Grimm Artisanal Ales (October 2016)

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  1. NiceBeerCans

    NiceBeerCans Initiate (0) Mar 16, 2013 New York

    New month, new monthly Grimm thread.

    For info directly from their website
    http://grimmales.com/

    Their new online shop is open. Check out their gorgeous glassware and shirts.

    Grimm beers are usually in high demand (especially the cans). Cans have been limited to low counts per person. Grimm Artisanal Ales supply their beers at low prices (and have NOT raised their prices recently) to the distributor, who supply the retail shops, and therefore are not responsible for the final price you may encounter. They try to support the "Mom and Pop" shops that sell their beer. Hopefully, we should all support these small shops.

    The latest fitness craze has been the checking of this thread and Beermenus for their cans/bottles and running around town trying to get them before inventory is sold out. Needed exercise for some of our fellow beer enthusiasts. :grinning: If you miss out, you can usually find their beer on tap.

    Post away and yes, Joe and Lauren (the Grimm's) monitor this thread and are great about responding to your questions and comments. Especially, if you tag them @Grimm_Artisanal_Ales. :slight_smile: Great people, great couple, great brewers.

    The beautiful Grimm artwork on their labels is designed by Lauren, about 50% from scratch and the rest using Gretta Johnson's (their longtime friend) artwork.

    Check out http://grettajohnson.com/ for more about this talented artist.

    The artwork on the recently released Splish can is by Joe's old band mate, and incredible artist, Brian Alfred.

    http://paintchanger.com/


    Can advice:

    Keep cold! Drink Now! Roll can to suspend hop particles. :slight_smile:


    Upcoming Grimm releases for October (subject to change)


    Apricot Rebus - stainless steel mixed culture sour/wild ale with apricots (draft only)

    Cube Cuvee #2: Orange Bitters Barrel - blend of barrel aged golden sour and saison aged two years in orange bitters barrels (draft only)

    Tesseract DIPA (draft/cans)

    Awoogah IPA - Single IPA feat. Galaxy, Hallertau Blanc, Simcoe, and Columbus (draft/cans)

    Field Rotation - Collaboration with Blue Hill at Stone Barns. Berliner Weisse with an entire cycle of cover crops -- barley, rye, oats, and clover. Huell Melon just for kicks. (draft/bottles)

    Cherry Raspberry Pop! - creamsicle-inspired dessert berliner with tart cherries, raspberries, milk sugar, and vanilla. (bottles)
     
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  2. Xeal

    Xeal Zealot (603) Mar 5, 2016 New York
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    To quote myself from last month's post since it closed right after I posted:

    @Grimm_Artisanal_Ales what does an over oxidized beer taste like?

    I popped open a Pulse Wave can yesterday that I bought in Manhattan and it came off as pure bitterness where all I tasted was an overwhelming amount of one of the hops with no balance. Then today I opened a friend's can which wasn't bought in Manhattan and that just tasted super malty.

    I'm not getting any tropical notes others are speaking of and was hugely disappointed. Maybe it's just my bad luck that I'm 2 for 2 on bad cans from two different boroughs but is this how the new recipe of the second batch of Pulse Wave should taste?
     
  3. NewmansOwn

    NewmansOwn Initiate (0) Jun 25, 2016 New York



    Real excited for this one.
     
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  4. Grimm_Artisanal_Ales

    Grimm_Artisanal_Ales Initiate (0) Apr 6, 2015 New York

    Anything from wooden popsicle sticks to black tea/dead leaves to cardboard and piss, depending on the consituents of the beer and how bad it is.

    Pulse Wave is our west coast inspired DIPA -- this batch is simcoe/columbus, very old school west coast hops -- so it doesn't have the tropical flavors of Splish and Lambo. There is some fruitiness and cotton candy elements but it has more pine, herbal/earthy, licorice, and bitter hoppiness than the others. Pulse Wave is a little bit of an outlier for us i'd say but we're big fans of it, it's just a different set of hop flavors.

    I think canning-related oxidation issues are rare but real... None of the local breweries own/operate our own canning line (with the exception of Kane, i think), we all use mobile canners who do a great job for the most part, but sometimes a few cans go sideways.
     
  5. cakehouse

    cakehouse Initiate (0) Mar 4, 2016 New York

    They posted in the comments that vanilla beans were added too!
     
  6. Abstractual

    Abstractual Initiate (0) Mar 6, 2015 New York

    Wanted to comment on a complaint at the bottom of the Sept page about the 1 p/p policy at some of the WFs now. I'd rather sell 1 can to 60~ people than 2 cans to 30~ considering I know I'm going to sell out in a day regardless. Not everyone can jump out of work to line up at noon and I want the ones that can't to have a shot as well.
     
  7. rozzom

    rozzom Pooh-Bah (2,620) Jan 22, 2011 New York
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    Word. Can't understand why this isn't the default attitude amongst a "community"
     
  8. Xerlic

    Xerlic Maven (1,398) Aug 26, 2016 New York
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    Does anyone know if the WF on E 57th street in Midtown get Grimm cans on release?
     
  9. cakehouse

    cakehouse Initiate (0) Mar 4, 2016 New York

    They did for the last can release.
     
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  10. cakehouse

    cakehouse Initiate (0) Mar 4, 2016 New York

    Then why not hold the beer until 5?
     
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  11. prettygood

    prettygood Initiate (0) May 27, 2016 New York

    Because not everyone works the same schedule.
     
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  12. rozzom

    rozzom Pooh-Bah (2,620) Jan 22, 2011 New York
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    Plus the % of people in NYC that get off work at 5pm (even those that work mon-fri day jobs) is probably tiny
     
  13. TheGoodTimesAreKillingMe

    TheGoodTimesAreKillingMe Initiate (0) Feb 26, 2013 New York

    Going on record as saying that Awoogah is the gnarliest name for a beer Lauren and Joe have come up with. Also that this month's beers look sick and that Splish is tasty. That is all.
     
  14. ONovoMexicano

    ONovoMexicano Initiate (0) Jun 14, 2012 New Mexico

    Why not just hold it for whatever time is best for each of us on BA? :wink:
     
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  15. Comparison_Ford

    Comparison_Ford Maven (1,293) Apr 4, 2014 New York

    Cherry Raspberry Pop! sounds great.
     
  16. cakehouse

    cakehouse Initiate (0) Mar 4, 2016 New York

    Y'all are missing the point of my comment. Deciding can limits in hopes that they get to more people is pretty useless knowing they will sell out regardless. @Abstractual said the hope was to get cans to people who can't jump out of work yet doesn't do the easiest thing to make that possible. It blows my mind that prices are regulated across Whole Foods stores across the county when it comes to food, yet they can't seem to standardize beer pricing and limits in the city.
     
  17. Dave_Carlson

    Dave_Carlson Initiate (0) May 17, 2015 New York

    Just poppin' in to say that I drank a bottle of Present Perfect this evening, and it was one of the tastiest Berliner's I've ever had. Good job!
     
  18. Abstractual

    Abstractual Initiate (0) Mar 6, 2015 New York

    Except that it works? I had people come in at all hours of the day yesterday and didn't sell out until late evening shortly before close. If I started selling at 5 my entire stash would go to the dinner bar crowd in minutes.
     
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  19. cakehouse

    cakehouse Initiate (0) Mar 4, 2016 New York

    Didn't you guys used to sell 2pp? It's sounds like people are going elsewhere.
     
  20. NewmansOwn

    NewmansOwn Initiate (0) Jun 25, 2016 New York

    Had a tasting of all 3 cans last night and even surprised myself. Last week I thought Pulse was my least favorite next to Lambo door, it was way too malty for me. This time around Pulse Wave really hit he spot, followed by Splish and then Lambo.
     
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