What Beer Are You Drinking Now? #3665

Time for a Celebration.

Cheers y'all!

SN Celebration

 

Drinking Bud. Got a quick bike ride in today, will probably get a few more chances through the weekend

 

Makes me want a Cafe Racer 15:

Club Raul:

 

I know. I remember being at Russian River BC in the late 90s and just knowing that that IPA was stellar. But so was the food. Great place and memories. Pliny the Elder died in 79 AD. The beer lives on and is very well named.

 

Today's Blind Battle Beer Tasting Lineup:

1) Fair State Side Pull (4.1%): A Czech lager from Minnesota with flavors of pale malt, bready malts, yeasty with a full-mouthfeel.
versus
2) MORE Huntley Helles (4.5%): A German Helles lager from Illinois with flavors of pale bread malt, honey, and a yeasty, relatively dry finish.
versus
3) Bad Weather Helles (5.5%): A German Helles lager from Minnesota with flavors of earthy honey, and pale biscuit malt. Slightly sweet.

4) Modist Noteworth (6.2% no canning date): A NEIPA from Minnesota with Citra, Sabro, and Eukanot for flavors of earthy tangerine, grapefruit, and some dank pine flavors. Mildly bitter.
versus
5) Junkyard Werewolves at Luncheon (6.8% canned 8/28/22): A NEIPA from Minnesota with Sabro, Citra, and Mosaic for flavors juicy and tropical citrus, pineapple, and bright berries, with light notes of cedar.
versus
6) Portage Lost 40 (7.0% no canning date): A NEIPA from Minnesota with Citra, Mosaic, & Amarillo for flavors of sweet orange, melon, berry, and apple flavors. Leans sweeter.
(All beers correctly matched blind)
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Winners:

1) Fair State Side Pull: All three of these beers were a spectrum. Bad Weather drank true to the Helles style. Huntley was dry and yeasty for a Helles, sort of a mix between #1 and #2. Fair State Side Pull has grown on me. Didn't initially impress me. I've learned not to drink this one for the flavors, but the strong carbonation and full mouthfeel are one of a kind. ...and thus the name "Side Pull" (https://fairstate.coop/beer/side-pull)

5) Junkyard Werewolves at Luncheon: Labeled as a Vermont-style IPA, which to me is really no different from a NEIPA (An entire Beer Advocate forum thread on the topic). It drinks extremely well with juicy tropical notes of citrus, papaya, and berries. Juicy and bright with hints of cedar give the complexity to this NEIPA. Junkyard seems to consistently make good NEIPAs, worth checking out if near The Cities.

 

Zero Gravity Black Cat porter

 

Enjoying what IMHO is the best Hefeweizen in the world - G. Schneider & Sohn Schneider Weisse Original Tap 7.

Lol! My home office faces my backyard. I had cleared the leaves off the lawn a couple days ago. It literally snowed leaves all day today and pretty much covered it back up. Sigh.

 

Happy to see Side Pull prevailing. I hope for another Fair State/ Bierstadt collab in the future.

 

I had the same thing happen, but that will be the case for the next several weeks.

 

Lol! How do you accidently run 60 miles???

 

Oh well. It is fall after all. I wish I had a bunch of Gingko trees like the one in my front yard. That tree is cool. It produces the most beautiful gold leaves; then they all fall off the tree at one time, within a few hours. Just one clean up. That's it!

 

Einstök - Icelandic Arctic Lager

 

Just awesome weather the last couple days, got my walk in, did 10 miles on the bike, enjoying Revolutions Deth's Tar from 2021......still terrific......enjoy what's in yer glass........

 

Cheers y'all!

Graveyard Ghosts dark lager - Odd Muse Brewing Co

 

Finishing up one of my Halloween beers on this sunny and warm Wednesday.

Happy Jack ~ Heavy Riff


Happy Jack ~ The Who

 

Field Trip ~ Modern Brewery


The Class Field Trip ~ Fast Times At Ridgemont High

 

Fueled by Eminem Till I Collapse and I suppose no alcohol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @eppCOS

 

I've seen @SABERG with this one so I picked some up, it's pretty damn tasty and only $11.99 a 4 pack.

 

Man, that's impressive. I couldn't accidently drive 60 miles in a week.