New Beer Sunday (Week 742)

New Beer Sunday: American Pale Ale (APA)

Afternoon NBSers with a recommendation for folks in SE PA who are APA fans and seeing 3 Floyds beers for the first time in our area.

While prepping the fixings for some black bean burritos to have as part of dinner tonight, this afternoon’s new beer is the 3 Floyds Space Station Middle Finger.

My review, in progress, can be found here:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/26/91358/?ba=drtth#review


The aromas/flavors are in a very nice balance with the hops and malts both sharing center stage. There’s some caramel and tropical fruits, including a touch of melon and some lychee. The light citric zest tinged bitterness is present and noticeable but not obtrusive. After the fruit flavors and sweetness begin to fade the bitterness recedes more slowly as it moves to the back of the palate where it slowly disappears. This is not your father’s APA and I’ll be looking to have more.

Cheers

 

Alaskan Brewing co.
2018 smoked porter



Look:
Deep brown, ruby hue
1/2" mocha head, foamy with some bubbles.
Nice lacing
4.0

Smell:
Roasted malts ( 5 different malts used and elder for smoking before brewing)
Espresso, raisins and figs. Toasted nut bread.
4.0

Taste:
Roasty bitterness (45 ibu's), bitter dark chocolate, plums, sherry.
Smoke becomes apparent while sipping away and enjoying.
4.25

Feel:
Medium mouthfeel with a creamy, smooth texture. Slight chalkiness.
4.0

Overall:
A nice enjoyable sipper right around 5.6% abv.
4.0

Food pairing:
Prosciutto wrapped pan seared scallops.

Cheers.

 

Congrats!

 

Next up is one I had a sample of yesterday while visiting with @Buck89 at southern Grist and got this crowler to go.



Hoppy Timbs

Color is a dense, murky, opaque golden yellowish orange with billowing eggshell white head which has great retention and lacing after the fact. The scent reminds me of some tired hands and other half brews I have had from @CanConPhilly . Pungent overripe fruits and cheese radiate from the glass. I think you would love this one Matt. They didn’t have cans or I would definitely send you some. More of the same on the taste with a little sweetness and a little bitterness to back it up. Mouthfeel is more than medium, soft, pillowy, all that jazz. Overall good NE style ipa from my favorite Nashville brewery.

 

And I thought it was only Matt that picked up cheese!

 

Poured into a 13 oz Kettlehead Snulip glass not sure when it was canned. Pours a very cloudy yellow with a half finger white head that leaves some thin wisps of lace as it slowly settles. 4

Smell is clove, banana, lime, and a hint of mint. 3.75

Taste follows banana, clove, clove, lime, and a tiny amount of mint. 3.75

Mouthfeel is bigger than average, subtle carbonation, a touch dry, and drinks bigger than 5.8% ABV. 4.25

Overall this is a very nice Saison, I could sipnthis from time to time. 3.75

 

I think it’s only him that picks up the meats. It’s kinda danky cheese. It’s a fine line I think. On second thought maybe he wouldn’t like it. To me it’s very close to the stuff tired hands does with the sweet overripe fruits. Not my favorite SG brew but it’s pretty good.

 

Yuengling Golden Pilsner This beer has been around for about a year. I'm not much of a Yuengling fan so I hadn't tried it until this past week. A pleasant surprise a nice enjoyable brew. It pour a beautiful bright gold with a thick white head that is GTTW quickly. The aroma is mild some bready malt and some hops. The mouthfeel is light the finish id dry. Overall a pretty nice enjoyable beer. If you think of this beer as a Pilsner it not a very good one. If you consider it as A an AAL (which IMO is what it is) it's a very good one in fact one of the best.
A second new beer. Russian Imperial Stout from Untied Brewing in New Providence NJ a local. Many of the small breweries around me brew RIS's but can't resist adding flavors to them. I prefer that plain jane just H2O,Malt, Hops and yeast. Untied split their batch 5 barrels plain jane , 5 barrels to play with. That did a fine job with the plain jane. 10.5 %ABV it pours jet black with a nice brown long lasting head. Very strong roasted malt aroma. The taste is the same strong roasted malt and the ABV is hidden. The mouthfeel is full and the finish is dry. Overall a excellent RIS. By far the best beer they have brewed in there short history.

 

Those scallops sound delicious, can we get a review of those?

 

Good afternoon NBSers, the wife decided she wanted to just hang around the house today and chill, I am cooking her supper tonight. I am opening and sharing a few beers with her, this one came from @thebeers in a recent BIF. Sunny Day a DDH DIPA from Little Log Cabin, Arthur said these guys are an offshoot of Tired Hands and this beer is excellent. The 9% ABV is not labeled on the can and you cannot pick it up in the beer either, well balanced easy drinking DIPA.



Appearance 4.5 - pours opaque deep orange with a nice fluffy white head that settles pretty quickly to a thick ring.

Aroma 4.25 - Getting some big sweet tropical fruit, mild onion, little bit of grass. Cold no sign of the alcohol but it shows just a bit as it warms some.

Taste 4.25 - Right up front I get some orange/tangerine I expected it to be pretty sweet based on the lactose sugar but once the initial tropical fruit passes it quickly changes to a nice bitterness with citrus peel and grapefruit.

Feel 4 - Pretty creamy nice soft carbonation, slightly dry finish.

Overall 4.24 - I really like the NEIPAs that have some balance to them, this one is very well balanced. I almost for got about the 9% alcohol there is no sign of it.

 

Hello, Hello
That’s the new beer I’m drinking, not a salutation. But hello everyone as well!

New DIPA from River Roost in White River Junction VT. One of my favorite spots. Drinking this at Big Fatty’s which is in same parking lot as the brewery.

Hazy and bright orange beer with thin cover of foam. Foam settles down into tiny floating bubbles and thin collar.

Aroma bursts with citrus and fruity hops. Grapefruit zest and ripe sweet fruit. Can’t pinpoint the fruit, but tropical and lightly sweet.

Flavor is fruity and layers of citrus juice and zest. A bit of sweet fruit salad but balanced nicely with a bit of grain and background bitterness.

Soft and smooth with out a hint at the 8.2% ABV. Moderate carbonation and medium body.

Another great River Roost brew. I stopped at the brewery to grab their new edition of their BA stout series Rhythm of the Night.

I’ll add this brew to BA when I get home and can use laptop instead of computer

 

A-Pours a nice clear golden color with a nice head and lace
A-Aroma has sour hop hints
T-The taste follows the nose with a nice sour hop flavor
M-A light bodied very well carbonated beer
O-A good Sour Ale

 

New BA Baltic Porter Sunday (Week 742)
Greetings fellow NBSers from on the ridge in Mid Hud Val, NY. I should be rejoicing about the fact that we are getting flooded with rain, but... that's enough now, mushrooms are happy, you can go ahead and stop now, Ms. Nature. Morels here are temperamental, and the worst for them is a few summer like days of heat. Also bad is protracted cold, and that has been the story here. Have had the weird experience of my best spots not producing and my least successful spots doing okay. Poor but not terrible season so far, but a few warm days may yet save it. Here's from one of my few decent days so far

Today's beer is a variant of BA Framinghammer. Regular Framinghammer, and Regular BA Framinghammer are also fucking amazing beers. Get some if you haven't tried them! But if you, like me, are a hard core coffee lover this is gonna be in your sweet spot, like it is mine. Coffee BA Framinghammer

My synopsis of this beer is it is a thickish, almost stout-like Baltic Porter that wants to be so much more, and succeeds. It actually is its own niche, and deserves to be. Coffee does dominate, but it is with help from righteous roasty chocolate and char goodness, and burnt sugars, as well as bourbon barrel notes and even a touch of hoppy citrus. Never gets acrid, doesn't build, alcohol well hidden, but a nice warming touch. Marvelous beer, go get some, highly recommended.

Full review is here https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/26520/93249/?ba=cavedave#review

Hope you also have a Great American Beer in your glass. Cheers!

 

Nice late spring day here in the upper midwest. Just back in the house from the first lawn mowing of the season. Picked up a couple of different German Kellerbiers last week. Time to try one.

Grevensteiner Original Naturtrübes Landbier

IBU: 23
ABV: 5.2%


Bready aroma, with caramel and apple.

Thick, creamy off-white head, 1 inch, receding moderately with a deeply pitted surface and thick lacing. Slightly cloudy (but mostly clear) deep amber color with plentiful rising bubbles. Very inviting look in my footed pilsner glass.

Despite the abundant bubbles, palate is a bit flat but with nice body.

Robust complexity to the taste: fruity, caramel, grainy malts, nutty, floral hops, subtle hops bittering in the middle and lingering. Finish is tending toward dry, but more chewy and thick than crisp.

Overall, very enjoyable. The robust taste is very nice, but the finish lacks crispness.

L: 4 | S: 3.75 | T: 4 | F: 3.5 | O: 3.75 | BA: 3.84

 

I figured this rainy cold day would be a good stout NBS. I know I'm late to the party with this popular beer, but hey, Bell's has only been in CT for about a year, cut me some slack.
Happy Mother's day. In the background of my photos is a chocolate cake I made from scratch today for my wife and her(our) sons. What a pain in the ass, not doing that again for a long time. However when desert comes along I know the perfect beer compliment to the cake is available in my house.

Bell's Expedition Stout.

Poured from a 12oz bottle dated 8/19/18 to a diagonal cut tumbler.
Pours opaque brown/black with a one finger brown head.
Aroma is rich, reminds me of chocolate covered cherries with brandy inside.
This is a complex beer, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, cherries, brandy maybe a touch of smoke, I don't normally like sweet stouts, and this isn't sweet except maybe by my standards, but I like this a lot. The mouthfeel is full tongue coating, sticky. This viscosity and surface tension nicely but temporarily coats the glass with each sip.
A new beer for my stout list for sure.
I gave it 4.5 in all the boxes.

 

WBAYDN cross-post.

Diving into a local imperial stout, Cosmic Eye's Your Friend Death. 8.4% ABV, 4/16/19 canned on date. $2.99 single at the local store.



I would have rated the taste a 4 (and I really should have) but it's just a bit too bitter to be as enjoyable as it could be.

First review!

3.94/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

Your Friend Death, 12 oz can dated 4/16/19, 8.4% ABV, poured into Stella Artois chalice.

Deep, silky black with a creamy almond head of 1/2 finger.

Slick coffee and cocoa aromas, with acidic black roasted coffee and a hint of blackberry.

Flavor brings a huge wave of coffee-chocolate, the chocolate turning more into the dark bitter cacao kind, with hints of dark berry and grassy piney hop.

Feel is creamy and silky, with a soft carbonation but pleasantly adequate.

Overall, a very delicious textbook Russian Imperial Stout. Very deep, bitter, dark, and roasty. It's a bit too bitter for me, so it's a little rougher to finish, but it is definitely enjoyable and a good example.

 

Tired Hands - Henry & Dudley: Boogie Woogies
7% ABV saison with cherry and passion fruit, aged in French oak barrels



Opening something that's hopefully tasty for the Portland-Denver game. Hope everyone is enjoying Mother's Day!

The look is hazy yellow-orange with streaming carbonation and a white head (4.5)

The nose is complex. Lemon, pineapple, cherry, passion fruit, saltine cracker, and funk (4.25)

The taste is lemon, honey, white pepper, and oak, with tropical flavors in the background (4.25)

The mouthfeel is medium and lightly puckering, with a semi-dry finish and lingering pineapple and saltine flavors (4.25)

Overall, a bright, pretty beer that's less fruity than you'd expect with the amount of fruit in it. Nice oaky balance. Pushing 4.5 but I'll go with (4.25) - 4.26