New Beer Sunday (Week 764)

Prove it!

 

That sounds like me, but my kids are in their 30s and doing very well. I knocked quite a bit off of any possible bucket list before I turned 30, the year I was married. I've been retired for about 7 years and am still working through years of notes, journals, correspondence, poems, stories, things written on napkins: I still have all of it. I do want to go back to England and Cape Verde. Cheers all!

 

Opaaafest Oktoberfest Lager.
And antipasto for food ****.



3.81/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

A moderately strong pour was needed to reach a finger of off-white soapy foam with short retention and spots of lace. Pale-orange color with orange-amber highlights.

Sweet malt, baked bread and rising dough greet the nose with wheat, citrus and faint hops.

Light juicy taste, mostly unsweetened orange and grapefruit with faint caramel and toasted malt. Neutral on sweetness with low bitterness, uniform throughout. The finish is quick and smooth, faint bitterness lingers as the aftertaste drys a bit. The juice overpowers the malt.

Light body with average carbonation, alcohol is well hidden. Session-able and smooth, a N.E style festbier. A little less juice could let the malt taste shine.

 

Now back with a New Beer for this drizzly Sunday. Thanks to @lordofthewiens for getting us going.

Unstable weather week here in Spokanistan. Monday night and into Tuesday morning, it snowed over three inches while the wind was making things quite blustery. This caused trees made heavy by snow and ice to fall, knocking out power. My power was off from just after midnight until 0630, but people up the hill from me had it out for several days. One co-worker had two trees crash onto his deck. The daytime temperatures since then have been getting into the high 40s and low 50s, but have been dropping down into the 20s at night. Today is gray and damp.

Yesterday my two college teams won in reasonably impressive fashion (both have at times struggled in what were supposed to be strong seasons for them). Today my Seahawks overcame an angry Browns team that at times seemed to want to win more, but lost their outstanding TE for what looks like the rest of the year.

Now I've got a roast for pork tacos in the slow cooker and I'm watching the submarine thriller "Hunter-Killer" (I'm assuming @Roguer turned down an offer to be technical advisor) and hitting this:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/49464/444723/?ba=woemad#review
Had to add this to the BA database, it's a "double hazy IPA " that is only 1% more alcohol by volume than the standard version of it. Brewed with Loki yeast, it finishes extremely clean, and while not a flavor bomb, is, ahem, "extremely" drinkable stuff.

 

You'd think so, but unfortunately that's not the case .

 

Just got back from a crazy week in the Appalachians. First we created a wedding (literally. 90 minutes before kickoff for the vows we cut the tree down to build the arbour) for my brother outlaw (figure we're not brothers in law since his sister is just my girlfriend, not married, but brother outlaw works, plus he's a vagabond and it just fits thematically) on the river in Eastern Tennessee, then the GF, her twin sister, and myself spent a couple of days in Asheville culminating in their birthday yesterday. It was beautiful and a ton of fun. Hit up Green Man, Burial, and Wicked Weed's Funkatorium's fifth anniversary party. Then the shit show kicked in, but that's not beer related so we'll just move along

Today is a day of recovery and doing some transplanting/etc with the aspiring jungle I've been accumulating in my apartment. Decided to crack into this delicious fruited sour from Urban Family:



Absolute Virtue is billed as a sour ale with peaches and black tea.
Side note: does anyone know why peaches are always associated with virtue? Just out of curiosity?

Anyway:
Pours a nice golden/peachy colour. Very opaque though. Nice white head that lingers in a long thing glass, but works its way back down slowly but surely in the wider one pictured up there.

Nose is mostly dull pulpy peach, almost bordering on like dried apricot. It's nice. Some citrus , but I don't get the tea or the wild character. After letting it sit for about half an hour or so, the tea starts to emerge, but it's not the astringent black tea I expected, it's much more floral/tropical with some citrus. Interesting.

Flavour starts off with a pleasant tart swell, with the peachy fruitiness offering a great balance to the tartness, without overwhelming or turning into juice or adding undue sweetness.

I really like this one, and as a bonus the GF does as well. The transformation of the nose after it warms and the tea opens up is really interesting, but overall it's just another really well balanced offering of wild character and fruit influence. Cheers y'all, hope your day is going well as well!!

 

After a ridiculous stretch of 90+ degree temps this fall, it's been a glorious weekend here in Nashville with lots of blue skies, sun and temps in the 60s. Even though the Titans' debacle is still playing out on TV, I'm still in a great mood. Time to splurge and enjoy a fantastic beer given to me this summer by the incredibly generous @2beerdogs!

Number Crunch, Bottle Logic Brewing, Anaheim, CA


TL;DR: this one lived up to the hype.

Great look: a viscous opaque dark brown on the pour with a modest dark tan head that quickly shrunk to a thin cap for the remainder of the drink. Everything about this beer was big. The aroma featured bourbon at first, quickly followed by a rich mix of vanilla, milk chocolate, a subtle nuttiness. The taste was simply decadent. Rich vanilla and chocolate. The barrel expertly cut the sweetness and only enhanced the adjuncts. Full bodied but not too sweet or cloying. Low-medium carbonation. A masterpiece. It's like a Fundamental Observation enhanced with chocolate. Thanks again, Derek!

 

Collective Arts IPA No. 11. Awesome NEIPA. Lasting rocky head retention/thick foamy lacing. Aromas of big tangerine, red grapefruit, lemon, lime, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, papaya, mango, honeydew melon, blueberry, citrus peel/zest, wood, peppercorn, and pin e hops; with moderate wheat, white bread dough, biscuit, light toasted malts; and herbal, floral, grassy hop earthiness. Light pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, floral, woody, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Medium carbonation/body. Very creamy/bready/grainy malts, some sticky hops, and light resins/rinds in the mouthfeel. Lightly increasing lingering bitter dryness; no cloying/astringency. Super smooth/soft, zero warming 5.8%. Awesome Mosaic, Idaho 7 profile. Super juicy, vibrant, and fairly dank/earthy hops; with a great wheat/oat/malt backbone. Light residual sweetness with lingering resin dryness. Loved it, spot on style. Loved the hop profile as expected. 4.1


Cheers

 

Howdy NBS!
I hope that everyone has been having a good weekend so far and has gotten to try some nice new beers. I am back in Montreal and back to reality after after a two-week vacation in Scotland. As a result, today I am going to do a time machine review. I am not a bucket list person. At least not yet, but my beer today fits a little in that it is a good example of how much life can change without even setting out to. Let alone having defined goals.
This is a beer that I have technically had before, though it was probably 2006, late at night, from the bottle, around a campfire, I was fairly inexperienced in "microbrews" and "fancy beers" and all I remember is that it was too much for my delicate sensibilities at that point in time. It overwhelmed me, made me shudder and I was not a fan.



Well, after spending a few days in the Orkney Islands during my recent trip I have a fresh bottle of Skullsplitter with a new and improved (depending on how you look at it) label from what it used to be, years of beer drinking experience, a palate that has been pretty much beaten into submission, and a more open mind as a result. If you had told a young TheDoctor on that night on a ridge in SE Wyoming that he would be reviewing that very same beer on a forum 13 years down the road from the Montreal apartment he shares with his wife and that the bottle would have come not from a liquor store shelf in Fort Collins, but from a trip to Scotland in which he visited his great grandparents' house and the family burial plot amongst many other things all on the same islands where that very beer was brewed, his head would have exploded, but here we are.

It pours crystal clear ruby brown with a half inch of whitish head. Decent retention; spindly. The aroma is pretty straightforward, and definitely opens as it approaches room temperature. Spicy banana bread, light molasses, roasted nuts, toasted baking spices, grilled malt. The flavor follows this up with a rich, smooth wave of woody sweetness. That same vague banana bread, toast, caramel, and a lingering figgy pudding finish with some light herbal notes. It is a little thin for as sweet as it is with moderate carbonation and a drawn out fruity, caramel finish. This is a nice beer. It looks smells and tastes just about right like what I associate with the style. In all aspects I feel like it could pop more. A little bigger head, some more depth to the aroma and a more velvety feel which I think would also help the flavor. It is pretty rich, but it could be decadent. Either way, it is a nice beer and a great ambassador for the style.

It's much better than I gave it credit for when I first tried it (I was so innocent!)

Santé!

 

Happy New New England IPA Sunday!

Pretty nice day here on the Western Slope, around 62 at the trailhead, sunny. Having a very tasty brew, never thought I would see it around here. Just might be back with another new brew later on.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/23222/113674/?ba=Wasatch#review

Cheers!

 

Thanks man!

Gotta watch the videos. They explain the intent behind the beer. Then one can fairly rate the beer.

 

Good evening, NBS friends. I would just like to state for the record that I’ve been shooting my age in golf since I started playing - if I was as old as Methuselah (which I am now).

So I have that going for me.

On to tonight’s beers, first up is a hazy IPA from a Top 10 brewery for me.





4.18/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Really heavily hazy, but not milkshake hazy, this light golden colored beer props up a pearly white head that tracks down the glass as you enjoy this NE-style IPA that’s sodden with dank citrus aromas that include grapefruit, ripe oranges, and pineapple..

The grapefruit, oranges, and pineapple are the primary flavors, as to be expected from the nose, and they are on point, but the surprise guest in this juice fest is a malty flavor at the end of the taste and a mouthfeel that isn’t pillowy, but has some bite.

This is another winner in the burgeoning Hero series, IMHO. Very glad I tried it.

 

Prove it, eh?

 

Always enjoy your writeup, Jack. And this one surpassed. Thanks for sharing.

 

I rest my case...

 

Happy New I'm CANming Dahn Offa the Platform That I've Been on Since Week 755 to Drink a Beer of My Own Free Will This Sunday (Week 764), Part 2!
This is it! My curtain call (for the time being) with Platform BC, starting with:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/36487/425116/?ba=woodychandler#review
then:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/36487/425118/?ba=woodychandler#review
followed by a short break & then:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/36487/379973/?ba=woodychandler#review
plus the penultimate:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/36487/414281/?ba=woodychandler#review

& NOW, right NOW, you spying jagovs! … Oops! Wrong thread. 8=(
My finale with Platform (for the time being) CANsisted of:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/36487/401120/?ba=woodychandler#review

What next? Where to now? Ah, you'll just have to wait & see as I CAN't tell you until the big reveal. ;=)

 

So you enjoy the season of big pumpkin beers...I have something for you.

 

Thank you @superspak for this Oktoberfest!

3.73/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75

Thank you superspak for this
16 can poured into a mug

A- A clear golden copper with a two finger white head.

S- Caramel malts, some honey, toasted malts, a little earthy, not bad but very straight forward.

T- Camarillo malts, a little nutty, toasted malts, some honey, touch of earthy hops.

M- Smooth, light body.

O- Not a bad Oktoberfest, but it is a little one dimensional.

Cheers!

 

World class!

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/47666/427132/



375ml. bottle.
Brewed June 7, 2019.
Moderate pour yields a 3/4 inch white head over a reddish-copper body with some lacing. Wonderful nose of the northern woods; cedar, spruce, fir, and pine with a bit of juniper. Wow!!! Taste more than mirrors nose in the best way possible! Flavors of sweet citrus, dark fruit, oak, and all the forest! Damn!!! Very nice feel and overall, Vasili has outdone himself on this offering. Find it, buy it, savor it! Cheers!!!