What beer are you drinking now? #1938

Okay !!!
Here we go gang
The Doc starting it out with a Quad



@VABA
Now I’m sure that I’m getting old .. Last time I saw Jorma Kaukonen it was around 1979-80.. Yikes !!

 

Good morning BA, have a great Friday! Have a bit of a snow storm coming in today, so I am working from home just in case it gets really bad.

This was fantastic! Poor head retention and lacing as usual. Bottled just over a year ago. Aromas and flavors of big nutty dark roasted coffee, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toffee, vanilla, cream, fudge, brown sugar, maple syrup, almond, bourbon, toasted oak, and dark bread; with lighter notes of coconut, marshmallow, molasses, licorice, smoke, char, dark fruit, and pepper. Light-moderate bourbon/oak tannin spiciness and light roast/char bitterness on the finish. Medium carbonation and very full body. Very creamy/silky malt mouthfeel; light slickness, stickiness, chalky roast, and oak tannins. Mildly increasing bourbon/oak tannin dryness, no cloying sweetness. Lightly increasing alcohol warmth, with mild barrel booze lingering after the finish. After having so many Bruery BA stouts recently, nothing is impressing me as much as Chocolate Rain from 2014. I am definitely going to have to revisit that one soon, I have one in the cellar. This is very similar to the base beer as expected with big levels of fruity/nutty coffee complexity. Great barrel balance and integration as usual; not overly boozy or tannic. A really delicious slow sipper. I have a PB and Thursday coming my way soon. 4.2


Cheers

 

Upright • Billy the Mountain

 

Good Morning and Happy Friday BA!!
Up today is the final Other Half Anniverssry beer i have..4th Anniversary..a quadruple dry hopped ipa...rich, creamy and smooth. And as good as OH's 3rd anniversary beer is, this is better..heaven in a can..cheers!!

 

Morning Cup of Joe !!
Enjoy your Friday everyone



Wake up time

 

Cheers you all and TGIF! Today I have a tripel and I am going to be pairing it with mahi mahi in a Chinese style sauce made with preserved oranges. The tripel is a favorite style of mine because it drinks like a fruity punch. @JackHorzempa the beer reminds me of a waltz. This one is as sneaky as the best of them. It has a bit softer bubble that shows a little of it's sweetness from alcohol in the finish. I am in love with the spicy herbal pepper from these hops as well as a lovely orange and tropical fruit flavor. I would not use green bell pepper with this one as that would be too loud. Szechuan peppercorns for this because they just bite without any hard lasting heat. Not too much garlic, soft on the ginger and see you later BA's!

 

Feeling pretty good having traded shifts to work last Sunday so I could have today off, now that we're getting hit with a major snowstorm. Drinking Metal Monkey's Asmodeus-a sublimely tasty local barrel aged RIS.

A better shot of the label because, after all, it is Friday, and apparently even this guy knows that means metal.


Happy Friday, Advocates.

 

Good morning stateside BAs and good afternoon to our Euro brethern! We got a dusting of snow last night, not unusual for this time of year. today's New Breakfast Beer:



Decent.

 

Bonjour!

 

First decent snowfall of the season. Celebrating with an SOB and short smoke.
Cheers!

 

Here is my comparison. Fin du monde had a bigger head and a lighter color. The same herbal from hops and the same potential for funk that is not realized. Fin finishes without so much mango or tropical melon fruit as @JackHorzempa's beer and with a few more bubbles. Their bitterness is about the same as his which is balanced and just lasting in the finish to show you spice and pepper. Their clove is a little stronger also adding to the dryness overall. Jack's beer was fruitier and the spice more prominent although I thought the spice character about equal. Jack's beer is fruitier and clearer. I would guess the alcohol in jack's beer about 9% as well. OK. Let's cook! I am infusing some honey and would like to start cooking with hops. Cheers!

 

Two of the big Heavy Weights absolutely killed it with this beer!

Just may be the best IPA I’ve ever had!

Straight

 

Wilderpils



Light gold color with white lacing.

Aroma of rich malt and spicy, floral hops.

Taste on entry is malt forward, bready, rich and very flavorful. Hops enter but ever so lightly on little cats feet. Malt is singing a sonorous tone with hops playing a light accompaniment. Very consistent flavors throughout finishing cleanly in the aftertaste.

Medium full texture with balancing carbonation.

This one is deceptively simple proving you don't need a lot of ingredients to make a complex, flavorful brew. That is to say you don't if you know what you're doing and the folks at Wilderness Brewing clearly do because this is one of the best non European Pilsners I've ever tasted.

 

Wasmt paying attention and posted in yesterdays thread, oh well , here is what i am drinking now



Cheers