What beer are you drinking now? #707

Have heard of the 32 oz Sucks being around but hadn't seen them around. Now I have and it does Suck! I had forgotten how good this is.

 

Put the last two of these away. Now I need something a bit more sweet...



Like this...

 

This barely stayed in the glass.



Cheers!

 

Short's Wowee Zowee

 

Tonight is the first of two Orval nights. A good friend is visiting from out of town and tonight we are splitting a vertical of three bottles of Orval bottled approximately one year apart in 2012, 2011, and 2010, starting with the 2012, which poured into a Duvel glass foams up just as a Duvel would poured into the same glass. Since we have two bottles per year, each from the same bottling, tomorrow night we'll do the 3 beers side by side.

Since I've long had the feeling that Orval is actually many beers in one bottle because changes in ways that make it almost a different beer from one time to the next as it ages, tonight is the night to begin putting that to the taste test.

 

Football, a great homemade dinner, time for a FW beer in a box:



These guys know what they're doing, that's for sure!

 

Three Floyds BrooDoo Harvest Ale. One of my favorite wet-hopped beers. Only 2 days old! Most wet-hopped beers I've had have a big green, resinous intensity to them. This one has very intense flavors, but they are more focused on fruits. Peach, melon, grapefruit, orange, and floral all balanced with a nice carmel sweetness. Very juicy and not as bitter as one would expect a Floyds wet-hopped beer to be. Ya, this is good.

 

first beer I've had from these guys. it's fantastic

 

Another night of breakfast for dessert.

And some Handsome. Still love this album as much today as I did when I was in high school and this first came out.

 

Now time for some dessert, it was nice of the beer store owner to cellar it for a year in his cooler. This is some delicious Founders Imperial Stout.

 

Sadly, these are the last two beers from my (first, hopefully) SN Fall Pack-


I said before that it's got a Brown Ale thing going for it, and that ain't a bad thing. It's very drinkable taken on its own merits.

Some more Autumnal music-

"Fire for the body
and wine for the mind."

(I'm pretending it's about beer tonight )

 

Another Oktoberfest for me tonight and a very solid offering in my books


Looks and smells like the type of O'fests I DIG! Nose highlights the classic Munich malt profile giving off toffee/caramel sweetness with a touch of herbal hop pop. Flavor is dead on in my book. Munich malts flavors really shine. Toasted malts with caramel sweetness, nice herbal/grassy hop bitterness...the combo makes it very tea-like, nothing over the top....and ends with a nutty finish. Great balance. Clean. Great offering of the style.

Prost!

 

Founders KBS

 

Canned 8/28, and on my second today. Had a Daytime and All Day before the sun went down I think I really do prefer this one to Two Hearted. A little drier and a little pinier (possibly just a smaller dry hop). Glad I got a case of these cans, that's for sure



If any Aphex fans haven't bought his new one yet, it's more than worth it. Cheers!

 

You put the words bourbon, sour, and porter on a bottle of old cat piss and you can bet your ass I'll beg you for a sip. Damn good.

 

Started with Tired Hands Purple Fuzz, then tried Mispillon River Reach Around IPA.



Now Tired Hands Single Hop Saison Cascade, cheers!