New Beer Sunday (Week 800)

So I seem to have the honor of posting #800 and I kind of miss the days of @cavedave , Maria, @lordofthewiens , and @cjgiant doing it because they were really good at it. This is the best weekly thread for us sud slammers, hop junkies, beer nerds, and stout swallowers to come and break down a New Beer. How does it look, smell, taste, feel as you sip it, and your overall impression of it? Don’t be shy if you feel like you haven’t done it before and the snobs are going to make fun of you. Friendly group of usuals on this weekly thread. Cheers to all of the Dads and pull up a cheer and geek out with a New Beer!

Poured into a 16 oz can shaped pint glass canned on 6/16/2020. Pours a very hazy orange yellow with a finger sticky white head that leaves thin wisps of lace with excellent retention. 4.75

Smell is ripe melon, guava, pineapple, mango, berries, tangerine, and apricot with nice. 4.5

Taste follows cantaloupe, guava, tangerine, mango, boysenberry, pineapple, and apricot very little bitterness and juicy as hell. 4.75

Mouthfeel is above medium, soft creamy carbonation, a little sticky but dry, and at 8% ABV extremely crushable.

Overall another top tier NEDIPA from this 2.5 year old brewery that just keep taking risks and producing amazing beers. 4.75 This place is 10 miles from my house with great beer, food, and people that own and work at it. Again cheers.

 

Poured into a 16 oz Snulip glass canned on 6/13/2020. Pours a hazy orange with a finger sticky white head that leaves thin wisps of lace as it slowly settles. 4.25

Smell peach, papaya, dragon fruit, mango, melon, apricot, and a little alcohol is detected. 4

Taste follows peach, dragon fruit, papaya, honeydew, mango, and apricot with a little hint of alcohol in the balanced finish. 4.25

Mouthfeel is big, gentle carbonation, a little sticky but not dry, and at 12% ABV it goes down extremely easy. 4.25

Overall a very nice beer that I will be drinking a good amount the next month, pretty impressed and this brewery has not really impressed me much, until this one. 4.25

 

Good day New BSers! Off to a warm, clear start here in the tundra of NW PA - looks like I'll be moving my sprinkler after I mow later this afternoon. Today's New Breakfast Beer/New Beer Sunday dive into my beer reefer is from one of my favorite breweries, only about three hours away by interstate:




$ 6.00 (Including tax)/16 oz can ($ 0.375/oz). Purchased 6/3/20 from Franklin Beer, Franklin, PA. Reviewed 6/21/20.
Date on bottom of can “CANNED ON 03/09/20”. Stored at home at 42 degrees and served at 54 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter.
Appearance – 4.
First pour – Deep amber (SRM 15), translucent.
Body – Brown (SRM 20), opaque. When held to direct light, same.
Head – Large (Maximum 5.5 cm, aggressive center pour), dark tan, high density with surface rocks, average duration, diminishing to a six to eight mm crown topped by a ring of lacing and a rocky complete cap of varying thickness.
Lacing – Excellent. Tight wide band of extremely tiny bubbles. See also above.
Aroma – 4 – Cherry cordial with a cloying after aroma of naphthylene. No chocolate, no malt, no hops, no yeast.
Flavor – 4 – Taste follows nose but is much less pronounced. No chocolate until the slightly bitter aftertaste. No alcohol (8% ABV, as marked on the label) taste or aroma. No gastric warming until after several swallow. No diacetyl or dimethylsulfide.
Palate – 3.5 – Medium, watery with a touch of softness from the oats, soft carbonation.
Final impression and summation 4. While the palate seems a bit thin for an English oatmeal stout, overall, this is good – the touch of naphthylene certainly making it unique among chocolate-cherry brews. The cherry flavor is not as strong as I expected nor is the chocolate. The problem is I can’t push this back – I must continue sipping.

Rating 3.95, rDev + 2.1%.

 

Happy New Beer Sunday to you all! It’s Father’s Day and I’m thinking of my Dad. Relaxing at the kitchen table at Offutt Air Force base drinking a Falstaff beer. Sometimes he would be eating something smelly and gross To a little boy such as Limburger cheese , onions or sardines. I’d welcome one of those conversations with him today.


My new beer is Me, Myself and Thai from Melvin. yes, I am a ticker but this is one beer that i went back and bought again. It was good.

Here is my review

4.6/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Can poured into a teku

Frothy, soapy two finger off white foam cap, very good retention, very good lacings over a hazy orange liquid with a few streams of carbonation

Aroma tropical fruits, passion fruit, candied pineapple, guava, hint of peppery spiciness

Taste is tropical fruit , pineapple , banana, slightly sweet

Medium sudsing , hop taste, no bite

Very good beer



prosit Dad!

 

Do you suspect the naphthylene is from whatever form of cherry used? Trying to imagine a flavor such as this makes me think of the smell of a Ludens cherry cough drop wrapper. That sterile plastic/cloth smell

 

Everything is better Wit beer!

Today is a new brand of beer from Tired Hands: Antenna which is a Witbier.

Tired Hands is most renowned for their Juicy/Hazy beers (including Milkshake beers) but I appreciate that they are also willing to brew more traditional type beers.

Let’s see how they do with the Witbier style

Served in my Lindemans Cuvee Rene Witbier glass:

Appearance:

Straw yellow color with a BIG white head. Upon a subsequent pour to refill the glass quite hazy (apparently the hazy materials settled to the bottom portion of the can).

Aroma:

Whoa! Quite a bit of funk on the nose which I was not expecting since this beer is ‘advertised’ as being a Wit. Not much else that I can perceive here.

Taste:

The flavors follows the nose: plenty of funk on the palate. There is a low/medium bitterness and a notable tartness.

Mouthfeel:

A light body along with a tingly sensation (from the carbonation?).

Overall:

While this beer was quite surprising to me since it has qualities not classically associated with the Witbier style I did enjoy drinking it. A very good beer for a hot day!

Cheers!

@KOP_Beer_OUtlet @rotsaruch @RobH

P.S After drinking this beer I researched to see if anybody has reviewed this beer on BA. Below is the only review posted which includes a description from Tired Hands. I bolded a portion:

“From a 16oz can undated but released in April 2020. From the TH Instagram post: Antenna is our brand new take on Witbier. Brewed with plenty of raw wheat, as well as a bit of orange peel and coriander, and fermented in oak with a classic Wit yeast as well as our expressive mixed culture. Bright, citrusy and lightly tart. Refermented in the can for natural carbonation. Notes of mimosa, tart underripe peach, tangelo, mango lassi and a chamomile breeze.” Tart!”

Aha! That’s explains this beer: they co-pitched this beer with the mixed culture they utilize while brewing some of their Saison beers. An interesting ‘twist’ here.

 

Thank you @Shanex for your great start to the thread. I wish all here who are Fathers a Happy, Healthy and Great Beer Sunday today from around the globe. It's a beautiful day in Chicago after some clearing rain and the very warm Southern wind has moved on. Have a journey to Revolution planned in a few hours for a Deep Woods pickup of Supermassive Deth. I tried a five ounce pour as one of the variants to a release this winter, but this was on a Saturday and only five ounces so look forward to posting a full NBS review in an upcoming week (possibly today).

This is a friendly reminder to all; please note the beer and brewer in posts here, sometimes the bottle/can pictures are not accessible or not clear to some readers.

My first pour today is a new release from the great folks at Une Annee / Hubbards Cave. Hubbard's Cave Clean Pale was canned 6/3 (5.5% ABV), and while it sold out quickly at the brewery, I was fortunate Binny's had a four pack waiting for me to pick up. This was not refrigerated post drop off with Binny's, a primary sticking point with purchasing beer from there, but this was my only option so away we go.



Appearance: Pint glass pour, tan orange murky colour, light white head dissipates quick, leaving light bubbly lacing. 3.75

Aroma: Faint pine and citrus. 3.25

Taste: Bold taste, dry pine leads, citrus backs well. Balanced sweet and bitter. Simple, nice. 3.75

Mouthfeel: Creamy, rich fill body, light dryness, easy clean finish. 4.25

Overall: Overall nice, simple but well executed Pale Ale pour. 3.75

Chouffe Blanche is the most tempting future new pour to me so far, looking forward to more great ideas and reviews as the day unfolds.

Cheers!

 

Old Nation Brewing Co. M-43 on the shelves for the taking in Georgia.
Golden haze, two fingers white fine head. Curtain lacing and full cap. No sediment or floaters.
Grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, faint spice and pepper aromas.
Orange, mango, pineapple, peach flavors, citrus aftertaste.
Mild mouthfeel, developing bitterness across the tongue, dry finish,outstanding lasting carbonation
4.44/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Very happy to see this with a packaging date of less than a month old in Augusta. I have also seen Boss Tweed kegs in Georgia. I hope their distributor, Modern Hops, keeps delivering the goods.

 

After a 25 mile cycling jaunt this new beer is ideal. Sand City’s Enough Already Already is listed as a wild ale on BA but is a gose in the brewers’s mind, on the brewer’s label and by flavor. A vigorous foam cap dissipates immediately upon pouring. The cloudy yellow-orange brew hosts a briny citrus aroma. The flavor is salty with rich mango, orange and lemon. This is a pleasure.

 

Good morning and happy Father’s Day to the dads in the audience and a word of honor going out to the fathers who have passed but leave an indelible mark on their sons and daughters

Well this is what happens you have several new beers in the fridge and believe it just doesn’t matter what you drink first; you grab an 11% monster for your first post. Ughhh..... guess I’ll have to power through it and cleanse the ole pallete before my next one, ostensibly after a nap...,

Back Bay Brewing Mosaic



3.86/5 rDev -4.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

No problem generating a nice frothy head. Opaque orange and not really too dingy either. Nose has enough ripe veggie up front to almost suggest brett, but quickly recedes into a little onion and tangerine. Taste leans heavily towards candied orange and light garlic before the high ABV affirmation takes place in the form of a slightly syrupy sweet alcoholic backbone

 

4 New 4+ beers for Papa's day/Solstice 2020 including first summer lager
Jai Alai IPA - White Oak | Cigar City | 7.5% IPA
4.24/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
I like White Oak a shard better than Jai Alai. Bravo!
a) An arrogant bastard like smokey body, darker, more bronze, with a creamy lasting and lacing head.
s) As noted wood, vanilla, coconut rise as the first layers, the wood continues and is supported by citrus, pine, malt.
t) Loses the shortbread cookie sweet of the original in favor of smokey, woody, oaky power.
f) Perfect, the wood and hop resins linger quite well. Well made.
o) Sum greater than the parts and so a higher yet score here.
Neverending Haze IPA | Stone || 4% Session IPA
4.17/5 rDev +7.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
54th review. Finest 4% IPA of all, should taste against Carton Boat and all the best.
a) starts with a rocky steep crusty head that lasts and laces over a hazed golden body.
s) Nose is floral, citrus blossom rather than flesh. Ample, inviting.
t) The taste runs floral, perfumed, blossomy, but tempers mid palate to white cake, wood and peppercorn. Lovely balance.
f) Plenty going on in the bittering and bright fin
Vibrant P'ocean | Dogfish Head | 4.7% Field beer
4.03/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
33rd review and I'm not a mason. If you live by the sea, this beer is for you.
a) Lovely berry body color, fast face scant head as with most fruit/field beers.
s) Solid Flanders aroma, with perfume, orchard, the sea on the background.
t) best part. follows aroma, but develops wine-like, flowers, field, berry notes against an almost pickle sour, salty, yeasty backdrop.
f) Wine-like, tongue prickle, refreshing, summery, sea air. 2 beers in one.
o) I find the sum better than its parts or the reviews here. Will be great blended (again) with any ale or IPA. Try that!
Buenaveza Salt & Lime Lager | Stone | 4.7% Lager
4.02/5 rDev +8.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
31st review. Always a favorite. If any brewer can get this Mex-inspired Lager right, it's Stone, and then do!
If I had to drive this all summer afternoon, and today is the first day of summer, and father's day, I would.
a) Pale yellow body with white skin head that laces dots.
t) Shifts from floral into spicy, prickly, cactii flesh, aloe, and lemongrass. Lemon pepper in the finale.
f) Perfect lager, pilsner profile.
o) Sum greater than the parts. Great Corona replacement.

 

Hi there, NBS!
I don't have tons of time to talk today as it is the first day for me in a long time for some sun-soaked summer pseudosocializing. It's hotter than hell so it should be a decent day for it (I hope). I felt obligated to make sure I swing by to wish you all a happy 800th thread lest I space it this evening! I love this thread. It has had more ups than downs and is definitely an evolving entity and I myself miss our majestically masterful maestros of past iterations, but I still love coming here and sharing my beer as I drink it with you fine folks.
Today being a nice day and an important number I figured I should have a sour. Something I don't usually seek out, but that I enjoy when I do have it. Just feels a little fancier I guess. This is a sour brown ale, Wild Child, from The Alchemist, courtesy of my brother from another mother and all around bodacious bud and BA that I tip my virtual hat to, as always.

It pours clear ruby brown with a small beige head.
The aroma is a complex mix of sweet balsamic vingear, red fruits, wood, spices and light oxidation. The flavor is a little less varied. Tight tartness, a little puckering, some dirty bitterness to off-set but mainly an almost-astringent acetic acid bite. It is drinkable for the ABV and fairly light on the palate but the sourness and slight astringency wears you down after a bit still and all refreshing and tasty though. This is a nice enough beer but is not as balanced or round as it's European counterparts. The aroma is exquisite, the rest is good. A nice with drinker in the heat and humidity.

Santé, NBS! And cheers to another 800!

 

Thanks @Shanex for getting NBS started today.
Just back from a new hike today. Definitely more of a hike, with a lot of uphill. The dogs seemed to enjoy it, and probably could have continued after us humans turned around.
I bought an Odell variety pack a few days ago, so let's start delving into it. First up is Tree Shaker Imperial Mango IPA, with an ABV of 8%.
A clear gold color with a medium-sized white head and a little bit of lace
Mango aroma mostly. Some citrus
Mango up front, followed by tangerine and pineapple.
Smooth drinking.



Happy Father's Day!

 

Have a good NBS. Thanks to @Shanex for starting his first NBS thread. Been pretty much the same stuff this week. Listening to music, playing video games, watching youtube videos, and getting lit up. I got a new waterpipe with Rick and Morty art painted on it a few days ago. Also bought a fishing license last week, so I will start that hobby again. I haven't done it since high school, so this is my first license ever.

Rustic Leaf My Tart Will Go On. Awesome Berliner. Lasting fluffy head retention/thick foamy lacing. Aromas and flavors of big juicy/tart/tangy blackberries, fruit skin/seed, lemon, lime, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, melon, red/green apple, white grape/wine, hay, straw, and grass; with moderate wheat, cracker, white bread dough malts; light pepper/lacto funk and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate fruity/lactic tart/sourness, and fruit tang on the finish. Medium-plus carbonation, medium body, and fairly crisp/clean finishing. Balanced creamy/grainy wheat, lactic acid, and fruit tang/tannins in the mouthfeel. Light-moderate increasing acidic/tangy dryness; no pucker/astringency. Very smooth/soft/refreshing, not overly lactic, zero warming 3.8%. Awesome balance of juicy/jammy fruit and lacto complexity; with a great clean wheat/malt backbone against acidity. Minimal residual sweetness with crisp dryness. Spot on style. 4.13


Cheers

 

Happy Father's Day to all you fathers, and happy memories to all you who have lost your fathers.

First one for me today is from Minneapolis brewer Wild Mind.

Wild Mind Artisan Ales La Femme Forte Belgian Saison
ABV: 5.9%
IBU: NA



The brewer's notes for this beer say:

"Back in March, some of the women members of our Forgotten Barrel Society visited the brewhouse to make La Femme Forte, a special beer for International Women's Day. The open-fermented saison was brewed with house saison yeast and refermented on fresh peaches and mangos. $1 of each crowler sale goes directly to Dress For Success"

Aroma is tropical and tart with, oddly, some hints of sweetness in the smell as well.

Hazy yellow-gold, translucent, with an occasional rising bubble or two visible through the haze. The one inch white head, while initially thick and creamy looking, fades to nothing within a few minutes. Spotty lacing as you drink. The visible carbonation disappears half-way through, resulting in a still appearance.

The taste is mildly tart and crisp, somewhat funky, with a nice level of fruit flavors, tropical flavors, and I do pick up the mango and peach the brewer's description mentions. The fruit flavors are not "in your face", which in my opinion is a good thing. They instead provide a nice complement to the underlying funky tartness, resulting in an excellent, easy-drinking, tropical saison.

Mouth feel is moderate to thin, with a nice tart crispness.

Overall, excellent, with a nice balance among the funk, tartness, and tropical fruits. I enjoyed this beer a lot.

L: 3.75 | S: 3.75 | T: 4.5 | F: 4.0 | O: 4.25 | Rating: 4.18

 

Hello, NBS crew, and Happy Father's Day to you if you're a mo---del dad

Today I have a new beer that might be a re-branding, or might just be an off-shoot (or perhaps offspring?) of another beer. Flying Dog's Dead Rise Summer Ale is listed as an herbed/spiced beer here, and while that fits, in my opinion it's more like an APA. Sure the Old Bay spice comes through a bit, but it worked for me (better than most, it appears) as a light summer pale ale.

This year's announcements for Dead Rise hit my social media feeds a couple weeks ago, though there was a twist... the beer was in the Gose style. Old Bay being a seasoning that has celery salt listed as its first ingredient, this could be interesting. Let's see.

Ok, it pours a light golden, leaning towards straw but not getting there. The head on this soured ale fluffs up, but can't hold itself for long, even with an etched glass. A medium collar does linger as an extension of the peninsula formed from the carbonation feed from glass bottom.

There is a crackery malt and wheat scent along with an ocean breeze salinity and a hint of sour. The Old Bay is quite distinguishable, but doesn't hog all of my olfactory sensors, sharing quite nicely with the other notes.

A nice Gose-like opening, with wheat, salt, and a light tangy sour note that in some sips seems more lactic and in others has a lemony aspect. The salinity adds a softness to the beer, and the carbonation doesn't really add much - almost sharing any biting aspect with the sour aspect. Old Bay's more earthy notes (from peppers and paprika) join in just before mid-taste and hang on through the end. Each finish is fairly clean, with a very light impression of tang and saline water, but after half a glass, the Old Bay earthy notes start to hang on as well.

I like this beer - and I think like the original, the base beer chosen by Flying Dog is well made and comes through. The added spice (which apparently can be polarizing in itself) plays in and adds some uniqueness without demanding the stage. It does add a slight oddity which comes to me as earthy, perhaps a tad dirty, but isn't off-putting (again, to me). I think I like the summer ale version a little better (@Urk1127) because earthiness plays into the pale ale style a little more seamlessly.

Edit: in the end, I think the Gose comes through nicely, but whether the spice component adds or detracts will likely shift rating points more than maybe it should.


Oh, and a bonus for you, in that I'm just posting the link for Grapefruit Nectar by RAR Brewing (Realerevival) and not another of my long-winded posts like this one. Summary - another MD brew, one that I found a good IPA that unsuccessfully to me walked a tightrope between new thicker feel and older cleaner feel. The scents and flavors were nice enough to rate an overall 4 for me, though.

 

I actually did look for this at the grocery store this past week and while disappointed, wasn't shocked they didn't have any. Didn't get a chance to check out a convenience store as well. Maybe I'll try this week and if successful, will post a week out of sync

 

Lervig It‘s not me, It‘s you


Pours a vibrant, entirely hazed yellow with a medium, slowly receeding head.


Has an amazing smell to it, offering ripe kiwi, water melon and fresh cut limes among sweet passion fruit.


Has a lighter, fizzy mouthfeel to it, which I find quite unusual for the style, usually being able to produce a thicker, creamy mouthfeel. This is refreshing and easy drinking with a nice balance to it nontheless.


Tastes of sweeter malts, with a noteable caramel impact, gently blending into a ripe appearing fruit basket with luscious oranges, blueberries and ice bonbon among lighter water melon and tangerine. From that a solid bitterness arises, bringing up lime pulp to the palate, hiding beneath doughy malts immediately. Finishes sweeter, malt driven with a soda pop sweetness to it and just a faint impact of fruits and bitter hops.


This is solid, it‘s mouthfeel though is just too thin for this. The bitterness in this seems a bit subdued as well, since the beer finishes with pretty much nothing going on unfortunately.