New Beer Sunday (week 574)

From this mornings NBS submission.
We headed out the door quickly, the offering is Oxbow Brewing Barrel Aged Farmhouse Pale Ale
Thanks

 

Here we have de Garde Grand Blanc, a tart, vinous American wild from our friends down in the cow pastures of Tillamook. As anticipated, bright, crisp, light, and super drinkable. Lots of oak with hints of Granny Smith apple and pear. Perfect for a breezy, showery, not-quite-spring afternoon in the Pacific Northwest. Cheers!

 

Well I couldn't resist opening this gem. JA can do no wrong IMHO.
New beer #2 today is....
Jacks Abbey Sibling Rye-valry Rye IPL
Pours a brassy/gold color with a wonderful thick foamy cap that lasts and settles to a everlasting cap with significant rings of lacing.
Smells of doughy bread, some sweetness of tropical fruits, Lager yeast and peppery spicey rye.

Taste is of same notes: tropical hops, and loads of grainy, spicey rye that explodes with flavor on the tongue. There is bitterness and clean Lager flavors. Damn this is good.

Finishes dry and spicey with moderate carbonation and crispness.

Boom! Another winner from JA. Shit I could drink this all night. Crisp lager deliciousness finished with one of my favorites - Rye malt. Absolutely dig this brew. A must for lager/IPL lovers who like Rye beers. Not sure if this has been done before but congrats to Jacks again!! (PS sorry George....here you go)

 

Hope you are having a nice NBS. Unseasonably warm this weekend around here, but rainy all day today. Some chores earlier, but now it's time for some new beer!

Today's new beer is Rogue Farm's 7 Hop IPA. Saw this one while grocery shopping this morning and was intrigued.

Big mix of earthy and floral hops. Some light citrus with grapefruit and tangerine. All with a fairly significant malt backbone that contributes some caramel sweetness to balance things out.



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As you can probably see from the two beers I posted that looks superb. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to find one......

 

Was finally gonna do nbs but it won't let me just upload a pic?

 

What's up nbs players. Hitting up st. Martin for a few days of vacation. Spent most the day dealing with the hell that is JFK airport and traveling. But it's a humid 80 here and I'm finally starting to relax.

My new beer today is Carib lager. The beer comes in at 5.2% with a best by date of 11/16. It has glucose syrup listed as an ingredient so that's probably one of many red flags but my selection is pretty limited so far.

The beer pours a rather unattractive straw yellow color, with major clarity and low carbonation. The nose is malty sweet and not very floral. The drinking starts out light, crisp and rather refreshing at first. Notes of bread, sweet malts, cracker, and a sort of sweet corn flavor. This corn sweetness really builds and becomes rather off tasting and at times down right fucking awful.

Overall, a fine example of terrible beer that I somehow sucked down four of them.

 

My second NBS beer of the day I had to add. It's a new Rye IIPA from Frost Beer Works. It is part of their research series.



Rye IIPA

Frost Beer Works
Rye Beer / 9.00% ABV

4.11/5 rDev n/a | Avg: 4.11
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

L-Pours a very slightly hazy caramel. An moderate pour leads to a 2 finger white fluffy head. Lacing is sticky and moderate in volume.
S-There is some grapefruit presence, but it is really driven bye the Rye presence which quickly takes over.
T- Much like the nose there is an interplay between the grapefruity bitteness and the spicy rye. Again like the nose the bitterness hits first with the rye at the backend. Here the grapefruit bitterness is the more dominant.
F- The feel here is smooth, coating, and almost oily. The carbonation is low medium and the overall mouthfeel is on the lighter side of full. This is the second IIPA I've had from Frost, and they've really nailed the mouthfeel on both.
O- The beer does a nice job of using the rye as a counterpoint to the hop bitterness and I enjoyed it. That said the 90 IBU's are on the upper limit of my enjoyment level. Hop heads who also enjoy Rye will certainly enjoy this beer.

 

New IPA Sunday



Omnipollo Ras Soft Citra

Went out for dinner last night and has two great new beers... Almanac's prune sour and Flanders Fred, a collaboration between Hair of the Dog and De Proef. That second one was really phenomenal.

Stopped by the local bottle shop on the way home and grabbed a six-pack quickly from the cooler -- one of my long-time favorites, Hop Devil. Got home and realized it was three months past the Enjoy By date. Took it back this morning and they were very gracious about swapping it out, but the others they had were a month older still. They finally found a six pack that reaches its Enjoy By date in a few weeks, which I stupidly took home with me. Let's just say the malt profile is showing really well. I guess it's on Victory for having such long-off Enjoy By dates, 'cause while there is still some hop bitterness in the aftertaste, there's almost no hop aroma or flavor left in the thing. It's sad, but it almost seems like I need to either buy trendy new IPAs these days or buy direct from the brewer. It's hard to find Two Hearted, Union Jack or, damn, I guess even Hop Devil that isn't past its prime.

Oh well, rant over, on to a trendy one...

Omnipollo Ras pours a hazy yellow-orange color with two fingers of foamy white head. It has a nice, delicate aroma of grapefruit with a touch of floral hops and hay behind, which continues to the taste, with a nicely bitter and slightly juicy aftertaste. Medium bodied, with an almost powdery feel to it. Pretty good stuff. "Soft citra" is an apt description.

Enjoy your evenings, everyone.

 

Happy NBS. Awesome creativity Mr. @cavedave. Respect. Trying and thoroughly enjoying another Eclipse variant, this time High West Bourbon. Cheers.

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New to me. Picture is kind of fuzzy and weak, sort of like this beer...

 

Two great tunes, and not a bad beer either. Congrats on the next stage of your lives.

 

Nice enjoy your vaca! and Kudos for having the ability and loyalty to still post a NBS....you ARE the Man!

 

And moving along in what's become a new IPA Sunday. ..

Sierra Nevada Beer Camp



Crisp white head on a thoroughly hazy orange beer with spotty lacing.

I'm really not getting much nose at all. Let it warm up a lot, yet, not much. What I do get is subtle and sweet grapefruit.

Taste follows nose in that we have only a sweet grapefruit, maybe some pine hanging out. Big thick malty finish.

 

Got one more new one today ... new to me, old to many of you:

Sierra Nevada Otra Vez gose

Has all the typical gose notes with one awesome twist -- that cactus/grapefruit combo takes a lot of the salty sting out and puts in a sweet piece of herbal earthy something. I think the aroma is subtle sweet kumquats, while the flavor is more tart lemons with a little "green" grapefruit flavor ... naming this note is hard ... it's almost like a super mild fresh green chile flavor. Or maybe even green tea ... with a few grains of sugar.

LOVE this brew. I love goses for starters, love the big grain/salt-bomb from Martin House The Salty Lady, also love Real Ale's 18th anniversary-now-seasonal limed up version, and one of the exports I've tried is so good it hurts. This Sierra Nevada brew has just enough of a twist that I'll buy another six-pack or two, fill up my fridge with ALL THE GOSES and drink all of them and none of you can have any!

OK ... you can have some. But only you NBSers.

The review:
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4.04 (+5.8% rDev)

My bougainvilleas looked pretty woody when I replanted them this week. I sure hope they get to growing again soon. Midnight's going to miss his buddies if they don't.


(oh, and yes, @cavedave -- we are FAR from being in the clear on no more big winter events ... even down here in Texas, I fully expect a freeze to come sneaking our way and force me to bring yellow boogie and white boogie back indoors for a day or two)

Cheers!

 

Well, here's a new one that one of our distributors finally got their hands on.

Augustiner Brau Edelstoff

Sort of sweet grassiness on the nose, tastes echoes the nose perfectly, very nice mouthfeel, a solid Helles.

 

Nice beer, and nice tunes too. I've got what I think is the same recording on CD. My old man has it on vinyl.

 

My first new beer for today is Red Light Rye Ale from Bennidito's here in Spokane. I saw on facebook that they do cheap growler fills on Sunday so I stopped by, had a tasty, messy sandwich and picked up a couple grunts (the other being a single hop pale ale brewed with Cascade). I don't think it's even in the database yet, so quick summary. Copper-amber color, peppery spices balanced by a sweet maltiness. Fairly dry at the swallow, along with a slight mineralish tinge. Nothing to scour the earth for, but quite nice.

 

That looks very nice.

 

Back with another tonight. I was lucky enough to find a four pack of the Terrapin Single Origin Coffee 4-pack this week.

I tried the Ethopia variant the other night and enjoyed it quite a bit. Really nice coffee stout.

Tonight is the Sumatra variant. Aroma is all coffee all the time. Tastes just like a rich bold dark brew coffee with espresso qualities. Just a touch of cinnamon and brown sugar to round things out. Highly recommended.



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