What Beer Are You Drinking Now? #4266

Good morning,
while waiting to rediscover the pleasure of talking about beer with people who don't look at where you come from before debating to shoot some banal cliché, I will limit myself to describing the beers I'm drinking and using the database as a personal archive after having almost exhausted the free space of the fourth email address created for me to send myself photos and reviews.
Alder Beer Co, (Seregno, ITA) - COTTAGE CLUB - American IPA (7%)

44 cl can (bought at the beershop for €7, with a discount on the total)
On the label: "Lot: L082F - Packaging date: 04/29/2024 - Best before: 09/29/2024".
It's an India Pale Ale with a percentage of Pils malt, in addition to the English Golden Promise.
The mold is American with hopping reserved for Simcoe, Amarillo, Chinook, Columbus and Centennial.
It wants to be inspired by the old-style IPAs of Vermont.
It was produced with medium-saline water and a strain of Anglo-Saxon yeast considered useful for the purpose.
As soon as it's opened, it smells of summer fruit (especially plum pulp) and tropical fruit (mango, papaya). As soon as it's poured (two times + topping up) the more citrusy aromas also come out.
It has a golden color: hazy, but only slightly. Discrete foam but of poor consistency and therefore short-lived.
In the mouth, it is a medium-bodied beer (IPA), but with a sort of underlying softness that also leads to a slightly waxy aftertaste (but not crunchy, only with the function of softening/filtering almost...).
The prevailing taste is citrus, grapefruit, followed by flavors of summer and ripe fruit (peach, plum, apricot) with tropical reflections (papaya). But everything is very short.
The finish, despite this light silky sensation, is pleasantly bitter: pungent when barely felt, but (I suppose, voluntarily) not long-lasting.
A very balanced beer and certainly not very similar to a modern Vermont IPA: in fact, I don't find those excesses in killing the bitterness with the silky sensation given by the yeast, nor that long-lasting fruity sensation that invades your palate without the counterpart of a right bitterness.





Happy birthday @REVZEB
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Greetings BAs! Spent the morning at Weyermann - had some rauchbier and here's some of their signs:

 

Chandeleur Island Brewing
Total Clarity New England IPA



Hazy light gold color with lasting white cap.
Strong sharp hop aroma with a tropical vibe.

Taste is a big blast of juicy hop goodness resting on a malt base. Picture the malt as a pedestal and hops as the statue. There is a certain wine like quality like an oak aged Chardonnay with some ripe pears tossed into the barrel.

Overall this 8.3%'er is in the big boy range of IPAs and I find it right good company.

 

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HBD!

 

Loving your trip pics and posts, hope you have a great Birthday and rest of your trip!

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