NBS BIF #15 Hints and Hauls: Was it Over When the Canadians Bombed BIF #14? HELL NO!

I wonder if the maple runnings beefed up the body a bit. Then again, I probably have never had a true Irish Extra Stout, and that's just standard. Anyway, that's a beer I'd happily drink again.

Now I'm really curious about that other homebrew that you sent. Maybe I'll crack that tonight after work.

 

From sea to shining sea …..

Then I’m gonna get serious.

 

This is terrific. Maybe even better than Grolsch! Maybe.



From @snaotheus .

Pours a deep pink with light head that dissipates to nothing fairly quickly. Nice effervescence and no lacing.

The aroma on this is spectacular. Mixed berries, wood, leather, fresh mud.

Taste is just as nice. Tart mixed berries, with dry woody notes. The leather is there. Maybe tobacco, but the label description may have swayed me there. The tartness is on point.

Light and bubbly. Refreshing, but substantial.
Excellent beer.

I’m really glad to have tried this. It might be tied with Tilquin Myrtille as the best blueberry sour I’ve enjoyed. Many thanks Ryan!

 

your stats throughout this BIF have been stellar

 

Hammering away at the stash of beer that my porch was inadated with. I am trying the Bock. The beer is okay. Now with that out of the way. I am grateful for this offering. I wanted more depth and constitution to the beer. I was looking for dark fruits and more body. Head retention was terrible, it was created and demolished in the same minute. This beer does have good bones and tweaked a bit, I think this could be fabulous. Thank you Peter for another opportunity to try something from the Great White North.
@Coronaeus

 

I wonder if there's been any skirmishing over the word "land" between Otherlands and Floodland? Considering two PNW breweries got into it over the word "rain," I wouldn't be surprised if it's happened.

 

Maybe we need a brewery name Rainland?

 

Tree House Brewing Co. -- Mega Treat
Double India pale ale
ABV: 8.7%; pouring temperature: 44 °F; canning data: THE CREAM OF THE CROP 03/22/22
Source: Mega- @Roguer (BIF #15)



4.06/5 rDev -7.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

Beautiful looking beer; dayglow yellow-orange body, opaque; dense, creamy, rocky, white head. Fairly intense fresh fruit aroma, citrus primarily; orange and pineapple. The taste follows along with some of the smell characteristics; yeasty and oat-like; moderately intense bitterness; phenol notes. Heavy body; velvety and creamy texture; some alcohol bite and heat; mild acidity; relatively dry overall despite a bit of juiciness.

This is a very nice hazy India pale ale, perhaps showing a bit of age as I don't get a super dose of aroma or flavor, yet what is there still comes across as being fairly fresh and alluring.

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...yes, this is a fine beer...and, again, as far as NEIPA / hazy IPAs go, I would love to have tasted it fresh (it looks like Andrew had it at five-days old (his overall score a 4.26)...and I would agree, probably not Tree House's best offering within this style, but still quite enjoyable...thanks, man...

 

...I did go to Minot, ND for a USAF Space Command Inspector General inspection - in the winter time...may actually have been as cold (if not colder) than Thule, Greenland...actually found both places rather interesting...but then, that's the kind of guy I am...must be something about loving solitude...

 

...deviant data for deviant drinkers...?!?...

 

The only person I've met that can trade cold stories with me was from Siberia

 

Otherlands was originally going to be called Other Wonders, never got the story about why there was a change. I'll ask next time I'm over there.

 

Well, we do have a Rainy Daze.......

 

We do have a Terramar...

 

Was that the one that provoked the skirmish? I think it was 3 Magnets vs...someone, but I can't remember who. IIRC, 3M sidestepped the controversy, though, by pointing out they do almost every beer as a one-off. Still, every third business name in western Washington is rain-something, so it was a pretty lame thing to get bent out of shape over.

 

Anyway, drinking this now after work while I cook dinner. It's not quite what I'd call a beer that re-invents the wheel, but it's a super-solid juicy DIPA that I'd hit pretty frequently if it was a regular option at one of my regular options. And it was my first from Fiddlehead!

Thanks, @Rub_This_BBQ!

 

I don't think I remember this. Was it a beer name or a brewery name?

 

It may have been both I just remembered two breweries were grousing at each other over the fucking word rain, which is manifestly ridiculous in Western washington. Or Western Oregon for that matter.

 

https://washingtonbeerblog.com/trademark-issue-three-magnets-brewing/

I guess this is what you guys are talking about? I don't really remember this.

 

Well, it was 7 years ago, no wonder I didn't remember that. The surprising part of this is the fact that 3 Magnets has been around that long. I would've thought they were only 3-4 years old.

 

Happy Tuesday!

 

I was pretty tired after work, so instead of taxing my brain with @Rub_This_BBQ's style straddling other homebrew, I felt I just needed some hops, so I grabbed another one from his last box.

Just what the doctor ordered. Really nice juicy DIPA. Also my first from Fiddlehead.

 

Four packages in transit.
Two likely to deliver today.
One should be expected by the recipient.

 

Maybe one day I’ll actually have enough time. But whether any actual beer remains by then is another issue.

 

So somehow you got all this into a flat rate large box. The garbage bag sarcophagus you had taped up inside made it felt like a black hole and the beer wasn't gong to end



I do love me some barleywines though.

 

Holy crap! Was there any packaging at all in that box, besides the trash bag, or just cans?

 

No leakage! Victory is mine!

Formally: Thank you for the box of awesome you sent me. I hope you find something enjoyable and/or interesting in there!

 

Also, I'm a little surprised that @snaotheus was able to pick up that Lumberbeard BW. I had no idea that was being distributed his way.

 

16 different breweries, nicely done.