New Beer Weekend #117

Up in NH closing up our place for the year this weekend. It's a beautiful day, I have the Phils on TV and loads of good beer in the fridge. It's days like this that make me realize how lucky I am.

First up today is Nomad, from Tree House. I picked this up yesterday on my way up here, along with the matching glass.

4.12/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Canned 10/6/22 and poured at slightly above fridge temperature into a Tree House Nomad "Czech style lager glass". Off the bat, I think this is a very attractive beer. In the glass it's a dark brown that held up to the light is slightly translucent with nice amber / copper hues around the edges. Loads of long lasting tan colored head with excellent retention and lacing.

Aroma is really nice bready malts with hints of pumpernickel.

The taste is consistent with the nose. Plenty of pumpernickel and other bready notes, light roasted malts, and faint nutty flavors. Very tasty. Feel is medium bodied and smooth.

Overall, this is an excellent beer.

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I'm truly living the "Progressive can't stop you from becoming your parents" thing, because with every passing month I notice myself saying or doing things that make me think "holy crap, you're getting old". This morning it was how much I enjoyed looking at the foliage while I was out on the paddle board. I suppose you can double down on that with the fact that I'm posting a picture of the lake / leaves / mountains on a beer nerd website. Oh well, I suppose I should just embrace it.


Go Phils!!!

 

Beautiful beer, beautiful picture and sounds like a beautiful day; I wish I was by your side. I’d still be out there staring in awe. Cheers @Roy_Hobbs ill join you with a fall beer later today.

 

Beer #2 is a cellar pull. Don't remember where I got this, but it was clearly several years ago, as it's a 2016 bottle.

Blackberry Farm - Quad

3.72/5 rDev -9.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
2016 vintage. Appearance is a murky, not particularly attractive brown with a small amount of short-lived khaki colored head. Aroma is mostly muted, but some nice fig and raisin notes emerged as it warmed.

Taste is similar to the nose, with figs and muddled fruit combining with some nice yeast notes. Very little carbonation.

Overall, this is a tasty well done quad that's held up well.

 

As in New Hampshire (@Roy_Hobbs) it is a beautiful Vermont day. Just past peak foliage colors in Montpelier area.
My wife works at a hotel so anything left in rooms (excepting underwear, sex toys, and consumables) is saved for 3 months for guests to claim. I’ve gotten some nice clothes and occasional beer. Including todays, an unknown to me Portland brewery.
Foulmouthed Brewing Fraktur Kölsch, 5.5% abv.
Pours a clear straw/golden with lots of small rising bubbles allowing a thin but tight white cap. Cap and bubbles linger through my sampling. Smell is sweet malt, orange blossom honey, lemony white wine. First sip offers that floral orange blossom honey before the malt enters. Finishes dry with a firm bitterness. Very enjoyable.

 

Still in hot culture. This is Think Piece pilsner (spelling is correct), and I Get Around NEIPA.
In the background, they're building a new stage. In the foreground that's our new to us. Great Pyrenees, 11 months old.

 

Brewery is Hop Culture. Not hot culture. Should really read things when I voice to text.

 

Good-looking pup!

 

Aslin Barrel Select Down With O.PB. This is a bourbon barrel aged pastry stout with Oreos, peanut butter, vanilla and marshmallow as the add-junks.



Pours like a fridge-cold bottle of corn syrup. Near black with a very slowly developing head that fades to a scant ring with an oily film on the top of the liquid.

Aromas are huge. Sweetened Peanut butter dominates, but the Oreos are noticeable and the vanilla sits in behind. Not much in the way of a boozy aroma.

Taste follows. Uber-sweet cookie and peanut butter. Vanilla. Little to no bourbon notes present.

Syrupy, oily, thick. Somewhat off-putting especially as I’m not a huge pastry stout guy.

I imagine if I were of the pastry persuasion, this would be top tier, minus the lack of barrel presence. As I am not, this is a chore to drink and likely affecting my health as I slowly sip it.

Cheers!

 

Beer #3 is another Tree House beer. This one is Whisper, their Germany style Marzenbier.

3.72/5 rDev -9.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Canned 9/19/22. Pours a translucent, fairly bright amber color with plenty of dense off-white colored head with good retention and lacing. On the whole, an attractive beer. Aroma is bready malts. Not overly complex, although I'm not sure I expected it to be.

Taste is similar to the nose. Bready malts, with some light caramel notes. Medium bodied, smooth and refreshing. Overall, a well done, easy drinking beer. This would be perfect for a night hanging out with friends where you want to be able to drink for hours on end without ending up on the floor.

 

I gotta ask. What are you doing in Namibia? And how do you have all those non- local beers? Did you mule in caseloads?

 

Background photo (my first time on a half-pipe) circa 1973 or '74, Nanuet, NY.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/46275/440841/




No canning date but less than two weeks old.

Moderate pour yields a nearly two inch off-white head over a copper colored body with lacing.

Nose of slight malt, some biscuit and toast, definite spice exhibited as well.

Taste is more of the same and finishing quite crisp and dry.

Mouthfeel is above average, being medium to full.

Overall, a nice stab at a Märzen from Tunbridge, VT and one to look out for.
Cheers!

 

Greetings on this beautiful fall night; today was a tiring day but full of love and family. Sister in law came home for her birthday with her husband, we haven't seen them in a while. We had a big meal of stuffed shells, meatballs, salad, and garlic knots at in laws house. Things are settling down now so I'll open a beer and share.

I used to love pumpkin beers way back, I still have an appreciation for them and try to have a few each fall. This is my first one of the year and it is one I have not ever had actually. What is unique about this one is it uses pumpkins super local to Troëgs, its also a little heftier at 7.5%...here is the report.

Troëgs - Master of Pumpkins



A beautiful looking beer, deep copper in color with some reddish hues; crystal clear with a thick creamy offwhite head.

Nose is clove at first, some yeastiness accompanied by some nutmeg, pumpkin meat and fall spice.

The taste is heavier on pumpkin meat, then cinnamon with a nutmeg clove finish; minor yeast and with an almost saison/belgian like finish.

Medium body, really smooth and creamy mouthfeel; it gives the impression of vanilla but there is none, I don't think. The carbonation is also unique, almost bottle (can) conditioned feel with creamy bubbles. Spices give it a tannin like bitterness to me.

This is a unique and somewhat different pumpkin beer, and for that I'm enjoying it and really appreciate it. If you appreciate nuance and something different in a pumpkin beer give this one a try.

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Following up after this explains the vanilla, belgian like finish and yeast I kept noticing "french saison yeast to elicit notes of vanilla, cinnamon clove, nutmeg and honey."

 

New Holland Dragon's Milk Reserve 2022-3 Chocolate, Marshmallow, And Graham Cracker BBA Imperial Stout (S'mores), 11% ABV. Pours black with a 1.5 finger tan head that left some lacing. Nose is chocolate, marshmallow, and bourbon. Taste follows, plus graham, quite sweet. Smooth mouthfeel, overall outstanding. Not as much bourbon burn as other variants.

4.42/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

@BigIronH , I rated this slightly higher than the the Boulevard More S'more but it comes down to personal preference. I'm not likely to run out and buy a pack of either, but if I had to choose it'd be this one. That's surprising since Dragon's Milk add-junks don't often overcome the bourbon burn to this extent.

 

I am back home now, and enjoying a beer that @WunderLlama so kindly sent to me, and it also checks off another state on my trek to get all 50. Also Imgur is acting up, and won't let me post how I normally post while on my home computer, so you'll have to click the link to see it.

https://imgur.com/a/9aGpVhX
Marshmallow Small Joys - American Imperial Stout - Long Live Beerworks - Providence, RI - 13% ABV.

This is a big boy, but is so smooth. There's so little burn from the 13% in here. Creamy, smooth, and so delicious. This is amazing, and I'm so happy I got the honor of trying it. I am happy tonight. Thank you @WunderLlama so much!!!!


Review:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/41922/482956/


4.48/5 rDev +1.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
Served close to room temp, was in my trunk all day and it's in the low 50's today.

Pitch black pour with a thick brown head - 3 finger. The retention is amazing for such a high alcohol beer. There's a bit of lacing that clings to the glass as the head dissipates.
The aroma is a mix of marshmallow, chocolate, vanilla, lactose, and a nutty aroma. Quite well balanced and pleasing.
The marshmallow hits first. The chocolate comes in next with a hint of vanilla and the nutty flavor - almond - and a hint of coconut as well. This beer finishes a creamy flavor from lactose.
The body is quite creamy and soft feeling. Fairly thick, and smooth. Very faint boozy feeling.
DAMN! This is delicious and a pleasure to try.


This is a big boy, but I'll see if I can make it for one more.