New Beer Sunday (Week 792)

Mother Earth Tierra Madre Lager 4.5%. Well all of a sudden now I like Lagers, but from craft breweries. Maybe because it's been really hot this week. This is a really good beer and has nice malt flavor compared to Bud. Its smooth, crisp and easy to drink but not watery like Bud Light for about the same price. Its canned on 3/26/20 and kept in the fridge. Another hidden gem found at Grocery Outlet. I would have to rate this very high for the style. I should really go back and buy a case or 2. Probably my favorite Lager I've ever drank.

 

Rebel Kettle's Robby Rose, a Sour beer aged on oak with Raspberries, 6.2% ABV, 3.7 Overall

Pours an effervescent purplely-pink with rapidly falling pink head. Traces of heads retention & lacing

S: Tart raspberry & dark cherry

T: Follows the nose, plenty of oaky dryness up front. Some sweet berry flavor fights through the tartness & dryness, not a ton of sweetness though. Finishes tart & dry

MF: Medium body, dialed back carbonation.

A good take on the style that will make purists happy

 

Cross post from WBAYDN...Hammer Heart Brewing Co., Lino, MN - “Flaming Longship” (2018):



Poured at 58 degrees, deep amber/coppery ruby brown with good clarity under a thick, creamy beige head; cap retention to the bottom of the glass; heavy lacing; no legs. Smoke, sweet malt and medium fruity esters in nose. Liquid smoke, char, burnt fruit cake, caramel malt, fruity sweet plums and raisins; more fruity than malty. Medium body, moderate plus carbonation; no warmth from 8.5%. Overall, the fruity nose/taste dominates the malt base; the body is a bit thin; and there is more char than I want; solid, but I’m not feeling it...

4.75 | 3.75 | 3.75 | 4.0 | 3.75

Score: 3.84
rDev: -3.84%

 

Now up Reuben’s Gorilla Juice, thanks @beertunes!
4.1/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

Thank you beertunes for this
16 oz can poured into a teku

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

S- Citrus, grapefruits, melons/honeydew, touch of pineapple, hint of pine.

T- Citrus, pineapple, some melons, a little herbal, touch of pine.

M- Smooth, medium body, slightly creamy.

O- A well brewed NEIPA, easy to drink.

Cheers!

 

My favorite Vermont brewery so many years ago and now resurrected in Windsor, VT.



16 oz. can.
6.2% abv and 40 ibu.
Canned 04/16/20.
Moderate to vigorous pour yields a one inch white head over a hazy, light golden body with some sticky lacing. Nose of citrus, slight pineapple, and a bit of a floral/herbal thing going on as well. Taste follows nose closely with the pineapple and citrus middle giving way to a near finish of slight candied pineapple and candied citrus and finally ending with a slight bitter citrus pith. Nice feel and overall, a very well balanced offering from Windsor, VT and would recommend.
Cheers!!!

 

"Guessing" is about how it feels sometimes. It's like trying to hit a dartboard with about 10 bullseyes ... when I'm on I feel like I'm coming close to hitting some of the bullseyes but much farther from others, yet I can see them, so I keep throwing darts.

 

So glad to hear that you're doing so well Mr. Dave! I did not have a fraction of your health scare thankfully but did at least similarly have to conclude that there were no more calories left to cut out of the non-beer portions of my diet. Having to go to zero instead of 50% would have been exponentially more difficult so my hat's off to you and here's to your continued success and good health.

I've got an oyster stout this week from Devil's Purse Brewing down on good old Cape Cod ('down the Cape' as we'd say here in New England). It's called Intertidal Stout and clocks in at 5.5% ABV. According to the can it is brewed with whole oysters in the boil. Devil's Purse generally makes a lot of traditional beers along with a smattering of trendier offerings and does a good to great job on all of them (their ESB is especially good). They also have a cool, no nonsense drinking space at their brewery in Dennis that is a fun visit whenever we're down that way. I hope they're hanging in there during all this......



Look: Deep pitch black with a 1 inch tan, fluffy head that has quite a bit of staying power and leaves spotty lacing.

Smell: Lots of black coffee and baking chocolate and just a hint of briney undertone. I'm not convinced this latter bit isn't in my head.

Taste: Follows the nose but I feel much more confident I'm tasting that brine now. This has very little perceptible sweetness but also doesn't really have that much hoppy bitterness either. It's really a very pure presentation of the black coffee and unsweetened chocolate notes of the malt accentuated with that hint of the briney ocean water goodness.

Feel: Fairly crisp and light in the mouth with a very clean finish that just leaves a bit of that coffee bitterness lingering in the back of the mouth.

Overall: Really tasty and satisfying beer! While it may be an oyster stout, the flavor here is really all about the deep, somewhat bitter, coffee and chocolate flavors that are highlighted by the mild beachy brineyness that quietly hovers over everything.

Hope everyone is staying safe and sane out there.

 

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I plan my beer week around NBS, and I usually do it at least two weeks in advance, so I made this week’s choices before last week’s NBS.

Given the new conditions we’ve all had to adapt to, I decided to throw some NBS love at my local, Bare Hands, which is around 5 minutes from my house.

So imagine my excitement when I saw they’re delivering, and they have a bunch of stuff I’ve not had available for delivery, so I placed an order on Tuesday that was delivered perfectly on Wednesday. Magnificent - the plan is coming together.

The first beer I planned to review is Upful, an IPA that is Citra-hopped (my favorite varietal, along with Mosaic), with a biscuity malt backbone (my sweet spot, pun intended) - and it’s already in the BA database, on the day when @cavedave makes the opening post.

This is now officially the greatest NBS beer nerd day ever.

So I crack open Upful, pour it into a great beer glass courtesy of our beer nerd friend @beerloserLI in a past NBS BIF, then go to the beer profile page to complete the review (I do these live).

So imagine my surprise when I open Upful’s page and see that I’ve had it.

Not only have I had it, I added it to the BA database in July 2018.

For you kids out there, this is a shining example of why getting old REALLY sucks. I have zero recollection of buying this beer, drinking this beer, or reviewing this beer.

So lemons ———> lemonade. My beer nerd friends, this is Upful, the first beer that I’ve ever had delivered to my house that I’ve reviewed for NBS.





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

Golden orange color, very hazy, with a fluffy off-white head. Beautiful beer. The nose is all about the Citra hops - juicy pineapple, grapefruit rind, and tangerines.

The grapefruit rinds is up front on the taste, but the tangerines and pineapple keep things in line for a smooth, dry finish. This dank bomb is yet another example of Bare Hands’ prowess brewing flavorful, hoppy beers.

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I got the same beer from the same source also in a ninja box in the Rookies BIF because @Roy_Hobbs is just an incredibly generous guy and really loved it. It was the first stout I had tried from Treehouse and your assessment was pretty spot on with how I felt. It was like a thick boozy mocha.

Really enjoyed your comparison here. Unfortunately I've never had Cantillon's gueuze, but really enjoy 3F's. I had a 2018 bottle of Armand & Gaston last night that I found much funkier than their gueuze, but I loved both. Great read.

I drank a bottle of this about 5 months ago and found it really enjoyable. I had read a lot about the orange fading very quickly, but I still detected it in mine. It was mellow but I enjoyed the way it worked with the rest of the flavors. If it had been any stronger I don't know that I'd have enjoyed it as much.

 

Good evening NBS, hope everyone is enjoying the end of the weekend once again. Thanks @cavedave for starting today’s thread. Been just playing video games, listening to music, and watching youtube channels through the lockdown. Just got extended to May 15th on Friday. Managed to get plenty of Engineering job recruiter hookups in my 3 months of zero benefit unemployment. Should be able to get a job quickly once we are freed from isolation. Thankfully my parents are helping me keep a roof over my head. Have not made a “beer haul” in a while, and as such have not been reviewing much new stuff at all; because I have plenty of other things to drink in the fridge from my over buying frenzy last year. That certainly will never happen again. I will get my credit cards paid off as soon as I can. Once I get a new job I will barely be buying beer in contrast to my last 3 years, unless it’s new and preferably in single cans. I need to reduce the size of my cellar, and I am the only one able to do it.

Founders 4 Giants. Amazing DIPA. Lasting rocky head retention/thick foamy lacing. Aromas and flavors of big tangerine, red grapefruit, lemon, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, honeydew, watermelon, red apple, berries, citrus peel/rind, wood, mint, peppercorn, and pine hops; with moderate cracker, toasted biscuit, light caramel/nutty malts; and herbal/floral/grassy hop earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, floral, woody, grassy, peppery bitterness. on the finish. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; balanced creamy/bready/grainy malts, sticky hops, and some resins/rinds in the mouthfeel. Light-moderate increasing resin dryness, no hop astringency. Very smooth, not overly aggressive, minimal warming 9.2%. They claim 7 hop varieties on the website, I already knew what to expect going in. Feels like mostly Centennial, Columbus, Amarillo, Simcoe, and El Dorado. Very vibrant, juicy, and fairly dank/earthy hops; with a nice sized bready Munich malt backbone. Minimal residual sweetness with lingering resin dryness. Another top tier classic tasting DIPA. 4.33


Cheers

 

Hey! Good to see you here, & that things are going well.
How'd you hang onto that so long?
My '19 succumbed on a hot July evening.
Have you ever had any Beekeeper? I have a '19, & wondering if it's better sooner or later

Sounds good. A local brewery has a strawberry/rhubarb cream ale, that is brewed when the local strawberry harvest comes in , and is greatly-anticipated.

Nice photo!
At first, I didn't realize that was a table, & thought the pond was frozen over again.

Yeah, that one is very good, and very puzzling . Had to reach deep into the sensory memory banks,and still didn't necessarily have a firm grip on it. Maybe it just has its own flavor?
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/33607/134980/?ba=mikeinportc#review
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Today's (first?) NBS is Fruit Punch Gose , a 4% abv fruited gose* from K2 Brothers. Loved their jalapeno creme ale , so willing to give this a try.
*Raspberry,strawberry,pineapple,sweet cherry, sour cherry, & fruit punch mix
L : Translucent pinky-orange, with pale pink head.

S : Mostly dried raspberry at first , leaning towards Kool-Aid smell, but thankfully stopping short. The usual gose combo of lactic sour+ocean breeze. As it warms, some maraschino cherry and strawberry jam comes in.

T : Close to the aroma, but more sour cherry, than sweet. A little bread crust malty flavor pops up briefly, mid-taste.Light bitterness, that seems just the right amount.

F : Typical gose : light, with very,very fine. moderately-sharp carbonation.

O : Good, and enjoyable. Not sure that all of the additions were necessary . Added expense, without a commensurate improvement in end result. Don't detract from it either, so there is that. Don't have access, but want to try it? Chop/mash a strawberry or two, drop it in your glass, and pour in some Ommegang Rosetta, or Victory Kirsch Gose. Should be quite close.

4.03/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/51562/480872/

 

Happy New England IPA Sunday!

Pretty nice day here on the Western Slope, some sun, cloudy, windy at the trailhead. You could see the black clouds coming in from the West, within 30 minutes or so, nice little rain storm came in. Having a tasty brew, from a local new brewery.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/58936/481397/?ba=Wasatch#review

Cheers!

 

1st true new beer this Sunday is an absolute beast, courtesy of @Whyteboar.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1199/17538/?ba=woemad#review
Whoa! A longtime want of mine, dating back to when Founders was this fabled brewery that distributed nowhere near me. This one still doesn't come officially within a thousand miles of me. Wow, This thing is huge, almost like a Barleywine. Bottled in January, there's still quite a lot of alcohol "heat" to it. I'm glad I have no responsibilities outside home, today, after drinking this. Might even put off taking the trash out until tomorrow. Thanks, Craig!

 

I dig that beer. NBs'd it a few weeks ago but your assessment and description are much better than I did.
Thanks for that!