What beer are you drinking now? #2985

Tonewood Fuego.
6.2% ABV. NeIPA.
Oaklyn, New Jersey

I’ve been hearing from a lot of people that this is the best IPA in New Jersey. It’s been around a couple years now so here goes.

You see what it looks like. The smell right away is un ripe guava. If you’ve ever eaten a real guava, it tastes like that plus the bitter skin. Straight up. There’s a touch of mango stank behind it but this guava is incredibly violent and the hops dominate. I don’t know if I could say “doughy malts” because this is such a hop driven beer.... it’s a bit hard to pick up a malt characteristic at this time but it is not a palate wrecker. There is a tiny amount of balance as to not destroy your tongue and face. For being so murky, this IPA is thin but not watery (not lush like most in the style) but creamy in a way for being thin. Similar to textures of skim or almond milk. The hop bitterness lives through out the sip but does not linger. It is a dry IPA, seemingly west coast with the New England type flavor profile. At 2 weeks old I’d say it would even benefit from mellowing out around 4-6 weeks for more balance. 30 something IBUs listed feel like 80. Which is fine in the aspect that this is very green....still which some like. You’ll never hear a complaint over freshness. I could only imagine the DDH version of this available.

If you want my opinion, after my first time with this, this is the best bang for the buck IPA made in New Jersey. $12 six packs of an aggressive IPA with characteristics of both West Coast and New England is hard to beat. If you have it available to you I recommend this and look in the cooler section. I know a ton of spots obligated to keep this refrigerated if they want to even carry it at all.

I try not to take things so seriously. Especially beer because it loses it’s fun and magic that way but I will try to speak more of the beer itself here rather than others things.

peace.

 

Thanks for kicking things off Ian. I dropped pay TV after the Larry Sanders Show concluded, and don't watch much TV beyond a few PBS documentaries each year. Should spend more time reading books instead of browsing, hope that is one of several successful 2021 resolutions.

Clearing straggler Summer beers, and this is one of two remaining Lake Effect Summer Porter bottles (no label, it's a small brewery though they label most beers), poured into their branded nonic glass.



Not sure how I made it a lifetime without encountering this song until a few minutes ago on our local Jazz station. Sweet Baby Jesus!



Here is a second on this Two for Tuesday



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Good day BAs! Thanks @superspak for starting today's thread. Yes - Diehard - the only christmas movie I actually watch. Mrs. Lizard watches ALL the crap movies on the estrogen channels and records them as well. They say the mind is the first to go.

Kind of drizzling this morning but staying above freezing for another day or two - screw you winter! Today's New Breakfast Beer:



More coffee than stout, but not bad - rating 3.97, rDev +1.3%.

 

Just finished my shift and don't need to be back until Monday night. Time for a beer or two before a nap.

Recycled pic:

 

Big bold black brew, as strong as the Bengals in their huge win over the Steelers!

60x magnification from last night's "super conjunction" of Saturn and Jupiter.

 

Morning everyone! I'm not going hard today at at all no more than 2-3 beers sub 5% beers I got stuff I gotta take care take of so I can't do the whole booze thing. Hope to maybe have something special for Christmas and NYE though. Anyway, I hope everyone have a lovely week!

Cheers my WBAYDN brethren

 

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Hello Ba ... Got the house to myself today. Cheers !

 

Morning! An early beer at our daughter's in Colorado.
Firestarter IPA



Cheers and have a good one BAs.

 

Hey BA's - happy Tuesday and the first full day of winter.....went early shopping at 7 am today, to pick up a few last minute things - and beer, of course! Found this local'ish one from BrewKettle, pretty tasty take on an "apple jack" beer....nice



Miss Emma snoozing on my lap last evening

 

You and I would be very good friends. No sarcasm. I’m the same exact way. Except Im likely of just tuning people up *allegedly* who don’t back off. Lmao.

 

Good morning, BAs! Enjoying some rare Tuesday drinking thanks to the holiday. This is a ddh citra, mosaic, and simcoe ipa from Timber Ales. As with most of their ipas, this doesn’t blow me away, but it’s pretty, pretty good.


@Insomniac speaking of Sloan, they do tour down here from time to time, in super small clubs. In fact I saw them play in February, the last show I saw before covid hit. One of the best shows I’ve been to. My shitty camera pic from that show: