Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
pint can. pours a nice looking copper-amber color with a medium sized off-white head that soon dissipates. The aroma is mild with caramel malts and some grains. The taste is rather bready with rye, caramel, noble hops and some fruits (perhaps apples). The palate is clean and crisp. Finishes long and a bit astringent. Overall: Fair marzen, might buy again.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
Can from Tavour. Pours dark brn/blk with a transient slight dark tan head. Aroma of chocolate and bourbon. Full bodied. Not at all dry, but not really sugary. Lots of bitter. Flavor is chocolate, bourbon, dark fruit and a maple-like note. Good stuff.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pint can. Herbal hop aroma with notes of pine resiny hops, grapefruit, grassy hops, tangerine and orange. Pours clear golden colored with a large white head that has excellent retention and good lacing. Starts with tangerine, orange and grassy hop flavors. Finishes dry with grapefruit, pine resin and herbal hop flavors. Classic west coast ipa.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Canned 6/11/25, drunk 8/29/25.
Dark, clear. Small, tan head, quickly to ring.
Fudge but also some more roast than usual for these contemporary Imperial Stouts. Don't get much of the barleywine here, maybe just a bit of toffee-maple. Actually, there's some vanilla and more candy-like cara malts on the finish. Definitely plentiful bourbon, though not hot.
Soft, sweet, rich, warming and clean without any hot booze. Certainly a lasting spiciness and warmth from the alcohol and barrel, though. Nice mix of caramel, toffee, vanilla, fudge and dark chocolate, with more roast than usual for the style, leaving a bitter licorice note lingering. Body is chewy, slick, slightly syrupy but not cloying in texture or sugar level. All sorts of fun barrel complexity here.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Can at home shared with Clark from Stefan. I like the nose a lot tons of wheat and only slight banana. Tatses of wheat and cloves and banana, lemon. Lighter bodied.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Canned 6/17/25, drunk 8/28/25, shared by Jow, thanks!
Mildly cloudy, blonde, bronze. Small, white head, slowly to frothy cover.
Lots of wheat and base malt! Lemon, mild pepper and low clove and other crude esters/phenols. Very authentic.
Soft, chewy, bread, Wheaty. Great malt, wheat and attenuation. Good balance with soft sweetness. Clean and malty and authentic.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
16 oz. can. Pours black, with a big, foamy, tan head. The aroma is cappuccino, vanilla, caramel, and light peat. Sweet and creamy, with a light, earthy bitterness. Medium body, dusty, syrupy, and pretty clean. Solid and tasty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8.5
Draft at the Aspen Brewery. Pours black, with a fair, foamy, tan head. The nose is espresso, cocoa powder, light maple, burnt toast, and cinnamon. Dry and malty, with a big, roasty bitterness. Medium body, astringent, and biting. Aggressive and pleasant.
Rum BA Louie is just boozy delicious brown sugar on top of boozy delicious brown sugar. Actually pairs really well despite it sounding like overkill. Super smooth deliciousness.
Delicious BiL and stout blend, covered in barrel notes and oak.