New Beer Weekend #48

Thank you for kicking off the thread today @Roy_Hobbs !

Sorry the Dunkelweizen was a rare Dovetail miss for you @FBarber , I like their Dunkel, but have not had this beer or the one you presented yesterday in the Wheat tasting thread.

Thank you for your review @champ103 , I've been meaning to try to track one of those down since I saw it pop up on WBAYDN the past few weeks. Speaking of which, my first new to me beer this week I popped open close to 8 this morning. It's a gift from my brother, so a nice start to the day.

Yuengling Golden Pilsner



Bottle Notes: 12 oz bottle, no ABV. Date hard to decipher, but I believe this was bottled May 13, 2021 based on a barely readable Julian calendar date.

Appearance: 12 oz bottle poured into a large cylinder glass. Light pale straw base. Aggressive foamy rich head, bubbly, lingers for a few minutes before leaving nominal clumpy lacing and a constant layer above the base. Persistent medium carbonation throughout. 3.75

Aroma: Nice bold pilsner aroma, salty crackers, light grassy backing and citrus lemon hops presence. Nice. 4.0

Taste: Consistent with the aroma but lighter in strength. Malt leads, very salty crackers, hops remain in the background, lemon and lemon grass. Somewhat watery. 3.5

Mouthfeel: Light thin body, watery. Light fizzy carbonation persistent throughout, slight dryness, balanced on the sweet bitter scale, very easy drinking, nice clean finish. 3.5

Overall: This is a good pilsner offering, smells and tastes consistent with the style, malt runs this show, light hop backing, easy drinking for a hot summer day. Thank you Andy! 3.5

The standard Yuengling Lager is one of my lowest rated beers, just very watered down and tasteless beyond salt, so glad this one worked out a lot better.

Depending on how the day goes, I hope to find a wheat beer. Til then....

 

Good afternoon NBW, hope everyone is doing well. Starting today with the new wheat beers I have, first up Suarez Crispy Little!
4.34/5 rDev +3.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

16 oz can poured into a pint glass

A- A slightly hazy golden straw with three finger white head

S- Citrus, wheat, earthy, floral, grapefruit.

T- Grapefruit, citrus, earthy, wheat, floral, touch of pine.

M- Smooth, light body.

O- A nicely done American wheat. Definitely pretty hop forward, but still has a good balance and easy to drink.


Happy Juneteenth Freedom Day, cheers!

 

Yeah, like I said, I was getting a little jealous of everyone posting Thank You that last few weeks ha. Also, hoping the Golden Pilsner shows up in Texas, keep hearing that they are making the push, but haven't seen it yet...

 

Thanks @Roy_Hobbs for the kickoff post. Coming in early for me with a wit from Allagash. I found a single can in a random stop at a store that doesn't carry much from Allagash. Starling Wit graces the glass, splitting with the missus.



Pours quite clear for the style with a fairly dense pure white head. Wheaty tang and plenty of Orange on the nose. Earthy ginger and coriander in the background. As it sits, the typical Belgian spiciness emerges.

The taste is crisp and clean. Pretty orange forward, but the ginger, coriander, and yeast driven flavors all play nicely. Tangy wheat holds it all together. Slight earthy notes.

It is light to medium bodied, fairly refreshing with a clean finish. Peppery spice shows up after a few sips. Pretty enjoyable overall. A more flavorful version of their White.

Debating whether I want to go get the lawnmower running..if I do, that means work. Hmmm...maybe best to not risk it...

 

When I was a teenager, I used to watch a lot of horror movies, like a lot. I watched many of them with my friend Erik, whose father was a Congregational pastor (and widower) who joined us for many long movie marathons, mostly on VHS tape. We favored low-budget, culty flicks like Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste and the Hellraiser films, and one of our favorites was Phantasm. The plot is almost embarrassing to describe, involving a super-tall mortician (Angus Scrimm) who turns corpses into dwarf-slaves before transporting them into another hellish dimension (!) There’s also a cool, small, silver sphere that plants itself into people’s foreheads and drills their brains out. It’s extremely dumb, but wonderfully atmospheric, and has some big fans—JJ Abrams not only paid to have the film recently digitally restored, but also named the character Captain Phasma in The Force Awakens after it. I recently re-watched it on Amazon Prime, and the story didn’t hold up at all, but it’s visuals are still super cool to watch.

How’s that for off-topic? Let me bring it back around to beer by mentioning that phantasm is also the name of a “thiol-based” ingredient that I’ve see pop up in a lot of beer descriptions lately. It’s apparently brand new to the market, and several breweries are experimenting with it. Including—tada!—Trillium, who incorporated it into my new beer for today, Dialed Out. This is a variation of Dialed Up, their DIPA that incorporates Sauvignon Blanc grape must and was, for a long time, probably my favorite “winey” beer. The first couple of times I had it, I was blown away; it really tasted like all the best of a good Sauv Blanc and NEIPA, perfectly balanced and highly sippable. It’s been years since I had it, and I’m a little skeptical of this phantasm business, but let’s get to it.

Pours slightly less opaque than your typical Trillium brew, light gold, with a delicate, almost fragile head that slowly pops away like bath bubbles. Aroma is somewhat muted, with the white grape pushing through a “scrimm” (see what I did there?) of light citrus and pineapple. First taste is somewhat disappointingly one-note, diluted orange juice and very little white grape. At this point, I’m not really sure what the phantasm is doing, aside from possibly masking the complexity of the must. As the glass warms, something interesting happens—a lot more flavor comes out, but not of a wine character. It’s a ton of not-quite-ripe, almost candied berry, the first time I would have called a flavor gummy bear-like, which Tired Hands likes to claim all the time. It’s not unpleasant, but quite far away from the Sauv Blanc experience I remember from Dialed Up. What isoutstanding is the mouthfeel, no surprise, and even has a bit of the coppery zip I associate with many white wines. Not sure if that’s the phantasm, but I’m into it.

Overall, I suspect that I would like this quite a bit more if I didn’t have such firm memories of Dialed Up entrenched in my palate. I also suspect that Trillium (and other brewers) have a way to go to figure out how phantasm works best, possibly with other hop combos or beers. Glad to have tried, but not one of my fave Trillium beers by a long shot.

 

Those old Peter Jackson horror movies are something else, I love what he did with TLOTR (I mean its not perfect and they made some pretty big changes but come on, thats just nit picking). Though when I first heard he was doing the trilogy, I thought hmm, that guy?? I was a freshmen in high school and my friends and I had just happened to watch a bunch of those on VHS, then we heard the news. I was really excited regardless as it was all just weird.

 

Just picking a snippet, but an overall fun post to read, sir. Cheers!

 

Poured into a 13 oz Teku glass canned on 6/02/21. Pours a hazy orange with a 2 finger sticky white head that leaves thin streaks of lace with excellent retention. 4.25

Aroma peach, mango, coconut, pineapple, apricot, and grapefruit rind. 4

Taste follows coconut, mango, peach, pineapple, apricot, and grapefruit pretty well balanced with some bitterness in the finish. 4

Mouthfeel is above average, a tad sticky not dry, soft gentle carbonation, and at 8.2% really easy drinking. 4

Overall this is nice, not dazzled but slightly different and pretty tasty. 4

 

Moving to another new brew.



Poured from the can into a nonic(k) pint glass.

Pale brass yellow, with a touch of slight haze. Thick full three finger head height, and a big collar like lace as the beer settles. Nicely capped but a little frozen and murky in the mix.
Assuming this is a single hop only addition, it's a neat profile. Nice airy aroma of earth and soft almost passion fruit like flavors on the hop nose. Hints a little earth and pine. Fairly basic but good.

Palate sticks to basics. Chewy hints of wheat like flavors, with a mix of simple backbone. Tangy hop profile, hints a little less fruity than the nose, and more of a sharp grass and sage like herbs. Finishes with soft bitterness, almost like a pils sensing quality as well which is interesting. Real delicious spicy mix in the aftertaste that lingers.

Neat pale ale.

Cheers!

 

Trailbreaker by Treehouse

4.25/5 rDev +1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

12 ounce can poured into an antique German Pilsener glass



Two finger white foam cap with good retention and sticky lacings over a clear golden liquid with active streams of carbonation



Aroma is straw, hay, sweet grass

Taste is malts , Grassiness, hay straw

Light sudsing mouthfeel, gentle hop nibble, Clean crisp refreshing

Good representation of the style

 

I gotta ask @JayORear because of all the horror stuff. Do you watch American horror story? It is the one new show I still watch and get excited for. The weird thing is I hate all horror except that show. I think I’m scarred from watching VHS Jason tapes at elementary school sleepovers. Hilarious as a parent now looking back. Who the hells parents let’s there 5th graders watch horror movies

Thanks @WunderLlama you weren’t kidding it is literally right off 91. That has to be good for business.

 

On to Tired Hands Antenna Witbier.
4.13/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

16 oz can poured into a tulip

A- A hazy golden straw with a three finger white head.

S- Tart, lemon, some oranges, wheat, oak, earthy, hints of pears. Good, but blurring the line into their Saison territory.

T- Tart, lemons, wheat, oak, some pears, earth, coriander, hints of oranges.

M- Smooth, crisp, light body.

O- A tasty brew but not really sure if it should be called a witbier; definitely has some great witbier qualities while coming off a little more like a tart saison without the funk.

Cheers!

 

Poured into a 13 oz Teku glass and with this brewery you never know when it was canned, but coming from @jzeilinger tells me it is fresh. Pours a very hazy yellow orange with a half finger sticky white head that leaves thin wisps of lace with nicevretention. 4.5

Aroma tangerine, papaya, pineapple, ripe melon, and apricot really pleasant. 4.75

Taste follows tangerine, papaya, pineapple, cantaloupe, and apricot really balanced with tangerine standing out most, but extremely tasty. 4.75

Mouthfeel is above average, not sticky or dry, soft creamy carbonation, and at 9% you got to be kidding me, really easy drinking. 4.75

Overall this brewery just keeps impressing me. I would drink this one all Summer long like it was a session IPA. Wow for me. 4.75 Thanks again Jeff.