New Beer Sunday (Week 635)

They are 'floaties'.

My speculation is that the pectin 'enhances' the soft mouthfeel.

I personally have no plans to specifically brew a Milkshake type beer. Mostly because I am 'prejudiced' about using flour when brewing.

Cheers!

 

You DON'T want to meet that woodychandler guy IRL! Axe murderer is the LEAST of his offences. People have gone missing, never to be heard from again. Rumor is that he stretches the bodies & stacks them like cordwood in his basement until there are enough to merit renting a U-Haul-It van. He then takes them to the east bank of the Susquehanna River & dumps them in, en masse.

JK (or am I?). At any rate, my universe has shrunk substantially in the last couple of years due to unemployment/underemployment, but I used to be a regular at the BeerAdvocate fests at BOS' Cyclorama. I was in all 50 states & most of the CANadian provinces from June 2006 to August 2008 & I even had a chauffeur for a month at one point. I am (slightly) satiated & I have enough beer here at Chez Woody to keep me happy for a while.

I like some (even just a little) advance notice, but if you are near Lancaster, PA, you should CANsider a visit to The Porch at Chez Woody! We have curbside, on-street parking, but no valet service. The friar is quite amenable to visitors & snax are greatly appreciated while libations, seating & glassware are provided free of charge. Stop by!

 

I had it last year for SF Beer Week and really did not enjoy it. I thought the flavors often clashed, as you did. But there are people who absolutely adore it. (Then again, I don't think Fieldwork is as good as most people either.)

 

Happy NBS!

Wow, is everything green and growing around here. Mowing lawn is on my list this afternoon along with grilling.

Gotta keep this short. 3 Floyds Space Station Middle Finger pours a dull orange with a 2 finger white head and plenty of webbed lacing. Hoppy aroma of citrus and some pine bitterness with light malts. Flavor of tropical, citrus hops with some light sweet malt and piney bitterness. Nice carbonation with a juicy and mildly dry feel. Not all that distinguishable from Yumyum, but enjoyable on a warm day.

 

New BA Imp. Stout Sunday (Week 635)
Greetings fellow NBSers from on the ridge in Mid Hud Val, NY. Lovely day out after the welcome rain of the last two days. Welcome rain, that is, if you are a mushroom picker. Haven't made it out yet, but def. going to take this beer with me and see how the hops are sprouting, maybe thin em a bit if they're ready.

Another tasty treat from @Buck89 in NBS BIF 5. He has given me some really tasty stouts, and I even have one more to go, Yazoo Sue. This 'un here (gotta reflect regional dialect-this beer is from Tenn.) is hittin' me in all the right ways, yessir. Black Belle, from Blackstone R&B. Gotta love these small batch barrel gems. And I do.

A wisp of thin bubbly tan foam appears momentarily, but this dark black, thick looking beer gets a bare cap very quickly.

Enticing med. strength aroma featuring dark chocolate, cocoa, bourbon, dark bready sweet, hints of oaky tannins, in a well balanced mix that provokes saliva squirts to occur in my mouth.

Wow sweet chocolate goodness followed by warming alcohol spice, bourbon, dark caramel, and gradual morph into sip's end that contains roasty goodness that is bitter chocolate meets expresso coffee meets oaky tannin.

This falls at the low end of carbonation for style, not quite still, but the lack of any carbonic notes lends this med. bodied beer a nice creaminess it otherwise might not achieve, and offers a cleaner finish.

I like low carbonation, especially in big stouts, and I recommend this for folks who like really tasty stouts that have only a bit of spritz. Recommended for being so dang tasty and stupid drinkable for a big stout.

Hope you also have a Great American Beer in your glass. Cheers!

 

Good afternoon, BAs! My new beer today is Hop Madness, a DIPA from Great Lakes. I approached this one with mixed expectations because while Chillwave is probably my favorite DIPA, Lake Erie Monster is one of my least. I am pleased to report that this one hit all the right buttons for me and is one of the best new beers I've had in a while. It's a "Wow!" Beer to be sure!



4.29/5 rDev +3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Look- opaque deep golden/orange; 1/2 finger head, lacing coats the entire glass after each sip

Smell- fairly subtle, but what is there is nice- sweet honey blossom and peach. Wish it was a little stronger

Taste- unlike the nose, taste is not lacking- starts with that honey-like sweetness and a little peach, then a wave of pungent orange and grapefruit comes rushing in, followed by a moderate bitterness. All blend together seamlessly

Feel- medium bodied, slightly resinous

Overall this is an outstanding DiPA, and hits all the right notes flavor wise. The nose is a bit lacking , but what is there is quite nice

 

I am certain that your regrets will make for interesting reading at some point after we get together for a beer drinking adventure. My advice is give me a phony address and leave town after I message you I'm coming.

 

Dang, somehow in my travels I've missed Woody's. Can I bring my toucan? .......Cheers.

 

Late to the party but better late than never . . .



Score 4.14
look: 3.75 | aroma: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

Deep garnet red color that shimmers in the sunlight.

Nice aroma. The scent is of dark cherry resting on a bready malt base.

Taste of cherry that manages to be light, rich, sweet and tart at the same time. Very complex and layered yet possessing an elegant simplicity. There is depth in the flavor that's more than cherry, dark Mission figs perhaps, yet cherry dominates like the string section in a Mozart composition.

Texture enters light but finishes medium with just enough carbonation to balance.

This is a cherry flavored brew that is far more elegant than that sounds.

 

Bwahahahahahahahaha!!! The guy on the right doesn't look like he'll be worth a damn when he clocks back in.

Yesterday the weather turned quite cool for this time of year in the Brazos Valley (dipped into high 40s/low 50s last night — cool for us, probably not for you), and the chance to open some windows, put Midnight the Cat on windowsill patrol and get the air moving around this place while we do housework is perfect. Coming off last week's fantastic few days of golf, beer hunting, beer drinking and other vacation time fun in Houston, oh yes ... we got housework.

My beer hunt, alas, did not produce Founder's imperial stout, but we did bag this classic:


I know the brew's American-made, but is that not the portrait of a great Dickens/Trollope character?

Founder's Porter

Obviously many of you have had this one, and in fact, when I posted KBS on NBS #633 a couple of weeks ago and said I still hadn't tried FIS or the porter, it prompted response from @Roguer, @cavedave and @lic217 (maybe I'm missing someone?). I point them out now because I owe them thanks on getting me motivated to fill this dark-malt hole in my beer life. FIS is on its way to my hometown, so hopefully I'll be able to bring that to our virtual table here soon. (I got some 2013 FIS from a friendly NBS legend in the mail this week for some tasting fun down the road ... *cannot wait!*)

Founder's Porter is, of course, fantastic. No surprise there. The nose is often the highlight for me when it comes to the dark-malt nectar, and it is here in spades — massive sweet aroma notes of molasses, brown sugar, raisins, raisin bread and as it warms chocolate and even a pinch of vanilla. The flavor is way more earthy, even hop and char-wood bitter at times, but enough of that good malt sweetness gets in there to balance; the beer never truly tastes sweet, but it cuts the earthy/bitter flavor enough to make it pretty dang yummy and super drinkable.

The review:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1199/7348/?ba=Premo88#review
4.22 (-0.5% rDev)

I may adjust the numbers as I work through the 6-pack. Something tells me those adjustments, if any, will all be going in one direction: skyward.

A personal quest ended for me Wednesday when I survived my Texas Amateur qualifier. Got roasted by a bunch of high school kids with perfect swings and 20-somethings burdened only by too much time and money, but as windmill chases go, that one was epic. Soon the chase for golf immortality will renew, but I promised when this year's qualifier ended, I'd get back to pounding out miles on our local nature trail.

The point here: Look at it!



It's so green and growing and in good shape right now. Me and my walking shoes are very, very excited.

Another great open by @cjgiant ... and it's not noon CDT and we're on Page 2 already? Goodness! NBS is green and growing as per.

Cheers!

 

This beer is really underrated and overlooked, in my opinion. One of my favorite larger-market double IPAs I've had lately. Mosaic does some crazy stuff in the right recipes!

 

Sorry for your loss, never an easy thing to deal with

 

New beer and new glass

Thanks for the beer @lateralusbeer

4.02/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4

Pours golden. Short, thin, foamy white head fades fast.

Smells caramel and bready malt, light fruit and light grassiness.

Tastes Caramel, bready, light citrus, grassiness, hints of herbal quality and a refreshing bitterness. Finish is dry with bitter linger and hints of malt. Fades quickly lighter body and fizzy medium carbonation.

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This glass is nice. I like how it leans to a side. Perfect thickness and feel and the lip fits nice to mouth

 

Starting on the new beers in the recent Devil's Backbone variety pack. Had one of the Vienna Lagers yesterday and found it pretty disappointing compared to my memories of that beer -- bad batch? Or maybe my taste buds were just "off" yesterday?



Anyway, on to the new beer -- Cross-Eyed Stranger, an IPA described as being made with "exotic hops." I'm unsure which hops exactly, but I'm guessing newer varieties. The beer is a golden color with a slight haziness to it, and some slow rising bubbles here and there. Formed a decent little layer of foam upon pouring, but by now this has shrunk to a thin cap on top. Smell is milder than expected, I can pick up a bit of a maybe piney sort of thing along with a somewhat doughy background maltiness, but no "jumps out of the glass" hoppy smell like some IPAs. Taste still has that malt noticeable, but also much more noticeable hops, an interesting piney-planty sort of thing that's just a bit different from any IPA that I recall having before. Bitterness is noticeable, and there was maybe even a bit of alcohol warmth on the end too, at least on the first sip.

The flavors I picked up in the first few sips are mostly just coming across as leafy-bitter now -- like they're sort of being drowned out by pure bitterness. Noticing a bit of a fruity (maybe pineapple-like?) thing when I burped just now, though. It's starting to seem like my taste buds just aren't really in the mood for a bitter, hoppy beer today. Fortunately the rest of the beers in this variety pack aren't high-IBU super hoppy ones (oddly enough the other IPA -- apparently a sour IPA -- is only 19 IBU, however that works), so maybe my tongue will cooperate better with them. I'm going to let the remaining half-glass of this one sit for a bit while I cook some food, maybe letting it warm up a bit will change things some.

 

Emerger IPA, a 7.4 ABV Blood Orange IPA from Trap Rock Brewery Restaurant Berkeley Heights NJ. Fruited IPA's aren't my thing but I've been going to trap Rock for almost 20 years now and have rarely been disappointed by the beers so I gave this a shot. Happy i did it's a nice beer brewed with wheat and hopped with El Dorado & Lemon Drop hops. Pours a nice orange color with a thick white head, Both the aroma and taste are orange with hints of other fruit . There is a nice dry finish. On a beautiful spring day this 32 oz growler won't last long.

 

Good afternoon NBS, thanks to @cjgiant for the wonderful start this week.
And to @lordofthewiens always a difficult choice. Our Best to you, Todays offering is from the Suarez Family, a rich pale ale, complex and one I would suggest is geared for spring consumption.
Cheers all

Big Night

Suarez Family Brewery
Saison / Farmhouse Ale

4.21/5 rDev -1.2% | Avg: 4.26
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

Poured from a 750 ml bottle into the test glass.
A - Late season sunflower colored, a bit of haze adds some intrigue, slightly opaque backdrop. Small spheres muscle upwards, collect into a thin white cap. Some linger as lace.
S - Rich grains, wet wool, a bit of lemongrass, spring clove honey, apricot . With a rise in temperature, warm toast and apricot spread jump in the mix.
T - Grain forward, intricate flavors of white peach, grape skin, oat, and oak. Meyer lemon, apricot skin, and a bit of Brett hangs back.
M - Medium to hefty in body, the semi sweet start is quickly rolled by a full palate coating of warm oak and a touch (really nicely done ) of Mixed culture. Not all tart, not all traditional. The palate response is one of anticipation. Linger is a bit tart.
O - A complex pale ale, the nose is a bit misleading, in a good way. The richness of the body is the reward here. A delight to be searched out and enjoyed.

 

She is. Just sad about the dog. She thought she could cure him with love.

 

I drank this beer a few weeks ago and had almost exactly the same impressions.