New Beer Weekend #248

Music Bock Of Horrors from Corridor Brewing. Made on collaboration with the best movie theater in the world, the Music Box Theatre.

 

Somewhere In Particular The Natty. Great pilsner. Aromas and flavors of lemon, pear, apple, cracker, white bread dough, herbal, floral, grass, wood, peppercorn, light pine, and yeast earthiness. Light to medium pine, herbal, spicy bitter finish. Medium plus carb, light body, and crisp clean refreshing finish. Balanced bready grainy malt and sticky hop mouthfeel. Nearly bone dry finish, no hop astringency. A bit yeasty but a spot on German style pilsner. 4/5


Cheers

 

Somewhere In Particular deflate gate. Awesome neipa. Amazing head retention and lacing for a hazy. Aromas and flavors of big white grapefruit, tangerine, peach, pear, red apple, pineapple, passion fruit, mango, melon, berries, citrus peel, wood, mint, peppercorn, pine, wheat, bread dough, herbal, floral, grass, yeast earth. Light to medium pine herbal spicy bitter finish. Balanced creamy bready malts and sticky hop mouthfeel. Light resins and lingering drying with no hop astringency. Big complexity of El dorado, Simcoe, citra hops. Juicy and vibrant hops with a soft hazy malt backbone. 4.1/5


Cheers

 

Drowned Lands Brewing Kinsfolk Dopplebock, 8% ABV.

I added this to the database, and thanks to the Mods for already updating the name...I swear I wasn't even drinking yet but I misspelled Kinsfolk ha.



Pours a dark brown color with some reddish highlights around the edges. At first a dense beige head forms, but that fizzles out to a ring quickly. Not much lace left behind either.
Aroma of baked bread and hard candy/caramelized sugars, dark fruit aromas. Not particularly complex, but enjoyable.
Taste wise, that baked brown bread again up front. Which is nice. Candy sugary sweetness, and dark fruits of cherries. The sweetness becomes a little cloying for me.
A medium body and moderate carbonation. This could be a bit fuller and creamier for my preference for the style. Not hard to drink, but I'm also looking for something else rather quickly.

This is almost the opposite of their Ploughshare Altbeir for me. As that one drank bigger than the ABV suggests, this is lighter than you would expect for the style and ABV. Mix that with the cloying sweetness, and its not upper tier for me. Some earthy bitterness would do wonders to balance. As is, not bad at all, but an average attempt at the style for an American brewery.

Overall score is 3.56, B
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Blue Comet by Widowmaker


4.33/5 rDev +5.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Brewers notes: Blue Comet our flagship and was awarded a silver medal at the 2022 World Cup in the category of Hazy/Juice India Pale Ale. This beer is packed with Simcoe and Comet hops providing a ripe tropical fruit nose that is backed up in the taste. Complimented by a soft biscuity malt character. Pours a hazy yellow with a medium white head.

Blue Comet is packed with Simcoe and Comet hops providing a ripe, tropical fruit nose that is backed up in the taste and is complimented by a soft, biscuit, malt character. Pours a hazy yellow with a medium, white head.

Hazy yellow with three solid fingers of shaving cream foam, great retention, settles to a solid two finger layer

Aroma is tropical fruits

Taste is tropical fruits, hint of pine

Smooth mouthfeel

Good beer

 

Got Saturday started with this one..

Iron Horse - Tiramisu Death





Notes:
P deep caramel/mahogany, tiny white cap, quick recession
N light-med cocoa and roast w a sour note, meh
T better than the nose lets on, still pretty subtle though, choc w/ a roasty fin, dotted w/ light coffee and caramel
Mf med full with med high carb, nice mouthfeel
O eh, just alright, gets better as it opens up, mouthfeel is the element that brings it all together really, probably wouldn't revisit

Cheers!

 

Spring kolsch by Maine Brewing


4/5 rDev -2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Brewers note : Native to Maine woodlands, Azure Bluets appear where they are least expected. To many, they are a welcome first sign of spring, appearing in early April as the snow begins to melt. They pepper the ground in tufts of tiny stars with pale blue petals and a yellow center.

This Kölsch style ale recipe stemmed from the Black Barn Program, and has since grown to become a perennial favorite.

This Kölsch style ale recipe stemmed from the Black Barn Program, and has since grown to become a perennial favorite.

Flavor profile: Aromas of lemon, honey, and rose, followed by notes of fresh-cut grass, and bread dough.

Hops: Cashmere, Hallertau Mittelfrüh (GER)

Malt: Maine Malt House Pilsner (ME, USA), Blue Ox Vyenna (ME, USA), Weyermann Acidulated (GER), Weyermann Carahell (GER), Briess American Honey (WI, USA)

Clear golden liquid, four finger foam cap

Aroma is grassy , hint of lemon

Taste is grassy, lemony

Mouthfeel is clean and crisp

Good beer

 

Looks like you've been having a good time here in Columbus the last day or so. Haven't been to SIP in a while, it's not on my side of town and unfortunately I don't go out as much as I used to.

 

Just a couple old bottles but new to me imperial stouts today for Stouturday:

How Bout Dem Coconuts | The Bruery | BeerAdvocate



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Declassified Demi-God | BrewDog | BeerAdvocate



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Still having Imgur issues so have no idea if the pics are showing up here or not. Probably won't have any more new brews this weekend but I'll try and keep up with what everyone else tries. Cheers everyone!

 

This was yesterday, within the NBW window, but not when I was prepared to actually upload a photo and post, so here it is, just a bit delayed:

A Dark in the Light, a black IPA from Radiant. Brought and shared one of these with the cool folks at Mugihigeya last week; bringing them some other stuff next week.

16oz can served in a big snifter. Can is dated...I thought it was dated. But I can't find a date on this one. Bought it in California a couple weeks ago.

Pours black, not dense, medium sized head. Head settles into a thick, generous skin that clings fairly high along the side of the glass. Smell is roasty, toffee, and pine. A little coffee, a little plum skin.

Taste is even roastier, more pine and grapefruit resin, some burnt biscuit, some dark toasted pecan.

Mouthfeel is light, clean, smooth. Nice beer. I love black IPAs.

 

The pics are showing up indeed! Looks like a solid Stouturday for sure Cheers!

 

I have about 15+ new beers in the fridge. Yea, I know 1st world problems.
This is a StrangeBird (one word) Tigre, a West Coast IPA. Beer was a gift from @TCgenny.
I visited this brewery for beer and pizza last year. SInce then they have grown quite a good reputation. I love that their cans have plenty of information, ABV, IBU, hops. Unfortunately this can had an illegible date. Anyways............

Gifted from a fellow BA in an iced shipment arriving cold. Refrigerated immediately and until served. Poured from a 16 oz undated can to a bulbous, tulip-like glass.
Pours out deep gold. Almost clear, but not quite, certainly not hazy. The head is small but thick, about ⅜”/10mm. It settles to a single layer in about 2 minutes, but revives itself to be a little thicker after a glass tilt for a sip. Lacing is pretty, but fleeting.
The aroma is not that strong. Subtle citrus and berry, but I have to struggle to find that.
In the mouth this has all the hallmarks of an old school West Coast IPA. A brief sense of bready malt is followed by some resiny hop sense that bitters out nicely in the finish.
The mouthfeel is slightly oily, adding to the body actually. Carbonation is a little light, but it works.
I’m a sucker for what nowadays is the few and far between West Coast IPA. This definitely scratches that itch in taste. Although the body is not clear, I can ignore that, it's just a style checkbox. This beer tastes good and that's what counts.

4.08/5 rDev -2.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

 

Forager Brewery and Humble Forager Brewery Elm. A barrel-aged English barleywine. It is aged 33 months in rye barrels, with organic golden figs, and Equadorian vanilla beans. Courtesy of our host, @Beersnake. The look is black, with a slight brown tint. No foam appeared when pouring the beer. The smell is caramel apple, spices, fig, vanilla, milk chocolate, caramel, and rye whiskey. The taste is spiced apple, leather, tobacco, vanilla, caramel, fig, marshmallow, and rye whiskey. It is sweet, but perfectly so. This is exquisite. The taste is delightful. The mouthfeel is smooth, balanced, bready, thick, and full, with light-medium carbonation. Overall, this is in my top three of barrel-aged barleywines. It is an incredible beer. Thank you so much, @Beersnake!

 

Another new one:

Great Burn - Wee Heavy Scotch Ale





Notes:
P deep mahogany w/ a 1f foamy khaki head, decent retention, hvy lace
N soft to soft med bready and plum notes w/ a light sweetness
T pleasant, lots of hearty dark bready malt, just a touch of grassiness and plum, simple, satisfying, bit of earthiness lingers, moderate sweetness, light toastiness detected
Mf med to med full bodied, med carb
O not a lot of depth, but a decent drinker nonetheless

Cheers, friends!

 

I saw this at my local bottle shop, but I passed. $10 for a single Kolsch was a bit much for me, I know thats probably hypocritical of me as I pay close to that for some of their IPA's. Though I love Maine, and I'm sure I would really enjoy it...I don't know, maybe I give it a go one of these days.

 

Lookin' good, Micah! @Beersnake sent me one of those bad boys as well- Can't wait to get into it

 

Nothing wrong with a decent drinker, cheers!

 

Agreed!