Ocean Luxury Residences

This attempt at a WCIPA almost makes it, but ends up as a hybrid IPA leaning hard into a WCIPA. Lots of beautiful and bitter NZ hops, which I loved, but the malts are lacking, leaving me with the bitterness of this style but not the malt, & with NEIPAness

Purchased at Tavour

Dark and sweet and not overbearing, but I still drank this slowly.

Purchased at Tavour

A juicy hazy little NEIPA with lots of passion fruit on the nose and tongue. Not a great beer, but fine, and I really enjoy the passionfruit.

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Too too sweet and too too heavy for me. Painfully so. Probably someone else’s delight.

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Earned the Super Style: Stout - Imperial / Double (Level 22) badge!

A beautiful West coast IPA, one of the very few I’ve encountered in years, and a perfect exemplar of the style. Hoppy and malty, and I sure missed this over the years of drought.

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A beer more about the words to name it than the flavors it imparts. I’ve been drinking this for hours but wind finish it. Lots of sweet flavors, but not good enough to keep my attention. Maybe the 8% just can’t keep our Attenborough tho beer. Unfocused.

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A fruity little beer (with hibiscus and rosehips (mostly for their color, I imagine) and then aged on raspberries, grapefruit zest, and cherries), which coalesce into a fruity dish much that is more dull on the tongue than enticing. Not good enough.

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Only 16.4% (I’ve had much stronger). Difficult to perceive the Belgianness of this. What I perceive is darkness and high ABV. not a favorite of mine, a bit too rough, but at least it comes in a small can, and I like the darkness of it.

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Earned the Iron Man (Level 66) badge!

I finish last night’s bottle. Still good.

Purchased at Adroit Theory Brewing

Quite the beauty with lots of dark roastiness and lots of sweetness merging into one tongue. Maple syrup keeps it sweet, but the base RIS ensures it remains dark and bitter. Without the base, this would be too sweet. For me, at least.

Purchased at Adroit Theory Brewing

A very dark and roasty stout, as we would expect from Weathered souls. After drinking half of this, I decided to go all FlandersNed and added some Woodford Reserve bourbon to finish the beer.

Purchased at Tavour

Intense chocolate and booziness. Sweet and drying on the tongue. Tasty, but takes a while to drink. Engentled a little by the vanilla.

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I’m not a fan of American barleywines, and this is no exception. Sure there is sweetness here, but the bitterness always wins. But a beautiful dark ruby liquor. Quite dazzling. But I can’t taste colors.

Purchased at Adroit Theory Brewing

A rich mixture of stouts and barleywines which (of course) are aged in bourbon and cognac barrels along with honey and lactose. A bit intense, but a tasty brew that is keeping me awake at night, because it has the flavors I need. 2024 maltage. Success.

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Definitely strong at at 18.94 percent, but what keels me from finishing it is that it is so sweet. Not terrible at all. But I can’t drink this much sweetness in one sitting. A rich boozy nose, on the tongue sweet but with a bit of roughness that helps.

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A fine little porter, even if a little stronger than the usual porter. Good roasts, some sweetness, and noticeable cocoa.

Much roastier than other iterations of this stout. So dark, it presents as a rauchbier. Still, there is a stream of sweetness slipping under the darkness and keeping us from falling into the full beautiful darkness of this ale.

Purchased at Adroit Theory Brewing

A little less crazy than the usual River North stout, and it is a tasty brew, with beautiful barreling and a rich and heavy and chocolaty base stout. It still takes time to drink this hefty beauty.

Purchased at Tavour

A usual stout from River North: lots of cocoa-y roasts, high ABV (this time, a mere 16.6%), and lots of weight on the brew, some barrel-aging, yet still accessible, and tasty.

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A dark stoutlike liquor. A barleywine with lots of roast and surliness. & I expected this to be sweet but it is not. Rough bitterness is the major flavor. A little sweetness comes in, maybe from the inconsequential barrel. I can’t finish it. 2024.