New Beer Sunday (week 558)

Yup!

Cheers!

 

Congratulations on the brew.

My reaction to SN'S equinox brew was pretty interesting as well if perhaps not exact as yours.

I am tailgating with some already reviewed brews so new beers will have to wait for later this evening.

Looks like everyone is having a good time!!

 

When you look up redundant in the dictionary, it says, "see redundant."

 

Welcome back to NBS! I love the style too =) Cheers!

 

Happy Birthday, Man!!!

 

Nothing better then watching the game with some old friends and great beer.

 

What's up NBS players. Getting my new beer in early as the Jets don't play till 4. Very overcast and breezy here on the island but fairly warm and really a nice fall day. Spent most of yesterday ridding the yard of leaves, although you wouldn't notice it today, dealing with Halloween kids, and a tough night for the Mets. I really hope they can at least send this thing back to kc.

My new beer today is fitting with my day. Lazy Ax, an imperial chocolate stout, from Finback brewing co.

A slick black pour that yields a think mocha colored head. Mostly roasted malts on the nose. A rich start on the drinking with big bursts of malt. Smooth on the finish with subtle a nice subtle tone of bitter sweet dark chocolate. The mouth feel is lush, sticky, and slightly chewy. A subtle booze burn but the 11% is really hidden very well.

Overall, this is an outstanding stout. The chocolate is not overpowering at all. No ba score yet but I'm in the low 4's to a very solid 4.5 especially on taste.

 

Will be back with a new brew later on today.

Cheers!

 

Haven't tried this yet will have to stop by the brewery tomorrow and pick it up.

 

You touched my heart ! I had a white boxer until a few years ago, he was deaf one of the best boxers I ever had and I've had a lot of boxers.

 

Afternoon NBSers. I am starting today out with a new beer that is huge. Another big ABV offering from Prairie. Today's NBS beer is Vanilla Noir.


This thing is dark. No light can fight its way through. A very thin tan head was coaxed out of the beer with an aggressive pour but didn't stay. Some suds held on to the edges and left a wee bit of lacing. The smell is amazing. There is oak, vanilla, whisky, and chocolate. These are all in the taste as well and play perfectly off each other. This is definitely a sweet beer that hides the high ABV exceptionally well. The beer has a nice body that seems to me to be a bit over a medium. Overall this is a well crafted and delicious beer. Prairie seems to do these big beers as well as anyone.



I was a little high on my ratings for this one but this beer is in my wheelhouse. High ABV, BA and sweet. My perfect combination. I really loved this beer a lot.

4.4/5 rDev +12.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

 

Founders Mosaic Promise, a Singe Hop Ale bottled on 10/12/15.
This is an excellent beer. Thick white head, beautiful golden orange color, lemony aroma great body and mouth feel and it tastes good. Founders claims this brew has 2 unique ingredients Mosaic hops a Golden Promise malt. They work well together and make this an outstanding beer. Imo one of the best beers Founder brews. I also like the fact that Founders doesn't call this an IPA just an ale and a very good one.

 

I'm back with my 2nd beer for this NBS it's also from Deciduous Brewing in Newmarket, NH it's the Renascence Porter.

Sadly to say this was going to be my 3rd beer for today but tried an Narragansett Allies Donut Double Chocolate porter before this and IMO it didn't warrant a rating or the space on this fine thread. So on to what a porter is supposed to be IMO.
This beer pours a deep dark black color into my glass.
The nose is of deep roasted malts and some coffee overtones. Perhaps with some hints of a dark chocolate.
The taste is a very robust porter deep rich malts with the coffee overtones. This is to me a true and pure porter that has nothing added.
The mouth feel is smooth and creamy not the over carbonation in some porters.
This IMO is what a real porter is supposed to be nothing added to hide the malts that are used in the brewing of this great blend. I may be a purest in the sense but am so with an open mind and I like blends with other things added but this is what the word Porter means to me.

 

A beer from one of my local favorites call Full Blown Home Grown. Poured into a 13 oz tulip glass described at the brewery as a wheat Ale with home grown hops in it.

Pours a very attractive orange with a one inch sticky white head that leaves behind patches of lace.

Taste is floral hops, orange, clove, pinapple, and faint grapefruit.

Taste follows nicely more aggressive flavor clove, orange, and pinapple upfront and grapefruit and vanilla in the finish and it really works well.

Body is medium, just the right amount of life, a little dry, and for 7.3 % ABV very drinkable.

Overall this is very good, whatever you classify it as. I just added this and I believe this is my first new beer Sunday post.

4.50, 4.25, 4.50, 4.25, and 4.25 overall.

 

They are great dogs. It is hard losing them, we had to put our second Boston down just two weeks ago.​

 

Are you ready for some football? Wait what? OK Cheers again and let's get down to some brass tacks with Great Lakes Ohio City Oatmeal Stout.

4.15/5 rDev +6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

Pours black and opaque in the full glass. as you drink it down it's a lovely brown and quite clear. Thinner head of tan foam that does persist. Mild with the scent of light cream and an earthy coffee like impression. No hops on the nose and only a low presence of dark fruit. Taste is smooth and creamy. Oats do not give much oily feeling or slickness to the palate. They finish without astringency or harshness. The dark fruit presence is a faint hint on the palate. Drinks easily with no abv to speak of and without any hops flavor. The hops do their job and balance the beer so that it finishes mostly dry. Leaves with the impression of a touch of sweet cream. Silky rich but not heavy and a only a tempting bit of sweetness to linger and bring you back for more.

This beer was perfection. BUT my score maybe says different and I want to show how scoring means something. It's also unique to the review and that is why I love BA. So, I would not call it a 5 because it is a common beer in a common style that should be done well as a point of brewing. The features that make it unique are it's delicacy. it's like a figure skater and the traces she leaves on the ice. if you thought the dance was brilliant look down and see the trace it left. There is harmony and an ease of the drink. you hardly know you had it but you really like it and you want more. There was no struggle.

Did you see the beer from Brazil in another thread called Ithaca?

Cheers! And Happy New Beer Sumday!

 

When you look up redundant in the dictionary, it says, "see redundant." [/QUOTE
That's quite a nice piece of subtle humor for the ages!

 

Happy NBS from North of Boston. Today has been cloudy, but warm. Worked in the ER yesterday and seeing people come in with different costumes is always amusing. Saw a panda with a broken arm, and Dora with a bump on the head. Anyways, today I am trying my own Homebrew from hops I picked in my backyard. I brew my beer and enter it in competitions under the name ChickenWing (see avatar) because I started brewing when I had shoulder surgery and couldn't work for weeks. I was in a sling and doing my first brew, it looked like I had a chicken wing arm..hence the name. My hops, Cascade, were planted 2 years ago, no buds last year, and this year I managed to produce ~1lb. I wet hopped them into the beer.
Onto the brew. It is a APA as I wanted to showcase my hops as much as possible. Pours gold with a small head that reappears after each sip. Good, biting, carbonation. First taste is sweet malt, not as rich as caramel, but in the same wheelhouse. Thankfully, the hops come thru in the middle to end. Vinous bitterness with some fruity back. Leaves me with a almost raw aftertaste which I attribute to the wet hopping of my hops.
Not something commercial level, but something I will enjoy and enjoy sharing.
Hope everyone's NFL team does well, my Vikings are up over the Bears currently!

 

So sorry for your lose I know how hard it is.