New Beer Sunday (Week 683)

A-Pours a clear yellowish color
A-Aroma has heartland hints
T-The taste follows the nose with a nice heartland flavor
M-A light bodied very well carbonated beer
O-A well made beer

 

Happy New National Distributed NEIPA beer Sunday BAs!

I have been waiting to try this one for a while now! I love what SN had done with the style, New Belgium not as much but still solid and finally now I get to try this one!

Sam Adams New England IPA with a best by date of JUNE 2018

Beer pours a beautiful hazy orange color with a massive soft white and very creamy head that forms effortlessly, maybe a bit to easy but it must be some re-fermentation that has taking place in the can causing it.

The color on this one is awesome, it's not a murky beer, it's got that gentle soft orange glowing haze to it that is stellar!

Aroma is full of orange citrus, tropical fruits and a bit of dank herbs. It's not over the top in your face but is very well done and peasant. Also get that smoothie yeast character in the aroma.

Taste follows the nose! At 35 IBUs it is very smooth. Body is creamy and soft but on the lighter side of med. Definitely juicy forward but still but some bitterness. Loving the dank herbs on the pallet with lingering fruit notes.

Very Well Done by Sam Adams, will be buying more of this!

Cheers BAs!

 

I have liked all the FO beers I've tried, but Green Galaxy is definitely my favorite.

 

Next new beer comes again from @JBowenGeorgia and is just a solid stout. Breakout Stout from Jailhouse Brewing at 8% it is very smooth and drinkable. The coffee adds just a touch of flavor but other than that just a well made stout. Thanks John!!

Appearance 4 - Pours black with nice tan head sheets of lacing in patches around the glass.

Aroma 3.75 - Great roasted malt aroma, bakers chocolate, coffee, very light vanilla.

Taste 4 - Huge roasted malt, bitter chocolate, coffee, mild vanilla. Drinks alot like a black cup of coffee but there are more roasted malts flavors than coffee.

Feel 3.75 - creamy full bodied, slightly dry finish very smooth.

Overall 3.92 - This is just a solid stout, no bells and whistles added, the coffee is light but noticeable smooth creamy great flavors.

 

Nice review. And Collective Arts does mix up the can art on the same beer in 4 packs. Its happened to almost every one I have purchased. A few have all been the same.

 

Many thanks to @cjgiant for getting this great recurring thread off and running. While I'll admit that the long days and warmer weather have me more often grabbing bright lower ABV options. However, I still find that nothing pairs better with a campfire and some backcountry BBQ than sipping a big BA stout/porter/strong ale.

First of (likely) a couple contributions today is both new to me and Beer Advocate. Sacramento-local New Glory brings a Citra single-hopped APA named Citra Mon.



Pours orange bronze with sticky white head with moderate retention and left some mixed lacing. Nose is the highlight of this beer for me. Bright competing tropical and citrus, tangerine, mango, nectarine and grapefruit, some faint bready undertones once the beer is warm. Taste is not nearly as dynamic, and has more citrus prominence. Finishes with mild bitterness and astringency, clears palate quickly. Low-medium bodied with medium carbonation, slick on the tongue and finish.



Overall rating link, BA score = 3.96, rdev = 0.0% It's a well-crafted APA, but there's many better out there. As for Citra single-hopped recipes, I'd grab PseudoSue before this every time without hesitation.

 

A-Pours a nice clear amber color with a slight head and nice lacing
A-Aroma has nice resin and piney notes
T-The taste follows the nose with resounding resin and piney flavors
M-A light bodied well carbonated beer
O-A very well balanced beer

 

Ok so I have to admit it now BBA Peche Mortel may be the best BBA beer I've ever tried.

Appearance - This beer pours out black as night with 2 fingers of beautiful mocha head The head does slowly fade and it is so dark that visible carbonation is almost nil.

Aroma - The oak and vanilla dominate here, it is a very sweet vanilla at that, is expresso, dark chocolate but wow that whisky stands above the rest.

Taste - This is on another level man, Oak is the first taste present on the tongue followed by an extremely sweet vanilla, then you are hit with expresso, and dark chocolate. They don't add a whole bunch of extra flavors but they dont need too. this is perfect. I'm ready to give it a 5.

Feel - A definite theme in this box, the feel again is thick heavy bodied and creamy, this may be the creamiest yet. It goes down ridiculously smooth with only the slightest hint of bitterness from the coffee and oak.

Overall - Its funny because this feels like the shortest review I've written on a beer from this box but it really is by far the best. This is something special and I understand why people hunt for it every year. Wow. I'm honestly lost for words.

 

Spring in Wisconsin is still like winter. I'm glad the snowstorm in Iowa missed us, I can deal with the cold and wind.

I've been sitting on this beer from Stone and thought that it was time to drink it. It pours a dark copper with a 1.5 finger light tan head that dissipates quickly, but is present around the edge. Nice webbed lacing. Like scotch? The aroma is loaded with it. Very peaty, smoky oak, with caramel malts peaking through some tobacco. Flavor starts off with heavy peat, tobacco, with a smoky meatiness along with the oak and caramel malts. It is in your face. Feel is a bit light, but on par for a strong ale, and it has decent carbonation. I'm not a huge scotch fan, but this beer came together nicely after some age.

 

New beer #4. Now at Crime and Punishment, trying their new DIPA. Spoiler: it’s awesome.

Static Bloom - Crime and Punishment
DIPA - 8.3% abv


L - 1-finger head atop a murky opaque yellow body.

S - citrus hops, oats, caramel sweetness.

T - peach, orange, tropical citrus. So god damn creamy. Moderate sweetness, no booziness, mild bitterness.

F - medium-full body, low carb.

O - Another C+P winner.

 

Pours a dark slightly hazy with a solid 2 finger sticky off white head that leaves plenty of thick patches of lace, not sure when it was canned. 4

Smell is pine resin, tangerine, and grapefruit rind with maybe a hint of marijuana. 4

Taste follows some pine and marijuana upfront leads to tangerine and a healthy dose of of grapefruit. 4.25

Mouthfeel is hefty, plenty of life, a tad dry as I would expect from the style, and for me at 8.8% ABV goes down easy. 4.5

Overall this is a nice change of pace, old school DIPA that really is a little one dimensional but not a bad thing for my buds. 4.25

 

I love the base, and the BBA sounds AMAZING. Definitely just went to the top of my ISO list.

This review has me inclined to stop moving this perpetually to the back of the cellar. I'm not a scotch person per se (especially peaty ones), perhaps partially due to being 'weaned' on Canadian Whiskey growing up in the upper Midwest prairie. But your review gives me some intrigue to giving this a spin. Thanks!

 

New beer #5. Crime and Punishment - Gulag Uprising BBA RIS.



Gulag Uprising - Crime and Punishment
RIS - 12% abv

L - trace head atop a pitch black body.

S - booze, roast, oak, chocolate, vanilla, good coffee.

T - jesus. A bourbon-soaked coffee with a vanilla shot. I can’t believe this is 12%.

F - full body, minimal carb.

O - I love this beer.

 

Missed last Sunday recovering from a four day binge session spent fishing with old friends.
Started today with this one.

Poured a slightly hazy amber orange with minimal white head. I had to read the can again to make sure I had poured a Regular Coffee, guess I was expecting a stout but after reading I see it's a cream ale.
Smells like a cup of coffee with cream.
Taste is like a cup of coffee with cream. Not a dark roasted coffee nor a mild one, getting some toffee like flavor too.
Feels like a creamy cup of coffee, very smooth. Can't believe this is a high gravity beer, alcohol presence is non-existant.
Overall a great brew that I would love to try again.

 

Greetings from rainy Tennessee! I'm not complaining as this is the first Sunday in a month that I have been home and not traveling. After some work, it's time to settle in with a new beer and some hoops. I've been saving this one courtesy of @TheIPAHunter for today and in the words of my benefactor, this beer is larrrge!
From the Morning, Tired Hands Brewing Company, Ardmore, PA


look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

As you can see, I really liked this one. Beautiful in the glass: bright yellow and super hazy - as close to OJ as you can get. A normal pour produced a big, fluffy white head that reluctantly settled in the glass. The aroma was tropical with pineapple and mango. There was a sweetness and floral quality as well, I'm guessing from the honey. The taste stood up to the great aroma with huge fruity notes, floral sweetness, and some earthy/grassy undertones. I detected the honey but not the tea. Perhaps that was the floral aspect I noticed. The feel was light and fluffy, just like the look. Dangerously drinkable for a DIPA. Phenomenal beer - in my wheelhouse! Thanks Hunter!

 

Second contribution today is the most recent Revision hazy/juicy/NE-style DIPA recipe release. I'll admit, I was mildly impressed with the single comparable version of this recipe. The similar DIPA recipe, Battle of the Lords was released a little over a week ago. Hit my local distro Davis Beer Shoppe on Friday.



Pours a murky sandy yellow with several fingers of frothy head that left great ringed lacing. Nose is competing citrus and tropical aspects. Lots of navel orange and passion fruit, with some floral and pineapple accents. Faint lime grows more prominent as the beer warms, but then falls off after at room temperature for a bit. Taste follows the nose to a good degree with greater citrus prominence, with the lime aspect far more noticeable and more sustained than on the nose. Finishes with faint bitterness and some astringency and dryness. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation, fluffy on the tongue and creamy on the finish with just a smidgeon of tongue tingling from either astringency or carbonation.



Overall rating link, BA score = 4.26, rdev = 0.0% A solid hazy recipe that is closer to the mark on the mouthfeel than a lot of the West Coast-brewed NE-style recipes. It's in the middle-of-the-pack of Revision hazy recipes for my palate and preferences. But I preferred it far more than it's single-equivalent, and would happily consume again should our paths cross.