Cellarmaker to start bottling.

Specifically referring to the look.

 

I'm not in town so I won't be able to try it but yeah, it was clear before right?

 

Yep, nowhere near that now.

 

Having one now. Even though it's 5.4%, it has so much flavor. Love it! Better than last two batches, but not sure I'd call it juicy. It's still got that malt spiciness that I enjoy.

 

I was there earlier too, and that Tiny Dankster is awesome. Definitely agree that I wouldn't categorize as Juicy, but rather piney and delicious!

 

I think we've established, through multiple posts, one thing . . . you love Cellarmaker.

 

Not a whole lot of activity here lately.

Gonna try the Double Mt Nelson around lunchtime It's getting great reviews on Untappd!

On a slightly different topic, anyone get a chance to try the Modern Times/Cellarmaker collab, Clear and Present Dankness? I got a pour on tap at IBU Milpitas and it definitely has a Cellarmaker-like dank quality. Although the beer is unfiltered, it tasted pretty much like a clean West Coast beer. Pretty dry, and veeeerry slight fruity notes. It's a good beer for sure, but in my opinion, not as much depth as a real Cellarmaker beer. Still, I have a couple cans so I'd like to see if my opinion changes over time.

 

Cans of Clear and Present Dankness are coming to CBS tomorrow.

 

I'm a little disappointed in the C&P Dankness cans. On draft it was much more of a typical NE style IPA with West coast bitterness like so many we're seeing these days (which I love, those can saturate the market and I won't complain). The cans seem straight West coast. Still good, but not really remarkable.

That Double Mt Nelson sounds awesome.

 

Yeah it looks like the Modern Times thread has a number of people saying the sample weeks back was different than the commercial result.

But for us NorCal folk, we'd be none the wiser, especially since even the draught version now is WC.

 

Double Mt Nelson: Final verdict - It's very good. I like it far more than the last batch of regular Mt Nelson. It's very Nelson forward and hides the 8.7% booze extremely well. But I think I like regular Mt Nelson at it's best (November 2016 batch) more? Just feel like it's missing that je ne saia quoi?

 

It really is crazy to me these days that a lot people judge an IPA on how hazy it is rather than how it tastes. The same goes the other way around too. If it's a good beer then why does it matter? I don't just don't understand it.

 

@raynmoon @IQBlue

From what I gather from the MT thread, the League Beer Club members were given a Preview tasting of the beer and other beers before offering it for pre-sale. And a number of people made their purchasing decisions based on that tasting.

When the beer was released several weeks (month+?) later, it turned out different than what they had originally tasted. So in that sense, the complaints are not that it's hazy vs. non-hazy. It's more that it's not the same beer they sampled. Not sure if that's due to different batch variation, or if it's the same batch but time has changed it. Either way, I get the disappointment in this case. (There is one person who said they liked the released version more than the preview version, but that's not the point. It's that they are different.)

 

"No bottles this week. Will have a double release next Tuesday 6/13. More details will be announced later today. Prost!"

I know what I'm doing a week from today!

 

They posted on IG last week that Lost Wisdom would be bottled soon. I'm guessing a new batch of Lost Wisdom + a hoppy release will be the double release.

 

ZOMG ZOMG ZOMG

 

Time to rename / start a new thread?

 

Thrilled to see this change but I've no idea where they're storing the supplies/equipment. Maybe they're using a mobile canning service?