New Beer Sunday (Week 644)

Thanks to @lordofthewiens for the great NBS start. Will be back later on with a new brew.

Cheers!

 

I really don't know, just recently found this brewery but as far as I can tell by looking on line yes.

 

Dear @lordofthewiens,

Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Your news is all of woe and strikes too close to home. I've been an off-again/on-again serious golfer for 30 years, and at 45, I can see that day coming when I won't have the distance to handle courses nearly so well ... which, well, I only sort of have the skill for now, but I digress. Your determination to continue playing is an inspiration for all us duffers. Keep swinging!

My new beer is another in a series we call Finally Getting Around To This One:




Cycler's Derailleur, a "Scotch-Porter"

True to the name, Derailleur has plenty of both porter and wee heavy notes, starting with a porter-influenced chocolate aroma wafting out of the bottle as your pour. Then there's some peat flavor in the first sip to remind you its half wee heavy followed by a nice toasted-wood aftertaste. It progresses into a mix of those notes with more wee heavy-influenced raisins and even a pinch of licorice. The nose might be "darker" with some earthy red wine, raisins and licorice joining the sweeter chocolate, while in the flavor, wood and a pinch of peat partner up with the chocolate.

The wee heavy portion of the brew really shines the deeper you get into the bottle. The second half of the bomber tastes more earthy with that peat flavor building and building and building.

Overall, it's fantastic. I love wee heavies but can handle only so much peat. By mixing that peaty wee heavy with the chocolatey porter, Cycler's hits on the ultimate wee heavy for my personal tastes — there's *some* peat in here, but definitely not too much.

The review:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/30162/117778/?ba=Premo88#review
4.41 (+2.1% rDev)

It's only my second Cycler's beer, but so far they're 1 for 1 with a 10-pitch walk (their 55-11 Imperial Red got on base last week but didn't increase the average ). This dark-malt concoction is a home run.

Cheers!

 

Wow - I never considered a blend of these two styles (both of which I really enjoy). Glad that it works! I may make this a homebrew project...

 

Yes! Do it! Then bring it back here some Sunday and let us all see how it went ...

 

Ok, bros and bras - here it is...

New Beer #1,400 Sunday

*scattered applause*

Nothing too crazy, but it does have "wolf" in the name...

Wolf Among Weeds, from Golden Road Brewing (my first beer from them)...

8% abv DIPA featuring Columbus, Chinook, and CTZ hops; and 2-Row, Golden Promise, and rye malts... As shown, it has a pale gold body with a faint haze and a big white head that trailed lots of lacing... Aromas of grain and herb, grasses and pine and citrus... Tasted and felt remarkably light - maybe people don't like that in a DIPA (I do) - subtle fruit impressions, mostly of pale citric pith - and earthy grain and mild pine rounding things off... Solid bitterness, smooth and easy-drinking, with a subdued sweetness and clean finish... A little older than I'd prefer for a first time tasting, with a 4/13 canning, but really diggin' it regardless...

That's all I got today, NBS players - see you over in WBAYDN from here on out...

Cheers

 

Good morning! I've had today's beer in the fridge for a few weeks, and I've been looking forward to it - Funky Buddha's "Wide Awake It's Morning" their Imperial Maple Bacon Coffee Porter:





Pours black with ruby edges; lite tan foam turns beige as it reduces; decent cap retention, cap ultimately disappears; moderately heavy lacing becomes spotty, and likewise disappears; light legs. 4.25

Poured at 56 degrees. Bottled 3/31/17. ABV is 9.5%



Strong maple syrup and hot buttered pancakes nose. Amazing! 4.75



Sweet maple, coffee, caramel, toffee, lite char, toasted brown bread; maple with an astringent finish. 4.5

Medium full somewhat greasy feel; moderate carbonation; body of a Porter; grainy, dry tongue coating. 4.25

Overall a fun "breakfast" beer. The nose is amazing when first poured. The sweet maple lasts to the end. And...I didn't get any bacon, and the astringent flavor/linger was distracting otherwise I would have enjoyed this beer more. 4.25

The brewer states pour at 50 degrees, so I corked the bottle and chilled it back down to 50 (per my Thermapen):



Please ignore the slight overpour...

Same initial, fleeting good look. Same great/amazing nose. More sweet adjunct/maple flavor, and less prevalent but still present astringent bite on my tongue. Remaining flavors the same. No need to change scoring at recommended temperature...hey, I tried!

I've got to drive 4 hours to Jupiter this afternoon, so hope to check back later. Have a great Sunday!

 

4 Sunny new beers that surprised me, pleased me this week. Try em, review em.

Sunshine & Opportunity | Almanac
4.3 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
What do you want in a wild saison? This is it. Grass, grain, mineral, cider, orchard. Chalky dryiness. Wine like astingency. Try 24.
A) Pours a white-wine like saison, golden look, not much lace, but clear and pretty.
S) Smells up a mix of wild yeasts, then wine tannins, white grapes, peach orchard, lemongrass and white pepper.
Of course, saison yeast.
T) Follows smell: wild and saiso yeasts, wine tannins, white grapes, peach orchard, lemongrass and white pepper.
F) dry, wild, hoppy, interesting.
O) One of the best. Expertise open and apparent.

Blade & Sheath | Burial Beer (BigSurprise!)
4.2 rDev +3.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Beer makes me think of the sexy side of sheath. Very sexy beer. Saison finale, femme fatale.
A) Pours a pale hazed gold. Dense, 3 finger, creamy head, leaving wash of delicate lacing over a steady filmy cap. Sexy looking.
S) Aroma is fainter than most farm saison: grassy, herbal and dry, earthy with less up-your-nose yeasty esters, and more greenhouse, flower store botanicals.
T Taste is more abundant: hoppy, grassy, with fall apple orchard, dried wildflower and botanicals, and peppery long, food-friendly finish.
F) Medium with a creamy feel that see-saws into dry floral, pepper, bone dry saison finale.
O) Try 24. makes me want to try all from the brewer.

Sunrise English IPA | American River Brewing
3.9 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A) 4 golden copper clear, nice lace, thick head. Around the horn,
S) 3.75 Suitable English malt cross with American Hops. Grassy, earthy, musky.
T) 4 Follows nose into Grassy, earthy, musky territory. Less tropical, more earth and bitters.
F) 4 Suitable, nice tongue twinge.
O) 4 Overall - nice balance. I tire of EIPA so this one strikes my fancy.

Tropic Plunder | TW Pitchers’
3.9 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pleased to be first review of this Plunder, which is surprisingly not a blunder.
A) Big head pushed by the tropical fruit addition, which resolves to a film, but laces nicely. More body than expected, super hazed with fruit particulate. 3.75
S) Nose & Taste work. More beer than Shandy. Get mostly the citra along with the lychee, but there's enough malt and hop to make it a beer. 3.75
T) Woven well together, your tongue keeps searching to name the flavors as none dominates and all work and move around to create a nice see-saw, puzzle of malt, hop, citra, grass, lychee, passionfruit, back to peppery, cleansing, scrubbing finale. One of the few fruit beers to get a 4 from me.
F) Light, but not thin, well carbed, and scrubbing finish, sweet enough you want some salt snack with it, but never cloying.
O) Try 6. I give it a 4 as sum is greater than the parts and the fruit works here.

 

I agree it's good not great, the best part is the cool can, I'm sure that's not what Stone was aiming for.

 

I agree with you on this one. I enjoyed it but it was nothing out of the ordinary but it was still a decent beer.

 

Good middle of the day, NBS crowd. This day is one day after our meet up with @BJB13 - some of which was documented on WBAYDN yesterday. We had just about solved the all of this planet's problems when they rang for last call. Too bad everyone, you're going to have to continue living in an imperfect world.

All that thinking through the problems and coming up with solutions made my head a little sore this morning. As such, my new beers for today will not be flowing until a little bit later. I did get a chance to re-gain the Kvass tick yesterday, however (after they reclassified Dogfish Head's version on this site). This one came from Jester King, simply called Kvass, and was shared with the aforementioned @BJB13:


The beer had some nice fruity tart notes that made the nose fun to smell, analyze, and discuss. I got apple and pear skin up front and a forest-type woodsy note in back that turned into an earthy watery pale ale like taste (it is only 3.8%). This is one of those I wanted to smell all day, and while the flavors were fine, I was left hoping they would match the nose a little more. I believe @BJB13 might've taken a few notes on this himself, and I was definitely getting more tartness than I read other people getting.

Be back with an actual Sunday beer after lunch. Cheers!!

 

Hey NBS'ers. It's been a while since I've posted in this forum.

Having Ayinger Bavarian Pils for the first time.




This beer pours a golden/straw color, it has a nice bready/biscuity aroma.
The taste has those bready malts along with some grass and black pepper. There's a nice hoppy bite at the back end of this as well. Crisp and refreshing mouthfeel. I've got to say that even though it's more expensive than I'd like (~$12/4 pk), this is one of the better pilseners I've had. Really tasty.

Overall 4.75/5 for this.

 

New Black Barleywine


It's an awesome summer Sunday in West MI. Skies are blue, there's a light wind, and temps are inching through the mid-60s.


Today's new beer is a collaboration between Black Horse and Three Floyds. A new style for me, it really hit the spot.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1471/280223/?ba=GRPunk#review

 

Happy NBS! While it is almost July, I find myself enjoying a nice...fall...day? just like @GRPunk ! Cloudy and cool, I decided on a big beer from NBS 4 courtesy of @larryi86

2SP Brewing Company S.I.P pours a deep brown/black with a 1.5 finger head that fades slowly and leaves a good amount of lacing on my glass for a Porter. The aroma is heavy with vanilla and almost begins to seem tart. Bourbon with oak, roasted malt and chocolate. The taste also finds the vanilla to be strong with some bourbon. I get oak and some bitter chocolate with roasted malt. Booze is somewhat present but not overwhelming. Mouthfeel is medium with some soft carbonation. Overall I thought this was decent, but for some reason the vanilla was too strong and almost had a tartness to it.

 

Good afternoon BAs
Thanks to @lordofthewiens for giving us a depressing, yet a good start. Just kidding, doc. It was mostly depressing
The sun is on top of my head and I am ready for my new beer.
I am trying Persian Lime Gose from Two Roads Brewing.
It's a 4.5% kettle soured gose brewed with Persian limes.
A bit of history: I was born and brought up in the same state in India as Mahatma Gandhi. He was a big believer in adding salt to lemonade and that practice permeated to all of his followers, including my grandfather. It is easy to load up a lemonade with sugar but putting some or only salt (typically done by adults) required taming of ones gustatory instincts of sugary drinks.
So I was taught to add some salt always by my grandfather, who quoted Gandhi everytime without fail.
So this beers flavors were very familiar in a strange way to me.

The beer pours with a very short lasting head. It looks like a blonde Ale and seems perfect for the weather I'm drinking it in.
It smells like a lemonade.
Taste is very bright and slightly salty. It is very refreshing and thirst quenching. If I close my eyes, it's hard to tell it's a beer.
Balance of the tart and salt is spot on. Each sip begs for another.
Here's another look once the carbonation settled.
It was a joy drinking this in the heat of Maine summer. Cheers and here's to a new beer in your glass!

 

Shades of Pale Hogshead Reserve #3

This a Belgian Tripel aged in High West Whiskey barrels. I'm curious as to which barrels they used. Bourne? Rendezvous? I believe Lagunitas used the American prarie for their high Westified. Anyways, I was initially excited that they used High West's barrels as they are one of my favorite distillars, the problem is, I got very little from the barrel...Its a beautiful beer as you can see, nicely carbonated. Reminded me a lot of La Fin Du Monde in that aspect. it goes down nice, has a good heavy feel, I really wasn't sipping this, I was chugging.

Taste is somewhat dry, very light fruit like green apple and a bit of apricot and some woody oak. It's flavor is not super exciting or complex, but that does not mean its not a good beer, cause it really is. At 11% its a smooth drinker, I could pound a couple of these with no problem. A little heat from the barrel would have really rounded this off nicely, too bad I couldn't detect any. Bottled Nov 2016, maybe its mellowed in the months since then.

Look: 4.5 / Smell 3.5 / Taste 4.0 / Feel 4.0 / Overall 4

 

Great post!

 

New Wild Ale Sunday (Week 644)
Greetings fellow NBSers from on the ridge in Mid Hud Val, NY. Beauty day here today.

Getting ready to go sharpen the scythe and get to work on the meadows that once were lawns back when I thought growing alien plants that required poisons to thrive was okay, and discouraging oxygen production and food for native insects and animals was a good thing to do. This wonderful beer from Rare Barrel is hitting the spot. Gonna leave plenty in the bottle as motivation to finish scything quickly.



Bright clean flavors, plenty of delicious tart peach and berry, adequate earthy funk, in a beer with perfect mouthfeel. Read the whole story here:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/33018/256495/?ba=cavedave#review

Hope you also have a Great American Beer in your glass. Cheers!

 

This Sunday's new beer is an IAL ( Italtian Adjunct Lager) Peroni Nastro Azzurro. I wanted to try it because a number of BA's spoke well of it in the on-line AAL tasting a few weeks ago. ( thank you @TangoRad) . The beer is always on tap at a local bar where it is served in a 16oz pint glass. Peroni looks just about the same as any other AAL but was a bit brighter in color and a has a thicker slightly longer lasting head. The struck me as about the same as Bud a bit better in every way, A little more malty a little more hops ect. I decided to make sure of this and with about a 1/2 pint left ordered a pint of Bud. I was right The Peroni is the better beer not by a lot but by enough to notice.