New Beer Sunday (week 541)

Happy birthday @cavedave !

New Stout Sunday

The infamous Ten Fidy:



4.41/5
rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

This black, slightly viscous stout pours to a beautiful medium creamy brown head that gradually dissipates to a thick ring and leaves sparse, delicate lacing. The nose is a bit sweet and darkly malty, a very nice blend of chocolate, caramel and dark toffee with hints of coffee and readily apparent boozy undertones. On the palate, it is sweet chocolate and cocoa up front, joined by a significant molasses character and hints of coffee mid-palate. The finish is dark, roasted maltiness that leaves behind a lingering chocolate/molasses flavor and a slight bitterness. Mouthfeel is full and luxuriously thick, as well as warming due to the ABV; the carbonation makes itself known as well. Alcohol flavors are surprisingly absent from the palate, so caveat bibitor.

tl;dr: Lives up to the hype!

 

Now I'm having Coffee Oatmeal Stout by Good People Brewing, out of Birmingham, AL. Not really getting any coffee or oatmeal. All I smell and taste is hops. It does have an odd after taste. Just tastes like a watered-down Black Pale Ale. Not digging this one at all. Oh well! Cheers!

 

Good afternoon everyone, hope everyone is enjoying their new beers! First up is Schell's Hefeweizen thanks to @garymuchow, a very nice hefeweizen, one of the better American one I had enjoyed.

4.05/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4

Thank you garymuchow for this
12 oz bottle poured into a small weizen glass

A- A hazy golden straw color with a three finger white head.

S- Cloves, bananas, wheat, some bubblegum, citrus.

T- Wheat, bananas, bready, some cites, cloves, hints of bubblegum, fruity.

M- Smooth, medium body, slightly creamy.

O- A very nice hefeweizen. If I could buy this near me I would make this a regular summer drink.

 

Hi New Beer Sunday'ers!
(Yeah, I'll stick an apostrophe anywhere.)

As @cavedave the legendary BA, and one of the eloquent NBS-starter-uppers suggests, first I offer yee gentle readers a few intimate words about myself and my personal problem.

My name is Jim and I love quality ale.

After many years prowling this site and then eventually joining BA, this will be my first NBS post. I love great beer!

Just between us, I'm not a leper, but people who believe this to be so, leave me alone.
Mission accomplished. : ) Present company excluded of course. I love beer by the way.

Me during a Lodge in the Forest beer event and pagan rituals.
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Question authority, avoid routine, and steer clear of social obligations...other than drinking quality ale.

I'm a business owner who's seriously allergic to work, and thus...work is my bane. I also love great beer. I'm an underachieving artist-type, but I know enough to be dangerous and occasionally (when necessary), can give the impression that I'm... [gasp!] a professional.

And purely for my own entertainment, I relentlessly mock, make fun of, laugh at, and ridicule those who drink crappy beer in public and online...but only to myself and me. Oh, and I love beer too!!!

Now to the new beer!

On the day of @JuicesFlowing 's final and #1000 beer review, I will take up the torch for at least one day or more, and offer my new beer review #1.

It's Weyerbacher's 20th anniversary Belgian-Style Dark Ale!

Dark, sweet, aromatic and lacy.
As a lover of their Quad and Blasphemy I got all twitchy when I saw this release from Weyerbacher at the shoppe. I suspect many of you fine BA's have drank Quad and Blasphemy. These beers get a lot of love and hate out there in cyberspace. Their labels enjoy that same love / hate scenario too, but I generally like 'em and appreciate the design, execution and fantasy themes. The label design on this ale is a nice historical montage of Weyerbacher elements.



Skip to the end:



I love this ale!!!
The sweet caramel and raisin notes with anise and 11% ABV keeps my head in the fantasy world...
where I live and thrive.

Musical selection: Script for a Jester's Tear

Cheers NBS and WBAYDN folks!
This Quad's for YOU!

 

Sounds like a perfect Christmas beer. Still waiting on it in SC. Hopefully it'll arrive this week.

 

Excellent, excellent first NBS post, @LeperJim ! Welcome to the fold!

 

Never had Aún Más A Jesús, but Even More Jesus is one of my favorite Imperial Stouts. Are they any different or is it the same beer?

 

Still on my big beer break, having this one before the St. Bernardus 12 "group drink".

This is the Nebraska Brewing Cardinal Pale Ale.

First off, as a Cardinals fan (baseball. ....not the football team....), I find this can just about as lovely as any can I've seen!



See? Is that not the sweetest looking can, ever?

So it's a nice looking beer with a proper head and very nice lacing with a superbly colored beverage beneath. It's crisp, clear and orange.

Massive malt backbone dominate the nose immediately until a hint of citrus comes around.

Taste is respectable but not too demanding at first. Follows the nose precisely with malts, then a little citrusy but the real story here is in the gentle spice on exit. Surprisingly multi dimensional with a clean finish.

This is an underrated brewery, seriously. They are 2 for 2 in my book.

 

no those are different (to a degree) my reviews of them are below of what I thought:

Even more Jesus

Au Mas Jesus

 

I've been away, so I guess I missed that part about the St. B mass tasting- can you post exactly what happened?

 

Yes it would!
Might even be reminiscent to the great St. Bernardus Christmas Ale. Which might be why I posted that winter selfie.
I was unable to track down an SB Abt 12 for today's simul tasting at 5PM...but if I did, then my inaugural NBS wouldn't have happened today or maybe ever.

 

Rather disappointing for such a highly-rated stout.

 

This is a somewhat new beer. It was released for the first time in October 2014 so it is about 9 months old. This bottle is probably not as old as that although it is not dated. Foley Brothers out of Brandon, Vermont opened their doors in 2013. This is their Citrennial IPA.

There is an attractive looking hazy light amber pour under a modest head. What intrigues the most about this beer is the pineapple, grapefruit, and melon characteristics in both the nose and taste. Well, that is not TOO intriguing because so many IPAs are like that. But that is what I got. It had a light and refreshing body. The hops were not as "in your face" as some hopped up beers, which is why I kind of liked it. Clean finish.

 

well finally getting a chance to check back in, been a hell of a day. started off by going and getting new blades for my tractor to find out i broke the shaft that one of them mounts to !!??? so as the day has it i mowed my jungle(all 3 acres of it) with a push mower. so thank you @Sixpoint for rereleasing jammer to keep me hydrated. i can tell you it takes about 7 beers to push that mower around ??
on to my new beer today.... hoping i'm not late to the party, as a few of us should be drinking this today.

started off ice cold although it says on the bottle 52-56 deg. smells of raisins,figs maybe? taste is slightly boozy but overall what i'd expect from any good quad. lacing still remains on the glass as im typing and its been a few minutes. i can now say it is better (much better) as it warms. bottle date says 04 07 18 incase anyone is wondering. ohh and i almost forgot this is for @WesMantooth , we were discussing this earlier this week

didnt turn out how i thought, but still any type of bacon is umm........ BACON enjoy the rest of your holiday everyone and i would say see you next week, but i'm off to thailand on sat a.m. so hopefully i can check in on one of the next few sundays cause i'm sure i'll be having some new beers overseas..

 

New American Pale Ale Sunday

Hello all and Happy Birthday Dave! Beautiful Fourth of July weekend here in Milwaukee...80's and sunny - Yesterday morning I picked up a beer that is appropriate for today - HHG APA Americana Pale Ale - from Central Waters. It's a limited brew in a 22 oz. bottle - Shame it isn't a regular in a 6-pack. Another winner from this great brewery! I scored it a 4.23 which is slightly higher than the current average. A pleasant, hop-forward pale ale!

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/652/166379/?ba=jwc215

Cheers!