New Beer Sunday (Week 738)

Good morning NBS! Keepin’ it close to home today with a new year round brew from a local legend

12oz bottle bb 5/5/19 poured into a pint glass
A: Pale yellow with a lingering 1/2 finger head
S: Typical IPA citrus/pine/malt
T: Dry, herbal, generic bitterness
M: Light-bodied, dry, bitter
O: A well-made but run of the mill IPA

 

The beer looks really enjoyable! Great crown formation and love the ruby tints along with the clarity that I see from the pictures.

Thanks for sharing your homebrews, it’s interesting!

 

Poured into a 16 oz Nordic Pint glass canned on 3/14/19. Pours a slightly hazy orange yellow with a half finger sticky white head that leaves thin webs of lace after each sip. 4

Smell is guava, pineapple, tangerine, and mango really juicy. 4.25

Taste follows guava, tangerine, pineapple, and mango simple and tasty! 4.25

Mouthfeel is a big medium, soft gentle carbonation, a tad sticky but not dry, and at 8% ABV extremely approachable. 4.5

Overall not the haziest NEDIPA, but crazy tasty and crushable. Really good stuff! 4.25

 

Now see that's more what I think of when I think Buck 65!

 

New beer #2. Hello, whale . Thanks @jhavs !

Triple Shot (Batch 1000) - Tree House
Imperial Stout - 10.1% abv
Score: 4.52 (-1.4% rDev)



Review:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/28743/386763/?ba=CanConPhilly#review

Synopsis:
One of those beers that ruins other beers for you. It’s just too good. Not sweet, no detectable booze. Just great coffee and liquid chocolate, with a hit of caramel and vanilla, combined together in a damn thick body. @jhavs only got 2 of these, and gave 1 to me, so I feel quite honored right now. Thanks again Jon!

 

Hey what's going on?!

Happy new beer Sunday, and always up for new beers. Hopefuly tasty ones.

Sorry got no jokes... at least none that wont get me banned from here I would imagine...

That being said, there's been "another" new brewery in my hood so it was overdue to check them out. Let's see what goodies are in store...

What's new for our hero today?

Chronicle Tropical Stout - Silver Branch Brewing.



Poured from the can into a nonic pint glass. Canned December 24th 2018.

Big aggressive and bold off the pour. Rich classic cascading forming head, reaching a fist-full controlled height and a dark tan color. Swiss cheese bubbles and layers of foam and popping bubbles as the beer settles. Nearly black bodied too, with opaque appearance and dark walnut color that is consistent throughout. Very big and bold looking stout here, a great start.

Real nice inviting aroma. Soft grains with a big chewy sensing roast quality. Thick dark chocolate with real bready molasses quality, with faint hints of roast coffee. Perhaps a sense of milky tones without the over reaching sweetness as well. This is very nice.

Palate stays grounded. A very better than average mouthfeel that is quite silky and rich feeling. The base flavors tend more towards light roasted grains while there is marriage of dark chocolate and coffee. Aftertaste is a bit unique, flirts slightly banana, maybe a touch of faint herbal hop, but sticks with real dark chocolate and almost a ganache like coating and flavor. Mild tinny aftertaste unfortunately but very slightly and not jarring.

Described as a "tropical stout" and rich would be appropriate. Very nicely done and comes with a great body and rich flavor.

look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4 | BA Generated Score: 4.1

Cheers!

 

Tropical stout? Maybe they mean it's a Foreign Export Stout? That substyle does tend to be fairly popular in the tropics.

 

Dinosaur Mind Control from Burning Barrel Brewing, ordered from Tavour.
4.02/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4

Pours an opaque orange with a half inch fluffy white head that left minimal lacing. Smells of strong tropical and citrus fruits. Tastes of blood orange, tangerine, papaya, under ripe pineapple and apricot. Medium bodied, highly carbonated bordering on over carbonation, prickly mouth feel, dry and light to moderate bitter finish.

 

A-Pours a nice amber color with a nice head and lacing
A-Aroma has hop hints
T-The taste follows the nose with a hop flavor
M-A medium bodied very well carbonated beer
O-A good IPA

 

I am all about the FES!!!! Wish brewers made more of them! Based on it's taste sounds like a proper call.

 

How can you tell when a joke becomes a dad joke?
When the punchline becomes a parent (apparent)!!

So according to the site here, I've had two other Munich Dunkels.
One was the Ayinger, which I vaguely remember really enjoying (ratings support a positive impression), and the other was a Rauch Dunkel from Heater Allen, which I also enjoyed, but was also several years ago.
Today I dip back into a box of goodies I picked up when I went up to Canada to celebrate my mom's birthday a couple of months ago.

Moon Under Water - Creepy Uncle Dunkel

Appropriate, considering I feel like I kind of resemble the eponymous uncle on the label. I let my beard grow when I went to South Africa, and then superstition crept in as my preferred baseball team got off to an unexpectedly fortuitous start. I kind of missed having the beard, but I think at this point I'm getting ready to be done with it, and the recent skid from the Ms may be the motivation to do something about it!

So on to it.
This is the second I've had from this brewery, and I quite enjoyed the pils of theirs I had.



Pour appears mostly medium brown on the counter, but when you hold it up to any kind of light you can see how much red it has in it. Decent head of light light brown swells and fizzles into nothing pretty easily. No lacing.

Nose leads in with clean malts. Sweet, nutty, maybe a hint of toast and a hint of cocoa. Really inviting and just begging me to move from the nose to the tongue.

Same sort of ideas start things off down there. Nutty sweet malts... caramel and like riesen chocolate. Again some mild toast and mild nuttiness (you could find a nutella comparison if you really dug). Mild earthy bitterness to give some balance. The flavours are all really enjoyable and there's the specter of a rich fudginess to it, but the whole thing is more thin and watery in its ACTUAL presentation than I would prefer. Some mild mineralic component as well that fades as it warms.
Finish is rich and enjoyable and just reiterates what I wish the whole experience could have been. Bright active effervescence helps give life to the thinness of the body.
A lot to like in here, but ultimately it leaves me wanting just a little bit... more. Of itself. It's like that friend growing up who really needed to come out of their shell and just embrace how awesome they are, but remained so bottled up inside themselves and watered down. I don't know, I lost that analogy somewhere along the way, pretty early on. Anyway, hope you've got something good to sip on, and cheers!!


@JayWhitson we were talking about THB the other day and you posted a track from there earlier. I still think of this song any time I'm listening to a baseball game. I think the Riverbed series are what I associate the most with that album in general, but this is the one that probably hits my mind brain most frequently

 

Krombacher Pilsner on tap. I had this beer on Wed, We had just seen the matinee of Hamilton and were going to dinner. I was surprised to see Krombacher as 1 of only 3 draft beers they had and ordered it. It was served in a red wine glass. The beer is pale gold with a long lasting white head. Nice aroma of crackers and bread, The taste follows the aroma but also has malt and a bit of pepper. The mouthfeel is medium and the finish is dry. Overall a very enjoyable beer that I would be happy to drink again.

 

I’ve always been bad at remembering or telling jokes so I’ll just enjoy the ones the rest of you guys/gals post today.

My first NBS beer is courtesy of @beertunes which he sent as part of NBS BIF Nein. Nice and easy start today and a style which I am slowly discovering and enjoying quite a bit.

16.9 ounce bottle with no date seen but I assumed it is fresh by the generous BA who sent it. Poured into an English tulip glass. (I need to rectify having no Pilsner glass.)
Golden yellow, fluffy pillow of 2 fingers head. Slightly aggressive pour. The head condensed, flattened but lasted damn near the entire beer leaving laces all down (could be that I drank it that fast!)
Nose of lemon, hay, doughy malts. Plus it has that crisp, classic hop bitterness nose.
Taste starts out as malty sweet which opens up to crackers, lemon, earthy/spicy bitterness. Touch of honey at the finish.
Supremely drinkable with a light body and subtle finish.
This is a beer I could have year round whether sitting on the deck on a hot summer day or next to a fireplace at the cabin apres ski. (Or in today’s case, sitting in my kitchen looking out at a soggy backyard). Well done.
4.42 rDev +11.9%


Thanks Terry, this was a delicious start to Sunday.

 

Good afternoon. First up is this Liquid Paradise from New Belgium



3.96/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Big billowy white head was pleasant enough. Golden, crystal clear body offers a lackluster nose of maybe lemongrass and pepper, just not much going on. Taste on the other hand has plenty of depth as the same lemongrass appears, which morphs into an earthy green olive taste. Hidden amongst all that is a sweet caramely malt which ushers in some tangerine before earthy bitter provides the dry aftertaste.

 

New beer #3. Tired Hands just created a sub-brand called Little Log Cabin. Meant to be more traditional ipas, as opposed to the crazy shit Tired Hands usually does. This is their second offering. The first, a Galaxy ipa, sold out in hours and I wasn’t able to try it.

Perfect Feeling - Little Log Cabin (Tired Hands)
DDH Citra/Mosaic IPA - 8% abv
Canned 4/4/19 (10 days ago)
Purchased for $20/4 at Tired Hands
Score: 3.89 (-12.4% rDev)



Review:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/55669/408518/?ba=CanConPhilly#review

Synopsis:
Only 1 review before mine, so the high negative rDev should be taken with a grain of salt. This beer is incredibly dank. Liquid joint type of dank. If you like that description, you need to try this beer. For me, I prefer more balance, and don’t enjoy beers that taste like bud and nothing else (Ie Hemperor, and this). Guessing this will be a love/hate beer for most who try it.

 

Avery Tweak
..solid black with thin brown head
..light carbonation. Above average body,slight silky feel
...aroma is sweet bourbon, black coffee,roasted malt, alcohol, raisins and dark fruit
..taste is a nice mix as nothing really dominates and washes out other flavors. Raisins and dark fruit do show up first followed by bourbon and alcohol. Roasted malt and coffee definitely can be found which blends really well with a bitter dark chocolate flavor
..overall its excellent,some alcohol burn but nothing in sync with the high abv which is fairly well hidden. The bitter dark chocolate is a perfect match for the mildly sweet bourbon

 

Good afternoon, NBS, as I settle in for the back nine on Masters' Sunday. Speaking of good years, mine has been quite good on the sports front, as often documented here in this recurring thread. On the personal (personnel?) side, I guess I am one year closer to retirement than I was this time last spring, so there's that.

Decided to start my day with a Saison I bought for the NCAA men's basketball semi-final but I didn't not crack open then. The beer comes from Kent Falls brewery, who also brewed my NBS beer last week. This beer is called Equinox and is brewed every half year on the vernal and autumnal equinox, according to Kent Falls' site. I believe I saw somewhere it is [dry-]hopped with Equinox (renamed Ekuanot, apparently) - edit: it is in the brewer's notes on this site, which have been updated on Kent Falls website.

Anyhow, on to the beer:


It pours from the can with an anticipated straw yellow stream, filling the glass with a lightly hazed straw gold body upon which a fluffy white head perches.

The nose has a mostly classic farmhouse scent - slightly musty straw with a crackery malt, accented with peppery hops - more bell than black. Lighter aspects of grass, hay, and even a little high note of sweeter tropical fruit sneaking through.

Quite dry, this beer comes with carbonation just lively enough to add meaning, but not so strong as to distract. The dry Carrs cracker opening gets topped with green pepper, a thin swipe of tropical fruit spread, and a dash of white pepper. The middle has a little of that dusty barn aspect, and the late taste brings a little grass, though the green pepper is the flavor that ends up lingering longest.

The flavors lift this beer beyond its light feel, and the dryness has me looking for another sip immediately after the last. Artsy splotches of drying white foam are all that's left of this beer as this happens quickly.

This saison was pretty well described by the brewer, and fits into the interpretation of saison I like, lighter, dry, with a little hay and some "green" hop presence. I am hoping there may be some more four packs of this at my beer store.


Side note: this beer was listed twice - including a retired entry. I have made the requests to combine and unretire the beer (it should be rotating)

 

I'm happy for your new "station" in life. I love New Mexico. Jeez Louise, I've been retired for about 5 years and I'm still sorting out and editing a lifetime's ramblings kept in many places. It's the hardest work I've ever done, but the most fulfilling! Cheers to everyone..