New Beer Weekend #204

Trimmed my shrubs all day and I'm not done yet. We have a lot of shrubs and I will probably have to touch them up in a month.
This is a new beer from Beer'd in Connecticut. It is not on their website yet and not in the BA database either. Too tired to add it in now, but I may before I finish the 4-pack.

Poured from an undated 16oz can that was purchased yesterday from a chilled cooler at a local store.
This beer has an opaque gold body that I would not quite call it hazy. Right after the pour a 2-inch white head is made of tiny fine bubbles, but it transforms. Within a minute it looks like puffy sea foam, but eventually settles into a 2mm ring that laces aggressively with glass tilt.
The aroma is subtle but hoppy with a slight berry ad-in.
The taste is bitter-hoppy in a good way. There is some lemon and berry but it's mostly pine needles and sap.
I can’t say that I could tell this is a wheat beer. The mouth feel and overall effect is West Coast APA.
Pretty good overall. I think I’ll have another.

 

Unless there is something hidden in my fridge, this will be my last new beer for several weeks as I drink down the stash. It's a tribute beer for a former Jack's Abby employee. Details on this blog post. As the post says, they weren't trying to make a craft malt liquor, rather a true to style one. (And advance apologies for the review; I'm just a bit bored apparently. And full of malt liquor.)

Jack's Abby In Herb We Trust
7.5% malt liquor



Pours bright gold with a two-finger white head that dissipates to a coating.

There's a big hit of sweet grain aroma and corn and nothing else. OK there's the slightest hint of earthy hop as it warms, but you've gotta call in the full search party to find it.

The taste is...not bad? It's got what you'd expect. There's sticky sweetness that you want to say is caramel-like but your fingers just won't type the words. Let's go with a sweetness vaguely reminiscent of carmelized grains. It lingers on the palate and slowly turns bitter on the finish. And let's not get too excited with exclamations of "Oh, I like a pale lager with some hop bitterness on the finish!" This ain't hop bitterness; more like the bitterness you feel when you finally ask The Girl to the prom after what seems like a lifetime of failed attempts to connect and she, rather inexplicably, says, "Sure.", and you're so f'ing excited and this is defintely the start of something great, maybe even a lifetime together and tons of babies, but then a week before prom she cancels on you to go with some football hunk instead and says, "But we can still be friends, right?", and you say, "Of course, of course.", while you inwardly curse the fact that God allows individuals to amass as much muscle tissue as anyone on the football team has, or to play football at all for that matter, and you resign yourself to hanging out at the punch bowl with the other geeks, who are debating the merits of various microprocessors, while you watch Mr. Hunk effortlessly twirl The Girl (who was so very nearly Your Girl) around the dance floor and, while Mr. Hunk gets a little handsy, you start plotting how you can expose him for the Neanderthal that he is and win back The Girl (who will definitely be Your Girl this time) and she'll be forever grateful to you for rescuing her from that football stud who doesn’t even know how to plot a logarithm but, suddenly, your daydream is burst by the stud himself who is at the punch bowl and talking with the punch-bowl guy about how he's defintely gonna hit that tonight even though he doesn't really like her. Like your HS disappointments, this bitterness festers until you find yourself sucking down some of that definitely-not-caramel sweetness just to make it stop and the cycle continues.

Thick, sticky, low carb. Classic malt liquor feel.

Kidding aside, this is a well made and true to form malt liquor that I would drink over some macro light beers (I'm looking at you Genny).

 

Hello folks. Here's a lovely beer I had 1st this past Wed nite at the brewery so I had to bring 1 home. Cheers to the weekend!
Hoops #41 Champagne IPA 7% ABV
4.19/5 rDev +1.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
16 oz can filled at the brewery 6/14/24 into a nonic pint glass.
L: SRM 3 Pours clear light gold caramel color with a thin white head that recedes to skin and edge foam, good fine steady carbonation, random spots of lacing.
S: Grains, bready notes, fruit.
T: A suggestion of fruit bread, crackery & yeasty white bread, light citrus, grapefruit zest, distant melon rind, a hint of distant white grape skin. It has a lightly bready aftertaste.
F: Lightly brisk medium-light bodied feel with a fast and drying finish that is moderately brut. It is quenching.
O: A clean tasting & clean feeling beer. It has a lovely bready halo over the fruit and dryness that I really enjoy. Very easy to drink and isn't overly dry. It is excellent in its style.

 

So last night I grabbed one from the fridge because I forgot I had tried it before. So it got posted to WBYDN instead. Sigh.
But today, I have a new beer- a Czech Style dark lager from Old Nation.

Poured mild coffee color and looks black in the glass. The beige head reaches a height of 1 cm before dissipating from its brief existence.
The taste is a little hoppy for my tastes, as far as the style goes, and the malt profile is more coffee than crackers, but not bad. Just not aligned with the style in my opinion.
The feel is good, quite good- has effervescence despite the lack of visible carbonation.
OA, while I would never turn one down, I won’t be buying more.
It’s pandemonium upstairs with all the kids and two of our grandkids. And yes, I’m hiding in the basement with my dog.

 

Well done @KP7 that was one hell of a ride

 

Started my new brews today with a good Irish Imperial Stout and Imperial Porter from Brehon Brewhouse, both tasty even though they were both on the lower ABV levels of being Imperials IMO:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/36709/706002/?ba=bluejacket74#lists




https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/36709/646738/?ba=bluejacket74#lists



Cheers!

 

And had one more new brew with a tasty local imperial stout from Parsons North:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/55014/706025/?ba=bluejacket74#lists





Cheers again, I might have another new brew or 2 for tomorrow.

 

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/30321/701881/

 

First Jester King beer for me in at least 5 years, and it also qualifies as a New Funky Beer Weekend


Jester King 2021 Estival Dichotomous • 5.7% ABV

Made with a bunch of typical JK ingredients featuring watermelons as the star of the show.

The short version: Tastes like a funky farmyard JK to me. Tart and citrusy up front with hints of fruit sweetness in the aftertaste, while the main force of flavor is earthy/funky grain sacks and musty hay barns and horse blanket.

There's not enough sweetness nor flavor from the watermelons for this beer to shine the way a JK brew can, but as a bog-center example of what they do, this hits the mark. The highlight for me is the mouthfeel — despite being almost 3 years in the bottle, it's fantastically carbonated, light but fluffy and the definition of quaffable. Bottle-conditioning rocks. I love the Belgian farmhouse style for lots of reasons, and the mouthfeel is arguably the most dependable.

Official review:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/24018/584991/?ba=Premo88#lists
4.21 (-0.7% rDev)

I wouldn't buy this specific beer again, but it's good enough to get me excited about buying a handful or so of their brews to help beat this Texas heat.

Cheers, NBWers!

 

Rum barrels…Jamaica ??

 

Damn, I'd say you nailed this one, well done; always fun happening upon the blind review before the reveal.

 

Magnify refresh pilsner
...light amber/gold appearance
...medium carbonation with a slightly thin body but it has an almost slick oily feel
...aroma is malt,cereal with some toasted grain. Theres an odd aroma that comes off like vegetation which im guessing is the hops.
..taste is very similar to aroma,pleasant but there is a slight off color taste going on
...overall its good and probably me as I've had a busy week and haven't come down yet. I do seem to have an off relationship with this brewery

 

Really nice photo!

 

That beer looks amazing! But the hand-drawn label-art @Roguer provides must really make the experience a lot fun!

 

One of the few from GL's that I'd pass on if I saw it again, nothing really wrong with it other than it didnt work, put this in rye whiskey barrels, I'd bite....