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Can best by 2025/04/04
Pours a bubbly fizzy 1 finger head with fair retention, no lacing, mostly clear slight chill hazed lighter pale color

Nose gristy straw malt, cereal, a little doughy, very faint floral hop

Taste brings more malts up front, cereal and straw, a touch doughy gristy almost cracker, hint of fruity note, then hops pound in with spicy floral hops, med bitterness, dry finish with a bit of a lingering spicy hop bitterness but it comes on strong the fades quickly

Mouth is med to lighter bod, med fizzy carb

Overall pretty good Kolsch style, malts are on point, hops get a bit aggressive on the finish but at least it doesn't linger and is quite refreshing

This beer has a light haze and a bright orange color, capped with a soapy white head. The aroma has plenty of fruity hops...I get grapefruit, orange peel, and peach. There is also a little earthiness in the background. The taste is well balanced. Medium-full in body and with a smooth finish with a flavorful hop zing at the end (maybe what they mean by crisp?). Flavorful and drinkable.

Cloudy, nearly white in color. There's a yellow tinge to the white-ness. Minor head which leaves a few minor spots.

New England IPA smell of tropical fruit (mostly pineapple) and white pepper hop.

The taste is different from the smell. It's earthy and biting. The body is thin with a lower carbonation level. The finish is bitter which creates a longer aftertaste.

Canned in a big old tallboy crafty craft can and purchased from me local Tesco supermarket
Pours a crystal clear golden body with bug thick white gead
Aroma is lemon icing and tapioca
Flavour is dry malty glucose with slightly yeasty bitter finish

Pours a cloudy mauve orange with a finger of foamy head that quickly dissipates to a thin ring with some lacing. Aroma of guava and orange. Taste follows nose.

Hazy straw color. Small head which leaves some random minor spots initially.

Pale malt start to the smell but the Belgian yeast slowly seeps in.

A mild Belgian ale but it hits all the right notes. The body is fuller but with an elevated effervescence. The yeast provides the expected bite. The finish, while short-lived, gives a touch of sourness.

I’ve opened a bottle, 4, no 5 years past it’s exp date. It’s still tasty! I would get more if I could!!

Straw color and clear. Modest head which leaves a web of lace.

A bit corny with a touch of cream. Reminds me of a cream ale.

The taste is an upgrade to the smell with the pale malt standing out with a light hop presence. Decent body for the style but with appropriate carbonation. The finish is refreshing but it's not a lawnmower beer.

On tap at the brewery. British pub style glass.

Mahogany color brew topped with a tan ring. No head, no lacing.

Caramel malt aroma. Roasted, wooded, semi sweet chocolate.

Toasty pumpernickel flavor, light and sweet.

Light bodied with a little bit of fizz. Clean.

Good lager that fits the Swartzbier bill.

This is one of the better low ABV pale ales out there. Really nice balance of malt body/flavor and hops. It’s not the typical hop water like many brewers do at this ABV.

Absolutely delicious!

Brown colored liquid with light passing along the edge easily. Good lacing (streaks and spots) from the modest head.

Darker malt aroma with semisweet chocolate, chalk, and ash.

Dry brown ale flavors with the darker bread notes dominating the flavor there's a light hop finish that creates excellent balance. The body and carbonation are within the style's expectation.

A really nicely balanced Barleywine between the hops and malts.

Brown colored liquid with light passing along the edge easily. Good lacing (streaks and spots) from the modest head.

Darker malt aroma with semisweet chocolate, chalk, and ash.

Dry brown ale flavors with the darker bread notes dominating the flavor there's a light hop finish that creates excellent balance. The body and carbonation are within the style's expectation.

Drinking in a 8oz. Teku glass.
Pours a clear reddish orange with a medium head of small bubbles.
Smells some of berries.
Ok mouth feel.
Pretty sour. Tastes of strawberries dominates .

"Named in honor of the bear adopted through conscription into the Polish infantry during WWII kept on orange marmalade honey and beer this imperial brown is brewed with a blend of biscuit honey and caramel malt with tart orange and local honey additives then fermented with kveik yeast to ferment hot and fast with a clean finish."
Attractive opaque golden yellow with a sweet and sour aroma that's the right prelude to the mildly tangy first sip. With a subtle carbonation the honey orange flavor balances out the maltiness of this 18 IBUs Imperial Brown Ale.

Apr 18 2025

Hazy to cloudy darker amber color. Modest head which dissipates completely leaving no lace.

Darker toasted bread aroma. No notable wheat, banana, or clove nose. Light spiciness.

The taste is slightly sweeter than I expected but darker bread is clearly present. Neutral body and carbonation. The flavor features a true malted barley flavor (think Grapenuts).

Kizilkecili 18/4 2025. Miniscule 23,7 cl can from Mini-Market in Güre. Red and burgundy can in Classic Tuborg brand design. Only smaller.

Pours clear golden yellow with a small white head. Bubbly. Disappears completely after half a minute leaving only a puddle of foam behind. No Lacing.

Aroma is rather intense with a sharp scent of alcohol hovering over a sweet and malty odor. Bread, malt and a hint of caramel. Alcohol in abundance. Sharp and unpleasant. Almost vinegary.

Light carbonation. Medium thick, oily, Soft, lightly tingling texture.

Flavor is medium intense with a heavy sweetness followed by a moderately strong bitterness. Aftertaste is sweet and cloying with a vehement boozy touch. Lingering. Finish is boozy.

Way too sweet and boozy.

Golden color and nearly clear. Good initial ring lace with infrequent spots thereafter. Smaller but lasting head.

Pleasant flowery hop aroma combined with a lighter bready malt. Brioche and perfumy.

Surprising dry, especially in the finish. The body leans full but the higher carbonation counteracts this. The start is semi-sweet with a white bread flavor. The swallow becomes dry with a definitive white pepper hop bite. Shorter aftertaste.

From the 16.9 fl oz bottle in a snifter. This excellent brown ale pours a
dark and muddled brown with a modest head of khaki foam that settles to
a thin ring, faint dusty layer, and sports some nice legs. Nose of bourbon,
dark berry notes, brown sugars, dark toffee, and vanilla. Flavors
surpass the nose with brown sugars awash in bourbon, mellow oak,
vanilla, toffee, dark fruits of sweet dark cherry, raisin, and roasted
malts. Mouth feel is medium, light carbonation, smooth, mellow, warming,
and finishing moderately sweet, subtly dry, and warm.

Overall, reminds me of Eldridge & Fiske whiskey brown ale (a great but
now defunct brewery). Nicely balanced brew and a great finisher.....OR a
great beginning!

Cheers

Moderate head which leaves some wider streaks. Hazy, light amber color.

Slightly smoky. Surprising. I don't get any wheat, banana, or clove to the nose. Lightly toasted malt.

High carbonation and sweet. The wheat is faint but present. Still no banana or clove. The finish is sweet, almost sugary. The body is neutral. The aftertaste is similar to a fruit (Cerise) Lambic.

Apr 18 2025

In a can at a buddy's place. Couldn't pour it into a glass, so here goes - has a nice corn taste with a smooth finish. Having had other cream ales before, this is one of my faves.

16 ounce can - $4.25 at Woodstock Beer Market in Woodstock, Georgia.

03.14.25.

Appearance: Pours a light golden-hued body with spotless clarity. Frothy, foamy, white head.

Smell: A simple yet polished aroma of pils malt with restrained grainy, spicy, herbal/grassy elements and faint sulfury hint.

Taste: Pils malt with a subtle sweet cereal note and nice underlying graininess that melds into the spicy, lightly herbal hop profile. Minute sulfury hint. Sufficiently bitter. Drying finish, quite clean with a final zip of suds.

Mouthfeel: Medium-light body. Medium-plus carbonation.

Overall: A first-class lager.

Poured from a 16oz can into a CW snifter. It pours a dark brown with a creamy wet sand colored foam cap of about a finger’s worth that dies down to leave a thick collar of the same color around the rim of the glass. Hints of coffee and maple on the nose but it's subtle. I do get hints of chocolate as well as roasted malts in the taste with a light touch of maple on the finish. As it warms, I get some lager yeast on the nose and more maple in the taste but this is not a sticky, sweet mess of a beer at all. Quite well balanced and very drinkable at 9% abv. Medium-full mouthfeel. Good stuff.

Pitch black viscous body, faint brown ring. Bourbon barrel is potent with molasses, chocolate fudge, caramel, with minor char, wet earth, and malt. Taste is led by bourbon, barrel, char flakes, rich chocolate, molasses and toasted caramel, with minor roasted malt and earth. Feel is warm and smooth with relative dryness, the barrel character is really dialed in. Let this one warm up to be rewarded by the nuances

Delicious Imperial Stout! I'm not sure it's fits the definition of a Russian as there is not much of a cocoa taste, maybe a touch of dark chocolate. This beast is all coffee with a slight dried fruit taste (raisins?) in the finish.

Appearance: clear yellow gold, frothy white head white excellent retention. Fast rising bubbles.

Aroma: Floral, herbal, grainy.

Flavor: Grainy malt, spicy/herbal hops, low sweetness. Moderate bitterness.

Mouthfeel: Medium bodied, drying, medium length dry finish.

Overall: A spot on German style Pils. Hops makes its presence known without overwhelming the malt flavor. Dry, crisp, and clean finish with a low lingering bitterness. Well crafted.

440 ml can, from Left Field Beer, England. ABV is 7.2%. Opaque pale yellow colour, moderate to small white head. Aroma of citrus, pineapple and various tropical fruits. Flavour of citrus, yellow stonefruits and tropical fruits. Moderate bitterness in the finish.

Poured from a can into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a very hazy yellow-orange-straw color with a small head of white foam. The head fades rather fast leaving one with a light level of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is strong of a tangerine and tropical fruit smell of mango and pineapple, along with a bit of a bready and oat smell. At the same time there is a decent showing of herba and some floral notes, along with hints of crème and some smells of peach and apricot.
Taste – The tase begins with a malty and somewhat heavy bready and biscuit malt flavor mixed with some oat and some sweeter fruit notes of orange, tangerine and pineapple. At the same time there is a decent showing of grapefruit and herbal hop, both of which get a bit stronger as the taste advances. Toward the end of the taste there is a bit of mustiness and an increase in the malt, leaving one with a rather fresh hopped, but overly malty taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – the body is thicker and chewier with a lower carbonation level. OK for the style, but for the abv would have liked it to be a bit more approachable.
Overall – I have decided I am not really a fan of Mortalis as everything they produce is very heavy on the palate. While they have a decent fresh hop taste, the over malt abundance with fruit and grain somewhat detracts from the hop flavors.

Review: 2365
Name: Aloha Friday
Brewery: The Bruery
Location: Placentia, CA
Style: Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
ABV: 21.1%
Canned: 2022
Date: 18 April 2025
I have several Bruery beers in my cellar; getting rid of them will take some time. I am using a tulip glass and serving the beer at 50 degrees. The pour created an airy, half-fingered, dark tan head with terrible retention. The fast dissipation left no lacing on the glass. The color is midnight black, dark mahogany hues, charting at SRM 38, and opaque. This beer's appearance is below average.
Nosing the glass, I smell molasses, nuttiness, dark roasted malts, coconut, toasted brown bread, oak, char, bourbon, leather, raisins, dates, toffee, caramel, dark chocolate, espresso, and earthiness. Smelling the glass again, I noticed vanilla, tobacco, floral, and grassy.
Sipping the beer, I taste toasted bread, coconut, toffee, anise, raisins, toffee, caramel, dark chocolate, soy sauce, Maillard, brown sugar, flower bouquet, grassy, light smokiness, oak, whiskey, vanilla, char, dark roasted malts, espresso, and earthiness.
The mouthfeel is smooth, with a warming finish. The body is heavy and low in carbonation.
The high abv does show some heat on the finish. The heavy barrel aging brings more char, Maillard, bourbon, and oak notes. I enjoy several Bruery beers; however, this year of Aloha Friday, I do not like as much. I have consumed a different year, and the adjuncts did not get lost in the barrel aging.

440ml can.
L: Black with one fingers of white of tan cream head that lasts to the end.
S: Dark chocolate.
T: Flavour is muted, compared to the aroma. Toasty with some cocoa. Bitterness is low.
F: Smooth and light.
O: A fine impersonation of a Guinness but not as good as the better craft Irish Stouts. Looks great, smells fantastic but lacks flavour and its mouthfeel is decent but just a tad thin.

A new style or redeveloped style that has a good solid body and taste. It has some sweetness to it, plus a dark roast flavor. Had this beer a number of years ago and still remember it.

Don't remember this beer specifically but gave it a little better than average rating. I'm not a fan of pumpkin spice beers but this one does not taste like that. A little different because of the peppers. Better than some but have had better.

Pours a nice clear golden color with a slight head and lacing
Aroma has bready and malt hints
Taste has bready and malt flavors
A light bodied decently carbonated beer
A good Marzen

Pours a dark color with a slight head and lacing
Aroma has malt and coriander hints
Taste has a malt and coriander flavor
A medium bodied decently carbonated beer
A good Wee Heavy

Don' t remember this beer and from my rating it is a touch below average, so just another Hazy IPA.

Another one that I was hoping for more from because of the 8 hop verities, still a really good beer.

My original review from deleted account:

I am reviewing the 3.2 one because Minnesota is archaic and won't change the law.

Anyway, this is delicious! Tastes like a sweet grapefruit juice, no bitterness.

Good beer, had back when I wasn't much into flavored beers and might give it a better rating now if I tried again.

Bottle courtesy of '25 BIF @roguer

Pours pitch black with maybe half a finger of head that quickly recesses into a ring of off-white bubbles. The elephant in the room is simply the vessel of delivery and the goodness inside, 19.3% ABV and 25.4 ounces, but I'm putting on my big boy pants and saddling up. Nose is immediately cinnamon, maple, and bourbon barrel. Coffee is faint on the nose, even as it warms, given the other dominating profiles. First sip, a punch-you-in-the-face of flavor, barrel, obviously, with notes of oak, bourbon, char, then there are all the ancillary add-ins, maple, cinnamon, almond, coffee, they all show up in some shape. I also get some brown sugar vibes, probably not a result of being added but more so as a result of the other components. Mouthfeel is low-to-medium carbonated, very slick. Gastric warming, go figure. Legs on the glass as it drinks, also unsurprising given the ABV. Finish extends much of the tasting attributes with the cinnamon spice increasing as the beer warms. There is undoubtedly a boozy characteristic to this but if tasted blind, I'd likely say this drinks closer to 14-15%. What a beer to say the least, but 25 ounces, come on...

I was excited to try this beer when it first came out. I tried it and found it to be good and flavorful. A little different than a standard IPA but still tasty. I'm surprised more brewers haven't tried this type of beer.

This is the beer brand for a large and successful French supermarket chain whose ambition is the food transition. To the extend that includes better beer (given the French bias to wine), Carrefour's ambition sounds good to me. They also have this more unstated mission of bringing quality to the masses. who knows if they do? Yet for trying, I give them good Overall Hugs as a brewer.

Pils 1516 is too sweet for a pils and needs more hops at least to finish. While it Looks paler than most pils, its liveliness is mostly bubbles; needs foam. Smells a mostly sweet malt. Tastes try to use hops for balance, but never get there. Not quite medium-mouthed. However, this was a good table lager with appetisers and I could make it a lunch lager if I didn't have enough options at that moment.

440 ml can, from Left Field Beer, England. ABV is 6.5%. Opaque pale yellow colour, moderate white head. Aroma of citrus, pineapple, yellow stonefruits and various tropical fruits. Citric mouthfeel. The flavour has the same elements as the aroma, some malts and grain too, low bitterness.

Kizilkecili 18/4 2025. 50ccl can from Mini-Market in Akcay. Gold and Black can with a soaring Eagle and some Corn Ears to Complete the picture.

Pours clear, golden yellow with a mid-sized white head. Stable. Settles as thin, patchy layer of foam struggling to cover the surface of the beer. Moderate Lacing.

Aroma is moderately intense with a sweet, malty odor mingling with a sourish scent of grains and a light citric touch. Sweet pale malts, bread and cereal. Sharp sour grains. Whiff of citrus concentrate.

Light carbonation. Slightly thick, oily, soft, lightly tingling texture.

Flavor is medium intense with a medium strong sweetness followed by a slightly more moderate bitterness. Aftertaste is lightly bitter. Lingers shortly. Finish is semi-dry.

Malty Lager with a light touch of citrus.

On tap at Acme in New Orleans

Pours a very nice light copper color with a nice head and lacing
Aroma has malty hints
Taste has a malty and bready flavor
A light bodied well carbonated beer
A good Maibock

Remember the beer name, but don't remember anything else. Remember it wasn't as good as I normally would expect from a fresh hopped beer. Don't remember exactly when I had it, I think it was 2016 or 17

Again, I don't know how to explain these ratings except to say that I rate based on a beer's peers in that style. And in Voll Damm's style, clearly a marzen, it is close to a classic. The only place Voll Damm is weak is where only the best marzens are strong: only the best have sweet malt backbone that tickles the nose with hops. Voll Damm introduces the hops late in mid-palate, which is typical of the marzen's non-masters.

Voll Damm Looks well above average, a light amber with decent foam modest lace. It Tastes mostly of malt until mid-palate, but then the sweet never really comes back prominently. It has a very well-concealed 7.2%. Medium-mouthed.

I've drank six different Damms, many I've repeated. I will Voll. I like how Damm seems to be working hard to integrate into the kitchen of a wine culture. Voll-Damn worked well with appetisers tonight. Good Overall Hugs. Salud !

This was my go-to beer back in the day and always had a good flavor profile. Haven't tried the new version yet but looking forward too.