What Beer Are You Drinking Now? #4393

Glorious Afternoon Advocates!

I've lamented the loss of this old favorite in various threads since this beer was discontinued:

• If you could bring back one beer
• What beers do you wish would return?

Now, beyond my wildest dreams, it lives again!!!

Shoals Pale Ale | Smuttynose Brewing

And... it's frikken as AMAZING as ever





https://smuttynose.com/beers/shoals/


Cheers BAs!

 

1) Drowned Lands Winnow (5.2%): A Festbier from NY aged in oak barrels for flavors of smooth bread, earthy orange, cloves spices and yeast. Sweet.
versus
2) Modist The Time Is Nigh (5.2%): A Festbier from Minnesota aged in oak barrels for flavors of pale Munich malts, some. honey and floral notes with some hints of earthy oak. (Correctly matched the two beers blind)

Winner: Modist The Time Is Nigh
Oak-aged Festbier Battle. First is Drowned Lands from NY. Smooth orange and bread flavors. The yeast has a complexity similar to a hefeweizen with some orange spice and cloves. Finishes sweet.
Next is Modist. They always make some fantastic oak-aged lagers. This could be one of their finest. Earthy, oaky, toasted. Excellent. Interesting battle and Modist gets the win here.

 

Ayinger Kirtabier, an unfiltered Marzen. I'd never even heard of this! Delightful on draft.

 

The mighty Double IPA from To Øl (Denmark).
Cheers

 

The problem with the first snow of the season is that a lot of people have forgotten how to drive in it.

 

Been dealing with drums for 6 hrs already today. Chopin' & Changin'. The drum shop won't know what hit 'em. Custom Ellis and vintage Gretsch...unfortunately I have to move half of my storage closet to retrieve the original 3 legs for one drum. But I can probly get close to 400 bucks for it with the orig legs so it's worth the trouble. Gathering the bits. And just like that Bob's yer uncle and it's time for a beer!
Warpigs USA Waking The Witch Black Imp IPA
Cheers!!

My little music room is chaos. A good chaos.

 

Alchemist Heady Topper DIPA... c/o my BIL on a New England trip. I prefer Focal, it is more smashmouth (its kinda like having fresh Ballast Point Grunion vs Sculpin). It i still great though.

 

My golf course is doing some winter seeding. What that has meant is that one nine is closed while it is being worked on, while the other nine is open. This week, the front nine is open for play, but the back is closed. So we play the front nine twice. They are watering like crazy, so we have sprinklers going on and off. And it's cart path only because of the seeding/watering. The good news is that we'll have both nines open. The bad news is cart path only until January.
When I got home, there was a fridge filled with beer waiting for me. I'm drinking Harvest Autumn IPA. Very nice.

 

1) Drekker Doomsday Device (8.3% canned 10/21/24): A NEIPA from North Dakota with Mosaic for flavors of dank orange, tropical berries, blueberries, mango juice.
versus
2) BlackStack Pack of Shooters (8.4% no canning date): A NEIPA from Minnesota with Citra, El Dorado, & Galaxy for flavors of orange, pineapple, passionfruit, grape, and mango skins. (Correctly matched the two beers blind)

Drekker vs. BlackStack IPA Battle. First is Drekker Doomsday Device. A fresh off-the-block IPA from Drekker. Fantastic name and can art as usual. All Mosaic here. Juicy orange, pineapple, berries, melon, and mango. Very complex for a single hop. Oustanding.
Next is BlackStack collab with Barrel Theory. Complex grapefruit, passionfruit, grape, and mango flavors. Galaxy providing the Southern Hemisphere flavors. One of BlackStack's best and among World-Class. Two bangers.
Winner: BlackStack Pack Of Shooters

 

So you played hopscotch with the irrigation That's beer action right there

 

Hanging in Whitefish with my bro before he has to fly back to PDX later. Currently enjoying an amber ale at Jeremiah Johnson Brewing while he wraps up a quick remote work meeting..



Cheers, friends!

 

A plethora of preemptive preparatory palate purification procedures performed prior...

...to following up my beloved Shoals with this very similar style.





Cheers People!

 

Good afternoon BAs! Nothing fancy today, just a glass of Boston Lager. Haven't had one of these in a minute - not bad at all. Cheers!

 

Now working on a glass of Grimoire (a pastry stout collab with Imagine Nation )..



Cheers!

 

My good sir, I think you'll find post #21 today of interest.

Amazing indeed!

 

Of course! Cheers!

Wife’s bowl for her socials.,. I had the same!



Karlsbrau Lager .,. Cheeeeers!

 

Gathering and cutting wood on this warm autumn day. Freestyle IPA by Lawson’s. The beer once again brought to me by @TCgenny. Cheers.

 

@Ocalafox that food looks amazing.

 

A warm, windy Wednesday out here today. I dipped my toe in and the beer is fine.

Triple Grid ~ Hop Butcher For The World


Off The Grid ~ Beastie Boys

 

Ready to delve back into the world of S P A C E H A M M E R and I'll need a beer to go headfirst into the oulde closet. Triptych Dank Meme. Lovely altogether. Cheers!