New Beer Sunday (week 592)

Well, you could stop in Ellensburg and try Whipsaw on your way home. A friend moved over there a few months ago and says they make good beer.

 

Have you tried this years batch of Old Sol from Big Time? I haven't had it, but I've always loved the other years I've had.You should get you some.

 

Great Pup ****!!!

 

New Imperial Red Ale Sunday



Another local beer , this one is from Westmont Ill. I try not to be a homer but
there is a lot of local stuff to try here so why not!anyways

poured from a 22 oz. bottle
deep amber, ruby red hue
small head, a tad of lacing
fruity, earthy hoppiness
sweet caramel, nutty, and hint of licorice?
good bitter hop, sweet malt balance
noticeable alcohol, satriani would say " but I like it, yeah!"
medium feel, really feels like a barlywine to me
zesty, dry finish

I love it, will now have my 2nd pour! pair this with some strong cheese! cheers!

 

Boulevard's Harvest Dance Wheat Wine is pretty awesome, IMHO. If you've not had that, it's worth trying.

 

Greetings NBS fans! Another week in the books brings us to a fresh start. It's a partly sunny humid day that brought a brief much needed thundershower to the southern shore this morning. Things have settled and I took a short drive around the lake to the Arti Gras art fair in New Buffalo Michigan. I decided to stop at Burn 'Em Brewing in Michigan City on the way home because it's been on my radar for some time. I've had hit or miss experiences with their beer when I've had it on tap around the region. Let's try something from the source.....

On tap today is My Berri Ann DIPA with strawberries and obviously a new one as I got to add the beer for the review. It's served in a smaller 'Duvel looking' glass and the abv. is listed at 8.4%.
It has a dark cloudy gold color with a finger of creamy white foam that settles to a thin ring around the glass. The smell is very malt forward with some cheesy yeast and mild citrus. Taste is grapefruit, bread, some floral and finally a slight strawberry flavor. The feel is very creamy and smooth for a beer registering 8.4 abv.



While not a miss, this fails to deliver the strawberries I crave in the summer, both in smell and taste. It ends up being a good easy drinking DIPA and not much else. I'll cross my fingers for more berry flavor if it's brewed again. My score was 3.82.

Have a great Sunday, I'll join you later for more NBS fun when I return home.

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/35718/237559/?ba=Prager62#review

 

I had this beer yesterday. Our experiences were almost identical.

 

I will look out for that one.

 

Sixpoint's Sweet Action is up now.



Look: Pours a frosty peach color with a centimeter-thick off-white head. Head retention is fair, with good lacing left behind. Off to a fair start here.

Aroma: Dark fruit, plum, grassy hops, with some earthy malt round out a pleasant, outdoorsy aroma.

Taste: It tastes like a spring day, with bright floral and grassy hop notes making a presence right off the bat. Some nice earthy and biscuit malts keep it grounded, and well balanced. Nice little citrus, and orange peel finish to round it off. Pleasant to drink, sip, and worth savoring.

Mouth feel: Fizzy and abrasive to start, but settles down nicely. Carbonation is a bit harsh. The overall consistency of the beer is medium-thin.

Overall: It's a really fun brew. The floral and earthy notes make it taste like a warm spring day, which keep it a pleasure to drink. Hops and malts are well balanced as well. Sweet Action has been done well.

Score: 4 | 4 | 4 | 3.75 | 4 | BA Compiled Score: 3.98 | BA Avg Score: 3.93 | rDev: 1.3%

 

Good day to all. Finally home after several morning activities, ready to give a few NB's a whirl.

First contestant is a big glass of Bud. No, not that Bud, this bud:



Breaking Bud from Knee Deep.

Pours a clean, clear golden yellow with a white and billowing head. After we calm down a bit, we are left with hefty, sticky lacing.

Immediately I am getting a nice nose full of piney, resiney goodness backed by a bit too shy sweet and bold maltiness. Maybe a touch of soapinesson the wrapping up of the inhalation of this.

Taste starts out with a no nonsense piney, almost earthy bitterness that gives way to strong floral tones, which kick in with great balance amongst the malty sweetness. Upon finish I can feel a tiny bit of heat in this otherwise medium bodied, wet until the very end, dry finishing beer.

 

I cannot LIKE this link enough!!! Holy Shit. I mean it's not exactly, "...subtle and sparkly, just like her."

 

I was crying, reading snippets to my adoring wife. Is "adoring' too bourgeoisie?!?

 

Congrats on the new job!!! Don't show up hungover though, Mr. Sixpoint.

 

It's just beautiful! The look on the dogs face int he first pic tells it all =)

 

Hey what's going on!?

Hi all. I am unfortunately reporting that the day after NBS last Sunday, the following Monday Daisy just could not carry on and we made the decision to let her go. It had been an excruciating tough week, but it was for the best, and the past weeks were just excruciating for all involved. Things are different, but also knowing in a way that my previous cat went last January and these 2 had always been together, I am relieved in a way that now they always will be.

With that said, I was horribly sick kicking some sort of messed up virus. Luckily I am far better now, and getting into some new brews. There's been some dandies too over the weekend, a mind-blowing Rodenbach Alexander, some nice IPAs, a little bit this, a touch of that.. and so on.

I am up for a new brew, and still enjoying this weekend, even if my soccer gods didn't fully appease me.

That said, what it up with our hero today?!

This sounds like a good easy start off ...

Anchor’s Meyer Lemon Lager | Anchor Brewing Company

Pic not available cause Flickr is having issues

Poured from the can into a Libbey made pilsner glass.

Crystal clear brass gold body color, just shimmering in the glass like a mirror with just the lightest of perfect small streams of carbonation. Head creation is just frothy big. Eggshell white and whipped up like cream, it bubbles with soapy retention but huge cling and staying power. Settles with pill lacing, grabs the edge of my glass like a clenched fist, and slowly settles to a creamy and bubbly puck, with this giant swiss cheese and froth. This is is what a great lager should look like, this beer is just on cruise control in the looks department.

The aroma while solid, is a touch odd. Clean yeast and malt presence, but there's an addition of oily zest that seems to be clashing with the fruit and hop angles. Ashen even, almost smokey? Huh? It's totally out of left field but at least is pleasant, but it's very jarring and unexpected.

Palate sticks more to basics. Light bodied session like mouthfeel but a wet depth and watery character persists. Faint lemon and more of a light pine burnt hop like oil in the mid palate, mixes with a clean finish. Light sweetness on the malt character accented on the finish, is just enough to bring out a hint of lemon flavor, but it's also particularly dry toasted on the finish.

The specialty lemon isn't really getting it's justice here, it's more of a tiny accent which is just not really deserving of Meyers, those really need to be brought to the table in a big way. A decent drinkable lager, but the fruit needs it's proper due and showcase and that's not really happening here.

look: 4.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75 | BA Generated Score: 3.81

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Cheers and on to the next!

 

Here's a new beer and brewery. Thomas Creek's Conduplico Immundus Monachus (that's a mouthful).









3.54/5 rDev -9.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25

750 poured into a goblet.

A- Pours dark brown and settles closer to black in color in the glass, although as the light strikes it, amber hues are visible. The head was foamy and oatmeal in color and held up well in the goblet, which I find generally wrecks the head on beers. A pool of film remains over the body. 4.5

S- I like what I'm smelling here. Very diverse. Chocolate strikes my nose from a distance, there's an oaken quality, brown sugar, caramel, vanilla and raisins. Lots to enjoy. 4.25

T- Hmmm, all those pleasant aromas abandoned this beer on the palate. Most prominent is a peppery yeast that is enveloped in a sweet fig or date type of flavor that is slightly tart. The flavor is essentially the dark stone fruit in a composite form, but somewhat thin feeling, and nothing else seems to be coming into the picture. 3.25

F- The thinness of the flavor is also on the tongue. This doesn't have the creaminess of a quad or many Belgian Darks, and I suppose to a certain extent this beer could be dubbel-like in feel, but I'm just not sure where to place this. There's plenty of pepperiness from the yeast, which is neither agreeable nor objectionable. 3

Overall, the aroma showed so much promise, but the flavor and feel don't pack the same punch.


* Edited to add some music. Drake wants to be Jamaican pretty badly, but I'm enjoying the results.

 

New Pils Sunday



Champion Shower Beer

Happy Sunday, BAs. I've got a new rice stout chilling in the fridge, but decided it's hot enough that I should join @utopiajane and @JackHorzempa in enjoying a pilsner. I tend to prefer German pils (the very existence of which goes to show that localization and innovation within the pils style has been going on since the start), but this Czech pils will have to do for today.

Shower Beer pours a hazy pale yellow with two fingers of lasting bright white head. It's got a bready malt aroma with a dry, powdery-yeasty smell to it, and some light floral hops behind.

This continues to the taste, with a flash of corn-like malt sweetness up front and then some moderately strong bitterness and a touch of Saaz spiciness on the back end. There's a light, pillowy mouthfeel, with low carbonation.

Not as crisp or grassy as I prefer in a pils, but still not too shabby. Have a great afternoon and evening.

 

Hello, Happy Sunday, Happy NBS. Very warm and sunny in my area. Hope everyone has had a nice weekend so far!

Indeed Brewing Company Let it Ride IPA



BEER INFO
Brewed by:
Indeed Brewing Company
Minnesota, United States | website
Style: American IPA
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 6.80%
Availability: Spring

My thoughts:
4.21/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

12 oz. can poured into stemless glass.

Appearance is near clear, amber, with a persistent foamy head. Active carbonation continues to rise as the glass settles.

The aroma has a hint of floral hops, a bit of tropical fruits getting blended in with a malty sweetness.

Flavor is similar to the aroma. A good amount of residual malt sweetness lends a bit of caramel flavor to the overall profile of this brew. Bitter piney and floral hops. Citrus comes into play too with some other fruit flavors bouncing around.

A bit bubblier than many IPA's with a medium mouthfeel.

Good balanced flavors. The perceivable malt characteristics may be a bit out of vogue in the current IPA scene, but this one comes together pretty well. The bitterness settles everything down and keeps it clean.

 

Green Flash Passion Fruit Kicker A wheat ale brewed with you guessed it passion fruit. 5% ABV 5 IBU
A cloudy golden color with a nice white long lasting head. The aroma is passion fruit, what a shock. The taste is also passion fruit but there is a nice wheat malt presence also. The mouthfeel is light. The finish is a bit tart and lingers for a few seconds. I enjoyed this beer a lot in fact I doubt the 5 other cans will see the sun go down. An excellent beer on a summer day.

 

Thanks a bunch for the lift. He was "interested in existential questions and distinctive clothing from an early age". This one just about covers Mr. Von Trapp, but what the hell was the PI doing at the wedding?