New Beer Sunday (week 599)

iv'e used that method for beer and white wine! and i'm very interested in that beer now, thanks

 

nice post lawn mowing beer you have there.

 

Many BA's request definitions for "dank". Please enlighten us as to the characteristics of "fart"?

 

Good afternoon BAs! I had to do a fair amount of work this weekend, so I'm happy to settle in with this beast of a beer:

Wiseacre Unicornucopia 2016 - an imperial IPA aged in gin barrels. Wiseacre does a completely different style each year for this series.

Really interesting beer. Not much to look at - a hazy/muddy amber orange color with a modest foamy head. The first smell got my attention - bright juniper, citrus, berries, pine, and some malt. This beer is not for the faint of heart: bracingly bitter up front, with grapefruit rind and orange rind, rounded out with juniper, pine, some dankness, and a big malty backbone. Not sweet - the malt seems balanced for an 11.9% ABV IPA. Full-bodied but with a dry, clean finish. Definitely noticed the alcohol on the finish, which did remind me of a G&T. Overall, a nice beer, but you gotta be in the right mood for this one. Cheers!

 

Well, you know that rich, meaty and funky post rich meat meal fart that some folks produce? Ya, that. Not so pungent to be off putting but certainly enough to be aware of it!

 

Love those glasses!

 

your right behind me! glad I have company! cheers

 

a Mitchell ?

 

Brittish colors huh? I wonder if it was RAF, or if they changed it during restoration. We have a stunning Air Museum here in SoCal, in Chino. As a kid I remember watching a P-51 taking off, buzzing the small crowd we were among, and landing. They even had a P-38 that flew, and were restoring a Japanese Zero. The Me-109 that was in the process of restoration. I gotta get back there.

http://planesoffame.org/

 

Trying this Ovila Abbey Saison. Cheers all.

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/140/207537/?ba=cindyjeffsmith#review

 

I was thinking boiled egg/sulphury with a slight pepper edge.

 

Sweet fuck, that sounds terrifying. Good luck with that, sir! May you live to drink tomorrow...

It's raining out in the Middlesex County of Massachusetts, and I have nothing to do except laundry so, I'm now sipping on a bomber of Stone's newly (re-)released 6th Anniversary Porter. I wasn't a beer fan in 2002 (in fact, I was only 13 years young which would make it thoroughly illegal to have been such!) so this is pretty much new to me. From what I have gathered, this is basically an enhanced Smoked Porter, a beer which I've been lucky enough to have enjoyed many times to this day and which remains, to me, as the most memorable exemplar of its niche style. Seems as though they conditioned this version on several types of oak and dialed it up big-time with a 3+% ABV increase and different hops (Tomahawk/"CTZ" vs. the Magnum/Mt. Hood combo that features in the original).



Pours an absolutely lush deep ruby/nearly-brownish with a towering khaki head that laces phenomenally as it slowly sinks. Leaves behind a few fingers of foam. As usual with Stone, this is a gorgeous beer. Many points for its regal appearance in my glass; fitting for an encore of an old anniversary ale!

Nose is heady oak tannins, fleshy grapefruit, candied oranges, woodsmoke, roasted malts, earthy tobacco, aniseed and dark cocoa powder. Very complex with a lot of things going on. I'm very intrigued by the combination of West Coast hoppiness and intense roast qualities here, especially when the oak stave character is added to the equation. The damp tobacco note combined with the smoke and roasty malts lends a definite "ashy" quality to the nose which it seems may put some people off... however, I think it's quite welcoming and helps lend another dimension to this one (as if it needed that!). Almost getting some vinous qualities due to the oak aging, but they're really subtle. This seems as though it will drink as a wonderfully open-ended double/imperial porter.

Just getting to the part where I talk about the flavors and the ways they interact with the palate and I'm already nearly done my first 8 oz pour! That's a testament to the quality of this fine brew right there!... But if that's not enough, here goes nothing: I get lots of clove-like baking spice, anise, smoke, white grapefruit and roasted malts on the tongue, with each sip. Oak seems like a good treatment here, kind of evening out all of the diverse things going on here. I mean, grapefruit/orange with roast, anise and clove? Surprisingly, this comes together pretty nicely and isn't messy despite the potential to be disastrous. Sure, there's a lot going on, but if you take your time with this one I feel like it won't be disappointing. Feel is thick, rich and mildly chalky though it does have a very bitter aftertaste that reminds me of crushed aspirin. Might be one of the only downsides of this beer, but it's quite great otherwise. As a quick aside, I will likely buy another of these and keep it for 6-8 months. Seems like a pretty good cellar candidate. I already have a bottle of this year's Pekko dry-hopped Old Guardian in my cellar to try, so maybe they'll be opened on the same day and split with good friends? Seems like a good plan, especially because the price of this is quite on point.

Been spinning a lot of death and black metal vinyl this evening, and right now is no exception. Beyond's Fatal Power of Death is emanating from my stereo right now, engulfing my room and my mental state in a psychotic morass of nihilism and chaos. The way I describe this album to my friends who like metal but don't know this genius piece of insanity is, essentially, "imagine if early At The Gates and Morbid Angel got together, took amphetamines and jammed for a while, then, just as they were coming down, switched to hallucinogens and got spacy and tripped-out. That is what this sounds like." It's an absolutely intense album and one of my favorite recent excursions into death metal's exposed innards. Very awesome to have on wax (came with a sweet poster too!)

 

my latest edition to new beer sunday

Maplewood Charletan ipa local to me


1 pint 6 oz.
poured into a nonic glass
clear amber with slight carbonation and a large bubble head, nice lacing, legs continue as glass empties 4/5
pleasant citrus on the nose of orange and pine too. zesty. Estery hoppy, even some earthiness. 4.25/5
good hop bitterness, clear and sharp. Good intensity on the on the tongue. Although citrusy, not sweet, hops dominate 4.25/5
mouthfeel rides the middle of the scale, coating on mouth is nice, and lingers a while.pleasing bitterness, prickly. 4/5

on my list to buy again! cheers! overall 4.38

 

Great review! I enjoyed the hell out of that one, too, and look forward to getting a few more while I can.

 

Great read. Thanks.

 

First time having this offering from Castle Island called Hearthside. It's billed as a winter porter and today is a bit raw out so it works. Pours motor oil black with a thin head. Definite coffee notes and slight vanilla. Pretty smooth mouth feel roasty flavor and finishes off kind of chocolate mochaish. I don't drink a lot of porters but I liked it and it drank really easy.

 

Another Happy New Rye Beer Sunday

Number 2 new brew for the day. I'm really liking this brewery. My third, and all have been very tasty, thanks Ben.

Cheers!

 

Cheers to both of you! NBS is basically the only thing on the internet that I go out of my way to participate in at this point, and encouragement from fellow BAs is certainly welcome!

 

Alvinne Oak Collection Wild West



1/2 inch head dissipates quickly to a very thin ring.

On the nose we have sour raspberry, sour cherry, lemon and slight funk.

Taste follows nose with white bordeaux grape, sour apple and oak.

Light body, very little carbonation and very close to being flat.

Overall, I will definitely have this again with some funky Vermont cheese (think Jasper Hill Bailey Hazen Blue!)

4.00/4.50/4.50/3.75/4.25

4.35