New Beer Weekend #97

Go all in…clone wars is the greatest Star Wars of all time. You get the story of EVERYTHING.

 

Kinda Fuzzy

6.5% wheat ale with peaches and apricots from Jackie O’s

Canned 3-25-22 twelve ouncer.

Pours a hazy yellow. Very little initial head and no lacing.

Nose is light malt and vague apricot.

Taste is a mixed bag of peach and apricot. Saaz hops are listed but don’t offer much to the mix here. The fruits are too muted to offer more than a sample of what might have been. Instead of a tasty wheat ale, we get a watered down fruit beer.

Carbonation is weak and consequently mouthfeel seems absent.

Swing and a miss from one of my favorite breweries. “Kinda” a hard pass from now on. I kid. Definitely a hard pass. Compares unfavorably to Tröegs Peach Apricot Shebang (unfortunately only available at the brewery).

 

Greetings, NBW! My wife and I unexpectedly have the afternoon and evening without kids since they got invited to a sleepover, and we haven't figured out what we're going to do with that time. So, no idea what my new beer plans are this weekend. At the moment, Mrs. snaotheus is cooking for other plans this weekend, so I'm going to enjoy this nice Divine Barrel German Pils that @superspak gave me as part of his NBS BIF #15 porch bomb.

16oz can served in a tulip. Dated 10.27.21.

Pours pretty clear pale yellow with a fairly large, maybe two finger head that settles prettily into some thick cottony lacing and a layer that is about half fluffy pillows and half thin skin of head. Smell is grassy, honeysuckle, and grain tea.

Taste is quite bitter, tons of cut grass, maybe a little lemon, with a nice slow grainy finish.

Mouthfeel is fairly light, slightest amount of slickness. Overall, this is a very nice beer.

 

It was still quite good, just heavy on the oak. Interestingly, by the second and third glasses either my palate had acclimated, or I was just buzzing, as I didn't notice the oak as much.

 

I’ve been to Atlantic City several times and really liked the ocean and boardwalk, though the crowds on weekends could be a bit much.

Sarasota’s Lido beach on the Gulf still my favorite beach, though there has been immense development the past forty years from the days we went as kids (late 70s / early 80s).

For those who miss the Shore, you may enjoy this beach and boardwalk footage from I believe Seaside filmed about sixty years ago. Great band and song back the video. Hope these small independent motels and businesses are still going strong.

 

First saw Springsteen with Steel Mill on campus at Richmond in Fall '69. He was great and no one knew him at all. Now for a fix I go for Rosalita.- a powerful song! Great memories......We were drinking National Premium and Schlitz with a Vietnamese herbal cure.

 

Amazing, thanks for sharing such a cool little story. Rosalita is up there with my favorites, Thunder Road, Atlantic City, Badlands, there is so many good ones.

Edit. You’re gonna make me go on a Bruce kick now…

 

Pours jet black w/ a dark brown/tan head.

Aromas of fudge brownie, cinnamon & bourbon, taste follows with a lingering booziness.

I was very apprehensive about the licorice but it is woven nicely in all the layers of flavor.

 

Happy Memorial Day weekend, everyone. We’re at the lake after a 3-week absence, and the weather is BEAUTIFUL, so we’re pretty pumped. I’m getting read to throw some chicken on the Weber kettle, so that’s a perfect time for a new beer!

This first one came back with me from Columbus at the end of April, and it was canned in late January. Let’s see how it’s held up.





4.02/5 rDev +1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
by ovaltine from Indiana

This beer pours a golden straw color and features a minimal amount of suspended haze under a creamy off white head that tenaciously sticks around and provides a nice amount of lacing.

The nose includes grass and a bready note and a significant lemon aroma, and the lemon is really prominent on the taste as well, balanced by a bread flavor that is more reminiscent of a fresh crescent roll.

The crisp finish is a nice cap on this really refreshing, flavorful lager.

 

#2, this is courtesy of @BBThunderbolt and a little ongoing dance we have from NBS BIF #14. It’s like a never ending supply of fantastic beer that randomly shows up in a very unrandom manner.

Makes perfect sense.





4.04/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
by ovaltine from Indiana

An aggressive pour reveals a crystal clear golden colored beer with a foamy white head. Gorgeous beer. The nose features tendrils of smoke accompanied by a nice bready malt aroma and a hint of grass.

The smoke is more developed on the taste, but doesn’t overwhelm the beer, allowing the bread and grass flavors to shine as well.

A crisp mouthfeel works well with this deftly executed Rauch Helles. What a magnificent brewery Chuckanut is.

 

I am always ready to try a Dortmunder lager. Sadly, this style is difficult to find; even the German breweries seldom export their versions to the US. I was surprised to see this one from a Minnesota brewery while visiting Destin, Florida recently. This one has all the hallmarks of the style: deep golden pour, semisweet flavors of fresh bread, and slightly higher alcohol content than a Helles lager. Hugely quaffable and refreshing, this rivals Great Lakes' Dortmunder Gold.

I can only wish that more breweries would attempt this style.

 

At Chuck's Hop Shop

 

Looks like you're making good use of the kid free time visiting Chuck's I love seeing the notebook back.

 

Last one, this is a nice way to cap off a great evening for this old beer nerd.





4.42/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
by ovaltine from Indiana

Pours black with a tight, creamy dark tan head that lingers. The nose is sweet milk chocolate and rich peanut butter - and maybe a little more chocolate and peanut butter when you think they’ve faded away.

The milk chocolate flavor is up front, around back, and every angle in between, with a rich peanut butter flavor jumping in mid-palate and hanging around for the rich, creamy mouthfeel finish.

This is a peanut butter cup for beer nerds, and a beer I’d revisit regularly. Delicious stuff, IMHO.

 

This was a gift from family member who resides in Iowa, gateway to Nebraska, for those geographically impaired. I will admit that this is beyond its "best by" date, and might have been worse had it been fresh. That being said.....TG's S'mores Pastry Stout.....
3.23/5 rDev -20.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3
by ZebulonXZogg from Illinois

The pour was gorgeous, thick, black and slow, great big fluffy light brown head that lasted all of a minute or two. Great aromas brought back memories of backyard campouts 60 years ago, marshmallows, graham crackers, Hershey's chocolate. Ya know what, the beer tastes exactly like it smells. It's sickly sweet. If this beer hadn't been a gift, it would have been a drain pour. Mouthfeel, fine, smooth, creamy and not a bubble of carbonation after the original flurry of activity. As much as I love Imperial Stouts, I hated this one.
Edit: This eventually got dumped, as in drain pour, about 4oz.....