What beer are you drinking now? #751

Dipping into the Bastard stash

 

This has been around for a couple weeks now .. Still tastes like it was bottled yesterday.

And if LA Folk is gonna pass on it , I won't!

Are you ready for some football?

 

I needed some hops after the big brown ale

Good tune

 

saw this today and my eyes lit up. love this beer and love this format. cheers BA, happy monday

 

Split a 120 min with a friend earlier.

Now a few Victory Harvest Ales for the Eagles game.

 

just got this beer from a trade and loved it, i can't believe theres no added fruit juice??

 

Yummy !!

 

Closing things out with Deschutes's Jubelale and Nirvana.

 

Enjoying this with dinner and football.



Cheers!

 

Beautifu falll evening on the front porch before the bottom drops and winter hits.

 

Damn fine (and windy) day on Hank's patio.

Hank comes back from Wichita, KS after the Joe Bonamassa show with a growler of River City Down Town Brown Ale. Nice!


Can't believe I passed this by so many times. What an outstanding beer!


Our second visit with this IPL. So tasty.


Getting into the holiday feel.


Hired gun, Monte Montgomery inserting some blazing solo action into this Del Castillo tune.

 

Lots of vanilla and coconut. I get some of the quad though too. My first bottle of this and I am impressed. I live relatively close to Ommegang, so I imagine I'll be able to find their stuff easier soon. Looks like people are drinking well! Cheers!

 

At 3.8% this is a great Monday beer. Cheers!

 

Avery Samael 2014, snifter. Aroma strongly suggests boozy caramel, hint of industrial chemicals. Flavor is better, albeit straightforward. There is some suggestion of vodka-dipped apples (you know, the kind you get in a "fruit bowl" at a college party) liberally covered in caramel sauce. Sweeter than it smells for sure, but a mild alcohol burn keeps it from being cloying.

I remember reading some horrendous reviews of this beer and Mephistopheles, the primary reason I have avoided their high gravity beers for 8 years. Tasting Pumpkyn a few months back convinced me to give their other stuff a shot. This isn't nearly as good as either Pumpkyn or Rumpkin but it's still surprisingly smooth. That being said, given batch variation I can easily see some releases of this being utterly horrid when fresh; its alcohol burn is already borderline unpleasant and yet at 14.2% alcohol this one is actually the weakest Samael release since 2006 at least.

Widely available and probably fun to age as well. Hmm, there's an idea...

 

Last of my Hop Kitchen, looking forward to the next one in the series. Cheers!


Listening to:

 

Everyone is having one today so ill join the bandwagon and have one too!



Just found this verison of this song, glad to see mtb releasing non-garbage

 

Thought I missed out on Backwoods this year. My Friday night shop had some surprises for me. He saved me a 4 Pack of Backwoods, Big Bad Baptist Release #40, and Barrel Aged Narwahl. Also picked up a sixer of Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster. Was an expensive night but already well worth it.

Bottled 10/8/14. Glad I finally got some.

 

Always solid.

 

Cheers!