New Beer Weekend #12

Pours a light amber color with a nice head and lacing
Aroma has hop and malt hints
The taste follows the nose with hop and malt flavors
A medium bodied decently carbonated beer
A good DIPL

 

FWIW, in the “old days” (10 years or so ago), Spotted Cow was packaged in 12 oz bottles and said “Cream Ale” on the bottle. I haven’t had it in YEARS, so I can’t speak to any changes in formulation or packaging.

As for the football game, wear a helmet - rooting against your wife is always a precarious situation.

 

I didn’t get pears in that one - not even a little bit. I liked it, but no pears.

 

Pours a very hazy golden color with a slight head and lacing
Aroma has slight clove and banana hints
The taste follows the nose with clove and banana flavors
A medium bodied decently carbonated beer
A decent wheat beer

 

Piqued my curiosity...I remembered having Spotted Cow many years ago when my brother sent me some 12oz bottles. Turns out it was about a month shy of ten years ago, November of 2010:


The label calls it just an "Ale," a "cask conditioned ale", and a "Wisconsin farmhouse ale"

 

Completely agree, I’ve had some mosaic beers that were very fruity and others cat pissy, same hop different results. It’s probably my favorite hop and my least favorite, depends on which flavor you get.

 

I felt like a jerk saying they weren't really beer, as it seems the NG sours are quite popular. I'm just sitting over here, clutching my unfruited saisons, hissing at the masses and their kettle sours. But these are absolutely the beers I'd show up with at my "I don't like beer but some of those sour ones are ok" friends' houses. And they'd love them.

The Lindeman's comparison is *exactly* what I thought of! I also thought this might be the start of the road that led us to exploding cans of slushy beers. Ouch.

 

Pours a very hazy amber color with a nice head and lacing
Aroma has clove and banana hints
The taste follows the nose with clove and banana flavors
A medium bodied decently carbonated beer
A good wheat beer

 

Revision’s Citra Slam pours a hazy orange from the can, with a 1 cm cap of fine foam.
The aroma is sweet with pineapple noted.
The flavor includes orange, pineapple and a bit of mango. The hop bitterness is low to moderate.
The flavors persist in the finish.
This is a flavorful brew.

 

I had my first Berliner Weiss last week, raspberry I believe, thoroughly enjoyed it. I had a hard time convincing my brain it was beer and not a malt beverage, if I had that blind I would have thought it a fruited lambic. Either would be great on a beach or pool beer as a break.

 

Pours a nice light hazy golden color with a nice head and nice lacing
Aroma has Brett and citrus hints
The taste follows the nose with a well balanced Brett and citrus flavor
A medium bodied decently carbonated beer
A good Saison

 

Founders oktoberfest
....appearance is a hazy reddish amber
..about a medium body with about the same for carbonation.
....aroma is bread,grain,malt,honey, and what strikes me as fruit but mostly peach. There is an odd plastic artificial aroma as well.
...taste is grain,malt,honey, but again a lot of the fruit/peach shows up. There is a bit of that wierd artificial plastic showing up that for some reason I connect to the fruit.
...it had a few positive attributes but in the end it was a fail for me. I liked parts of it but not all parts

 

Others have already weighed in, but it's probably best to think of the beer as not brewed to be a particular style. It isn't a cream ale or a “saison.” It just is what it is. The recipe was invented when the brewer was inspired by the idea of German immigrants brewing "farmhouse" beers in Wisconsin in the past. It's made with a Kolsch yeast. It used to have corn in it, but probably not anymore.

 

Time for my new mystery beer from @Coronaeus. Been somewhat sickly this week so this is actually the first beer of his I have opened.



4.41/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5

A: Beer pour a dark brownish black similar to a cola. Small creamy heady at first pour that quickly disappears after pouring. Not much lacing while drinking but overall looks like a typical stout.

S: Sweet aromas up front and center. This beer has a nice chocolate cake like smell to it. Also getting a touch of a nutty smell, maybe peanuts or almonds. No real booze scent present. Nice beer on the nose.

T: Taste is similar to the nose. However, the nuttiness seems to be more present instead of the cake like fragrance. Unsure on the ABV as there is not much booze burn going on here.

M: Very smooth drinker. The mouthfeel is thick but not cloying. Really nice balance here. ABV seems lower as there isn't much aftertaste. Sweet chocolate and nuts linger about afterwards with no hint of ABV.

O: Nice dessert style beer. Really solid thick mouthfeel with a birthday cake aftertaste. Would be better if there was a touch more alcohol in the beer or maybe a barrel aged version. All in all, this is a sweet milk chocolate tasting beer. Would drink this one again easily.

And now the reveal



Nathan
Brasserie Du Bas-Canada

Really nice beer. Would have been outstand with some barrel-aging go on but good beer regardless.

 

Yards featherweight
...has about medium carbonation with a thin body
..aroma is heavy on citrus peel followed by citrus fruit. Orange juice,earthy hops
...taste is again heavy on citrus peel then some fruit. Sweet sugary Orange juice with some earthy hops. There's a citrus peel,hop bitterness that dominates and lingers a long time.
Overall this was excellent considering its a low abv beer.