What Beer Are You Drinking Now? #3085

Reds showing some signs of life in the 5th finally. Runners on the corners 1 out with Suarez up. Opening Day is up there for my favorite holiday.

 

Been very happy with my strength gains since picking up the weights again in November. Getting Barry Bonds as my strength coach was a great idea. Best part, he's doing it for free in exchange for a letter of reference. Oh, Barry!

Sticking with Good Monster NE DIPA from Collective Arts but will post something new with pic before movie time. Cheers.

 

I was under the weather for a few days, so am just catching up to the tributes to @scream. Lifting a Pernicious


Rest easy

 

Happy Thursday, BA. Quite blustery out today, should have had something darker

this is drinking quite nice though, so no complaints.

Twin Elephant Snow Flows Remarkable


cheers!

 

One has to take his Pils.

 

Cuttin' stuff

 

At Woodwright Brewing in Duniden FL. Her Hefe and my White Oaked IPA, super juicy and nice......

 

some champagne with the neighbors. I preferred KBS. In full disclosure I did not bake these

 

Blanche de Namur up next "the world's best wheat beer."

 

Be glad you can't actually see my white overweight fat ass and pup dancing around my condo when I put on Aretha. I absolutely have a fun time with it, but nobody else should see it

Anyway, Saint Arnold Spring Bock (I'll probably be at their restaurant tomorrow for fish & chips on Good Friday), and Aretha NOW! Original pressing

 

Wow!

 

I guess a few of you folks have had this beer.

 

Reach into the basement yields this treat.
Brett, is soft, honey, sweet pineapple. All on a solid malt backdrop.
A graphic that reminds me of Arthur Dove, hope the homage speaks.
Do good
Be well

 

@champ103 maybe something is wrong with me but now you've piqued my curiosity. It would probably be priceless entertainment to see you and the pup dancing to Aretha

 

It absolutely would, but nobody is going to see it

 

Tonight's Beer Tasting Lineup is a Blind Tasting of Battle Beers: (correctly identified 2/3 of the pairs above in the blind taste test)

1) Firestone Walker's Lager (4.5%): An American take on a German Helles lager with mild bready and crackery flavors with hints of grassy hops.
versus
2) Spaten's Helles Lager (5.2%): An authentic German Helles lager with strong bready, lemon, and honey flavors.
(mislabeled these two in the blind taste test)

3) 3 Floyd's Foggy Geezer Hazy IPA (6.8%): A combination with Warpigs brewery that has strong orange, pineapple, strawberry, and tropical fruit flavors.
versus
4) Lagunitas Lilttle Sumpin' Hazy (7.2%): Another unfiltered hazy IPA from Lagunitas with strong resinous orange/tangerine, mango, and sweet tropical flavors. Heavy and sweet.

5) Castle Danger's George Hunter Stout (8.0%): A midwest stout from Minnesota that has strong chocolate and dark malt flavors of caramel, strudel, and syrup. Mildly roasty, but leans malty.
versus
6) Central Waters Satin Solitude Stout (7.7%): Another midwest stout from Wisconsin that has strong and creamy flavors of milk chocolate, banana pudding, and whipped cream. I've tried this one many times and never got a definite banana pudding flavor until now.

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Winners:

2) Spaten Helles Lager: This one was similar, but had stronger aromas and flavor. I guess the lesson is that you cannot argue with authentic German beer.

3) 3 Floyd's Foggy Geezer Hazy IPA: This one was better all around, although it was a fresher beer. Better and more complex juicy flavors. Less heavy and sweet, which I often find the case with Lagunitas beers/IPAs.

5) Castle Danger's George Hunter Stout: This one has fantastic chocolate and dark malt flavor. Rich chocolate, hints of coffee, and strong dark malts through the end.

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Do you think Spaten Lager is a good example of German Helles?
Do you think Foggy Geezer is better than Little Sumpin Hazy?
Have you also found that Lagunitas IPAs are often too heavy and sweet?

 

My favorite Grisette
Cheers

 

And a nudda one. Time to order more Twin Elephant!

 

Phillies pulled out a great win, been too long since I watched a full game, celebrating with some Pineapple PUNGE, cheers!