New Beer Sunday (Week 643)

Ok, I'll jump in . . .





Score 3.68
look: 3.5 | aroma: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

Rich, hazy gold color with white cap and lace. I don't usually find hazy brews that attractive but this one has a sort of luminescence about it.

Maraschino cherry aroma wafting up from the glass. That's the scent but it comes across as a dry one without the sweetness I associate with that type of cherry.

Taste like a mild wheat beer with a low hop level and very clean yeast that left virtually no trace of having been there. Imposed on this is a rich maraschino cherry flavor that dominates the field like a single spotlight shining on the 50 yard line.

Texture is medium with balancing carbonation.

Ok, it tastes like cherry which comes as no surprise since that information is printed on the label. How much like cherry you ask? Well, a whole lot which I guess is sorta the point. These light wheat beers can be flavored with a number of things and those things often become the dominant taste. Same thing here in spades.

 

Cheers you all!

Summer is here and we are on the tail end of our second heat wave so I came over today to tell you how much I love the blonde ale! Cheers and Happy New A Different Blonde Sunday!

Green Flash made a beer I thought was sensational and sticky with hops. That was their palate wrecker. It was very bitter. The blonde is a much lighter style and I was thrilled to see this in the store the other day. Here is how you can tell if a brewer has range. Are there all the right differences between their IPA and their blonde!

Green Flash Blonde

The pour is a light haze on a creamy golden yellow body. Good off white head that lasts. Nose is sweet with biscuity malt and just cool with a little hop herbal. There is a light hop floral on this. No diacetyl. No caramel. Drinks softly but very crisp and with lots of hops on the palate. I love how this beer does that with only a modest hop presence. They are herbal and a touch sweet, have a sweet floral and a bit of spice to finish. The spice on these is earthy and not too peppery. That goes well with the soft malt and the creamy biscuity texture. Finishes with a little hint of something citrus but again that is mostly the floral. A faint white grape ester. Crisp, mellow and very enjoyable. I could session this beer easily by itself or with other styles and it loves to go with food.

 

Great start, and thanks for the Fathers Day focus, @cjgiant ! I still miss my dad terribly, and try to be the kind of father to my three kids, all of them grown, that he was to me. We couldn't have been more opposite, my Dad and I, in so many ways, but the important things I am, and believe in life I learned at dad's knee many years ago.

One of my sons is home for the foreseeable future, as he looks for work in an industry being gutted and discredited by our Denier In Chief. He and I are going to spend the day together and part of this day is going to involve enjoying new beers. Hopefully one of those new beers will be called Father Of All Bombs, a beer I have been looking forward to trying since District 96 announced its release. Dads, have a great day. See ya all later.

 

Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there.
Father's Day was not celebrated in the US, outside of Catholic traditions, until the 20th century. Following Anna Jarvis' successful promotion of Mother's Day, the first observance of a Father's day was held on July 5, 1908 in Fairmont, West Virginia. Grace Golden Clayton was mourning the loss of her father, killed in a mining accident. For a variety of reasons, Father's Day did not catch on.
On June 19, 1910 a Father's Day celebration was held in Spokane, Washington by Sonora Smart Dodd. In the 1920's, however, Dodd stopped promoting the event and it faded into relative obscurity. In the 1930's she started promoting it again. Despite many attempts, though, it did not become an official holiday until 1966, when President Lyndon Baines Johnson designated the third Sunday in June as Father's Day.

My father was a kind, gentle, intelligent man. He has been dead for over thirty years and I still miss him.
I am the father of six children. They are all unique individuals, and I am proud of the way we raised them. They are scattered all over the country, except for the baby, who's in his last year of college. I am looking forward to hearing from them all today.

OK, on to the beer. This is one of @SawDog505 favorites, judging from his posts on WBAYDN.
The beer is Full Clip, from Stoneface Brewing Company in Newington, New Hampshire. It was canned 05-23-17, so it is maybe a little long in the tooth, and has an ABV of 6.5%.
It is a hazy orange color, like pulpy orange juice. There is a small white head with a good deal of lace.
Fruity aroma, mostly tropical fruit, but also some citrus. Some bread in the aroma also.
Mango and papaya up first in the taste, followed by a small amount of grapefruit. A background of white bread.
A little bit shy of medium-bodied.
Nice IPA.

 

Sounds like they improved this - it used to be like cherry cough syrup.

 

Indeed. I hesitated to chime in with an opinion contrary to @Squire123 , as I likely would have gotten carried away with my disparagement. I get sympathetic Robitussin flavors in my mouth when I think about it.

 

That was my favorite flavor.

 

Good morning New BSers! Welcome to Father's Day which should precede Mother's Day by nine months. Well. Thanks to @cjgiant for starting today's thread. I've already cleaned the turtles' tank and now we're just waiting for the thunderstorms to roll in here in NW PA. I retilled my garden yesterday (it was still too wet) and planted 12 tomato plants which my wife will ignore from here on out and will not pick or use the tomatoes. I don't eat tomatoes, she does. She insists I plant them but... Enough bitching. Today's New Breakfast Beer is:



Purchased before the sell out.
Undated bottle stored at 42 degrees. Served at 45 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter.
Aroma – caramel, molasses, bourbon. The caramel and molasses remain after the bourbon fades.
Head large (maximum 4.5 cm, aggressive pour), light brown, dense, above average retention, slowly diminishing to a dense three mm ring and a thin partial layer.
Lacing poor. Only a few small irregular pillars of lacing remain and most of these slide back into the ring. Typical of Bourbon barrel aged brews.
Body – dark brown/black, opaque.
Flavor – begins with sweet, heavy caramel and morphs into alcohol. No hop bitterness noted. No malt bitterness noted. As it warms, the alcohol predominates to the point there should be no open flames in the area.
Palate full, creamy, lively carbonation.

A very alcohol-forward brew. The initial caramel and molasses rapidly succumb to the alcohol making this into bourbon with a hint of beer. I was really hoping the flavor would follow the nose but …

Appearance 4, Aroma 4.5, Flavor 3, Palate 4.25, Overall 3.5. Rating 3.65, rDev -2.9%.

When I popped the top on this brew, I was instantly in love with the aroma! I could hardly wait to drink it - so much so that I tried it before it warmed to the suggested temperature (45-50 degrees) on the bottle. The initial taste was heavenly until I allowed it to warm slightly before swallowing. Then BAM! My tongue numbed after the alcohol hit. All I could taste was bourbon. The caramel and the mole asses were gone, just cheap bourbon remained. But while I've been typing this, the remnants in my snifter have warmed to 62 degrees and guess what? The taste has mellowed. So my advice would be, if you have one of these in your cellar: Ignore the advice on the bottle. Drink it frozen like a PBR or allow it to warm to room temperature.

 

Everybody must get Stoned!

Firstly: Happy Father’s Day!!

There has been a lot of discussion about Stone Brewing recently:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/why-no-love-for-stone.516590/

https://www.beeradvocate.com/commun...ewing-becoming-the-next-ballast-point.516467/

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/stone-enjoy-by-in-cans.514509/

As luck would have it a generous benefactor bequeathed me with a can of Stone Enjoy By 07.04.17 Unfiltered IPA. I figured I would ‘share’ this bounty with y’all today.

I have had Stone Enjoy a number of times in the past principally on draft (the price of packaged Stone Enjoy By to too high for my tastes). While it has been reported in past BA threads by Stone Brewing folks that this beer is produced via the same recipe for all batches my personal experience is that this beer notably varies from batch to batch for my palate. A case of how this beer is handled in shipping? Ingredient variability? Maybe because of…? Who really knows?

But this will be a new drinking experience for me since this will be the first time I have had a can of Stone Enjoy By. I am a fan of cans vs. bottles for a variety of reasons.

Oh, the other distinguishing feature of this beer is that it is unfiltered. I have had unfiltered versions of Stone Enjoy By in the past but only on draft.

Do you like it in the can?

Served in my Spiegelau IPA glass:

Appearance:

Golden colored with a big white head; pretty clear appearance.

Aroma:

I am picking mostly citrus but there is a pungent quality as well (onion-like?).

Taste:

Mostly grapefruit and other citrus type flavors but also a pungent flavors with maybe a hint of tropical fruit. There is just enough malt to provide a sense of balance. I do not perceive any aspects of alcohol.

Mouthfeel:

Medium bodied with an off-dry finish.

Overall:

This beer is very good. FWIW it tastes like ‘regular’ Enjoy By to me; nothing distinguishing about being unfiltered for my palate.

Cheers!

@rotsaruch @RobH @KOP_Beer_OUtlet @StoneBrewingCo

 

I appreciate your restraint. This common cherry flavoring is prevalent for food, beverage and medical uses so comparisons are inevitable. Sometimes these comparisons are negative and that's a valid view. If I hated taking cough medicine as a kid I may well carry a dislike of any flavor associated with it into the future as an adult. I don't blame the flavor itself though, I mean If Westvleteran came out with a cherry flavored wheat beer somebody would take a whack at the choice of fruit.

I could go on about reviews finding that a flavored beer tastes like the flavoring but blows aimed at a prostrate equine are rather pointless.

 

Pours dark black with quickly dissipating head.
The aroma is bourbon, chocolate and oak. I'm not getting a ton of coconut, it's over powered by the chocolate.
Huge chocolate flavors with a strong bourbon punch, the coconut is there, but it doesn't really come into play until the finish.
The mouthfeel isn't as thick as I'd like and it's a bit over carbonated.
Overall, it's very good, but I don't think it's worth what it pulls in a trade. Wait for bottle logics hype to die down before seeking this out.
4.25/5

 

Do you like it in the can?

I have been taking it in & from the CAN for so long that I CANnot remember any other way! Viva The CANQuest (tm)!

 

I am going to grab a can today Woody! I'll be back with it too!

 

I actually love cherry beers, but the least bit of artificial cherry taste to them does give me that flashback you speak about. Most recently I enjoyed Suarez Family Merkel and Cuvee Rene' Kriek. I suspect @Ozzylizard was correct, though, and I am certainly gonna give this beer another try since I believe you would not have given this beer such a good review if it had been the same recipe as years ago.

 

Great start @cjgiant for NBS this week. Should be back later with a new brew.

Cheers!

 

New Funky Fathers Sunday

Forgot it was Fathers Day till I got online here today. Cheers to all the other dads out there. Especially the ones who had days taken off their lives by I65 like me yesterday. It was give and take though. Made a pit stop at the little operation known as Willett Distillery on the way. Very cool. I also walked into the beer store as soon as I drove across the bay to Destin to find Funky Budha Wide Awake on tap, as well as a few of these.


4.13/5 rDev -4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

Poured into a snifter from a 22oz bottle dated 6/7/17

It is a very dark mahogany brown. Almost black unless you look down on it from the top and see a ruby tint. It had a decent amount of soapy tan foam that settled into a fine ring. Any soapy lacing it leaves slides back down into the beer.

The aroma really is reminiscent of french toast, especially from the bottle. It has a lot of maple syrup, cinnamon, a little vanilla cream sweetness, and some dark bread crusts. In the glass I do get more brown malts that steers it more towards a nutty bread.

The initial flavor is very sweet. Vanilla and maple, followed by a strong cinnamon, and then some very dark malted barley that has a hint of chocolate and nut shells along with toasted bread crusts. A lingering flavor of mostly cinnamon bread.

The body is on the fuller side with no real syrupy feel. For an "imperial" it doesn't stray too far from a traditional brown ale. Pretty easy drinking for 9% and everything that's going on.

One thing I notice with this beer is that for as strong as the maple is, it really kind of disappears/gets lost in the mix after awhile. I keep bouncing back and forth with my scores because I think it is a tad heavy with cinnamon, and for as good as it is with the base beer, at times I think it clashes a bit. That being said, I am somewhere between really damn good and outstanding. It's no MBCP or Wide Awake, but don't pass it up.

They not only let you taste every tank, they encouraged you to dip your finger in them

 

New "Orange You Glad its Fathers Day?" Sunday

All Orange Everything...

This collab is Carton Brewing's "orange" iteration of Other Half's All Green Everything TIPA, featuring Mosaic, Mandarina Bavaria, and Waimea hops - and orange zest...

5/16/17 canning...

Here's Carton's video regarding the beer...


And here's the beer itself...

Medium gold and clear with a few fingers of off-white foam atop that left lace sheets trailing behind... Aromas brought that orange citrus for sure, along with some floral and pine notes to round it off... On the sip, more of the same, but the orange had a dank, resinous quality that I really liked - as in, it wasn't this one-dimensional "orange bomb" - there was some tingle and tang, but also a slight shellacky chew... Fairly light-bodied, making it drink faster than I expected; moderate carbonation and a mild bitterness... Finished well, with a little citric heat and sweetness lingering behind... Probably the best "orange-forward" brew I've ever had, and one of the best TIPA-types as well...

That's all I got today, so here's to new beer in your glass; and Happy Fathers Day...

Cheers...