New Beer Sunday (Week 695)

Good morning NBS, hope everyone is enjoying the end of the weekend once again. Thanks to @cjgiant for the introduction this week. Going to be yet another normal Sunday with bottle returns, laundry, and a grocery run later on. Maybe an oil change and a haircut are needed as well. Made another nice new beer haul yesterday as usual. Plenty more new stuff to try soon. I had #6900 on Friday night, so 7000 is less than a month away.

Morning review:

Rum Barrel edition. This was amazing! Awesome head retention and lacing for the ABV. Aromas and flavors of big milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, coconut, vanilla, cream, toffee, brown sugar, toasted oak, rum, maple, marshmallow, fudge, nuts, and brown bread; with light notes of coffee, raisin, fig, and herbal hops. Slight touch of booze in the aromas as it warmed. Light herbal/roast bitterness and rum/oak tannin spiciness on the finish. Medium carrbonation and full body; very creamy/silky malt mouthfeel; slight sticky hops, chalky roast, and oak tannins. Slightly increasing lingering bitter/tannin dryness. No cloying. Dangerously smooth sipping, mild warmth of 15%, zero barrel booze. Still think the base beer is best, but this was way better than the Scotch(which I still really enjoyed). Perfect integration of barrels, which complement the base beer perfectly. Extremely well balanced between rich malts, coconut/brown sugar, and barrels. Spot on porter style, not overly roasty on malts. Scotch BA edition was an onslaught of Laphroaig peat smoke/brine, that was a bit rough. This is way smoother. 4.38


Cheers, be back later with more new beers as always!

 

Good morning @cjgiant thanks for the great start and Happy Fathers Day to all! My father was a very forceful and dynamic personality. He held two jobs when I was growing up and never failed to be there for any of the things I was doing in school or in the community. I always thought that he would have made a good chef although he never realized those ambitions. I get my love of food, beer and wine from both my parents. They were loud and boisterous, jovial people. The kind who could tell stories, even the same ones for hours on end. What makes a person a profound speaker is their willingness to be heard, right or wrong. I get that from my dad as well as a penchant for the logical, the truthful. My bilingual, pun loving father taught me that it is the foundation and the essence of language and truth that makes you special not the clothes you wear. It's what will bring an instant like or dislike to you from this person or that one, and It's the look of clarity in your eyes that some people will try to best with brute force. It's the guiding light that defines your soul on this earth. Happy New Beer Sunday!

Today I have Guayabera form Cigar City brewing



The beer pours a hazy lemon yellow with a creamy head that falls clinging in rings. You can just see a subtle orange blush. Nose is tangerine and lemon. Cracker and tropical fruit. Sweet grasses and dank spice. Peppery hops. Drinks just like the nose and is accented by a light but lasting bitterness. Firm malty finish but abundant with hop flavors. That light tasting , juicy orange steals the show and the low abv keeps it going down easily. The bitterness is just enough to cleanse the palate and leave you with lemon, cracker and a tiny bit of white pepper. I'd say this brewer just winked at me with a pleasant and easy drinking beer that is a compliment to both Chinese and Indian food. Delicate and enjoyably sessionable. I served this beer with -

popcorn with celery leaves



sesame seared tuna and spinach with peanuts



And curry chicken



Between you and me there should be at least five empty beer glasses!

 

New Beer Sunday: An American Pale Lager

Mornin’ NBSers with a special alert for those who enjoy a crisp refreshing lager once in a while. Also, a special thanks to today’s host, @cjgiant for his start up this morning.

My father was a great role model. He lost his right arm as a passenger in a truck accident when he was about 20. That accident, and he himself, changed the course of his life and ours. Without that accident he probably would probably never have followed the career path he took. So, rather than giving into a disability, he learned to write with his left hand and took advantage of an opportunity to be the first in his family to go to the University. After getting a degree in accounting he and my mother married. Then he and my mother raised a family of 3 kids who all went on to college for a while. In the process of growing up and through his example we kids learned that many obstacles in life defeat you only if you let them do so. (I also learned, early on in life, what it meant to be someone’s right hand man since that was often my role in the chores, etc. that could only be accomplished with two hands. )

Today’s weather here is supposed to be warm and sunny with a high in the close neighborhood of 90 degrees (with a real feel of about 95).

While I'm waiting for a surprise breakfast (that smells good so far), this morning's new beer is the Home Grown Lager from Victory.

As usual my review, subject to revision until the beer is finished, can be found here.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/345/271991/?ba=drtth#review


The flavors/aromas in this beer are a mostly all about the hops with floral and citric hops along with a bit of resin and some tropical fruits. There is a bit of malt here but it is in the background and personally I think there ought to be a bit more malt showing. The ending is clean, dry and refreshing so that it would be very easy to drink more than one or to spend an entire evening with a few bottles of just this beer. On the whole this would be a refreshing beer for a summer evening of hanging out with friends.

Cheers, all!

 

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

 

Just spent the better part of an hour waiting for this computer to update and now I can get down to business. I'm going with this courtesy of @surfcaster . . .



Beautiful burnt umber burnished gold color with egg shell tone cap and lasting lacing.

Marvelous aroma of rich caramel malt raised to the highest bar. Other qualities emerge in the form of floral tones that are more like citrus blooms than garden flowers yet carry a round richness that is not at all sharp. Honeysuckle perhaps though not as sweet. If I walked into a bakery shop and was met with this aroma I would immediately buy whatever they were cooking.

Taste on entry is memorable and to call it great is merely descriptive like saying a Heisman Trophy athlete is better than good. The malt richness surges forth then shimmers and dances like the colors of a Flemish painting from the Rembrandt era yet recede back heightening rather than obscuring the overall composition. I get some hop presence in the back of the palate and lingering hop touches in the aftertaste but just enough to notice in their supporting role.

Medium-full texture with balancing carbonation.

This is a sit down for a moment of quiet to enjoy beer yet I could match it with almost any of the foods I enjoy, it's that versatile. I've rarely come across a brew so captivating. Altbier/Amber personified, whoever developed this please don't change a thing for it in itself is a whole.

 

A-Pours a nice clear golden color
A-Aroma has nice spices and chamomile hints
T-The taste follows the nose with spices and chamomile flavor
M-A light bodied well carbonated beer
O-A well made beer

 

Happy 325th Anniversary

Firstly: Happy Father’s Day everybody!

Today’s new beer was brewed to commemorate the 325th anniversary of Cape May in 2017. Needless to say but this beer is being re-brewed again:

“Originally brewed to celebrate Cape May County's 325th anniversary, we brew Follow the Gull with a ridiculous amount of Citra, El Dorado, Azacca, and Amarillo hops, yielding a juicy and ultra-drinkable hop-bomb bursting with tropical and citrus aromas. Though the anniversary has passed, we loved Follow the Gull too much not to brew it again.”

On the can it details “India Pale Ale - Citrusy, Tropical and Juicy.” And “5.5% ABV”.

I have already brewed several times with Citra, Azacca and Amarillo hops. Just a few days ago I brewed an El Dorado IPA which is my first foray in using this ‘newer’ hop variety.

So, let’s see how well Citra, El Dorado, Azacca and Amarillo play together.

Served in my Gulden Draak tulip glass:

Appearance:

A hazy light golden color with a two finger white head which dissipates fairly quickly.

Aroma:

Wow! A complex combination of citrus and tropical fruits.

Taste:

The flavor follows the nose with a tasty combination of citrus and tropical fruit flavors. There is a notable bitterness.

Mouthfeel:

Medium bodied with a soft mouthfeel along with a dry-ish finish.

Overall:

I think this beer is very good! Cape May Brewing produced a very tasty Juicy/Hazy IPA in this beer.


Cheers to the folks of Cape May Brewing for producing a high quality Juicy/Hazy IPA!

@KOP_Beer_OUtlet @rotsaruch @kadonnay @brianhink @CapeMayBrewCo @JValm @RobH

 

Uinta Grapefruit Hop Nosh IPA
7.3% ABV

Happy Fathers Day to all of those involved.
Yesterday I went out and bought a new vehicle. So cheers to the next 72 months of car payments. About a month ago, my wife was sitting at a red light when suddenly a drunk driver slammed into her. My wife is okay, and thankfully our children were not with her. Needless to say, it’s been a stressful summer so far and it’s a shame that I have to go from no car payment to having one, but this is Life, and Life makes it’s own decisions, we have to react to it and deal with it. Vehicles can be replaced, people cannot. The dust has settled, and now we can continue on. Here’s the new beer:

3.79/5 rDev -4.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Look: The beer is a muddy burnt orange color with a thick soapy off-white head that recedes to a thick film leaving splotches of lacing.

Aroma: Faint wordiness blends in with a sweet malt base up front, followed by fresh grapefruit flesh. Citrus and light pine on the back end.

Taste: A bit more woody and astringent up front than that of the aroma, soon transitions into a really citric, grapefruit rind flavor before finishing with a slightly bitter, piny finish.

Mouthfeel: Medium bodied, slightly dry.

Overall: Decent grapefruit representation with nice pine notes, nothing overpowering.

I’ll refrain from drinking the other 5 today, it’s a bit heavier than I expected. I’ll sip on something lighter and give my dad the traditional Father’s Day phone call.

 

Poured near room temperature into my favorite Teku glass. Pours a very dark mahogany with a very attractive half inch light brown head that leaves very attractive thin rings of lace as it slowly settles into a thick layer of bubbles. 4.25

Smell is cocoa nibs, dry coffee beans, French vanilla, and some biscuity grains. 4

Taste follows but bigger and better cocoa and coffee just dominates this beer, with some vanilla and biscuity grain in the bold dry finish. 4.5

Mouthfeel is a big medium, plenty of carbonation for the style, seem dry as a bone and that isn’t a complaint, and tastes bigger than its 7.5% ABV. 4.25

Overall this is a great, fairly one dimensional beer. Roasty, dry, and so darn tasty.4.25

 

New Amer. IPA Sunday (Week 695)
Goood Morning all you fine fettled fathers and domestically dedicated dads. Also you solidly satisfied sons and diligently dedicated daughters looking to give thanks and praise to their passionately proud paters today. Happy New Beer Sunday.

I have had more types of fathers than most, I knew my great grandfather well into my twenties, and had the honor of handing him my first born son and being part of five generations together. He did a variety of things well, and knew how to do about everything else, just waiting to have a need to do it When I was young he taught me how to use the scythe, and to do it as to not wear myself out, and not cut off body parts. He had ten acres of meadow near the main house on his forty acre spread, and I used to love the trust and freedom swinging that scythe gave the young me. So it is I think of my own Dad, and how greatly I miss him, this morning, but also Great Gramps. Because I now refuse to use gasoline to do property maintenance, and this morning I scythed off about three quarters of an acre of meadow, and took down with a hand saw two big sumacs that had gotten greedy for sunlight. I learned somethings important from every generation of father I knew, and I thank them for it daily. But man am I thirsty, so let's get to this beer!

True confession is I had this last night. But since the drinking/writing session went into early this morning, I figure this is a legit NBS entry, due to the rule of continualized glassage for purposes of delayed evaluation, which I may have neglected to inform you guys I instituted during my tenure as head bozo of this bus.

This is going down so good right now. Industrial Arts State Of The Art #296. Live review

Called NEIPA on the label, but it pours lightly cloudy, pure gold that looks as traditional as American IPA gets.

Oh wow, this is amazing, it is as though all the best things about citrus and pine flavors in WCIPA aroma were combined with all the best things about tropical flavors in NEIPA, put into a full aroma, and balanced into IPA perfume. Mmmmm.

Good lord, the taste is the same, let's see definite citrus pith a main player, but also mango, def. bitter orange and sweet lemon, also pineapple, and melon notes, some resinnous pine in there. I get kiwi, what? It is a morphing mix, sometimes the pith really comes through at the end and it is bitter, other sips provide a medley of bright tropical notes. Very understated crispy honey maltiness backs this baby so well (grateful dead reference redacted here). Yumm, man, yumm.

Really soft on palate, super clean, med. carb. (only ding, could use a bit less carb.), highly viscous, but no build, excellent finish. Somehow this beer, upon deep contemplation, presents as being very resinous, but manages to be refreshing and clean in the way of the softer NEIPA.

Chief promised us, with some bravado, he would put the best NY IPA's, easy to get, on shelves across the Hudson Valley. Two years later I gotta say mission accomplished. Highly recommend getting some of this.

Hope you also have a Great American Beer in your glass. Happy Fathers Day, Dads, and Cheers!

 

Oh man I love to be dominated by coffee and cocoa. on the lookout for this one for sure.

 

A-Pours a nice clear golden color
A-Aroma has nice grape and hop hints
T-The taste follows the nose with a nice grape and hop flavor
M-A medium bodied very well carbonated beer
O-A nicely well balanced beer

 

Five of my six children are in town to celebrate my upcoming retirement and, as it turns out, Father's Day. I look at them with a sense of pride; they have all turned out well.
After doing a little yard work this morning I decided I needed a refreshing drink, and chose Ginger Lemon Radler from Boulevard.
It is a hazy yellow color. What head is present in the pour disappears quickly.
Strong ginger aroma, with lemon taking the backseat.
Tart lemon comes through more in the taste, but there is still an awful lot of ginger.
Not as refreshing as I thought it would be.

 

Enjoying this Father's Day with my little ones, going to take them to the pool for a bit and then head to a cookout with my father.
It has been a busy couple of days and it looks like I will get to have my little ones full time for a bit, their mother and I are divorced so custody is split. She was in a pretty serious car wreck Thursday, broke both legs pretty badly. She will be facing multiple surgeries and unable to walk for atleast three months. The passenger in the car with her was killed upon impact, I'm thankful that just the day before my boys had went to spend a few days with my parents so they weren't in the car with her. Also thankful that they will spending more time here with me.
Anyways on to the beer....
I was gifted some more Swedish beers this week so looks like a bit of another New Beer from Sweden day for me.

This is Marsipulami from Spike Brewing, it's a marzipan chocolate porter.
Pours dark brown with a large foamy brown head.
Smells of roasty malts, vanilla, nutty.
Taste follows with the roasted malt leading the way. Vanilla follows along with nutty taste, predominantly almond. A bit sweet.
Medium to full body, smooth and creamy.
Overall a nice porter.

 

That is one beautiful photo Doc! nice glass. Happy dad right there. =)

 

Good morning, happy Father's Day and happy NBS to everyone!

I'm getting started pretty early today by my standards thanks to the World Cup. I'm getting geared up for the Mexico-Germany match. So without further ado, I'm going to get into a beer I picked up on a recent trip to Chicago. I was happy to see beers from Oxbow because I've really wanted to try them but had yet to come across any. Pretty steep price-wise, so I only got one bottle, but I'm optimistic.

Lordy, this is a hell of a beverage. It pours a glowing orange-tinted gold with a skiff of white head. The aroma and flavor are what make it, though. Multi-layered earthy, sour, hay flavors, refreshing and rich in its own way. Very complex with some peppery phenol present to balance the rest (along with the hops).

This is a very nice beer and I wish I'd grabbed another despite the outrageous price. Oh well...

Here is my review if you're curious.


¡Salud!

 

Nice start to this weeks NBS @cjgiant. Will be back later on with a new brew.

Cheers!