Bottle pour at East Side Beer Fest. Pours deep chestnut. Smoky malts, gentle tobacco on the nose. Flavour has dry, woody smoke, toasted malt, tobacco, a bit leathery. Excellent.

Can pour at East Side Beer Fest. Pours clear gold. Sweeet malts and sweet grass on the nose. Flavour is crisp and grassy with dry cracker malts. Nice bite. Not the most expressive, but well-done.

Can pour at East Side Beer Fest. Pours slightly hazy gold with minimal white head. Sticky pine and herbal hops, some woody barrel characgter on the nose. Flavour has resinous pine, woody barrel, some aromatics. Nice.

Can pour at East Side Beer Fest. Pours murky gold with a white head. Slightly floral hops on the nose. Flavour has biscuit malts, floral, slightly bitter. Pretty solid.

Can pour at East Side Beer Fest. Pours clear gold with a white head. Pine and floral hops on the nose. Flavour has floral piney hops, crisp. Very nice.

473 ml can. Pours a dull amber with light head. Aromas of Brett, cottony fruit and bready malts. Flavors of same with a bit of oak. Similar to the 1754 IPA without as much oak. Were old IPA really that Bretty? I would expect a bit of sourness; and where are the bitter hops? OK for a Bretty IPA…

473 ml can. Pours a dull amber with light head. Aromas of Brett, cotton, dull fruit and bready malts. Flavors follow same with additional oak and some slight vegetal notes. Interesting oaky Brett flavors.

473 ml can. Pours a dark brown with short foamy head. Aromas of bready malts, bread yeast, slight smoke and a little vegetal fruit. Flavors follow same, with a little more smoke, a bit of licorice and a slight sourness. Pretty good, especially as an intent to recreate history.

Medium brown colour, not much head. Smells sort of gloppy, bubblegum, light smoke. On the palate, the same. The smoke is nice, but it is basically fighting against the somewhat sloppy execution of the base. It finishes a bit tart, too.

Now, I'll say this. Tartness in the finish and questionable execution is absolutely par for the course if you're being honest about historical representation. There would have been a tavern brewing adambier on every block in town, and lord knows they would have been variable.

BUT.

The first time I had Adambier from HotD, that was batch 8 in the mid-90s at Archer Ale House in Bellingham, one of the all-time great old money beer bars. It was afternoon and I was playing darts in the back. That was one of my peak, formative beer experiences. That's what this beer is up against.

473mL can, pours a clear pale golden blonde with a medium white head. Aroma has notes of sweet corn, soft bready malt, and subtle earthy hops. Flavour is quite bitter, more so than the older recipes in this series, with some corn, bready malt, and bittering hops. A bit harsh but I’m digging it somewhat.