What beer are you drinking now? #3549

Yep, one of those NA/UA days.
I think I need to go look for different flavors, this Lychee Sherbet thing is starting to give me an off chemical after-taste. Weird.
Anyhoo... day off, going to walk only today after a nice long week. Hot weekend here, too. But hey, last time I checked it is July.

Cheers!

 

Jupiler number 7 or so. Cheers

 

Have a good Saturday Advocates,
this is my post workout beer, after a quick lunch.
Obviously we are talking about a Microbrewery, whose production can only be limited... but really of great quality.
Coming to drink in Italy and settling for the offer of the pub on duty, not taking a bottle of Opperbacco, Loverbeer, Maestri del Sannio........ makes no sense.
In August, after two years of forced postponements, I'll return to the Beer Festival in Castellalto, right near the village of this Microbrewery and I can't wait to go back to drink their things at their home.

Microbirrificio Opperbacco (Abruzzo, ITA) - ABRUXENSIS vers. MANDARINI (tangerines) Vintage 2020 - Farmhouse Wild Ale (5,5%)

33 cl bottle (€ 6), at the beershop.
Vintage 2020 - "To be consumed preferably by the end of March 2026".
Farmhouse Wild Ale with Saccaromuces, Torulaspora and Brettanimyces yeast extracted from local grapes (also thanks to the collaboration with the University of Teramo). Fermentation and maturation take place in barrels of former Montepulciano d'Abruzzo wine.
Just uncorked acid note between lactic and bacterial. Very light scent of unidentifiable fruit.
The appearance is, as usual, slightly hazy straw yellow and the foam is little and completely evanescent (like that of a Lambic).
In the mouth the first impact is that of mandarins: you can feel this taste of ripe orange, even with a pinch of dessert.
Then a pleasantly astringent note that "erases everything" that precedes it: short but with the right scratch. Tongue that almost dries up.
In the final notes more of wet wood and mold, of bacterium (Brettanomyces) that do not clash at all.
On the palate sweet notes of ripe citrus reappear and the true taste of citrus is perceptible, not as something artificial.
Perhaps having drunk it fresher, I remembered it with a clearer mandarin taste.
As for the acid note, however, here we are: it appears between the fruity taste of mandarins and the bretted finish, also leaving a very slight dehydration on the tongue.
Splendid balance, although obviously there are few typical hints of a classic Farmhouse Ale because it lacks that herbaceous and straw-yellow note that makes it "funky".
It is more of a Wild Ale with fruit, but in any case, the passage in the barrel was also very successful, because you can feel those woody and impregnated wood notes, but they emerge only at the end of the drink almost to crown the whole gustatory path that is short, but very interesting.
Compared to the FRUTTI DI BOSCO (berries) version, which I recently drank (always 2020 vintage), I like this version much more.





Sláinte !
Cheers !

 

I am about to power wash the siding on the north side of my house. It will involve using a ladder. I hope it goes better than last time.

 

Stealing some sun while it lasts.

Black Horizon Stealing Sunshine blood orange sour.

 

Happy Saturday BA's

Just back from a pleasant 2 mile hike with the pupster.....and enjoying some wheat beer from a (new to me) local'ish brewery....pretty decent!

 

I've been off my posting game for a while - catching up.....

last weekend at Lake George -


and the weekend before at the Maverick's show at Tanglewood -

up front with The Mavericks -

 

New Glarus Kid Kolsch

 

Another New To Me stout courtesy of generous @jzeilinger . Having this along with my coffee because you know, nothing in the morning is like coffee, coffee, coffee!




Thanks Jeff. This is one more that has been very much appreciated and is great tasting.

Cheers Y'all.

 

Whoa, slow morning at the virtual bar, eh?

Popped this new one to me - really excellent smoked lager with Maine maple syrup....yum


Oxbow Brewing - Sap Haus smoked lager

 

Good day BAs! Thanks @Shanex for starting us off today and to @Jack_14 for his excellent review of another Italian beer I'll never see! @Beersnake1 - sounds like you're really enjoying France - I guess you have more than a rudimentary knowledge of the language - a definite plus!
Yet another beautiful summer day here on the tundra of NW PA - best summer I've enjoyed since 1969 in SC - kind of like when I was a kid - hot, high humidity, just WONDERFUL!
Today's New post-Breakfast Beer is another from Beer Reefer #1:



Yep - I've finally cracked a bottle of the base Darkness from Surly! I'm pleasantly surprise - it's damn good! Straightforward flavors and aromas - chocolate and malt - ended by hops and a hint of organic acids. Excellent, although the price point may be a bit high ($ 0.819/oz), it's still cheaper by a mile than driving 14 hours to MN, standing in line forever, and the trying to drive home again. Rating 4/36, rDev -2.7%.

 

I am sad that this beer is recently discontinued. Bring an employee has nothing to do with the fact that this is the best fruit beer I've ever had. Tart. Just enough sweet. Real fruit. No syrups or sugar the base beer is just as good. When this was a seasonal beer it sold well enough that we thought to bring it into full rotation and that was it's demise.

Cheers.

 

A young whippersnapper like you? Come on!

 

Drinking Toppling Goliath Radiant Haze.