New Beer Sunday (week 490)

Good evening BAs! Not much I can say since I was sober and neglected to put the chip in my camera,so no photo.

Anyway, this was Oddsides' Pineapple Ale. I love pineapple and this smelled like a winner. It wasn't. It was one of the worst tasting beers I've ever had. No further comment.

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22564/70232/?ba=Ozzylizard

 

New Smoked Beer Sunday

I was lucky enough to attend a FFF/Market Garden pairing dinner this past week. They were selling bottles of this afterwards so I had to pick one up. Strangely I had not previously seen it in Ohio before even though we get New Belgium now and see FFF from time to time. Only having one of the Smoked Beer style before, I managed to save it for today.

Overall it's decent but not great. I like the smoke and cocoa notes but it's rather empty on the mid-palate which kind of leaves a hole. Still good to try.

Edit: If you look closely to the right of the middle of the bottle you can see my cat Chloe making a cameo

 

I like how you brought out the balance on this beer. It's almost as if Evil Twin can do no harm.

 

Hey all! Chiming in after a couple weeks off with a nice beer I picked up last weekend in Florida. Hot and humid here, so I was craving something light and refreshing. Bells Oberon Ale was looking at me from the door of my fridge. It is a solid pale wheat, and great to see in the 16 oz can format. I wish Bells distributed here, as Two Hearted (also now in cans) is one of my favorite IPAs. Oh well, I enjoyed the Oberon, some nice hoppiness added to the wheat base. Not the best I've had, but I'd drink it again in a pinch. Nerdy review below:

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/287/1094/?ba=Mikecap

Cheers and happy Sunday!

 

Good evening NBS viewers! I hope all are enjoying themselves. Today was full of some nice weather. Here is what I have tried out this evening:

Good Munich dunkel, very pleasant. Taste of caramel, toast, toffee, brown bread, light roast with a fair amount of raisin/pale fruits and a touch of herbal hops. Extremely clean and well balanced, but there are definitely bolder Dunkels out there I've had. Crisp and smooth. Enjoyable. 82/100


Really good American pale ale. Taste of grapefruit, tangerine, lemon zest, orange peel, floral, grass, light pine with a moderate amount of light caramel and lightly toasted bready malt sweetness. Good balance of bitterness with a crisp and slightly sticky mouthfeel. Very drinkable. Really enjoyed this but it did not bestow too much awe in me . 86/100


Really nice hopped up Belgian Pale ale. 100% cascade. Aromas could have stood to be bolder, but were pleasant and balanced. Taste of pineapple, tangerine, lemon, grapefruit, pear, apple, black pepper, floral, grass, pine, candi sugar, bread, and floral/yeast earthiness. Nice moderate peppery yeast/hop bitterness on the finish. Very well balanced between yeast, hop, and pale malt flavors. Very crisp, smooth, and lightly sticky mouthfeel. Very enjoyable. 88/100


Cheers and enjoy the rest of this great Sunday!

 

Rain delay in the Yankees game so on to new beer #2. North Coast Brother Theolonious.



Yeah, a widely accessible beer I've never tried, mostly due to the fact that it's a style I don't seek out frequently, but the price point and cool bottle art forced me to pick one up the other day. It is brewed very much to style, dark murky appearance, with a pleasant aroma of dark fruits, classic Belgian yeast, and some spices. The taste follows, but surprisingly little alcohol given the high ABV. Overall? I'd give it a 3.75. No Rochefort or Chimay, but this is a very well done beer, and the price makes it even better. Definitely worth a try.

Cheers once more!

 

Good to see you on here, your pictures (and beers) on WBAYDN always impress me!

 

NEW GOSE SUNDAY

Greetings fellow NBSers,

True to my word, now that I’m off work it is time for a new beer. It’s cooled off considerably here in the Lilac City, all the way down to 93 degrees. I had it all lined up at work – I was going to be sitting on my ass in a comparatively shady spot with an air conditioner that could be described as mediocre. But one of my co-workers had injured her foot and it was her day to be stuck with tasks that involved walking around in the 103 degree heat. Sadly, I’m not as good at being an A-hole as some might think, so I let her talk me into swapping jobs.

Feeling like I got off work at a steel mill or some sort of blast furnace, I came home to a can of Anderson Valley’s attempt at a Gose:

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/193/99790/?ba=woemad

I have no idea how authentic this beer was in terms of style. It wasn’t cloudy like in the description here, just a little hazy. While crisp and tart, there wasn’t a whole lot else going on in terms of flavor. Seemed like a super-dry lemonade was crossed with a one-dimensional Belgian witbier. I might try another Gose sometime, preferably one from der Fatherland and from a brewery that specializes in them, but for now I'll continue to prefer authentic German pilseners over this.

 

Good day y'all!

Been living vicariously thru this thread today as I was working. I was tuned into the soccer game on the radio and was happy with the outcome. Favorite part of today is how much German beers came out to play! On the wbaydn thread on insta- And on twitter. Naturally this made me very thirsty for...

NEW WEIHENSTEPHANER BEER SUNDAY -

I kno I kno, this beer has been around for ages - truly I don't kno what's taken me so long to try this beer. Let's get into it!

Congrats to ze Germans for their victory today - here's a shot of a Beer stein my wife gave me for my birthday last week -

Tonight I have - weihenstephaner Vitus and the All mighty Supplication



First up Vitus


Mmmm banana juice!
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/252/35625/?ba=Modernrickk
4.2/5 rDev -1.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Next up - you kno what-

4.95/5 rDev +8.3%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/863/22227/?ba=Modernrickk

Thanks for having me NBS - now time to watch Ray Donovan. Hope y'all have a good one . And GOOD LUCK on the coming week.

 

Hey! Thanks for not being the asshole co-worker! Nobody likes that guy.

I liked this beer a bit better than you seemed to, but I'm not overly familiar with "authentic" versions of the style. My biggest problem was the name; I get that AV plays up their local "dialect", and it's often fun. But, this is, easily, the worst named beer ever.

 

Hey NBS'ers, I've been on the site for a while, but managed to be completely oblivious to this thread until last week. Beer, food, music, what's not to love?

I've seen this brewery/beer on tap before but never tried it, then saw the bottle at only one of the 18 beer outlets where I obsessively know the inventory, so I thought it a happy fluke. Heathen Brewing's Son of Malice.


Better than I expected, considering I haven't heard much of anything about this brewery. Gave it a 3.75 for the good aroma and for not going overboard on the caramelly malts.

No music to share right now, as we're finishing up an old favorite movie, Hot Fuzz.

Cheers!

 

What, no haiku for

A virgin New Beer Sunday

Entry, bad first try

 

Another glorious day in paradise... this week has been uncharacteristically hot for this little slice of the greatest place on Earth, with temperatures threatening the 90s. Been busy as all hell working three and a half jobs six and a half days a week, but when one and the half involve appreciating views such as these:

It's hard to complain too much, and makes the physical labour side of things a little more manageable (especially when I get to come home to this adorable face each evening:
)

Tweaked my ankle once again at basketball, so I suppose having a bomber of 11% waiting for me worked out doubly in my favour. Ladders all day tomorrow are sure going to be fun, though!

The beer itself: Undead Party Crasher, née Vampire Slayer, is a solid hoppy/dry stout, that certainly lives up to its ashy billing. I had extremely high hopes for this, though I fear they may have been unrealistic. What it is is a solid if not as spectactular as I was hoping triumphantly dark exploration of ash, light smoke, and definitive alcohol bite, all accentuated by a bitter hoppiness that can divide the masses when it comes to a big stout like this. Reading the other reviews, it seemed odd that the alcohol stood out as strongly as it did to me, as most other BAs seemed to praise its subdued nature and hiding of the booze-a-hol, but it was distracting in my experience. As I still have not completely flushed out the whole aging thing, my novice mind wonders if this is the sort of 'shortcoming' that may benefit from some time in the dark and unperturbed-ness of my 'cellar' (aka the spot in the corner under my shelves/loft that seems to have a good balance of dark/temperate). Who knows. I'm glad to have tried it, but having had it sitting and waiting for me for over a month at this point (and as such, having the legend grow in my ignorant mind), it was unable to live up to the expectations I had built for it.
Cheers!