What beer are you drinking now? #1449

Good morning BA, have a great Saturday! Been up early for a while, had a lot of laundry to do today. Last week someone was hogging all the machines literally all day Sunday, so I had to skip a week. Good thing I have unlimited work shirts haha. Got some work to do today from home; we had some escalated deadlines for Monday when I left work yesterday, so I have to double check some reports. Good thing I have a laptop.

Beer this morning:

Amazing Gose as always. Flavors of big sour cherry, lemon, lime, green apple, wheat, cracker, coriander, sea salt, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. Nice sized fruity/lactic sour finish; balanced cherry/lacto acidity, salinity, and light grainy wheat creaminess in the mouthfeel. Highly drinkable despite higher acidity. I wish this was year round. So much fantastic sour cherry flavor for the low ABV. Down to my last 4 pack, but I can still grab some more in some places; and I will.


My go-to English styled American porter. Big robust and complex flavors of milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toffee, toast, brown sugar, brown bread, and light coffee/nuttiness; with restrained plum/apple English yeast fruitiness and light-moderate herbal hops. Balanced herbal/roast bitter finish; with an awesome creamy/silky mouthfeel. An all around incredible beer every single time, one of the best year round beers out there IMO. Just got a fresh 6 pack earlier this week. I should always have it around.


Awesome red IPA! Flavors of big tangerine, grapefruit, pineapple, peach, passion fruit, papaya, mango, orange peel, light pepper, and pine hops; with moderate caramel, honey, spicy rye, and toasted bready sweetness; with herbal, floral, and grassy hop earthiness. Moderate pine/rind/spicy bitterness on the finish. Medium bodied; sticky/resinous mouthfeel with some grainy creaminess; a touch of honey slickness. Light-moderate increasing resin dryness; no lingering hop astringency. Super juicy and pretty dank on the hop character. Feels like Simcoe, Citra, Amarillo, and Columbus; huge fan of this hop profile. Will definitely pick up again while it’s still around as a seasonal; we have plenty left.


This is insane! I got this from a friend recently. Flavors of huge milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, coconut, vanilla, bourbon, toffee, toasted oak, tobacco, and charred grain; with some light raisin, cherry, fig, date fruit notes. Moderate char bitterness and bourbon/oak spice on the finish. Full bodied creamy/silky/slick mouthfeel; with some balancing sticky/chalky roast and barrel notes. Increasingly drying finish from spicy bourbon/oak. Very warming, but not all that boozy. Absolutely enormous on barrel flavors. Pretty much a perfect balance between pure bourbon and imperial stout. I've only had this one other time 2 years ago. Still just as amazing as I remember. Wow. I need to get another Sucaba soon, because that one is on my top 5 all time best beer list when I reviewed it.


Cheers

 

Not usually a huge fan of pumpkin beers, but never had a BA rendition. I really like this, the barrel cuts the pumpkin flavor to a very desirable level.

 

Good morning! Looks like a perfect fall day to do some yardwork.
Some tofu scramble to start, with everyone's favorite breakfast drink.



Mrs Wiens and I had dinner with @SomethingClever last night at York River Landing. Always good to see Dave.

 

Wish I had more of these, last can of this really tasty breakfast beer. Laundry time for me too @superspak

 

De Garde • Petit Desay

 

Had a great time as per usual, thank you for dinner and the copious amount of beverages I drank. I didn't get thrown out this time though.

 

V@S so far for me this morning. exciting afternoon yesterday. @mschrei wonder what will happen today.

 

After reading @BSiegs nice side-by-side, I was a little nostalgic for doing one myself. So I took his "lesser seasonal " and mimicked his vertical review:



Look: The '15 and '16 both grew the same size head atop their near black bodies, bot the 16 looked a little thicker, and definitely lasted a little longer.

Nose: The '15 has a nice roasty nature to it, but is balanced in that roast aroma being malt-based and coffee-based. The '16 has considerably more coffee aroma and is a little stronger overall. Sort of no surprise here.

Feel: The '15 has a light carbonation with a slightly more than medium body. The '16 is about the same, but a little smoother and a tad less dry.

Taste: Much like the nose, the '15 seems to have a little more bitterness from the roasted notes, and the specific coffee notes seem to be part of the roasted makeup. The '16 is a tad sweeter tasting, like a very lightly sweetened coffee. The '16 tastes more like an "adjusted beer" where if you just handed me the '15 - I'd probably assume it was a regular stout than one with coffee added.



I do believe the '15 was in the fridge for most of the year - at least for the last few months. I do have some '15 cellared, but it may be time to bring them out. I believe I like the newer version more - at least today that is true. Thanks @BSiegs for revitalizing my desire to do a side-by-side. Cheers, all!

 

Happy Saturday BA's

Another day, another pumpkin!

Going to get another hike in today....weather is cooler but nice, breezy!

Stay hydrated out there peeps!

 

Hi.



I am going to spend the entire weekend in my pajamas. Cheers!

 

I'd still tell everyone it means "Dragon" - no boy wants be "Precious" - think of the future opportunities for bullying!

 

5% alcohol. Brewed in Ukraine.

 

Morning...

Last night at Delmonico
Rapid City, SD


Chimay Tripel

Have a great weekend!

 

Good morning BAs! It's a dark, rainy Saturday here in NW PA - I just felt some distant thunder - so I guess it's a good thing I mowed the yard yesterday. Mrs. Lizard and I were considering heading down to the Lancaster county/Bucks county area for a couple of days but it looks like I'm going to be helping my son with a bathroom project at his house for the next week instead. The joys of retirement - just sitting back and contemplating my next project and the one after that and the one after that and the one after that, ad infinitum.

Today's New Beer Saturday brew:



Sorry, I gots ta do it:

 

My OCD is going INSANE right now! You really couldn't straighten those bottle caps ?