What beer are you drinking now? #1814

Cheers!

 

Why Doc @lordofthewiens I'll be your huckleberry, that is just my game. Many thanks @Ocalafox for this tasty and chewy yet creamy treat. It was a pleasure to sip on some tasty suds with you and your family. I will be posting this on NBS also.

 

Good morning BA, have a great Sunday! Looking to be another nice day. Going to be another normal day for me. Bottle returns, laundry, and NBS BIF reviews.

Beers this morning:

Amazing as always. Flavors of huge grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, passion fruit, papaya, mango, melon, berry, lemon zest, orange peel, and light pepper/pine hops; with wheat, white bread dough, light honey malt balance; and herbal, floral, grassy hop earthiness. Light-moderate pine, grassy, citrus peel bitterness on the finish. Medium-full bodied; balanced bready/grainy wheat/oat creaminess and hop stickiness in the mouthfeel. Slight resins and lightly increasing dryness, no hop astringency. Super dank and juicy hops, with perfect malt balance. Never overly sweet or heavy. Super easy drinking. Glad to have this as a year round available beer. I prefer Boxer more, but has not hit the shelf in a while. This and the Odd Side Dank juice series have been keeping me company since then. Newer batches are even creamier and less drying than earlier in the year. It just keeps getting better.


Wow, 2015 is tasting amazing! Flavors of huge caramel, brown sugar, toffee, molasses, vanilla, bourbon, toasted oak, coconut, brown bread, raisin, plum, fig, cherry, and date; with lighter notes of chocolate, leather, tobacco, smoke, and herbal hops. Light herbal bitterness and bourbon/oak spiciness against sweetness on the finish. Very creamy/silky/velvety medium-full body mouthfeel. Lightly slick, sticky, chalky, and tannic. Lightly increasing bitter/tannic dryness. Very smooth, minimal warming ABV, no barrel booze. Amazing barrel balance, perfect integration. I revisited my 5 year old review a few months ago with a 2016. This is definitely a noticeable improvement with the extra year, especially on mouthfeel(though this was slightly higher in ABV). Still have few of these left, but a ton of 2016 in stock. Will be loading up on 2017 soon. I still feel Thirsty Dog Wulver is superior to this, but I always have both around.


Great DIPA! Flavors of big grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, passion fruit, mango, lemon zest, orange peel, citrus rind, pepper, and pine hops/fruit; with some white bread, light honeyed malts; and herbal, floral, grassy hop earthiness. Good sized pine, citrus rind, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Medium body/carbonation. Balanced bready/grainy malt and sticky/resinous/rindy hops/fruit in the mouthfeel. Increasing resin/rind dryness, minimal astringency. Very dank and vibrant hop flavors. Dangerously smooth drinker. Still doesn't come close to Molotov; but it's quite impressive how light this actually feels for being 8.5%. Not a ton of malt presence. Pretty aggressive, minimal warming alcohol. Will definitely keep this around on rotation as long as the freshness stays consistent. Evil Twin has become much more affordable now that we got a new distributor in MI.


Still tasting amazing, 11 months old now. Flavors of huge cinnamon, mint, nutmeg, ginger, clove, vanilla, coffee, cream, and chili pepper spice; with balanced milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, fudge, caramel, brown sugar, and toasted dark bread malt sweetness. Light-moderate herbal spice and roasted bitterness; touch of char. Bittersweet balanced finish, with a fantastic creamy/silky/velvety full body mouthfeel. Some light sticky/chalky notes and dryness from the spices and roast malts. Very smooth with a small lingering warmth of alcohol and pepper heat. Super rich and decadent. Perfect balance of spices and stout flavors. One of my favorite spiced stouts along with regular Bomb. Still plenty on the shelf locally. New batch will be around soon.


Cheers

 

Good morning, and happy Sunday

Got a couple of 4 pks of fresh Breakfast stout this week

Oh yeah, baby!

 

Packers vs. Cowboys today. I cannot wait!

 

Toppling Goliath - Pompeii

Oh this is so good. Worth the hype. I should have bought more bottles. Tropical, fruity and dank, this is one heck of a beer.

 

Good morning, all, and Happy Stein Club Sunday! Is this #proper for a hefeweizen? Who cares?


Prost!

 

Cheers!

 

Whitewall • Bourbon Barrel Aged Barleywine

 

A great one!

 

5.5% alcohol. 25 IBU. Brewed in Texas.

 

Let's go with this one . . .





Color of light hazy gold with white cap and lacing.

Aroma of sweet malt tinged with orange and flowery hops. Not a heavy scent, rather mild actually, yet very clean.

This is not, I repeat not, a tart white wheat ale. Far from it, the flavor is rich and smooth with rounded depth. A spicy orange flavor is prominent but carries a dryness all the way to the finish. The malt is almost caramely but that may be partly due to the orange which remains a constant throughout. Simple flavors well interwoven, in short a class act.

 

Cheers!

 

Rainy day, no fair today so house work it is! Time for some juice.

 

Cheers!

 

Terrapin Good to Gose (goodbye IPA puns... hello, gose puns)