I've brewed a couple of their beers so far. The first was their IPA kit, and having enjoyed myself with that, i got their book and brewed both their Grapefruit Honey Ale and Peach Cobbler Ale as my second and third brews. I havn't had awesome luck with my brews so far... Both the IPA and Grapefruit Honey tasted awesome when i tasted at bottling time, but after being bottle conditioned and refridgerated there was a distinct "off" flavour in the aftertaste of both of them... I don't really know how to describe it, my initial thought was it was "yeasty", though i'm not really sure...
I left the IPA in primary for 2 weeks and bottled, carbed for 2 weeks, and chilled my first bottle for a week before my first taste, and the last bottle of the batch was refridgerated for about 2 weeks, which did improve that "off" taste, but it was definetly still there... For the grapefruit honey i left in primary for 3 weeks, bottled carbed for 2 - 4 weeks, and refridgrated 1 - 3 weeks. My first bottle had significantly less of that "off" taste than the IPA, and after the first couple sips wasn't too noticeable anymore, but again was certainly there in the background. Again more time in bottles and then more time chilling in the fridge to help the yeast settle out and pack at the bottom definetly seemed to improve the taste further, but my last bottle still had the noticeable taste.
The peach cobbler was kinda a disaster right from brew day. I had to brew, couldn't get fresh peaches at any stores, substituted for frozen peaches, over baked the peaches in the oven, the brew itself was rushed because friends showed up about half an hour into the brew and expected me to socialize with them and my wife, so i was rushed.... I left it in primary 3 weeks, and at bottling time it smelled strongly of plastic, didn't really have very much flavour at all other than a mild plasticy taste... I'm hoping 3 weeks at room temp bottle conditioning and a couple weeks minimum in the fridge will salvage the beer even slightly, this saturday will be one week in the fridge, so I will see howmthe first one tastes then....
I was starting to have suspicions that the off taste could be the honey being used as the priming sugar, so my next beer i am going to use corn sugar to see if that makes a difference. I just can't figure out why they have tasted great at bottling, but then have that off flavour once bottled...
Other than that i have brewed a Honey Porter from a recipe i put together myself, which im bottling tomorrow, and next up is a Blonde, following BierMuncher's Centennial Blonde recipe...