New Beer Sunday (week 582)

Well done review

 

I agree that the BB does not necessarily improve upon the base beer. It isn't worse if you are a bourbon fan, but it steals the show. I really feel that this beer was better in the past. Not sure if it is the plethora of great BB stouts available now, but it isn't doing as much for me as it did 2-3 years ago. FWIW, I don't expect you will have the same experience with Wulver.

 

Happy NBS! What a stellar weekend. It will feel like July today with temps around 80 in WI, Woooohooo! I also have tomorrow off and it looks like it will be more of the same warmth. I sure hope I have enough beer in the fridge.

I ended up with this new beer from Terrapin by hooking up a local with some beer he was in search of. This is a nice sweet stout with a mix of coffee shop scents and fresh baked cinnamon roll aromas. Flavor is more like a milk stout with a shot of coffee and a sweet cinnamon roll. There is a buttery and nuttiness to it, but it is subtle. I also don't find this too sweet. Feel is medium smooth, but a bit thin if this is an oatmeal stout. Delicious and enjoyable for breakfast or after dinner.

 

In Maryland?

 

New NBS BIF #3 Never Dies Sunday
Still maming my way through the beers from @lateralusbeer
From my experience so far, this brewery is right there behind Jack's Abby and Great Lakes for producing excellent American versions of European lagers.

3.89/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4

The appearance has the crystal clear and carbonation thing down, but it is a very, very pale in color. Ot looks more like a champagne than a pils.

Smells very good, but sort of subdued. A bit skunky, but not as much as a Czech. Some zesty bright fruit, yeast,fresh grains,and some floral aromas.

It tastes a bit too sweet initially, but balances itself out quickly and has a nice toasted grain aftertaste with a hint of bitterness. It offers some lemon rind, cut grass, bready yeast, and honey with a bit of spice.

Not super crisp, but fairly dry with ample carbonation. Nice amount of body for 4.8%. Very easy drinking.

This is a very nice example of a German Pilsner.

 

Funny to see so many New Beers reviewed today that I also had for the first time in the last week or so. Already been some great reading. See y'all a bit later as I'm a bit hungover from trying in vain to drink down my fridge and cellar. I drank a bunch of beers yesterday and a good majority of them were beers I'd just purchased rather than cellar dwellers.

 

Love goses and berliners, especially as the temps rise. Are they bottling those?

 

Sent to me by Ryan T. of Omaha, Nebraska. Thanks, Ryan! 5.2% alcohol. Brewed in Nebraska.

3.17/5 rDev -18.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25

Brickway Coffee Vanilla Stout has a fairly thick, beige head, a brown appearance, which clouds up, with a grey plume, once the bottom sediment is swished and poured in, and minimal lacing left on the glass. The aroma is of strong, black coffee and dark malt, and the flavor is of those elements, with acidic coffee bittering and perhaps some vanilla. Chocolate and dark bread crust are evidenced. Mouthfeel is rather light, and Brickway Coffee Vanilla Stout finishes powdery dry.

RJT

 

I wondered about that too.

 

New American Double Stout Sunday
Greetings NBSer's,
Thanks again to our host this week @cavedave for getting this all going.
Another beer today from NBS BIF #3 courtesy of @cjgiant. The most obvious selection for NBS from the group of great beers he sent me. And what a wonderful beer this is.
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/392/89345/?ba=garymuchow#review
And for as much as I liked it fresh, I'd like to try it with a little age on it - somewhere between 6 months and 2 years.

A simply gorgeous day here. I may be back...or not.
Best to all.

 

GOOD MORNING NBS!!! A song!! And a big beer side-by-side!!! You're going pro my friend.

 

Hello all!

My new beer today is Pluff Mud Porter by Holy City Brewing. This beer pours from the can a dark rich brown with about two fingers of cocoa head. The smell is a little coffee, a little chocolate.

Great porter tastes. The chocolate and slight coffee are there, a little smoke, and some nuts. A slight tanginess in mid palate. Mouthfeel is light and smooth. And refreshing overall - this is a porter to drink on the cold side. ABV at 5.5. Well done, Holy City.

Cheers!

 

Hello all, long time reader, first time poster. Finally decided to join up when I started coming across beers that I couldn't remember whether or not I had already tried them. Went to a concert last night and about halfway through Napalm Death's set I look around and realize I'm standing in a sea of Bud Light and PBR which created an overwhelming urge to go home and try something new. So without further ado, here is what my fridge offered up at 1 AM.

Revolution Brewing Company's Straight Jacket, a bourbon barrel aged barleywine.
A: Dark amber body which shows as a beautiful red when put to light. Medium head on pour which leaves some lacing in its wake.
S: Very strong scent of bourbon on this one; I can smell it from about a foot away. Following this is a sweet toffee like scent. The strong bourbon in the nose falls off quickly leaving the aroma more balanced.
T: Leads off with a sweet toffee flavor before quickly giving away to the vanilla, oak, and bourbon notes imparted by the barrel. Very well balanced here as this avoids the cloying sweetness that many BBA barleywines have.
F: Lingers on the tongue rather nicely. Perhaps a touch thinner than one would like, but not enough to be a detriment.
O: I've really been enjoying what I have had so far from Revolution's Deep Wood series, and Straight Jacket is no exception. This is sweet enough that its more of a sipper, but it is far from the sugary mess that some BBA barleywines can turn into. This is something I will be trying to pick up again.

look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5 4.27 composite with an rDev of 0%
Sorry for the lack of pictures; sometimes you just need to dive right in.

 

Hello New Beer Sunday. It is a beautiful Sunday here in central MN. Nice and warm. Supposed to be in the mid 70's, and my windows are open. So to enjoy such nice weather, a lighter beer seems in order.

And here's my review of it
4.5/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

This beer pours a nice dark red color. The head was fairly thick, and a nice pink color. The nose is very strong with cherries. The taste is outstanding. It has a strong cherry profile. It doesn't feel like you're drinking beer, but a delicious glass of juice. If it were a higher ABV, that could be dangerous.

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Hello all,

A quick message. I'm working today, so I may or may not be participating. However, I do have something new for you all:

I'm a celebrity in my own mind

What is it? Well, I had the privilege of guest-hosting a beer podcast that takes place in the town where I work. The two hosts, Warren Wilson and Matt Czigler (look him up!!) run the show. Give it a listen. Great discussion, and you get to hear one of your own NBSers provoke discussion and provide color commentary.

Stay thirsty.

 

Welcome to NBS! Cheers! =)

 

Awesome! =)

 

Good groggy afternoon NBSers. I hope everyone out there is doing well, and I truly feel sorry for anyone who might be more hungover than myself on this particularly beautiful Sunday. Grilled burgers, good friends, a few games of cornhole, and too much to drink made yesterday a fun one for me. Paying for it now, but y'know. C'est la vie. Cheers!

Da Beer
Smokey Mountain Brewery: Tuckaleechee Porter
"A Robust Dark Ale", 6.3% ABV



Da Re...view

12 oz. bottle poured into a pint glass. Pours a medium brown/caramel color and settles a dark crimson in the glass. For being a fairly dark-bodied beer, this one still retained good clarity. Nearly 3 fingers of off-white foam on top, which hung around for a while. I know I'm not doing this one justice, but this really was a very attractive beer.
Strange nose. Lots of spice - cinammon, ginger, nutmeg - along with notes of dark fruit, figs, and a touch of leather. Smells like a Belgian dark ale, to be completely honest.
Upon tasting, a similar profile. Sweet dark fruit, figs, tobacco, caramel, unsweetened chocolate, and nutmeg. Tastes...like a Belgian dark ale. Imagine mixing Black Butte with Trois Pistoles.
The feel on this beer is a tad disappointing for me. For the flavors it packs, the feel could stand to be a bit thicker. It isn't horrible, but a little on the watery side. Plenty of carbonation.

Overall, this one was hard to rate. As a porter, it fails miserably. As a Rochefort 6 or 8 clone, it ain't half bad. If your hopes aren't stuck on having a beer that tastes like Founders Porter or Black Butte, give this one a try.

Da Scores
look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +3.4%

 

Hello NBSers,
Back again after last weeks hellish weekend and this week I've done quite a few hauls. Stocking up the fridge with lots of new beers today. My first one for day comes from a Haul I did yesterday. I took a "brew" trip 2 hours up the road to Ottawa (our capital) and got my hands on some beautiful Ontario brews.

This first one is one thats been talked about here a lot recently. Great Lakes Brewery of Toronto's, Octopus Wants to Fight IPA. This is Great lakes personified description of the beer.
" Our pet octopus is a bit of a jerk. He's that guy who has a couple then either tells you how much he loves you or threatens to fight you. so we brewed this IPA with 8 types of hops and 8 types of malts. we targeted 88 IBU and 8.8%. Sadly, when he found out we fabricated all of the above it just made him more volitile. Were starting to realize that an octopus was a poor choice for a pet" lmfaooo.
This beer was great I'll let my review do the talking though!

4.07/5 rDev -1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

Appearance - Poured from an 8 day old tall boy into a 17 oz berliner tulip. This beer pours a slightly foggy deep gold, It poured with 2 fingers of white head which faded after 6-7 mins leaving a film over the top of the beer. Carbonation appears lively!

Aroma - A delicious citrus and pine mix hits my nose first. I get Grapefruit, a bit of lemon, lime, some pine resin, light passion fruit. the aroma is balanced out perfectly with some light pale malts sitting in the back of the nose!

Taste - There is a lot less sweetness to the taste but it remains very balanced. I'm hit at first taste with a plethora of rindy citrus bitterness, there is grapefruit, lemon, and lime. the passion fruit is gone altogether. Its followed up by a nice mellow pine and all this is balanced magnificently by just the right amount of pale bready malt!

Feel - light bodied just a tad above watery and velvety smooth carbonation. It is bitter but not so bitter that it feels rough.

Overall - This beer definitely lived up to the hype. Its citrus but not overly sweet and and well balanced between bitterness and malts. I am partial citrus IPA's that have sweet juiciness But when I want to change it up this is the kind of IPA I'm looking for. Cheers!

 

Brasserie de la Senne - Saison du Meyboom.

I grabbed this expensive bottle since this is one of my favorite Belgian brewers... and I've never seen this beer before... and it was actually within the best-by date (barely)... and it's a relatively low ABV saison. The perfect storm!

Here is the description and the instructions from the brewer.



Most of these instructions were ignored. The beer was given a best-by of one year from bottling. I'm drinking this just before the date. It was probably stored on the store shelf for most of the past year. At first, I left some beer on the bottom of the bottle. I had a few sips, then decided to just pour the entire beer into the glass. I'm a heathen. You can tell by the fact that I used a regular water glass to drink an expensive beer.



The beer is an extremely pale yellow. There's a haze to it. When I see a beer like this, I think of chalk, but I don't know why exactly. The head is terrific.

The characteristic Belgian yeast esters announce themselves with an aroma as soon as the bottle is opened. The beer has a slight lemony character at first, but this disappears when you get calibrated to it. It's wonderfully dry. It finishes with a pleasant bitterness. There is no flavor sacrifice in this 4.something-ish beer. There's a slight earthy quality that keeps things interesting, but I'd say everything is in a fine balance. The body is incredibly light.

This is a wonderful beer. I see that the reviews here aren't terribly impressed, but to me, this is perfect. I was at a cask ale festival yesterday, and I tried some cask beers from some of the best American brewers. Nothing that I had at the fest was even close to this. The cask Sofie was a nice saison, and the cask Bourbon County represented how far everything can be pushed, but to me, this saison in my glass is as good as beer can get.

Cheers.