What Beer Are You Drinking Now? #3465

Cheers and thanks for opening the new day @AzfromOz with such beautiful landscape shots and beer.

I finished the new Bond film and a trip to vinoville and am back and catching up on some Blacklist episodes whilst enjoying a late night ......................................

The Sixth Glass by Boulevard Brewing - file foto

 

Good Day Mate how about another shrimp on the Barbie? I kid, thanks @AzfromOz for getting us going today. Local brew, very tasty 6.1% NEIPA. Cheers all and have a great weekend.

 

Good day BAs! The dinosaurs are singing in the trees - as usual I was up before them - and the first beer of the day is history! Literally, it's resurrected from retirement with a slightly different label and the usual deliciousness, today's New Breakfast Beer:



Delicious! At 14.5% ABV the alcohol is well-hidden, allowing the flavors and bourbon-barrel aging to carry the day. Overall, damn good! Rating 4.36, rdev -3.5%

 

Time for some coffee. The trees are finally starting to bud.

 

It's going to be a sunny Easter weekend!

Starting with a dutch DIPA. Cheers!

 

G'morning BA's!

Saturday!! Time for some breakfast...

(Oh, and those are ham croquettes...sooooo good! And YES, bacon to omelet ratio is 1:1!)




Cheers!

 

Good morning BAs! Usual chores out of the way…coffee time - FBS:



Bottled 1/19/22. Poured at 54°. Always good.

Sunny, hotter (low 80s) and humid day forecast. We may take the dogs to the Saturday morning market downtown in a bit. Cheers and have a great Saturday y’all!

 

I’m going to the New Japan Wrestling show tonight, but will be hitting one of the best Chicago area breweries beforehand, so I’ll be posting a couple more pictures this afternoon. For now, starting with the second best breakfast beer there is (behind FBS, naturally).
Today’s WXRT Saturday Flashback is 1976. They’ll play one of these songs. Doubt they’ll play the other.

 

Are you watching the movie today, sir? We did our annual viewing yesterday. That’s one of the best musicals ever, and I thought yesterday that the entire thing is a collection of music videos.

 

Enjoying this older saison from a now since shuttered Florida Brewery.

Saint Somewhere & Jester King Collaboration - Bouteille Vert



Full review in the New Beer Weekend #91 thread. Bottom line, this Saison held up well over the years, less honey than I would like. Would have liked to have tried fresh, but that opportunity is long gone.

Speaking of long gone, today's flashback takes us to the Bicentennial. Here are two played so far.

Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together

Doobie Brothers - Takin' it to the Streets

 

Hey BA's

Happy rainy Saturday - rain is supposed to move off east this afternoon, so Emma and I will walk later....did my usual Sunday am grocery shopping this morning, due to Easter tomorrow....

Enjoying my last can of this local delight....need to run down to Thirsty Dog's taproom and get more!



The coffee version, is on point!

 

Revision's Cryptic Love, a collab with Ghost Town. Brewed with Mosaic, Galaxy, Cryo Simcoe, Cryo Mosaic
3.78/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75

Appearance: exceptionally clear gold with lots of carbonation flow, minimal head
Smell: indiscernible subtle fruit, a little pine
Taste: mango, melon, slight pineapple on the finish. Below average bitter for the style
Mouth: medium (-) body, above average carbonation, clean dry finish. The best attribute of this beer.
Overall: On these collaboration beers, sometimes seems like the two breweries fail to merge their two visions of what the beer should be, and the lack of alignment in purpose and conflicting hop bill ends up with a muddled beer that doesn't live up to expectations. So it is with Cryptic Love.