New Beer Weekend #75

This has been in my fridge for a few months and its time has come!

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/25923/505970/



375 ml. bottle.
Best before: 28/02/2030.

Moderate pour yields a slightly hazy, light golden body with no lacing.

Nose of slight funk and tropical fruit, with a bit of citrus and green apple.

Taste is semi-sweet from beginning to middle with a semi-tart finish.
Quite fruity and probably the fruitiest Tilquin I've ever had.
I like this; very unique and tasty!

Nice feel and very refreshing.

Overall, I could drink this anytime and would recommend it!
Cheers!!

 

Not all of them. Many around here start "Black Friday" on Thanksgiving afternoon.

 

Good Sunday evening. Thing have wound down, although things were small and smooth for the most part. The cold and clouds have raised havoc with my eco-friendlier solar decorations, but they are fun enough while they last. Survived our Christmas Eve church service - not our best effort, but good enough for the whole 11 people who came to the service at 9 p.m. @FBarber @russpowell @Beer_Economicus thanks for the positive vibes. Been in a lot of "the show must go on" moments over 40-ish years, probably caused a few when I was drinking heavy, but this one was personal.

Not sure about this one, but seems like it should be a decadent dessert type beer:



Boulevard Sugarwood Baklava, a 14.2% flavored brown ale. So bring on the adjuncts and let's find out about this one.

It pours very dark brown like root beer syrup with a scant, pale khaki head that hangs out. It appears almost still.

Strong maple on the nose and quite sweet. Behind the maple there a bit of pecan pie nuttiness along with some caramel, molasses, pretty faint bourbon. It all kinda comes together as a sweet pastry smell that is quite pleasing.

The taste is an onslaught, nothing subtle here. Sweet maple syrup, the whole pecan pie suite of flavors, just a hint of bourbon under it all. There's some dark fruit maybe dried cherries. The sweetness heads toward brown sugar and what's reminding me of butterscotch, so it kinda lands on honeylike, but not quite there in my opinion.

Thick and rich, kind of creamy feeling, not highly carbonated, the sweetness is a bit sticky but not cloying. Eventually that 14% starts bringing some warmth.

I do like the overall effect. Nit picking, it misses the baklava target by a smidge. This a very good dessert style beer, heavy on the dessert. The flavor is absolutely huge and the alcohol is simply covered up. I'm enjoying it, but this ain't no session brew. Definitely one to have as a rare treat when you don't care about calories. Feeling this will land right around the 4.0 mark. Trying to imagine Boulevard Dark Truth stout with the same treatment, or a KBS variant...could be interesting.

 

I have off all week so I’m hoping to enjoy some beers over the next few days. I may even get into another new one after this. Ill add another Tonewood beer as did @snaotheus and @BBThunderbolt a brown ale collab.

Tonewood (collab with the seed beer project) - Through being cool



Pours a very dark brown, reminds me of like a dark brown tea if held to light. Decent looking initial head, not expected based on head but really nice and substantial lacing all the way down the glass. Thin layer of light brown across the glass.

Aroma is of slightly burnt dark bread, slight coffee and cocoa, earthy piney hops hiding in the background.

Taste is the same mainly the dark bread, coffee like roast flavors, a noticeable but not overdone hoppiness going on.

Light body, nice high end moderate bitterness, lingering roasty aftertaste, soft on the palette and overall super well balanced.

Awsome beer, super well balanced and drinkable. All the flavors work in harmony with no flavor outshining the other. This should be a year round, or at least return every fall, beer.

 

I just may have to do that. Cheers!

 

Only in the fridge for about a month.



https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/9784/511801/



11.9% abv.
500 ml. bottle.
Bottled OCT. 2021.

Moderate pour yields a one inch tan head over a black body with minimal lacing.
Thin head does have staying power, however.

Nose of milk chocolate, roasted malt, a bit of dark fruit with slight vanilla and caramel after warming.

Taste is all of the above with chocolate fudge leading the way.
Dried fruit flavors come along after warming.
The barrel's flavors and abv are pretty well hidden and it is still quite tasty.
After even more warming, the whiskey barrel flavors are more apparent.

Good feel, but hoping for just a bit more.

Overall, a real tasty BA Impy (Chocolate!) Stout and would recommend everyone to seek this out.
Cheers!!!

 

Eh, I think starting a fresh one is better. Honestly, are we gonna all go back and look at the old thread? No, we're not (with the usual caveat that some of us are nerdier than others). I never looked at the Pictures Of Your Latest Haul thread, because it had been up for years. Now? Now it's a yearly thing that I'll look at, and I'll even occasionally post in, because it's a manageable size.

Now would be a perfect time to start a '22 Cellar Thread, to give folks a chance to post their list, and have folks chime in on what cellar brews to drink on New Years Day.

Lets do this!

 

That's an actual brewery name? It's better than a lot of others.

 

No, because voters need time to vote. We've gotta select our candidates, and give the people the chance to make our decisions for us! The time for action is now! Not 'Next Year'!

Although, Cubs fans are very familiar with "next year".

 

My final beer of the evening. I've been looking forward to this one.

Ommegang Everything Nice
ABV: 9.0%
IBU: 27

Aroma of dry spices, like a spice rack with the jars open. Nutmeg and cloves.

Tall, billowy white head from a fairly ungentle pour above a cloudy orange-amber body with ample carbonation.

The flavor is cloves front, center, to the finish and back. Also nutmeg, perhaps some cinnamon, but the cloves are very, very dominant. The middle and finish are somewhat bitter, but the bitterness is from the overpowering spices, it seems. This is not so much a spiced beer as it is beered spices. Way too much.

Mouth feel has a moderate-to-thin body, with a bit of harshness (again, from the spices).

Overall, the spices are overbearing. This is not a good beer. Disappointing. Very disappointing.

L: 4.0 | S: 3.0 | T: 2.5 | F: 3.5 | O: 2.75 | Rating: 2.86

Oh my; I just looked at the ratings/reviews for this beer on BA... am I out of step or what? IDK... to me, as I wrote above, it's just not a good beer. A jar of spices.

 

Apparently, yeah! In Connecticut.

 

Day 2 of Brewvana's 12 Beers of Christmas: 54°40' Belgian Style Saison, "Naughty Elf"

16oz can served in a footed pilsner glass. If there's a date, I don't see it. Day two of Brewvana's 12 Beers of Christmas.

Pours a slightly hazy light golden with an initially very large head that collapses to a small ring of fairly coarse bubbles, moderate amount of active carbonation. Smell is brett, yeasty, white wine grapes. A little hay and moderate funk.

Taste is sweet, malty, banana, slight hints of clove, vaguely fruity, a little spicy. Grassy.

Mouthfeel is fairly thick and surprisingly dry. Overall, this is a very nice beer.