What Beer Are You Drinking Now? #4281

Sigh, this is my last day of vacation. I ended up working for a couple of hours this morning to help out a customer so I plan on taking those two hours off tomorrow afternoon. Having a Foley Brothers Independence Day IPA on this hot and humid afternoon. This is pretty good!

 

1) Barrel Theory Rain Drops (7.5% canned 5/6/24): A NEIPA from Minnesota with Citra and Mosaic for flavors of orange, OJ, stonefruit, pineapple, and berries.
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2) Hop Butcher Unwind Your Mind (7.5% canned 4/8/24): A NEIPA from Chicago with Mosaic, El Dorado, & Moteuka for flavors of tropical orange, berries, some grape and lychee. Tropical. (Correctly matched the two beers blind)

Winner: Hop Butcher Unwind Your Mind
Barrel Theory vs. Hop Butcher IPA Battle. First is Barrel Theory Rain Drops. First try at this one. Standard Citra and Mosaic, but rated World-Class on BeerAdvocate. Fantastic aromas. A bit milder on the flavors. Orange, OJ, stonefruit, pineapple, melon. Very light and cleaner than expected.
Next is Hop Butcher Unwind Your Mind. Interesting hop combo. Sweeter as expected with more tropical berries, melon, and grapes. More flavor overall here.
Barrel Theory making some great IPAs lately. Don't know that I'd give this World-Class, but will keep trying more from them.

 

La Trappe Quadrupel.
Cheers

 

Thought about hitting the Sox rain induced DH, but between getting a late start and goal to listen and do some more purging here, having lunch and this one paired with spaghetti.

Hop Butcher Butcher Gold



As featured on the Wayne Messimer show this Sunday.



And here is the original by Leon Russell two decades plus earlier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37dw2r45Xzg

 

Made it to Detroit.

 

Cheers!

 

Delirium Tremens strong Belgian golden ale

 

G'day all!

Got some 100°F temps coming up this week. I'm doing a practice run with some Killian's Irish Red Lager. Serviceable but I miss the old Killian's Irish Red Ale. I reckon it would have been a pretty good seller these days...

Prost!

 

Cheers!

 

I see no reason not to have another one of these. Made a spicy 3 bean salad to have with my homemade meatball sub at dinner. Dinner will be an easy affair tonight.

 

Oh boy. Truck 2 has a slumber party at the shop with a small additional fix. Road trip!!!! ...And our mulch was delivered. Time to sweat. Shiner Black Lager. The best of the variety pk. Cheers!

 

Cheers!

 

I like this beer enough to order more.

 

I am ready for a bigger variety of beer. Still solid.

 

Avoided a sweltering day by going underground - cavern-style.


Back home after lunch, catching second half of the 2nd Euro semifinal match and enjoying a Virginia / Oregon collaboration.


Had this on tap yesterday and it was a wonderful rendition of an as-advertised piney WCIPA that Three Notch’d and Deschutes put together - Totally Pine.

The can version… is also a lot of pine PNW hops in the fore. The malt is a little more grainy / husky and not as “clean” as the kegged version. Gonna drop my score slightly, but it’s still damn good.