New Beer Weekend #36

Glad to see you finally got your hands on some. Well done!

 

Even though you laid out the highlighted parameters, could you be "inappropriate" and let us know what you did notice different, even if age might be the culprit?

 

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they say brighter and easier drinking, you said dry finish, does that mean the remastered less sweet and brooding a beer?

 

Poured into a 13 oz Teku glass canned on 3/11/21. Pours a very hazy orange yellow with a finger sticky white head that leaves thin streaks of lace with excellent retention. 4.25

Aroma is peach, mango, ripe melon, pineapple, lemon, apricot, and grapefruit rind. 4.25

Taste follows lemon, peach, honeydew, mango, pineapple, apricot, and a little hint of grapefruit. 4.25

Mouthfeel is a solid medium, fairly soft gentle carbonation, not really dry or sticky, and at 6% ABV it drinks more like 7% but goes down really easy. 4.25

Overall this is another really tasty offering from one of NH best breweries. 4.25 Cheers all and thanks for kicking this off @JackHorzempa

 

I really liked both F--- stouts, and especially this one. I'm not normally a "boozy" fan - at all - but in this beer, it worked REALLY well. Glad it fit your palate well, too.

 

Let the light in by Treehouse


4.28/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25

Canned 3.18, opened3.24, poured in a teku

Treehouse describes this as “

Let the Light In is an extra kettle and dry-hopped rendition of Force of Will. “

Deep orange hazy liquid, one finger creamy white foam cap , frothy lacings , settles to a clingy ring

Aroma is orange citrus, peach, mango. Orange first then the peach dominates

Taste is mango , orange citrus Peach. Juicy citrus orange and pine

Creamy mouthfeel, good sudsing, gentle hop bite on the finish. Moist but not meaty



Good beer

 

There's Laaaarge, and then there's Ginormous. This locally brewed, locally named imperial stout is over the top with a combination of barrels and heavy-handed adjuncts. I'm really enjoying it, but my palate and my insulin cannot take anymore than this one pour in a single sitting. I'll be finishing up the other half of it tomorrow.



4.22/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25

A-Looks like a big bold stout, also with prodigious khaki head that persisted quite long for the high ABV.
S-caramel, coffee, rye barrel
T-Above average sweet even for the style. Overly rich chocolate, some coffee and the rye barrel is more present than the bourbon. I'm not really picking up the maple syrup barrel. Maybe a little dark fruit sweetness and licorice on the aftertaste. Some char bitterness helps to slightly offset the nearly cloying sweet.
M-Best part of the beer. Full body, viscous and chewy. The 15% ABV heat is there with some astringency, but not as boozy as you might expect.
O-Very different barrel notes, but a bit over the top with the massive amounts of chocolate and coffee otherwise its taste score would have been higher.

 

Cheers everyone, and nice kickoff @JackHorzempa! Decided to crack a can early today before lunch, a recently rereleased Mass Ave Double IPA from Trillium which I did not get the first time it was brewed last year. Part of the newer Ave Series, similar to the Street Series with slightly higher abv to make it a DIPA, this Mass Ave is dry-hopped with Mosaic. This was actually the first release of the series last year.

Seeing rye in the malt bill had me excited thinking the rest of the series was going to have rye in it, but I think this is the only one that has rye listed for the malt.



From the pint can dated 03/16/21, pours a vivid lustrous cloudy opaque golden yellow orange with a creamy frothy white foam head that has decent lacing and retention.

The second it's poured I get huge pineapple and passionfruit, tropical mango, peach, some berry, orange citrus, grapefruit rind, lemon pith, floral lemongrass spice, very slight hint of biscuity bready malt, with dank earthy herbal grassy resinous pine. Very intense and aromatic citrus and tropical fruity aromas.

Taste follows, citrusy, tropical, dank, hint of spice, mild toasty bready biscuity malt, big notes of lemon, passionfruit, pineapple, yellow mango, peach, orange citrus, grapefruit zest, floral lemongrass spice, with dank resinous earthy herbal grassy pine. Real nice expression of the Mosaic hop, not a lot of the dark/blueberry notes that I get from the occasional batch, lot of tropical citrusy flavors in here, not overly dank either, and not as weedy as I was expecting actually.

Feels medium plus fuller bodied, creamy with smooth carbonation, pretty juicy and refreshing.

Overall a really great DIPA with Mosaic hops. Juicy yet refreshing and not heavy, not too dank and earthy or spicy, real fruity, tropical, citrusy, nice balanced DIPA. Cheers all!

 

Good afternoon NBW, hope everyone is doing well. Just finish the 3rd marking period for the school, time to celebrate being 75% of this challenging school year with The Lost Abbey Veritas 020, thanks @BartS!
4.23/5 rDev +6.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

Thanks BartS for this
750 ml bottle poured into a tulip

A- A fairly clear reddish brown with a three off-white

S- Sour, leather, some funk, oak, dark fruits, some cherries and boysenberries, touch of vinegar.

T- Sour, leather, cherries, some boysenberries, some leather, oak, hints of bourbon, dark fruits, hints of sweet malts.

M- Smooth, light to medium body.

O- A very interesting and enjoyable wild ale. Seems like a nice blend of a soured Quad and Flanders, fruit is a nice touch.

 

So this is probably/I think my first actual kolsch from Germany. I’ve been very lucky lately finding imports well within an acceptable freshness range and this one was canned late December, my first true German kolsch didn’t disappoint...

Gaffel Kolsch



Pours a very pretty crystal clear light gold. Nice puffy white head, settles to a nice thin layer of white, as it settled left some nice lacing from initial pour. It really was a pretty beer the glass condensation and lighting of the photo do not portray it well at all unfortunately.

Smell to me is initially was lemony sweet but as it warmed a white grape really was noticeable. I little memory bulb went off and it almost reminded me of Welch white grape juice as a kid. Incredibly pleasant smelling beer. There is also some hay like notes in it as well.

The taste mostly follows the nose on this one. Touch of honey in this one it also reminds me of those water crackers.

Mouthfeel is light and very enjoyable. It is very soft with a nice light soft carbonation. A nice subtle bitterness. Very clean and noticeably dry finish.

This is a very very refreshing beer. I personally never have thought of many beers as thirst quenching but this definitely is a beer that has that quality. It’s smooth a soft like water but there is plenty there to remind you it’s beer. Very glad I grabbed this four pack.

 

I've never had Taddy Porter because if I'm buying Samuel Smith I stay with Chocolate or Oatmeal Stouts, and there are lots of brown ales or dark lagers that are sure things. The porter tasting piqued my interest, so I got a bottle to try.

Huge fluffy tan head coating the glass. A roast malt nutty scent with lighter fruity hop and chocolate supporting aromas. A lot of fig, dark malt, toffee flavors and a fruity hop aftertaste. Great lasting carbonation.
I have no idea what the age of this bottle is, but didn't detect any oxidation. I like this as well as any of the American porters and will add this to my dark beer rotation.

look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

 

I just had for the first time during the tasting. Really really enjoyed it and like you, no idea on date but hell it didn’t matter to me after I drank it. I loved the color and creamy look of the head on it, it tasted amazing too.

 

I wiped a happy little tear forming in the corner my eye seeing back-to-back "old beers" on this New Beer Weekend.

@Reef - I recently reviewed Taddy Porter myself, and I kept mentioning berry (as in coffee with berry notes), and a more neutral to maybe woody bitterness.

 

Thank you for kicking things off this morning @JackHorzempa ! I don't have any remastered beers for today, but it has been my experience that changes to an existing beer, especially a beer I enjoy, are typically for the worse. That is definitely the case when the brewer of my two beers for today shifted production from the Chicago brewery to AB Plants, primarily Baldwinsville, NY, with others to Fort Collins, CO.

Had this one earlier this morning. I usually pick the one I think I will enjoy least, or not as much as the second. I switched anticipated enjoyment today, and picked a light session stout to start the day. I really enjoy a solid flavorful session stout, and all things considered would prefer a lighter ABV with flavor, over a heavy ABV with similar flavor. I thought this one had good potential, brewed out of the Chicago Brewery so I picked up a single can, and away we go.

Goose Island Little Risk



Can Notes: Brewed in Chicago, 16 oz, 2.6% ABV, 20% IBU, wheat the only ingredient listed. "This beer is inspired by Brewer Tim's trips to Brazil. it was there in Sao Paulo where our head pub brewer, Gui, took a perceptively dark heavy Imperial Stout, and created an easy-drinking, fresh Brazilian summer stout. So whether you're celebrating Carnival in Brazil, or St. Paddy's day in the states you can enjoy this session stout all celebration long with Little Risk."

Appearance: 16 oz, multiple pours into my MBA nonic glass, Black base, though dark ruby looking through the top or bottom. Foamy brown head dissipates quickly leaving negligible lacing, and light creamy layer atop the pour. 3.75

Aroma: Roasted malt, light to mild in strength, backed by bakers chocolate, oak, tobacco. Complex for a lighter stout, and pleasant. 4.0

Taste: OK, the taste is wafer thin and weaker in complexity and pleasure. Chalky malt backed by by creamy milk chocolate. Nothing else from the complexity of the aroma. Expected a lighter stout offering based on the abv, but this is like you had a tiny squirt left of Hershey's Chocolate Milk mix to get a faint version of chocolate milk. I appreciate nice light session stouts packed with flavor, but you will not find it here. 2.5

Mouthfeel: Faint carbonation gives the body negligible body, very chalky, light sweetness, bland, light, thin, watery, chalky aftertaste. 2.25

Overall: Not sure of the point regarding this beer. Looks and smells good, but the taste is too light, even for a session, and the taste and mouthfeel too chalky. Glad I engaged in "Little Risk" by only picking up a single. 2.5.

Have a second GI new to me beer I hope I enjoy better than this one, to pair with lunch

@jonphisher 's Gaffel Kolsch is the most appealing new to me beer I'd like to try out based on reviews at this point.