New Beer Sunday (week 470)

In my area, craft availability is in it's very beginning stages. Our state does not have access to Troeg's Victory, Stone, New Belgium etc..however a few of the distributors have been making trek's to various breweries to talk with them about coming into our state and this past week one went to Troeg's in PA, and brought me back a growler of Barrel Aged Troegenator, so that is my new beer of the week!

Has a VERY dark ruby tint, almost brown appearence.

Light, soft smell, with hints of bourbon, a little vanilla. Slight alcohol note.

Incredible taste. Great carbonation, has a sweet taste, with hints of oak, vanilla, just a twang of bitterness with just a hint of an alcohol finish (it is 11% I think!)
Smooth mouthfeel, the carbonation almost makes it feel as if it just glides over your palate. Really enjoying this beer.
If your ever able to get some, I highly recommend it. It certainly does not drink like an 11% beer for sure. Great way to start off a new week with a great new beer! Cheers all!

 

Good morning NBS friends. I am beginning to think that this harsh winter will not end until the middle of April... Oh well at least I have some great beers to help me through the rest of it. Today I am enjoying Epic Big Bad Baptist. It has a medium body and a very coffee forward aroma and flavor. There are good amounts of dark chocolate along with some earthy hops. Any bourbon is very subtle, and makes this quite delicious. I recommend you get one if it is at a store near you.

 

New Stout Sunday

Hi everyone and today for New Beer Sunday I have a beer I have been dying to try. This is Guinness Extra stout. That's not the "foreign extra." The weather here has been just horrendous. It was too cold to breathe then it warmed up and rained and some of the snow melted. But at night that melted snow refroze and we re greeted everywhere by sheets of ice. It's like God is laughing at me . . . "hahaha try to go get more beer." =)

I am very happy to have tried this beer since the first time I had it back in 1987 or 88 when I went to Ireland with a bunch of nuns from my all girls catholic college, The College of New Rochelle. I so enjoyed Ireland and I remember thinking this was one rich beer when I tasted it back then. Not so anymore. Now I think it's pretty tame by comparison to some of the stouts I have had. When I first saw it I admit I had never seen a black beer before nor a head so fat and creamy. I drank this until I missed the tour bus one day and I was met by Sister Agnes Mary in my hotel room shouting GET UP!

I liked the beer. I really did. Cheers y'all. (They would not let me on the trip to The Soviet Union the following year because they said I could not be trusted. =)


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I bought a bootleg tape of the POlice from a fellow in Dublin. Found a Chinese restaurant that made perfect eggrolls int he middle of ireland, there were sheep outside . . . and when I hugged the cross at some poets grave the prophecy was I should never be married. I kissed the blarney stone even though they said people peed on it at night and I have never seen so many nuns so drunk every night on brown bread and gin and tonic. I'M a trouble maker? Bunratty castle was so fun and if I were a maiden I would wear a pointy hat and eat all my chicken without a fork. CHEERS!

 

New Altbier Sunday (week 470)
Warm day here, overcast, lotsa snow melt, lotsa water-slick ice to beware of, and mega mud I had to work in making sure the proper raw materials were diverted to their proper re-use at work this morning. Grateful and motivated local residents make a hard job rewarding and even fun.

Wish I could say this beer is more fun. Iit is a strange one to say the least, and not in a good way. You can read all the gory details of my eviscerative review of it here.

Wish I had a Great American Beer in my glass, hope you do. Cheers!

I know this piece of music isn't to everyone's taste, but the master makes it something outrageous and dynamic

 

@tbaker397 Cheers on getting to try that BA troegenator, a stellar brew for sure.

Hey NBSers! Rising spirits to match the rising tempratures here in Amish country. Back from a long sunny walk with the family and I'm enjoying this currently.

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A couple of weeks ago I was roasting plums and apples to make baby food. The house smelled great as I opened a pilsner. As I sniffed the pils with that wonderful aroma in the air, it occurred to me that a plum pilsner might be pretty good. I still hope to try one someday but this will do in the meantime.

Cheers guys!

 

Greetings fellow NBSers! A blast of winter has hit the Fourth Corner, we woke up to 2-3 inches of snow, the first snow we've had in town all winter long. I'm still sitting with my "nephew" and when we took our morning walk in the park, he spent a lot of time rolling and rubbing in the white stuff. The Daytona 500 is a few minutes old, and I'm pretty happy. The darkness that is the seemingly endless NFL season is behind us, Spring Training is underway (and, of course the local Seattle Mariners have already had some injuries. Way to keep Marinering Mariners!) and we're racing.

My first entry today is a bottle I've had kicking around for a while, but since it's bottle conditioned, the age hasn't hurt it at all. The brewery is interesting, in that they are using fresh, local, seasonal ingredients as much as possible, and make different beers depending on the season. Here's the 09/13 Erthe from Propolis: http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/31825/97879/?ba=beertunes

 

What pretty music selection. =) My last Pinkus was not that memorable either. Cheers.

 

New Quad Sunday

Greetings NBSer's,

Good tales to tell Jane!
We survived two storms this week. The 2nd is one of the worst kind. Big heavy, wet snow on a sheet of ice that gets packed down and then is followed by a nasty cold snap. So now we will have many days of slippery snow/ice covered roads and with no break is sight from the cold driving will stink for at least a week. Even my Interstate to work will still have ice it for the week. That is a rarity. The warmer sun will help, but not enough. A pretty brutal winter all in all. But I did split some wood yesterday and yes it is true some wood splits easier when it is very cold - a couple of logs were still really tough.

In honor of a continuing winter I bring out bigger beer to warm my soul. Nice complex and very rich big Belgian beer. The added plums are noticeable on the aroma but much less so on the taste. Nice beer.

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Best to all this week.

 

I think Kissin could play Chopsticks and it would sound like great music.

Funny story about the Police, they played at a local venue called The Chance back when they first started. Only four people showed up, but they went on anyway, and according to local legend it was the best show they ever did. Four lucky folks, ayy?

I love Guinness Extra when there are no domestic craft selections at venues. Once your palate gets used to it being unexpectedly more thin than stouts we are used to enjoying, the flavors become tasty.

 

Lat week I had the pleasure of drinking a bottle of Hop Ranch, which is not available in WI. I have been waiting for DirtWolf to make an appearance in WI and it finally did this week. I was able to get the last 4 pk at one of my favorite shops. This is one enjoyable offering from Victory. The nose is big tropical fruit with some citrus and surprisingly the taste is big on bitter citrus with some tropical notes. This one is a nice easy drinking IIPA that I hope to see more of in the future. Cheers!

 

New Texas Brew Sunday

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An "amber" that's basically a big, piney-hop American pale ale (up to the light it looks like an English pale ale; tastes exactly like a piney American pale/IPA)



The Fuggles hops works like a balancer ... with very little malt taste, those Fuggles are giving the big pine some earthy undernotes. Tastes pretty good.



This beer was originally named "The Bellows," and New Republic got sued by a bourbon maker using that name, so New Republic changed the name of its beer (to a name, coincidentally, already used by another beer maker).

So I might be posting this beer again on a future New Beer Sunday when NR has to rename it *again*.

It's good beer and in my glass ... now if somebody will make the rain vacate the Daytona Beach, Fla., area ...

 

beautiful music! Cheers Rogeur. Nice beer too.

 

Guinness Extra stout is a fine beer. I cannot say the same for the watery concoction known as "draught". To me, this is real beer. One of the first I ever tried other than a macro AAL. It will always have a soft spot in my heart. I revisit it every now and then. Never disappointed. Glad you liked it, Jane.

 

New American Stout Sunday

Hello all! Sunny, but cold, here in Wisconsin. I'm still continuing my journey of Wisconsin brews. There are certainly many of them that don't get to my native New Jersey. Today's selection is another winner from New Glarus! I truly enjoyed The Coffee Stout! (Glad I bought the six-pack instead of a single.)

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Cheers!

 

New Quadrupel Sunday

It's been awhile since I last posted on a New Beer Sunday. Today a very nice sunny low 50s day in Northern Utah. Saw this brew a couple of weeks ago in the SLS, surprised at first, so I picked it up. Had some kind of Ovila awhile back, thought this one was the same, but in a smaller bottle, glad it wasn't and a new one for me. Pretty taste, worth a shot for anyone who has not tried it yet.

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Cheers!

 

New American DIPA Sunday !

Good afternoon and greetings to the NBS gang. Thanks for giving me a spot in this ultra inclusive Public House, it's always a pleasure to participate. So much good stuff going on today, as always.
Here's the Jersey Shore weather report: I took a run outside yesterday and today for the first times since before Christmas. I went early, so it meant sweats. Now? 60 degrees and sunny. I was outside in a t-shirt just now. Such a nice weekend. I even reacquainted myself with my golf clubs in hopes of playing soon. We'll see.
But this is a virtual bar so...http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/147/98387/?ba=NiceTaps
Grapefruit Slam IPA. Right up my alley.



It's good to be at the backyard bar...in February!



Yours truly and something pretty.

Inspired by the band that played at my favorite local dive bar last night, a cover of Johnny!


All the best everyone. Cheers!

Chris