New Beer Weekend #7

SARA Left and Leaving.
100% simcoe ipa.
Originally brewed for brewer Jon Drinnan that left.
1st time in cans. 2 days old currently.

the citrus, pine and crispness all scream west coast ipa. I gave it 4.22 overall.

 

Prairie BA Peanut Butter Bomb! Imperial Stout, 14.4% ABV. Pours black with a 1+ finger light brown head that left residue instead of lacing. That's a lot of head for a Prairie stout. Nose is slight peanuts. Taste is coffee, peppers, peanut butter, some bourbon, licorice, moderately bitter. Disappointed with only a moderate peanut presence. Decent mouthfeel, overall outstanding. Nose improved with warming.

4.25/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

RReally great late summer/early fall day to go to the zoo with our daughter and grandkids. Glad I only bought two of these instead of loading up, had hoped for more. Still decent, but much prefer BBA and RBA Bomb.

 

Just posted all of my brews so far today on the WBAYDN thread, but here's my NBW weekend ones so far. Had a couple good Hoppin' Frog Imperial Stouts:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/14879/476728/?ba=bluejacket74#review



https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/14879/435702/?ba=bluejacket74#review



Those were my only new beers today, but I have some more ready to go for tomorrow so I'll be back later. Cheers everyone!

 

Review #1,000! Prairie Pirate Paradise Imperial Stout, 13% ABV. Pours black with a ring of brown bubbles, typical for a Prairie stout. Nose is rum, coconut, and chocolate. Taste follows, plus coffee, with moderate bitterness. Decent mouthfeel, if slightly under-carbonated, overall world-class.

4.62/5 rDev +0.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

I have a thing for Rum Barrel-aged beers, so this slightly edges out BBA Paradise for my favorite Prairie beer.

 

-from today’s Sand City pick-up. Secret Spot - Ditch Plains, a DIPA, is named for a favored family beach and surf venue.

This yellow-orange can pour holds a deep haze and a 1 cm white foam cap.
The aroma is rich with oranges, strawberries and pineapple.
The flavor is rich with pineapple and lime notes.
The mouthfeel is smooth and the finish is dry. Flavors and hop bitterness persist. This is a very tasty brew

 

Poured into a 13 oz tulip glass canned on 8/22/2020. Pours a very attractive hazy orange yellow, with a missive 2 finger sticky white head that leaves big thick streaks of lace with excellent retention. 4.5

Smell is peach, cantaloupe, mango, honey, apricot, and some hints of grapefruit rind. 4

Taste is much bigger and better cantaloupe, honey, peach, apricot, and a little bit of grapefruit bitterness in the well balanced finish. 4.5

Mouthfeel is big, soft gentle carbonation, a tad sticky but not dry, and at 8.5% really goes down easy. 4.5

Overall another excellent beer from these guys, the nose was just ok, but everything else was excellent. 4.25

 

McFleshman's Dimpled Mugs English Bitter

3.71/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Wanted to try this it being on cask. Not bad but nothing special. The 4.2 percent ABV made it more of a session type ale in my opinion. Could pick up some hop flavor but not a great deal. Put some more umph in it and it could be a winner

 

Ozark Beer Co.'s KUAF Ozark At Lager, European Lager, 4.9% ABV. 3.86 overall

Pours a very effervescent straw color with 2 fingers of ivory colored head. Average head retention & lacing

S: Breadyness & grassyness

T: Breadyness & dryness, plus grassyness up front. Dryness, sweet breadyness, grassy & soapy hops as this warms. Finishes dry with grassy bitterness & a little lemon

MF: Medium body, crisp carbonation & good balance

Drinks, easy, good shot at the style

This was brewed to commemorate the 30th anniversary of a local NPR show, Ozarks at Large

 

I saw a wombat in the Hunter Valley in Australia a number of years ago. It was a remote spot on a dirt road and I asked my Australian host what odd animal might we encounter out in the dark wilds. He said you might see the occasional wombat, and he stops and says, "aye, there's a wombat over by the fence"! Sure enough. It looked like a claymation mash-up of a large racoon and a small bear.

 

This magnificent, world-class beer is courtesy of that beer nerd extraordinaire @Roy_Hobbs and NBS BIF #12 as part of a really cool LIF he conducted like the beer maestro he is.

The generosity of the NBS BIF participants is truly staggering. What a wonderful group.





4.75/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75

A beautiful hazy golden orange color, the head is nearly perfect - a pearl white color, really dense and foamy, it literally creates a lace wall down the glass. Never seen anything like it.

The nose is dank tropical aromas, especially grapefruit, pineapple, mango - and also some pine. Wow. I didn’t see that coming.

The grapefruit is prominent on the taste, and it has a candied element that is absolutely magnificent. There’s also pineapple, mango, and the aforementioned pine. Perfectly balanced, with no hint whatsoever of the 8% ABV, this is an example of a brewery confident in their prowess with hops.

The mouthfeel is really dry and substantial, as expected. What a treat this beer is. If you look in the “IPA Hall Of Fame,” this beer is one of the original inductees, IMHO.

 

NBW #2
Foley Brothers Triple Maiden
Pours a hazy gold with a 3 finger head that settles to a foamy cap.
Aroma is pine, grapefruit and lemon with some grassy notes as well.
Taste follows with with damp grassy pine and grapefruit peel, a nice subtle caramel sweetness.
Feel is still medium and at 10% there is a slight alcohol presence. The finish is quite drier than you might expect with not a real bit of residual sweetness. Its easier to drink than alot of high abv IPAs Ive had. A very well crafted beer that keeps a fair balance with its overabundance of hop additions.
Glad I bought the 4pk. One of the better triples Ive had of late. Also one of the tops Ive had from Foley who IMHO can throw a wrench into their beers every now and then. Cheers!

 

Thought is was pretty good fairly fresh

 

2018 Bruery PB and Jelly Thursday for me this Saturday. Taste; 4..5 and Overall: 4.25. Happy Labor Day weekend all and be safe


2018 vintage

Appearance: Very dark brown with medium-sized dark beige head, which dissipated very quickly. The head had hints of a purple hue before it disappeared Noticeable legs on this one. A typical looking BT variant.

Smell: Bourbon and brown sugar aromas hit me right up front followed by some raisin aromas and maybe a slight hint of boysenberries (unsure if it's due to the fact I know they were added). The alcohol presence is fairly tame which is nice in light of the high ABV.

Taste: The Bourbon and brown sugar notes from the nose carry over to the taste, but in the palate I definitely pick up some berry notes along with mild raisin notes. I also pick up some mild vanilla and moderate coffee/roast malts notes. This particular variant is sweet like other Black Tuesday (BT) variants but the beer dries out nicely with a touch of berry notes in the finish.

Mouth-feel: Medium bodied with a modest level of carbonation. not the thickest of Imperial stouts but not overly thin. Blame that on the alcohol possibly. Restrained alcohol presence for the listed ABV.

Overall: A nice BT variant, The berries made a nice addition but the peanut flour is something I couldn't pick up, but that could be due to how long I held on to the bottle.

 

#2, I don’t like to get political, but this is a great cause, IMHO. I visited Monkish in December 2019, and they rock on multiple levels, again IMHO.





4.34/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

This pours anthracite black with a dense, foamy dark tan head. Gorgeous beer. The nose is milk chocolate and some char, and stone fruit. Lots of stone fruit.

The milk chocolate is forward on the taste, and the char is present, but the stone fruit comes along mid-taste and lingers through the end. I love stone fruit flavors in big stouts, but if you don’t, this will be a bit of a challenge.

The mouthfeel is a little softer than I’d prefer to see in an imperial stout, but overall this is an excellent beer, especially if you like stone fruit in a big stout.

 

While I'm not generally a huge IPA guy, it's a damn fine beer. Glad you enjoyed it!

 

I've been banished the basement to watch the Flyers game, but given that it's game 7, that's probably best for everybody. There will likely be some yelling at the TV either way. Switching things up from a Farmhouse ale earlier to this can of Maple Nipple from Lawson's Finest Liquids. Interesting beer, as I can't recall having many (if any) beers with maple syrup before.


3.6/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5

Light brown, dare I say amber color with a finger of toffee colored head. Smell is caramel, malty with clear notes of maple syrup. On the tongue, I seem to bounce back and forth between tasting the maple and regular old malty sweetness. Slightly bitter at points, but subtly. Medium feel. Not my favorite style, but an interesting beer.

 

Roughtail Hail Jucifer Blood Orange IPA, 6.66% ABV. 4.21 Overall

Pours an effervescent & very hazed amber with a thumb+ of cream colored head, Great lacing & good head retention

S: Oranges, breadyness & mango, grassy hops as well once warm

T: Sweet orange, breadyness, green melon, plus peach & guava up front. Sweet orange, a little bitter orange & guava as this warms. Finishes powdery dry with sweet orange, green melon & a little passion fruit

MF: Medium body, creamy carbonation, nice balance

Well done as usual when it comes to the hoppy stuff from these guys