New Beer Weekend #241

New one for me and for the database, my first associated with Burgeon; decent, if unremarkable - cheers!

3.86/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Packaged on 2/5/2025; enjoyed on 3/2/2025 - poured from a pint can into my Dogfish Head shaped pint glass.

Not quite clear amber body with a papaya whip cap. Very good retention; sticky/soapy lacing.

Gentle citrus/woodsy aroma with hints of orange blossom and evergreen. Delicate if not subdued.

Linear flavor profile with poached pear, tangerine, and hints of pine. Mild, slightly herbal bitterness. Lightly earthy, medium-dry finish with some residual malty sweetness.

Silky, not-quite-crisp mouthfeel with even carbonation.

Good WCIPA, though perhaps better paired with food.

 

Great Divide Yeti. it has been a while since I had this one!


Poured from a 12 oz can into a DFH Goblet Glass

The beer pours black with no visible highlights and a tan head that slowly recedes leaving behind a small crown and lots of sticky lacing.

The aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, and coffee with some burnt/charred notes. There is also a hint of hop bitterness lurking in the background

The flavor, like the aroma, is roasted malts, chocolate, and coffee. There is also an underlying piney hop bitterness. The beer is full bodied and moderately carbonated.

Overall this is a solid example of the style

 

StrangeBird Unfettered Soul


4.2/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Purchased at Wegmans, no understandable date, pours golden amber with a downy froth head that reduces to sticky lacing on the glass.
Aroma is outstanding peach, passion fruit. Smell is my weakest sense and so when I can vividly pick up aroma I am very excited.
Taste is peachy Now and Laters, sweet tangerine, pineapple.
There is minor smacky, sticky sweet and savory bitterness. It’s very good. StrangeBird is a great up and comer brewery in Rochester.
Solid recommend!

 

Red Rock Drioma Russian Imperial Stout, 10.1% ABV. Pours dark black with a nice 4-finger light-brown head that left a cup of foam. Aroma is roasty malt, taste follows, lots of char, moderately bitter. Excellent dry mouthfeel, overall excellent.

4.01/5 rDev +5.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4

Excellent RIS from a BIF box from @NorsemanOne

 

Hello Not Quite Late Nigh NBW

Popped over to a local restaurant/bar and was happy to find that they are dipping into the burgeoning craft beer scene in Baja, Mexico.

Perro del Mar

On tap at Perla in Santa Ana.
Beautiful light amber in hue. Silky fluff of white foam approaches 2 fingers. Slowly settles to a thin film. Good retention with clumpy clouds of lacing.
Nose is a tad subdued. Mild notes citrus and malt.
Flavor is a tight delivery of both citrusy and piney notes and honey. Maybe not totally traditional, but really good.
Mouthfeel is medium. Light carbonation. Finish is a tad dry in the bitterness.
Really enjoyable.
3.71/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

 

Hit another. But this one is north of the border.

Inline IPA


Beautiful beer on tap. A silky head forms with 2 fingers in elevation before settling into a solid finger high cap.
Nose pumps lemony zest and orange rind. A gently sweet malt note cones through as well.
Flavor follows the nose with a solid play of zesty citrus and gentle malt. The mouthfeel almost goes in a direction of hazy.
Overall pretty solid.
3.77/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

 

Narragansett Ridge by Hop butcher of the world




4.25/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Citra & Nectaron-hopped Double India Pale Ale

He’s a yellow glass with a pencil, thick, white foam cap occasional lacings

Citrus aroma with tangerine note

Taste is tangerine, orange and Citrus

Good beer

 

“On Sunday’s we drink Barleywines”
At least according to @Dimidiata, and I have a difficult time disagreeing.

Sent to me by @DIM in the 2nd Stout and Barleywines BIF.
I’ve sent these out several times but never actually tried them.
Fool I. This is outstanding.
The pour is uninspiring, murky brown with a barely there manilla colored head. Lacing? Please. No. I think there is one minuscule bit of lace and that’s it.
The taste though doesn’t need no lacing. Oh my.
Fair disclosure, I drink mostly stouts, which on paper (so to speak) similar in cross section to Barleywine. But this is no stout.
Sheer malty goodness with bourbon and oak and caramel and vanilla and more caramel.
On and on and on.
If this wasn’t 15% I’d want a pint at least. Really good.
The feel is viscous, like the very description of viscous. Smooth and thick, not chewy at all, just smooth.
OA, I can’t promise I’ll ever send another one of these out. I want them all.
Thank you @DIM for encouraging me to finally try one myself.

 

I just finished one of those, great minds etc. Glad to hear you liked it!

 

Cross-posting from the ISB BIF #2: was in the mood for something crisper, so this Stonecloud Brewing Barleywine Lips from @russpowell seemed to be the answer. The thing says “straight up Barleywine,” so one really can’t mistake its intentions.

This is nice. An almost floral quality to the nose. Pours a slightly murky amber, pulling a hearty head, and leaves loads of lacing. The flavor is very smooth. No harsh hops, sweet malts with an almost butterscotch element in the middle. Mouthfeel is creamy and medium-full. 8% is human level ABV. Problematically, I have quaffed its entirety while writing this. Buttery smooth. A six pack wouldn’t last a minute.

Now I’m rethinking if the Stone RIS is a good follow up, or if I should find something more genteel, more demure…

 

If I see that, I am buying it. Haven't seen it around these parts in God knows how long.