New Beer Weekend #245

You are absolutely correct!

 

3 Floyds Pillar of Beasts Coconut 12mo BBA English Barleywine, 14.6% ABV. Pours dark brown with a slight ring of brown bubbles. Aroma is light bourbon, caramel, and coconut. Taste is caramel/toffee, coconut, vanilla, bourbon, quite sweet, slightly bitter, some bourbon burn, salt on the close. Decent mouthfeel, leaving sticky lips. Overall outstanding.

4.46/5 rDev +4.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

 

New Glarus Brewing Thumbprint Series Imperial Pilsner. 8.7% ABV. The look is cloudy Winnie-the-Pooh, with a white cloud foam sky. The smell is buttered popcorn, white toast, lemon, and dandelion. The taste is caramel, molasses, buttered white toast, candied lasagne, pretzel, and lemon. The mouthfeel is syrupy, creamy, bready, and heavy, with medium carbonation. Overall, this is quite a flavorful beer for a more traditional style. I really like it.

 

Keeping the New Glarus train running with Thumbprint Imperial Radler:



Appearance: Hazy orange, ok head.

Smell: Grapefruit juice, fruit syrup.

Taste: Sweetened grapefruit juice to start and throughout. Some fruit cup like character but not super sweet. Has a little beery mouthfeel right before finishing with more grapefruit juice.

Overall: Another Thumbprint beer picked up at the source in New Glarus. I don't drink a lot of radlers but this is interesting to compare to the super juicy fruit force/juice force IPAs. Interesting to try.

 

Just a couple new to me Bruery imperial stouts today:

Werewolves of Ecuador | The Bruery | BeerAdvocate



Critical Alignment | The Bruery | BeerAdvocate



Might have one more new brew today, we'll see. Cheers!

 

Apricot blonde barleywines ale by lakefront brewing


3.96/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75


Beer received in bif2 barleywines and stouts by @Bishop, new brewery , new beer

Brewers notes; We started with a big, chewy, apricot juice-infused Blonde Barleywine, then aged it in brandy barrels for eight months, where it melded with notes of oak, marzipan, and bright stone fruit.

Chilled bottle poured into a pretentious beer glass. No foam cap, straight to a taupe ring over a muddy brewed tea liquid

Aroma is malty, yeasty, apricot-y

Taste is malty, apricot taste lingers on the finish

Smooth , silky, sultry , the 15% abv is very well hidden, coats the mouth , no sudsing , hint of booziness but no heat

Blonde, barley, wines and apricots are not something that I would normally choose for myself, however, I do like this combination. Good beer.

 

It’s a really interesting beer, not something that I would probably grab . You expanded my horizons, thanks for sending this one. Completely outside my norm but enjoyable nonetheless, thanks!!

 

Zion national park , hiking near the narrows 2 weeks ago. A tenth of an inch of rainfall the night before resulted in waterfalls the next morning …such a great NP

 

Yeah , bit of travel this year . Vegas 3x in less than three months. There is a carton of milk in my fridge with my picture on it , “ missing - have you seen this man?”

lot more travel upcoming , will send postcards from Paraguay…

 

My travels took me near Fox Farm today, so why not. Among other things I picked up, I grabbed this 5.8% "West Coast-Style Pale Ale". It's certainly new to me, but I see it was entered in the BA database 6-years ago. I was expecting a SN APA clone, but it is quite different from that, but still good.

4.05/5 rDev -2.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Purchased cold today at the source, kept cold. Poured from a 16 oz can dated 03/19/25 to a Nonic at fridge temp.
The body is bright yellow and slightly hazy but not so much that you can’t see rising bubbles far into the glass. The 1”/25mm head is clean white and laces well.
Aroma is citrus and slight pine.
Taste is similar with citrus but the pine or resin character is stronger, but not like a traditional West Coast Pale Ale. Tasty nonetheless. There is quite a nice very dry finish to this beer.
The mouthfeel is light to low-medium and the carbonation is spot on.
This is a really good beer, but I feel it's a little mis-labeled as a West Coast-Style Pale Ale due to the citrus notes and the slight haze. My ratings were a little torn between "rating to style" and rating it blind to style. Very drinkable with hidden alcohol, a light body and a nice flavor.

 

Happy Saturday afternoon! Shoutout to @Bishop for kicking it off! Enjoying a selection from my Trillium 12th Anniversary mini pack: “North Stonington “ New England Lager!

This pours a slightly hazy golden color with lively carbonation and a thick gravely head. Beautiful aroma of citrus and bread. Slightly bitter upfront with a dry finish. Good combination of crackers and lemon.Light mouthfeel with very lively carbonation. A very nice and unique complement to an unseasonably warm late March afternoon!

 

That was wicked , I don’t need to watch part 2

 

I was beginning to question my geology/geography knowledge

 

Pfeiffer's - Chickity-Czech dark lager

Pint at the brewery.

Pours dark brown, not quite black, with a medium sized head and medium carbonation. Smell is nice, rich, roasty coffee and burnt toast, nutty.

Taste is similar -- rich and malty with a coffee bitterness. Burnt toffee, good balance of sweet and roasty bitter.

Mouthfeel is light, smooth, zesty. Overall, nothing fancy, but good beer. Drinks kind of like a light Baltic porter.

 

I go to Vegas for business but I am much happier getting out of town and hiking Zion, Bryce, Kodachrome, etc…

this is Vegas….red rock canyon area

 

Pfeiffer's Famous Beer

Pours clear brassy gold, medium sized head, tons of carbonation from the nucleation at the bottom of the glass (which is perfectly visible because of how clear the beer is). Smell is a little on the funky/skunky American lager side, plenty of yeast and almost a corn note (which is probably imaginary).

Taste is mild, leans towards yeasty and sweet with a noticeable funk element. Light, a little bit of grassy/earthy bitter going on.

Mouthfeel is light clean and crisp. Overall...it's a light lager, better than something like Bud Light, but certainly not inspiring. Probably should say that it's good within the style, just not typically my style.