New Beer Sunday (week 796)

Hahaha! That's right, you were drinking Burial, not Barrier. Slip of the... or I should say A weak mind. At least that explains why I wasn't seeing the same offerings

Anyhow - Dominion has had a few of Barrier's beers in recent weeks, not sure if it's a short term thing or not.

 

That beer must have been pretty strong for that slip...

ps-thanks for the heads up! Cheers!

 

Hmmm... I don't think you enunciated "Burial" well enough when you posted in the forums!

Yeah, I couldn't find anything on their site about the beer, which is a tad odd. Relatedly, Barrier's website beer "list" is pretty annoying.

 

OK, going to NBS this. Disclaimer: Had one last night, too, but that was after..well, let's just say several beers.
I wanted a fairly clean palate. After lunch now, so... TRVE Brewing's Show No Mercy West Coast IPA (as they call it). 5.6% (?) OK. TL;DR - I like it, more than my first impression last night.

L - 4.25 - Fantastic, clear, bubbly hell foam from Satan on top. Seriously - this head lasts FOREVER. Really, there was head on this thing all the way down to the bottom of the glass...impressive.

S - 4 - a little muted, but some dank biscuity pineapple on offer here. Some lemony cut grass notes ring through half-way through the glass. Better as it warms

T - 4 - really solid palate for 5.6% - reminds me of what IPAs used to be like, reasonable ABV, fantastic follow through on the bitter tropical fruit impression. Def some Mosaic, and I feel a Kiwi hop is lurking in here, could be wrong.

F - 4 - Great carbonation, stays lively, effervescent, clean, dry.

O - 4 - a great "IPA" more like a pale these days, but I'll be seeking this shit out and DESTROYING it next time. For the weight of it, I love this beer. You can close your eyes and pretend it's a full on IPA without feeling the bloat and high ABV of true IPAs these days.
Hopefully they keep making this stuff through summer.

Cheers! More NBS on the way later, from me.

 

A NEIPA from Calusa Brewing, Sarasota, FL:


Cloudy creamy deep gold with big fluffy rocky white head; excellent cap retention; heavy ring, medium heavy lacing. Nose is grapefruit mango dank earthy hops. Taste is sweet fruit punch - grapefruit lemon lime mango guava. Full pillowy body; juicy creamy feel; some hop burn on tongue; no warmth from 8.5%. Overall, this beer tics all the right style boxes and I’ve tried to score it accordingly; however, I don’t like it - the overripe tropical fruit sweetness verges on cloying; and it has an unpleasant astringent hop linger; I could not finish this brash, harsh beer; not for me...

4.75 | 4.25 | 4.0 | 4.25 | 3.75
Score: 4.08 rDev: -2.9%

 

Just wanted to call out this nice piece of word-smithing...

I can see this exactly - perfect description (can I use it?). Cheers!

 

Rebel Kettle Peach Wheat, 5.0% ABV going down fairly easy on this sticky/warm day. 3.46 overall

Pours an effervescent gold with copious amount of pearl colored, Thus needs a very gentle pour. Some lacing & below average head retention

S: Pears, peaches, grassiness

T: follows the nose with peach & light lemony notes leading the way. Peach and grassiness as this warms. Finishes a little dry with a little green melon & peach

MF: Light body, delicate carbonation

Drinks easy, nice warm weather offering, but not that memorable

 

Wow, that’s like the anti Corona, looks like a stout. That one of Honkeys beers?

 

Thanks for kicking things off @WunderLlama ! Cellar cleaning continues and I came up with this bottle I should have popped when purchased last year, but it held up well over time in the refrigerator.

Purchased as a single on a whim last year ($2.25) from The Beer Temple. Rayon Vert was brewed by Green Flash in 2018, it's a Belgian Style Pale Ale clocking in at 7.0% ABV. Not sure how fair it is to rate at this point, but away we go.



Ten minutes later and after pouring the rest of the comparatively small bottle.



Appearance: This took several minutes to pour due to extensive foam, large off-white bubbles. Left soapy lacing in its wake after the head finally settled down. Dark tan orange murky pour. 4.0

Aroma: Bold pleasant aroma, yeast yields banana, cloves and orange, wild sour and funky, very nice. 4.25

Taste: Mirrors aroma though much more subdued. Sour tart banana and citrus lead, lemon and pine back. Haven't had this fresh, so not sure how much age impacted this pour. 3.75

Mouthfeel: Dry, light fizzy carbonation lingered throughout the pour, medium creamy body, easy clean finish. 3.5

Overall: Nice Belgian Pale Ale, would pick up fresh if Green Flash re-released this offering to compare to this nearly two year old bottle. 3.75

Look forward to reading the thread later today after outside activities for some great new beer ideas to add to my to buy list.

Cheers!

 

Yupper. And he and his team did a very good job here.

Spoiler Alert: Next week I will be discussing his historical beer of Dreher's Original Bohemian Pilsner in a side-by-side tasting.

Cheers!

 

I did a noon Martini fest before the Boss Tweed. Ouch tomorrow.

 

Thank you. I noticed you waited until my edit time was up so I couldn't go back and put the trademark™ symbol on it, so have at it


On to my second beer, a Bahamian Pilsner by Aslin called The Fragile Kind - so I'm guessing it's going to be something like a Kalik or maybe...

Wait.

@VABA just texted me to say it's a Bohemian Pilsner - which I see now that I looked a little more closely.

Anyhow, I think I might've had this on tap at Aslin's new taproom a batch ago (say early this year), but I do not recall what I thought and I didn't type it down. This is from a can, as you can see:


Pours a little like some of the AALs I had earlier this week, though with a tad more color. A little more straw than gold in the body, the pink shadow of my finger tints the beer slightly as I go to grab it. Pillowy white to slightly off-white head isn't shy, and it crumbles away to sponginess, with some blobs left upon the glass.

Nose has a nice bread note to it a mix of grain and yeast and perhaps a little hay. The malts control the nose, and about the only other note is a light indistinct fruit note - maybe something from an orchard.

Taste brings to the palate what the aroma brought to the nose - a light bread, near white but with a hint of grain - perhaps baked into the crust. There's a little sweetness that makes the beer lean towards the white bread, though I wonder if there's maybe some wheat in there as well. Perhaps it's this sweetness that adds some smoothness to the beer. This feel comes at the cost of a drier, cleaner, and lighter beer, however - all components I am looking for a bit more of from a Czech Pils.

Another thing I am looking for is a spicy hop bitterness - and that is missing here. There is a light grassy bitterness, but the indistinct fruit note from the nose is a bit more like a red delicious apple in the taste. These balance each other in the second part of the taste to a near draw (a little fruit skin and grass edge laces the end notes).

There's some nice initial marks for this beer with the head, nose, and opening flavor, but the rest of the beer is fairly lacking in makeup. It's a bready, fairly balanced, smooth Pilsner that isn't hard to drink, but doesn't really scratch either a Bohemian or a Bahamian itch. I liked Anthemic considerably better, their other offering from the same style.

 

El Yucateco= not F'in' around

 

Poured into a 12 oz Snulip canned really recent, no date on the bottom. Pours a hazy orange with a finger sticky white head, that leaves spotty lace. 4.25

Smell is peach, mango, melon, strawberry, apricot, and grapefruit. 4

Taste follows mango, peach, cantaloupe, strawberry, and some apricot and grapefruit in the lingering finish. 4

Mouthfeel is about medium, a tad more carbonated than most NEDIPAs, sticky not dry, and at 8% very easy going down. 4

Overall nice beer, missing a wow factor for me, but still very nice stuff. 4

 

After a bit of absence due to mitigating, non-virus circumstances, I'm back for an overdue NBS review. After an 8-mile hike in the woods 10-miles south of Pittsburgh this morning, I stopped by the local beer distributor for a curbside pickup of a new variety pack from Troegs. The only beer I hadn't previously tried is the one in front of me right now.

Troegs - Haze Charmer (Hazy Pale Ale - 5.5%) - My overall rating = 3.88



Having this from a 12oz can freshest by 2020-08-26 from the Summer Better Variety 15-pack

A - Hazy gold with a 3-finger white head and great lace
S - Peach, pineapple, light pine, sourdough bread.
T - Semi-tart peach and pineapple juice, light pine, grassy/herbal spice. Lightly bready. Mild aspirin-bitter finish.
M - Medium body and light-medium carbonation. Finishes pretty dry.
O - Glad to try this from the 15-pack but don't see a need to buy it regularly. As far as APAs go, I'd take an SNPA or a Half Acre Daisy Cutter as a fridge staple. Well brewed though and no complaints.

Of passing interest, I'm on a 5-day holiday weekend from work. I played golf on Thursday with my son-in-law who also got one of these 15-packs. The courses in PA opened up on May 1st and this was the first public event I've participated in since seeing Aerosmith in Las Vegas in early March. I don't know when I'll get to another concert but it sure was nice to at least be golfing again. I'm just a bogie golfer but it sure was fun.

 

Yes this is a Triple Karmeliet glass, a promo for picking up a four pack a few years ago. Good eye Mr. Barber.

I try to hide a beer logo if I am posting a picture of a beer review from a different brewer. You cannot stop the enormous head of the Raymon Vert pour, you can only hope to contain it.