posted by dave in category lager, smoked, swill

(bottle) Golden color, minimal head. Aroma of stale hops. Flavor of a citrusy stale lager tamed just a bit by smoke. The flavor wasn't too bad, but the damn aroma was disgusting. I poured most of the bottle out.

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posted by dave in category lager, swill

The citrusy smell and taste were just too much for me. It tasted like beer and orange juice mixed. Blech.

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Ounces Consumed: 3

posted by dave in category adjuncts, fruit, swill

(draft) I had high hopes for this one. Blueberry flavor in a beer would definitely be something new and unusual for me. This actually ended up being my least favorite beer of the weekend. It tasted to me like an IPA. If there was any berry component to the flavor it was too subtle for me to detect it behind all the damn hops.

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Ounces Consumed: 5

posted by dave in category ipa, swill

(draft) Clear light brown. No detectable aroma or flavor. There was a slightly bitter hoppy finish, but not enough to be completely disgusting. A waste of my time.

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Ounces Consumed: 1

posted by dave in category brown, swill

(draft) Light copper. Good head, good lacing. Whoa. A strong malt and hop aroma, quite dry. Thin mouthfeel but still quite coating. Malt and hops predominate everything. Surprisingly bad.

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Ounces Consumed: 16

posted by dave in category adjuncts, fruit, swill

(draft) This might have been sweet and syupy or it might have been all the blueberries floating up and down. I couldn't finish the glass. Those things hitting my lips were just too strange.

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Ounces Consumed: 5

posted by dave in category swill

(draft) What a waste of time. Water with orange peel flavoring. I expected much better from Bell's.

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Ounces Consumed: 6

posted by dave in category swill

(draft) Bright and fizzy. This would probably be good if it was a hot enough day. Like a million degrees or something.

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Ounces Consumed: 5

posted by dave in category swill

I didn't like this even a little bit. Bitter with strange, undefinable undertones. I barely finished the glass.

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Ounces Consumed: 10

posted by dave in category swill

(draft) Clear golden. Metallic hoppy taste. Served way too cold. I was not expecting to like this, and I didn't. A waste of time.

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Ounces Consumed: 2

posted by dave in category apa, swill

(draft) Hazy Gold. Aroma and flavor of pine needles. Not the kind of hop that I like. Calling it decent goes against my instincts.

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Ounces Consumed: 5

posted by dave in category stout, swill

(draft) I think there was something wrong with this beer. It actually tasted skunked. I hope it didn't taste this way on purpose.

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Ounces Consumed: 4

posted by dave in category belgian, saison, swill

(draft) Hazy gold, with a nice white head that lasted. Aroma of hops and malts. Very light flavor of grass. Not worth my time.

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Ounces Consumed: 4

posted by dave in category barleywine, swill

(bottle) Clear medium-dark amber. No head, some fizz. Aroma of malt and dried hops. Flavor of burnt malt and stale hops. Quite fucking disgusting. I only took a few sips before giving up. LIfe's too short to waste drinking beer like this.

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Ounces Consumed: 4

posted by dave in category lager, swill

(draft) Clear gold in color. Good heaping head. No detectable aroma. Tasted like watery grass. Not very good. Not very good at all.

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posted by dave in category swill

(draft) Way too bitter for my tastes, but I suppose some people like the bitterness.

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Ounces Consumed: 10

posted by dave in category lager, swill

(bottle) I don't like lagers at all, but since this is probably the most watered-down lager there is, I suppose that I can stand it when I have to. I mean, it doesn't kill me. I just wish that it would.

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Ounces Consumed: 12

posted by dave in category belgian, brown, swill

I thought this beer smelled and looked fantastic. I'm not really sure what I was expecting tastewise - I suppose a combination of a Belgian and a Brown. What I got was a strange-tasting beer that I can't really say I liked all that much. It just tasted like something was wrong with it, but I couldn't point to any one thing.

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Ounces Consumed: 12

posted by dave in category belgian, swill

(bottle) Fizzy, hazy orange. Citrus undertones that I didn't care for at all. MIght be okay on a hot Summer day. My least favorite from this otherwise wonderful brewery.

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Ounces Consumed: 12

posted by dave in category belgian, swill

(bottle) Highly recommended by several people, but I'm not really sure why. I've never had cherry wine, but I'm convinced that I now know what it would taste like. Very sweet, very winey. No bitterness to balance the sweetness at all. Not very good.

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Ounces Consumed: 10

posted by dave in category lager, swill

(can) It wasn't the battery acid that I remember from the occasional sips I took as a kid. As lagers go, it's probably better than most American ones. That's not saying much though. Hoppy, with a little bit of a citrus tang that didn't make me want to vomit. Not after just one at least. I didn't risk another.

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Ounces Consumed: 36

posted by dave in category brown, swill

(draft) Smelled and tasted like an Alt, even though it's supposed to be an English Stong Ale. The only non-Altish characteristic was that the aftertaste was quite bitter - too bitter for my tastes.

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Ounces Consumed: 5

posted by dave in category swill, wheat

(draft) Take a light american wheat and spray lemon pledge in it. Not the worst thing I've ever tasted, but far from the best.

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Ounces Consumed: 5

posted by dave in category swill

(draft) This beer was simply hard to drink. Part of the problem was that it really clashed with the beer I'd just finished, but most of the problem was that it tasted like cranberry juice. It did get better towards the end of the glass.

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Ounces Consumed: 10

posted by dave in category smoked, swill

(draft) I told the drunk next to me (he had asked) that I predicted that this would be my favorite beer of the night. I was wrong. The smoke was reminiscent of bacon, or perhaps beef jerky. Probably the only smoked beer that I've ever had that I didn't like.

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Ounces Consumed: 5

posted by dave in category brown, swill

(draft) Orange. Some faint apple flavor, but even more apricots. A little too sweet and citrusy for my tastes.

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Ounces Consumed: 10

posted by dave in category esb, swill

Had an applely taste that I didn't find disgusting but I didn't like it enough to have a full pint. I'm surprised to see this classified as an ESB.

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Ounces Consumed: 5

posted by dave in category lager, swill

(bottle) Very pale color of piss. Decent head that seemed to last. Aroma undetectable, as was the flavor. Overall, not too bad, but certainly not with the effort.

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Ounces Consumed: 8

posted by dave in category swill

(draft) Quite disgusting. Has that tingly mouthfeel that I detest in lagers. I was suurprised to find in this, ostensibly an ale. This is a beer trying to appeal to the swill drinking masses and the good beer drinkers at the same time. It fails at both.

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Ounces Consumed: 4

posted by dave in category stout, swill

(draft) Very thin flavor and mouthfeel. Definitely drinkable, but so is water.

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Ounces Consumed: 5

posted by dave in category swill, wheat

The bartender didn't know if it was a German-style or and American-style wheat, so I just had a sampler glass. It's American-style, so I didn't like it. The honey was not apparent except that the usual hop bitterness I find in this style was not there. Bland and boring.

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Ounces Consumed: 4

posted by dave in category brown, swill

(draft) After being lured in by the color and the overflowing foam, I ended up thinking that this beer was all show. Not much of a taste at all, just a faint aftertaste of bitterness.

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Ounces Consumed: 10

posted by dave in category smoked, swill

(draft) Clear amber, with a decent head that actually seemed to hold up fairly well. Aroma of light smoke and metallic hops. Mouthfeel was that of dirty dish water, and the flavor was more of the same. I don't know what the finish was like because I spit it back into the glass instead of swallowing it. I was very disappointed with this.

UPDATE 091007: I tried this beer for a third and final time this evening. I actually managed to swallow three times. I was not going to risk a fourth time. Just disgusting.

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Ounces Consumed: 3

posted by dave in category lager, swill

(draft) I'd never call myself a pilsner fan, so I didn't have great expectations for this beer. Having said that, this just wasn't very good. A little citrusy, and a little bit of some odd flavor that I cannot pin down. Must be the corn. Hey, at least I tried it.

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Ounces Consumed: 10

posted by dave in category swill

(draft) I don't know why breweries try to make this kind of beer. It's really quite disgusting.

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Ounces Consumed: 4

posted by dave in category swill

(draft) No matter how hard I try, I cannot detect any aroma or flavor. All I get is a slightly drying finish.

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Ounces Consumed: 8

posted by dave in category smoked, swill

(draft) Hazy yellow, with a nice white head. Musty aroma, fairly light. Watery mouthfeel. Flavor of tap water that's been sitting out too long. Not worth the price I paid for the free sample.

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Ounces Consumed: 3

posted by dave in category swill

(draft) Looked and smelled fantastic - good enough that I pushed past my initial dislike of the taste to give it a fair shot. Eventually the bitterness wore me out, and I ended up giving about half the pint away. I can understand the appeal of this beer, it just doesn't happen to appeal to me.

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Ounces Consumed: 7

posted by dave in category swill

(draft) Cloudy light brown. No head. Smelled like pumpkins to me, though I don't think it's supposed to. Flavor is gross, no other words seem necessary or appropriate. I only had a few sips and then decided that life is too short to drink beer like this.

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Ounces Consumed: 4

posted by dave in category swill, weird

(draft) Clear light yellow. Looked like a light lager. No head. No aroma. Flavor was, thankfully, not hoppy. There wasn't much flavor at all. A little bit of grassiness. A waste of time.

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posted by dave in category swill, weird

(draft) I ordered this by mistake, as I'd thought I was ordering their hefeweissbier. I could not have been more wrong. I did have a few sips of this, to see if it was as disgusting as all dopplebocks are to me. It was. I only had those few sips.

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Ounces Consumed: 2

posted by dave in category lager, swill

(draft) Good head. The color of very pale piss. Aroma is very slight, and of hops. Probably the palest, definitely the most watery, beer I've ever had. I'm rating this as swill only because it's so inoffensive. Otherwise it would get a rating of piss.

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Ounces Consumed: 5

posted by dave in category swill

(draft) Very light and citrusy. Tasted like a Bud Light to me. Supposedly an ale but I'm not convinced.

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Ounces Consumed: 4

posted by dave in category swill

(draft) An otherwise bland vehicle for a bitter hoppy aftertaste. What's the point?

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Ounces Consumed: 4

posted by dave in category lager, swill

(draft) Citrusy piss. I recall having this a long time ago and somewhat enjoying it, but my last attempt caused me to swear that I'll never let this touch my lips again.

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Ounces Consumed: 24

posted by dave in category swill, wheat

(draft) The color of dirty piss. A decent head and good lacing. Aroma of orange peels. Thin and citrusy falvor and mouthfeel. A touch of grapefruit bitterness at the end. Quite disgusting.

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Ounces Consumed: 16

posted by dave in category swill

(draft) Take a bland IPA, and wash your socks in it. Then take it to your local steel mill, and use the same beer to wash the socks of everyone who works there. This just might give you a good idea of what this beer tastes and smells like. Actually, it would taste and smell better than the beer does, but I didn't want to go overboard with my description.

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Ounces Consumed: 22

posted by dave in category porter, swill

(draft) No aroma. Very faint coffee flavor. Very fizzy mouthfeel. Not very good.

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Ounces Consumed: 4

posted by dave in category smoked, swill

There wasn't very much smoke, and what there was was the "grapey" kind of smoke that I don't really care for. To make matters worse, there was no bitterness, only sweetness behind the smoke, and those two flavors clashed quite a bit.

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Ounces Consumed: 10

posted by dave in category alt, ipa, swill

(draft) Looks like a brown ale, smells like an alt, but tastes like an IPA. Bitter flavor followed with a bitter finish. An Altbier is supposed to be balanced, dammit! A very disappointing beer from one of my favorite breweries.

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Ounces Consumed: 5

posted by dave in category brown, swill

(draft) I had high hopes for this. That''ll teach me to have hopes, maybe. As far as I can tell, they made this beer by (a) taking some regular Dead Guy Ale, (b) watering down the flavor and upping the alcohol by pouring vodka into it, and then (c) spraying hairspray into the mixture. Basically, this beer had zero flavor except for its alcohol burn, and it had zero aroma except for alcohol/hairspray. A complete waste of both time and money.

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Ounces Consumed: 3

posted by dave in category brown, swill, weird

(draft) Very dark brown. Huge heaping head. Bitter aroma and bitter flavor. Quite disgusting.

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posted by dave in category adjuncts, swill

(draft) I just had a small sample glass of this, as I was not expecting to like it. I was right. Very watery tasting, but sort of a thick mouthfeel. Hard to believe that this comes from Rogue.

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Ounces Consumed: 4

posted by dave in category lager, swill

(can) Looks like fizzy urine. Decent white head that seemed to last. Aroma of wet grass - slightly rotten. Thin mouthfeel. Flavor is smooth and a little creamy. Just the slightest hoppy finish. A typical pale lager, neither better nor worse than the rest. Typical lager swill.

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Ounces Consumed: 4

posted by dave in category swill, wheat

It's always a crap shoot as to whether a hefeweizen is in the true German style or the crappy American style. This was American, so I didn't like it. As with most beers, however, this did get better as the glass got emptier. By the end, it was passable. This is not the beer's fault - I just don't like the style.

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posted by dave in category lager, swill

(draft) Cloudy yellow. Huge head. Fairly clean aroma of yeasts and hops. Flavor of wheat and hops. Slightly bitter finish. Don't like it, not even a little bit.

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posted by dave in category apa, swill

(bottle) Clear gold, with lots of bubbles. Decent white head. Aroma of the kind of hops that I don't like and metal. Bitter and thin at first. Got slightly better by the end of the first bottles, but it still sucked.

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Ounces Consumed: 24

posted by dave in category lager, swill

(bottle) Straw and other dead weeds, in both the aroma and the flavor. Not very hoppy. Not very much of anything. Disgusting.

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posted by dave in category lager, swill

I asked some regulars what was the wimpiest beer at Rich O's and was told it was Spaten Lager. I had one of these to field-test it for my sister and it was indeed wimpy. I wish I could think of a better descriptor.

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Ounces Consumed: 23

posted by dave in category ipa, swill, wheat

(draft) Clear light amber. Good mound of foam. Smells and tastes like hops and alcohol. Kinda gross, but some people will probably like it.

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posted by dave in category swill

Hoppy and malty, with a bitter finish. Common is a very good name for this beer - there are a zillion just like it, and I don't like any of them.

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posted by dave in category swill

(draft) Hazy reddish amber. No head to speak of. Aroma of stale hops and malt. What little flavor there was, was disgusting. I had to really force myself to finish the glass.

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posted by dave in category ipa, porter, swill, weird

(draft) Black with a tan head that faded quickly. Malty aroma. Thin mouthfeel. Decent flavor of malts and licorice. Disgusting hoppy metallic finish. Gross.

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Ounces Consumed: 2