What beer are you drinking now? #4278

1) BlackStack Wedding Season (8.0% no canning date): A NEIPA from Minnesota with Citra, El Dorado, Cascade, & Phantasm for flavors of grapefruit, ripe OJ, and pineapple.
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2) BlackStack Pseudoscience (8.4% no canning date): A NEIPA from Minnesota with Citra, Nectaron, and Nelson for flavors of Orange citrus, pineapple, white grape, berries, and mango. Clean. (Correctly matched the two beers blind)

Winner: BlackStack Pseudoscience
Happy Sunday BeerAdvocates. Time for a BlackStack IPA Battle, which I think produces some of the best haze in the Minneapolis area. First is Wedding Season. Dense orange notes from the El Dorado and Cascade. Yet some bright grapefruit notes from the Phantasm. I tried this last year and thought it was alright. This year I think I'm enjoying it better, also more fresh. Average to slightly above for BlackStack. Good stuff especially if you like Phantasm.
Next is Pseudoscience, a collab with Toppling Goliath with flavors of orange, tropical grape, berries, mango. Getting a little bit of dankness here that I didn't in previous reviews. Maybe some age is creeping in. Still this thing is popping with New Zealand hop flavors.

 

Very nice IPA.

 

Happy Sunday, WBAYDN!
You’ll find me sittin’ on the deck all day!

Citra Juice Pants ~ Maplewood


[Sittin’ on] The Dock of the Bay ~ Otis Redding

 

IPA at Ponysaurus in Durham.



Egészségedre!

 

Penrose Brewing German style Helles lager, Light, with a sidecar of their 10 year anniversary barleywine. A solid, clean Helles and vanilla forward Barleywine.

 

Cheers!

 

211 Steel Reserve is what a buddy of mine was drinking the night he got hit by a car (while a pedestrian) and tried to fight off the EMTs. So please be responsible when feeling the steel!

 

At Diversion I’m having Chemung Champagne and the wife is having Strawberry Mango

 

Double Bastard ~ Stone


Bastard ~ Ian Hunter

 

Blacklist Brewing Nectaron Prime (6.7% no canning date): A NEIPA from Minnesota with Nectaron and Mosaic hops for flavors of tropical orange, tangerine, tropical berries, with some dank pine notes. Clean and dry.

Another New Zealand IPA from Minneosta. These guys are up north in Duluth. I've been to their Taproom a couple of times and enjoyed their stuff. What a cool beer name. New Zealand Nectaron and Mosaic here with tropical Mosaic flavors, plus some dank pine and stonefruit notes from the Nectaron. Beautiful pour. The aroma was better than the flavor, but it's still pretty good. Nothing spectacular, but good flavors and enjoyable with a name that makes me want another one.

 

What doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger.
Welcome back!

 

What’s good BA??? Enjoying this beautiful day.
Wife and kids went down to Florida for the weekend to visit friends. I stayed back to work some overtime. Love my family but it’s nice to have a day just to yourself. We all need it.

 

Ah, the good stuff! We used to call Olde E “the drink of distinction”

 

Normally I pick up their IPAs (not the lactose ones) whenever I see them. To me they have the highest quality haze you can get on the shelves. I blame this on Ommegang

 

Enjoying a smoked lager while finally wrapping up the women's Vuelta and hopefully starting in on the men's Giro before dinner.