Black Lightning Porter was excellent, smooth and chocolately.

I really liked the Hophenge. The residual sweetness was there to balance the hops. No, it’s not Pliny the elder, but I’ll drink it again.

Stu’s had savage hop bitterness, which I like.

Petrus–started off a little sour for my tastes. It grew on me as I sipped it–especially after I went back to it after tasting some of the other beers. A good “clear your palate” beer. I’d definately get it again.

Black Lightning Porter was excellent, but I’m biased towards it. Deep, full bodied, and rich. Goes well with a piece of milk chocolate.

Deschutes Hophenge: It’s the Deschutes DIPA and although it wasn’t bad, I’ve had better. It was very hoppy, but a little syrupy for me.

Avery Samael’s Oak Aged Ale. It’s hard not to make a 15% ABV beer not sweet and they did their best. It is a sipping dessert beer and although I liked it I probably could only take small aliquots of it at a time.

Stu’s Chocolate Hazelnut Porter 2005. Past its prime. Ready to toss in the sink.

Stu’s Unidentified Very Hoppy Ale. It’s unidentified because we forgot to keep the recipe and the bottle label on the cap just has the obscure code “A7″ meaning that it was a “2007 Ale”. Also, we made it at the same time as our Pliny clone–which was so labor intensive that we didn’t pay much attention to this other beer except to follow the recipe–which as I said we lost. As a result I have no idea what’s in it. But it’s drinkable, and that’s what counts.