What beer are you drinking now? #1132

Ive already killed 2 SN Celebrations, now its time to step up the ABV

 

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I intended to post this several hours ago. Let's just say it was a really nice nap....

 

Grilled ribeye for thanksgiving. Freak of Nature with dinner and Big Bad Baptist for dessert.

 

Operation Cellar Clean Out continues
Enjoying 2012 Twilight of the Idols.
With time this is softer and a more dessert like.
Cheers all

 

The new label is looking good. If ever there was a beer in need of a makeover...

 

On to dessert....enjoying death by coconut a bunch with a tiny bit of pecan pie

 

Had dinner and I'm bloated and tired. Had a boozy one lined up by Lost Abbey. Needed caffiene. My 28th beer rated by this brewery and it is the first over 4.0. Bitter, strong, coffee stout that is mellowed by dark chocolate. Well played!

 

Happy Thanksgiving BA. I went to a upscale buffet for today's food enjoyment. Didn't go overboard, but still tried most of the pie

Continuing with my cellar cleanse today:

This is a great imperial schwarzbier. Big flavors of chocolate, cocoa, coffee, toasted dark bread, molasses, raisin, plum, and light smoke/char; with some herbal/spicy hops. Fair of herbal/roast bitterness; moderately dry finish with light creaminess and hop stickiness in the mouthfeel. Very smooth and complex. They are bringing this beer back next year as a seasonal, but it'll be 8.8%. This is 7.5% in the summer variety packs.


Great DIPA! Aromas and flavors of big grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, papaya, mango, melon, berry, lemon zest, orange peel, and pine; with some honey/toasted bready maltiness and herbal/floral/grassy hop earthiness. Moderate amount of pine/citrus rind bitterness; with a very well balanced finish with moderate stickiness and slight creaminess in the mouthfeel. Good amount of dryness; a bit above a medium body; not too heavy or malty at all. Glad I bought a full 4 pack. Looking forward to the #2 version in January, which is Waimea, Wai-iti, and Galaxy hops.


2013 is tasting fantastic! Huge milk chocolate, cocoa, coffee, molasses, vanilla, toffee, bourbon, toasted oak, and light char; with some additional restrained licorice/dark fruit complexity. Balanced bourbon/oak spiciness and light roasted malt bitterness on the finish against the sweetness. Incredible stuff. Definitely big on the barrel presence/complexity now, but still a has a good amount of coffee flavors; and is not boozy at all. Very well integrated and balanced. A very smooth sipper, with a warming finish.


Cheers!



Probably the most underrated Testament album out there. This and The Gathering were much heavier and more Death Metal in feel, and also did not have Alex Skolnick on guitars. But still an awesome album. Both of them.

 

Had a few SN Celebrations with dinner, and just now opened up a 2014 Bell's Expedition Stout ...this one is a dark, creamy, tasty sipper

 

BA's! After 8 here in NOVA, waiting for game #3, sippin' on this right here:


Let's make it a hip-hop nosh:


As always- Drink up & drink on, my fellow advocates!

 

Happy Thanksgiving. New Glarus Fat Squirrel.

 

Haha - well played, sir!

 

First time seeing the new label art on that one, not bad :-)