What Beer Are You Drinking Now? #3589

Probably all the licensing fees they pay-Disney, Marvel, Harry Potter, DC, not to mention all the cars....

 

Time for another beer. This time ...





Cheers

 

Rain stopped so getting chores done so we can head to the beach in the morning. Blue Point Imperial Sunshine, easy drinker for a 9.6% IPA.....

 

Big storms are rolling in, I'll always take that in the middle of summer, as long as it not a hurricane ha.

Sierra Nevada Torpedo in the glass, Coltrane, Crescent spinning. Always a good time to spin Coltrane, and always found his playing particularly interesting with a big storm

 

Great tunes and a great beer!

 

Cheers!

 

I don’t name ’em, I just drink ‘em.

 

More Manhattan Project Oktoberfest. It'll be a wonder if what's left of these on shelves make it to September. A flat out great American version of a marzen. Kicking back with Thursday on the 11th anniversary of its release, funnily enough, on a Thursday.

 

Patina Pale Ale from Austin Street Brewing. Very nice beer. A good sub-5.5% beer with a nice hop punch and the malt to hold it together is hard to find. This one checks the boxes.

 

Love that brew.

 

Tonight’s Blind Battle Beer Tasting Lineup:

1) Toppling Goliath Dorothy’s New World Lager (5.5%): A steam beer from Iowa with flavors of grains, bread, and a fruity yeasty presence.
versus
2) New Glarus Spotted Cow (4.8%): A Farmhouse ale from Wisconsin with flavors of pale malts, bread, lightly fruity yeast, and a creamy, smooth finish. (mismatched blind)

3) Phase 3 DDH Far From The Tree (7.7 % canned 5/27/22): A NEIPA from Chicago with flavors of orange, pineapple, tangerine, and apricot. Leans slightly sweet.
versus
4) Equilibrium dHop42 (8.5% canned 5/25/22): A NEIPA from NY with flavors of sweet tangerine and mango cream. Juicy, heavy, sweet. (correctly matched blind)
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Winners:

1) Toppling Goliath Dorothy's New World Lager: This one has a nice yeasty note which I hadn't appreciated before. I'm not exactly sure how it's a steam beer, because it surely drinks different than an Anchor Steam. Anyways, it's pretty good to revisit.

4) Equillibrium dHop42: Honestly, don't know how to call a winner here. Between the DDH and sweetness, they were palate wrecking in a good way. Difficult to compare side-by-side when their both palate numbing. All of the beers were great tonight. That EQ mango cream is unmistakable though.

 

Tasty beer on this humid afternoon......

 

A refreshing Blanche de Chambly:

 

Well, after the first few lightning and thunder crashes, there has barley been any rain, or anything else that could be considered a storm. Not nearly as bad as all the weather reports made it out to be.

So, I'm calling on the power of John Coltrane, doing a Coltrane rain dance I guess you could say, to get MORE rain, cause we need it ha.

H-Town Pils in the glass. Spinning Sun Ship.

 

A real nice Thursday around here today. Sadly I've been handcuffed to my computer all day with jobs. Always making time for beer breaks though.

Choice Nugs ~ Modern Brewery
though.

Freedom of Choice ~ DEVO

 

Lupulin Vanilla Dreams Imperial Stout, 10% ABV. Last of the pack, with six months inadvertent aging. Same as it was fresh, incredible nose, excellent taste.