New Beer Sunday (Week 783)

Next beer.
I got this from @dprice , if I'm not mistaken. And I thank you so much for this.
Glitter Parts Mango Colada from Levante Brewing.

I really like the mango in this beer. I really don't eat much mango, but I do like it a lot, and really should eat them more. Really tasty beer, and here's the low down.

4.12/5 rDev +4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Pours a murky, turbid, shade of orange. 1 finger white, and frothy head. Head retention is ok. No lacing on the glass.
The nose has a nice touch of mango. It also has plenty of hops in it. The hops lean more toward pine to me, but there's also some citrus in the hops.
Taste - Nice mellow mango flavor. The hops on the nose really aren't there much in the flavor. There's some, and, unlike the nose, what's there seems like citrus to me.
Crisp feeling. The carbonation tickles my palate. The body is decent.
Tasty and delicious IPA.


Maybe one more, not sure yet.

 

#2, this will be going to my target in NBS BIF XI, as will other (think HUUUUUGE) beers from Three Floyd’s.

PS: the glass is also a product of an NBS BIF, courtesy of @beertunes. Probably my favorite glassware.





4.35/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Pours black with a creamy tan head. Looks the part of an imperial porter, and the nose, featuring the honey, oak, and peppers referenced on the label, plus rich chocolate (thank you cacao nibs) and roasty char.

The honey and peppers are the stars of this beer, with the honey lending a sweetness and body to this beer that coalesces with the peppers (that provide heat through the end of the taste) and cacao nibs to create a big beer (8.5% ABV) that is perfectly balanced.

The mouthfeel is on point, full and a little creamy, which I’d expect from an imperial porter. This is executed really well, IMHO.

 

My 1st from Tennessee, a well made Belgian Saison. Cheers.

4.06/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

An easy pour from a 12-oz. can makes a finger sized soapy white head with long retention and sticky broken rings of lace. Hazy yellow gold color, translucent and almost cloudy.

Funky lawn mower bag grassy smell with spicy clove and citrus-both sweet and sour greet the nose. Pitted fruits, unripe apple and wet horse in the background. Floral and herbal hops rise as the funk subsides to wet ground.

Semi-dry with moderate bitterness, the taste differs from the smell in that the funk and citrus are subdued as biscuit-like malt rises. Multiple fruit flavors and some fresh bread dough are added along with toasted multi-grain bread and wheat.
The finish is long as it dries while bitterness rises to above average, the aftertaste lingers with hops, spice and grass.

Medium light body, soft abundant carbonation. Alcohol is well hidden, dare I say session-able. Smooth drinker with plenty of tastes. Matches style guidelines except for the bold hops, it's made in the USA so no points off.

 

Pretty amazing that this thread is 15 years old, 15 years ago I was a senior in high school who did not drink. Since than I have gone from a teenager that loved math wrestling, now I’m a math teacher and a wrestling coach that has also found a love for reviewing beers. This thread is a great thread on this site and has helped me reviews beers better along with beer able to see other great beer people are trying. This is probably my last new beer of the night and reading reviews of this beer on here I bought it and accidentally forgot about for a year and half. Well now I goes is good as anytime to try this, Bell’s 30th Anniversary Cherry Stout.
4.24/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

12 oz bottle poured into a tulip

A- Black with a small mocha head head.

S- Roasted malts, a touch of smoke, some cherries, chocolate.

T- Chocolate, cherries, roasted malts, a little smoky, some dark fruits.

M- Smooth, full body.

O- At about a year and half old it is still a tasty stout. Cherries might be a little faded, but still has a great balance.

Cheers NBS!!

 

Drekker Wheez The Juice NEIPA, 5.5% ABV. Pours hazy yellow with a three-finger white foamy head that left lots of foamy lacing. Nose is light citrus. Taste is slight pine, orange, moderate bitter close. Decent mouthfeel, overall excellent. Hoping not to Wheez the Juice.

4.09/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

 

Cheers to Louis, I'm sorry for your loss, losing a friend of any kind isn't easy

 

I really liked that one back in the day. Not just the overall impression but even the picture is similar, five years later...And holy shit, time flies.

 

Cheers NBSers
I have a new to me beer today Supa
Sumo from TG Citra and Mosaic hops
L-4 A-4 T- 4.25 MF 4.25 O 4.25

poured from a can into a can glass, thin dissipating head, straw yellow hazy color
Aroma is tropical and earthy with a hint of pineapple
Taste is pineapple and orange rind and kind of creamy
It’s pretty dank to astringent with a bit of a fizz on the tongue. Pineapple and orange rind notes. It finishes bitter and dry
Overall it’s a tasty DIPA, not sweet at all and on the bitter to dry side

 

Courtesy @Mikexw - A style I didn't even know existed, but am I glad to be wrong.
I poured a little hard and had to wait, but it was worth it. That aroma promised of tart tastes and the ale did not disappoint, on any level. Mouth feel was excellent, taste was pour sour with a hint of hops. A fitting exclamation point to a wild weekend.
Cheers!

 

Hey NBS. It's been a while since I've reviewed, but have a few Sundays in a row where I think I'll be able to contribute. The 15 year talk really made me think about how far I've come in regards to beer.

15 years ago, I was 18 and having my first beer. I wasn't against drinking in high school, but all my friends lived in the country and I somehow was smart enough not to drink and drive.

I still remember my first beer, as it was Keystone from a keg at 8 a.m. on a Saturday morning, tailgating a Hawkeyes football game. Probably not the best way to start, but could have been worse. As I hit 21, I got enamored with the Old Chicago beer passport, but still stayed with lagers and other light beers. I remember during March Madness while I was in grad school, picking up a mix six of IPAs, thinking that the "pale" meant it was light. Quite a palate shock for sure.

As I got into my mid-20s, I started to venture out more, and on my first date with my now wife, she ordered a Lagunitas IPA, so I felt that I had to order something crafty as well, and the rest is history. Whenever her family gives me a hard time about traveling for beer or drinking blind beers at their place, I jokingly remind them that if it wasn't for my wife, I don't know if I would have ever made that first trek to find Pseudo Sue or planned vacations around beer and food.

Anyways, here's my first of a couple beers tonight. I received this one this week from @Mbgreg in the Rookies BIF I run. It's a great BIF for beginners and also has a few solid veterans helping as well. @Mikexw helped check my guidelines at the start and also has helped a lot with grids for targets. It's also cool to see a few from it trickle their way over here as well.

Westbrook Lassi What You Think About That



4.29/5 rDev -3.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Canned 2/4/20, received from Mbgreg in the Rookie BIF.

Pours a murky red, very thick with about two fingers of pink foamy head. I poured it hard to see what type of head it'd leave. Mild, fruity smell. It's definitely raspberry, but not hitting me over the head with it. Taste is also pretty straight forward raspberry, but that's not a bad thing. I couldn't taste the vanilla until it started to warm up, and even then it was subtle, which I think worked well for the beer. Drinks smooth. Overall a very nice fruity beer.

 

Next round, and I believe that this is from @Griff57 . I am enjoying this, and very happy you sent it.
Other Half Brewing Banana Coconut Crumble.

I am a huge banana fan. I also like coconut, so this beer is right up my alley. The flavors really work together, and it's a pleasure to drink.

Review:

4.22/5 rDev +5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Pours a darker shade of orange. 1 finger head, but the head retention is poor, and there's no lacing on the glass.
The nose has a nice coconut aroma, that's cut with the banana. Nice sweetness on it, but not overpowering.
Taste - the taste is quite sweet, but not to the point where it's too much. Nice banana and coconut flavor. There's also a malty flavor in this beer that adds on to the banana and coconut. I also get some lactose in this beer.
The body is thick and creamy.
A nice tasty treat, and a pleasure to drink.


I think I'll be done with this. Might not be able to join you, because I'm likely going to be ice fishing in North Dakota next Sunday. I'll see you if I can.

 

I think you will like it.

Cheers!

 

Jamming with @LarryV today so very late but I have alot of brews from TH so I wanted to get a quick one in.
Treehouse Shimmer DIPA
Pours a hazy yellow gold with almost a 2" head that has quite the staying power. Settling it leaves tons of sticky lacing.
Aroma is loads of pineapple, peach, tangerine and passionfruit with grassy/floral/pine notes.
Flavors follow with tropicals and citrus, watermelon/melon ( characteristics of their house yeast I believe now) peach and a very soft bitter finish of grapefruit and pine. Full flavored and delicious.
Feel is medium but drinks like its lighter. Light carbonation. Soft as hell while still maintaining a good balance of sweet/bitter. Creamy, hop oils. Zero hint of 8%. I am drinking juice here and its freaking tasty. Im usually not a fan of fruit puree added beers, especially IPAs but as usual TH nails the hops and fruit IPA. Great stuff. And slightly different.

 

Taxman Brewing Exemption

Happy Sunday, BAs. Hope you’ve all enjoyed your weekends.

Fifteen years ago, I was about a decade into my craft/microbrew journey. I had very much started as a malt advocate, but by 2005 was definitely into the hoppy stuff: Victory Hop Devil, Stoudts APA, Troegs HopBack Amber. But I was starting to get into Belgians, too — and was only a year or two away from a hop hiatus, during which I drank mostly pils.

In 2005, I was still almost a decade away of even thinking to look up a beer on the Internet rather than just try it. High costs of beer are what drove me here.

My first review on BeerAdvocate was a tripel, and that’s the style of the new beer in my glass today, thanks to @AyatollahGold.

Exemption pours a mostly-clear honey-gold with a fat finger of dense, off-white head that leaves thick, clingy lacing. (It’s more yellow gold than the picture here suggests.)

It has a clean, grainy aroma with a little lemony soap, but otherwise almost none of the fruity sweetness I expect from the style.

The cleanness carries over to the taste. There’s only a kiss of fruity sweetness up front — pear, maybe a hint of banana — with some light alcohol burn, some borderline-ashy graininess and slight bitterness in the finish. Grainy is the key word here.

The mouthfeel is pretty spot-on: lightly syrupy, somewhat chewy, with modest carbonation.

Exemption isn’t bad, but it’s a bit too clean for a tripel, to my taste. While it doesn’t hold up against readily-available Belgian (or Canadian) examples, it’s still an enjoyable drink. Thanks, Dayton.

 

Long time reader first time poster to NBS.

15 years ago I was an avid Yeungling Lager and Sam Adams drinker. Probably wasn't until 2009 or 2010 that I discovered that there were beer styles other than AAL and whatever Sam Adam's was brewing.

This is the latest NEIPA from New Trail Brewing in Williamsport, PA. They produce a lot of NEIPAs, most of which are pretty tasty if you like that sort of thing. Anyway, let's get down to it:

Appearance: Dull, dark orange in color with an opaque, unfiltered appearance. Not much to look at. Poured with a short, creamy, bright white foam with medium low retention.



Aroma: Bright citrus orange, pineapple juice, peach, and fruity aromas with medium light malt. Fruity aromas are more on the fleshy, pitted fruit side than tour typical NEIPA.

Feel: Medium bodied with medium light carbonation. Smooth feel with pleasant boozy warmth to the end. Feel was smooth, but not the creamy, lush feel one looks for in the style.

Flavor: Citrus orange and pineapple flavors with apricot, peach and fruit notes. Medium light bitterness with peach, apricot and fruit flavors on the back end. Finished with fruity flavors and pleasant boozy warmth.

Overall, very fruity with a lack of balance. The bitterness was pretty light and could have offset the fruity character a bit. Not New Trail's best offering, but still pretty tasty.

Cheers!

 

Happy CANtinued & CANtinuing New Clear Out the Reefer Beers Sunday (Week 783)!
I have been a busy lad today, making room in my reefer like it has not seen in a while. The aforementioned Pens/Caps game did not end to my satisfaction, but c'est la guerre. The playovs are looming & jagovs CAN line up to take shots acCANdingly.

I am really digging reading that DKs book! Once upon a time, only Miami (OH) U & Oxnard (CA) College offered a course in Rock & Roll History. Enter The Woodman! It met on T & H afternoons, forcing me to get special permission from work to attend. Once granted, I became the professor's fave student, helping him to revamp his curriculum while being held to the highest standards ever. His admonition after Day 1: "Do NOT think that a term paper about The Beatles is going to get you through, mister!" Ha! My civilian supervisor & I hit upon a treatise on "The Widow Cobain: Courtney Love & Hole's 'Live Through This'". This was at the advent of the Internet, so much of my research was through TV, magazines & newspaper articles. My prof was blown away & copied it in its entirety for future use.

Since I last saw yinz, I have been drinking:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/42560/297330/?ba=woodychandler#review


https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/9784/241989/?ba=woodychandler#review


https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/40386/450455/?ba=woodychandler#review


& finally (I think):
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/27273/407366/?ba=woodychandler#review

Do CANpare my pic to the approved pic. The CANbination will give you the full CANorama! I'm going to close here. If I am able to CANtinue, it will be in "WBAYDN?". I'll see you next Sunday, but as an older man!

 

Taxman Brewing Co. - Bourbon Barrel Deduction

A Belgian-style dubbel ale aged in bourbon barrels.

Thank you @AyatollahGold!





Look: Barely translucent, murky dark brown to reddish brown in the light. A lot of visible carbonation streaming up the sides of the glass. Khaki colored head settles to a thick ring around the edge of the glass and a thin layer of foam/sporadically placed small and large bubbles atop the beer. Really has that nice Belgian murky brown color

Smell: Sweet, fruity esters and spice. Definitely a yeast driven aroma. I get some brown banana sweetness along with nutmeg and allspice. Other dark dried fruit including figs and dates. In addition to the yeast, the bourbon barrel has an impact on the aroma too. Soft and sweet bourbon. Natural vanilla and hazelnut sweetness. I wouldn’t expect so much sweetness on the nose from a Dubbel. Thinking about the ripe banana aroma here, but the BBA could amplify this aspect.

Taste: Driven by dark, dried fruit. Figs and dates again. The bourbon barrel adds a nice layer to the beer. Some nutty vanilla and raisin sweetness. I still get some banana on the flavor. Not as spicy as the aroma but still getting some hints of nutmeg and allspice.

Feel: Medium level of carbonation. Smooth and a bit warming at 8.5%. A little sticky sweetness on the lips. Both aspects I enjoy in a dark, high ABV Belgian beer.

Overall: A really nice iteration of the Belgian style Dubbel. Warming at 8.5%. Dark dried fruit, spicy, vanilla, some ripe banana pushing the sweet fruit boundary, but not over the top. Nutty and woody. My favorite non-sour beer from Taxman. Nice stuff.