New Beer Weekend #48

3 NJ brewers 4+ original IPAs
"Authentic underdog" is how we Jersey peeps see ourselves, so appropriate for Junteenth Day.

Aviator’s Club | Forgotten Boardwalk | Wild IPA | 7% | NJ
4.24/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Added by Act25. 1st review. Dreamy Saison/Wild IPA combination, inspired by the risks associated with early Aviators, which were addressed by better planes being built in NJ.
a) Creamy, head that lasts with suitably rising fine bubbles ringing steadily in the tulip.
s) Apricot, yeast, saison citrus.
t) Better than Pure Yay! the latest Wild IPA from Carton (NJ), more apricot and orchard fruit, with cider like notes.
f) Tingly, yet creamy, refreshing, drinks like a Saison.
o) The sum is greater than the parts, - wonderful tribute to Aviators everywhere.

Tablebier | Triumph Red Bank | Herb Beer | 5.3%
4.18/5 rDev +2.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
1st Review. In Red Bank. Two River Theater Opening soon!
a) pale saison as expected.
s) aromatic, herbs, grass, spice cabinet.
t) follows with a pleasant honey/ orchard feel and back drop.
f) Bright and spritely.
o) Adam nailed this one.

Twin Lights Pure Momentum | Alementary Brewing | IPA | 6.5% | Highlands/Hackensack
4.03/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Added by Act 25, 1st review. A solid four.
a) Attractive creamsicle orange body haze pour with smushy, lasting head.
s) Too faint but hops peak through with tangerine, pine, and orange crush.
t) Follows smell, cleans up nicely without being OJ or creamsicle, pine and bitter ending.
f) Creamy, dreamy.
o) Solid, fresh local orange & pine creamsicle, dreamy IPA packed with feel and flavor.

 

Dragon's Milk 2021 Reserve 2. Double bourbon barrel-aged stout with Madagascar & Indonesian vanilla beans. Pitch black, with light foam that quickly dissipates. The smell is strong with vanilla, chocolate, coffee, and bourbon. The taste is chocolate-forward, with intense vanilla, toffee, toasted oak, smoke, with a bit of fruit flavor. The mouthfeel is lead by a lot of carbonation. More than I recall from other Dragon's Milk editions. It is bubbly, oily, think, and high-viscosity. Overall, this a good chapter of the Dragon's Milk saga, but not one of my favorites. The vanilla and chocolate flavor that I like is there, but not in a way that I believe to be more special than similar beers.

 

Hey hey BA!!

It’s Juneteenth, it’s Fathers Day weekend and it’s the Euros ( Go Germany). Treehouse opened a new location close to me , I’ll partake more frequently in their brews

my new beer is King Creamsicle by TreeHouse



4.56/5 rDev -5.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Purchased at the new treehouse location in sandwich, Massachusetts

16oz can poured into a treehouse Cape Cod nonic. Hazy orange , almost Arnold Palmer iced tea brown, two finger off white dense, rich foam cap , sticky lacings

“”The beer-gur king”



Can notes:

Authentic ingredients. Individual character. An integrated and delicious outcome of love a draft favorite among staff King Creamsicle is king Julius condition atop heavily dosed volume of vanilla beans .the resulting beer carries waves of orange notes encircled by intense and Rich vanilla Bean character

we taste orange Creamsicle sweet orange vanilla Bean syrup and orange juice like hops atop an original Treehouse mouth feel . the Beer works incredibly well on its own but also contributes mightily to novel cocktails and other incentive summer drinks enjoyed freely in the company of those you love!”

Smells like an orange creamsicle , oranges and vanilla

Tastes like an orange creamsicle beer , orange juice, creamy vanilla , Orange first quickly followed by creamy vanilla, sweet but then with bitterness

Smooth mouthfeel , gentle hop bite nicely lingers on the tongue, semi dry finish in the back of the mouth



Great beer, a whale from cape cod

 

Awesome beer name

 

Poured into a 16 oz Nordic pint glass canned on 6/02/21. Pours a hazy orange yellow with a massive 2 finger sticky off white head with excellent retention, leaving thick streaks of lace all over the place. 4.5

Aroma peach, mandarin, cantaloupe, passionfruit, apricot, and white grapefruit rind. 4.25

Taste follows peach, mandarin, cantaloupe, passionfruit, apricot, and white grapefruit really balanced with just a little bitterness in the finish. 4.25

Mouthfeel is pretty big, maybe a tad sticky but not dry, soft gentle almost creamy carbonation, and at 8.5% loaded with flavor but easy going down. 4.5

Overall this is a very good NEDIPA, I am very happy they arrived in NH. Sending high quality fresh beer. 4.25 Thanks for opening @Roy_Hobbs and cheers all.

 

Barreled Souls Resistance Is Fruitile 8.5%. Imperial fruited gose. Poured into a 13oz Snulip on draft. Pours a very attractive purplish pink with a finger pinkish head that leaves a few thin lines of lace with solid retention. 4.5

Aroma blackberry, raspberry, strawberry, vanilla, and currants with a little whiff off alcohol. 4.25

Taste follows blackberry, strawberry, raspberry, vanilla, blueberry, and currants with alcohol hitting the palate in the bold lingering finish. 4.5

Mouthfeel is big, plenty of life, a little dry, and at 8.5% it is easy drinking and loaded with flavor. 4.5

Overall this one is pretty darn impressive, not sure I would want more than one, but this is really nice. 4.5

 

A very nice opening from @Roy_Hobbs.
Just back from a walk with the dogs, not too hot yet. I got a Beer Drop shipment the other day, and this gose sounded like it would hit the spot. And it does.
This is Margarita Gose from Fernson Brewing Company in Sioux Falls, SD (my first South Dakota beer!).
A hazy gold color. One inch white head that disappeared rapidly.
Citrus fruit aroma.
Taste of lime, a little orange. Sweet and salty.
Crisp, nice sour aftertaste.

 

hey what's going on!?

Back for another new beers of weekend.. and taking it all in with good stride. Got some real nice Zzzz's in this morning much needed.

Starting off with this simple little number, fun little can art.



Poured from the can into a Spiegelau IPA glass.

Beaming dark orange/tangerine colored body, with some clarity and nice amounts of fine carbonation. Fluffy, and bright topped three finger white head, with a soft creamy top and thick chunky like lacing abounds. Great looking IPA.

Good solid aroma. Mild hints of sweet earthy hop, touching a little bit of tropical fruit. Some of the sweetness accents a little bit of caramel like malt it seems also. Fairly basic, but pretty good, nothing earth (forgive the pun) shattering. Small hints of tea like hops also.

Palate keeps the goods delivering. Nicely juiced, with a faint hint of mango and orange flavors on first sip. Good hinting tropical guava like flavors too, with a grass and earthy punch. Good balance mix of malt and hops, with a real good contrast between sweetness and bitterness nicely.

Not an amazing IPA, but a real good solid drinker and go to.

look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4 | Final score: 4.02/5

Cheers!

 

Growing things must be in my genes. Amen on the calming influence, it's truly been essential through the years. Our wild herb garden is a riot of peppermint, lemon balm, bee balm, oregano, catnip, and whatever else shows up! Tomatoes are in the back yard and growing well. They need lots of water so far this season. Fourth of July BLTs and tomato sandwiches seems on schedule.

 

Thank You 2021, from Maine Beer Company. 6.4% ABV. IPA of coarse. I always look forward to trying a new Maine beer.



Pours a clear golden/orange color. A dense white head rises to two fingers. Excellent retention and lace left behind. This is a looker.
A simple hoppy aroma of tropical fruits, berries, and bread crust. Certainly not the most complex nose, but enticing.
Taste wise has that tropical fruit and berry flavor again, and has more punch up front here. Biscuit/bread like flavors. A wonderful lingering bitterness brings everything together nicely.
A medium body with good carbonation. Not overly effervescent but not "soft" either. Just the right amount of firmness, that becomes ultra smooth after a minute. Easy to drink for sure, just classic all around and I always appreciate that from Maine.

I'm always more appreciative of just well made and to the point beers. This is a perfect example, normally with an IPA, I think a lot of people look for more aggressiveness. Though this just reminds me why I like things simple. Very much to the point, moreish, and well done. Sometimes I think breweries forget that, and glad Maine will not.

Overall score is 4.14, solid A- from me.
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Also, just now starting Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star. This is the last book she published while alive, I have always wanted to read this but think its been out of print until thos wonderful 100 year anniversary edition by the great New Directions publishing. One of the great true independent publishers, and they always focus on translations of foreign books to English. She is one of the oddest, to put it lightly, writers I have come across.

Got some classic Hefe's to open later and some tunes to spin as well...will see you in one of the other threads later today.

 

I still haven’t come across that beer @champ103 I’m losing hope now as it seems it may either have come and gone here or was just never ordered by the stores I frequent.

wait there’s another treehouse now too @WunderLlama ? I’m not in the loop but I thought I’d have read or seen that on here somewhere.

 

Yeah, I kept seeing other people post about it around here and it finally showed up, or at least I finally found it this week. Bottle date is May 25th, so still fresh as far as I'm concerned.

 

Blah, not the 100 year anniversary edition ha, just a so called Centennial Edition, original US publishing date was 1977, right around when she passed, she would be 100 this year, which is were the centennial editions come in.

 

Two new locations : sandwich, mass and Deerfield , ma

one at The entrance to Cape Cod and one at the entrance to Vermont

 

I agree, I like the new TreeHose CC logo. I have an extensive glass collection and I am a sucker for cool designs, glassware and unique glasses. I used to represent a very cool line of belgium glassware (Durobor) and they had some cool stuff. Cant wait for THCC to start releasing more gear.

The pool is more a Mrs Wunderllama thing. It is pretty nice and Mrs wunderLllama consistently outdoes herself with the surrounding gardens. Going in the pool today for the first time since surgery. I extended an invite to you to discuss how to fix @ovaltines wagon poolside but, I guess you are too busy changing diapers....