New Beer Sunday (Week 728)

Update: thanks to @woemad, thanks bro. Almost done with this bottle.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/20680/140119/?ba=Wasatch#review

Cheers!

 

18th Street - Here Comes The Reaper

This amber colored IPA surprisingly allows you to see through it. It tastes of generic tropical gummy candies made with Aspartame. Sweet, fruity and weird... and not really enjoyable.

 

Oskar blues ten fidy imperial barrel aged stout
...solid black
..medium light carbonation, above average body with a bit of an oily feel.
.. aroma is roasted malt, bourbon, black coffee,just a bit of dark and milk chocolate
...taste is alcohol, bourbon but not sweet.roasted coffee and malt.
..overall it's not too sweet and matched with coffee bitterness and plenty of alcohol heat. It's a sipper and gets more intense and bitter as it warms

 

April 2017 blend. Incredible gueuze style. Great fluffy head retention, spotty soapy lacing. Aromas and flavors of big tart/sour lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, cherry, plum, raspberry, gooseberry, passion fruit, papaya, mango, guava, red/green apple, white grape/wine, hay, straw, grass, oak, peppercorn, wet wood, and leathery/musty/lacto funk; with some wheat, cracker, white bready malts; lighter white wine vinegar, and yeast earthiness. Light-moderate lactic tart/sourness, Brett/wine tang, and yeast/oak tannin spiciness on the finish. Medium-high carbonation, light-medium body, and moderately crisp finishing. Balanced grainy malts, lactic acid, wine tang, and oak tannins in the mouthfeel. Moderate increasing acidic/tangy/tannic/carbonated dryness, minimal puckering sourness. Very smooth, not overly lactic, 6%. Amazingly well rounded classic barnyard Brett/Bacteria complexity, great oak presence, and solid pale/wheat malts against acidity. Highly impressive, spot on style example as expected. 4.3


Cheers, have a good night NBS.

 

Believe it or not, there's at least one bottle shop in Spokane (let alone Seattle) where the manager has said they may not seek future vintages of that because it's turned into such a "shelf turd" for them!

 

Greetings All from the Great Northwest, where we are not too into the Super Bowl. It should have been the Saints.

So today we have Feather Weather Mocha Stout from Black Raven.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/19765/262714/
A decent stout, if not a little on the sweet side.

One of my favorite breweries, but aside from the tap room, which is about 250 miles from my home, we don't see much of their brew.

I missed the first half of the big game (1 field goal) bottling a Biere de Mars. Tasted pretty good going into the bottles, so I am looking forward to March.

Until next time,

Happy Trails!

 

Please tell me you're joking? If not, WTF? I'll take their 'shelf turd' surplus, and pay shipping costs.

 

This is kinda the way I feel about the whole category of Brut IPA's. Just doesn't do it for me.

 

Well Hello Late Night NBS!
We're getting hit by some heavy rains here. Nothing as daunting as what many of you folks have been facing, but still some serious downpours. I actually had to go chop out some stump, and drill, and eventually break open some drainage in a cinder block wall due to the back up of water against the east side of my house. I guess I could take heart that the temps allowed me to do all of this in shorts.
Anyhow, I'm hitting Mystery Beer #6 from @akatz821 in our NBS BIF #8.5. His hint to me was, "one slice works."
Pours golden, fluffy white head pushes a finger high. Slightly turbid, but not hazy.
First aromas that leap to the nose are, alfalfa?
Hmm, grassy hop pellets. Alfalfa, green alfalfa, moist alfalfa. Did I say alfalfa? Ok, I said, "alfalfa." And there's a hint of orange blossom honey now too. But wow, this is green.
Taste is luscious green hops. Grassy, tender bitterness, green, earthy, oh so subtle floral citrus notes, biscuity malt, and I am seriously reminded of being at a brew supply shop, cupping a small handful of hops and sniffing them while I roll them around. This is delicious.
Mouthfeel is medium, slightly slick, and a tad soft. Carbonation is light to moderate. No ABV heat. A really pleasant sipper.
So I'm guessing an IPA with maybe some oats as part of the grain bill.

 

A lot of beer geeks are fickle. Now that Fremont has upped their production and its available in greater quantity, some have gotten blasé about it. Plus, a lot of people nerd out about the various variations like Coffee or Spice Wars.

 

OK, I think I figured this one out.
Singlecut Beersmiths is the brewer. And upon looking them up, I do see that "Mastery Knows No Shortcut" is a name of a beer, not a motto, as I suspected. It's an Imperial IPA. Canned on 10/23/18 stamped on the bottom along with "GIV 'ER"? I don't know what that means, but this is one delicious.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/30452/359829/

Loved this one. And the hint, " One slice works." "Single cut," I get it. . Thanks Man. Another stellar hit.

 

Cousin in PDX has a couple Coffee variants for me this year. I'm sure they'll be fantastic, but I'd buy up all the non-variant BA Dark Star I could find if I could. Perfect slow sipper by a campfire in any season for my palate/preferences. Now I just need to find some Black Butte XXX in my area, it's never been this challenging the past 10 years...WTF Norcal Distributors....

 

4.28/5 rDev -6.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Canned 12-12-18 into Silhouette glass.
L: Cream colored. Standard haze. Creamy off-white head that refuses to die. Spotty, yet sticky lacing.
S: Fresh tropical. Base orange/citrus is pleasant.
T: Excellent balance between the tropical and citrus flavors.
F: Smooth, creamy.. low on the carbonation and bitters. A light back-bite .. maybe the alcohol trying to poke its head in.
O: Excellent tasting, full of flavors.. however, for a higher ABV, it's regular in the smell and look. Feel is quite adequate.

 

Same here. It's at every New Seasons around. Along with CBS, Abraxes, BCBS, etc. Crazy times when stuff like this just sits on a shelf at a chain grocery store.

 

"Mastery Knows No Shortcut" is actually their motto. The picture of the beer in that link appears to be "Conform or Be Cast Out."
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/30452/336058/
If I'm right, I think you should put in a change request to have those merged.

 

I think you are right, "Mastery Knows No Shortcut" is their trademarked motto.

https://trademarks.justia.com/870/12/mastery-knows-no-87012801.html

See Logo in upper right corner of page:

https://singlecut.com

See also packaging material:

 

This was my first from 18th Street. Perhaps I stumbled upon a house character I wasn't aware of. It was over the top.