New Beer Sunday (week 596)

Welcome to NBS! =)

 

Although I have been drinking beer for way more years than I have not, this is the first time I have ever had a PBR. My daughter gave it to me for my birthday and wanted to make sure it was one I had never had. We had recently discussed all the factors that influence beer purchases and how for me and my crowd back in the day it was Old Style for no apparent reason.

The model for this beer is interesting. There is not much going on but that seems pretty much by design. A bit of bitterness in the aroma but the taste is more ethereal. Reminds me of shoving my arm into a cooler and fishing around for a beer at a family picnic, barely a finish - or a middle. But nothing wrong with grabbing a cold one and some shade and just chillin'.

 

Well, I for one did not see you pics, Corey. Wow, nice dolphin shots, sunset, but for me seeing the edge of the sample mat with Jai Alai available on tap is stunning. But seriously, where were you?

 

Actually had this straight from the can yesterday at a sweltering party, but could not really form a fair opinion under those conditions, so I still feel this is NBS material.

Welcome to the Pilsner club Stone! Oh yea, welcome to the can club also.
Big thick head, wow you could probably support a smaller glass on that thing. Nice light gold color with tiny carbonation bubbles rising pretty much until the glass is empty.
Taste is great Pilsner. Maybe after a few more tryouts I would consider it a top Pilsner among those easily available.

 

New beer for me, first time drinking it and that's sad. It's really good and I can't add anything new that hasn't been said about it other than I'll be drinking it more now that I finally had one.

 

Lawn is now mowed and I'm in need of a good lawn mower beer.


One of my personal favorites from Burlington Beer Company. Strawberries add a bit of tartness and the beer is perhaps a bit thicker in mouthfeel than lot of cream ales. Still it has a refreshing quality that appeals on a hot day.

 

Live on site from Founders! Barrel aged ReDANKulous. Great soapy head. Smell of vanilla, bourbon and some caramel. It's nothing like the OG base beer. Vanilla, smooth bourbon, caramel, orange and citrus.
Anything Founders puts into their barrels and blends turn into amazing beers. Another winner from Founders.

 

Greetings again,
I failed to thank @cavedave earlier, so thanks again for kicking things off so nicely!
Here's another one for today...Wicked Weed Pernicious IPA 7.3% Btld. late June
Pernicious pours a gorgeous rich and deep yellow/gold.Very alive with a "living" head that seems to grow for a while after the pour. Very nice grapefruit, orange, and grapefruit-like aromas covered up in a nice malty compote- sweet grain married to dry tropical fruits, with spice and grip. At 7.3% this jewel is very seductive, easy to sip big to rest and muse on the lovely mix of this perfectly knitted IPA. The beer is alive, prickly. Damn, this is one fine beer!

This song is one of those that strikes a huge piece of my memory- heading off to high school, walking and biking, learning to drive...and girls. I remember hearing this one in different places through the years and I always have that same feeling of getting ready to discover the world. Little did I know! Can't fool those feelings. John Sebastian is great.

 

Good afternoon to all the NBS faithful and a warm welcome to all the first time posters. Thanks to Dave for sending us off with a great start. I think this is the first time in a couple of weeks where we haven't been set up somewhere with the camper and I had to try to find enough WiFi to be able to make a post. I'm kind of glad we were home this weekend with the storm that rolled through last evening. I think the generator ran most of the night as the power went off about 6:00 pm and was still off when I last checked about 2:00 am but it was on when I got up about 5:30 this morning. But it has cleared and the humidity has dropped a little so a nice Sunday afternoon to enjoy a new beer. This beer comes from my round 10 box with the Locals and is Apricot Vista from August Schell Brewing in New Ulm, Minn.

This beer poured a medium golden orange color into my Teku glass. A thin white head formed on top.
The nose if mostly from the apricots used in this brew. Lots of fruit with some hints from the acidity in the back.
The taste is flavorful from the fruit with a mild lemon taste from the acidity. This taste is fairly true to form for a Berliner Weisse style beer. But this one makes the apricots the star.
The mouth feel is crisp and clean with nice carbonation.
A great beer for this warm day here in central NH. I'm going to have to follow up and see if I can't round up another bottle of this.
4.46/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

Going to head back out onto the deck to enjoy the rest of this bottle!

 

Happy New DIPA Sunday!

Did a little hike today, sunny, low 90s. Not technically new, but new under the listing. Always love to have a new brew from Stone, could have had it at least on the day of, but decided to wait.

22 oz. Bomber
Enjoy By: 07.04.16
Bottled On: 05/30/16

Stone Enjoy By IPA | Stone Brewing

look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

Pours a very nice slightly hazy golden yellow color, very nice carbonation, with a very nice one-finger thick/creamy off-white head, which leaves some very nice sticky lacing behind. The nose is hoppy, with some very nice citrus/pine notes. The taste is very nice, hoppy, with a very nice citrus/pine notes, with some very nice sweetness. Medium body, with a nice dry/bitter finish, ABV is hidden very well. Overall, this is my second Enjoy By, and both have been very tasty.


Cheers!
Lou Reed Rock n Roll Animal (180G) (Gatefold) (EU) 1974 2012 Remaster RCA Records, Music On Vinyl NM

 

Hey gang, back for another after a quick trip down the shore to Burn 'Em Brewing for a bottle release. More on that one in a future NBS. Staying on the lighter side again as I sit and wait for some pork shoulder to slowly smoke into something delicious. This 12oz. can of 10 Barrel Brewing Co. Cucumber Crush from a meet up I had with @2beerdogs is just the ticket on another hot humid day. A canned on date of 05/14/16 with an abv. of 5.0% poured in a Greenbush glass to commemorate our meeting.

Pours a pale yellow leaving a generous but rapidly diminished finger of white foam. The smell is cucumber, green melon, lemon zest, and mild band aid. Taste is cucumber, lemon zest and some mild sour funkiness in the finish. Feel is super light to start with a mild mouth tingle. It finishes with a slight mouth puckering tartness.



A nice refreshing beer that's perfect on a hot steamy day while tending the grill. It reminds me of the old summer favorite of water with cucumber and lemon slices, albeit with some sourness and alcohol. A good alternative if I do say! My score was 3.91 / rDev -2%. Thanks Derek for another interesting and worthy beer!

Going to contemplate the next beer as the piggy slowly smokes away at around 150 degrees
and listen to the Cubs-Brewers game.



I've enjoyed the really solid posts today and look forward to more of your new beer adventures. I leave you with the official scorecard.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/16873/95837/?ba=Prager62#review

 

Great beer my favorite "batch" so far- Great choice on vinyl also. Cheers!

 

Moving along, have an Adroit Theory Ortolan Bunting (????)



Forced a decent head that rewarded me with a fairly thick, foamy beige result which left pretty decent lacing over this otherwise ordinary looking dark, opaque beer.

Overwhelming hotness in the nose. Big time alcohol that comes across like vanilla extract. Secondary to that is a hint of caramel.

Taste sticks to the same script at first until a more brandy like taste pops up but the big alcohol is drying out and dulling my tongue to much to get much else up front. Once I let the taste stew a bit, I get a malt thing that comes off as sort of peat-ish.

It's hard to say what aging would do to this as this beer is billed as being unique due to the barrels used. Makes me think that as it gets more tame, it may take away some of that barrel nuance as well. Dunno, just a thought.

 

Back with my first beer of the day, but it’s not exactly new. However, I have never reviewed or rated it before, so I’ll bend the rules a little and toss it up here anyway (like I’ve never done that before).

Iron Goat does a Blackberry Apricot Sour, brewed with lacto, that first appeared a couple years ago and seems to come on and off their taps in a manner that defies a particular rhythm. When I first had it, I thought it was misnamed as it seemed mostly Apricot until the swallow, when the blackberries came in as more of an aftertaste than anything else. It seems more a meld of the two fruits now:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/29334/178458/?ba=woemad#review


A nice thing to see on tap whenever I decide to take a step off the Iron Goat hop train but don’t want a stout or something big and barrel aged. Still shocked I’d never reviewed or rated it before, but at least that gave me something to do while I got myself a fill of Iron Goat’s Mosaic IPA.

 

trying some Dragons Milk with Raspberry and Lemon. Better than the base beer imo. Cheers all.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/335/5428/?ba=cindyjeffsmith#review

 

Great review!

Do you see any DESTIHL products in your area? If you do, I'd recommend their Wild Sours. I've had a few of these, and I thought they were all excellent. There is a Flanders Red in this series. (Edit: red ale, not oud bruin.) If you can find it, give it a go.

Cheers!

 

Hi everyone! Thank you, @cavedave, for hosting us on this hot, hot, Sunday. As I drove up from the Shore it got hotter and hotter. I was going to sample a big beer today but given the temperature, I decided to sample a couple of beers brewed in Alabama, which a friend gave me when he returned from a driving trip to New Orleans.


The first was Blue Pants Brewery's Pils, brewed in Madison, Alabama. I was pleasantly surprised: it's complex and surprisingly creamy for a Pils. Here's my review:

4.12/5 rDev +2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Poured into pilsener glass. It's pretty old, with a stamp saying "born on 2/25/2015." It's quite an attractive pour: a cloudy, golden-straw color with an enormous, fluffy, gelato-like head of cream color, and significant lacing that didn't dissipate. Adding to the appearance are myriad tiny, champagne-like bubbles quickly surfacing, adding to the head. It has a rather hoppy nose for a pilsener with a nice aroma of lemon and biscuit. I'm impressed with the depth of flavor: it begins with sweet pils malt that gives it almost a vanilla taste, followed by citrus, biscuit, and a crisp, bitter, hop finish. This beer is light and crisp but it also has a creaminess I didn't expect. At 5.6% ABV, It's easy to drink, particularly on a hot day. Overall, I was pleasantly surprised. This is a well-crafted pilsener. It's not marketed in my area but hope to find it again some day.


#2 was Truck Stop Honey Brown Ale from Back Forty Beer Company in Gadsden, Alabama. This was was disappointing and I ended up fertilizing the Black-Eyed Susans with it. Here's my review:

3.21/5 rDev -7.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25

Bottle dated 1/4/2016. Poured into tulip glass. It poured an auburn color with virtually no head or lacing. It smells of roasted malt, caramel, honey, and nuts. When sipped, the initial taste is nuts and a slight caramel sweetness but it quickly gives way to an unappealing, almost sour, taste. It's very thin in body - too thin for the 6% ABV. To be fair, this isn't fresh and it may be much better on draught but I simply didn't enjoy it.

One for two is okay when I've got lots of good stuff in the fridge. Cheers, everyone! Cue musical paring.

 

Happy Sunday NBS players. Hot and humid today on the island with the onslaught of a full summer heat wave. A lazy Sunday here for myself and I spent most of the day watching a decent mets victory. About to throw some steak and corn on the grill and just relax for the rest of the evening before getting back to the work week grind.

My new beer today is Great Beyond Double IPA, from Ommegang brewing. It comes in at 8.8% with a jillianne code for dating. Pretty fresh since it just hit shelves here this week.

A light golden amber pour with moderate carbonation, hazy clarity, and a white frothy head. The nose is pretty subtle with hops and sugars. Big time clean hops right upfront, on the first sip, that turns to a fruity blend, and finishes clean and easy. Tons of nice citrus fruit notes with lemon, lime, orange, peach, and mango. The mouth feel is moderate with a slight juicy feel to it.

Overall, nothing game changing here but just a good dipa. Really on the fruity side of the style but I would put this right up with a number of stone enjoy by batches. I'm enjoying it and I will have no apprehension about buying a second six pack. I'm in the low 4's.

 

Green from tree house. I went a week after this was canned and a nice guy in line traded this to me. Great beer. Still a juice bomb, but a tad less fruit than normal and way more hops. If you aren't down with the NE style IPAs yet, this beer is hoppy AF and would be a great one to start you trip into the hazy IPAs.

 

No Belgian angle? It's odd for me to think of Ommegang making a straight up American DIPA