New Beer Sunday (Week 709)

Golden road mango cart wheat beer
....appearance is a hazy golden yellow cooler
...body sits at around a medium as well as the carbonation
...aroma is mango juice( smells like peach juice as well) along with grain and wheat flour
..... taste is mango juice,syrup ( again I taste a little peach) very mild sour, bitterness that seems to come from the wheat by. It's a little sweet but far from sugary over the top sweetness.
Overall it was a very good version of a fruit wheat beer, one I would try again

 

That is an excellent side by side review. I love both of them!

 

Still riding the Pils wagon on the road to joy . . .


Very light clear golden color with white cap and lacing.

Aroma of yeasty bready rich malt with floral, spicy hops.

Taste on entry is a good mix of rich malt and spicy hops with malt leading by a small margin. The malt is substantial in it's presence with enough hops to spice and bolster the malt flavor. The hops sort of dance around alternatively showing both spice and floral but good malt remains the solid base.

Medium texture with balancing carbonation.

Nice match here between malt and hops. With a Pilsner some American brewers will try to spike thing up a bit in a West Coast kind of way but for me that just changes a Pilsner into sort of a Pale Ale while loosing the more charming aspects of the earlier style. This one remains true to form exhibiting balance as well as complexity.

 

New beer #4.

DDH True Green - Other Half
IIPA - 7.9% abv
Canned 8/30/18 (24 days ago)
Score: 4.04 (-5.8% rDev)



Review:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/33510/297026/?ba=CanConPhilly#review

Synopsis:
A little too vegetal and dank, but otherwise a very pleasing OH ipa. If I hadn’t just drank 2 world-class ipas earlier, I might have rated this higher. On a normal day, this would have been my favorite beer of the day, but thanks to @JBowenGeorgia and @Jimmy_Kneecaps this is not a normal day.

 

No idea how I'm still drinking today, considering I attended two Oktoberfest events in the Boston area yesterday (Night Shift and Olde Magoun's), but oh well! The show must go on. Two new beers today... both are saisons from Burial Beer Co. Since I skipped my caffeine this morning, I decided to start with this one.



Thresher is a low ABV (4.5%) golden saison brewed with coffee, specifically a lightly-roasted single lot seasonal bean from Counter Culture Coffee.

The pour here was intense, with a ridiculously huge, pillowy and fluffy head that built up to easily five or so fingers in my glass. You know a beer's gonna pour insanely when you crack the can and the foam starts escaping immediately! I love the color here, as well; a deep orange-golden yellowish color with a mostly-opaque body to it. Crazy, sticky lace patterning as it settles down to about two fingers at its lowest point. Wonderful.

The nose opens up with some spicy phenolic interplay and interesting herbal overtones before I start to pick up the coffee. It's indeed a light roast, with some slight berry notes and grassiness. That said, it still does give me the essence of a blonde roast coffee without clashing with the base saison. I wasn't expecting this nose from a beer clocking in at under 5%, but it's definitely impressive what they did within that box.

The flavor is, again, pretty spice-forward with some notes of clove and nutmeg combining with smooth coffee flavor and some wheat-like graininess. Slightly fruity too, in a sense... maybe like apricot or something; it's a very light note but I can pick it up in the mid-palate. The finish is dry and somewhat yeasty. Not the cleanest parting note, but I do like the element of coffee and the slight zing of hops working in tandem there. Carbonation is very heady, as expected. An interesting beer, and a cool idea. I think I've only ever seen a "coffee saison" done by one other brewery before, and that was a one-off (okay, a two-off since they did two versions with two different coffee beans, but they were similar anyway) by Mystic from here in MA.

Though this beer is pretty good, it's not really waking me up, so to speak! I'm more excited about the other one I've got on deck, however.

 

Great review as always, we get Weistephaner here, just not their Fest beer. How is that?

 

$18 a Crowler? Wow that’s even more than most Tired Hands crowlers. Hard to say any beer is worthy if you’re paying $9 a pint.

 

And I'm back for more.
I think my theme for the rest of the day is going to be Virginia. Thanks to certain people's kindness, I have this here beer from Aslin as well as one from Veil that I want to get drunk before they are too awful old. So far I have been impressed with what I've tried from both breweries.
I'm going to start off with Caw from Aslin.

This is an interesting, unique NEIPA.
It is not much to look at. Thick and orange with languid carbonation. The aroma is full of ripe stone fruit, citrus and a faint tart twang that I can't quite place. The flavor is ripe apricot and little else. I've never had a beer that so closely resembled apricot. From green apricot tartness all the way through the meaty sweetness of dried apricots. It is a little oversweet for me, and is a bit sticky and boozy for what I like in an IPA. Nonetheless, the way it all comes together to form a rich, clean, sweet fruity flavor like this is definitely to be appreciated. I'm glad to have tried it but it gets a little cloying after a while.

Here's my "real" review.

Santé!

 

Hello NBS. Internet is lagging today so I’m on mobile and will keep it brief. My first brew on this fine Sunday is Weldwerks Juicy Bits. The hops involved are citra, mosaic, and el dorado. I’m stoked to try this, so let’s dive in.

Here is my attempt at being photogenic.


look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

Canned 9/5/18.
L: Pours a dark straw yellow color, almost has an orange tinge similar to the label coloring. About a finger of a dense frothy head which dissipated quickly. Heaps of residual lacing. Swirling the beer revives the head and further increases lacing on glass.
S:Extremely juice forward. Besides the usual citrus, I get alot of pineapple, mango, apricot and peach. Hop present is herbally with hints of black pepper. Loving the smell on this.
T: Very fruity. Huge amounts of pineapple, mango, guava and apricot. Hops are presented flavor-wise in a grassy fashion. Very mild bitterness but it is noted. Finish is smooth with lingering fruit sweetness.
F: Moderate to high carbonation. Smooth and easy to drink. Not as pillowy as other NEIPAs, but very enjoyable.
O: First time trying this brew, and I am diggin' it. I am very grateful to have tried. This is something I could crush regularly. Cheers NBS!

 

Dale, have you discussed this with any of your local retailers? Maybe the Festbier is available to them but they are simply deciding not to order it? I would request them to get you some if you would like to try it. FWIW the Weihenstephaner Festbier is my favorite Pale Oktoberfest beer.

Cheers!

P.S. And my favorite Amber Oktoberfest beer (both US brewed and German brewed) is Sly Fox Oktoberfest. Maybe buy a 6-pack of this beer when you come home for your next visit.

 

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Very nice I want that. Von Trapp. I've been to Waterbury twice and only hit the big time IPAs. I want a do over.

 

Newb.

 

NBS beer #2



Space Cake

Clown Shoes
American Imperial IPA / 9.00% ABV

4.12/5 rDev +1.5% | Score: 4.06
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

canned 08/22/18

L-The beer pours a deep slightly hazy amber. The head is a couple of fingers worth of white foam. The head recedes slowly to a thin film. Lacing is gorgeous curtains that show no signs of rejoining the beer.
S-The nose is less impressive than the look. The malt backbone is readily apparent here with some sweetness competing with citrus from the hops.
T- On the palate the beer doesn't come across as sweet as the nose. Up front the malt backbone remains pretty stiff and starts slightly sweet. Mid palate you start to get some grapefruit and pithy bitterness. The beer finishes with that light pithy bitterness lingering after the sip. If it didn't say 9% abv on the can I'd never guess it.
F-Mouthfeel overall is medium. There is a nice slickness to it. The carbonation is light.
O- This is nice West coast leaning DIPA. It's kind of a throwback, but I'm digging it. Recommended if you want something that isn't a NEIPA.

 

Having strawberry rhubarb sour from brewery vivant. Appearance is strawberry blonde. Smell is a dry sour woody smell. Flavor is a dry, funky sour. The fruit doesn't come through as much as I'd like. I was drawn in by the fruit choice, I'm a little disappointed with the lack of those flavors (to my palate). I just threw a spoon of strawberry rhubarb preserves in a half glass as an experiment.

 

Alright, here's my second and final NBS entry! This is a saison from Burial called Blade & Sheath. Man oh man, that art is even more Ed Hardy-esque than the last one. Some of their labels are really good, but I'm not huge on this one. Mostly due to the lettering, I suppose, but still. This clocks in at 6% ABV, making it slightly stronger than the other saison from them that I just finished up sipping on. The label makes it a point to tell me this was hopped with "a liberal amount of aromatic Grungeist and Calypso hops." Even though this can is from May of this year, I think it'll still have some hoppiness to it. Let's see if I'm right!

Pours a bit lighter than the Thresher, which is interesting cuz it's stronger by a percent and a half. Definitely expected it to be darker by a couple shades/SRM... hmm. Less of a gusher in terms of head, as well, with a smaller cap of foam. Still has amazing lace, however.

The nose is definitely fruity and citrusy, with a pithy grapefruit and orange element. Slightly earthy and grassy as well, with some "fruit gum"-like notes. Pineapple, peach candy and papaya come out a bit as I let it sit and open up. Really digging the smell of this beer. It's not overly hoppy or imbalanced... just a nice combination of juicy notes with the light funkiness of their yeast. I guess Grungeist can give off a peachy element, so I'm proud of myself for picking that up here without doing any prior research. Though I've had one or two commercially-available beers with this new hop varietal, I haven't had enough to understand it or remember it specifically. Glad my nose still works. And my brain. After yesterday, I was worried that neither of those things would function quite so well

Anyway, this has a really refreshing flavor profile as well, with some lemon, biscuity grains, light chewy wheat and spice notes from both the yeast and the use of triticale in the grist. Triticale is a crossbred grain, specifically a hybrid of wheat and rye. I haven't had many beers that use this unique grain, but I always love seeing it on ingredients lists (along with another similarly rare grain: spelt). Light black pepper and bubblegum notes that linger on the tongue. Dry and intensely carbonated. Less of a yeasty, dirty finishing note than the Thresher. I would love to try this a bit fresher, but it actually stands up pretty well with four months on it, especially for a hoppy saison. I'll grab this again for sure!

 

Great review, love Buriel beers.

 

Samuel Smith nut brown ale
..really nice reddish brown,auburn color
..body is about medium light with medium carbonation. Body sometimes feels a little thin which makes the carbonation come off prickly
.. aroma is malt,yeast,roasted malts, doughy bread, and an earthy nuttiness.
Taste is malt driven but has more hop bitterness than the aroma hints at. The earthy nuttiness comes through and lingers along with the bitterness.
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