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

Got in a trade with RaulMondesi. 12 ounce bottle into lager glass, bottled on 3/5/2018. Pours slightly hazy pale golden yellow color with a 1 finger dense and rocky white head with awesome retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of cracker, white bread, and biscuit dough; with lighter notes of toast, honey, nutty, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Very nice aromas with bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with good strength. Taste of big cracker, white bread, and biscuit dough; with lighter notes of toast, honey, nutty, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness. Light-moderate herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of cracker, white bread, biscuit dough, light honey/nutty, pepper, and herbal/grassy earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great robustness and balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great malt/bitterness balance; and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Fairly crisp/clean finishing. Perfectly clean on lager flavors, with zero fruity notes present. Light-moderate increasing dryness from bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately bready/grainy, and fairly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is an excellent Dortmunder lager! All around great robustness and balance of bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth, crisp, clean, and refreshing to drink with the mellowly bitter/drying finish. Very flavorsful and not watery for the ABV. Very clean and nicely rich pils/Munich malts, with solid noble hop presence/balance. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

Bottle Share: pours black with a beige head. Aroma is coconut, chocolate, spice. Taste is coconutty, spicy, sort of sweet, not bitter. Wuite good.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Draft Willebecher at Barley Forge Brewing Company in Costa Mesa, California. The pour is a hazed orange golden with a white head that leaves behind a bunch of lace. The aroma is tangerine citrus and resin. The taste is the tangerine citrus fruit and resin of the nose and adds pine as it warms with a minimal cracker malt present below the surface of the hops. The palate is medium bodied with natural carbonation and a dry crisp resin bitter finish.

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

Pour is a black with a huge tan head. Aroma is some dark candi sugar with some black licorice, anise and a burnt caramel. Flavor is more dark candi sugar,this is pretty sweet, then comes some treacle and berries and followed by some dark prunes. This was very flavorful and the 11% is well hidden. Doing a blind test with this beer and a dark ale from Belgium you could not tell the difference.

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

12oz bottle from Top Shelf Liqours, Cottonwood. A slightly hazy pale straw colour with a fast fading white head; grassy aroma with a hint of citrus; sweet malty body with a refreshing lemon taste; and a light grassy bitterness. Clean, crisp and refreshing, but lacking the body I expect from a Helles.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

32oz crowler pours with a crystal clear pure gold body that supports a light tan head of foam. The aroma offers up thin booze, faint toffee coated grapefruit and pineapple like hoppiness and then a tangelo note toward. The taste delivers bitter pine hops blended into bitter grapefruit along with a bit of soft sweet maltiness. A wafer thin booziness wrapped around a mild juicy tangelo sensation surface and help drag this thing into the finish. Pretty nice without flaw sipper but not particularly exciting. I'd drink this again without a problem.

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

Bottle 12fl.oz. @ [ Chriso’s pre- Xmas Tasting 2015 ] - Chris and Ruth's House, London. [ As Barley Forge The Orange Curtain ].Clear medium yellow colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, moderate hoppy, citrus, grass. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, citrus, pale malt, grass. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20151206] 7-3-7-3-13

Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle 12fl.oz. @ [ Chriso’s pre- Xmas Tasting 2015 ] - Chris and Ruth's House, London. [ As Barley Forge Don Perfecto ].Clear light medium yellow colour with a small to average, frothy - fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, wheat, moderate yeasty, spicy, yeast, cinnamon, coriander. Flavor is moderate sweet with a average duration, wheat, saison yeast, spicy - cinnamon - coriander, creamy sweet - vanilla sweet. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20151206] 5-2-6-3-11

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

32oz crowler pours with a near clear deep gold body that supports a thin dirty white head of foam. The aroma offers up citrusy orange and grapefruit blended right in with spicy onion like hoppiness. The taste delivers a nice bitter orange and grapefruit bite with softer notes of tangelo and clementine like juicy hop flavor. To midway some biscuit malts blend with thin spicy bitter onion hoppiness to round things out. Nice crushable IPA.

Good wheat, not so much mango