New Beer Sunday (week 467)

New brew to me from Deschutes, Howler style:
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/9095/95114/?ba=Bitterbill

I held off posting this because I couldn't remember your name, dammit! Please forgive.

Anywho, it's cold today in Casper but this coming week will make today look like a day to sun bathe...

Cheers to all the followers of N.B.S.!

 

Greetings, all

Spring-like weather again - bodes well for a mild Superbowl setting tonight.
Go 'Hawks, BTW (though I'm not overly invested ).

My PC went down yesterday, which was pretty stressful, but I'm making due with the wife's laptop.
This is the empty hole in my life :

Upside is that it provided me with the opportunity to clean-up my cords and cables and do some intensive cleaning of my desk area this morning (*dust bunnies galore*)...

Trying out a new release from Smuttynose - their Smuttlabs brew, Pure Biss

Advertised as "an unconventional wit beer (sic)"

Brewed with kaffir limes, spruce tips, and grapefruit zest
(as opposed to the more traditional coriander and orange peel).

Delicious actually - all the ingredients come forward, creating an IPA/witbier hybrid- real easy drinkin'

That's my only new brew for today, so I'll leave you with this tune, and wishes for a great NBS and SBS ...

Cheers!

 

Happy New Beer Sunday and holy moly the game is today! Bon chance everyone and may the best team win. ( Really may the best team pass and block and kick and tackle and throw down the opposition into the dirt and stomp all over them . . . ok I'm fine)

Today I have Lagunitas Sucks and this is one of the most hyped beers of the season. I like it but it seems to me like I am missing something. It drinks very lightly and almost with a clear palate by the time you are done. The malt is like a small taste of cane sugar and spectacular in the mouthfeel. The nose was a bit shy too. It tastes great and is so easy to drink.


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Cheers all! It's been quite a while since I last drank this early in the day. Figured I should start off right, coffee in the cup... or some approximation thereof, anyway.
Starting with the obvious: I'm very excited for the sportsing game this evening. This marks only the third time in my life that one of my hometown teams have had the opportunity to play for all the marbles, and hopefully will represent the first time they've actually come home with them (sorry Lauren Jackson, you may be superlative, but WNBA doesn't really count for these purposes. And I don't REALLY follow hockey, so we can just forget about that series that instigated rioting in Vancouver).

There was a light dusting of snow this morning that I was all prepared to go shovel off the front walk, until the woman I share an apartment with laughed away the notion (I've never lived somewhere where snow shoveling was an issue, so I didn't realize that a light dusting is not shovel-worthy), so it's back to studying where babies come from (get your mind out of the gutter: OB/Maternity!) and, since it IS SuperBowl Sunday, joining you lovely folks earlier in the day than is my custom.

Cheers all, drink well, and Go Hawks!

 

OK !

 

Man, I really hate to be negative because I've really enjoyed all of the Victory beers I've been discovering lately, but this one I'm not overly fond of. Maybe I expected it to be like DirtWolf - which I absolutely LOVE - but this ain't DirtWolf. Since they already have DirtWolf I guess they didn't need to make another one.

I find the taste to muted and "musty" (sorry, can't come up with a better word).

For imperial IPA's I've liked Southern Tier UnEarthly and SN Hoptimum, I don't think this one stands up to those.

It is powerful at 9.n%.

I will drink the other three, it's not that bad... but I won't get it again, I'll get DirtWolf... or UnEarthly or Hoptimum...

 

New American Malt Liquor Sunday (Really)

Greetings NBSer's,

Hey, it's winter here in SCMN. Highs predicted all week in the teens or single digits and lows most nights below zero. February I can get through, there will be longer days, some early budding and more song birds. It's March that really sucks, but I'll wait until then to really start complaining.

Okay, so today I really am doing a cheap malt liquor. I should note that I have a fondness for big lagers. Remember the trend a few years back of "Imperial Pils"? Well, I dug that, even though they tend to be kinda' hard to find now. So, I'm left with cheap malt liquor occasionally and I will give them a go.
This really isn't as terrible as I thought it might be. Would I recommend it? Only if someone likes this style.
Anyway I'll be back next week with a more typical selection. Until then, enjoy Super Bowl Sunday and all I hope for is a great game.
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Best to All this week.

 

New American ESB Sunday

Greetings to the NBS gang from the Jersey Shore ! The weather has turned mild ( more about that in one of the pics that follow) for this Super Bowl Sunday held here in NJ. Exit 82 on the Garden State Parkway, where I am, is far enough away from exit 16 on the NJ Turnpike, where the game is, so that means things are nice and quiet locally. No game day mayhem, thankfully. All those woes about the cold weather site for the game...and the mercury sits at 52 degrees. Perfect football weather in NJ today.
Time to get down to NBS business and this nice surprise from Left Hand Brewing:
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/418/1543/?ba=NiceTaps

LOOKING GOOD

And in the photo below - The TUNDRA Thaws!!!!!



OK, I'm off. But I'll be checking in later.

All the best everyone. Cheers!

 

New SuperBowl Sunday beer week! Though I'm really very upset at the passing of one of my favorite actors, Philip Seymour Hoffman. He died this morning of an apparent drug overdose, at the way-too-fucking-young age of 46. RIP Mr. Hoffman, I already miss you.

In his honor, here's my new review:
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/16270/55903/?ba=markgugs

 

Hey all, happy super NBS! This will be my only beer today as I'm watching the game with people who don't drink for religous reasons. :confused Nice people but... Have one for me guys.

Anyway, its unseasonably warm so I'm enjoying this one outside during the little guys nap. This has been on NBS a lot lately, including today. I'm really enjoying this, but I agree that Dirt Wolf (despite the name) is quite a bit better.

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Cheers guys!

 

New IIPA Sunday (week 467)
Wow actually warm enough to rain here, luckily held off while I was going crazy at work helping folks who have saved their recycling items for a warmer day, namely today. Now a thirst demands a refreshing beer, and for me a hoppy beer is refreshing like I enjoy to drink, and this baby has hoppiness to a staggering degree. Truth in advertising with this one haha. Hope you also have a Great American Beer in your glass. Cheers!

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Guess Woodie will be singing with Pete now for grateful angels.

 

nice review @cavedave - you're a wordsmith!

 

If you're gonna set me up for it...

"Wordsmith of Rank"


Pure Biss bonus pic!
Cheers!