New Beer Weekend #201

Holy Mountain Smoke of the Volcanoes grodziskie

 

Nursing a food hangover today after a party here with friends and some great smoked meats yesterday. Today is slow with off and on small showers but heavy rain is coming around dinner time.
My beer is The Usual from Eredita, run by a Hill farmstead alumn that brews his beer at 12 Percent. This is my second beer from Eredita. This beer must be new, I had to add it to the BA database and its not on the Eredita website.

4.38/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Poured from a 16oz can stamped “for uncle BO, 05/07/24” to a nonic at fridge temp.
A light gold body with slight haze sits below a below-medium white head of multi-sized bubbles that fades rather quickly but does lace moderately for a while anyways.
Immediately on the pour this is the most grapefruit-smelling beer I can remember. That sensation eventually subsides to a more subtle bread and pine smell.
The taste is of grapefruit rind, tangerine sweetness and a surprise pine finish. Nice.
The mouthfeel is quite light, carbonation is slightly above medium.
A tasty beer, with a combination of fruit and pine in a light body.

 

Structures - Naysayer IPA

 

Lumberbeard - 4th anniversary cuvee barleywine

 

All right work is done for today and now I am at Bad Habit Brewing in St Joseph, MN, and enjoying this.

Flippity Flop - Bad Habit Brewing- Imperial IPA- 10%

I added this beer 6 years ago, but never had it till today, and I am the first review. I am enjoying this. It is a tropical beer with sweet mango and guava up front with bitter pineapple on the back. Quite tasty and doesn't drink like 10%.

Review:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/42984/368912/

4.04/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
On tap at the brewery
This is a murky and hazy golden pouring beer. Quite juicy looking. The head is a white ring around the rim of the glass.
Lots of mango on the nose. There's also notes of pineapple.
Taste is somewhat sweet up front with a good hit of mango and guava. This sweetness fades and goes full on pineapple on the backside with a pleasing bitterness.
The beer is somewhat smooth feeling. The feeling of the bitterness does linger. No alcohol burn.
Tasty beer overall.

Be back later with at least one more. Cheers!

 

Land Grant - Lemon Glow

12oz can served in a footed pilsner glass. There's a stamp on the bottom, but I can't read it. From @ovaltine in NBS BIF #18.

Pours a slightly hazy bright yellow with a big fluffy head, plenty of active carbonation visible at rest. Smell is, unsurprisingly, dominated by lemon zest and citrus in general. Some orange blossoms, too.

Taste is similarly citrus forward, but there's a strong malty backbone, gives a moderate grainy flavor.

Mouthfeel is full but airy. Overall, very nice pale ale.

 

We'll make it to 10 am sure

 

From the ever generous @FBarber via the NBS BIF#18

Short Throw Brewing Co. 2-Click Flare Imp Stout Vermont Maple Syrup, Marshmallow & Coffee, 12.8% ABV; 4.16 overall

Pours an effervescent mahogany with a pinky of mocha colored head. Some head retention & lacing

S: Marshmallow & cocoa, Maple once warm, some hints of booze

T: Follows the nose, pretty dry, Maple Candy up front. More dryness & Maple Candy as this beer warms up, chocolate, vanilla & marshmallow as well, a little boozy warmth on the tongue. Finishes with marshmallow, chocolate & maple candy, with expected dryness

MF: Fairly thick, dialed back carbonation, but does pick up once warmed up

Solid Adjunct Imp stout, drinks fairly easy despite the heft

 

Narragansett — Fresh Catch

I didn't need more beer, but for the last several years I routinely pair my daily walks with beer shopping. This was one of these weekend walks with Wegmans as a beer stop. There wasn't anything particularly interesting there, but I wanted to get something, so I ended up with the Narragansett Fresh Catch — a Citra session ale.

The beer is slightly hazy orange with a quickly disappearing head and decent lacing.

The nose is of light hop and malt.

The taste is mild hoppy refreshing beer, with enough bitterness and richness not to feel watered down like many session beers taste.

Overall it is a readily available version of Tree House Eureka w/ Citra.

 

Got at least one more in me, although all I see a bruisers or sours & I've already had 2 this weekend

 

Athletic brewery wits peak
...cloudy pale gold appearance
...medium light carbonation yet seems almost a little prickly. Body is close to medium which is always unusual for this type
...aroma is citrus,mostly orange peel with a hint of a grain I cant adequately define. Theres some floral honey in the background.
...taste is similar to aroma in almost every way which works fairly well. The only knock is theres a taste and I believe its what people describe as wort.
...overall judging it within its own class its pretty good

 

Back home, and sitting in the garage as storms build around here. Might as well have another from Bad Habit that I just bought a bit ago.

Nirvana - American IPA - Bad Habit Brewing- St Joseph, MN- 6.4%

I was somewhat hoping for a pine bomb here. I didn't quite get it, but it is tasty.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/42984/703558/
3.8/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.75
From a 16oz can purchased at the brewery. Filled May of 24'

This beer is fairly clear pouring, but has a slight murkiness to it. There's a bit of carbonation bubbles rising in the glass. Thr head is less than 1 finger and white. Not extremely long lasting with a bit of lacing on the glass.
The aroma is interesting. There's a good bit of sweetness here in it, almost like honey. There's also a hint of hops with a slight bit of mango and pine.
Taste - I am getting a honey, biscuit sweetness up front. It is very malty. The hops come into play on the back with pine and mango flavors. These hop flavors do build a bit and add a bit of bitterness to this beer.
The body is somewhat creamy feeling. Smooth, full with hop bitterness on the back.
This is an interesting beer. Very sweet and malty up front, with hops on the back. While not a west coast pine bomb, it is still tasty.

Maybe one more today.

 

Meant to post these new to me Barleywines yesterday but apparently I forgot to. Both were good but not memorable so that's probably why I forgot to post them:



https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/24892/301267/?ba=bluejacket74#lists



https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/24892/292137/?ba=bluejacket74#lists

No new brews today, just a couple new meads so those are posted on the What Mead Are You Drinking Now thread and not here. Cheers everyone and hopefully everyone else has had great brews this weekend too. Hopefully I haven't missed many of them!

 

Luscious

9.2% Russian Imperial Stout by The Alchemist

Poured from a pint can, the body is a dark black with a mocha colored head. Very good lacing during the tasting.

Aroma is an inviting mix of malted barley and chocolate. Perhaps a light coffee note.

Taste follows nose but with amped up flavors. The chocolate rises and adds sweetness. Mid-swallow a bitter note appears, merges well with the sweet chocolate malt flavor, and slowly tapers off. The ABV is present but not hot.

Soft mouthfeel and good carbonation. Finish is pillow soft and a lingering light bitterness.

This fine stout shows to me that our Vermont friends can do stouts as well as their beloved IPAs.

 

Look guys, I'm doing my part to take this thing to 11. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO

@ovaltine, didn't I send you one of these? Where is it? Do you still have a mystery beer lurking around in there somewhere, or did I miss it?

This is Walls of the Cave, a "Tiny Town Series" beer from Georgetown, an English barleywine weighing in at only 14.6%. I'm a sucker for any beverage with a hand-written label.

22oz bottle served in a slightly tulipy wineglass. Label is hand-written on a generic "Tiny Town Series" label.

Pours murky brown with a small head, slow and fine carbonation present and taking its sweet time surfacing. Smell is oak tannins, toffee, dates. Maybe lightly smoked dates.

Taste is sweet toffee and dates, strong presence of oak, something fruity comes out late in the flavor that I can't quite pin down.

Mouthfeel is pretty big, pretty thick, pretty chewy. Overall...it's quite good, but it's not great, though it pains me to say that about one of my favorite local breweries. It feels "inspired by" the Brew x000 series from Fremont. Which is fitting, because I was flitting back and forth between this and a bottle of Brew 8000 before I settled on this.

 

I don’t believe you sent me that, but I’ll check the cellar. I have a couple of mystery beers to go through, which will happen this evening.