New Beer Weekend #237

Totally in love with this beer

 

Hetty Alice - Peacharine IPA

 

New to me Arkansas Brewery, Green House Aleworks. They are very $$$ A spin off of Social Project based on local gossip. This first dip in the pool will make me swim again. F it everything is pricey now...

Fiddle Leaf Fig triple Hazy IPA with Nelson, Galaxy & Citra Hops, 10.0% ABV; 4.35 overall

Pours a super hazy straw/gold with a thumb of tight pearl colored head. Very good head retention & stellar lacing

S: Tropical fruit, melons, white grapes

T: Follows the nose, very dry, limes, tangerines, grassyness & white grape dominate up front. Hints of coconut, pineapple as this beer warms up, some pomelo & green melon, plus white grape musk as well. Plenty of dryness, pineapple, pomelo, white grape & some oaky/woody notes in the finish

MF: Medium body, creamy carbonation, superb balance, some gritty notes

Great drinkability. ABV is very well disguised, but felt a little

 

Padraigs Brewing Paddy's Premium Irish Lager 5% ABV

3.77/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
12 oz can canned 11/6/24 into a pokal.
L: SRM 3 pours 99% clear with some very light yeast, steady carbo bubbles, a thin white head that recedes to edge foam, light random lacing.
S: Cereal grains, a hint of maltings, a light metallic note, distant pastry dough.
T: Grains, gently sweet, a touch of yeast, distant pastry dough which lingers a bit with the grain bill.
F: Bright, crisp, lustrous, mostly clean drinking medium-light bodied mouthfeel with a fairly short and lightly dry finish.
O: A very pleasant tasting Lager with brilliant luster. Easy to drink and has a lovely craft taste and feel overall. It is very good in its style.

 

I am finally going to join into this excellent thread, not that I didn’t have about 8 new stouts last night, none of them more than 3 oz.
But researching other things I noticed I hadn’t rated this so fixed that today.

Sent plenty of these out to people and have had it several times, but never a full can at home to concentrate on the beer.
The pour is stout black with a short brown head that left scant lacing.
The taste led with dark fruit, merging into coffee and chocolate, a touch of bourbon and a hint of oak. Other flavors swirled around, vanilla and molasses, a touch of leather and earthy goodness.
Well balanced, more AIS than RIS in my opinion, but I still really like it.
The feel is slightly viscous but certainly short of chewy. A little too easy to quaff for the ABV.
OA, I enjoy these annually because they’re really good.

 

Howdy, NBWers! I got some catching up to do in here, but before I do that, I'll share the new beer currently in my glass:

Saint Arnold's French Press Imperial Coffee Porter
9.4% ABV • 12 oz. can • 11/7/24 born-on date

Short version: I love everything about it. The sweeter nose with hints of milk chocolate, the dark-roasted flavors that lean heavily toward Antigua-style coffee (IMO of course) and the fluctuating mouthfeel that is sometimes a crispy midweight, other times a chewy thick oily heavyweight.

The beer's overall BA.com rating is a respectable 4.06, but that's fairly low for the style considering that ratings in this style tend to trend high. I'm wondering if there isn't enough coffee flavor in it to pull higher ratings? It has coffee notes, but if I'm being 100% honest, I'm not sure I can discern more coffee flavor here than in most really good imperial stouts/porters. I guess I love it so much b/c it does taste a lot like those *really good* big stouts ... I mean, this goes toe-to-toe with Narhwal and Old Raspy IMO, and that's enough for me to give it pretty big rating numbers.

Official review:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/337/372478/?ba=Premo88#review
4.35 (+7.1% rDev)

I've slept on this beer for well over a year now, but I've awakened. It will go in my rotation of favorite big stouts from now on. I like this more than either of its barrel-aged versions FWIW, and it's pretty easy to find here in Houston.

Cheers!

 

Awful workday and I have to be up late the next few days to deal with management things at home so I opened some IPAs I got a few days ago a day early. First up for NBW is Nymph by local coffee and BA stout legends Living Waters Brewing. Review below.


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Reviewed by wmeckley44 from Tennessee

4.28/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Dated 1/23/25, into a wide wine glass.

Pours a fantastic light orange, big rocky foam. Aroma is soft mango, overripe sweet orange, and huge dankness. Wow this one smells good. Flavor is really interesting and quite drinkable. It moves from some pine and vegetal matter to juicy orange, to slightly bitter dankness, before closing with some doughy, sweet biscuit malt and spicy bitterness. Finish is sticky and slightly sweet, mouthfeel is crazy. The advertised fluffy mouthfeel is well on display in this one. Minimal carbonation and a very smooth thickness help pump up the hop flavors while adding minimal bitterness to keep things balanced.

Sometimes Living Waters hits with IPAs, sometimes they miss, and rarely do they make any that are middle of the road. This one is really good and the QUADRUPLE dry hop is on full presentation here. It's got most of the standard hazy hops crammed in it and showcases all of the most typical flavors for the style in an approachable, balanced way. Tasty stuff.

 

Great lakes barrel aged stout
...motor oil black appearance
....medium light carbonation with a thick, creamy, slightly oily feel
...aroma is malt,roasted malt, bakers dark chocolate, boozy, mocha
.taste has some mild sweetness, chocolate, bakers dark chocolate, fudge, coffee
...overall its a really well done,complex and an excellent sipper

 

Great Job coach!

 

Toppling Goliath Seismic Sue picked up on my Mizzou beer run, 9.3% ABV; 4.23 pverall


Canned 11/25/24

Pours a very hazy gold/straw color with a pinky of cream-colored head. Okay head retention & lacing

S: Some OJ, white grapes, green melons

T: Juice-orama, some sweet orange, some bitter, Let's say Kara-Kara, a little dry up front, white grape as well. Pineapple sneaking in & then taking over along with pink grapefruit & dryness as this beer warms up. Finishes with dryness, Kara-Kara & Pineapple

MF: Medium body, subdued carbonation, skews pretty acidic once warm

Would've loved to try this much fresher, still a very drinkable juice assault. A good ride, but was hoping for a little better one

 

Lower Lawrenceville, a dry-hopped saison by East End Brewing.

Pours a hazy light amber with a thick, fluffy head. Strong aromas of assorted fruit rise first - pineapple, pear, apricot, and melon, backed by a sour vinegary funk that's hard to place. All those fruits come through in the tasting, with additional notes of cucumber (no, really), orange peel, honey, clove, and flowers. Medium-bodied overall, with a slightly lingering syrupy feel balanced with mild earthy, piney bitterness and high carbonation. This was one of my favorites in recent memory. Lots of complexity in all dimensions.

 

Good day BAs! First and last beer of this first day of mourning ( No "Noir Alley" this month - hollywood is too busy patting itself on the back), but, on the other hand, Phil has his day today, so GO PHIL! Anyway,



Barrel Aged Corner Slice from Hoppin Frog. 16 fl oz can, Rare Beer Club selection. Picked up at the brewery, Akron, OH, 30/01/25. Reviewed 02/02/25 (Review 3450). Note that I use DD/MM/YY protocol.
Bottom of can stamped “BEST BY DEC 17, 2034.” Stored in reefer at the distributor, at 39 degrees F at home. Served at 48.7 degrees F in a hand washed and dried Jester King snifter. The final temperature was 55.5 degrees F.
Appearance – 3. Just plain ugly and unappetizing.
First pour – Medium Amber (SRM 12), murky.
Body – Deep Amber (SRM 15), opaque. Under direct light, pumpkin orange in color and a slight precipitate is visible. When rear-lite, it disperses light into a cinnamon glow.
Head: Small (Maximum 0.5 cm, aggressive center pour), amber, medium density, fizzy. Gone almost instantly, leaving a modest roiling effervescence.
Lacing – None
Aroma – 4.25 – Weak carrots and raisins. No hops, no yeast, no ethanol (16.5 % ABV, as marked on label). No disulfide or diacetyl. No barrels.
Flavor – 4.25 – Begins sweet with distinct carrot cake flavors. No yeast, no hops, no ethanol. No disulfides, no diacetyl. Mild gastric warming. A bit of barrel on the aftertaste.
Palate – 4.25 – Full; creamy; soft carbonation.
Style: Follows the style guidelines as condensed by BA.
Final impression and summation: 4.25 Although the barrel-aging is not obvious until the end, it definitely differentiates the BA version from the non-BA. The BA version is so much smoother and in general tastier.
Rating 4.18, rDev +0.5%

I think my target in BSBIF #2 will be getting one of these...