New Beer Weekend #99

Tree House Brewing Company JJJuiceee Machine 8.1% and canned on 8/1/22. Pours a very hazy orange yellow with a finger sticky white head that leaves gobs of lace all over the glass. 4.5

Aroma is peach, mango, guava, mandarin,apricot and some pink grapefruit rind. 4.5

Taste follows mandarin, peach, mango, guava, apricot, and grapefruit 4.5

Mouthfeel is rather large, maybe a little sticky but not dry, huge flavor but still easy going down. 4.5

Overall this very nice, but honestly I wanted to love it more. 4.5

 

Yeah, that's the one I ended up wishing I'd had a lot more of. Approachable's a great way to describe it.

 

This is one of the beers I went out to get, intentionally.

Grevensteiner Naturtrub Helles - Veltins



4.11/5 rDev +14.5%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

Good beer. I expected it to bring a little more malt than it does, but it's a good beer. Happy to have access to it easily enough. I feel like it may be a little colder than I want it, yes it's a lager but it's swathy and full and could benefit from being a touch warmer. The only critique is maybe that the finish is a little one dimensional, but, that's not the worst thing in a lager session. Good stuff.

Oh hey, the can says that the beer is somewhat mild in character, in that case, it's exactly what it advertises. A touch mild in the finish.

 

Just got back from the zoo with the family. Clovenbock from Wayfinder.

16oz can served in a footed pilsner glass. Dated 04/25/22.

Pours a clear orange-gold with a very large head and a lot of carbonation. Head settles very slowly. Smell is slightly earthy, grain husk, very yeasty.

Taste is grainy, hint of a hef's banana profile, yeast. Earthiness is still there, maybe a little bit of grass and a little bit of honeysuckle.

Mouthfeel is medium, smooth, and clean. Overall, this is a nice beer.

 

That’s some good lookin’ sausage, Jon.

Wait …..

 

Howdie, NBS beer nerds. I’m going to join our friend @ChicagoJ in trying this beer. I visited the OG Goose shortly after it opened in Chicago in 1988 (see 3rd pic), and went with a customer.

I’d like to tell you I indulged in many “early generation” Goose beers, but I don’t recall - and I’ve got a fairly good memory, so I’m guessing I had Miller Lite. I do recall the food being very good, FWIW.

For a frame of reference, this visit was before Mrs O and I were dating, and we’ve been married 32 years, so I’ve got THAT going for me. Now let’s dig into this big DIPA from a brewery that helped launch a thousand beer nerds (or more).







4.11/5 rDev +6.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
by ovaltine from Indiana

Pours a gorgeous golden color with that big DIPA haze supporting a creamy off white head. The nose has pineapple and mango and a bit of caramalt, but it doesn’t convey the gravitas of this 9.9% ABV beer.

The taste most definitely does convey the heft of this beer, with big pineapple and mango notes up front, a dash of ripe tangerine, and a significant caramalt note at the back of the taste as the warming alcohol note reminds you that you’re drinking a big beer.

From the look, this beer should be well carbed and dry (per the WCDIPA style), but it’s a bit on the oily side. Yet I find myself drinking this like someone’s trying to take it away from me - in a hurry. I’d gladly try this again and again.

 

I couldn't resist this in our coolers after seeing that it's "trending."




500 ml. bottle.
Batch 005.
Bottled 10MAY22.

Medium pour yields a one (plus) inch white head over a very slightly hazy body with nice lacing.
Nose of citrus, slight tropical fruit and a bit of grassy hay.
Taste of slight tropical fruit, citrus; with a very slight bitter pine resin on the finish.
I'm really enjoying the excellent mouthfeel.
Here is a quite delicious and easy drinking offering from MBC and would recommend.
Cheers!

 

Funny I bought the exact same beer today for the exact same reason, planning to drink tonight during the hockey game. I will refrain from reading your post until after then compare, always a fun excercise.

 

Spent the first part of my weekend doing battle with an Ikea shelving unit for my daughter's flower shop. I'm an engineer and I can't deal with Ikea's non-verbal instruction sheets, so I Googled an Ikea instructional video. Guess what? The video is pantomime. I just can't win.
But I got 'em together.
So having achieved a functional if not moral victory over the GD shelving units, I'm celebrating/recuperating with a New Trail Hammock DIPA.
It's an undated can (WTF - New Trail absolutely refuses to date their product) into a pint glass. I wouldn't normally buy an undated IPA but NT's stuff is so frequent and so good that I set my principles aside for this brewery. Haven't been burned yet.
Pours a very hazy deep honey-gold with a thin and brief off-white head. Thin, spotty lacing. Initial impression is sweet orange, mango, pineapple, and peach. Mouthfeel is thick and chewy. Alcohol (9.0%) is well hidden. Finish fades to a slight bitterness.
I like this one. There are better NEIPAs out there but Hammock is local, reasonably cheap, and quite tasty.

 

This is so damn accurate, when I built our crib 5 years ago the first damn step in the directions was a complete crib...then it had steps after to finish it. Did the same thing as you, thank god for youtube, oh and they just hid the first step directions in the crib mattress holder, but no where in the finishing instructions did is say to look there...those sneaky IKEA people, messing with the world one set of directions at a time.

 

Next up is another beer from @Ozzylizard. I've enjoyed the Hoppin' Frog beers so far, let's hope that trend continues

A moderate pour ended up being entirely too aggressive, as this beer produced loads and loads of medium density tan colored head that flowed right on over the lip of the glass. Color has a very interesting red / amber look to it. Aroma, while maybe slightly weak, still has plenty of malt and bready notes to go around.

Flavor is sweet malts that I can't pin down to any one flavor (molasses, toffee etc.) Pleasantly warming and smooth, this goes down very easily for a 9.3% beer.

 

Poured into a 13 oz Teku glass canned on 5/27/22. Pours a Very HHHazyyy orange with a finger plus sticky white head that leaves a bunch of thick streaks of lace, with excellent retention. 5

Aroma is peach, tangerine, papaya, passionfruit, and apricot. 5

Taste peach, tangerine, papaya, passionfruit, and apricot really balanced and rather insane. 5

Mouthfeel is above average, not sticky or dry, soft creamy carbonation, and at 8.8% it has huge flavor but insanely drinkable. 5

Overall this is as good as it gets for me. Huge WOW factor. This one from Tree House Brewing Company tastes perfect. 5

 

Amburana Parabola by Firestone Walker

4.4/5 rDev -0.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Features the spicy South American wood spirals to add flavor



Bottle received in Bif15 from @Beersnake1 , poured into a Smog City snifter, also from @Beersnake1, stored at 45 degrees, served at 50 degrees

Dark brown cola liquid, creamy two finger brown foam cap, good retention, settles to a pencil thick layer after five minutes, some active microcarbonation streams are visible, recedes to an espresso cream after 10 minutes , layered rings after each sip

Aroma is bourbon, leather, tobacco

Taste is bourbon, licorice, roast malts, slight char, hint of cocoa, cocoa powder

Mouthfeel is thick, syrupy, velvety, luxurious, decadent , boozy …the abv is 14.6%

Good beer, thanks @Beersnake1

 

Howdy all, it's time to enter the S U P E R D O M E



Behold, Definitive Brewing Co.'s VANILLA SUPERDOME! This is a 9% DIPA w/ lactose, vanilla sugar, and extra vanilla beans! I am prepared for this to be kinda bad and overly sweet, even though I also implicitly trust this brewery to do shit like this well because they have been very consistently-good at doing so. Let's find out! Canned 5/20/22, by the wat.

Pours sorta generically, but at least the head retention is good and the lacing is excellent. Can't really argue with a hazebomb that has nice legs/lace these days, honestly.

Nose is much hoppier than expected... tons of tangerine and mango backing up the sweetening elements the brewery utilized. In the back of my mind, I kinda knew they would probably pull through, but this idea is even more intense than some of their other fruited Dome beers. Still, I'm impressed that this doesn't just smell like a boozy sugar-bomb or pastry nonsense.

Definitely a solid flavor profile that matches the intensity of the vanilla and creaminess on order with an equal amount of tempering hoppiness. There's a hint of bitterness but most of this is just well-balanced citrusy goodness and some tropical fruit notes that feel sort of anonymous. I'm torn here, a little... on one hand, it feels very successful cuz they made a "more vanilla" version of Vanilla Dome, but like... why? Just to see if it was possible? I don't think it's any kind of "improvement" on the original (and if I'm being honest, I prefer some of the fruited variants more), but as a proof of concept it's... good, technically. Hmm... yeah, I don't know about this. I would have to have this and normal V Dome side-by-side to compare and, honestly, I really just don't want that. In a sense, I wanted this to be more everything but I also really didn't? Yeah... I dunno. Not bad but not a re-purchase for me by any means. Now give me a 10% Blueberry Dome or something and I'll grab that immediately.

 

I randomly get checks from my health insurance cause one of our doctors keeps overcharging us for copays; by 5$ apparently. So I cashed one today and across the street, a beer and wine store, naturally I went in. Well I saw this beer and remembered it was trending on here so here we are…

Maine Beer Company - Little Whaleboat



This beer pots nice and pale, when held to light shows a slight yellow tint. Nice dense head that slowly becomes more and more compact and dense, leaving a nice thick cap and some beautiful lacing.

A very aromatic and incredibly refreshing zest beautiful hoppy nose. There is a slight almost pineapple zing to it to, which compliments the zesty citrus very well.

The taste is much of the same but their is a little bit more of a noticeable pineapple or tropical fruitiness to it. In this case go very well balanced with the citrus. A nice soft but noticeable malt presence.

It has a medium body with a resiny hop feel to it; nice dry finish with medium bitterness.

Great hoppy beer, nice classic feel to it; it’s bitter dry and drinkable. It has an added bit of fruitiness to it but it’s so well balanced and not overdone that it works very well for me.

 

Poured into a 13 oz Teku glass canned on 6/1/22. Pours a hazy dark orange with a finger plus sticky white head that leaves thick streaks of lace, with exceptional retention. 4.5

Aroma is orange sherbet, pineapple, and peach. 4.25

Taste follows, but orange sherbet is very dominant. The other flavors barely have a cameo. 4.5

Mouthfeel is above average, not sticky or dry, soft gentle carbonation, and at 8.3% really easy drinking and loaded with flavor. 4.5

Overall this one is pretty intense, I would definitely give it a go if you are lucky enough. 4.5