New Beer Weekend #84

That beer was much better when first released, seems to have not aged well at all

 

Great Raft Brewing, The Company I Keed, an Unapologetic American Pilsner; 5.0% ABV: 3.94 overall

 

Nice Horn. I have one from Germany, some day I must post it.

 

Breckenridge Brewery Hazy Pilsner (Saaz dry-hopped unfiltered Pilsner with a crisp finish) - the haze craze has infiltrated my beloved Pilsner style but I can't imagine that it will take all that much away from it for me; I do enjoy hazies but I want my Pilsners to be Pilsners. Pours from the bottle a hazy yellow with a generous head. Smell is the usual Pilsner but I can already tell that this is going to have a softer mouth feel, I can practically smell it due to its unfiltered nature. Yep, soft and smooth and while the Pilsner characteristics are there, it's just not quite as crisp as a usual Pils...but not entirely a bad thing here because this does work.

Good beer, would drink again. And I'm happy that they did a seasonal that was not another IPA and spun a hazy into this instead. Prost!

 

Fate becons. Release the horn from its captivity, making sure to scrub it with a sufficient amount of Dawn. Fill the horn with a new-to-you beer, and raise your horn up to the sky with me!

 

Now able to join beerwise...I did a small trade to move some of my few remaining cellar beers to get some PNW beer styles I know I cannot find here. Got some red ales, red ipas, and good old school IPAs. @johnniehops just sent me a mix, this is one of the beers.

Breakside/Barley Brown's Collab - Wanderjack IPA



Pours a nice dark shade of gold, just the slightest opacity. Not much retention, no lacing but a nice layer of light white remains the duration.

Nice in your face resiny hop aroma; comes off as evergreen with a subtle touch of sweet, there is a grapefruit note that comes off pleasant and soft.

Taste is an immediate tongue biter, I mean this in a good way. A really strong initial sap/resin bite at first, it mellows out into a malt grapefruit finish. A subtle nondescript fruit note also present.

Medium body, sticky hop presence, highly bitter and clean.

Really enjoying this one a lot, great beer.

I cannot wait to try that hazelnut KBS @GreenBayBA

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Meanwhile I’ll be enjoying the show…cheers friends

 

The best I can do for now... This is weird, it cropped off the top of my pic, WTH? I'll trya again tomorrow...

 

Getting myself that sweet Okinawa tick with a 21.4oz (good thing it's not a 22) of Orion. It, shockingly, is a fairly average International Lager.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/2550/7511/

 

Quadruple Shot Cinnamon Cookie by TreehOuse

4.36/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25




12oz can poured into a treehouse snifter

Brewers notes: featuring an incredibly decadent base stout, quadruples shot cinnamon cookie is conditioned on mounts of Ceylon cinnamon and vanilla. The result is an amazingly delicious dessert stout with notes of SNICKERDOODLE cookies, vanilla cream and chocolate velvet cake.

Thick syrupy, black motor oil sludge capped by an intense one finger brown foam cap reduces to a ring with no lacings

Aroma is faint cinnamon , vanilla cream, whiff of chocolate

Taste is cinnamon without the burn, sweet vanilla cream, slight roasted malts, slight char

Sweet dessert stout, abv is well hidden , syrupy mouthfeel that coats the mouth

Good beer

 

@snaotheus sent one of those my way, it was quite tasty.

Your random changes in spelling of certain words always cracks me up.

 

I think I might stick with this whole cellaruary thing. I've actually been burning some hairy old beers on Saturday and still enjoying a fresh(er) brew on Sundays...

Cold afternoon playing with the grandson - he thought this new kind of snow that you can walk on vs in was amazing. I call it a pain in the ass, but gotta admit it was easy walking in the woods and once he discovered we could cut it in blocks it was game over. Granted there is only about two inches left, but that hardly mattered. But damn, my feet are about as cold as that snow!

So a bigger beer from the vault:



Dogfish Head Miles Davis Bitch's Brew from 2012. Refresher...hybrid with three threads of Imperial Stout and one thread of honey beer with gesho root. Had to look up gesho, of course, to grind it is a fairly important crop in Eritrea and Ethiopia and the gist is it is more or less used like hops to make a honey beer. Pretty cool.

Very pretty pour, a virtual black whole swallowing any light bold enough to venture an escape. Very nice mocha head that remains as about a 2 mm covering that doesn't stick much to the glass.

Big malty toasty smell and a little hint of booze. Chocolate follows, then the usual suspects in the dark fruit lineup. A honey-like sweetness is definitely present, with an earthy component that I'd guess is whatever hops were used along with the gesho. Very nice.

The taste is layered and mire complex than the aroma suggests. Yeah - for sure there is an ample malt flavor, mildly roasted and brown bread-like with virtually none of the acrid nastiness found in some Imperial stouts. It's quite clean tasting in that regard. Some dark chocolate, light coffee, raisins or figs maybe both, a berry component maybe currant? Nice level of earthiness grounding this beer. Honey for sure and hello left field - I taste some vanilla, like 99.9% sure There is just a bit of peppery spice at the end of the taste and a faint tingling flavor of licorice. Harmonious and complimentary flavors.

It is odd in that it is striking me as simultaneously sweet and drying. Mild bitterness resets the buds a bit. Creamy and super-smooth, mildly carbonated, pretty full-bodied.

Don't care how old this beer is...it is damned tasty. Easily in the low to mid 4 range, may push a bit higher as I intend to sit on my ass and sip on this one while I await the 10 pm Bruins face off.

 

Hi Gents, I rarely post outside of wbaydn, but tried a new one tonight and here is the result. Cheers!

Firestone-Hopnosis IPA - 6.7% ABV


3.99/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
by barneyrubble from Colorado

Served at 52 degrees in a tulip glass from a Feb. born on date.

L- Nice light cream / white head with some moderate lacing that fades in average time. Color is a mid orange amber with about 90% transparency.

N-Produce Dept. and sourdough yeast notes, a touch of piney hops and not much else

T-Mineral water, soft laid back malt with a singular note of pine in the hops. Really tastes rather light overall. A little touch of sweetness peaks through the malt. I sense a bit of alcohol and if you told me this is a higher ABV I would not argue.

M- The carbonation is very enticing with this beer. It starts with a soft effervescence and really small bubbles that just melt away. Finish is mid dry and light yet with a fair bit of cloying thickness on the back of the throat.

O- I like this beer. It has all the tangy piney hop bite you would want in a beer that can feel lighter in body. After reading the notes on the BA page, I am at a loss to detect any of the tropical notes aside from mango peel perhaps. And the mouthfeel is very soft which makes this an easy drinker. It is interesting to see a note about double dry hops. I have noticed to me the beers I have had using DDH, tend to feel less full bodied and pungently bitter in a different way that evokes lightness overall. This beer is reminding me of Powder Day in that regard.

 

Good evening NBW
A welcome treat after getting called into work today after logging 60 plus hours in five days.
Revolution Maple Jacket

12oz can "FILLED DEC/06/2021" poured into a tulip glass at 55° Fahrenheit 14.4% ABV per can. The beer pours dark amber to brown with ruby highlights and light brown head. The head recedes to a thin ring and island of tiny bubbles. Sparce lacing. The aroma is moderate in strength featuring maple, toffee and vanilla from afar and some bourbon and boozey notes up close. The taste is sweet bourbon and maple syrup over toffee, caramel, oak, vanilla, and slight ethanol. Mild bitterness. The mouthfeel is full bodied with less than medium carbonation and a slick, lingering, sweet finish. I would say it stops just short of cloying, compliments of the bourbon & ABV. Overall, excellent. I probably prefer Straight Jacket, but this is a nice change.

Cheers all!

 

Nice to see you here @barneyrubble

Reading your review makes this beer seem more interesting than how FW described it. Now I’m intrigued by it.

They should call the next one “hopnosis negative” (for my Seinfeld friends)