What beer are you drinking now? #1406

Hair of the Dog • Adam from the Wood

 

If it's Friday....

A little live loudness for the morning.

 

Geeeeek!

 

Happy Friday BA's

Yummy breakfast

 

Remember skittles had that slogan taste the rainbow? well it's Friday and I say let's taste the case! Cheers everyone and here is some old school beer and some old school disco.

 

Tis Friday!

 

Up all night smoking brisket and drinking these. Does it get any better??

 

Very faint coffee (I remember the base beer having more). This is quite sweet, which is fine with me. I'm glad that I tried it but I wouldn't buy it again. The characteristics I like from a bourbon barrel aren't there. I don't get any of them.

 

Something nice and light for the morning.

Heavy metal cover #1

 

Something suitable for a 95 degree day . . .



Appearance is light hazy yellow with dense white cap and decent lacing, both of which soon dissipate.

Aroma is like a vanilla cookie, the inexpensive ones the college kids get from the dollar store. A pleasant scent but not especially beery. Underneath the vanilla I detect a bit of spice but not the normal hop spiciness, rather something bakery like. Maybe that's the idea.

Taste just like it smells, which is to say pleasantly vanilla waferish. It really drinks like a liquid cookie. There is malt present but I think my bakery analogy covers it. Yet the vanilla doesn't overpower, there's no cloying sweetness, and the total flavor is well balanced. Vanilla remains all through and into the aftertaste, which is brief.

Texture is medium. Appearances notwithstanding this actually has a bit of heft to it.

Overall this is a plus. It's not a simple vanilla flavored malt beverage, rather a well crafted wheat brew with vanilla. More nuanced than one suspects at first whif. According to the brewer this is their basic Willy brand wheat ale, itself a light bodied version of the genre, with vanilla added. A bit more alcohol (Willy is 4.9, this is 5.5) but I don't think they changed the hop level (4 IBU, yes, I said four) because the only thing I could find resembling hops was a hint of spice in the aroma. A plain vanilla contender tossed into the arena with a bunch of fruity wheat competitors this one holds it's own and doesn't get trampled.

 

Tired Hands Hoi Oligoi and Black Sabbath, cheers!

 

Pipeworks Simcoe IIPA...

 

Running around doing some chores, went for a nice walk, and now making some potato soup for lunch

This is a nice break!

Happy to be getting Rhinegeist beers up here in NE Ohio...delish!

 

Mandarina IPA from Saugatuck. Not bad . . . hot n' oily and full of fruit!

 

Time for a beer.



Cheers