What Beer Are You Drinking Now? #3586

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  1. Ozzylizard

    Ozzylizard Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,419) Oct 5, 2013 Pennsylvania
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    Good day BAs! Looks like another cool day here on the tundra of NW PA - there's definitely a chill in the air!
    Today's New Breakfast Beer is from a brewery that's been hit-or-miss for my taste buds:

    Chocolate Volcano from Heavy Seas Beer. Purchased from Franklin Beer Company, Franklin, PA, 27/07/22 for $ 12 (Including tax)/six-pack of 12 oz bottles ($ 0.167/oz). On room-temperature shelf at store and stored at 37 degrees at home. Reviewed 15/08/22. Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
    Stamped “BEST BY SEP0822” on the rear label. Served at 55.2 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King Snifter. Final temperature 59.7 degrees.
    Appearance – 3.
    First pour – Amber Brown (SRM 18), barely translucent.
    Body – Brown (SRM 20), opaque. Under direct light, extremely tiny bubbles are coating the glass. When rear-lite, some light penetrates at the edge.
    Head – Small (Maximum 1.3 cm, aggressive center pour), tan, high density, short retention, receding to a ring of tiny bubbles constantly being renewed by effervescence (No crown per se) and an anemic small island acting as a cap.
    Lacing – None.
    Aroma – 3.25 – Roasted malt and chocolate. No hops, no yeast.
    Flavor – 3.25 – Minor amount of roasted chocolate malt and a touch of coffee, no hops, no yeast. Slightly bitter (Think coffee). No ethanol (9 % ABV as marked on label) aroma or taste. Extremely weak lower gastric warming. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
    Palate – 3.25 – Medium, slightly thicker than water, lively caressing carbonation.
    Final impression and summation: 3.25 Basically a weaky flavored stout porter; certainly not the expected “dessert” stout. Flavors are flaccid and the ethanol is barely noticeable. The price point, however, is exactly on … point.
    Rating 3.24, rDev -14.5%

    Oops - sorry - the review posted rather than the photo - try again!

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    Looks like we may be heading to Grand Rapids for a quilt show and some interesting food at Brewery Vivant later this week.
     
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  2. Shanex

    Shanex Grand Pooh-Bah (4,960) Dec 10, 2015 France
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    Good day @Ozzylizard!

    Drinking what I found in the back of the refrigerator as I wrongly assumed the last one of those Croatian lager I was drinking last week was indeed the last. So here’s one more.

    Conclusion as far as I’m concerned: counting to 4 is too much to ask me (that was a four pack) and also the chores I did Saturday didn’t help finding it either. :rolling_eyes:

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    Ziveli!

     
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  3. tolar111

    tolar111 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,094) Aug 17, 2008 New York
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    Drinking SN Torpedo. This batch is slightly more than 2 months old, and it's drinking fine. No beers were skunked in this photo shoot

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  4. belvedere86

    belvedere86 Pooh-Bah (1,716) Apr 1, 2013 Belgium
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    Lower temperatures but the humidity makes it almost feel the same. Longing for autumn!

    Only 1 German beer left after this one.

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  5. DoctorZombies

    DoctorZombies Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,827) Feb 1, 2015 Florida
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    Good afternoon/morning BAs! Back in Winchester, site seeing and shopping with Mrs. Z this cloudy afternoon. I ducked into my favorite beer bar for a couple of new brews. First up, Brew By Numbers’ “05 IPA Motueka and Nelson Sauvin”:

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    I’m a fan boy of BBNo, but this is one ugly ipa. Hop burn on tip of tongue. Ok nose/taste - semi sweet malt base, green melon and white grape must. Earthy. One and done…

    Gotta run and catch up with Mrs. Z before she goes crazy in the stores…Cheers from Winchester UK and have a great Monday y’all!
     
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  6. belvedere86

    belvedere86 Pooh-Bah (1,716) Apr 1, 2013 Belgium
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    Chouffe soleil while watching the set Arch Enemy played yesterday at Alcatraz which is like 15min from my place. But since I hate crowded places and no one likes metal this should also do. :slight_smile: Cheers

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  7. Roguer

    Roguer Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,811) Mar 25, 2013 Connecticut
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    Morning, BAs!

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  8. Beer-Panda

    Beer-Panda Pooh-Bah (2,745) Mar 27, 2016 Netherlands
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    Belgian Halcyon. Imperial IPA with Belgian yeast from Thornbridge (UK).
    Cheers
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    Belgian tunes
     
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  9. eppCOS

    eppCOS Grand Pooh-Bah (4,570) Jun 27, 2015 Colorado
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    NA UA Italian Pils.
    I'll report back if it's harder taking a week off real beer, or running 100 miles, after this weekend.
    But feelin' good at least, no real nagging injuries. A little brisk walk this morning to fight off the jitters and the infamous "taper tantrums."

    Fingers crossed.

    Cheers!

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  10. deanzaZZR

    deanzaZZR Maven (1,347) Jan 8, 2015 California

    It's another new beer day. Today I have the pleasure of tasting Brooklyn Lager for the first time! The complication is that I am in Japan. This Brooklyn Lager is made by Kirin in Japan. There's a bit of caramel malt and quite an aggressive spicy hop character. It packs a lot more flavor than Kirin and the rest of the Japanese industrial beer brood. I'll give it a solid B+.

    As it warms up a bit it gets a bit sweet and cloying. Gonna bump it down to a B grade.

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  11. Urk1127

    Urk1127 Grand Pooh-Bah (3,790) Jul 2, 2014 New Jersey
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    A golden ale of sorts. Brewed to compete with beers like PBR. It's good but PBR is PBR

    Band practice later. Show coming in 3 weeks. Doing a cover of this on that day.

     
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  12. belvedere86

    belvedere86 Pooh-Bah (1,716) Apr 1, 2013 Belgium
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    I would only have one beer today... :rolling_eyes:

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  13. Giantspace

    Giantspace Grand Pooh-Bah (3,043) Dec 22, 2011 Pennsylvania
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    Thanks for the review. I was gifted a six pack of this beer recently and it’s just sitting waiting for someone to drink it. Might just sit there for a while now.

    Enjoy
     
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  14. BeerVikingSailor

    BeerVikingSailor Grand Pooh-Bah (3,667) Nov 19, 2009 Ohio
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    Happy Monday BA's

    Busy day already - had a guy come to quote 7 new basement (glass block) windows, walked Emma before that - and boat work since around 10 am.....having this with lunch

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    beautiful sunrise this am over the lake here

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  15. cmiller4642

    cmiller4642 Maven (1,399) Aug 17, 2013 West Virginia

    Sometimes you just want an ice cold Miller in the can. I buy them by the 12 pack once in a while.

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  16. HopfenUndMalzGottErhalts

    HopfenUndMalzGottErhalts Zealot (643) Dec 25, 2015 Arizona

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  17. LesDewitt4beer

    LesDewitt4beer Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,315) Jan 25, 2021 Minnesota
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    Hello Advocates. Thanks @Ozzylizard for todays thread. Enjoy the quilt show. Both of my grandmas were quilters. Ella, my mom's mom, made some in the 1930's that should be in a museum as folk art. They were very resourceful then. Anyways, still more yard work here on my end today so starting with this Humble Forager Foggy Footpath ddh double IPA. It's settin' the pace for today's work: m e l l o w.
    Keep on smilin' & Cheers!! :beers:
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  18. jkblr

    jkblr Grand Pooh-Bah (5,132) Nov 22, 2014 Indiana
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    Good afternoon BA
    Just moved my daughter into her dorm. Right up the road in Mills River at Burning Blush Brewing now drinking a very good Czech pils.
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    Cheers all!
     
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  19. DavyJonesXXX

    DavyJonesXXX Pooh-Bah (2,848) Aug 6, 2021 Texas
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    Enjoying a tasty pils.

    Cheers y'all!

    Side Pull Czech style pils - Fair State / Bierstadt
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  20. cbcrunch

    cbcrunch Grand Pooh-Bah (4,783) Jan 21, 2012 Wyoming
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    A little cooler today with a nice breeze, so I'm cutting and trimming the grass.
    This Goose Island beer is perfect for today's chores.

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    Have a great day Advocates.
     
    #20 cbcrunch, Aug 15, 2022
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