New Beer Weekend #64

I certainly did so quite intentionally for comedic effect.

Even my "best" years, I clock in at around 1.3-1.5 beers per day. 2.5/day over a 10 day span, that includes 2 NBW threads, isn't necessarily representative. A 14 day span would be better - and that would drop my average below 2/day, just by adding in those extra 4 days. Then, consider the BIF cycle: over the last 10 days, I've had far more new beers dropped on my head, without any extra effort of my own. So this 14 day span isn't representative of a typical 14 day span in 2020.

Then again then again, my daily average, over the course of a year, is impacted by my sandwich delivery schedule. This year, I only lost about 3 total weeks of potential new beer reviews, although the total impact is greater.

Long story short (too late!): I'm not going to keep up the 2.5/day pace of the last 10 days, nor the ~1.93/day pace of the last 2 weeks. It's going to take me about a year and a half, most likely to hit @ovaltine 's mark of #4000.

But hey, the BIF isn't over yet, so ....

 

Time for my second and last new beer of this weekend. I've got a 2015 - 2020 vertical of BCBS lined up for this evening so we are getting started on that. But first a hearty congratulations to @ovaltine on the big milestone! Keep them coming!



This is Door County Brewing Company - Dark Skies. They call it a generic "dark lager", but its pretty clearly a schwarzbier. It comes in at 5.2% ABV.

Pours a pitch black, completely opaque, and surprisingly viscous for a 5.2% lager. Nice thick velvety mocha colored head forms on the beer. Aroma has notes of creamy roasted malts, cocoa, and some light piney hops.

Taste has notes of roasted malts, creamy, cocoa, tobacco, a light ash, and a hint of smoke before giving way to a sharp piney hop bite. Its a lovely smooth, roasty profile. Feel is medium, fuller bodied, rather dry on the finish.

Overall this beer was a real pleasant surprise - its a lovely beer and one that I thoroughly enjoyed. If I get the chance to pick this one up again, I will.

 

Come to think of it, though, you're kind of tempting me to go with one more review before the evening ends ... and we are on a lightning delay in the SNF game ...

 

I'm glad you liked it! As @JayORear can surely attest, Beer'd's specialty is not the hazy NE IPA style; their best beers are closer to slightly more traditional WC IIPAs - but really juicy, and really damn smooth. They've fairly recently jumped on the haze train, but so far I've been pretty impressed.