New Beer Sunday (week 526)

Love the Falcon bottle opener.

 

I'm telling ya, we need a bottle opener thread. I've seen some great ones.

 

Higher seeds dropping like flys in this tournament. I hope WI plays well tonight!

Drinking a Destihl Wild Sour Flanders Red. I definitely catch the tartness on the nose, but it is quite malty. A roasted and sweet character of toffee and oak notes are detectable. No particular tart fruit scents, like apple or cherry, but there is some lemony or vinegar aromas.

Flavors of sweet roasted malts, toffee, oak, give way to a tartness that is not any particular fruit. It finishes up with a lemony tartness and a touch of vinegar to make this a tasty beer. This Flanders Red style that reminds me of New Glarus Oud Bruin.

 

New Berliner Sunday

Greetings NBSer's
and thanks to Dave for getting us going. Winter weather returns here, but I will not get down. We've already passed the threshold into spring and a shot of snow here and there in the next few weeks will not bring me down. Not with so many good beers around to be had! Speaking of which next week I'll be in southern California, so I'm not sure if I"ll submit to NBS but I will sample some things I can't get here and hopefully bring a few things back. I'd like that.

Another from the Noble Star Series from August Schell. I like it. Not as much as the others but it will do just fine.
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/417/120216/?ba=garymuchow

Best to all.

 

Greetings again friends,
I've had this little jewel waiting and wanted the right moment, and that moment is now! Pisgah Valdez is an absolutely fabulous dark beer that is as drinkable as any pale ale that I know. There is no barrel business here, but sheer rich coffee goodness that almost exceeds the realm of beer. Very simply, this beer is a pleasure, well made, and a testament to innovation as a tradition. Great beer that all should try.


I love Steve Winwood and his entire career......These two work together nicely.

 

It's all downhill from here...

Panil Divina - Panil


Panil Barrique - Divina Ale Batch #1 (2013) Bottle# 687 by imbibehour, on Flickr

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Poured from the bottle into a tulip glass. Batch #1 Bottle #687.

Slightly cloudy, but with an interesting opaque mix of faint tangerine orange, and washed out apricot yellow colors. One finger but small head that is frothy, but has big staying power. The body is just loaded with some of the most fascinating carbonation I've seen. Pinhead white and fine bubbles and lots of them… just everywhere, and they creep up in a bowed way, like racing through and interstellar galaxy or something. Really neat looking brew, fascinating actually.

Wonderful solid but also controlled and simple aroma. Large fruit tones of apricot and nectarine, peach sour fuzz throws in the mix as well. It's very hard to get this fruit note pinpointed, bottle mentions "exotic fruit" and boy is that a bang on description if there ever was. I'll say lilikoi but not as tart (wink!). Good sense of oak aging coming off of this, it seems nice and hinting thick fruit and malt and just a faint hair of soft cedar like wood. Very impressive.

Hot dam I am in love on this first sip. Mouthfeel is just absolutely perfect in every way. A rich creamy texture with a mild sweetness gives some vanilla tones, but also nice soft carbonation, champagne like feel but not with any of the scorching dryness. Malt sweetness comes out like mild honey and the fruit just comes excellently. Huge juiced peach qualities, and big soft yeasty and bread notes. Mild citrus as well with tangerine orange coming nicely. Drizzled peach with clotted cream like mid palate, huge juicy tones, but virtually no acidic like qualities you would have on most lambics.

It's the hidden magic Fou Foune as far as I am concerned, but a real unique animal with giant fruit quality and variety, mix of sweet and muted tangy sour hits, bouncing around all over, take your pick. Aging could be argued made a difference, but man I don't have the patience for this kind of thing, just stick it in my veins.

look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 5 | BA Generated score: 4.77

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Man just loving this... sad thing is after this everything is really going to suck for some time..

 

Good luck with your test. It sounds like you've prepared. As someone who has taken alot of tests, I can tell you that you are more prepared than you think you are and you know much more than think you do. You are going to do great.

 

Greetings, ballistic bockers and havoc-wreaking helles-spawn, it’s time once again for the often anticipated, never duplicated, NBS review from your pompous pounder of Pils, John of Stanhope. It’s a bright and crisp day. The sun has removed most of the 3 inches of scum we received on the first day of Spring. And yet, it still remains. After receiving an inspiring church sermon on Christ’s conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount, my wife and I headed off to Hops, the fantastic and (on Sunday afternoon) low-key craft bar in Morristown, NJ. Great beer, great food, and great conversation. But here I now sit, conversing, as it were, with all of you. No need to kiss my ring.

On the docket? River Horse’s Oatmeal Milk Stout aged in whiskey barrels (and imperialized up to 9% abv.)

Bottle labeled as Small Batch # 125/2265. Under 100 would have been cool for its own sake, but it’s still a low number… like that means anything.

Poured with care into my Duvel tulip snifter

Vanilla, toffee or molasses- not sure which, wood, cereal, chocolate, booze

It’s seen as a very dark brown, roughly 38 SRM, maybe darker. It displays a dark tan head which sits tall, and sudsy.

Sweetness perceived due to the “milk” aspect of the beer. Roasted malt. Taste mimics the aroma; the booze lingers gently on the finish. I mean this in both the taste (the barrel) and the warming sensation. Bitterness shows up from the roasted malt, not the hops.

Feel: Creamy, rich, smooth, due to the oats. A decent amount of carbonation. It coats my mouth like good chocolate. Long flavored finish of the whiskey barrel, but not as long as whiskey itself.

Overall: Great steroid injection version of their tasty yet safe oatmeal stout. Keep it up, guys, River Horse is rising to the top of my favorite NJ breweries faster than a strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae prior to flocculation.

Something tame taken to an "imperialization" if you will...

 

Love that song!

 

As a fan of Imperial Stouts I'm surprised that I haven't drank this before today.
Yeti from Great Divide. A little bit thin for an IS but full of Stout flavors. Good stuff glad I gave it a shot but a notch below my favorite Imperial Stouts.

 

Alrighty than, next up on new beer Sunday is another one that has been hanging around my house since God knows when.

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A little tart to start with (I won't go into description of how it looks as this pic is dead on) that gives way to smokey maltiness and finishes tart.



Here's one more relevant to the beer

 

Today I tried a Brooklyn Brown Ale for the first time. This is what I hoped a brown ale would be. Similar to a porter but lighter. I confess to liking it better than Old Brown Dog which is higher rated. I may need more experience with the style to appreciate the latter more.

 

I appreciate your honesty in speaking against (in my heart) a much loved brew from the Smutts, favoring the Brooklyn over it. I love both.

 

Break a leg! You can do it.

 

"Bottle opener ****" ... waits for a picture of an endowed woman with a bottle between her... um... you know...

 

Happy NBS! Happy to try this new collab DIPA from Carton and Against the Grain: SS Kentucky. Can't say I've ever had a smoked pineapple DIPA before. Looks great. Light gold with a big, fluffy white head. Aroma is slightly sweet with the pineapple. Tastes a little sweet and fruity with just a touch of smokiness. Alcohol is well hidden. Not as flavorful as 077XX but an interesting new beer. Different enough that it doesn't remind me of other DIPAs. Cheers!

 

Afternoon NBS!

Made a trip up to Midway airport yesterday to drop off my girlfriend. She came to visit for a week and sadly had to leave to go back down to PA school in TX. Figured I'd stop at the grocery store I passed on the way there and get some beer not in my distro...

So for today I present Great Lakes Chillwave!



Pours a nice light amber color with some orange notes when light hits the glass.

Smell is of resin, pine, and some light tropical fruit. Orange, Grapefruit, are accentuated by a nice malt backbone.

Taste follows the nose. Great malt body with a nice tropical fruit flavor. Resinous hops linger on the palate.

Mouthfeel is creamy for a DIPA. I would put it pretty close to how 90 minute feels. Nice heavy malt backbone to support the bitter hops.

Overall a great beer. I enjoy the maltiness of this DIPA more than I though I would. Still a nice bitter punch and the hops linger.

Been listening to Ryan Bingham a bunch lately. Here's a good one if you've never heard of him.

 

Special thanks to @WesMantooth and @LeperJim for conceiving of and organizing that incredibly fun ROWYBO theme day yesterday; and thanks as well to everyone who participated with such fun and inspired posts! I think we even made some Bock converts along the way, so that's a pretty nifty little bonus if these kinds of events can get people to try something new that they haven't gotten around to yet. Here's looking forward to the next one, whenever it may be!

As I posted earlier in the week, Bocks are among my favorite kind of beers, and I fully intended to extend the theme to the whole weekend, and not just Saturday. So here I sit with a brand new bock (to me) that I have been sitting on for a few weeks, and the perfect time to give it a shot.



Henry's Farm by Two Roads Brewing, out of CT. This is also my first experience with anything brewed at the new home of former Southampton Public House brewing guru Phil Markowski. Let's see how it stacks up-

The nose is...not promising. It's dominated by caramel, although there are some toasty elements coming through, vanilla, and a spicy quality that suggests rye; I am not getting any of the rich melanoidins or breadiness that I would hope to find in a well-made bock. This is fairly generic overall.

The palate is toastier, and brings to mind slices of rustic pumpernickel, but caramel is also fairly dominant. The spiciness comes out at the end, along with a hit of bitterness that is just too high for its own good.

This isn't a bock; it totally misses the mark in that respect. It really comes across as a strong altbier with all of the caramel and hops, despite being fermented with a lager yeast. The secondary question seems to be, then, is it enjoyable on its own terms? It's tolerable, I suppose. Big disappointment here. C- (2.25)

Thankfully I have a few more Hofbrau Maibocks in the fridge to get me back to rocking out with my bock out before the weekend comes to a close...

 

i tried fd bloodline two days ago at a local pizza pub. i decided to buy a sixpack yesterday. i drank them all. i was so excited i continued to drink with an unexpected visitor. he and i enjoyed one of my favorites which is probably going to get me in trouble with the ba bros but i want to hear it if you have advice for my weakness for this particular beer; yuengling black and tan. anyway its not guinness stout but its ten bucks a twelvepack. and its way better than budweiser the best elcheapo, so guess whats on my brunch menu for this lovely sunday... black n tan, nothing new under the sun, thanks for celebrating the sabbath with appropriate beverages

 

Back to NBS. Hello all. Having this one today.
4.06/5 rDev -4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Pours almost pitch black with ruby highlights.

Some booze in the nose along with the typical roasted malt and the oatmeal is picked up some. Faint coffee and chocolate and maybe some vanilla.

Taste is sweet up front followed with some bitterness. A little hoppy bite for a stout. Continues with coffee and roast and bitterness mellows out as it warms.

Almost medium body and carbonation is a bit more than expected.

Above average. All blends well together but I can't pick out anything that puts this above some other RIS's. Had the barrel aged version on tap which was much more memorable.