What beer are you drinking now? #1806

Downed a Table Gutt at Crime and Punishment for beer #7. Now onto beer #8. Crime and Punishment's Stanislav Petrov - Vic Secret IPA. Also awesome.

 

Good evening BA, hope everyone had a good Saturday so far. As promised, I made a quick trip down to Livonia again. Made a nice haul of new beers. Not a huge amount, but enough to get my cellar singles filled back up. Will be good for a bit longer now on reviews. Got myself a supporter subscription earlier. I spend enough time adding and editing the beer database, I figured it was time. I give the site editors too much work, I suppose I should give them some money

Today's Reviews:

Good pale lager. Great head retention and lacing for the style. Aromas and flavors of juicy cucumber, lemon, lime, cracker, white bread, light pepper/salt, and herbal/grassy hop earthiness. Light herbal/grassy bitterness and slight pepper spice on the finish. Medium carbonation, light-medium body, and fairly crisp/clean finishing. Bready/grainy malts and slightly sticky hop/pepper notes in the mouthfeel. Lightly increasing bitter dryness. Hint of lingering pepper heat through the glass. Refreshingly drinkable. Not bad at all. It's very well balanced between the fruit and pils malts; not much pepper/salt presence. Just enough hops to balance the malt profile. Very flavorful for 4.8%. A perfectly clean, standard tasting, inoffensive fruited lager. Not overdone on any aspect. Meant to appeal to the masses as I expected.(insert InBev joke) 3.58


This was amazing! Aromas and flavors of huge juicy peach, apricot, pineapple, passion fruit, papaya, mango, melon, guava, berry, lemon, lime, green apple, fruit skin, and white wine; with some wheat, crackery malts; light lacto funk, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate fruity/lactic tart/sourness and fruit tang on the finish. Medium carbonation, light body, and fairly crisp/clean finishing. Balanced grainy malts, lactic acid, and fruit tang/tannins in the mouthfeel. Light-moderate increasing lactic/tangy fruit dryness, no puckering sourness. Insanely flavorful and refreshing. Perfectly balanced juicy fruits and Lacto complexity; with just enough malts to balance acidity. Obviously a kettle sour, but this stuff rocks. My store dude told me I should have bought more than 1, guess I should have listened . Will get another few lol. 4.37


White IPA. Really good stuff. Aromas and flavors of lemon, orange peel, peach, pear, pineapple, coriander, red apple, peppercorn, clove, juniper, spruce, and pine; with some wheat, cracker, white bready malts; herbal, floral, grassy hop/spice; and yeast earthiness. Moderate peppery yeast spiciness and pine/herbal/grassy/citrus peel bitterness on the finish. High carbonation, medium body, and moderately crisp finishing. Balanced bready/grainy malt and hop/spice stickiness in the mouthfeel. Moderately increasing bitter/spicy/carbonated dryness; no hop/spice astringency. Pretty refreshing. Probably not so fresh judging by the sediment cement on the bottom. More earthy/noble on hops than I hoped for; but has balanced spices and Belgian yeast, with a solid wheat/Pils malt backbone. This brewery is always worth trying out. Been a fan of everything so far. This was the least impressive so far, but still worth buying. 3.78


This was awesome! Aromas and flavors of big milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, maple syrup, vanilla, toffee, cream, fudge, marshmallow, coconut, bourbon, and toasted oak; with light notes of molasses, smoke, char, coffee, mint, and herbal. Touch of booze in the aromas as it warms. Light herbal hop/roast bitterness and bourbon/oak tannin spice on the finish. Mild carbonation and medium-full body. Great creamy, silky, velvety mouthfeel. Slight chalky roast, oak tannins, and dryness. Mildly increasing warmth of 12%, minimal booze. Definitely improved as it warmed up. Really delicious dessert stout; with great complexity and balance of porter, lactose, vanilla, cocoa, and barrel. For 9 months in the barrel, it's not huge on bourbon; but definitely adequate. Never overly sweet or heavy, but definitely rich. 4.1


Cheers

 

Lustro 8% abv DIPA from Sweden's Omnipollo - BUT, @tolar111 - brewed and canned by Dorchester Brewing in Boston, MA...

Lemony and honeyed-tasting up front, kinda sweet, didn't seem particularly bitter... Herbal notes assert themselves on the back-end, bringing earthy and musty elements in tow... Citrus becomes more muted and the honeys mellow... Takes on a smooth, almost creamy aspect... Ample carbonation keeps some mousse-like foam on top and trailing down the glass... bitterness starting to assert on my palate...

Man, really diggin' it and then it was gone...

Backyard band action at its best...

 

11 pages before I even show up? Well done.

Tis the season.



For a certain @PatrickCT

 

Taking a break from walking around Denver with a Station 26 Juicy Banger IPA at Freshcraft.

 

So fresh (and so cleaaaaan). Nice and crisp, with some soft fruits and not an insignificant amount of bitterness. Well done, Jack's Abby.

 

It's about damn time!

 

So I've been told.

You can rhyme!

 

I may or may not have dipped into some Oktoberfests prior to this one.

 

Oh, shit! If @joe1510 is in the house, we might allow @JamFuel to take a short nap.

Sometimes the Japanese steakhouse isn't also a craft beer Mecca, so we make do:

 

You're a Swede,
So I know you can knead,
That kringla dough.

Oh shit, that's Norwegian.
Sometimes I forget,
They're not from Sweden.

 

And alliterate

Edit:
Or is it assonate, either way your lyrics resonate... with this BA (t)... dammit this ain't easy.

 

Today's Oktoberfest



Bit on the heavy side. It's just about to Ofests what Warsteiner's pils is to pilsners for my tastes.

 

Pretty tasty brew.

Lee Hill Series Vol. 9 - Barrel Aged Doppelbock | Upslope Brewing Company - Lee Hill

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/18564/248386/?ba=Wasatch#review

Cheers!


The Jimi Hendrix Experience Axis: Bold As Love (180G) (Limited Edition) (Gatefold) 1967 2010 Remaster Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. NM


The Jimi Hendrix Experience Electric Ladyland (2 LPs) (Gatefold) 1968 1971 Reprise Records EX