New Beer Sunday (week 564)

Greetings NBS for a very late entry! Busy day but I'm pairing this with coffee as I need to stay up late starting a stint of 3rd shift tomorrow night.

Jackie O's Barking Pumpkin
I hadn't seen this one before & I think grabbed the last bottle Whole Foods had in stock. I think my favorite part of trying this is the unplanned reflection in the glass that showed up of me taking the picture. The beer itself is quite average and at $6 for 12.7oz overpriced for the style. Not bad and I still love Jackie O's but this is a straightforward Pumpkin ale and given the style nothing stands out. Also the Indian spice mentioned on the bottle doesn't show up, only the usual pie spice. It hides the 9% quite nicely. Cheers!

 

Well a late Howdy to NBS!!!
Thanks @smakawhat . You're a hero for stepping in.
Weather has been MY kinda gorgeous here in SoCal. Great, billowy cumulus clouds strutting their stuff, posturing for the best angles of golden sunbeams. Crisp, cool, breezes. I know it's not what most people think of as "great SoCal weather" but sunny in the 80's ad nauseam takes a toll on me.

Went to a really cool Bruery event last night. Got to drink a great variety of sours and wilds, with a few big ones thrown in...Blue BBLS--Mmm!!

One that really stood out: Blueberry Cream Oude Tart. Creamy mouthfeel with blueberries bursting in flavor. Griffon Bruxellois was a long lost friend that gave my mouth a nice hug too. Many others too.

So today is lite. I popped a Radler from Stiegel in Austria. Basically a lite beer with grapefruit soda thrown in. Interesting. Not bad. Pretty good. On a hot day I think this would have a broad appeal. I envision a bevvy of bikinis crushing these around a pool as the frozen MacroBeer locomotive shoots by...

Anyway, I won't seek it out again, but I won't avoid it either.

 

hi NBSers. Managed to get some time to open up a new one.
Carton-AS Yirgacheffe

It is a coffee IPA. If you like a coffee beer and you like an IPA, this is the beer for you. The smell is of citrus hops and coffee. The first Sip starts of like an IPA and than the coffee flavors sneak in. Alcohol is well hidden.
I will review it another time but it is 4.5+

While enjoying this beer I have been listening to Astral Weeks. Frankly, this album should be required listening. It is truly one of the greatest albums ever made.

 

Had a few days off work in a row, and since my car is in the shop again (muffler fell off, and was so bad it probably needed to be replaced already even before it started the repair process on its own) I figured I'd be better off at home visiting family rather than sitting at my apartment with no way of getting anywhere outside walking distance. And since my sister's supply of beer ran out just the other day, we stopped at a grocery store on the way out of town and picked up some new stuff. Me and her split a single bottle/can each of the three new-to-both-of-us beers (two from her variety pack, plus the one from my six-pack), so quite a few new beers all in one day.

Okay... technically none of these beers were drank on Sunday... at least not in this time zone (it would've been Saturday night here.) But I guess it was Sunday in some other time zone... that counts, right? XD



First up was Sierra Nevada's Coffee Stout. My sister had 3/4 of this one and I had what was left, since it was from her Snowpack. I am not a coffee drinker so I was a little hesitant, but... it's Sierra Nevada, who seem to be incapable of making a beer I dislike, so I found out right away that those coffee-related fears amounted to nothing once I took a sip. The rest still in the bottle in this picture immediately went into my glass after that. XD

This one was really good. The roasty stout-ness blends in really well with the coffee, which basically tastes exactly like all the nice coffee smells that I've smelled rolled up together, with none of the less-pleasant coffee smells I've experienced and none of that "yikes, this is really strong bitter coffee-ish-ness" thing that turned me off of other coffee-related things in the past.


Next was also from the Sierra Nevada pack, this time the Snow Wit White IPA.

This was really good also -- hops right away (interesting mix of hop flavors, too -- got some definite citrusyness and also something else that reminded me of the unusual hop flavor from Flipside that I liked), then the hop flavors fade away quick and are replaced with a lot of dry, almost-spicy wheatiness on the end. I liked the Blue Moon white IPA pretty well, but this one is definitely a better beer.

...and between this, the Coffee Stout, and fresh Torpedo I will definitely have to pick up one of the Snowpacks for myself at some point in the not-too-distant future. XD


And last was one I hadn't ever seen before, Dieselpunk Porter. I did pour a little too quickly on this one, so my mug ended up being filled halfway with foam... but no overflow, so no problem. XD

Apparently the Dieselpunk beers are brewed as basically a store-brand for Kroger and various other stores; my can says it was brewed in New York, while the site says the brewery that makes them is located in California... not sure what the story is there. But as far as the beer itself -- not bad at all! A bit of a sweeter, more caramel-y take on a porter compared to others I've had, but with a good bit of almost-bitterish roastiness on the end that builds up more and more as I drank my way through the glass.

 

I love this photo =)

 

I think I have fainted. Boy oh boy! You all killed it this week. Thanks for starting my Monday NBS! Cheers

@smakawhat You were awesome.

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