Nick W.
Yelp
This is a toughie. I had the "box of strange" tasters flight, with the Hansel, Gretel, Wit, and Pale Ale, and I found the beer at Strange Fellows to be somewhat akin to a solid 70's prog rock album. There is a coherent theme running throughout, and a thoughtful and clearly deliberate consistency is maintained across all of the offerings. Unfortunately, this particular prog rock album was by a band that I apparently hate. From first to last, while each beer has its own character, and you can tell it's from the same place, with the same creative energy behind it. There was no beer that didn't "fit" with the others. However, none of the beers were to my taste. At all. I couldn't drink them fast enough to get out of there and find something else somewhere else.
That said, I didn't dislike the beers the way I dislike a lot of the Parallel 49 beers, where they seem the be either overly thin, very sacharine, or just plain blah; I just don't like overly hoppy or sour beers. The Strange Fellows beer is substantial and full-bodied, and should appeal a great deal to people who like sour beers, and very hoppy PAs/IPAs. That's not me, though. So I dunno... 1 star for personal appeal, 5 stars for execution of a well-conceived and nicely articulated beer catalogue (that I happen not to like at all), which evens out to three stars-ish.