New Beer Weekend #152

Thank you @SawDog505 for opening the tap on the new beer weekend. This beer dork is reporting to duty.

I am in Nashville on business and brought some beers to trade ( tree house, hill farmstead, trillium, etc) with my friend Paul Vaughn, the owner/ Brewer at Bearded Iris. While waiting for him, the beer tender recommended that I try the new Dunkel lager they just brewed , Urban Farmer by Bearded Iris

4.29/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25

Small batch barrel brewed at the bearded iris sylvan location , a collaboration beer with fonta flora. They were in Nashville for the craft brewers conference about a month ago.

Served on tap at Germantown location while sitting at the bar talking beers with Paul Vaughn

Dark cola liquid capped by a one finger creamy tan foam , great retention, great lacings

Aroma is roasted malts, hint of nuttiness

Taste is roast malts, subtle coffee undertones, malty

Mouthfeel is sudsy , smooth, I get a gentle hop kiss on the finish



Good beer, yes, I would recommend

 

A Half-Dark Beer (or should it be half-pale?)

I am happy to drink a beer today which was gifted to me by a generous benefactor: Schilling Petřín 11° which is a Polotmavý lager beer.

The Czech word Polotmavý literally translates to Half-Dark (polot = halfway and tmavý = dark). The more common way to detail this beer in English is that it is an Amber Lager.

During my two week visit to the Czech Republic in 2019 I drank a lot of beers at numerous pubs and breweries. By far the most popular traditional beer style is Bohemian Pilsner (Czech Pale Lager). I drank a lot of different Bohemian Pilsners but also a fair number of different Czech Pale Lager. The traditional beer style I drank the least was Polotmavý since it was just not as popular at Czech pubs (and breweries) as the other two styles. I would estimate that I drank 4-5 different Polotmavý brands during my stay. I would be remiss to not mention that in Prague there is a lively craft beer scene which was much appreciated by my wife since she is a hop-head.

One Polotmavý I had was Staropramen Granat as part of four pours after taking a tour of the brewery; it is the second beer from the left:



“Granat: they term this beer as being a semi-dark beer and brewed with three malts including caramel malt.

The Granat beer is marketed by Staropramen as being brewed using a recipe from 1884. From the Staropramen website:

“Staropramen Granat is a unique lager which proudly embodies our brewing traditions. This beer is based on the original recipe from 1884. The special sprinkling process of mixing pale and specialty malts is what gives the beer its unique ruby red - granat - colour.

Staropramen Granat – fine hops meet a perfect combination of three different malts.”

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

The Granat reminded me of Yuengling Traditional Lager. It was brewed well but not exactly a favorite of mine.

This beer from Schilling is named Petřín which is a hilltop park in Prague. I visited this park during my visit and one of the more popular aspects to this park is a tower which looks quite similar to the Eiffel Tower (but smaller). My wife and I walked the steps to the top and a funny story is about halfway (polot) up she stated “I want to turn around and go back”. The stair ‘system’ was one way (one way up and one way down) and very narrow. Going back down was not an option. The view from the top of the tower is spectacular as can be seen from the photo I took below:



Enough jibber-jabber, let’s drink!

Served in my Polish Pilsner Glass

Appearance:

Amber colored with a BIG fluffy off-white head which has good head retention

Aroma:

Smells sweet-ish with a hint of caramel in the background.

Taste:

The flavor is predominantly a toasty-bready malt flavor with a very subdued caramel aspect. There is a low-moderate hop bitterness.

Mouthfeel

Medium bodied with a dry finish.

Overall

I think this beer is good – very good. For my personal palate this beer would have benefitted from a skooch more hop flavor to provide ‘better’ balance to the beer.

Cheers!

@rotsaruch @RobH @KOP_Beer_OUtlet @Bierman9

 

It is hot as hades here in Houston. Was at Black Page Brewing yesterday for some happy hour drinks. They had a new Berliner Weisse on. A perfect style for the heat, and because they generally do German styles well, I of coarse wanted to try this.

Snake Farm, Berliner Weisse, 5.5% ABV


Pours a copper orange color. A two finger white head forms, that sticks around for a while before it recedes. Normally Berliner Weisse has a quick receding foam. Looks more like a regular pale ale.
A very neutral aroma. Cereal grains, cooked corn, and a minerality. Very simple, but just kind of there.
Taste wise, again, that cereal grain, cooked corn flavor. An earthy mineral quality. The bare minimum of what I would consider any kind of tartness.
A medium body, which is surprisingly bigger than I was expecting for the style. Moderate, and fairly smooth carbonation. This needs to have a much crisper and drier acidic bite. OK to drink once, but doesn't really follow the style very well.

Not that I need my Berliner Weisse to be super acidic and sour. Though there needs to be more here. Its a very safe interpretation in that regard, but beyond that, there is almost nothing that I would consider to style. I can't say its really "bad" but just all around generic and not something I plan on getting again.

Overall score 2.86, which is pretty low for me. I typically like their other German styles, and will stick with those.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/63888/658122/?ba=champ103#lists

 

I took a week off work and drove to Missouri, Texas, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Saw a Rangers-Cardinals game in Dallas and a Brewers-A's game in Milwaukee. 2300 miles and 36 hours in the car.

Of course I brought back a few beers, first up is Yellow Rose:

Appearance: Cloudy yellow, good head.

Smell: Starts a little danky, then moves to citrus rind.

Taste: Mild sweetness up front, then a combination of citrus and light berry flavor. Soft mouthfeel, finishes moderately bitter.

Overall: Picked this up in Texas, about 2 months old and not refrigerated at the store. A solid IPA, mild sweetness backed by a good bitterness in the finish.

 

Hmm, I wonder if that misspelling is a Freudian slip!?!

Cheers!

 

Ha, not intentional, just bad grammar on my part

 

My Summer of beer trades and gifts continue with two from New Glarius from two different Beer Advocates. The first is a gift can from Dan, of which I also received a bottle from Micah which I will enjoy on another day. I believe this is my first canned NG, everything else has been bottled (most) or draft (the rest).

New Glarus Pilsner



Can Notes: Received from @Danmullens1 from Beer Advocate in mid-May, refrigerated until today. 12 oz canned I believe 3/16/23 based on the I1631001 can code, or six months until the September (I) 16th code. ABV not listed, WTF?.

Quests of unobtainable perfection exist. Brewmaster Dan's Holy Grail is the perfect pilsner. His ideal being an old school blur of German and Czech styles, Heirloom pilsner malted barley and a double decoction mash begin the maddeningly complex journey. Joined by Bavarian royalty Diamant, Mittelfruh, Saphir, Select and Hallertau Blanc hops that gracefully weigh in a quaffable 35 IBU. The simplicity of a six week lager forges this pilsner treasure.

Appearance: A few pours to empty the can into a New Glarus 16 oz flute glass. Golden clear straw color pour, mild carbonation, generous creamy rich thick white head. Looks great! 4.25

Aroma: Bold bready cracker aroma, nice pepper and salt mix draws me in. 4.25

Taste: Consistent with the aroma, though lighter in strength. Freshly backed bread, salt light at first heavy further in (my palate notes, likely fine for most), mineral water, grassy. Seems a little dull, but enjoyable. 3.75

Mouthfeel: Light body, delicate carbonation, crisp and clean easy drinking. Salt lingers (my distorted Pilsner palate), dry and slight bitterness. 4.0

Overall: This is a good Pilsner, crisp, clean and easy on a Summer day. Recommend, though NG shouldn't have killed off Kid Kolsch for this. Appreciate this beer Dan! 3.75

Looking forward to my New Glarus selection slated for tomorrow, 30 years in the making.

 

Sounds like a pretty awesome trip @Mdog. Something you’d been planning for a while? Or just a spur of the moment adventure?

 

Sunny and heading for the 90s, with 100 just around the corner. "But it's a dry heat."
I'm drinking this nice sour ale from Hamburg Brewing Company.
The beer is a peach color with a medium-sized white head. No lace.
Very fruity, very sweet aroma.
I got a taste of cranberry, blackberry, and strawberry. Very sweet.
Very tart. The beer gave my salivary glands a work-out.

 

Invitation by Bearded Iris


4.47/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Brewers notes : Join us as we celebrate the glorious return of barrel aged stout season! The INVITATION, not lost in the mail, has been tucked away in Buffalo Trace Bourbon barrels for 24 months, then finished on a generous spread of Madagascar red split vanilla beans.


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Bottle received in a trade with Bearded Iris brewer Paul Vaughn . 8yr Buffalo trace barrels. Emptied less than 24 hours from bourbon to stout fill. “

Instead of a wet hop beer, does this make this a wet barrel beer?

Chilled bottle poured into a pretentious beer glass

Syrupy dark brown liquid with a fizzy brown layer that immediately fades

Aroma is vanilla, bourbon, dark fruits

Taste is bourbon, vanilla, dark fruits, raisin, roast malts, brown sugar

Sudsy mouthfeel , boozy without the heat, sweet , abv well hidden

Good beer

 

Just using up vacation time, visited the town where I started my career (Nevada, MO), then visited friends in Dallas, then visited family in Iowa, then went to the Brewers game with friends.

Brought back a lot less beer than I hoped from Texas, was really hoping to pick up some Live Oak (especially their smoked stuff), but the stores I went to did not have any.

 

A number of years ago Live Oak pulled out of the Dallas - Ft. Worth area:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/commun...ak-to-discontinue-distribution-in-dfw.507754/

Maybe that is still the situation today?

Cheers!

 

Starting out this Fathers day NBW with one my son picked out for me, only because of the dinosaur (to be fair all the beers I've had with dinos on them have been great, need to add Pseudo Sue and variants to that list)

Ninkasi - Tricerahops



Canned 3.7.23

Poured at fridge temp into a willi glass

Pours a clean and clear earthy honey gold with a 2F tan and soapy consistency head. 4

Fairly strong pine and bitter floral aroma. Pungent but not overwhelming. 4

Balanced sweet and full malt bite at first, gives into bitter and deep pine, finishes out with lightly sweet floral hoppiness. 4.25

Lingering resinous hop oils, moderately filling, though lighter on the carbo. 4.25

Overall a very nice double that is a great balance of floral hops, resinous pine, and gentle subtle sweetness. Would absolutely have again. 4

Believe I clocked it in the DB at over a 4.15

Be back soon and cheers!

 

Hello New Beer Weekend!!!

On the road today, on my way to the Northwest Angle of Minnesota. I am at Fergus Brewing in Fergus Falls and enjoying this.


By The Grace Of Quad - 10% ABV.

This is quite delicious, and the best part is I'm not driving, so I can enjoy a bigger pour. Delicious

Review
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/57802/649760/

3.82/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Nice amber pour, somewhat clear. The head is tan, and looks somewhat creamy, with small bubbles. Decent retention, and amazing lacing on the glass.
The aroma has a malty base. Some dark fruit, some earthiness in it.
Taste. This is a Quad. Lots of Belgian yeast flavors, bubblegum, banana. There's some caramel and toffee. Earthy tones to this beer.
Decent body, maybe a bit light for the abv.
This is tasty overall.

Be back later tonight from the border.

 

Athletic brewery lite
..cloudy light amber appearance.
...medium carbonation with a close to average body. For a light beer it actually has a pretty decent feel.
...aroma iswhite bread dough, floral,malt, with a little bit of wet cardboard.
....taste is a sour foremost followed by malt,dough,cereal.
...for a light beer I have to say it was very good and perfect when im too busy for a real beer

 

Maybe that would be a good idea for a thread?

Entitle the thread: "What is your favorite Dino beer?"

Cheers!