New Beer Sunday (week 433)

***New Imperial IPA Sunday!!!

G'day Matt and to the rest of the NBS crew!

A couple of newly bottled beers from Freedom's Edge in Cheyenne showed up in casper yesterday.

first, a pic:


and my review:

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/28635/94960/?ba=Bitterbill

I believe it's the first time I've tried a blood orange brew...me likes.

Cheers!

 

Morning, Matt, Bill and everyone else arriving later on...

I love when Bill's the second guy on here - 'specially since he's in Wyoming, it suggests to me that Bill's waking up (Jim Morrison-style ) to a beer on any given NBS morning. Cheers, Bill!

Today is warm, sunny, and dry on LI.
Had a nice walk in the morning with the missus, then settled in for this Top 250 Beer:

Hazelnut Brown Nectar

I don't drink browns often. I lean toward either pales or stouts for the most part, I suppose. Certainly not browns though. My favorite, like, "American brown ale" is DFH's Indian Brown. But lemme tell ya: This was a real nice drinking brown. I thoroughly enjoyed this beer from start to finish and would easily grab another as soon an any other.

My second pour dumped into the center of a pint fit perfectly.

This is wrapped around my brain:


See y'all later!

 

Cheers to you! Hazelnut Brown Nectar was and still is one of fav brews.

 

New Am. Pale Ale w/ Exp. hop 05256 Sunday (week 433)

Greetings NBS'ers from a sadly still unemployed day on the ridge in Mid Hud Val NY, but a day spent doing work, just not the monetary payment kind. Spiritual payment arguably is more valuable. Turning gold, black gold, my compost, and drinking a fantastic local brew I have had in its base form, and love, but this mystery hop makes a new beer of this Rushing Duck one-off, a variant of Naysayer Pale Ale.

No review, again, why bother when almost no one will get to try this? It is definitely an interesting bitter hop here, really tasty and herbally bitter, it fronts some nice medium strength hops that have some wonderful flavor of spice, hay, grass, citrus, and some light kind of onion going on too that was hard to catch at first. Nice soft caramel and tart bread also come to play. It ends juicy with that interesting hop lingering sweetly. Super refreshing for a beer with this kind of hoppitude. Mmmmmmmm

Glad to get a growler of this tasty brew that shows Dan Hitchcock is a brewer that will be coming into his own very soon, and admired outside our area as he is here at home. Hope you have a Great American Beer in your glass. Cheers!

 

NEW ENGLISH STOUT SUNDAY

Hello all -
Nice weather we are having here in New Jersey. Interesting that Matt began by mentioning stout, because that is what I'm having today. I just tried a new stout from Bass, which is now brewed in Baldwinsville, NY. (It has been for some time now.) It's not bad, but nothing particularly special. Easy enough to drink and a change from the hoppy beers I've been drinking lately. I reviewed a couple of nice ones from a relatively new brewery in Pennsylvania - Lavery - last week. I probably should have saved at least one of them for today to review for NBS.
Anyway, it is what it is. Not sure if I'll follow this brewery's intention of making a black and tan with it. I prefer to have a stout if I want a stout and a pale ale if I want a pale ale, and not mix the two.

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/293/88019/?ba=jwc215

Cheers!

 

Happy NBS all! The wife and baby are away on this gloriously sunny day so I'm left alone wile away the day as I see fit. This morning was dedicated to yard work, like cavedave I got the compost pile turned. Everything is decaying beautifully. This afternoon I am boldly attempting something I have not tried in months. I am going to tackle a large format bottle of high octane brew. Alone.



http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/19897/86679/?ba=DIM

Big bottles and little babies don't mix but this afternoon I am going to enjoy this one outside while I spend some quality time contemplating my navel. Cheers!

 

Greetings fellow NBSers! A partly cloudy morning, as usual this time of year, with the prospect of a sunny afternoon here in the Fourth Corner. I started a new gig this week, not sure how it's going to work out, but for the first time in a couple years, I can count on 40 hours at one job. Still keeping all my other irons in their various fires, just as a back up. Last night was the championship bout of the local roller derby season, and I did the beer garden security. They're fun events, but I'm glad for a six month break from them. Our local college-level, wood bat summer baseball team started this week ( http://www.bellinghambells.com/home/) and I look forward to catching as many games as I can.

My first new brew as I watch the Pocono NASCAR race is a pleasant enough Pale Ale from the "Brown" side of the Evergreen State: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/936/13009/?ba=beertunes . I'll see y'all in a while.

 

Greetings and Happy NBS!
Beautiful day in Southern WI today. I went to Dog Fest with my family and had a very nice time. Got home and everyone wanted to take a nap, but I wanted to try a new beer!
Prairie Ales makes some amazing Saisions, but this one is their oddball. It drinks nice, but certainly leaves your mouth confused with the combinations. Thanks to Ken in OK for this one.
Prairie Funky Galaxy

 

Ordered up a couple breakfast tacos and a side of sausage, paired it with a Brett IPA? Worked out OK though: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/24300/82387/?ba=beertunes

 

NEW SAISON / WITBIER SUNDAY!

Greetings and a big howdy to the NBS group from the Jersey Shore!
It's 90-plus degrees here today, yet quite pleasant . Not too humid with a gentle breeze and sunshine.
Another good week in the books, productive and fun. I played golf today and none of my playing partners were up for lunch ( one actually said "I have to go put lime on the lawn"). The family was up to no good as usual so I went it alone and ran into this: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/26676/82149/?ba=NiceTaps. It was an hour and 2 beers very well spent!

Here's a toast to hoping that everyone is well in NBS land, Cheers!!!

 

First time posting to NBS! Greetings all!

Bought my max allotment of 6 of these from De Molen Brouwerij about a month ago. Had heard really good things about the 666 version of Hel & Verdoemenis and they were not wrong. Although, I think I would have a tough time deciding which I prefer between this and Black Albert or one of it's variants. (And yes, one of the Black Damnations does include 25% of the regular Hel & Verdoemenis)

Cheers!

 

New Witbier Sunday​

Greetings, NBSers.

Lovely weekend in the St. Louis region. We enjoyed some outdoors activities yesterday and headed into downtown for lunch today. Stopped in at Bailey's Range, top burger joint, and I was looking for something light to go with the burger. Liking 2nd Shift more and more, so opted for their Hibiscus Wit, my first timing having this one:

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/24428/66018/?ba=FanofHefe

It really works! A little sweeter than most wits, but even my wife (who rarely has a beer) liked it!

Cheers!

 

New Belgian IPA Sunday

Very nice day here in Northern Utah low 80s and sunny. We finally got a new beer here in the SLS that I have not had (very rare fucking occasion). Pretty tasty, hit's the spot.

Cheers!

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/63/68942/?ba=Wasatch

 

Sunny and hot day in NJ so its time for me to try my first brew from Kane Brewing in Ocean.NJ
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/26676/77330/?ba=sfsean28

 

Well, Tony Stewart didn't win, but a solid finish helped climb in the points. I had a BSPA that was very pale, and very understated: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/675/65096/?ba=beertunes

 

Enjoying a hop grapefruit bomb from Pipeworks that I was finally able to find last week after playing a fun round of golf with an old friend! - http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/28178/77708/?ba=maxcoinage

(the beer is definitely not as dark it appears in this pic)

 

This is a big 'un.

I really didn't think this was gonna show on LI (NY).

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***Massive props go immediately to both jdhowe and Justin_Brown, two BAs from CA who PM'd me, offering to send me some, since they had plenty!***​

But it arrived.


Having a little snack with water while the beer warms.

In the interest of full disclosure, I ate the proscuitto first, then ate the brie with the water crackers.

Pours as expected.

Stone's Espresso Imperial Russian Stout

I heard a guy say Hop Wallop is an under-rated beer. "That's what I heard," I said. Then he said - having commented that he likes it better than Stone's Levitation - that Stone's over-rated. That's when I stopped listening to him
I can since say that, indeed, Hop Wallop is probably an under-rated beer - Victory make at least a couple of really hoppy D/IPAs worth a try.
I can also say that Stone is not an over-rated brewer.

Persistent head and aroma.

Opaque ^

This is an excellent beer from one of my top 5(-ish) favorite American brewers (Firestone, Founders, Great Divide, maybe AleSmith or Allagash, Ommegang, or such vying for a spot, y'know?). I've never had anything from RR, FFF, Hill Farmstead, Bell's or Deschutes - but I imagine even then, Stone would still be just about top 10 anyway.

Was watching This Is 40, with Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd. Paul's character's friend (played by Robert Smigel), in one scene, appeared with a Stone-logo shirt on, which I pointed out to my vaguely annoyed wife. lol

Stone is awesome. The movie was also really funny for me and my wife, BTW. Really well-written, well-acted, and the two kids (Leslie Mann's real-life children) were great.

KSE

Singer Howard Jones is a talented dude, but I'm equally happy with (current and former vocalist) Jesse Leach.

Alright, I'm out of steam. Later.

 

Hello everybody! 1st time posting in NBS as well..

I love to try new beers, and this often happens on Sunday, so here's to a hopeful new tradition. There have been a lot of IPAs released in OH of late (along with the rest of the country), and it was with great pleasure that I spotted a new Three Floyds bomber on the shelf -- Blackheart. I have drunk 10 different FFF brews since they resumed distribution in OH, and rated all of them above 85, so it was with great anticipation when I cracked this open:



Let me tell you - it didn't disappoint. Nice woody balance overall, and such new & welcoming tastes with the abundant UK hops (East Kent Goldings and Admiral). My review:

Blackheart

Cheers to New Beer Sunday!

 

I've had everything on the board, so I took a rare glimpse at the can list, and, lo and behold! A new Wit: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/718/2477/?ba=beertunes