What beer are you drinking now? #1982

First one of the day

 

Splitting an Evil Twin Even More Pecan Pie Jesus. My last of 4 pack that was wonderful.

 

This is in Mass now....are you kidding me?

Cheers bros!!

 

5 New 4+ Big IPAs - Week of March 25 - 1st week Spring?

Wally | Wachusett (MA)
4.3/5 rDev +5.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
As big as they come, arrives Wally.
a) Love it. Pours a hazy golden body, white foam cap, fair lace and retention.
s) Aroma is big, and hop-forward. Dank, citrusy sweet hop, flowershop, honey, caramel malt, wet grass, earthy.
t) Big. Crisp, sweet malty bite, that becomes a wave of complex, interesting, and original fruity and floral hops along with a mysterious, bittering, drying, earthy finale.
f) Does all the right things in my mouth, kissy, crisp, juicy, clean, fresh, well-tone dry finale.
o) A find. Try 24.

Loral & Dr. Rudi's Inevitable Adventure | Stone (CA)
4.2/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
I'm going higher than BAs with this seasonal Stone, as high perhaps as Ruination.
a) Clear mid golden with big head and lots of lace and last.
s) Strong, intense aromas of citrus, herbs, pine, resin, floral, and spicy hops over malt base. Powerful.
t) Continues big flavors that follow the smell, with more subtle, intense notes from the blaring, spicy, bitter hops that temper the abundant caramel malt core.
f) Mid weight, good feel, creamy, lingering bitter clean finish. Satisfying, sexy.
O: The spiciness in the hop profile makes this a top Stone offering.

Hop Ranch | Victory
4.2/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Bought a single, slightly past prime, but great DIPA all the same. Uniquely berry, pungent, oily, and peppery.
a) Pours bright amber-straw body with a splashing lacing, lasting head.
s) Big tropical, berry, and herbal hops. layered on raw honey and honey comb malt base.
t) Follows tropicals juicy, ripe fruit, with mango, passionfruit, pineapple, and gooseberry notes. Pie. glazed with honey. Levers into the peppery, earthy, scatting finale with as much cannabis as you can imagine.
f) Medium-bodied, oily, medicinal yet dry, bitter and cleansing. Astringent as in sassafras and spruce and orange peel.
o) A great DIPA deserves to be in any DIPA blind taste off.

Hop Shovel | Bear Republic (CA)
4.14/5 rDev +2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Glowing. Is the word for the look, smell and taste of Hop Shovel - a new one to me from great, favorite brewer - Bear.
scoops of Mosaic, Meridian and Denali.
a) The body pours crystal clear, "glowing", clean, filtered, and fresh minted, glowing copper. The white, soft head sheds scales of lace. 4.25 for color.
s) Tropical fruit (as in fresh, juicy glowing orange flesh) dominates. I get orange peel, mango, citrus peel, tangerine, grapefruit rind atop pale crystal malts. Marmalade. Big.
t) Follows the aroma. Glowing flavor bursts of tropical fruit on a bed of pale, marmalade like malts with light amount of prickly bitterness, and a post citrus/orange smoothie sip feel.
f) Juicy, wet, well-carbonated, refreshing, clean. And did i say "glowing"?
o) Must try for IPA fans as a novel, juicy, big expression of the featured hops.

Two Juicy | Two Roads (CT)
4.1/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Love this brewer, who's an east coast master, along with Carton, Bronx, 6 Points.
a) Totally opaque hazed golden body that raises a 1 finger dense head and write shards of lace like solar flares.
s) The Aroma is the winner mostly composed of orange juice & pith, tangerine, and pine aromatics that are more complex as you warm.
t) Taste catches up to aroma as it warms. Brings on more complex candy shop: sweet candy malt, orange marmalade, orange cupcake, Grand Marnier booze, tempered by a bit of pepper and grassy earth hops.
f) Mid, too less than expected in a double, juicy (of course!) with moderate carbonation. Sweet but clean finale.
o) Nothing NE about it, except that it would make it around the horn from Boston, Newport, or Mystic. You must like ORANGE to enjoy this, and I dont care for many IPAs greater than 7 ABV unless they can justify with body and flavor. But 4.25 for originality and true to being too juicy. In my case the added fruit, moves it too much to shandyland and flattens it as compared to beers without fruit added.

 

Always up for some STONE!!

 

Cheers!

 

Watching Villanova-Texas Tech with some delicious Mandarina Pale Ale from Black Acre Brewing. Cheers BA!



And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad
So I had one more for dessert

 

Cheers BAs!

 

5 Rabbit El Santo's Sweat

 

Beer #4.

(Villain - 18th Street)

 

NB Voodoo Ranger- Cheers !

 

One of Treehouse’s more malty offerings. Hitting the spot right now! ESB by the way.

 

Having a really late morning today...due to a wild share last night.

Needing a hearty pastry...and a little coffee + hair of the dog.



If you ever find yourself near Akron Ohio (Cuyahoga Falls)...go to the Blue Door. Best bakery I've been to outside of France...including whatever few places I've stopped in NYC and SF. This is coming from a guy who openly acknowledges the culinary desert that most of the Akron area is.

 

Enjoying this fine offering from Honest Weight
Details at NBS
Cheers all

 

Sup Geeks!

Now this is what I've been craving for the last few months!
A straight up, hardcore, old school DIPA



I was getting burnt out with everything, and with all the haze craze and juicy IPAs flooding the market nothing was hitting the spot.
Well shit, by golly miss molly! Here it is!

Low malt bill and an explosion of hop bitternes that actually stung my tonuge. You know the feeling. One that clears your sinuses

Thank you again Kuhnhenn for this exceptional and refreshing beverage!

Hats off my friends

CHEERS

 

Doing some vacation planning for a late summer trip to London and Paris. Never been to either place.
Decadent - Creamsicle. A citra hopped DIPA with toasted marshmellow, Madagascar vanilla bean and orange zest.