What beer are you drinking now? #1357

Tasty Friday beverage !

 

Pre date-night with a little Founders Sumatra Mountain.

 

DFH Flesh & Blood IPA.. cheers!

 

Very nice English brown/ESB kind of hybrid ale. Aromas and flavors of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, nutty, and light roasted malt; with herbal/floral/peppery hops; and light plum/apple yeast fruits. Moderate herbal/spicy bitterness; medium bodied; balanced creaminess and hop stickiness in the mouthfeel. Light-moderate dryness from bitterness; zero lingering hop astringency. Really robust and balanced between UK malt and hop flavors. I would call it closer to an ESB, but it also could be classified as a Northern English brown identically. Either way it’s really delicious, and I would grab it again. 3.88


Looks like I get to be the first reviewer on either site. This is a three beer blend: sour stout, sour golden, and Flemish Brown ale aged spontaneously in casks for another 18 months. This is really damn good! Great head retention and lacing for a sour. Aromas and flavors of big tart cherry, cranberry, green apple, red grape, pepper, leather, vanilla, toasted oak, and light vinegar/funk; with balanced chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar malt notes. Moderate tartness and tannic oak spice on the finish; medium bodied; balanced tannin/acidity and grainy/vanilla oak creaminess in the mouthfeel. Light-moderate increasing dryness from tannin/acidity; with zero astringency. Definitely a unique sour, but it never comes off as being out of balance in malt, oak, or wild/lacto notes. Very smooth drinking with the balanced acidic mouthfeel; only 5%. Arbor’s sour program has always been impressive. 4


Cheers

 

Pre raw bar Funky Bow G-string Pale and a Bissell Brothers Substance to accompany some ****ty pork belly chili cheese fries.

 

My first post on the revamped site! It sure looks a lot different on my phone. I'll reserve judgement until I use it over a period of time. A couple of two day old Zombie Dust's should help. Another sunny and hot day, but the humidity is starting to ease it's oppressive grip. Have a happy Friday, you've earned it.

With everything going on this week I can't seem to get this song out of my head.

 

Starting with Evil Twin's Imperial Biscotti Break (4.39).



Metal Friday

 

-LIC Beer Project IPA this afternoon in the nearest saloon. A soft, cloudy IPA with a lot of grapefruit and mango, but little hop bite.

-not the best day so far...

 

bags are packed, flight leaves tomorrow, no work for 9 days, and I just found this gem in the fridge (I thought I drank my last one)

My first ever trip to Las Vegas tomorrow I'm really pumped

 

Whew.....just back from a warm day volunteering at a Tall Ships Festival here on Lake Erie - Fairport Harbor....got to work next to the Viking Dragonship the Draken, that I have been following on its journey across the North Atlantic from Norway to Iceland to Greenland to the NA continent and now the Great Lakes - awesome stuff, and beautiful ship! Got to meet Captain and crew and help visitors board her.....a great day!

 

Need to work on the tops of the dock pilings- they're a little uneven, apparently. Pliny on a Friday! Cheers BA!

 

Yo BA's! Now coming up on 3:30 here in quite-hot NOVA & I'm back home from a nice trip to Caboose Brewing in Vienna, VA. Some quick shots from the venture:

The Zoo is a nice little Berliner. The Pils is an exceptionally nice German-style. The last two are both solid IPAs, one in the hoppy Pale Wheat vein, the other in the more balanced-by-malt vein.

Later:

Wrapping up a quality Saison, with additional 'swag' pictured :-)

So...seemed like a fun idea to go with a full-on Caboose theme now that I'm home. Currently sipping this brilliant Stout:

Proper glass/coaster in full effect

It's been a good day so far...happy tunes:




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

 

Up next:

 

@CBrodbeck you need an umbrella all that sunlight is molesting your hoppy goodness.

 

Bent Water Barba Tart Blonde Ale served at Bukowski's in Back Bay Boston.

 

Awesome! You finally got to be a Beer Viking Sailor on a true Viking Ship! That was probably a big checkmark Cheers

 

Might as well stick to the Founder's theme today. Drink 'em if you got 'em, right? Cheers!