What beer are you drinking now? #2748

Have a good Wednesday. Was playing Borderlands 2 all night this time. Finally got the hang of it after playing the first one for a while before returning to where I was stuck. Got my gun arsenal fixed up. Have a really nice sniper with fire elemental damage, and a leveled up assault rifle. I have been doing side quests and looting to find better shields and guns. I got a cheap $9 USB guitar interface in the mail yesterday. It’s acceptable; sometimes there is some popping sounds and stuff when I play loud, but generally the tone through BIAS FX2 is very nice. I think I will try using my Creative xFi card plus a noise gate pedal before the input. The device itself does have some noticeable noise, but nothing I can’t filter out after I record it. Just have to play with it a bit, probably buy a well priced device later on when I actually have a job again. Focusrite seems to be the crowd favorite. The clean signal sounds great, when you add distortion and effects is when the flaws get noticeable.


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.


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Southern Tier Nitro Chocolate Milkshake. Amazing sweet stout. Lasting thick creamy head retention/lacing the whole glass. Flavors of huge milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, cream, fudge, brownie batter, biscuit, and dark/brown bread; with light notes of coffee, roasted nuts, smoke, molasses, dark fruit, herbal, grass, and yeast earthiness. A bit muted aromas. Very mild herbal, grassy, roasted bitterness on the finish. Light carbonation and very full body; very creamy, silky, velvety, bready malts/lactose; slight slickness, sticky hops, and chalky roast in the mouthfeel. Slightly increasing lingering bitter dryness; zero cloying sweetness. Amazingly smooth/soft, zero warming 10%. Amazingly balanced super rich malts and flavorings; with just enough hops to balance. Not overly sweet/heavy from lingering dryness. Tastes just like a dark chocolate milkshake all around. No artificial flavors. Sea salt added to enhance flavors, rather than be noticeable. Not as mind blowing as the S'mores, but it ranks very high on their overall Blackwater series dessert segment.


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