New Beer Weekend #149

Looking forward to the in progress posts and final result! I have friends do similar, though out of ABS and such plastics

 

I am enjoying my first Railsplitter by Lincoln Brewing. It's probably my very first Irish Red Ale, so I can't draw any comparisons. It's sweet and malty, not bitter at all.

I'll probably buy another eventually if it doesn't disappear from Trader Joe's.

 

NEBCO Fuzzy Baby Ducks, thanks to @sulldaddy and NBS BIF #17. I think I've seen people call it NEBCO, anyway, it's my first beer from them so what do I know?

12oz can served in a...tumbler? I guess? sort of an angular almost teku shape, without a stem. Can is dated 03/24/23.

Pours moderately hazy until the very last of it comes out of the can, then it becomes fairly murky. Head is large, dense, creamy looking, and settles slowly. Smell is somewhat mild, I get some general tropical notes and some orange julius. Maybe a little bubble gum.

Taste turns a corner. Moves more toward bubble gum and a green melon rind bitterness, not the juiciness I was expecting based on the style and the name. There's a little bit of a honeysuckle sweetness. Tropical stuff is there but kind of masked. The honeysuckle sweetness and melon rind bitterness are working pretty well for me right now, though.

Mouthfeel is medium, dry, not chalky at all. Overall, I was expecting a creamy juice bomb, and this certainly defied that, and it's quite nice.

 

Had a long conversation about smoking...meats ...with my neighbor yesterday. He was doing ribs and did some wings yesterday. How long have you had your smoker? Do you have a preference for type of smoker you've used? I've really been thinking about investing in one recently.

@kemoarps that is a really cool endeavor and I hope we see part of it here when you do get around to creating it.

 

Good day one again BAs! On a long weekend with scheduled trips to cemetaries and more time to spend gardening - bought even more pepper plants yesterday so today'll be planting peppers and squash as well as flowers.
Today's New Breakfast Beer:



Falconry Club from Neshaminy Creek. 16 fl oz can from Franklin Beer, Franklin, PA, 09/05/23. $ 3.00 (Including tax) - $0.188/fl oz. Reviewed 29/05/23 (Review 3116). Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Undated can. In reefer at store. Stored at 34 degrees at home. Served at 45.6 degrees F in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature was 50.9 degrees F.
Appearance – 4.5
First pour – Pale Straw (SRM 2), clear.
Body – Straw (SRM 3), opaque. Under direct light, same. When rear lite, same.
Head: Large (Maximum five cm, aggressive center pour), white, high density, quickly diminishing to a 0.3 – 0.8 cm undulating crown with a rocky cap.
Lacing – Good! Three-dimensional band of very tiny to small bubbles, with multiple blunt stalactites.
Aroma – 4.25 – Light smoke and weak coriander. No malt, no yeast, no hops. No ethanol (4.1 % ABV as marked on the label).
Flavor – 4.25 – Begins slightly bitter with very weak coriander and smoke. A bit grainy. No malt, no yeast. No dimethylsulfide or diacetyl. No gastric warming. Ends slightly dry.
Palate – 3 – Medium; watery; lively carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 3.75 (After deducting 0.25 point for an undated personal container) Light smokiness like a brew from Spezial. The coriander taste is probably from the smoke but is distinctly present. One of the better Grodziskies I’ve had.
Rating 4.04, rDev +0.5%

 

Sorry I have been rather busy. The wife and my oldest daughter are out swimsuit shopping and I got a beer I want to review. Thanks @Roguer for getting us started.

Poured into a 16 oz Snulip glass canned on 5/23/23. Pours an hazy, attractive yellow orange with a finger plus sticky white head that leaves thin streaks of lace with nice retention. 4.25

Aroma is mandarin, passionfruit, cantaloupe, peach, and apricot. 4.25

Taste follows mandarin, cantaloupe, passionfruit, peach, and apricot. 4.25

Mouthfeel is above average, soft carbonation, not sticky or dry, and at 8.5% ABV it has huge flavor, but still very approachable. 4.25

Overall this is good, but just not great for me. I will have 0 issues getting through this 4 pack, but not sure I will get more of this batch. Worth a shot. 4.25 Cheers all.

 

I totally cheat, having gone with a pellet grill. For the most part I can set it and forget it, although it has stopped a couple times. It's pretty economical on pellets. It ran 13 or so hours yesterday and maybe used 3 pounds of pellets. The convenience for me outweighed the "purist" element. PM me - I did a ton of research before buying three years ago, Grilla Grills Silverbac model.

 

This has been the consensus on everyone I’ve talked to. The convenience, cost, etc. everyone has said go pellet/chips. I’ll definitely look into it and PM if I think I’m gonna pull the trigger on one.

 

Hoppin' Frog - Port Barrel Aged Pentuple, part of a barrage of beers from @Ozzylizard in NBS BIF #17, which included a lot of huge beers in big, regular, and little packages. This is one of the little packages.

8.45oz can served in a little Cantillon wineglass. Can is dated Best By NOV 23 2024.

Pours a muddy light brown or very dark amber, head appears then over about a minute it complete disappears. I can see a small amount of tiny bubbles struggling up to the top. Smell is hot -- I think I get some port right away, sweet and jammy, some dates or raisins as well.

Taste is interesting. Booze is there but certainly not so strongly as I got it in the smell. Dates/raisins provide a strong backbone of sweetness, but it's lightened by something -- maybe that's the port working indirectly and unintuitively in the background? Something is also balancing out the sweetness, I think it's a wood and fruit skin bitterness.

Mouthfeel is moderately thick, you can feel the alcohol in the back of the mouth a little. Overall, this is really interesting, and quite good, although it's not very pretty.

Edit: As I'm sipping and it's warming, it's tasting and feeling dryer, and I'm getting more straight wood notes. Again, super interesting beer.

 

I've got the grill going so I poured a pint

5 Churches - When Stouty met Paddy



This is a dry Irish stout and it's very true to style overall. Play by play is very by the numbers. Hint of sweetness but predominantly drinks light and easy. A smidge of burnt caramel holds things together.

Not too shabby. Not my favorite style but a good rendition.

3.82/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

 

Southern Tier Vanilla Scoop Imperial Ale.,

3.53/5 rDev -12.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5

Fridge cold 12 ounce bottle into a can glass.
Golden brew. No foam. Zero.
Smells like vanilla, for sure.
Tastes like a thick cream soda with a splash of caramel syrup. There’s a center of the tongue hop nip that’s trying to convince me to call it ‘ale’, but no. Syrupy finish, small whisper of alcohol, ugly soda pop burp for finish.
Feel is almost dessert thick, sticky, barely carbonated.
Overall, this is an attempt to fool a beer drinker as to what he’s got. It’s a syrup and milk sugar infused hybrid beer / seltzer / cocktail novelty. I get it, don’t care for it.,. Happy wife enjoyed it. I’d a sink poured it if she didn’t take it.,

 

Oliphant Super Squishy Fruited Sour, 5% ABV. Pours hazy orange with a slight white head that left no lacing. Aroma is very light fruit. Taste follows, faintly sweet, faintly tart, not much flavor. Mouthfeel is OK, quite light on carbonation. Overall good.

3.58/5 rDev -10.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

My daughter has been trying and mostly liking fruited sours. She opened this just now, took a sip, didn't like it, so I'm reviewing it. Not impressed. She cracked open a Lindemans Raspberry Framboise, one of her favorites.

We're cooking chicken in the crock, to be used tonight in Tetrazzini, and later in the week for quesadillas. Will have a good beer after this.

 

Looking forward to catching up on Sunday and Monday later today. It's just too nice out to be at home on the interwebs. Hopped in to rate my third and final new @DoctorZombies beer of the weekend. This one is the #3 overall beer in South Carolina, which until today is also new to me as a state. Looking forward to trying this since I received it a couple of weeks ago.

Coast Brewing Boy King



Can Notes: Acquired as part of my first completed beer trade, this is also my first cognizant rating of a South Carolina beer. Received May 11th, refrigerated upon bring home until opening this afternoon. Batch #979 canned 4/5/23, 12 oz can, no listed ABV, 9.7% in the BA Database. Imperial India Pale Ale brewed and canned by Coast Brewing Company in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Ingredients: Organic 2-Row, Organic Vienna, Organic Wheat Malts, and Choice Hops. 99% Organic Ingredients.

Appearance: Bronze straw slightly murky (unfiltered?) base, mild steady sustained carbonation after the full can pour into a shaker pint glass. Creamy bright head leaves a creamy cover over the base after a few mintes, and fine bright white lacing bubbles clinging for dear life to the glass throughout. Looks great. 4.25

Aroma: Getting changes with a few attempts at nailing down. Grapefruit, citrus, bread malt, pine at various stages. Usually I get consistent aroma, but this is more of a kaleidoscope until it settles on grapefruit backed by pine as my final answer. 4.0

Taste: Tang citrus powder at war and losing to a pine dankness and strong pure alcohol. Pure vodka flavorless like alcohol blunts pretty much everything here besides a faint grapefruit. Muddled. 2.25

Mouthfeel: Pure alcohol the primary sensation, feels stronger than the high assumed ABV. Faint carbonation bubbles, bitter and dry the secondary sensations to the alcohol. Finish is dizzy head and alcohol. 2.25

Overall: Typically I have trouble with Imperial IPAs due to the heavy malt component. That is not the case with this offering. This is just not for me, more like a vodka shot poured into a neutral beer. 2.5

Looking forward to the Mexican Cake from Westbrook to bump up my South Carolina beer appreciation. Still appreciate the beer Doctor.

 

Good afternoon all!
Hopefully you are having a great Memorial Day, my dad was Air Force but while he died in a military hospital, it wasn’t while defending our country. Still miss him though.

Lucked into this in the fridge of a friend who has a BiL that sent him a box of beer from California.
Poured stout black and was capped with a dense, light brown head that stayed until I finished it and then coated the bottom of the glass.
The taste was not what I expected, they used the additives very lightly so they didn’t overpower the base stout. The citrus came through as one of those chocolate oranges that you find at Christmas time. Subtle and flavorful. The vanilla came in more as lactose and chocolate, which works quite well.
They pack a lot of flavor into this sub- 7% stout. I would gladly buy a 6 pack for myself.
Had this right after our 3 hour float down the Flat River.

Amazing day for being on the water.
Cheers all.

 

I amended my score on the 5 churches stout, the head never held. And what fizz was present there was sort of short lived and flat.

OEC - maibock



Golden amber. Clear. Nose is sweet malt, some bready character. A good amount of herbal, floral charcter on the nose.

Very nice offering. It’s perhaps lacking a bit upfront but the finish is tidy. Hop character is good but a smidge more heft would be good here.

4.09/5 rDev +1%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

Perhaps I expect too much from OEC. Good offering but a smidge short of excellent.

 

Happy Anniversary!