New Beer Sunday (week 593)

Good Morning and Happy July 4th Weekend fellow NBSers.
Thanks to @utopiajane for starting us off with a flowing poetic review as usual.
My beer this morning is:
R.I.P.A on Rye by Schmaltz Brewing, owned by fellow member of the Tribe, Jeremy Cowan.
Happy New Barrel-Aged Double Rye IPA Sunday





4.03/5 rDev +3.1% | Avg: 3.91
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4

A little intro, I would have loved to drink non-BA version first, so I can draw this beer off the original. Alas it's not be, so here is my review.
22oz "bomber" into libbey tulip
bottled on 2/18/16
L- pours a gorgeous coppery rust color with thin layer of foam which fizzles immediately
S- heavy rye whiskey aroma, sweet caramel malt, with hints of pine
T- the taste is a blend of sweet, rich, and bitter as it deftly says on the label with the sweet malt, the richness of the rye whiskey, and the bitterness a slight kiss of pine on the finish
F- this one is a real sipper, full-bodied with slight carbonation tingle
O- not the usual Imperial/IIPA but a very solid beer nonetheless, the one slight knock is that at times i felt i sipping rye whiskey and not beer aged in rye whiskey barrels
L'Chaim

Cheers to the New Week!

 

Good morning New BSers! Good morning Maria and thank you for starting the thread and thank you for your analysis of Weizen Bam, definitely one of Jolly Pumpkin's better brews. Very well done as usual.

Well, today looks like another cool summer day here in NW PA. I'm slowly getting more mobile after nearly three weeks - the swelling is going down to the point that I can both sleep fairly well and can walk half way normal. It's almost time for another beer run! But today's NBS offering is:





Back when we had a community drop off site for recycling, I used to see an occasional Rock Art bottle in one of the glass dumpsters. I always wondered who drank it and where they found it. This bottle came from my jaunt into the wilds of Connecticut almost three weeks ago - it was the only Rock Art example I found in the several liquor stores I explored. What made me interested was the reference to tomahawk hops.

$ 5.84 (including tax)/bomber ($ 0.265/oz) at Max Wine & Spirits, Danbury, CT
Bottled on 28 Jan (No year) at 42 degrees into a hand washed and dried JK snifter, allowed to warm to 50+ degrees
Aroma – fruity hops, almost like a cider, fades but doesn’t disappear
Head – Average (Maximum three cm, aggressive pour), off white, dense creamy layer with rocks, diminishing to an irregular eight to twelve mm ring and rocky heaped partial layer
Lacing – excellent – multiple bands of lacey bubbles which meld into each other
Body – hazy copper, clears somewhat as it warms
Flavor – malty with some hop and malt bitterness, a touch of diacetyl; no alcohol
Palate medium to full, almost creamy, lively carbonation

As this warms up, it smooths out with the bitterness balanced by the malt sweetness. I was hoping for something similar to the now-defunct Warrior Brewing’s (Exeter, Devonshire) Tomahawk. I thought that to be an excellent bitter but apparently not enough others agreed with me. Rock Art’s take on an ESB is still quite good, something I’ll pick up if I ever see it again. Mine is marked ESB squared while the photo here on BA is ESB cubed.

Appearance 4, Aroma 3.75, Flavor 4.5, Palate 4.5, Overall 4.5. Rating 4.29, Avg 3.77, rDev +13.8.

 

Welcome to NBS!

 

New Kellerbier Sunday

Greetings NBSers,
And a thank you towards Maria for getting this show started. I'm doing an early light beer as I plan to spend much of the day travelling to the homestead with my ailing father. Lovely and gorgeous in SCMN with the humidity not hitting yet...but it's coming. It always shows.
An atypical style. The bros don't recommend this style glassware for this style beer, but it's a version of a pils and I like drinking out of pils glasses. So there.
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/467/215090/?ba=garymuchow#review

If you like a nice smooth complex German Pils this is for you.
May be back later.
Best to all.

 

Summer of Pilsners – Part Deux

Firstly: Happy 4th of July everybody!!

What are your first thoughts when you hear/see the word “Genesee”? If you are like my wife it is Genny Cream Ale and a bad word to describe the taste of that beer.

Please bear with me here because I think there is indeed a good story with the word “Genesee” in it.

Genesee is now marketing beers with a term of “Pilot Batch Brew House” and these beers are by no means like Cream Ale.

Below is from the Genesee website:

“Dean Jones

Genesee Brewmaster

Dean Jones is an award-winning brewer with over 23 years of experience in the brewing industry. Since 2012, he has been the Brewmaster of the Pilot Batch System in the Genesee Brew House. He has strong ties to the Rochester brewing community, including the Upstate New York Homebrewers Association (UNYHA) Home Brew Club, and he frequently collaborates with other Rochester brewers and artisans on his brews.

Each beer in the Pilot Batch Series was originally created and first crafted on the 20-barrel pilot system at the Genesee Brew House, and is now proudly brewed and bottled at the Genesee Brewery.”

http://www.geneseebeer.com/pilotbatch/

With those preliminaries out of the way I am going to talk a bit about Genesee North German style Pilsner. You might ask “what is a North German style Pilsner?” to which my sound bite answer is: a German Pilsner that features a prominent hop presence but also has a noticeable Pilsner Malt backbone with a dry finish. For me the ultimate German brewed Northern German style Pilsner is Jever.

On the bottle’s neck label it states: ‘A crisp, exceptionally clean beer that prominently features noble German hops and only the finest Pilsner malt.” That pretty much mirrors my short description.

To paraphrase Mr. T: quit your jibber jabber and just drink the damn beer!

Served in my Polish Pilsner glass:

Appearance:

Straw colored with a white head.

Aroma:

A moderate amount of Pilsner Malt aroma with a hint of herbal/spicy hop aroma and just a tiny whiff of sulfur (struck match smell).

Taste:

The flavor very much follows the nose. The Pilsner Malt flavor is noticeable along with hop flavors of herbal/spicy. A firm bitterness.

Mouthfeel:

Medium bodied with a very pleasant crisp, dry finish

Overall:

In one word: excellent! This beer is a very nicely balanced German Pilsner beer.

I have one complaint and that is the bottle markings. It is black ink on a brown bottle and frankly I only discerned it once the bottle is empty. On the bottle it lists: “D226121128E”. Since I do not own a Little Orphan Annie secret decoder I have absolutely no idea what the heck this means.

Cheers to Dean Jones for crafting a wonderful beer and Boo to the Genesee people who decided to not clearly and understandably date this product!

@zid @rotsaruch @RobH @KOP_Beer_OUtlet @Ranbot

 

Well done and welcome! Nice to see NBS has a Belgian or at least Belgium-based contributor.

 

Had a feeling I'd seen you here before. Thanks for the Hopus recomendation. I wonder if your perhaps uncharacteristic experience was due to having a fresher bottle than those who reviewed it in the US.

 

Greetings All,
We had a powerful thunderstorm overnight, sending two big Walker Hounds to bed, our bed! Greta, the 11 year old, lives in fear of thunder and the flashes of lightning, while 4 year old Otis just likes our bed. They slept in and had a late breakfast; the poor, spoiled rotten, fine lovely beasts! Off on a walk in the rain soon.
Thanks @utopiajane for another excellent send-off into the very creative, informative, often funny, and always fun NBS.

Today's beer is Joymongers Pale Ale. Joymongers is a new brewpub downtown, across the street from Preyer Brewing, close to the beautiful ballpark and tons of new urban housing options. Downtown is booming.
I bought this crowler on Friday, opening day. The place was crowded at 3 PM and it looks great.
This is mostly my son's review- I tasted the beer- so I concur with this assessment.
The effusive Cascade hop nose grabs you right away. The beer pours a deep honey-gold color, with a lazy bead refilling a steady meringue-like head following each sip. The head is very fluffy and rocky, leaving nice lacing sip by sip. This pale ale is rich, with a strong malt backbone, but bright with tingly hops taking hold, providing a fine balance- malt>hops>one piece well knit.
This is a rich and citrusy APA, a nice "big" take on the style, and at 5.8% a perfect not too strong, but still fairly heady. I'll try all of Joymongers beers and support this new piece of the local beer mosaic.


I've always loved Mark Knopfler's work, but his folk and story telling pieces have been my favorites. This song by Knopfler is titled, "Sailing to Philadelphia". It tells the story of two Englishmen- Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon- travelling to the North American English colonies in the early 1760s. They were sent to survey to help try to settle border disputes in and around current day Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Delaware. The Mason Dixon line was/is a big piece of American history. I find this tune to be beautiful, inspiring, and a conduit to a better understanding of America. Have a nice Fourth all!

 

Greetings, fellow NBSers, and thanks as always to our hostess for getting us underway,

Early NBS for me. I woke up around 5:30 due to an odd and slightly unsettling dream, and did some reading that did not lure me back to sleep. Now drinking coffee and contemplating breakfast of some sort tbd.

Last weekend I was in Olympia celebrating my youngest niece's 1st birthday. Some of you may remember last week I posted a pic of her first encounter with cake and ice cream. I think she enjoyed it. Certainly she enjoyed re-distributing it in all directions and all about her person. I didn't drink any new beers while I was there, mainly for lack of access, though my brother did have bottles of Sumpthin' Somethin' (must have been available in Costco - my brother buys beer in bulk there), and I took a bomber of Selkirk Abbey's Cuvee de la Nuit Profonde. The weather started out nasty and gray, but really improved, until it was perfect on the drive back to my folks place. We went over Chinook Pass (opened up less than a month ago), where I took this picture near Tipsoo Lake (which was still surrounded by snow):


During the week I had some Fort George beers, one of which I will cheat with and do a review of later today, even though I've had three cans of it by now.

One I did do a review of on Tuesday or Wednesday was a session IPA brewed as a collaboration with a music mag that the folks at Fort George are apparently fans of, with a website listed for obtaining a free sampler. Wish I'd noted the one on Suicide Squeeze, as I realized after the fact that they've had some bands signed that I like:

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/16077/170523/?ba=woemad#review
Not a bad beer for the style at all. Possibly the most tropical fruit flavored session IPA I've had, and drank really well for it's age.

Back later with that other FG beer. Hint: The name has a number, it's also a collaboration beer, and it's been discussed on the NW forum.

There's a good chance there will also be something consumed I have never had before later on today.

 

Nice tune selection! I've always loved Mark Kopfler's guitar work. I picked up that album on a whim in a used CD shop a couple years ago and have not regretted it. I just wish radio stations would play something from Dire Straits that's not "Sultans of Swing" or from the Brothers In Arms album!

 

I'm going to go along with @utopiajane's wheat theme. This one's certainly a German style but makes me think of amber waves of grain. It's New Glarus' spring seasonal but on a sunny summer day nothing could be better. I have to work tomorrow (healthcare doesn't get holidays) but for everyone who doesn't enjoy the long weekend!

This embodies the hefeweizen style perfectly. Hazy, wheaty, clove/coriander, some banana bread comes through on the taste (though not the nose); it is complex and full of flavor start to finish. Really well made, not that I'd expect anything less from NG. Overall 4.35/5 rDev +1.9%.
Cheers!

 

@Ri0 hooked me up with one of those. Easily the best American hefe I've had in a long time, maybe the best I've ever had. Great stuff!

 

I'm not sure how the weather could get any better for this three day weekend. Upper 70's to low 80's and minimal humidity with blue skies. Visited the bother in law yesterday in Milwaukee. Grilled out and enjoyed some great beer. Taking it easy today and might hit the pool this afternoon. Anyway... on to the good stuff!

Stone has returned to WI and I have been picking up some offerings. Mocha IPA on a gentle pour gave a 3 finger sandy head atop a light copper colored liquid. Aroma is very pleasant with cocoa and mocha marrying together with citrus hops. Flavor has some caramel sweetness and citrus hops. The mocha and cocoa are not as present in the flavor as they are in the nose, which makes it work well. Feel is medium with good carbonation and semi sweet, yet dry finish. This beer was pretty interesting and I really enjoyed it.

 

Green Flash Hop Head Red Ale
7% 70 IBU



Appearance: Dusty golden red with light tan cap and good lacing.

Aroma: Malt structure with a hop roof. The two work nicely together with neither dominating. The hops give off a floral spiciness as well.

Taste: Malt forward with a body that feels more heavy than rich but is pleasant none the less. The hops come into play fairly soon and remain to the finish leaving a slight hop aftertaste that is mild and clean.

Texture: Medium leaning towards full.

Overall: A far better flavor than my description indicates, perhaps because I don't find complex layers of flavors, rather just a few but they are good ones. Imperial anything is a difficult act to pull off and this one plays well.

 

Once again, I was caught up in the AP (Analysis Paralysis to those non boardgamers) of deciding which beer I wanted to select for my contribution. In comes the white knight on her steed of knowledge and creativity, our gracious hostess, Ms. @utopiajane dropping saison honours. Well, one of the beers I was deciding between happens to be classified a saison (the bottle lists it as a Grisette, but I don't think BA has a separate entry for that substyle), so decision made. Reinforcing this decision, it turns out that grisette as a style originates from the Wallonia region (at least per my very limited research into the style). Coincidence that our Belgian participant happened to be an early contributor this morning? No such thing as coincidences! Thanks you two!

Misère Au Borinage is a grisette style ale brewed by one of my city's premier breweries and foudre aged with lacto and brett.
--This one gushed on me. I opened the top and next thing I knew I had music video champagne bottle bubbles running down my hands. hmm... First thoughts (aside from: I wish it weren't doing this and: NO! NOT RIGHT OVER THE PHONE!): smells like good champagne. Not the descriptor I would go with later when actually jabbing my face at it as it sat sulking in the glass, but in the moment, that was definitely my first thought.

--Once I subdued its restive nature and corralled it into its glass holding cell, it exuded a gorgeous spun-gold body of interminable opacity with a pure white cap that seemed quite content to retain its dominant position, even leaving generous reminders of its presence as I drained the throne on which it sat.
--This deeper foray into aromatic qualities yielded a more expected braid of soft yet tart lemon edge, and a modest funk that I am too novice in the style to yet identify.
--Flavour is a similarly subtle entwining of tart lemon that never quite reaches the point of being puckering and gentle funk. This beer is a masterclass in subtlety and nuance. I applaud Holy Mountain once again.



Unless I really fucked up, I'm pretty sure @cavedave has had this one as well. Dave: if it wasn't in there, it was supposed to be. If it was absent: I owe you!


Cheers!


seemed appropriate

 

Aren't you supposed to waiting in a line for some Oxidized Wood Fastener?