New Beer Sunday (Week 635)

Congratulations @cjgiant on 2000 reviews! Commendable indeed. Thank you for getting us started today. Today I am also striving for a milestone. I am 2 shy of 1000 full reviews. Happy New Beer Sunday !

 

Cheers everyone and good morning. Last year I did a series on my FB page called "The Additional Summer." It was on all kinds of beer that had additions like fruit peel, specialty malts & barrel aged beer. I found that examining the style against an addition was not only educational but delicious and intoxicating. This year so far I have found two lagers with additions. The first was Great Lakes Grandes Lagos Lager which added hibiscus. This year I may have to start up another segment of The Additional Summer here in NBS because today I have Uinta's Lime Pilsner.

This beer uses pilsner malt, two row, hallertau hops and lime peel.

The pour is yellow and hazy. Fat white head of creamy foam that fell to some shaving foam bits and a thin film on top. Some clinging lace . Lime is all you can smell at first. Sweet herbal and hay. As it warms you get a little sense of the malt but the lime is very strong . It's headdy with the scent of it alone. I happen to be a big fan of lime. There is also another citrus on the nose and I would say it's lemon. Taste is surprisingly malty and a little sweet. The lime is dominant but lively on the palate. Spicy and sweet. The spice from the hallertau mingles perfectly with the lime and makes that wonderful sweet & spicy taste. The mouthfeel is excellent with soft bubbles to show you the malt. Hops tingle a bit with bitterness but this finishes sweeter. That sweet is finish is more shandy than pilsner imo. However it is not cloying. Nose remains abundantly fruity and enticing throughout the drink. In fact the scent of that lime is like perfume to me. The sweetness in the finish has to be from the lime peel not the malt and it is forgiveable. Once you start drinking you will notice the malt comes to a roundness and the finish cleans itself up in way from hop bitterness that keeps this from drinking like a soda. It has a refreshing lemonade drinkable quality. The more I drank it the more I liked it. Strong aftertaste of lime.

This pilsner featured an addition and frankly the question I asked is what would I think if I had tasted this blind? (meaning without knowing what style it was) You would know right away that fresh lime was added so that is excellent. I am sure I would not have guessed pilsner. I do not usually drink radlers or shandys so I might have said is this some kind of hard lemonade? Is it a radler or a fruit beer? It has an element like fruit beer that the Grandes Lagos also had. That is whimsical if you like it, and a flaw if you don't. So when we talk about bias here is where it factors in. Scoring to style means ticking down for the appearance haze and other things on this beer weather you liked those features or not. That is what rating to style means. They could not really call it a shandy or a radler because that would not be true if they simply added lime peel. So what kind of beer is this? The other ingredients say it's a pilsner and so does the brewer so that's how to rate it.

Cheers you all and Happy New Additional Summer!



This beer would pair very well with all kinds of asian inspired dishes, ginger in particular, seafood & mexican food. I would not put it with breakfast though because of the strong lime. The lime also keeps it away from most desserts unless they feature lime as well as many savory american style dishes. In other words you would not put this with traditional beef stew.

Cheers everyone and Happy New Beer Sunday!

 

Sorry I misunderstood. That is still awesome and congratulations! I may meet that goal today. I have to drink one more new beer to do it. =)

 

Excellent early entries, eminently edifying, enticingly exuberant, extraordinarily expressive, evocatively entertaining.

Congrats @cjgiant on the milestone, can't think of a better reason to crack a new brew. You also @utopiajane , 1000 reviews, yee haa. Think I'll also grab a beer. Might maybe be a couple new beers around the cellar somewhere lol. Actually have a stout I have been dying to try since getting it in the last BIF. See y'all in a bit.

 

Amazing review. While reading it I felt like I was drinking it with you.

 

@cavedave Enchanting!

 

Poured near room temperature slowly down the center of the glass and got a massive 2 finger gorgeous mocha head that takes its settling into a a thick ring of bubbles along the outside of the glass and leaving some patches of lace behind. 5

Smell huge deep dark chocolate immediately hits your nose, vanilla beans, roasted expresso beans, back strap molasses, leather, and some hints of alcohol. 4.25

Taste follows dark chocolate fudge, over cooked roasty black coffee, vanilla, pipe tobacco, leather, molasses, and slight burn of alcohol but very well hidden for 13% ABV and only 3 or 4 months, I believe this guy would age fabulously. 4.5

Mouthfeel is as big as they come, chewy as any I have ever in countered, obviously a tad dry, moderate carbonation, and for its chewy girth goes down amazingly easy. 5

Overall this is really special, like Yeti or Ten Fidy on steroids, but really the alcohol is very subtle, but present for sure. I got this in a package from @jzeilinger and I this would be my first NBS beer today, but I missed last week so I will be back a few times this week to make up for it. Easter and those pesky bloody mary's got the best of me last week.

Congratulations to @cjgiant @utopiajane for your milestones today! Nice opening also @cjgiant and thanks for stepping up with @lordofthewiens and taking on a lot of our favorite weekly thread. Cheers until later. 4.75

 

Great kick-off and...2,000?! Hell I'm still working on getting to 1,000! My goal is this year.

 

No new Beer for me just yet today, that will change in a couple of hours though. Headed up to Creature Comforts for their third anniversary party, a little different format with the sample tour today. By current GA law breweries sell tours which allow 36oz of samples, the usual format is for 6 pours well today it will be 12 3oz pours so I could potentially try 24 different beers today between my samples and my wife's samples (she isn't into beer but loves me enough to join and spend her day as my DD). I know I'll try some more than once and revisit some old favorites. Hoping to remain coherent enough to maintain some notes. Here's today's tap list.

 

Geez 1000 2000 reviews, that's a huge number. Just out of curiosity I checked on mine and there's only 109. And I bet only 2-3 in the last few years. Have a new beer. But that's for later.

 

So, what you're trying to say is that beer and food DO go together well.....? Cheers to you on your always lovely thoughts shared.

 

Good morning New BSers! Got a great brew today - new to me but certainly not new to many of you:




Received from @Harrison8 (@THSdrummer) in NBS BIF #5.
750 mL bottled 10/2016. Stored at 42 degrees. Served at 58 degrees in a Jester King snifter.
Aroma - primarily chocolate with some faint chilis.
Head – small (Maximum < two cm, aggressive pour), brown, very dense and creamy, good retention. Slowly diminishing to a four mm creamy ring and a thin layer with a few rocks.
Lacing – none.
Body – dark brown/black, opaque.
Flavor – The initial hit is cacao and some pleasant anchos. I’m not a fan of putting a piece of the sun in my mouth; anchos are the perfect pepper for me – flavorful with some heat but still edible. As the beer warms in my mouth, the cinnamon kicks in and the anchos heat up a bit. There is a little post-swallow pleasant gastric burn. Behind all the additives, malt can still be detected. The 10% ABV alcohol isn’t detectable until it joins with the anchos to start a small fire just south of my cardiac sphincter. No hops, no diacetyl. No vanilla.
Palate – medium to full, creamy, soft carbonation.

I can see why this beer is so highly rated – balance. There is just enough chili to provide some flavor without burning my taste buds out; thank you for that. The cinnamon comes in at the tail end and is not the star of the show, just another important player. The cacao provides a unifying factor, continuity between the aroma, the first taste, and the after taste. And at the heart of it all, you can tell it’s a stout.

Appearance 4.25, Aroma 4, Flavor 4.5, Palate 4.5, Overall 4.5. Rating 4.37, rDev -1.6%.

Thanks, Harrison, for giving me the opportunity to try this excellent beer!

 

In front of a grand magnolia this morning...

Burial-Nightshift collaboration I Know for a fact you don't party, an imperial Stout.
-opaque, black can pour with a slight licorice aroma and a 1.5 cm foam cap. The flavor is dominated by toasted malt, deeply toasted, and some candy or soda-like aspects that are not expected (by me). This finish is a bit hot. I'll try the next one at a colder temp (another day).

 

Spring of the so called ‘NE’ style IPA (continued)

The past few weeks I have been ‘visiting’ New England (Massachusetts – Tree House, Trillium and Night Shift and Maine – Bissel Brothers).

This week I will be coming ‘home’ to drink a Tired Hands beer – Strawberry Milkshake.

The Tired Hands Milkshake series of beers are kinda interesting. These beers were first brewed in collaboration with Omnipollo Brewing (a Swedish Brewery):

“If there’s a Thomas Edison when it comes to this new style, it would be Jean Broillet IV, owner and brewmaster at Tired Hands Brewing Company. In March of 2015, Broillet teamed with the inventive Swedish brewery Omnipollo to produce something they called Milkshake IPA. (Omnipollo had produced a “Smoothie” IPA the previous year.) The seven percent ABV beer was brewed with oats and lactose sugar to create an initial heft. Then, wheat flour and 50 pounds of pectin-rich green apple puree were added. (Pectin causes an intense, almost gel-like thickening within beer—an effect most brewers try to avoid lest they accidentally make a can of jam.)”

http://punchdrink.com/articles/meet-the-milkshake-ipa-tired-hands/

Below is a description of Strawberry Milkshake via Tired Hands:

“Strawberry Milkshake IPA is brewed with oats and lactose sugar. Conditioned atop Madagascar vanilla beans and heaps of strawberry purée. Hopped intensely with Mosaic and Citra. This is the one that started it all! =) Dreamt up in tandem with our main dudes at @omnipollo! $22/four pack.”

A side story to Tired Hands Milkshake beers is that they are EXTREMELY popular with Tired Hands customers. When the Tired Hands weekly can release is announced that a Milkshake beer is available the BA thread for Tired Hands (Mid-Atlantic forum) is a whirlwind of activity and buzz where the glee and extreme exuberance of the Tired Hands fans are in full regalia.

A few BAs have posted that they have overheard other people in the long lines to buy Tired Hands beer discuss Tired Hands Milkshake beers. One person reportedly stated: “I love these Tired Hands Milkshake beers because I can get whatever beer I want via a trade”.

So, what does a world revered beer like Tired Hands Strawberry Milkshake taste like?

Served in my Gulden Draak tulip glass:

Appearance:

Golden colored with a turbid/murky appearance. A BIG fluffy white head.

Aroma:

The aroma is a combination of tropical fruits, some citrus and a bit of strawberry.

Taste:

The flavor follows the nose with an enticing combination of tropical fruit, citrus flavors and some strawberry. It has a low-moderate bitterness.

Mouthfeel:

The mouthfeel of this beer is very soft and velvety.

Overall:

I think this beer is very, very good! The strawberry aspect was muted in comparison to the tropical fruit/citrus flavors but that is A-OK with me. This beer has the quality that the ‘crhazies’ would describe using the word “juicy”.





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I picked this new beer to match my mood: black. I had to put our recently adopted dog down this morning. He had been getting increasingly aggressive, attacking our other dogs. The final straw was him biting my wife last night. And he loved her. The vet thought he had some neurologic disease (hopefully not rabies) and they will be examining his brain. I know I did the right thing, but it still is painful.

The beer is Even More Jesus from Evil Twin Brewing. It is an imperial stout, with ABV 12%.
Pitch black, oily appearance. Modest tan head.
Chocolate and coffee aroma. Tobacco.
Great taste. Bittersweet chocolate, espresso. Nice char.
Big-bodied. Dry.
Nice beer.



RIP Willy.