New Beer Sunday (week 533)

cheers, rgordon. That's the nicest thing I've read in memory.

 

Alright, well thanks for the suggestions y'all, especially @tasterschoice62 for the detailed personal recommendations. I'm really looking forward to exploring options in the other northern corner, and realizing that a single 12-pack shipper may make for some tough choices!

I thought I'd start my night off with the last of the pure IPAs that I picked up in Oregon (got some darker brews left as well, but I figured that those are less prone to the ravages of time...) and so NBS continues with Crux's Half-Hitch Imperial Mosaic IPA. It's... tough to pin down. The label proclaims floral aromas and mango/guava/stone fruit/lemon on the flavour. My experience did not match their aroma description in the slightest. I got more pepper and grain and... pulpy almost fir pitch on the nose though the flavour stayed truer to description. Mulchy at first, I did get waves of the fruits the label lists, and something else that I can't quite pin down. Ultimately I enjoyed it, but it perplexes me somewhat. Interesting if true!



I can't believe I forgot that one of my favourite groups of all time had a track named after today's holiday!

 

That's a beautiful story, thank you for sharing.
There's something to shared and built history that brings forth greater-than-surface-value and the last sentence of your first paragraph, and the following vignette approach the same theme from vastly different depths and angles.