New Beer Sunday (Week 680)

This looks like my dream come true beer. Roggenbiers are my favorite style, but nearly impossible to find outside of Germany (Hell, even inside of Germany!), followed closely by doppelbocks. Wow!

So I've heard. Yikes!

 

Pipeworks Santa vs Unicorn

I’m concluding my strong ale theme with this barley wine. It feels like we’ve had a nice barley wine heavy thread today! This label calls the beer a barley wine, but the brewer description claims that the drinker can call it what they will: “Imperial Red Ale, American Style Barleywine, or Red Double IPA.” That statement properly set my expectations. I suppose that drinkers would be fine if the label said imperial red IPA instead. I don’t know if that would help or hurt the ratings.

It’s the color of red sangria. Medium body. Smells like berry jam. Tastes like cherry but without being very sweet (and not at all tart). It also possesses a firm bitterness (but we’re not talking Bigfoot levels).

The label is intensely stupid - by design... but that’s not exactly my idea of a great goal for a beer label. I’m drinking this while waiting for the Oscar montage of people who passed away.... and it just started.

 

I'd offer to send you one, but I bought this when I was out of town for work. I hope you can find it out there somewhere!

 

That sounds really good. Damn! I wish we got Cigar City around here! I know I can get it in NYC, but I'm not sure who, if anyone, carries it farther upstate.

 

Good to know!

 

I appreciate that. Already added it to my very short list of "wants", consisting of nothing but Roggenbiers . Prost!

 

I know Cigar City gets to Rockland County. Not sure how far upstate it gets

 

I’ve got one last new one to share tonight, an RIS from The Duck-Rabbit cleverly named Rabid Duck. This a really interesting brew that really grew on me as I drank it.



And my BA review-

4.12/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Look- pours black with a thin tan head; minimal lacing

Nose- bitter baker's chocolate, burnt coffee, cocoa

Taste- intense roasty bitterness and espresso with a nice soft milk chocolate flavor riding along under that

Feel- medium/full bodied with low carb makes for a creamy, mouth-coating sip; finishes long and bitter

Overall- nice focus on super roasty malt with chocolate and coffee notes combined with a nice creamy feel make for a nice drinking that improves with each sip

Cheers, LNNBS!

 

I might be able to get it in Binghamton or Ithaca. I'll have to check their stores.

 

Spent the day traveling to Birmingham and back to help my sister in law move into a new house. Finally back home and getting to do what I've been dreaming of doing all day, cracking open a can I didn't expect to get to try.
Creature Comforts has been releasing their beers at 1PM which gives me time to get there early to be close to the front of the line, get my beer, and make it to work by 3PM. The past couple have been released at 3 which kills it for me. They did a stout this round too but it was sold out in three hours, trying to work on getting a few of those. Had to work yesterday but luckily my wife made the trip and picked up a couple four packs.

When they planned the label for this one didn't realize that Equilibrium uses the Enso as their logo. They apologized, vowed to change it if they can this one again, and sent some beer their way.
Pours a hazy golden yellow with a thin white head.
Smells of orange, pineapple, dank resin, and peach.
Taste follows, pineapple, peach, orange, and slightly lingering resin. Bit of a crackery malt is there too.
Medium to light body, smooth drinking.
Overall another tasty CC beer, can is just a few days old and seems a little green to me, I believe in a week or two this one will be hitting it's full stride.

 

Look how Equilibrium is just converging at your feet

 

Next one is my first Carton and it's quite enjoyable.

Pours a very slightly hazed yellow orange with a thin white head.
Smells a bit grassy/floral, orange pith. Some sweet malt and a bit of alcohol coming through too.
Tastes similiar, I get the grassiness up front, there is a bit of musty onion that I didn't get on the nose(gotta be some Simcoe or maybe Amarillo in here), finishes with a citrus pith bitterness. Alcohol presence without any heat.
Medium bodied, good carb, slightly dry finish.
Overall a great beer, glad I have a couple other ones in the fridge but I highly doubt they make it until next Sunday.

 

Well Hello Late Night NBS.
No new beer for me. I did try to ease my pain of Michigan handedly beating my Boilermakers in the BIG10 tournament.
Chapman Crafted Orange Plaza Pale a solid APA. But I've been playing nurse this weekend, 2 members of our clan are down with different ailments. So next week I should be back. I enjoyed reading the first page, hope to get to more.

Cheers All.

 

I have to say that I am a little bit embarrassed that this is the first time you are having a beer from Carton

 

No need to be embarrassed, I'm still pretty new around here. If anything I should be embarrassed for not seeking them out sooner.

 

Stone's Exalted IPA is really impressing me. A unique take on this style. It is a great new beer for me to end my weekend with!

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/147/318208/?ba=neenerzig#review

Eric

 

I thought this would be a fitting beer as I'm finishing up/proofing a research paper on reducing recidivism.

Poured what appeared to be a mostly clear dark brown with minimal head.
Smell is roasted malt, chocolate, some dark roasted coffee.
Taste is predominantly the dark roasted malt, chocholate comes through in the finish along with an espresso like bitterness.
Light to medium body, definitely a bit thinner than I had expected it to be.
Overall not a bad beer but not one that I would go out of my way to procure either.
@beertunes my apologies but one of these is already packed up to come your way, I know you aren't the coffee type and if I had realized this was going to have the coffee aspect I wouldn't have packed it.

 

Where's @2beerdogs at it's time for some classic LNNBS!!
Just squeaking in under the technical Sunday barrier with about 15 minutes local left until Monday morning dawns. Well, dawn is probably a lot more than 15 minutes off, but it would be technically correct (the best kind of correct) to say that Monday's 15 minutes away.
And as far as stories such as Maria's... I have no offspring of my own, but I have plenty of accounts of similar stories from the other side of it. I know way more about my own conception, for example, than I had ever cared to, and have walked in on too many similar such attempts for it to really phase me anymore.
Anyway.

I don't have a whole lot of experience with oyster stouts. In fact, I can't remember if this is my first one ever or not (quick edit: it's not. I had one from Sekinoichi Shuzo once, long ago, and one from Outlander slightly less long ago, but still in a galaxy far far away... allowing for the bending of space time back in on itself and that, of course), but it has some similar qualities to the Kelp Stout that I reviewed on here a couple of weeks ago, which I am attributing to the salinity of the marine wildlife featured therein.




Briny Deep is the beer that makes the most sense from a brewery named Mollusk.

Pour is that beautiful classic almost but not quite black with crisp clean walls of not-quite obsidian that I love in a good stout. As you can see the head is a fluffy brown that is darker than tan/khaki and if it were a little more blue would remind me of things cooked with taro. But it's not, so I'm not sure why that image keeps coming to my head.

Nose is roasted malts and clean chocolate cocoa. I swear I smell a faint brine, but am perfectly willing to admit that that is most likely suggested by knowing the ingredients/style.

Flavour follows many of the same notes with rounded roasty malts taking the forefront, sprinkled with some cocoa and almost molasses-esque bitterness to balance. I swear this time that I actually legitimately get some salinity here as opposed to the nose where it might be the power of suggestion. On the tongue I get it manifest as this forced salivation that reminds me of swallowing seawater, and is the link I allude to above with the Kelp Stout.

Body is maybe a little thinner than I prefer, but is smoothe with fine points of soft carbonation that serve to support that salinity already alluded.

I really enjoyed this one overall. The salinity is interesting and enjoyable, but I really like the stout underneath it as well.



Now I need to figure out what the hell I'm going to cook tomorrow and put together a shopping list...