• Overall 63/100
• Appearance 17/25
• Aroma 16/25
• Taste 15/25
• Finish 15/25

This Pale Ale is brewed by Steven’s Point Brewery located in Steven’s Point WI. It is available year-round and has a 5.4% ABV.

I found this beer to pour a nice dark golden color with a decent amount of head that laces very lightly on the glass and carries almost no retention. The aroma contained some piney hops and some sweet malt undertones but all was rather faint. The taste of this beer starts off rather smooth with the sweet malty front before finishing up with a slightly bitter hop finish. The piney hops that were in the aroma were what showed up here. The balance to this beer wasn’t all that great as the finish seemed to overpower the malt.

Overall this was just an ok beer in my opinion but it was a part of the sampler pack so I am not disappointed for picking it up.

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• Overall 71/100
• Appearance 18/25
• Aroma 17/25
• Taste 18/25
• Finish 18/25

This Wheat Ale is brewed by Steven’s Point Brewery located in Steven’s Point WI. It is available year-round and has a very light 3.7% ABV.

I found this Wheat Ale to pour out a nice hazy golden color with a nice head however no retention nor lace. The aroma was light but contained some wheaty malt, and lemon in the nose. The taste of this beer was also rather light as it starts with the wheaty malt while finishing smooth with the lemons that are found in the aroma. I found this beer to have a nice balance, and light mouthfeel as well but it also leaves you wanting more.

Overall this isn’t a terrible wheat beer it just left me waiting for something to happen when drinking. I think it could compliment a warm day but again would reach for a different beer if given a choice.

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• Overall 88/100
• Appearance 20/25
• Aroma 22/25
• Taste 23/25
• Finish 23/25

This Summer Seasonal is brewed out of South Burlington VT at the Magic Hat Brewery and it has a 5.5% ABV.

I found this Pale Wheat Ale to pour out a nice hazy golden color with a decent amount of white head that laced the glass. The aroma was rather fruity while carrying some wheaty malt undertones. Elderberry Weiss was really light on the mouthfeel and carried a great balance between the wheaty malt front, and the fruity finish. I also detected just a touch a vanilla in the finish.

Overall I think this is an excellent summer beer and would recommend you pick it up!

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• Overall 95/100
• Appearance 23/25
• Aroma 24/25
• Taste 24/25
• Finish 24/25

This Milk Stout was brewed locally here in St.Louis by Tim Moore to celebrate and promote the local hip hop group 12-6 Movement’s new album Titties Out! This beer has an 8% ABV and 30 IBU’s. To date there has only been 48 bottles produced however I hoping to get that changed and get this beer mass produced! I would like to thank The 12-6 Movement members Jus Time, Spark1duh aka Dusty Wallets, and Serlesson for supplying me a bottle for the site! You can check out, and purchase their new album here, and here is a link to the rest of their albums that you can check out and download for free! Who doesn’t like great hip hop music, especially when it is free! If you wanted to check out their music videos go to this link. I urge you to check this group out as they are extremely talented and represent St.Louis well! Just look at who makes guest appearances on their album. Raekwon, Killah Priest, Keith Murray, Joe Budden, Bubba Sparxxx, Sadat X, Dan Marsala from Story of A Year, and Souls of Mischief just to name a few. Now on to the review.

I found this beer to pour out a nice dark black color with a thick light brown head that laced nicely on the glass and carried nice retention throughout the tasting. This Milk Stout had a wonderful aroma as well as I found roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, and some sweet creamy milk tones. This beer had a great taste as well as the roasted malts show up first to dance on your tongue. The coffee, and chocolate also make an appearance before giving way to the  sweet creamy milk taste that appears right before the slightly bitter hop finish. I thought this beer had a wonderful balance from start to finish and a nice creamy full bodied mouthfeel.

Overall I would say this is a great beer and I feel lucky to have been able to review for the 12-6 Movement.  To date I haven’t had a better Milk Stout, and it will take something great to knock this one off the pedestal. Come on Beer-Taster.com faithful lets help the 12-6 Movement get this beer mass produced that way all can enjoy this fine brew.

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• Overall 85/100
• Appearance 21/25
• Aroma 22/25
• Taste 21/25
• Finish 21/25

This Pale Ale is brewed out of Bend OR by the Deschutes Brewery that was established in 1988. It is available year-round and has a light 5% ABV.

This Pale Ale pours out a nice copper color, producing a nice head that laces on the glass and has decent retention. The aroma of this beer is full of floral hops, as well as some sweet bready malt. The taste has a nice malty backbone with hints of the floral hops that were found in the aroma. It finishes slightly bitter yet carries a wonderful balance and great mouthfeel.

Overall this is another good beer from Deschutes and I am happy they decided to start distributing here in the St.Louis area. Pick it up if you are lucky enough to have it distributed near you!

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• Overall 88/100
• Appearance 22/25
• Aroma 22/25
• Taste 22/25
• Finish 22/25

This Porter is brewed by Deschutes Brewery located in Bend OR. It is available year-round and it has a 5.2% ABV.

I found this beer to pour out a nice black with a hint of some ruby red when hitting the light. It produced a nice off white head that laced nicely on the glass. The aroma was full of chocolate, toffee, caramel, and some grassy hops. The taste of this beer was rather sweet as the chocolate showed up in the initial taste while still carrying the subtle tastes of caramel, and toffee. I found this beer to have a slightly bitter hop finish but it carried a great balance.

Overall I thought this was a great beer and would recommend it. Black Butte is full of flavor, yet still carries a nice creamy smooth taste.

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• Overall 87/100
• Appearance 22/25
• Aroma 21/25
• Taste 23/25
• Finish 21/25

This “Northwest Pale Ale”  is brewed by the Deschutes Brewery located in Bend OR and it has a 6.2%ABV.

I found this beer to pour out a nice copper color with a thick white head that retained and laced nicely on the glass. The aroma had some caramel malt tones to it matching nicely with the piney, and citrus hops. I found the taste to be silky smooth carrying a nice balance between the malty front and the nice bitter hop finish.

Overall I thought this was a very nice beer and would recommend you pick it up. I think this quite possibly could be one of the smoothest Pale Ale’s I have had to date.

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• Overall 86/100
• Appearance 20/25
• Aroma 22/25
• Taste 23/25
• Finish 21/25

This is Winter Seasonal from the Magic Hat Brewery located in South Burlington VT. It has a 5.8% ABV and is brewed with Vanilla.

I found this beer to pour out a nice dark brown color that produced a nice off white head that had decent retention with slight lacing as well. The aroma of the beer was rather nice as it had hints of vanilla, caramel, chocolate, and roasted malts. The taste of this beer was very smooth and well balanced as well as I found the roasted malts, and dark chocolate to show up front before finishing slightly bitter yet smooth.

Overall I was impressed with this beer and I would suggest you give it a shot.

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• Overall 83/100
• Appearance 21/25
• Aroma 20/25
• Taste 22/25
• Finish 20/25

This Spring beer is brewed by Schlafly Brewery located here in St. Louis MO, and it has a 5.5%ABV.

I found this beer to pour out a nice hazy golden color that produced a nice thick white head that laced on the glass. The aroma had hints of earthy, piney and citrus hops while maintaining some wheaty tones.  The taste of this beer has a nice malty start before finishing with a slightly bitter dry hop finish. There are also some hints of lemon in the taste that I felt balanced the beer nicely.

Overall I thought this was another nice beer from Schlafly and I would recommend you get it if you are lucky enough to have it distributed near you.

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• Overall 76/100
• Appearance 17/25
• Aroma 20/25
• Taste 19/25
• Finish 19/25

This Summer Seasonal is brewed by Anheuser Busch located in St.Louis MO, and it has a light 4.2% ABV.

I found this beer to pour out a nice hazy yellow color that produced a decent head, however it didn’t retain and left minimal lacing. The aroma was all lemon, with only hints of grain. This is the same in the taste as the lemons really show through however it isn’t to overbearing.  I found this beer to be rather refreshing and crisp while carrying a nice balance.

Overall this tastes like lemonade with a kick and I think it would compliment a nice warm day. In my opinion it is worth a shot as this beer from Anheuser was moderately impressive.

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