New Beer Weekend #209

Bear with me, folks, I'm stretching the rules again...I had small pour of this five years ago at Zwanze day, which I barely remember and barely wrote anything about. @Roguer brought me a bottle, and I'm sure glad he did, this is lovely.

2019-09-28
I think it was poured from a bottle (my wife picked it up for me). Tried it at Zwanze day at E9.

Pours with a humongous foamy head, hazy yellow color, almost murky. Very funky flavor, with a clear peach/apricot flavor. Nice and tart.

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2024-07-20
750ml bottle delivered by @Roguer. 20230718 is on the label. Served in a tulip.

Hazy yellow color, small pale head. Smell is funk, lemon, unripe stone peaches and apricots.

Taste is similar, but leaning hard into the peaches and apricots. Fruit skin and stem bitterness to balance the juice, light hay and grain to further balance that.

Mouthfeel is light, clean, smooth, not fluffy but in that direction. Overall, this is really, really good.

 

Poured into a 16 oz Nordic pint glass not sure when it was canned, I trust with in the last 3 weeks. Pours an attractive hazy yellow with a finger plus sticky white head that leaves thick streaks of lace, with nice retention. 4.25

Aroma is peach, tangerine, clove, and apricot. 3.75

Taste follows peach, tangerine, passionfruit, clove, and apricot. 3.75

Mouthfeel is above average, soft gentle carbonation, not sticky or dry, and at 8.5% it goes down easy enough. 4.25

Overall this NEDIPA has Bru 1, Mega Motueka, Citra, and Mosaic. I am not a fan of Bru 1 at all, but they didn’t use much thankfully. 3.75 Cheers all.

 

Hill Farmstead's "shelfies" (e.g. Arthur, Anna, Florence) are all Hall of Fame / desert island beers for me, especially Arthur & Anna. Perfectly executed beers.

@snaotheus where did you get the Monhegan Brewing glass?

 

@WunderLlama sent it to me in one of his many assaults

 

Howdy BAs. Was out yesterday with my lady celebrating her Bday and our 22nd wedding anniversary. We went to 3 places for drinks: The Normandy, Finnegans, and The Butcher's Tail where we dined and I chatted with the bartender there in the beer garden and we we dicussed how much we both like Hamm's.
The 1st new beer was at the 2nd place, Finnegan's Brewery & Taproom and the wife had a berry seltzer which she quaffed. This beer was extremely good tasting with a fantastic mouthfeel. Like many businesses this weekend, they were having IT technical issues with credit card payments so it was cash only. That was fine 'cause I came prepared with a roll of cheddah. Cheers!
Blood Orange Pilsner 6% ABV
3.94/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pint on tap at the brewery 7/20/24
L: SRM 3.5 looks medium grainy yellow with steady lush carbonation, a thin eggshell white head that leaves medium-light random lacing.
S: Citrus, a note of caramelized malts, grains, over ripe fruit.
T: Fruity with gently sharp blood orange, grapefruit zest, pear caramel malts.
F: Crisp, cushy, medium bodied feel with a medium-long lightly drying finish.
O: Very tasty, great feel and the citrus is not overbearing. Well designed. It is very good in its style.

 

@Roy_Hobbs have you been to Monhegan ? About 10 miles off the Maine coast

 

Lovely little footnote @beergoot

 

Congratulations on both Anniversaries
Cheers to you

 

Thanks friend!

 

Congrats to you and the Mrs @LesDewitt4beer

@WunderLlama you just put that brewery on my bucket list to visit one day. Looks and sounds like an amazing place.

 

Good Sunday morning NBS/nbw, and thanks to this weeks host @Victory_Sabre1973 for hosting this week. This is week 2 of our Team #1 visit, Oldest son, his great Wife, and our only Grandchild. Been a good visit, the coming week I am on vacation and we are going to Eastham, Cape Cod for the week. Mission is to walk on the seashore, make sand castles, eat full belly clams, read and drink beer.
I will report back
Todays offering is dead in the middle of the Triple's I have tried. Granted it is just past the BB date,
Cheers all

Cazeau Tournay Triple

Tripel | 9% ABV
Brasserie De Cazeau in Templeuve, Belgium

Reviewed by SABERG from Massachusetts

3.99/5 rDev +6.1% | Average: 3.76
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from the 11.2 oz bottle, dated BB 06/24 into the test chalice
A - A bit murky, dark golden yellow, active carbonation moves topside. A thin ring and archapelgo assemble.
S - Grainy, with a spicy snap coutesy of the yeast.
T - Suprisingly bitter, again grainy. There is an asparin thread thats a bit hard to take,
M - Medium in body, with a prickly texture, strong finish, linger is gingery.
O - A solid Triple, that i would like to try again

 

Folks, here's my last beer from yesterday's merry jaunt. Looks like I tried it over 3 yrs ago and never reviewed it. Only rated it I don't recall it at all, which is weird since it's local. I think it's darn good! Esp from the fountain.
Falling Knife Freischutz German Pilsner 5.3% ABV
3.97/5 rDev +7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
On tap at Butcher's Tail 7/20/24. Nonick pint glass. 2 pints.
L: SRM 4.5 Pours clear mid caramel color with a 1/4" frothy white head that has good retention, steady fine carbonation, leaves random med-thick scattered lacing.
S: A hint of funk, fruits, grains, nothing specific.
T: Slightly over ripe fruits, light pear, light citrus, a suggestion of lemon grass, gently earthy tasting, grains, a malty biscuit bread note.
F: Lightly brisk, medium-bodied feel with a medium length lightly drying finish.
O: A great tasting brew with a really nice feel and look. Not a crusher and also not a sipper. Just really good beer. It is very good in its style.

 

Looking forward to hearing/seeing about your vacation and vacation beers @SABERG.

 

Sure have. My in-laws live in New Harbor, ~1/3 of a mile or so from Pemaquid Point Lighthouse. Clear view of Monhegan from New Harbor. Been itching to get back to Monhegan for a few years now. Would love to stay overnight, as I've only done day trips.

 

Happy Birthday to your wife and congratulations on your anniversary!

 

Cheers! Thank you!

 

Gimme Pemaquid oysters and Maine beer, anytime of the year ….