) reveal an estery beer with light hints of honey, acetic and lactic acid. Some minerality for sure, though I certainly would never pick out any granite aging from the nose, whatever the hell that produces. No alcohol and some light cracker and grain notes on the end.
Tart and quite malty for its size with strong attenuation and a soft texture that layers mild yellow fruits with a touch of pineapple, lactic and more brett character on the finish, replete with a pleasing saltiness. I went back and forth with myself between definitely thinking I tasted a stone-like, dusty, grainy granite flavor and then other times not at all. I do know that if this beer didn’t say granite-aged, you’d absolutely never pick anything like it out. Still, a well-made beer that is flavorful and drinkable for its size with gentle funk and lots of fruitiness.