What beer are you drinking now? #3201

Stealth Haze IPA from Verboten!

 

Back home safely and enjoying a VooDoo Ranger while unpacking.

 

Tonight's Blind Battle Beer Tasting Lineup: (All 3/3 pairs correctly matched blind)

1) Kansas Territory Brewing Life Coach Lager (4.2%): An American Lager from Kansas that has flavors of cereal malts with smooth and earthy honey flavor on the finish.
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2) Leinenkugal’s Honeyweiss (4.9%): A krystalweizen wheat beer from Wisconsin that has flavors of corn, mash, and some adjunct notes. Yeasty.

3) Golden Road Mango Cart (4.0%): A beer from California, this mango wheat ale has juicy flavors of mango with a wheat malt body.
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4) New Belgium Summer Bliss (5.5%): A tropical wheat beer from Colorado, this beer has juicy flavors of mango and wheat, but also with some lemon, lime, and coconut flavors.

5) Bahaus Bestoked IPA (6.4%): A west-coast style IPA from Minnesota that has flavors of grapefruit, orange citrus and pine. A clean and relatively dry finish.
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6) Surly Havoc Machine IPA (7.5%): This West-coast style IPA from Minnesota brewed with Cascade, Chinook, and Amarillo hops has flavors of dank and resinous citrus, pine, and caramel malt flavors.

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Winners:

1) Kansas Territory Brewing Life Coach Lager:This American lager has fantastic and smooth flavors of cereal malts and honey. Incredibly smooth and leans sweet, but tasteful. Leinenkugal's continues to dissapoint.

4) New Belgium Summer Bliss: Both were good, but this one has a sweet lemon/lime citrus, coconut, and flowery/peppery bite to it. Sort of reminds me of the Sam Adams Summer Ale (another great beer). Maybe that's what they were going for.

5) Surly Havoc Machine IPA: Better on my second review, but this one has strong dank citrus and tropical berry notes. Resinous, dank, and piney. Full-blown WCIPA here.
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Are you also dissapointed with Leinenkugal's Honeyweiss?
Have you tried New Belgium's Summer Bliss and what did you think? Similar to Sam Adams?
What is your go-to WCIPA these days?

 

Sn pale ale with a cookie break

 

I guess it is a bit of a hike from Maine to Virginia so the beer is probably not as fresh as it could be if it were brewed locally. But I gotta tell you the IPAs I have had were excellent.

 

From a local newspaper:

“Aaron Rodgers to Washington in 2022? It's not as crazy as it might seem.”

I can live with that.

Time for another beer.

 

I liked my last beer better.

 

Nothing like boosting your immune system with mRNA technology and old school amber malting, milling, mashing, extract separation.
In two weeks you should consider yourself 120% immunized against Covid.

 

Tired Hands DDH Punge. TH's DDH treatments can be hit-or-miss, but this one's perfect, taking an already amazing beer to an even higher level.



I wouldn't call myself a Keith Urban fan, but this (partial) cover gets me every time . . .

 

Prairie Artisan Bourbon Paradise, 13.7% ABV. This may be a few years old. All coconut, chocolate, and bourbon. World-class, though I prefer Pirate Paradise.

 

Catching up on the Olympics and enjoying this brew:

 

The crooked glass. Mine is in the dishwasher.

 

“No Pressure” Imperial Stout from Rare Bird Brewing in Traverse City. This is from my last vacation about 6 weeks ago and it’s still excellent. A testament to how a properly packaged crowler can maintain freshness. We went to Petoskey Brewing for dinner and I had a Cranium Crush and Blueberry Crush as well as a Horny Monk on tap. All were absolutely impeccable. Needless to say I’m bringing quite a bit home. Some of it earmarked for some good trading partners of mine. Cheers everybody. If you have a case of the Monday’s, enjoy one of your favorite beers.

 

I am trying The Rise Guys Pilsner from Thomas Creek.

 

I got my ass handed to me in pickleball today, but at least the guy was a tournament winner so I feel slightly less embarrassed. At least the beer is good, although it has a bit more Motueka than I normally like....and the grapes (green seedless) are coming in most nicely. They make awesome raisins if I don't eat them as-is and if the wild critter don't eat them first

 

This one is hard to get sick of.

 

The Alchemist Zomerbier

 

Day off work. Funny how I still managed to get a case of the Monday's. Grinders and beer are on the menu.

Can you enter Canada through it's Urethra? It's too fucking hot

Anyone know what's happening here?

 

Man our bureaucracy is really inefficient.