New Beer Sunday (week 590)

The 6 pack I have was bottled on 04/05/16 not super fresh but fresh enough. I live close to one of the best beer bars in NJ and they have a Germen one on tap at least once a month. I really enjoy the style and am glad BA turned me onto it.

 

sunday beer review



poured out clear orange and just a hazy top, no head
notes of cinnamon , estery, orange peel and peach.
slightly sour but them some sweet, balanced
lemon tangy not overpowering.
medium body with some creaminess
slight bitter in the finish

cheers!

 

Michael, I also enjoyed drinking a bottle of Von Trapp Pilsner. For my palate the malt backbone was quite unique. I do not have any good/unambiguous words to detail the malt flavor(s). Have you ever tasted another beer (Pilsner) that has the same flavor profile as Von Trapp Pilsner?

@cavedave

Cheers!

 

Yeah, Zatec has a similar malt character but not quite as hoppy. I enjoyed this one better.

 

I do the same in that I have beer bars near me that often have German Kolsch beers on tap.

I can only recall one beer buying experience where I found a fresh (e.g., less than 3 months old) German bottle Kolsch beer (it was Fruh). I bought two big bottles of Fruh that day.

On a related note I was at the beer store in Maryland yesterday and I saw a 6-pack of Schlafly Kolsch beer on the shelf. I excitedly picked it up only to read that it was bottled in 2015. I put that 6-pack quickly back down.

Cheers!

 

Boy, I can't remember the last time I saw a fresh Zatec beer.

Cheers!

 

Hey what's going on?!

Well its gotten muggy and HOT now.. and I need to cool off... luckily I have found a way!

On a side note I am going to be getting into some reviews shortly, however I have a SORTA new beer, but also cause I am very happy that it's given me a new experience to enjoy beer in a new way which I have been partaking in.

Not the first time by far I have had this beer, but certainly have never had it this way and it's delicious.


Amer Picon Biere by imbibehour, on Flickr

I finally got a hold of some Amer Picon from France, and one thing you can do with it is add it to Witbier. This is a fantastic addition for this style as it blows up in excellent orange flavors and aromas.

Formidable!

However, new beer reviews to come stay tuned!

 

New Belgium is new to our distribution here in NY...

I'm giving their Ranger IPA a try...

Big, tacky pine resin aromas and flavors in this 6.5% IPA make it taste bigger than it is. Shellacs the tongue with bitterness. A sticky, dank, drenched-in-pine kinda beer. I really dug it. Great aftertaste...

Cheers, NBS...

 

Good afternoon all.

First NB for this S is Pilsner from Dieselpunk



Big, fluffy, pillowy head on top this otherwise ordinary looking crystal clear golden beer. Sticky lacing rounds out the appearance.

Nose is immediately chock full of that pleasant corny thing with a touch of floral bitterness.

Taste follows the nose but add in a bit of flatness that transcends mouth feel and expresses itself in the taste experience. Little bit of heat in the back of throat tells me there may be a balance issue here. After it warms up a bit the lack of balance becomes more apparent as I start to get a syrupy sacharin sweetness followed by a tentative nondescript bitterness.

Finish is pretty watery.

Maybe in a pinch, but otherwise meh.

 

Taking time out for a new beer today:



First appearance is light for a big stout, with a pretty fluffy tan head. Smell is mocha, marshmallow, vanilla and a little leather. Taste is sweet mocha blended with strong raisin/dark fruit. Finish is slight roast which balances nicely with the sweetness. The vanilla and oak from the bourbon mellow in at the end. Feel is pretty light for the ABV. Overall a really tasty brew, very glad to get the chance to enjoy it on a rainy, lazy Sunday!

Cheers!

 

Greetings from Nashville, BAs! It's been a big weekend here with Bonnaroo and the CMAs all going on at the same time, with lots of sun and temps in the mid-90s. I managed to avoid all of it, and thankfully, my college-aged kids did too . After a bit of yard work I needed some rehydration and found this new one in the fridge:

Nebraska Brewing Company - India Pale Ale

Surprisingly dark out of the can. A nice look with a very clear almost copper hue, but it did not look like an IPA at first glance. A fairly aggressive pour produced a one-finger off white head that settled quickly into a wispy cap, leaving some nice tracks behind. Big citrus aroma on the nose, with grapefruit, orange, some pine, and some dry malt. No toffee or caramel, but definitely more malt than I'm used to. It also just looked malty (the color) which may have biased me. The taste was as expected - no surprises for an old school IPA - bitter grapefruit up front, followed by orange, pine, resin, and a prominent bready malt presence. A hint of caramel but not sweet at all. Very bitter with a clean finish. I actually liked this better as I went along (true for just about everything I drink) - a nice classic West Coast IPA.
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4 Cheers!

 

NBS! I'm in the Bros' neck of the woods at Logan airport on my way back from a fantastic week I'm Iceland. No new Iceland beers today but I found a couple of new local beers in the airport.

First is Wormtown's Be Hoppy. I was very hoppy eating at Legal Sea Food! As you can see the beer is surprisingly light, but that doesn't stop fresh grass/herbs/citrus rind notes coming through. I love the mouthfeel which is light but fresh and packed with flavor. This would be a summertime staple if available in Ohio. Definitely recommended.
Next was the Foolproof Raincloud porter. Tasty, roasted malts with bitter coffee/cocoa; overall solid just not exciting. The name certainly matches the mood I'm feeling coming from the most peaceful country in the world to the news of the day. Good beer certainly cheers me up, though!

 

ONWARD!

Stillwater Artinal Ales - Nu Tropic


Stillwater Artisinal Ales - Nu-Tropic by imbibehour, on Flickr

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Poured from the can into a Spiegelau IPA glass. Best Before April 2017.

Hazy lemon yellow body, very pale towards the edges, classic opaque nearly solid but luckily not completely. Some nice streams of fine carbonation are able to be seen, slightly transluscent almost white reaching to the top. Head creation is a soapy but thick three fingers, bleach and bright white in color. Settles with decent retention but with a soapy one and a half height.

Aroma manages some sticky dank tropical character of hops. Earth with mango flavors and a bit of tropical juiced body. A bit of spice kicks in almost a pepper quality but more towards strong herbs and possible pine. Decent IPA on the nose.

Palate comes off a bit more fruit flavored than expected. Large tasting amounts of grapefruit juice in the mid palate and the finish. Bitter pith of grapefruit and a lingering hot woody bitterness as well. Juicy but also quite a bit wet in body, A bit of spicy and fruity hop just barely get brought to the palate before the added fruit flavors take over and dominate.

The added fruit elements give it more a fruited IPA character and unfortunately too much of a juice carton flavor than an IPA brew. There's some decent drinkable quality at least that makes it enjoyable.

Appearance: 3.5 | Smell: 4 | Taste: 3.75 | Mouthfeel: 3.75 | Drinkability: 3.75

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Cheers!

 

Thus far I've yet to find a fresh German-made Kolsch. What's really sad is I've actually been to the city it's from and (sorta) named for! I had no idea what a Kolsch was in those days. I think I drank pilseners when I was there (just one day).

 

So, we went ahead and shared one Saison du Buff and one Biere de Provence to see how "similar" they were:


The Stone version of Saison du Buff (Feb bottling) was a lighter, more yellow color, with a hint of haze that the DFH Biere de Provence did not have. Heads were very similar, though du Buff showed a little better lacing.

The du Buff smells more spice and earthier to the herbal and floral Biere de Provence. Basically the Stone actually showcase the herbs/spices more than the DFH, where the spices combine with the sweet fruit base beer, it seems.

The base beer in Saison du Buff seems cleaner, so that the scents from the nose transfer fairly closely to the palate. As such, and I believe in line with the original intent of the beer - it is reminiscent of the smells of a Thanksgiving dinner. The Biere de Provence actually seems a bit more to style, as I feel the yeast does get the head seat at the table, helping influence the overall flavor of the beer.

Saison du Buff is a tad bit heavier, a little less effervescent, and drier.

Flavor-wise, they actually aren't too similar. The end of the Biere de Provence gets closest to the whole flavor profile of Saison du Buff. The general strong presence of the additional herbs is similar in both - but it seems a larger part of the Stone collab than the DFH beer. Interesting that doing this side-by-side made me realize the base saison characteristics were actually not at all lost in the DFH beer. In fact, if you told me the Saison du Buff was a Belgian Pale Ale base, I'd not argue.

Sorry - this also isn't officially new, but maybe I can argue it's part B of my original post .

Edit: I forgot to note, the GF did the tasting blind, and thought they tasted similar, but thought the DFH tasted "stronger" and therefore thought it was the Saison du Buff. Not sure what to make of it, but it is information .

 

Happy New American Pale Ale Sunday!

Did a nice hike and car ride today. Sunny, mid/upper 70s, nice little breeze too. Too bad this first brew was a drain pour. On to another one. Pipeworks does tweak up their brews though, this one just too much for me.

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/28178/128201/?ba=Wasatch#review

Cheers!

 

I too received this beer from @beertunes and was happy to enjoy it. Solid beer.

 

Happy New Saison Sunday!

On to another brew, this one is much better, but not up to par with other Odell brews I've had in the past.

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/267/218754/?ba=Wasatch#review

Cheers!