Haro Strait Pale Ale
Front Street Ale House / San Juan Brewing

Haro is paved with good intentions or at least with three additions of Cascade hops. It shows beautiful suds and immaculate wall-to-wall lace. Its body looks somehow lager-like in a yellow-amber hue with abundant CO2. But the taste is corrupted by unrepentant spoilage issues. I kept thinking that an infusion of some sort of fruit syrup might counteract the profound cabbage-like acidity and mask its foul transgressions. But why bother?

It's not merely that this beer is positively vile. What's most shocking is that someone would serve it publicly with no apparent knowledge of its self-evident corruptions.