New Beer Sunday (Week 756)

Glad the CBD helped you feel better, hang in there, shit can get rough but I find it’s worth sticking around.

 

Happy New American IPA Sunday!

Pretty nice day here on the Western Slope, at the trailhead, sunny, around 90. Having a pretty tasty brew, nice price on these bombers. Made something I call Cowboy Supper. Watching The Invaders.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22843/211859/?ba=Wasatch#review

Cheers!

 

Enjoying a can of Bhramari Neon Ghost, I’m usually not a fan of El Dorado but I like them in this, thanks @thebeers!
4.15/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

12 oz can poured into a teku

A- A hazy copper with a two finger white head.

S- Oranges, citrus, some tropical fruits, some stone fruits.

T- Oranges, some tropical fruits, citrus, some malt sweet, stone fruits, a little dank.

M- Smooth, medium body.

O- A tasty NEIPA, El Dorabo hops are hit and miss for me, but I really like them in this.

Cheers NBS!

 

Good lord does that somehow look both absolutely, amazingly delicious and like a psychedelic lava lamp nightmare at the same time .

Recipe?

 

Had a can earlier in the week and wasn't all that impressed either. I find that their ipa's seem to sound a lot better than they actually are. I think their darker beers have been better quality.

 

Pike 51 Black Currant Sour. This was awesome. Lasting fluffy head retention/foamy lacing. Aromas and flavors of big sour/tart/tangy black currants, fruit skin/seed, lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit, peach, plum, pear, apricot, melon, red/green apple, red grape/wine, oak, hay, straw, and grass; with some wheat, cracker, white bready malts; lighter notes of peppercorn, leathery/musty/lacto funk, red wine vinegar, and yeast earthiness. Moderate fruity/lactic tart/sourness, fruit tang, and yeast/oak tannin spiciness on the finish. High carbonation, light bodied, and moderately crisp finishing. Balanced grainy malt, lactic acid, and fruit tang/tannins in the mouthfeel. Moderate increasing acidic/tangy dryness; mild pucker/astringent. Smooth, not too overly lactic, flavorful for 4.2% Awesomely big jammy currants and balanced Brett/Bacteria complexity; with great oak presence, and solid malts against acidity. Minimal residual sweetness with crisp dryness. Big fan. 4.13


Cheers

 

My posting is lagging behind my actual tasting...

Anyway, next up in the New Americanized Fruited Belgian Witbier Sunday tasting is:

Avery Liliko'i Kepolo Belgian-Style White Ale (Ale with Passionfruit & Spices)
ABV 5.4%
IBU 10



Moderately tropical fruit aroma, the brewer says passion fruit, so, OK, it's passion fruit. Picking up the wheat stronger in this one that in the Great Lakes. This may be less "fruited" than that one... we'll see.

Tall, white fluffy head over a hazy dark orange body, but not so hazy you can't see the ample carbonation bubbles rising. The head recedes very quickly, leaving virtually no lacing; just a slight wall above the ring and cap at the end.

Taste is tart passion fruit. Not enough to be called sour, just a little tart. The wheat is present in the taste, but definitely subservient to the tart fruit (IOW, not as present as the aroma suggested). No bitterness at all (as expected with a 10 IBU rating), with the tartness providing the counter to any sweetness present.

Body is tingly and thin.

Finish is tart, dry, and brief. Hardly any aftertaste; just a memory of the tartness on the tongue and in the mouth. I'm disappointed in this finish. It kind of just goes away, leaving indistinct tartness in its wake.

Given the ratings, I was expecting more I guess.

L: 3.75 | S: 4.0 | T: 3.75 | F: 3.5 | O: 3.75 | My calculated BA rating: 3.79

 

Greetings from Northern Indiana on a stupendous Sunday evening, NBS friends. I really appreciate the topic @lordofthewiens launched with today - the neighborhood I grew up in here in South Bend had a group of 7 or 8 kids in the same age group that did a LOT of stuff together growing up in the early ‘70s. Ghost In The Graveyard was a favorite (Ditch ‘Em at night), and so was anything that could lead down to the Dairy Queen at the end of our street (a large vanilla cone dipped in chocolate - 25 cents plus a penny for the gubamint).

But what we did all day everyday in the summer was wiffle ball, specifically “Home Run Derby,” where various targets (trees, sidewalks) were doubles or triples, and over the hedge at the end of my best buddy’s yard (the guy I’ve gone to Dark Lord Day with the last two years) was a HR - and the sidewalk in his neighbor’ yard was a Grand Slam. Yahtzee!!!

We played so much wiffle ball (remember the banana bat - if you do, you are O-L-D like me), the balls kept cracking. So, as any industrious baseball freaks that were relatively poor in the 70s would do, we used masking tape to minimize the effects of said cracks, so that after 3 or 4 days of taping wiffle balls that insisted on cracking repeatedly, you had a (emphasis on plastic) wiffle ball that was approximately 17 times harder than a baseball.

And when it hit a house, which was often, it had roughly the same impact as a Scud missile (Kuwait, anyone?).

And it dented - OHHHHHH, how it dented - aluminum siding (another 70s term for “flimsy metal attached to houses).

We spent a lotta time running from nice old neighborhood ladies yelling at us to stop smash their houses. Literally the best times ever.

On to tonight’s beers. First up, a local beer that is muy bueno.





4.25/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

First admission - I’m a Bare Hands fanboy.

Second admission - I’m a Mosaic hop/Pilsner malt freak (I’m looking at you Yellow Rose).

This beer includes Mosaic cryo and Carapils malt, so you’ve been warned.

The pour is a slightly hazy burnt orange color with a sudsy off-white head. Dank hop aromas from the Mosaic hops dominate the nose, and there’s some grainy notes from the Carapils malt, too.

The Mosaic hops, as they are wont to, dominate the taste - dank citrus flavors, with mandarin oranges most prominent, but the Carapils malt isn’t shy, it stakes a claim with a rye bread flavor that is magnificent.

This is a treat to drink. A really well balanced, flavorful IPA.

 

Back with one more new beer tonight. This one is courtesy of always generous @TheGent.


Wow was this great.
The look was typical - a very hazy light yellow color with a medium sized white head. Great lacing in the glass. The nose was just bursting with tangerine, orange, and mango. Taste followed thankfully! Really fantastic bright fruit flavors. Some crackery malt and also some subtle dank earthy notes. The feel was outstanding: very soft and bitterness was low. A slightly thick but clean finish. Damn was this great. Deserving of its reputation. Thanks, Anthony!

 

Severe t-storms out of nowhere!

Lift Bridge Barrel Aged Silhouette. 2018. This was fantastic. Poor head retention, minimal lacing. Aromas and flavors of huge milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, molasses, brown sugar, toffee, bourbon, toasted oak, roasted nuts, biscuit, and dark/brown bread/crust; with lighter notes of vanilla, coconut, licorice, raisin, prune, cherry, fig, date, smoke, charcoal, leather, tobacco, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast earthiness. Very mild herbal, grass, roast, charred bitterness; and bourbon/oak tannin spiciness on the finish. Light-medium carbonation and very full body. Very creamy, silky, velvety, bready malts; light slickness, sticky hops, chalky roast, and oak tannins in the mouthfeel. Lightly increasing bitter/tannic dryness; no cloying, acrid, astringency. Very smooth/soft, minimal warming 10%, no lingering barrel booze. Not as much barrel as I expected. Fantastic rich malt complexity; solid barrel presence/integration, restrained fruity yeast, and mild earthy hops. Not overly sweet/heavy from lingering dryness. Very impressive, apparently a "hyped" stout, but I had no idea before hand 4.25


Cheers, have a good night NBS. Might not be reviewing anything more today. Already had 7

 

This is true. we all need to try to be as positive as we can. I have both of my grandsons here for about 4 days and it is always a lesson in the merits of living and further learning family as it works through time. I am the family historian and I cherish the role!

 

#2, New Holland rides the Dragon’s Milk Brand hard, which I understand, but I’m not sure I understand this beer, at least as it’s described on the can.





3.64/5 rDev -5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5

This is described as a bourbon barrel-aged white stout.

Okay, let’s decipher that description.

There is literally no barrel - none - present in this beer. Zero.

There are some cocoa notes on the taste, though, that are really nice, but it’s not like a stout cocoa note, it’s a cream ale with some cocoa.

Which is fine, but this isn’t really a stout, and it is certainly not a BBA stout.

But I’ll drink the 6er, because it’s a good back end after an IPA.

 

Cheers, John! Glad you liked!

 

First time canning.
AIPA @ 5.7% abv.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/10267/407761/



16 oz. can.

Bottom of can:

"07/30/2019
YACHT ROCK
4 LIFE!"

Moderate pour yields a one inch white head over a hazy golden body with some lacing. Nose of tropical fruit, citrus, and very slight pine and floral herbs (not herb!) Taste of citrus, pine. and tropical fruit in that order. Sessionable and very smooth right through a beautiful citrus pith and slight pine finish. Nice feel and would recommend this to anyone who enjoys an IPA a bit less bitter. A job well done in Williston, VT at Goodwater Brewery by Big Tree Brewing Co.

Cheers!!

 

Hang in there dude !!!

 

Final beer of the New Americanized Fruited Belgian Witbier Sunday tasting is:

Bell's Pooltime Ale Belgian Inspired Wheat Ale with Cherry Juice
ABV 5.2%
IBU NA



Aroma is wheat, cherry, spice: coriander and pepper.

Hazy reddish-orange, some rising bubbles. Tall white thick head, creating an uneven surface as it drops. Draperies with stalagtites dropping from them form the lacing.

Taste does contain the wheat and spice, but the cherry is more to the front than in the aroma. The cherries are very slightly tart, but mostly sweet. No bitterness. Actually, quite delicious.

Feel is light to medium with nothing from the carbonation.

The sweetness is pretty much gone by the finish, leaving it mostly dry and slightly tart.

Enjoyable and refreshing, but the excellent flavor pushes this on to the top of today's 3.

L: 4.0 | S: 3.75 | T: 4.5 | F: 3.75 | O: 3.75 | My calculated BA rating: 4.07

 

NBSx2.

Wolves & People
Honeycone -Hazy Farmhouse IPA brewed with honey





First of all, you may already know that I fucking HATE reviewing IPAs on NBS. This one however had the farmhouse touch of Wolves & People and a wonderful inclusion and execution of honey that I've never tasted before. They really are something special...

Only slightly hazed and exactly as described; like raw honey. Deep gold with a foamy white head and moderate lacing.

Good weedy aroma with honey actually noticable! Definitely a little bit of farmhouse funk, but very mild.

Similar in flavor, and very unique to actually get this much honey influence. Very floral, earthy, and deep rooted in the "recreational" plant usage despite any actual contribution.

Even the feel seems honey like as it has a richness to it. Sweet at first with a dry and earthy bitter bite at the end. Relatively easy to drink, but not so much as it warmed.

A pretty good IPA with touches of funk and a well represented usage of honey. Cheers.

After my official review I gave Honeycone a rating of 3.88. Cheers!

 

I'm absolutely down to run that experiment should we ever find our locationality to be matching. And yeah.... it could easily go either way ha. But that's a risk I'm willing to take! Although, if you're gonna have a Star Trek avatar and have it be from Voyager...