New Beer Weekend #42

Happy New Beer Sunday #845!

Thought I had a beer I didn't rate, but ended up rating it at FOBAB (Half Acre's Bethnic Vanilla) so skipped the third planned beer this weekend. Going with a second, a stout by Half Acre's next door neighbor.

Spiteful Brewing's G. F. Y. 2020 Stout



Can Notes: 12 oz, canned 1/11/11 @14:20:35.8.0% ABV. The beer that started it all for Spiteful is back! Our original receipe is packaged for sitting back and reflecting on what a dumpster fire of a year 2020 ws. COVID-19, the endless zooms.... you know what? Let's not go down that shitty memory lane. Nothing else needs to be said, but G.F.Y 2020!

Appearance: Pitch black pour, creamy rich tan head, leaves nice fine lacing throughout. Really good looking stout. 4.5

Aroma: Nice chocolate malt aroma, backed by caramel and toffee. Sweet, but not overly, bold and pleasant. 4.25

Taste: This is a truly decedent stout. Bold sweet toffee and caramel rise above the roast malt. Chocolate, peanut butter, fudge. Tastes like a wonderful desert. Solid hops keeps the sweetness in check, very balanced for the taste profile. Outstanding. 4.75

Mouthfeel: Rich full creamy body, decedent. Lightly dry, hops balance well against the glorious sweetness. Light fizzy carbonation, feels as strong as the 8% ABV. Easy clean finish. 5.0

Overall: This is a most outstanding stout, so enjoyable. Great aroma, decedent full taste and flavor, excellent balance with the hops holding all the glorious sweet notes in check, carrying a powerful and enjoyable punch. One of the best stouts I've had BA or non. Another great offering by the brewers at Spiteful Brewing. 4.75

Hope all your beers are as good as this one. Cheers!

 

on to another new beer.



Poured from the can into a branded tulip glass.

Deep brass yellow body color, and very clear, nearly crystal in appearance. Head creation manages about three fingers but also has very soapy retention. Quick descend, leaves to a good thick collar, and a touch of clingy lace.

Aroma goes more for a dank note, and touches herbal spicy, and very green sensing hop angles. Comes off very fresh, almost leaf and chlorophyll with big earthy tones. Very bold, and solid, but was expecting more grapefruit and citrus angles on the nose.

Palate continues from the expected nose. A big bold earthy push of hop, nearly weedy in dank flavor on first sip. Very good thick body, almost like a mix of thick resin and dense chewy malt. Finishes more with big earthy and dirt flavors, nearly smokey weed and even hits of black pepper like bitterness.

Very neat beer, a little different than what I was expecting, but a good weedy like buzz, in a small package.

look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25 | 4.15/5

Cheers!

 

Probably Cassidy. I picked a 4 pack up of that beer when it was released a couple months ago. Cellarmaker makes good beer.

 

"We don't just hunt deer . . we slay them."

 

Good afternoon NBW
This was a no brainer to pick up as a single. I wish now that I would have grabbed a sixer...

Stone Liquid Poem DIPA
12oz bottled RVA 04/22/21 poured into a snifter glass at fridge temp 9.4% ABV. The beer pours bright orange amber in color with creamy khaki head. The head recedes to a medium width ring and leaves a thin, uneven head. Good lacing and retention. The aroma is classic candied orange, pine and caramel. The taste is semisweet candied orange, grapefruit, pine with a strong malt (toasted, pale & caramel) body and heavy bitterness. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with average carbonation and a mostly dry finish. No sign of the ABV in the taste or aroma. Some stickiness from the raw amount of hops, but not overly sweet or cloying. Overall, very good.

Remember when you couldn't walk into a liquor or grocery store without finding a new IPA that wanted to beat you over the head with hop bitterness? I do and I miss it. Funny how times and tastes change. Luckily, I can brew a beer that suits me if I'm desperate enough. Cheers all!

 

Val-Dieu Winter Ale ( Strong Belgian Pale Ale ), 7.0% ABV; 4.39 overall

Opens with a resounding pop! Pours a slightly hazed & effervescent honey color with 2 fingers of rocky eggshell colored head. Stellar head retention & lacing

S: Appleskins, pears, some perfumy hops as well

T: Follows the nose, Golden Delicious Apple & dryness as well, plus a little grassyness up front. Pears, floral hops & and little bit of funky mushroom as this warms, a little dried candied fruit as well. Finishes dry with green appleskins, a little mushroom & some pear notes

MF: Medium body, lively carbonation, warming

Fantastic nose, pretty good all around

 

Drekker Strawberry/Orange/Lime BRAAAAAAAAins Double Fruit Smoothie Sour, 7.3% ABV. Pours gloppy thick and opaque pale red with a one-finger light pink head that left puree residue. Nose is strawberry and lime, taste follows with lime front and center, slightly sweet, quite tart, salt on the close, vanilla in the aftertaste. Excellent thick mouthfeel, overall very good. Of the 21 variants of this I've had, this is my least favorite. The lime overpowered, could have been muted a bit for my taste.

3.9/5 rDev -5.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Not their best effort, should have just called it lime.

 

Greetings All from the Great Northwest where we are seasonable and doing some Spring planting.

Today we have Steady Orbit, a West coast IPA from Ninkasi.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/14400/513159/

A very drinkable unfiltered IPA. Come to think of it we might send a six-pack of this stuff to China to help keep their space junk in orbit.

Until next time, keep looking up,

 

@WunderLlama thanks for kicking off the thread and happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there.


In my glass a rare swing and miss in my book by tree house , if this was tribute to west coast style they did not do it justice

3.61/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

16oz glass poured into a th snifter

L: what this a clearish ipa from th?, orange in color looks like a west coast.

S, no yeast some toffee /malt sweetness . Hops pine and earth(musty like )

T hope the taste would change had a musty note while faint was off putting and light bitternss and touch sweet

F: drank cloying ans sweet full

Overall missed the mark did not seem NE IPA nor was it labeled a west coast but not one I would revisit

 

what’s it called?

 

New Belgium Dominga Mimosa Sour Ale - I love sours and have yet to come across one I disliked and the cocktail inspired beers are up my alley as well. This one pours hazy and the head quickly dissipates. The nose is sour and orange juice-ish, taste much of the same; 6% is well hidden. This beer delivers and matches the description and I would drink again, could see friends/family being a fan of this also.

https://www.newbelgium.com/beer/dominga/

 

That would have been helpful information

c114

Curiosity One Hundred fourteen

 

Haha yea when you said a clear TH beer I had to see for myself I won’t believe it till I see it with my own when.

 

@JackHorzempa @zid
No 20's left so I shelled out $9.99 for a 6 pack of Deerslayer. You people owe me for this one

Deerslayer is the only beer from Contra Brewing, a subsidiary of Ommegang (as mentioned upstream). The website and bottle are devoid of any style or brewing information other than 5.2 ABV. However; an article stated it is a Blonde Ale so that is how I'm rating it.




TLR don't buy this beer
Not bad looking, an amber/gold with a quickly dissolving head, it goes downhill from there.

Deerslayer's predominate aroma is faint wet dog, with a little lemon in the back ground.
The best thing I can say about the taste is that it isn't offensive. Sweet malts with a little lemon in the background, as the beer warms a pithy bitterness starts to appear.

Sweet and slightly sticky on the front of the tongue and slightly citrusy on the back with a fairly dry aftertaste

Overall this is a huge disappointment from a brewery owned by Ommegang/Duvel and I can see why they would not want their names associated with it. Deerslayer drinks like a heavier and sweeter Budweiser.

Frankly, a drinker of AAL's would probably find this an interesting alternative, especially one in the habit of buying 20's, and it probably will find a market in upstate NY convenience stores and gas stations, but it is a God-awful Blonde Ale.
2.73/5 rDev -19%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75

 

Happy Mother’s Day, everyone. I’m normally scared to death to use a Teku glass because they look and feel so fragile, but this Teku, courtesy of my beer nerd friend @WunderLlama, removes that concern by apparently forging this glass from granite. It is a hefty, substantial SoBo.

On to my beer for this evening.





4.35/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Pours a turbid pineapple color with a dense, creamy white head. From the can and the hop varietal listing, this is a “kitchen sink” hazy, and the nose bears witness to that, with ripe oranges, grapefruit, pineapple, mango, passion fruit, and a nice resiny pine that carries some herbal, earthy notes with it. Whew!

The citrus flavors lead the taste, but it’s the bitterness from the pine and the earthy notes that I’m guessing are courtesy of the Simcoe that makes this beer for me. A lot to like here, this is worthy of your consideration if you want an amped up juicy AND bitter hazy.

 

Here's a new-to-me from one of the newer kids on the Vermont block. My third beer from these guys is a Kolsch brewed with Crystal hops.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/60182/548448/



16 oz. can.
Canned 03/16/21.

Moderate to vigorous pour yields a 3/4 inch white head over a hazy golden body with nice sticky lacing. Nose has floral attributes front and center with slight fruit and slight herb/spice aromas as well. Taste is somewhat similar, with a slight fruitiness in the middle while finishing with a soft, gentle bitterness. Nice feel and overall, this is a solid Kolsch and I would recommend all German ale drinkers to seek this out!
Cheers!!

 

Amazing follow through.