What beer are you drinking now? #1709

I enjoyed that beer.

 

6% alcohol. Triple filtered. Introduced in 2012.

 

Great coffee stout!

 

Homemade ricotta on homemade ciabatta! Cheers and let's roast a chicken while we drink more beer!


I made this ricotta with some powdered milk and regular whole milk because I was out of cream. If you make ricotta with only whole milk you get cottage cheese. The dry milk adds body and therefore it is something different. Body is important to beer too.

 

Sierra Nevada • 2015 Barrel Aged Narwhal

The wife’s sister’s boyfriend left this in the fridge yesterday…

 

Barrier's Greenroom APA, as described over in NBS...

Sfogliatelle for breakfast...



And now, birthday nods, Office-themed...

Ricky Gervais, 56 today... I saw the UK version of The Office first, and it was difficult to watch initially, as I was not used to that level of discomfort and awkwardness on American TV - brilliant, really...

Gervais is quite the comedian, too...



And, from the American Office series, Angela (Angela Kinsey), 46 today...


Cheers...

 

Cheers!

 

Santilli from Night Shift, cheers!

 

Urban chestnut, zwickel
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A little Longtrail Limbo at brunch.

 

I forgot to drink this on my birthday just before its Best Enjoyed By date I aged it so long that I spaced it but... it's still amazing!!!

 

Three Magnets - Handle With Care (partnership with Tavour)

 

Wolf Among Weeds IPA (actually a double, at 8% abv) from Golden Road Brewing...

Moving on from Office-related nonsense, instead offering a nod to the departed...

Michael Jackson (8/29/1958 - 6/25/2009)...

It shouldn't surprise you I wasn't a real fan per se, but its hard to ignore his impact on the world in my time - from his musical contributions to his controversies...

Left behind a really strange ensemble of children...

Anyway... *shakes it off*

Cheers...

 

Saturday was a boat "play day"....back to reality this morning with some chores like lawn mowing, laundry and other cool stuff

Oh yeah, and some beer

 

Good call with the Nile selection. I think I am going to fire up Black Seeds of Vengeance for the gym today.

 

4 Sunny new beers that surprised me, pleased me this week. Try em, review em.

Sunshine & Opportunity | Almanac
4.3 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
What do you want in a wild saison? This is it. Grass, grain, mineral, cider, orchard. Chalky dryiness. Wine like astingency. Try 24.
A) Pours a white-wine like saison, golden look, not much lace, but clear and pretty.
S) Smells up a mix of wild yeasts, then wine tannins, white grapes, peach orchard, lemongrass and white pepper.
Of course, saison yeast.
T) Follows smell: wild and saiso yeasts, wine tannins, white grapes, peach orchard, lemongrass and white pepper.
F) dry, wild, hoppy, interesting.
O) One of the best. Expertise open and apparent.

Blade & Sheath | Burial Beer (BigSurprise!)
4.2 rDev +3.2%

look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Beer makes me think of the sexy side of sheath. Very sexy beer. Saison finale, femme fatale.
A) Pours a pale hazed gold. Dense, 3 finger, creamy head, leaving wash of delicate lacing over a steady filmy cap. Sexy looking.
S) Aroma is fainter than most farm saison: grassy, herbal and dry, earthy with less up-your-nose yeasty esters, and more greenhouse, flower store botanicals.
T Taste is more abundant: hoppy, grassy, with fall apple orchard, dried wildflower and botanicals, and peppery long, food-friendly finish.
F) Medium with a creamy feel that see-saws into dry floral, pepper, bone dry saison finale.
O) Try 24. makes me want to try all from the brewer.

Sunrise English IPA | American River Brewing
3.9 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A) 4 golden copper clear, nice lace, thick head. Around the horn,
S) 3.75 Suitable English malt cross with American Hops. Grassy, earthy, musky.
T) 4 Follows nose into Grassy, earthy, musky territory. Less tropical, more earth and bitters.
F) 4 Suitable, nice tongue twinge.
O) 4 Overall - nice balance. I tire of EIPA so this one strikes my fancy.

Tropic Plunder | TW Pitchers’
3.9 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pleased to be first review of this Plunder, which is surprisingly not a blunder.
A) Big head pushed by the tropical fruit addition, which resolves to a film, but laces nicely. More body than expected, super hazed with fruit particulate. 3.75
S) Nose & Taste work. More beer than Shandy. Get mostly the citra along with the lychee, but there's enough malt and hop to make it a beer. 3.75
T) Woven well together, your tongue keeps searching to name the flavors as none dominates and all work and move around to create a nice see-saw, puzzle of malt, hop, citra, grass, lychee, passionfruit, back to peppery, cleansing, scrubbing finale. One of the few fruit beers to get a 4 from me.
F) Light, but not thin, well carbed, and scrubbing finish, sweet enough you want some salt snack with it, but never cloying.
O) Try 6. I give it a 4 as sum is greater than the parts and the fruit works here.

 

It. Is. Time. For. Beer.