New Beer Sunday (Week 670)

You’ve done it NBS. I’m sitting here reading your posts and I want to come back with one more new beer, and have a better experience than my first beer, and perhaps say a word or two about the holidays. I need to run to the grocery store later for some last second items anyways, so I’m sure I can accidentally stop by my local beer store on my way home. I drain poured my ghost pepper stout after reviewing it. I used to absolutely hate when people did that but finally, finally I understand it a bit.

 

****holding up my goblet**** I love you too sister-in-beer, may we both never know any days so hard as some we have known, May we all. Cheers!

 

Drinking Crime was Punishment.

 

NBS Round #2
A Hoosier beer from my overflowing beer fridge.

The review:
16oz canned 11/12/17 poured into a Spiegelau IPA glass at fridge temp 7.2% ABV. The beer pours bright orange gold in color with sticky off white head.
Retention and lacing are above average. The aroma is big with citrus and pine. The taste is more citrus and pine with just a touch of caramel malt coming through. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, adequately carbonated and mostly dry in the finish. There is some definite hop stickiness keeping it from being completely dry, but it's never sweet either. Overall, excellent west coast IPA brewed here in Indiana. Worth a try if you're passing through and find it fairly fresh.

Not sure if I'll make it back for a third round. Need to get some sleep before work. Enjoy your Sunday & the new beer in your glass today friends!

 

Christmas Eve 2017 - Santa brought 6 New Naughty Stouts in December in descending order (looks like everyone's enjoying stouts) ;-)

Sunday Molé Stout | Weyerbacher
4.5/5 rDev +9.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

Certain innovative beers deserve more than the BA average, even if slightly flawed, this Sunday Molé is one. Love it. Try 24.

a) Pours an opaque, viscous black body with only a half finger of dark tan head that leaves film islands and dotty bulleted lace. (Fruit and additives kill the head retention in beer).

s) Strong aromas of molé: dark chocolate, black beans, coffee roasted beans, grilled chilé, cinnamon, and roasted malts. A great sniffer in a snifter, let it warm to cask for full effect.

t) Upfront ample roasted malts with battle between chocolate, caramel and molasses sweetness, and chile pepper and cinnamon and spice. Along the way there's sweet dark chocolate, cold brew coffee, dark fresh roasted coffee beans, molé, salsa, and heat. The alcohol is fine for this beer as it's tempered by the gravity of the rich battling flavors.

f) Syrupy, full bodied, with low carbonation and a silky, wine-like, liquore-like finish that warms like tequila.

o) Nothing average here. Great last beer of the evening. Worth it as a sipper. Happy Christmas eve eve 2018.

Void Of Light | Gun Hill Brewing
4.2/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

Honored to be early reviewer of this best of Foreign Stout beer.
A) pours void of light - a dark deep black hole, with a tight one finger foamy head, and arcs of lacing on the glass.
S) Smells abundant of fall leaves, wood fire, char, smoke, chocolate, dark roast cold brew coffee, raisins, grass, earthy forest floor. Complex. Meditative.
T) Follows the smell with the right smokiness and dried prune / raisin fruit with chocolate, some grassy hops, ash. and roast coffee.
F) Full body, creamy, drying and toasty like a good stout
O) Try 24.

Wake Up Dead Nitro Russian Imperial Stout | Left Hand
4.07/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Quite amazing look and initial mouth feel.
a) Because I did not invert the bottle over the snifter, it started flat, then built a lasting, lacing, thick and creamy tan head.
s) I find Nitro beers make a great first sip impression but lacking in aroma. Light in aroma, deep in flavor. Nutty, dark roast coffee, and roast malt aroma.
t) ABV well hidden. Rich, dark roasted grain flavor, well built with coffee, chocolate, fennel, and licorice. Complex burnt and flavors, less fruit. A meditation sipper. Excellent bitter/sweet battle starts sweet and ends twisty bitter.
F) Initial creamy feel is great. Then medium body, less than 10Fidy, with a creamy shoulder and plenty of liquor like alcohol heat.
o) Not miss but lately Sunday Mole, TenFidy have this beat. Try 12.

Bittersweet Nitro Imperial Coffee Milk Stout | Left Hand
4.06/5 rDev -0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

You'll reach for chocolate chip cookies with this one.
a) Brown black with ruby highlights. the short nitro head lasts and remains a lunar film
s) Dark roast coffee, coffee milk, espresso, caramel, raisin, plum. Complex - a meditation beer.
t) Follows the smell, remains complex but smooth.
f) Full to mid-bodied, smooth, silky, easy, abv hidden.
o) nice last beer of the evening.

Out Of Bounds Stout | Avery
3.9/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

Everyday stout. Not outrageous.
a) Black, good 1 inch loose head, lasts, and provides lacing all the way down glass.
s) Too faint, and while hops, coffee, malt, char - another oily smell lowers the mark.
t) Ample bittered of charcoal, coffee, chocolate, hops, and malt. Hoppy dry stout.
f) Pleasing but light feel, bittering on tongue, nice finish, char remains.
o) Solid every day stout. I'd have one a day.

Neapolitan Milk Stout | Saugatuck
3.9/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

Surprised by the success of this combination, because normally ice cream strawberry doesnt mix well with beer.
Not so here, where we get an original and heroic combination.
a) I look for more lasting and creamy head and lace than founder here, but it's solid.
s) Exceptional creamy aroma of vanilla and berry set off by sufficient char, and heft, to balance.
t) Likewise, the sweet and flavorful additions are tempered by a roast char body, that's solid malt, roast, wood, pepper, and charcoal.
f) A bit thinner than I like, but more flavor and punch that a 6.0 abv,
Best beer of their lot? Did not like their flavored stouts otherwise.

 

OMG- I love that can design and now I must have that beer . Sounds real promising, too. Cheers!

 

Here's a little preview I posted in the South Jersey thread yesterday:

Hopefully I'll be back later on tonight with more of a full impression, but you never know . But I will add that these beers were selling themselves at a growler station with 20 choices, and Ludlam Island sure seems like the real deal.

Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays as the case may be!

 

Good Morning and happy Christmas Eve NBS ers
Thanks for another stealer opening @lordofthewiens, great history lesson about Christmas. I hope everyone enjoys the holiday season and we all come through it safe and sound, happy and healthy.
My new beer this week is Gunners Daughter Milk Stout from Mast Landing 16 oz can 5.5 abv



Pours jet black with a thin head
Aroma is sweet and roasty and pronounced vanilla
Taste is sweet coffee and vanilla with a nice peanut butter finish
Mouth feel is very smooth very slight bite but the sweetness overwhelms it
Definitely a desserty type of stout, I ended up dipping a biscotti in it and it tasted excellent. I loved the peanut butter finish.

 

It's a very nice AAL, there's nothing wrong with going back to roots and old memories. I agree, I like these kinda beers ice cold, most fall apart as they warm up. You can't beat the price though.

 

A-A deep ruby with a nice head and lacing.
A-Aroma has hints of cherry, cranberry and raspberry.
T-Taste follows the nose but is very soft and smooth with wonderful fruit accents.
M-A light bodied refreshing beer with generous carbonation.
O-Very well made beer, I am kind of surprised they retiered it, as it is very refreshing and very well done.

 

Funny you should mention Out of Bounds. I was just thinking about it the other day as I was trying this one sent to me by @Bitterbill :

In this case I felt that the Zonker is the beer that Out of Bounds wants to be. They are very similar, with a heavy roast malt presence and gravity about them, but the Zonker is a touch more refined and cohesive, which makes all the difference in the world- it's in the solid A range for me, maybe a 4.5. Too bad we don't have regular access to it; it would be a staple in my fridge.

 

Cheating by having Hardywood Christmas Morning a day early

I think their Gingerbread Stout is phenomenal, but this improves further upon an already outstanding beer. A chocolatey color with a short, khaki head in the glass. The scent is reminiscent of a stocked fireplace before it has been lit. The taste has the ginger and honeysuckle of normal GBS, but adds a roasty coffee motif that brings a balance between the spice and the sugar. World-class beverage. Wish I could try the Barrel-aged version!

 

I had some of this Friday and totally agree the coffee brings that extra note that turns the spiced stout back a little towards a regular stout, in a way. If adds a depth which I find very enjoyable. And the Kentucky Christmas Morning version is even more wonderful (in my memory and per my old review). Cheers!

 

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates,hope everyone has a safe and nice holiday.. traveler winter shandy,orange brown color. Medium body,maybe just a little thin. Aroma is wheat ,spice,and a whole lot of orange and peel. Taste was basically the same,definitely sweet but it works well as a dessert beer. It was impressive how well the spice was incorporated,not overpowering like a lot of holiday beers I've had lately. This is a beer that won't appeal to everyone but it worked well when having with dessert

 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays NBS!

Going local for NBS, and starting off with a beer that I got to taste about a month or so ago but haven't had the chance to purchase and give it a proper review till this week. Newer brewery, they celebrated their first anniversary this fall. I've had some of their normal shelf stables and they're solid but unremarkable, however this beer and another NEIPA take they had at the tasting, well they are certainly headed in a great direction. Not quite to the level of Veil, Triple Crossing, or Answer, but pretty darn good. As a side note, it was sitting on a Wegmans shelf within a few days of canning, not bad at all.

Bask by Basic City Beer out of Waynesboro, VA.



Pours a hazy yellow color with a thick, fluffy white head that takes its time to slowly fade down to some lacing. Smell is tropical fruits, a tiny bit of pine and bitterness. Taste is tropical fruits, a slight bit of orange juice, low bitterness. Soft body, creamy, easy to drink. Overall, very nice NEIPA, a few WC IPA notes to it so it's more like a hybrid. Not quite to the level of say The Veil or Triple Crossing, but just one notch below, and very reasonably priced. I'll certainly be buying more of this.

 

Suarez Family Brewery's Palatine Pils
This optically clear pale yellow can pour with a light, fluffy cap. The aroma is delicately hop tinged. The flavor has light woody and lemon notes. The finish is dry and very clean. This is a superb pilsener.

 

Happy NBS. Enjoying my 3 days off with a bit of beer and relaxation. I watched Christmas Vacation yesterday, which is a favorite of mine.

Enjoying my new beer courtesy of Three Floyds. Behemoth - Vintage 2016. It pours a light amber/orange color with a 2.5 finger off white head. Great retention that slowly fades into a collar. Thick webs of lacing coat the glass. Rich aromas of caramel and toffee make up the sweetness. Dark fruit with hops that are earthy and piney. It is pleasant because of the caramel and toffee flavors mixed with some dark fruit. A bit of bitterness and spice to it along with some alcohol. Medium body with soft carbonation. A bit warming. A delicious BW, but kind of pricey at $17.



December is our snowiest month with over 20" on average. We almost didn't have any snow for Christmas, but it arrived just in time.

 

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