New Beer Sunday (Week 702)

Good evening NBS, hope everyone is enjoying the end of the weekend once again. Thanks to @lordofthewiens for getting us started off this week. Glad you had a safe and eventful trip across the country. Normal weekend over here with some hot weather. Made another big new beer haul from my favorite store yesterday, and got hooked up with some big wants as expected. I have way more stuff than I know what to do with right now. Just have to knock em out as I go. Massive amounts of IPAs that need priority, the big barrel aged stuff can wait. Made my usual bottle returns and laundry for the day. Also buzz cut my hair again as it was getting thick and annoying.

New beer:

Daily lager review. Excellent Euro pale! Fantastic fluffy head retention and thick lasting lacing on the glass. Aromas and flavors of big cracker, white bread dough, toasted biscuit malts; with light-moderate peppercorn, herbal, grassy hops. Light-moderate herbal, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Medium-high carbonation, medium body, and fairly crisp/clean finishing. Creamy/bready/grainy malts and some sticky hops in the mouthfeel. Touch of lingering resins. Light-moderate increasing bitter/carbonated dryness. No astringency. Very flavorful/refreshing 4.6%, not watery at all. Perfectly clean lagering, no fruity/yeasty notes. Really nailed it! Very clean and rich pils malts, with balancing Saaz/Lublin noble hops. I would buy again. One of the best pale lagers I've had in a while. 4.03


Shipyard is on the haze train now. Really nice stuff. Great head retention and nice lacing on the glass. Aromas and flavors big grapefruit, tangerine, lemon, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, melon, guava, berries, citrus peel/rind, peppercorn, wood, and pine hops; with moderate wheat, cracker, biscuit dough malts; and herbal, floral, grassy hop earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, woody, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Medium carbonation and medium-plus body; creamy/bready/grainy malts and some sticky hops in the mouthfeel. Light resins/rinds. Lightly increasing lingering bitter/resin dryness, minimal hop astringency. No warmth of 7%. Smooth, not overly aggressive. Citra, Mosaic, El Dorado showcase. Very juicy, dank, and earthy balanced hop complexity; nice bready malt backbone, with minimal residual sweetness from lingering dryness. More resinous/drying than I expected, but it's a really enjoyable attempt on the style. 3.9


Cheers, be back in a bit.

 

Spent the weekend in the classroom. Saturday I was preparing for the upcoming college soccer season. Today i was preparing to become a referee assessor. I need a diversion from soccer. Lt’s Talk about beer. New beers....

Bell’s Black Note Stout

4.5/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Bottled 10.5.17, poured 8.4.18

Dark brown / black liquid, solid two finger frothy brown foam cap, settles to a solid pencil thin layer, some lacings

Aroma is licorice, bourbon, dark chocolate

Taste is roast malts, bourbon, dark chocolate

Low sudsing, smooth, dark chelate lingers on the tongue , alcohol is well hidden for an 11.2%abv stout

Good stout

 

I am sure that's why they went that way. In my mind it would be a Chosin Resevoir situation if the enemy got in shooting distance of me when I was in. However, I was supposed to get stationed at Camp Casey ( grade mismatch ) & that along with my time in other units of that ilk made my Air Force trained mind assume the worst.

 

New beer #3 Burley Oak Gucci Flip Flops....my feelings towards this beer are the same as my feelings towards the Gucci brand, very overpriced and I don’t get it or like it.

3.06/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

16 oz can, dated 7/26/18, poured into a teku

A- A hazy golden straw with a two finger white head

S- Ton of onions and cooked peppers, some citrus, wet grass.

T- Cooked veggies, wet grass, some citrus, hints of pale malts, some yeast.

M- Light body.

O- A huge miss from Burley Oak, bad hop flavors and a touch of yeast are the last things I want in a session IPA.

Cheers!

 

Happy New Gueuze Sunday!

Pretty nice day here on the Western Slope, sunny, some clouds, slight breeze, around 91 at the trailhead. Having a pretty tasty brew, nice to see it around here. Picked up some chicken tacos on the way home.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/63/313291/?ba=Wasatch#review

Cheers!

 

Next up is Green Bench Testing Batch No. 750.


16 ounce can, canned 6/22/18. Poured into tulip glass. Pours hazy, dingy, dirty orange colored. 1 finger white head. Small fingers of lace.
The nose is bong water first, then soft tropical fruits and grapefruit.
Man oh man, weed and resiny, pine, grapefruit pith, finishes with overripe guava and soft tropical fruits.
Softer, but medium to heavy mouthfeel. It’s got the haze but not that sweet juiciness I prefer. 3.72 +7.8% rDev

 

A second new beer from Marz in the last few weeks. This one caught the eye of the hostess of my monthly neighborhood soon to be empty nesters card night while at the Marz taproom earlier Saturday. Always one for the unusual, she grabbed a four pack. Luckily for me it is not a big craft beer crowd but always interested in sampling new and different things so I begged her to save me the last can explaining that there was this New Beer Sunday thing, and this one would be perfect for it, and reminding her that I was a beer nerd, etc. she graciously obliged me.

Loosely tied to a comedy duo the brewery associates with but not much more than that to explain things.

Poured into a modified stange/pilsner. Aquamarine (rumored to be created in part by algae) with a healthy blue-green head. Just something you don't see every day. Low carbonation left a ring of tight bubbles that produced minimal lacing.

Not a lot of aromas - faint malt and maybe some rice .

Sweetness dominates with possibly the color hinting at some nondescript but not erroneous vegetal background

Slightly more viscosity than typical adjuncts but not detracting.

Overall a really interesting beer from brewers who do what they want.

 

Happy NBS and good luck to @lordofthewiens in your new home. Sounds like an exciting and informative trip.
Well its over 90 here and Kim and I took a trail run this morning. All I could think of is that song Run through the Jungle. Both of us were exhausted afterwards. Also my new restaurant job has been quite a challenge. Its been 17 years since I worked a line but damn these last two week I lost about 6 pounds- sweating from the time I arrived until the time I closed. 9 to 10 hours on my feet with Kids half my age but I kept up so Im pretty happy with that. Onto beer!
Jacks Abby.....lagers, lagers and lagers and they do a hell of a job. Now there is Springdale their "experimental" brewery where they take a completely different path. This ones an IPA.
Springdales Good n' You IPA.
Pours a very hazy golden yellow with a 1/4 bubbly white head that disappears rather quickly. Lacing is minimal.
Aroma is stone fruits, orange and grapefruit with some grassiness.
Taste is grapefruit, some some damp pine, orange, peach and a tad of white grape.
The feel is medium, an easy drinker with a nice carbonation that lasts throughout. Drinks much lighter than it looks.
A New England Style IPA from Jacks Abby! They sure know their lagers but I would say the know their IPAs as well now. Peace.

 

My Dad told me that his group at Leyte (Philippines) in 1944 was far more effective with M-1 carbines against greater numbers. He said it was because of great training and the superiority of the weapon against the standard Japanese weapons. They had plenty of fully automatic weapons, but said they rarely needed them.

 

Poured into a 13 oz Weyerbacher Tulip glass, bottled on 7/23/18. Pours a very attractive orange with a 2 finger sticky white head that leaves a wall of thick lace behind. 4.25

Smell is tangerine, papaya, apricot, and grapefruit rind. 4

Taste follows bold tangerine, papaya, apricot, and aggressive grapefruit with a subtle hint of alcohol in the finish. 4

Mouthfeel is pretty big, plenty of life, definetly on the dry side, and goes down easy enough at 9.1% ABV. 4

Overall this is classic Stone not for everyone, especially for the hazy hipster Untapped fanatics, but I personally still dig a dry over hopped beast that wrecks the entire palate! 4

 

DESTIHL Weissenheimer, 5.2% ABV. Pours pale yellow, with a one finger white head which dissipated quickly leaving no lacing. Nose is bananas and cloves, taste follows with a slight sweetness and no bitterness. Excellent mouthfeel, overall outstanding.

 

Hello, NBSers. I was caught betwixt and between a couple of quenchers to start with on another steamy evening in Northern Indiana, but as I read the review @drtth wrote about the Czech Pilsner he enjoyed earlier today, my choice was crystal clear (pun intended).



4.04/5 rDev +11%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

The pour is a vivid maize color, just the slightest bit of haze, and a substantial white head that follows the beer down the glass.

The nose is full of enticing aromas - cracker, lemongrass, bread, earthy grass. The definition of a Czech Pilsner, IMHO.

The lemongrass is prominent on the taste, but the bread and cracker notes are also present, and the earthy notes lend this a substantial character that is present in the best beers of this style.

Just a pleasure to drink, especially on a hot summer evening.



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Greetings, fellow NBSers, and thanks to @lordofthewiens for getting us going today.

Currently it's 87° and partly sunny in Washington's 2nd largest city. After a couple cool and breezy days temperatures are spiking upwards again. Supposed to reach 91° today, and temperatures as high as 108° are being predicted during the coming week. I tend to rely on getting outdoors for exercise, but it's just not gonna happen when it's that hot, especially when the heat causes things to catch fire and fill the air with choking smoke that leaves my fellow asthmatics and I gasping. Sadly, that's becoming the new normal this time of year around here.

Had some tasty beers this past week, as those who follow me on untapped already know. My favorite local craft beer bar, Community Pint, had special beers on Thurs-Sat on account of it being their 1st anniversary. So, I had to put up with the likes of great IPAs and barrel aged sours and stoutsfrom breweries like pFriem, Block 15, Fremont, Modern Times, Firestone Walker, and others I'm forgetting at the moment. Also, local favorite Iron Goat debuted what they called a "Munich dunkel bock" and the 2018 version of their citrus-infused IIPA aged in gin barrels. All in all, it's been a pretty good beer week, even with me being unable to attend the Spokane Brewer's Festival at the arena (this year they finally realized more people would probably come if they didn't do it in early August on sun-baked asphalt, like the last two years. Some real Einsteins at work there...).

But I digress. NBS is about new beer today, so I give you this, an Imperial IPA brewed with "hibiscus, raspberry, and rhubarb":

What beer is this, you ask?

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/36113/356569/?ba=woemad#review
A gift from my friend Ben who runs a small but excellent bottleshop (small in terms of beer quantity-he gets some great stuff no one else carries) and bar called Nectar, I liked this a lot more than the only other person who has rated it. Perhaps I was less dismayed by an adjuncty hazy IIPA with a dark pink hue than he was! Anyway, while not something I'd want to session, I very much enjoyed this fairly unique beer.

 

First review as usual. Outstanding gose! Great head retention and spotty lacing for a sour. Ruby red/pink/purple color. Aromas and flavors of big sour/tart/tangy blackberry, raspberry, strawberry, fruit skin/seeds, lemon, lime, orange, pear, green apple, melon, red grape, sea salt, hay, straw, and grass; with moderate wheat/cracker malts; light lacto funk, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate fruity/lactic tartness, fruit tang, and light spiciness on the finish. Medium-high carbonation, light-medium body, and moderately crisp finishing. Balanced grainy wheat, lactic acid, fruit tang/tannins, and light salinity in the mouthfeel. Moderate increasing tart/tangy/carbonated dryness, no pucker. Very flavorful/refreshing, 4.5%. Not overly lactic or salty. They really nailed this one. Not as sour as most of their other Gose/Berliners, but similar to the recent Blueberry on acidity. Awesome balance of jammy dewberries, salt, Lacto complexity; with a nice pale/wheat malt backing against acidity. 4.15


I had to add this one. Never had anything from them yet. Fantastic NEIPA! Nice head retention/lacing on the glass. Aromas and flavors of big tangerine, orange juice, lemon, peach, pear, pineapple, passion fruit, papaya, mango, melon, guava, gooseberry, blueberry, grapefruit, citrus peel/zest, and light pepper/pine hops; with moderate white, biscuit dough malts; and herbal, floral, grassy hop earthiness. Very mild pine, zesty, herbal, grassy, spicy bitterness on the finish. Medium carbonation/body; bready/grainy malts and light sticky hop in the mouthfeel. Slight resins in the back. Lightly increasing lingering bitter dryness, no hop astringency. Awesome soft feel for the style, very smooth. Wonderful Mosaic and Cryo Citra/Simcoe profile. Super juicy, vibrant, and fairly dank hop complexity; perfect wheat/oat/malt balance, mild residual sweetness. Need to seek out some more from this brewery. 4.2


Cheers, be back in a bit.

 

I'll take a Browning M-2 .50 cal all day & cut through what ever cover you are hiding behind. My buddy in Korea said his Dad had an insane amount of notches in his M-1 from from that same Campaign.

 

Good evening NBS, Glad to hear the trip was fun @lordofthewiens , just one of the many good things to come I am sure. We have been at it all week. Wife had a birthday of some importance, family and both sons home. Starting to quiet down now and just in time to respond to the work backlog.
Today's offering is from Element Brewing a fine session IPA with Orange blossom, the feel is spot on for these hot days, full of nice citrus, avoids the bitterness, while delivering a disproportionate amount of flavor to the body. Quite well done, I will be putting a few more in the fridge for these remaining summer weeks.

Cheers All

Star Gazer IPA

Element Brewing Company
American IPA / 4.00% ABV

4.1/5 rDev 0% | Score: 4.1
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Poured from a bottle dated 6/2018 into the test glass.
A - Lovely goldenrod colored backdrop, active carbonation moves relentlessly top side. With nice clarity the offering allows full view of the inner workings that support the thin white cap.
S - Floor swept malt, lots of Orange note, melon rime, and a bit of fresh cut grass
T - Citrus up front all orange in the best ways, a light malt wave, Yeast is neutral in this affair. Herbal hops are matched well
M - Very light on the palate, clean and crisp, with excellent citrus feel. Dry finish is near perfect
O - A real treat here, light on the palate, full in aromatics and the flavors are all summer, nicely done Element!
This is made for these summer days

 

#2, I love the base beer, so I’ve been looking forward to trying this since I picked it up.



4.03/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Pours a jet black color, no leakage anywhere, with a big ol’ tan head. Simply gorgeous. The nose has a little bit of stone fruit and char, and a LOT of sweet fruit notes.

The sweetness is up front on the taste, and there’s a noticeable bitterness as well. The mouthfeel is not as substantial as I like for the style. I love the base beer, and this is certainly a spin on that beer, but if given the choice of this vs the base beer, I’d choose the base beer 100 times out of 100.