What beer are you drinking now? #3583

Tonight’s Blind Battle Beer Tasting Lineup:

1) Modist Just You Wait (5.2%): A German Pilsner from Minnesota aged in oak barrels for flavors of earthy cereal and cracker malts, yeast, and some lemongrass on the finish.
versus
2) Cerebral Tactical Maneuver (5.1%): A German Foeder Helles from Colorado with flavors of biscuit, lemongrass, and honeysuckle. Earthy cereal malts and smooth. (mismatched blind)

3) BlackStack DDH Dad Jokes (8.3% no canning date): A DDH NEIPA from Minnesota with Citra, Mosaic, Cashmere & Vic Secret for flavors of orange juice, and sweet tropical notes.
versus
4) BlackStack Open Bar (8.0% no canning date): A DDH NEIPA from Minnesota with flavors of New Zealand Riwaka, Citra Cryo, Azacca Cryo & Amarillo Cryo.
(correctly matched blind)
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Winners:

2) Cerebral Tactical Maneuver: What an absolute banger of a beer here. This one has earthy and cereal malt flavors, light lemongrass and honeysuckle, with a smooth, earthy finish. Simple, yet depth and complexity. This tasted like straight from the hills of Bavaria. Foeder Helles might be my new favorite style. Both of these are worth seeking out.

3) Blackstack Open Bar: Dad Jokes meet an Open Bar is a dangerous combo. Vic Secret and Riwaka. Dad Jokes leaned a little sweet. Open Bar was fantastic. It nailed the pineapple, green papaya, mango, and citrus flavors with just enough green and pine to balance the sweetness. Extremely drinkable for 8%. Tastes very fresh, but BlackStack needs to put canning dates, but definitely coming back to this one.

 

Another NA Italian Pilsner.
Cheers all... have a great Friday evening.

 

Happy Friday BA

 

Forget that fancy French stuff, looks more like "Don the Dude", to me ...



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…weekend! cheers BAs!

 

Picked another one of my fav marzen's up today....this is very tasty!

 

Cheers!

 

Happy birthday ,,, love your positive spin on things!

 

Killian's was the first beer I ever had that I liked, when I was still a teenager. Haven't had one in at least 15yrs. Now I kinda want one.

 

Dinner at Antunez in Spearfish.



Blackened fish tacos and a Mule for my wife.
Pork carnitas and Chainsaw Squatch Tropical IPA from Sawyer Brewing for me.
Cheers

 

I would share the same beer if I had any left. Drank the last one on Saturday.

 

When daydreams go dark by timber ales


4.02/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Canned 4.4, opened 8.12, poured into a Spiegelau ipa glass



Two finger creamy white foam cap , good retention spotty lacings

Aroma is grapefruit citrus

Taste is grapefruit

Has a hop bite

Good beer

 

The iconic Stone IPA ..

 

Big shout out to @Dimidiata for this! I'm not always in the mood for a massively high ABV adjunct laden stout, but I was this afternoon and this scratched that itch admirably. This is delicious and a little bit devastating. Abv is practically 14% and it barely registers in the taste.

 

...and right to the Journeyman Rye barrel aged Imperial Stout for me.

 

In my opinion, it has a fair toasted malt presence other big beers don’t. I didn’t mind helping my BiL who wanted Devil’s Backbone Vienna Lager (Virginia-based InBev buy-out brewery, but solid brews) but had this as a backup when we were at the beach. This was a leftover.

 

Happy belated birthday brother!!

 

@summitbeer Oktoberfest