What beer are you drinking now? #4541

Trappistes Rochefort 6
Brasserie de Rochefort

 

Good day BAs! Thanks, @MadMadMike, for opening the bar - I guess @Shanex over-slept.

We had a dusting of snow overnight - that'll teach Spring to try to show up early!

Today's New Breakfast Beer:



A local from "da burg" - a decent chocolate-covered cherry-ish Baltic Porter.

Final impression and summation: 4.25 While the beautiful ruby coloration and the ugly precipitate cancel each out, the head and lacing keep the appearance at a 4.25. The aroma and taste reinforce each other, making this a chocolate/chocolate-covered cherry treat, although the cherries could be, IMHO, more forward. And the mouthfeel is distinctly more medium than full. Still, quite decent.

Rating 4.07, rDev -4.5

 

Doppelsticke
Uerige Obergärige Hausbrauerei

 

You're not messing around this morning.

 

G'day all!

Another lovely bitter, complex Cinq Cents being eagerly consumed.

Prost!

 

Good morning BAs! My first breakfast stout in quite awhile - Westbrook’s Anniversary “Chocolate & Sea Salt Imperial Stout”:



Canned 11/20/23. Poured at 50° (my chiller is running a bit cold). Salty chocolate and semi sweet. No hint of abv (11%) in taste. A really nice stout from one of my favorite brewers!

Sunny and low 80s forecast today. I have one more round of labs this afternoon, then probably a beer run. Cheers and have a wonderful Wednesday y’all!

 

Happy chilly Wednesday BAs

This is hitting my hoppy place, as lunch is being prepared....

 

Doing some spring cleaning and enjoying it while doing it! Cheers!!

 

Grimbergen Blond.
Cutting back a bit recently because of some stomach issues. Nothing serious. I can have a glass of wine or two with dinner, but beer is more or less advised not to have on a daily basis for some time
Cheers

 

Maypop Farmhouse Ale from the mad scientists at Scratch Brewing.

 

903 Brewers Haystack Cookie impy oatmeal stout

 

At Back Shed Brewing and trying to help liquidate their remaining beer. I am going to miss my local. I had this at their closing party, but it was too crazy here to review.

Worth the Waite - Back Shed Brewing- Waite Park, MN - NEIPA - 7%
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/61553/739187/
3.82/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
On tap at the brewery.
Murky looking, juicy looking orange pouring beer with a white head and some lacing.
Light tropical hop notes to the aroma.
Taste is dominated by the hops as expected. Lots of juicy flavor here. I get a lot of mango in the flavor. Slight hint of bitterness on the back.
The body is juicy feeling. It has the feeling of the tropical juice I drank on vacation. Smooth and hides the 7%
This is a good beer. I will miss this place.

 

Next up at Back Shed

Bravo. Echo. Echo. Romeo. - Back Shed Brewing- Waite Park, MN - American IPA- 6.4

Not bad, but not crazy either.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/61553/739189/
3.54/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
On tap at the brewery

This is an amber pouring beer and is clear looking. There's an off white head to the beer with a bit of lacing.
The aroma is sadly so faint. Just the faint hint of hops, and slightly piney.
Taste - there's a good hint of caramel malt up front. This malty flavor does turn toward the hops on the backside. I am getting a bit of pine in the flavor, but it isn't extremely strong.
I do like the feeling and the hops do coat my throat a bit. Smooth and nice body.
This isn't as hoppy and piney as I would like, but it is a good beer.

 

Probably the top rated NEIPA available to me where I am (That’s really the only reason I picked it up). Not my usual cup of tea, but I can appreciate it for what it is

 

NEIPA at Tecumseh Brewing Co.