Grimm Artisanal Ales (October 2016)

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?

 

Real excited for this one.

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

Word. Can't understand why this isn't the default attitude amongst a "community"

 

Does anyone know if the WF on E 57th street in Midtown get Grimm cans on release?

 

They did for the last can release.

 

Then why not hold the beer until 5?

 

Because not everyone works the same schedule.

 

Plus the % of people in NYC that get off work at 5pm (even those that work mon-fri day jobs) is probably tiny

 

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.

 

Why not just hold it for whatever time is best for each of us on BA?

 

Cherry Raspberry Pop! sounds great.

 

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.

 

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!

 

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.

 

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

 

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.