New Beer Weekend #113

Cabin Boys ( Tulsa ) Brewing Oktoberfest, 6.0% ABV; 3.58 overall

Pours an effervescent gold with a thumb of pearl colored head. Zero head retention & lacing

S: Floral hops, breadyness

T: Grassyness, some bready notes, dryness & floral notes, some bitter notes. Once warm this very dry, some grassyness & a little woody hops, just a little bit of pear. Finishes dry with grassyness & a little lemon & just a bit grainy sweetness as this gets closer to room temperature

MF: Medium body, fairly firm carbonation, okay balance. A shame it didn't match the nose

This doesn't seem balanced enough for the style, would've thought it was a Pils based on the flavor profile. Drinkable enough, but off style. I may revise my review ; will let it warm up before tasting

 

Larry, I visited the Jack's Abby website and they are brief about detailing this beer but based upon your review and what is published I am confident this is indeed a CAP.

Jack Hendler came to a lager beer festival a few months ago in Philly (Logjammin') and I had a chance to chat with him for about 10 minutes. During that conversation I asked if he could send more specialty beers (e.g., Pre Pro Pilsner) to the Philly area but the response was just a sorta look.

How is this for irony? As I type this reply I am drinking my homebrewed CAP.

Hopefully some craft brewery(s) will decide to produce more CAP beers on a regular (e.g., available year-round) basis.

Cheers!

 

American Solera Dank of Tulsa IPA, 6.0% ABV; 3.82 overall

Pours a veery hazed gold with a thumb+ of eggshell colored head. Okay head retention & lacing

S: Peaches, tangerines, green melons & grassyness & mangoes, all fade as this warms

T: Green melon & pomelo, plus dryness, plus a little pine & grapefruit up front. Dryness, pomelo, pine as this warms. Finishes dry with pine, pineapple & grapefruit

MF: Medium body, fairly subdued carbonation

Didn't start out close to dank, slid that way a little once warm, I taste cryo hops in this, I don't really associate that with dankness. Still very drinkable, just a bad name descriptor on this one, although a great name

 

Back home in MN after a 14 hour day driving down and back to Ames, IA for the Iowa State football game.

How about a new beer?

Half Acre Hallow

Appearance: Cloudy yellow-gold, big head.

Smell: Citrus rind.

Taste: Mild sweet to start, then moves towards moderate grapefruit bitterness and citrus rind. Moderately bitter finish.

Overall: A solid DIPA/NEIPA combo from Half Acre here. Gives the soft feel of NE but more bitterness than per usual than that style. I like them on the bitter side so this works for me.

 

college soccer takes me to Vermont , get to officiate the # 9 team in the nation , center referee is the college referee of the week, two string teams on a great campus and perfect 10 day . Only 20 miles to Lawsons after the match , time to go whale hunting in the green mountain state…





Double Sunshine by Lawsons Finest

4.5/5 rDev -2.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Brewers Notes: This American double India pale ale is packed with juicy tropical fruit flavors and bright herbal aromas, thanks to the abundance of US-grown hops

Canned 8.10, opened 9.17, poured into a chilled Spiegelau glass

“Finest freshest”

Fluffy three finger off white foam cap, good retention, settles to a thick puffy island with good lacings over a translucent amber liquid with numerous active carbonation streams



Aroma is orange citrus , whiff of the tropics and some mango

Taste is citrus grapefruit, grapefruit rind

Sudsy mouthfeel , hop bite , we’ll balanced

Good beer , worth the hunt

 

Cheers! I'm glad one of the better ones made it past the Mounties.

 

Hi!

A Hefe-Weißbier by Kaiserdom, 0.0% ABV, can of 500ml. From my local K-chain supermarket.

Pours with proper color, haziness and head.

Aroma: malt and banana.

Flavor: mild taste, so well balanced I can't pick out much specifics, a little banana.

Feel: mild carbonation.

Overall: wheats are for some reason generally not my favorites, but this went down fast, excellent thirst quencher.

3.99/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

 

What distinguishes a CAP vs other substyles of pils? Given the American appellation I imagine it involves the hopping rates, but are there explicit differences in the malt bills as well?

 

It’s funny I just posted in another thread how it seems festbier is being without regard to what it means. Just like you I’ve had beers labeled festbier this year that are 100% marzen.

 

"My first Oktoberfest of the day" is either foreshadowing or a warning...or both....

 

You can read all about it:

https://www.morebeer.com/articles/Pilsen_Beer

Cheers!

 

Good day BAS! Thanks @Peach63 for starting the thread and with a brew from me, no less! Hope you consider joining the NBS/NBW BIF that's starting soon.

Today's New Breakfast Beer is one that's been languishing in the back of Beer Reefer #1 for a couple of years:



Whiskey Barrel Aged Mole Fat Dog Stout from Stouts. Purchased at the brewery a few years ago for an unknown price for a 25.87 oz cork and cage bottle. In reefer at store, stored at 40 degrees at home. Reviewed 18/09/22. Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Undated bottle. A loud “Pop” as the cork was pulled. Served at 52.3 degrees in a hand washed and dried Jester King Snifter. Final temperature 56.4 degrees.
Appearance – 3.75
First pour – Deep Amber (SRM15), clear.
Body – Amber Brown (SRM 18), opaque. Under direct light, same. When rear-lite, looks like root beer and barely translucent.
Head – Large (Four cm, aggressive center pour), camel, high density with a few rocks, diminishing to a three mm crown and complete thin cap.
Lacing – Poor. A few drag marks.
Aroma – 3.5 – Weak ginger and cinnamon. No hops, no malt, no yeast, no whiskey, no barrel.
Flavor – 3.5 – Distinct chili burn, not quite unpleasant No yeast, no malt, no hops. No ethanol (ABV not marked on label – but Fat Dog and variants usually 8-9%) aroma or taste. Gastric warming occurs. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl.
Palate – 3.75 – Medium, short of creamy, soft, carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 3.5 (After deducting 0.25 point for undated container). Well. This is at least three years old and the chilis have taken over to the point I’d consider this a chili beer rather than an oatmeal stout, although a trace of the oatmeal silkiness remains. While the ginger root and cinnamon stick make a light contribution to the aroma, the raisin, coffee, whiskey, barrel, cocoa, and even stoutness are lost in the peppers. That doesn’t mean it isn’t good – just don’t expect a stout.
Rating 3.54, rDev 0%.

I really miss Stoudts - my first beer fest was there a decade or three ago. For every quilt trip to that end of the state, I was allowed to have a steak dinner (or two) and a Fat Dog on tap (or four) as an indulgence/reward for hours spent sleeping/reading in the car while Mrs. Lizard meandered through quilt/fabric stores. The passing of an era.

 

Good morning NBW
The only new-to-me oktoberfest beer I found around town yesterday.

Terrapin Oktoberfest


12oz undated can poured into a mug at fridge temp 5.5% ABV. Can states it's brewed with 100% German malts and hops. The beer pours very bright light copper in color with light khaki colored head. The head recedes to a pencil thin ring and little else. The aroma is mild, malt heavy with sweetness that teeters between caramel and toasted malt. The taste is semisweet lightly toasted malt with a just hint of floral hops. Minimal bitterness. The mouthfeel is thin bodied with average carbonation and a mostly dry finish. Cleanly lagered and very easy drinking. Overall, very good Märzen. Outstanding if you want something to drink in volume. No residual sweetness or heaviness at all.

Cheers all!

 

Good morning BAs! From my latest Tavour box, a new beer to me from a brewery I have visited and like a lot - Coconut Deth, Deep Wood Series, Revolution Brewing, Chicago IL:



Canned 7/13/22. Poured at 55°. Black with ruby edges; very fast fizzy reddish brown head which disappears (almost as fast as I can snap a pic) leaving no cap retention, ring nor lace; thick legs on swirl. Bourbon!, coconut and chocolate; bourbon/hot boozy exhale. Taste is bourbon, coconut, bittersweet dark chocolate; oaky vanilla; phenolic dark cherries middle; coconut and chocolate finish. Alcohol bite on tongue with generous mouth warmth from 15% abv; almost full body, silky smooth feel; not adjuncty; notwithstanding the fizzy head upon pour, light carbonation. Overall, an awesome BBA Imperial Stout with Coconut - tastes like a bourbon/coconut Mounds bar, with layers of barrel and base flavors…more please!

4.25 | 4.5 | 4.75 | 4.5 | 4.75
Score: 4.64 rDev +2.9%

Do you like coconut (I know some who don’t)? Big boozy BBA Stouts? If yes, this beer is another winner from Revolution and satisfies on both accounts. A new favorite of mine in the Deep Wood Series. Cheers and have a Swell Sunday y’all!

 

Good afternoon NBS/nbw and thank you @Peach63 for hosting this weekend.
We are in the throws of that seasonal shift here in western Ma. could be 80 today
45 tomorrow. Maples have begun to shed a bit, mainly drought stress.
Todays offering is from Troegs, the Octoberfest is a really lovely beer, avoids being overly sweet, while having enough of that caramel note. The fermentaion makes for a super clean, dry delightful experience.

Oktoberfest

Märzen | 6.1% ABV
Tröegs Brewing Company in Hershey, Pennsylvania

Reviewed by SABERG from Massachusetts

4.16/5 rDev +4.3% | Average: 3.99
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured from a 12 oz bottle, dated "freshest by" 12/03/22, into the test mug
A - Beauiful clarity, in the copper colored background. An aggressive pour yielded a pillowy white cap.
The cap slowly dissipated to ring after ring clinging to the glass.
S - Hints of caramel, a grassy noble hop, earthy grains
T - Toasty grains, again hint of caramel, not to sweet.
M - Clean, dry, beautiful grain expression without being overbearing
O - Its as if the best of a traditional festbier , mashed up with a light marzen, just on the line between the two.
Excellent texture, lovely attenuation feeds that near perfect dry finish.

 

Poured into a 13 tulip glass canned on 8/30/22. Pours a milky yellow with a half finger sticky white head that leaves thin streaks of lace with nice retention. 4.5

Aroma is mandarin, passionfruit, mango, papaya, apricot, and a little hit of grapefruit rind. 4.5

Taste follows mandarin, papaya, mango, passionfruit, apricot, and little grapefruit bitterness in the finish. 4.5

Mouthfeel is rather big, soft gentle carbonation, not sticky or dry, and at 8.4% huge flavor but easy going down. 4.5

Overall this is very tasty as I expect from this brewery. A winner for sure. 4.5 Cheers all.