What beer are you drinking now? #1849

Cross-post from NBS. Cool-looking can design but not an easy beer to drink. Got 3 more cans so I may have to mix them with something else (snakebite? black and tan? cocktail?) to make them easier to go down.

Vault - CCCCC

 

Some more local loving, a very nice brew. Cheers all

 

Getting ready to make my seitan for tonight's dinner.

 

Interesting brew, but too light on the chocolate.

 

Great kickoff Superspak! Well a tough 6.2 mile run in the books, couldn't force myself not to watch the Hurricanes game to the end. Starting off really nice here today, sunny and about 70 degrees. This is my first Breakfast Stout, enjoying it and noticing the subtle changes as it warms from fridge temp.

Have a great Sunday and enjoy the outdoors!

 

I have never been less excited for a Packers/Bears game in my entire life, than I am right now, for the game today.

 

Pardon me while I quit yawning, the kids kept me up last night.

Attractive very dark color with tan cap and lacing.

Aroma of clean coffee with a touch of sweetness and something slightly floral in the background.

Taste on entry is clearly coffee forward that is dry rather than sweet and rather nice. This is a lighter type of coffee with bright acidity and a clean flavor that has some depth without being heavy. Roasted caramel malt is subdued and seems to serve primarily as a carrier for the coffee.

 

Cheers!

 

Short's Brew Local's Light. An american lager that is light and crisp. Bready with an almost belgian yeast taste. I've had the Citra version and liked it alot. Cheers folks.

 

Game Day! Bears VS Packers, GO PACK GO!

 

Starting the day off with some Breakfast Stout before football starts later

And some banjo-black

 

I think I'll have another. Cheers.

 

Against The Grain • London Balling

 

5 New beers this week that think different. I’m excited about because they pair well with food.

Deep Space | Half Acre

4.2/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

Love Chicago and this particular brewer, and no surprise. This one is 4.25 for originality.

a) Pours a dark, deeply hazed, (hence deep space), with buoyant and lasting cap that slaps rings of lace on the glass.

s) Extremely original and complex aromas, that offer up over ripe tropical fruit, pine resin, sugar cone, belgian waffle, syrup, and wheat malt.

t) Big, complex, original, flavorful, bold DIPA...with wads of over ripe pineapple, shellac, varnish, pine resins over a deep, dark, almost rye and malt underbelly...10% is obvious.

f) Sticky, luscious, worthy of contemplation or worship.

o) Give me the odd, complex DIPA like this once a month (and no more often) in between my 5-7% ABV APAs / IPAs / Stouts. Exciting!

Rare Vos | Brewery Ommegang
4.1/5 rDev +2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Rare Vos = Sly Fox in Flemish. Love this brewer.

a) Pours a cloudy dark amber body supporting a creamy, sturdy lasting head that amply laces Starts as a tan lumpy cap.

s) I find aroma starts with fruit, spice, orchard, yeast, fall fallen fruit, cellar stairs, up which waft crusty fresh baked bread.

t) Taste follows smell and adds: apples, dates, figs, and dried fruit spiced with coriander and white pepper on a yeasty bake shop backdrop.

f) Creamy see saw from sweet, ripened fruit to a nice drying finish.

o) Great Belgian craft at reasonable price. Drink at cask temperature. With Fish of any kind, sushi, raw oysters.

Aecht Schlenkerla Helles Lagerbier | Brauerei Heller-Trum
4.1/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Amazing to find a beer that's so different and original: it earns high marks on the first go.

A) pours a clear, dark pale golden body, with a thin cap that films and laces a few dots.

S) Pleasant fall damp air tinged with campfire smoke. Plus pale malt, honey lathered on crackers, and floral hops.

T) Follows smell, with MORE smoke, as in smoked salmon or bacon, honey, on malt and white crackers, and landing in a fall flower bed mixed with fallen, earthy damp leaves and forest floor. Delicious and complex, perfect with raw oysters.

F) Feel is soft, medium weight, smooth, finishing off-dry, and with lingering resonance.

O) My first experience of a great smoke in beer. Must try. Must try them all now!

Devil's Path | Catskill
4.1/5 rDev +2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Wonderful, fall flavored east coast strong IPA. Enjoyed at LW Oyster NYC at their 930pm happy hour with oysters and tuna mini spring rolls with mint sauce.
Poured on draft at LW Oyster 28th & 5th NYC - a favorite place.
A) Pours a super hazed cider-amber, gold with short-lived and no lacing head.
S) Aroma offers apple orchard, fall grass and leaves, sweet honey with a floral and fall earth grassy hop flavor.
T) Follows the smell, with more apple, cider, fall leaves balanced by honey sweet / tempered by grassy, hop bitter finish.
F) Med body, low carb, nice weight.
O) More than sum of parts, more east coast and fall-flavored than west


Wilco Tango Foxtrot | Lagunitas
4.04/5 rDev +3.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Brown Ale is meant to be imperial, this is my favorite. On Rattle N Hum tap NYC.
a) finger of tight, tan frothy head with plenty retention and lacing on a deep brown hazed body. Serious.
s) Dark fruit over caramel malt with unsweetened coffee and toffee notes.
t) Follows smell with more dark fruit and hoppy, floral notes.
f) Fine feel, pungent and perfect weighted: medium body and moderate carbonation.
o) Nice hoppy kick, amplified by the heavier body and ABV and power. Loved it. Try 24.

 

GO BEARS! And cheers...

 

The only regularly available Aecht Schlenkerla i haven't had is the Weizen. But i agree that it's a fantastic style and they do it great. Their smoked dopplebock is probably my favorite