New Beer Sunday (week 580)

New American IPA Sunday!

Greetings NBS from the Jersey Shore where the temps are low and the wind is howling. But the sun's out and there's new beer so what's not to like?!? Today's new brew is a gift from a beer buddy. One of those, "Hey, Chris, did you ever have Rogue 7 hop IPA? No? Well, then I have a fresh bottle here for you...". Here goes:http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/132/111176/?ba=NiceTaps#review



Did I say Howlin"?

All the best!!!

 

Hmmm, I was afraid you and @beertunes were gonna tell us that. :-)

 

Hey NBS crew! Hope you're all enjoying your Sunday. I wanted to check in with this one. Not many reviews here so tried to check myself on how much I really liked this but just being honest here.

First, this is the only beer I've ever bought because of the label. This

looks so obviously like this

that as a Coheed fanboy I couldn't help myself. What's inside though - more than worth the price of admission imho. Cheers!


4.46/5 rDev +10.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5

From a 2016 750ml into a snifter. Pours a rusty copper with a thin tan head that fades quickly. No lacing but color and clarity are nice.

Nose is interesting - typical belgian quad notes with some clove and ripe fruit. But definitely notes of the barrel and red wine coming through. Definitely sweet, slightly boozy. Tons of ripe and dried fruits - cherry, raisin, currant, plum.

Flavor is much better than the nose and look would indicate here. First thing that hits me is bright ripe cherry. All the typical mineral quad qualities are there but in no way overwhelming or brash. Definite hop characters coming through adding in a bitter to help balance the sweetness. It definitely skews sweet - the ripe fruit notes are all here and even bigger. The sweet definitely works for the style - they made a killer quad. The wine barrel here just enhances those traits. The resting has definitely softened it - this doesn't taste like a 10%+ abv at all. Caramel, and slightly earthy notes come through - leather a bit but tobacco is huge as it warms. Banana, allspice seem to come through more on the finish. The more I drink it the more I find and like. It's far more complex than I'd expected (and more complex than anything I've had from these guys). Somehow all these crazy flavors just work here.

Feel is right on. Carb is perfectly fine - thankfully there to help lift this off the palate and add a bit of a bittering note. Flatter, aged quads are generally too dense and sweet for me and I think this would be no different. I'm not sure I'll sit on my other bottle as long as I originally intended. This right now though has a great, rich, smooth, well rounded feel that I'm not sure how it could really be improved.

This really works for me. My opinion, for the price of a 750 (I think $14) this is worth every penny and definitely worth picking up if you see it and you can.

 

Good afternoon friends,
Back from a long walk, along with the grand dog Lola, and our two hounds. It's a cool day, but beautiful...Lots of people out cruising through the woods. We saw a nice group of Cormorants...a very cool and unusual duck-like diver (kind of like a floating and diving miniature pterodactyl).
I'm still abstaining from beer for a while, but have tried a few non alcoholic beers. Here's what I think of what's available here.
1) Paulaner Thomas Brau (tie) Germany
1) Kaliber (tie) Ireland
3)Clausthaler Amber-Germany
4)Erdinger Germany
5)Buckler Holland

Sharp's O'Douls, and Becks were not to my liking.

Here is a tune from Ken Curtis singing with the Shep Fields Orchestra circa 1941. Ken Curtis is best known for his role as Festus T. Hagan in the long running American TV classic, Gunsmoke. Festus was the unkempt rascal sidekick to Marshall Dillon (James Arness). Curtis plated a wizened redneck jack of all trades, and true friend to Dillon. If you are familiar with this show, this bit of Curtis' career may surprise you. He often sang beautifully in some episodes. Gunsmoke is a wonderful show, check it out! This is Ken Curtis with The Shep Fields Orchestra, performing Breathless (1941).

 

Back with my first true New Beer of this Sunday.



It's a "Cascadian Dark Ale" from Pelican that's been sitting for too long. I thought it might have suffered from age, and may well have, but several other reviewers who had fresher examples report similarly muted flavors, so maybe it's not so off the mark:
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1304/40377/?ba=woemad#review
Well, now that I've obeyed my conscience and gotten that beer out of the way, my next beer will be another gem from @Ri0's box of midwestern beer goodness.

 

Try the veal, tip your waitress. Shecky Beertunes and Vinny Cavedave, signing off from the Catskills.

 

This is likely my last entry, time to meat up with my friend, the butcher, and start drankin' some beer, and grillin' some critter. I grabbed some fresh, local andoullie sausage yesterday, and Craus said he'll have some beef and chicken, so sustenance won't be an issue. A couple of the bottles that @richj1970 sent are of the bigger type, both format and ABV, and I'll bring a couple along. With some other cellar stash, and perhaps a growler. Enjoy your NBS everyone, and gird thy loins, for next Sunday will rain down with BIF beer upon y'all!

This ImpIPA from Atlanta is very good: http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/34960/123961/

 

I've seen some cranes and/or herons (I'm not an expert birdwatcher by any means) that look a bit like that. I look at them and totally get the theory that there's a link between birds and dinosaurs. I see a robin, well, not so much.

 

Hey what's going on?!

Why it's NEW BEER SUNDAY... just like every other day is a new beer!! but not Sunday...

Great weekend so far if a bit cold and windy for our hero, but the time has come to make new beer...

what's that in the ground now for our hero???





Cascade planted, Goldings on other side by imbibehour, on Flickr

Why it's my new hop bines/vines!! We shall see if this experiment works, but time will tell. Even if it does, the first year as I have been told usually doesn't produce much. However, the Cascade is pretty prolific so we shall see...

Now with all that yard work done.. it's time for a reward! It's time for new beer!! and oh what a doozy of doozies I got to dive into!! can not WAIT!!

So what first though?? I call...

TRAPPIST TIME!!!

Tre Fontane Tripel | Abbazia delle Tre Fontane


Abbazia delle Tre Fontane - Tre Fontane Tripel by imbibehour, on Flickr

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Poured from the bottle into a tulip glass. Consume Before Dec 2016.

What a unique body color for a tripel. Deep glowing orange and shiny, with opaque tan highlights for the body color. Creamy frothy forming solid three finger white head, slightly soapy but with a thicker and rocky appearance and big staying power. Excellent minor swiss cheese bubbled retention top that wont even budge. Very fine amounts of carbonation can be seen through the glass, just barely as it whizzes by so quickly and transparently, but a matching roaring fire of carbonation in the middle gives great clouds of smoke. Excellent and unique looking tripel.

Aroma is big on large phenols, sharp brown spices of clove and almost peppery. Hot sensing sweet nutmeg, and classic Belgian candi sensing sugars that aren’t overboard. Runs big, but just a little hot, but impressively and tolerable.

Palate is like a big estery mineral bath. Large mid palate amounts of banana and clove strangely, and a very nice airy dry cinnamon character as well. Light bodied and a hint of wet, but also some rocky minerals in the aftertaste as well. Leaves a real good banana cinnamon chewy and warm flavor when finishing.

Gets on the lighter side of body, but goes big on aromatics that are quite unique for a tripel if a bit large. Solid brew.

look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4 | BA Generated score: 4.09

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Always looking for tasty new tripels!! One of my favorite styles. Onward!

Cheers!

 

Oh, those Great Blue Herons are Pterodactyls!!!!

 

@SammyJaxxxx sent me so much insane complex beer, but it's 65 and sunny out and I just moved the lawn.



Review: it's hot and this is very good.

 

Greetings people of NBS. Just got done mowing the weed patch and decided to try this beer I just grabbed from Anchor.



Here's my review:

3.62/5 rDev +4.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5

L: Nice clear pale gold color. When poured it developed a nice white head that left a few ribbons of lacing behind.
S: The smell is nice but a bit faint. There are smells like mango, wheat, toast and a detectable sweetness.
T: This beer is slightly sweet with yeast, mango, toasted wheat and a slightly bitter hop finish.
F: Very light body with decent carbonation and a lightly sweet but clean finish.
O: This beer is tasty and crushable. Not normally being a wheat beer drinker I bought it because it was made by Anchor and I am glad I did. The slightly more aggressive bitterness in this beer when paired with the nice mango flavor makes for a quite tasty and refreshing beer.

 

Ranger Rave, Rampant NOT - 2 new beers for me from New Belgium

Ranger | New Belgium 4.25

look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Now one of my favorite IPAs ever. Ranger is a must try 24!
A - A deep golden-copper builds a creamy, frothy meringue-white, creamy looking head that bulges, caps, mounts, and retains and laces well. Brilliantly clear, the filtered beer emits cascades of abundant tiny bubbles. Perhaps my first "5" rating since Duvel.
S - Firm, juicy notes of grapefruit, orange rind, and soft pine provide a hoppy entree, which is back lit by malts and graham cracker aroma. Esters entertain as well, subtle but complex.
T - Flavors follow aromas. The crisp citrus bitterness dominate the beer against a crisp and light toasty malt profile. Without being dank or over-done the hop variety, flavor, and intensity are outstanding.
F - Medium bodied that finishes in a creamy, smooth transition into a dry, citrusy, and bitter finish. Juicy.
While down the center of IPA profiles, this one is outstanding in its appearance, taste complexity, juiciness at only 6.5% ABV (which is about as strong as I really care to drink on a regular basis). This beer is up with Bronx Pale Ale and Dales Pale Ale for all-time favorite.

Rampant Imperial IPA | New Belgium 3.6

look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Tried this on arriving home from being away 10 days.
Spring storm. Big lightening and wind.
Disappointed in how dank and soapy this beer is.
A: Pours a clear dark amber body with light, fine visible carbonation resulting in a 2 finger tall dense foamy head that slowly reduces and leaves significant amounts of lacing.
S: Strong aromas of citrus rind, tropical mango, and dank pine hops over backdrop of caramel, sticky sweet pale malts.
T: Upfront it's got a soapy, off- taste. Against a backdrop of brown sugar sweetness, the beer offers strong flavors of pine and grapefruit rind hops, along with a soapy, pissy dankness. A lot of almost ammonia bitterness finishes.
M: It's heavier than medium with suitable mid-carbonation. Chewy and bitter, but too soapy in the finale for me.
O:Murky and soapy. Would not get it again.

 

I too was pleasantly surprised by that one.

 

2 words. Burton Baton.

 

Never tried a Destihl stout before, and now I am kicking myself for it. This is the Illinois only release of the base beer for Dosvidanya, that was a medal winner at this past FOBAB that somehow I ignored in favor of getting tanked on Bourbon County variants. Live and learn sometimes.

 

Happy New Belgian Strong Pale Ale Sunday!

Pretty nice day here in GJ, sunny, upper 50s. Can't believe, kinda, what I saw today. One of the homeless on the corner's had his sign out saying "420 Friendly". WTF! Pretty tasty brew today, last vintage I had was 2010. Always a joy to drink something from this brewery. MLB starts today.

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/396/185251/?ba=Wasatch#review

Cheers!

 

Good afternoon NBS,
Not sure if it counts as "new" but I'm enjoying a Stone Enjoy by 4/20. Bottled on 3/15 so it pretty fresh. Nice balance here a fine IPA that has been posted about more times than I can count (ran out of fingers and toes). Side note, the bombers vs. sixer thread compelled me to buy the 6 of Enjoy By insted of the adjacent bomber.

 

Double Dry Hopped Sleeper Street by Trillium. Grapefruit and lime coming through. Hazy and delicious.