New Beer Weekend #138

Westmalle extra
...cloudy light gold appearance
...slightly thin body with plenty of almost prickly carbonation
...aroma is apple,bitter apple skin,malt,yeast,brown sugar and floral.
...taste is very dry with a very slight apple sweetness. Taste lingers long especially the bitter apple skin as well as some mild apple juice.
...its an odd one but it is definitely good. To be fair I've worked a whole week in 3 days and the sleep deprivation might be having an effect on my taste

 

@Blogjackets took pity on my poor whiny soul and sent me four of these, when he noticed me complaining that I missed Lagunitas' Imperial Red Ale and I couldn't find much like it anymore.

Bone Head, from Fat Head.

12oz can served in a snulip. Dated 02/27/23. Received from @Blogjackets because he's super nice.

Pours dark nutty brown / red with a medium sized head. Head eventually settles into a thick creamy skin and a maybe three millimeter thick dense creamy ring. Beer is quite clear, with a not-so-subtle carbonation evident at arm's reach. Smell is caramel/toffee, nuts, sweet yeasty/breadiness, grapefruit rind bitterness.

Taste is similar -- sweet caramel and toasted nuts with a blast of grapefruit rind / pine bitterness. Resin sticks to my lips and enhances the green bitter character.

Mouthfeel is thick and resinous, gives a little bit of a cottonmouth response. Overall...this is great, right down my alley when I'm craving an IRA.

Thank you so much, friend. You can stay at my house anytime. My wife's a great cook. Do you like toffee? I can mail you some home-made toffee.

 

#2 is from our friend @woemad . After this BIFer, I am a BIG Lumberbeard fan, so I’m pretty pumped to try this light beer.





4.49/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
This ginormous BA stout pours black with a sudsy, soapy tan head that dissipates pretty quickly. The nose has lots of chocolate, some roasty char, and a big vanilla note. Wow.

The chocolate is forward on the taste, and quite delicious, with the vanilla following and doubling down on the delicious note - and then a surprise, with a substantial stone fruit flavor of dark cherry cleansing the palate and flowing into the roasty char that settles at the back of each sip. This is extremely well executed, IMHO.

The mouthfeel is rich and creamy, perfect for this beer. I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve had from Lumberbeard, and this is at the top of the list.

 

Hello friends, happy to be back...I enjoyed drinking through all your posts today, @Mdog you definitely had a nice one two combo posted today.

Today brings a local beer from my favorite NJ brewery, and lucky for me close to home so all their beer makes it right down the street. I'm very fond of all their traditional styles but their English ones in particular are where they shine the most I think, they even can condition all of them now for cask like feel...today's also brings one of the prettiest labels I've seen in a while too...

Tonewood Brewing - Bedford (English Dark Mild 3.8%)



Pours a dark muddled brown; nice beige colored head, creamy looking in nature, above average retention, some lacing.

Nose is doughy with some noticeable toasted character; some deep earthy tones, brown earth…woodsy.

Taste again has a very pleasant toastiness; the earthy comes off a little chocolate like, minor tea on the finish.

Light body, very soft, gentle and pleasantly low creamy carbonation; finish is quite dry and a nice little touch of bitterness.

Would recommend to anyone who is a fan of English style beers; it won’t disappoint.

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See you all later tomorrow sometime, enjoy whatever is in your glass tonight. Unless it’s heady, then enjoy what’s in your can.

 

This is *technically* new to me

NB - Fat Tire Ale



I'm glad Untappd is calling it '2022' and classifying it as a golden.

Additionally there is a 'characterless' tag as a description for it and I think it's terribly funny and fitting!


Suited me for the purpose of working on cooking dinner.
Cheers!

 

Hackensack brewery ahooga imperial pilsner
....cloudy light amber appearance
...medium light carbonation with about a medium body but has a slight thick lingering coating of the mouth
...aroma is very yeasty bread,malt,a little floral, earthy honey
...taste doesn't stray too far from the aroma. Has a lingering mild sweetness matched by a lasting hop bitterness.
..overall this was a new brewery to me and this was a very nice beer with a strong aroma and a lasting, flavorful impqct

 

AH, Brisk

 

And I instantly thought of these commercials…brisk baby

 

River horse winter warmer
...cloudy dark amber
....medium light carbonation with about a medium body.
....aroma is dark malty bread,spice, mild caramel, boozy.
....taste has a mild sweetness, even more mild spice bite,malty alcohol but not as boozy as the aroma hinted at.
...overall its definitely a well done winter warmer

 

Crispy Girls After Dark

5.2% Czech dark lager by Talking Cursive

Poured from a pint can, this Czech lager pours a dark brown with a nice white fluffy head. Some lacing.

Aroma is light and a toasty cracker and a touch of malty sweetness.

Taste is biscuit, faint chocolate and a light pine. Crisp and refreshing, this one is light and easy to drink.

Mouthfeel is average and good carbonation. I enjoyed this one more as it came to room temperature. Despite the nuances of the mix becoming apparent as it warmed, I could easily see one pounding this crisp, easy drinking lager.

 

Greetings NBW faithful. Another drizzly, raw Saturday here. Built a Lego model with the grandsprout this morning and it's an experience watching the unfettered mechanically inclined mind of a 6 year old at work... Our daughter sings in, and is president of, an a capella mixed gender barbershop chorus called Voices United. They sponsored a concert at a local college, so that made for a pleasant afternoon. While it was a good concert, the genre does get a little repetitive. A couple of the featured quartets did push the boundaries, so there was enough interesting stuff sprinkled in. And grandson absolutely loves his auntie, so that was great.

In the glass:



Odell Brewing Company Barreled Treasure, Spirit Hound Straight Malt Whiskey version.

It pours cola colored, but looks pretty dark in the glass. Short head that succumbs quickly to the liquid, scant remnant ring, no cling. I pour on the aggressive side, so a bit of a surprise even for a high ABV (12%) stout in my opinion.

On the nose, not much when cold. When it warmed up, a little cocoa powder, a little prune or raisin, a little roast malt. Still not much there.

The taste strikes me as very sweet, like molasses or dark brown sugar. Raw whisky is prominent. No bitterness, no bite from hops. Despite the raw spirit taste, not getting much else from the barrel - no oakiness. I do not notice the 12% in particular, but the missus said she thought it was way too hot. There's a faint chocolate, way way way late in the aftertaste there is some licorice-like spiciness. I am confused by my perception of sweetness, and the raw whisky flavor is dominant.

Feel is medium bordering on heavy. Not quite flat, but damned close.

Overall, not a winner for me as it sits. Maybe this one should have gone into Larry's Beer Witness Protection Program for a few months. But I'm thinking about whether the stout base is strong enough - when the whisky part calms down what's going to be left? Gotta call it like I taste it right now, so I'm leaning toward the 3.7 ballpark. Scanning the handful of reviews thus far, the scores and written comments are all over the map. This one is a miss for me.

 

Oh man, I forgot about those commercials ha.

 

Good Saturday night, New Beer Weekenders. While at Ludlam Island Brewing today I tried Harry's Chocolate Side on cask. Now, I'm having the original, Harry's Darker Side, brewed with Organic Sumatra Coffee from the coffee supplier located next to the brewery. This is a huge Stout at 14.5% And like the variant I had today, it's exquisite.

Poured from a 16 oz. can into a stemless glass at about 60°. It pours a very dark walnut - nearly black - with a creamy, medium-mocha head and sheen of lacing. On the nose there is roasted malt, burnt coffee, dark chocolate, smoky char, and just a whiff of dark fruit. The taste is strong and rich with acidic coffee, dark chocolate, raisin fig, caramel, and nutty char. There is pronounced bitterness at the finish. The flavors are big and bold. The mouth feel is luxuriously thick and creamy with lite/moderate carbonation, and the alcohol level is noticeable and warming. Overall, Harry's Darker Side is quite a Stout: big and bold with lots of flavor. It's a sipper for sure and a very good one. Ludlam has produced quite an Imperial Coffee Stout. I'm mightily impressed!

4.41/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

I'm hoping to review a new Silk City Stout from Brix City Brewing tomorrow, that is if there is any left. Cheers, NBW!