New Beer Sunday (Week 656)

Doc I will be back later and I am very excited to review this Stout.

 

Pdg pale.

3.83/5 rDev -3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

Pours copper. Short, foamy, off Whitehead that lasts shortly with light lacing.

Smells Citrus, Light Carmel, Light toasted malts, and lightly earthy.

Taste bready malt, citrus peel, light toasted malts, light Pine and earthiness. Finishes dry with citrus peel and light pepper linger. Medium body and fizzy medium carbonation.

 

Our home grown version of a Marzen Fest beer . . .



Lucktoberfest from Lucky Town Brewing in Jackson, MS.

Score 3.9
look: 3.75 | aroma: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4

Attractive deep amber gold color with good white cap and lacing.

Aroma of sweet malt with caramel, toffee and similar good smelling stuff. There is also a spicy, floral element to the hops.

Taste is malt forward as expected but what was unexpected is the dryness of such a sweet smelling brew. Malt flavor deepens mid palate yet becomes darker and definitely swings toward the dry end of the flavor spectrum. I get hops more as a seasoning rather than a distinct flavor in the dish. Finishes clean with some lingering hop bitterness in the aftertaste.

Medium texture with balancing carbonation.

Overall a good effort in the general category of Marzen-Amber-Fest brews which is a bit dryer and a bit stronger (6.5%) than those usually are. My good news is this brew is a lager so this ale oriented brewery is at least set up for lager production which holds out the possibility of a Pilsner next Spring.

 

I am in love with you! Cheers Doc! =) I got my beer. Wsit!

 

Hi you guys. I 've been up a while. Nice to see you.



Peak Organic Super Juice

Smells like flower petals and fruit. Pours a very hazy orange with a fat creamy head of cream colored foam that lasts. The chill haze falls to reveal only a soft hop haze and no real turbidity. A soft glow from the middle of the beer. Candy orange color. Drinks like fresh orange juice and a light honey sweetness from malt. A soft warmth form the alcohol gives it blush. A brisk soft fullness from hops steals the show but reveals a malt sweet enough to excite the finish with orange peel. The balance in the style is toward the hops like the IPA but this malt has to be strong to support all that hop flavor and alcohol. Dry hopping is a good way to get lots of hop flavor into beer without a lot of bitterness. In a balanced beer with a higher abv, the bitterness from hop should match the bitterness from alcohol. The hops should be assertive in the finish. In this beer they resemble the bitter sap or bite from a flower petal. The orange is succulent and juicy, the herbal a bit dank. It's everything the IPA should be with a just a bit of sweetness to show me a light bite from bubble.

 

Great opener, Doc, makes me glad you took the reins of this tradition on alternate Sundays.

'Bumbling, Beer Bonging Baseball Batters Bemusedly Bloop Basehits' seems a suitable headline for a story about the game.you guys played.

May be around with a new beer for the late night edition. Looking forward to your picks and pans, as always. Have a great day all. Cheers!

 

Against The Grain - The Brown Note



Hi everyone,

So this is a beer I have been after for a long time. And I do have to admit that the reason for going after it is not its excellent reputation as an amazing brown ale. No, I'm not that mature. The reason was the label. Yes, the infamous label that has made many potential customers reluctant to drink it. But I'm totally cool with it. I'm European after all, and we don't get grossed out as easily as our brothers across the pond. It's not a coincidence that many things stinky (cheeses, funky beers, pickled vegetables, armpits) have a long tradition in the Old Continent. But I digress. Let's get down to business and taste this beauty.

It pours a chestnut hue of brown with three fingers worth of head. The aroma is nutty and with notes of freshly ground coffee. There many be some notes of fecal matter but that's probably because I'm staring at the label. The taste is bready upfront with some lingering sweetness and a nice bitter finish. Medium body and a barely noticeable carbonation. This is a truly amazing brown ale. Boy, I want me some more. But it sells for almost $6 a can here in PA. For that money I can get me a Tired Hands Milkshake (assuming I had the time and patience to wait in line for one).

Yum!

Cheers everyone.

 

Good Sunday morning to all. Let me first apologize for the recycled picture as my cell phone is in the bedroom with my sleeping wife. Pumking from Southern Tier. Pours bright orange in color with a well retained two finger white head that left decent lacing.This beer smells like pumpkin pie. The aroma and taste follow each other with -pumpkin, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, caramel, vanilla and some booze. The flavors really come out as the beer warms. That being said, I wish I liked pumpkin pie more. Medium bodied and carbonated. Smooth, but slightly watery mouth feel. I think that the beer would be better if it were a little more towards heavy bodied.

 

Ahh - food! Looks delicious! What's cooking today, Maria?

 

When I first saw this I thought to myself that I was going to see how you reviewed a brew that I had last week while I was in NE. Then I realized I had the Super Fresh(dry hopped pilsner), it was very tasty as well. I bet the DIPA is delightful!

 

Life’s a Beach!

The first week of September my wife and I went to the beach for vacation or as the locals would say the Jersey shore (Cape May). The first thing we did when we arrived was visit a liquor store.

I have had a half dozen or so of Carton brands but this is the first time I have seen the Beach beer on the shelves. So I say to myself: you just gotta pick up a 4-pack of this beer!

Below is a write-up from the Carton website for this beer:

“Like the tension and relief of a day spent flitting between laying on sand under the beating sun and bobbing on the ocean’s cool surf, summer session drinking needs leisurely contrast. With Beach we find that midpoint where Kolsch yeasts fruity character matches its lean dryness and where an amber’s roundness gets pulled taught by […]”

On the can it lists:

“Session Ale with Orange Zest
ABV: 4.0% | IBU: 40 | SRM: 5”

So how does a Session Ale brewed with Orange Zest and Kolsch yeast taste? Let’s find out.

Served in my Gulden Draak Tulip Glass:

Appearance:

Pours a golden-yellow color with BIG fluffy white head; the head dissipates quickly.

Aroma:

There is some citrus and that is about all that I am picking up.

Taste:

The flavors follows the nose: some citrus.

Mouthfeel:

A thin body with a dry-ish finish.

Overall:

A good beer. A tad too thin for my personal preference. It has a rather simple, one-dimensional flavor profile. A good beer to sip on the beach I suppose?

Cheers!

@KOP_Beer_OUtlet @rotsaruch @RobH

 

Good moning New BSers! It's starting off as a beautiful day here in Grand Rapids, MI (Well, actually, Wyoming) and I've only got two more scheduled beer stops to make before heading home tomorrow. This time I bought beer with me, knowing that the first night we'd get into Indiana too late to pick up any. Of course bringing beer to northern IN and MI is like bringing coals to New Castle used to be. I could be having one of the new beers I've purchased except I don't want to give away any more of the haul for my NBS BIF #6 target.

Today's New Breakfast Beer is one from a fairly local brewery for me, Pennsylvania Brewing in the old Deutschtown section of Pittsburgh. They have been brewing German-style beers for years with a few detours into some really bad ideas like pumpkin roll and nut roll beers and a bad IPA or two. My June trip to Germany made me re-evaluate my general dislike for German beers (Other than Schlenkerla marzen rauchbier) and encouraged me to add some to the rotation. I found one of Maria's favorites, Bitburger Lager, is actually not bad. Anyway, today's submission is:




Undated bottle at 42 degrees served at 42 degrees in a hand washed and dried Brewery Vivant snifter.
Aroma – begins with fairly strong malt, fades away.
Head – average (Maximum two cm, aggressive pour), off white, average density, average retention time, diminishing to an irregular three to six mm ring fed by effervescence, a complete rocky layer, and a few scattered pieces of lacing.
Lacing – Fair – a couple of arcs of tiny to small bubbles.
Body – light amber, clear, effervescent.
Flavor – Definitely malt foreward, slightly sweet. Ends slightly bitter without a detectable hops flavor. No alcohol, no diacetyl.
Palate – medium, almost creamy, lively carbonation.
Overall, a tasty version of an marzen/octoberfest brew. I see some more of these in my future. I just wish it had better lacing.

Appearance 3.75, Aroma 3.75, Flavor 4, Palate 4, Overall 4. Rating 3.93, rDev +4.5%.

 

Much like you, I found this beer to be one dimensional and disappointing.

 

An unfiltered beer light copper in color, with slight carbonation, little head and plenty of lacing.

Aroma is of mild malt & hops with a slight scent of citrus.

Drybut malty.

Light with very little character besides the slight hoppy citrus taste.

A very average Double IPA, a little disappointing, but it does have quite a kick so it has that going for it.

 

Howdy, NBSers!

What a week! The short version reads that now, at 45 years old, long soaks in hot epsom salt water followed by time with the heating pad have become my best friends after work. Wouldn't have completed this week's 40-hour (plus) march without them.

But Sunday is my Saturday, so when I got off the late shift earlier this morning, I stood on no ceremony and cracked open my New American DIPA Sunday brew:



Roughtail Brewing's Hoptometrist

Hauled a 4-pack of these tallboy pints down I-35/Texas 6 from Fort Worth on Monday. I bought the foursome off a tip from another craft beer fan I ran into at a Spec's in Arlington, which was a fun little 10 minutes of talking beer (and informative — Lone Pint in Magnolia has expanded? need to research that).

The review:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/31393/97436/?ba=Premo88#review
3.82 (-4.5% rDev)

The numbers don't look great, but forget them: Hoptometrist is very good. It rates a bit low for me because it's grown a hair barleywineish in the can. Not sure the canning date ... I swear I saw one on there but can't find it now (more old age issues?). The pine hop bite is still there and pronounced, and the orange/candied orange notes suggest a much hoppier citrus flavor a couple three weeks ago. The rest is malt — loads and loads of biscuity malt that gives it a thick layer of caramel sweetness. That sweetness is not cloying; the amount of hops is too great to allow for that. And that is what stands out most for me, the fact that this sucker is full of everything. It's only (I say "only") 9% ABV, but it has the overall feel of a beer well into double-digits.

Roughtail impresses with this one. It looks and comes off as sturdily made and has me interested in trying more from this Oklahoma brewery.

"Beer ball" sounds like an original extreme sport. How long did an inning take, @lordofthewiens? Couple hours?

Hope you get a good one in your glass today!

Cheers!

 

In a previous life I was a police officer for the city of Wyoming, MI! If you run across any of my former coworkers, please say "hi" for me.

 

Thanks @lordofthewiens for the great start to NBS this week.

Cheers!