Jeff Shapiro

8.9

First day back to work after 10 days off. Had to pour something special.
I like the concept of the Solera Technique.....
Honey and root beer on the nose with a vanilla, cinnamon and rye on the moth followed by some heat.
Quick caramel finish that doesn't last.
— 9 years ago

Christopher Roy

9.0

Upon opening smelled of light tar and floral notes. Old fashioned root beer smell comes through in the back of the nose. Big tannins and acidity. Brick in color. Floral on the palette. After six hours in the decanter nose turned to mushroom and smoked meat. Earthy taste with still lingering tannins. — 10 years ago

Matt Trader

9.5

This is a wallop of a beer in a bottle. Well rounded maltiness, fruit to back up the high alcohol content, herbs, great weight in the mouth, and just friggin delicious. — 10 years ago

Alex Powell

9.1

Piercing black licorice driven nose, with root beer, ash, touch of coffee, vanilla and resinous herbs. Dark berry fruit, creamy texture but chiseled by a wall of stones, savory herbs and licorice back rich blackberry fruit and tar, has rounded out some on day 3 but holding strong. A powerful wine that is ageing slowly and gracefully despite its stature. A pleasure. — 10 years ago

Robert May

10

This beer makes me want to take an UberX in the middle of a weekday to the nearest liquor store in San Francisco and toss one of these back standing in the aisle gnoshing on a triple size Tabasco Slim Jim while the store owner screams at me to pay for it. I love the combination of a fully hopped IPA with a darker ale backbone. Truly a double but not overwhelming. Yet again, another killer IPA from San Diego. Quite possibly my absolute al time favorite. — 10 years ago

Connor Walsh

9.0

It's been all beer recently but I need to get back in the mood for IPOB. — 11 years ago

Mitchell Mulder

9.5

Let me this clear as possible, Ballast Point Brewery is one of the Best breweries on the west coast, there is nothing they do that is not great to outstanding, this one is great, what over shadows it is "Sculpin" which is Outstanding, so this seems not as good, but please do not be so quick to judge, this one holds up to the style 100%, it is a excellent west coast IPA, big big Centennial hops, maybe some Columbus, seems there is some debate on that, no matter, it had a great Carmel back bone that balances the great hops, it is one beer that stands on its own, Great stuff — 11 years ago

Russ W

9.9

Flat, old, expensive. I would say I like my beers like I like my women but...wait gotta get back to my beer — 11 years ago

Antoine Pin

Wine Buyer Kroger/QFC

9.3

Back to beer. Best black IPA ever! I may never go back. $4 / 92pts — 12 years ago

Dale Cruse

9.7

Lovely Saint Winefride is back, signaling the end of winter! — 13 years ago

Michael Genn

9.5

The pepper adds a wonderful layer of complexity, it's a slow heat the builds in the back of the palate — 9 years ago

Michael Rosenthal

9.3

Funky and savory. Good salinity. Dry on the front of the palate, but juicy on the back. Papaya and sage on the nose. If I drank this next to a good light American wild beer, not sure I'd be able to pick which was wine and which was beer. — 9 years ago

Mitchell Mulder

9.3

Lagunitas 13 anniversary beer is back, in six packs, very good Imperial red, big hops, big malts, but not too sweet, and that is a very good thing in the style, if you dig Brown Sugga and Undercover from this brewery, you will love this, very limited release, go out and get it now, also on par with their Imperial Red, but it had that combination of all the ones I mentioned, very unique in the hop profile, Amarillo hops give it a pineapple flavor, mix with the Caramell and roasted malts, very good in the style, cool label as well, that is Betty, the blond version is Veronica, great brew — 10 years ago

JeremyC

9.2

Bottle. Draft. Can. In that order but they all rock. Grateful to be back on the East Coast and able to get my favorite mon-thurs beer....which I love to drink on Fri and Sat!!! Light but not wimpy. Has weight but not heavy....the Grenache of beer!!! — 10 years ago

Byron Ferguson

10

The morons that have rated this beer before are just that... Tasteless idiots! Great ratings but make this label underrated by a undeserved palate. If you really look it up you know that there is a reason this beer was voted the best beer in the world for six years straight. It's refined and not only does the finish produce a finish, but it has a varied flavor that makes you want to come back for more. The name speaks for itself. Thank you huyghe for giving us all some love we deserve. — 10 years ago

BottleCapsNCorks

8.9

Very easy to throw back a few. I much rather drink this than BudLight or Miller lite. 👍 — 11 years ago

Yamilet Cruz

10

Had this beer years back. Just found it again... Loved it. Love it now!!! — 11 years ago

Chuck

9.0

Velvety and dark, the gingerbread flavor sneaks up on you but doesn't linger. Crisp finish, especially in the back of your throat. — 11 years ago

Dock Hooks

9.6

Big kudos here, to the vintners, for providing just a little spice on the nose introducing flavors that present smoothly right after pulling the cork and results in big ole mouthful of jammy red fruit covering the entire palate with proper tannins and an easy finish resonating trails of what started as it drifts down one's throat. I found this, very affordable, yet right-on red wine at Promise Land Market (top-notch craft beer and wine bar that has become my fall hang while back home in Morehead City, NC; checkout the superb yet casual charcuterie). All a delight! (especially the people; come and see...) — 12 years ago

North Van Wine Geek

10

Burnside Brewing Sweet Heat, from Portland, Or. A wheat beer w/ 200lbs apricots, and dry hopped w/ Jamaican Scotch Bonnet peppers. Perfect balance of heat, sweet, and Weiss characteristics with a gentle spice lingering in the back of the mouth. Very good! — 12 years ago

Sarah Monceaux

9.3

Enjoyed this beer! My husbands coworkers brother is one of the brewers here and when he went to visit Georgia brought back this! :) — 9 years ago

Lance Williams

9.5

Fernet Branca is San Francisco's magical elixir of lore. Equal parts hangover prevention and morning after cure; it is an acquired taste but one that every San Franciscan must embrace. The traditional way to consume fernet is neat with a back of ginger beer. Sip fernet, sip ginger, repeat... Ask for a fernet and ginger as you wrap up dinner at any restaurant in SF and you will receive a knowing nod from your server followed quickly by your glass of fernet branca. — 9 years ago

Chirag

10

I keep coming back to Rene. — 10 years ago

Steven Beishuizen

9.4

Back in the early 2000s, I loved this wine. It was my "splurge" wine that I'd spend a little more on for a special Saturday night. After a few drinks, I frequently broke into, "My name is Alfiero Boffa. You killed my father. Prepare to die." All these years later, I stumbled upon it again in a random (and fairly scuzzy) beer and wine store. It's very familiar to me. Astringent to the point of me calling it sour, but the red cherry flavor dominant. In the background, some earthiness, maybe even tobacco? All over smooth though. Silky. This is not a big huge wine, but silkiness at this more subtle scale is amazing. I'm so glad I found it again so many years later. My na me is Alfiero Boffa. You killed my father. Prepare to die. — 10 years ago

David Kline

9.2

Clean cedar sauna nose, with ripe red cherry and a tinge of cherry lozenge in the background smoking the thinnest vanilla bean. Active head creation initially drops from the sides like ovoid soap suds back into the ridiculously effervescent diluted blood-colored pool. Really aromatic palate, packed full of bing cherry, pastry, and tart plum brandy but with a twist into an oak leaf wrapped cherry point. #kasteelrouge #inglemunster #beer #belgianbeer #stophashtagginganddrinkbeer — 10 years ago

with Courtney

Gary Westby

Champagne & Sherry buyer K&L Wines

9.0

I picked Cinnamon and that airport, and instead of driving back from San Jose in gridlock we went for dinner at Tsugaru in Japantown. This simple, refreshing beer was the perfect call for the old school cuisine. — 11 years ago

Chad johnson

9.6

Love that darn beer. Left two spots open in my wine case and flew back with it. Glad Griff had the idea. — 11 years ago

Mitchell Mulder

9.5

It is back, Holiday Ale, Brown Shugga, was a replaced, called "Sucks" the first year could not be made, but so much history and stories and label changed in this beer, so very popular, it is back in it's real name for 2014, great holiday ale, big malt sweetness, nice, but not over the top hops, it is a Ale, not a barley wine, even though it is close to %10 ABV, drink it fresh, because it is seasonal, and the IBU's @ 51.1% will fade, very good, please to not compare to "Sucks" two different styles — 11 years ago

Thomas Monroe

Winemaker Division Winemaking Company, Owner/Winemaker SE Wine Collective

9.6

Yum! My first Alabama beer — 12 years ago

laura lee blackwood

Importer/Distributor Grassroots Wine Merchants

9.1

back forty, Beatrice! — 12 years ago