New Beer Weekend #259

That’s an awesome idea, not sure I could pull it off though.
Good luck!

 

your thoughts mirror mine

 

Peachganger by Tree House


4.37/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25

Brewers notes : Peachganger is an expression of Doppelgänger that includes literal buckets of fresh peach purée!

This treatment elevates the tropical flavor profile to new heights, with mouth-watering notes of summer stone fruit and apricot atop a sweet, satisfyingly smooth base.

Crafted with the utmost attention to detail, Peachganger will surprise and delight your palate with intense, fresh flavors that are a function of its carefully selected ingredients & dutiful brewing execution. We hope you enjoy it in good health and in good company.


Hazy orange liquid
Three fingers of shaving cream
Great lacings
Peach and citrus aroma
Juicy peach taste

Good beer

 

Final road brew, this one new to the world and not even on their board yet.

Mohave Brewery Mr. Darcy

3.83/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75





7/4/25 - (Cask - Mohave Brewery Taproom) (Henderson, Nevada) Bar Notes: $11.32 with tax and CC fee. 20 oz cask conditioned pour, 3.7% ABV, Dark English Mild.

Appearance: 20 oz nonic glass cask pour into a tulip glass yields an egg white tan head leaving a creamy ring above the rim and ring around rim over a dark brown black base. 3.5

Aroma: Milk Chocolate, caramel, roast malt. Nice. 4.25

Taste: Consistent with the aroma, sweet milk chocolate and caramel, malt sweet to mild, roast aroma AWOL. 3.75

Mouthfeel: Light, watery, sweet, light and easy. Caramel and milk chocolate start to finish. 3.5

Overall: This is an OK to good Cask pour. Sweet caramel and milk chocolate the primary takeaways. Like this a bitter more hope and bitter, this is good for a closer. 3.75

Will take a break, but may return for one or two more before the day is out.

 

This was a free beer, but you know...

Tivoli Brewing ( Colorado ) Outlaw Light, 4.2% ABV; 2.44 overall

Pours an effervescent gold with a pinky of pearl colored head. Great head retention & lacing

S: Grainy, bready, sweet

T: Grainy, maybe a little soapy, pretty sweet & just a little grassyness up front, faint dryness. Corn syrup notes, a little grassyness & dryness, & modicum of bitterness once warm. Finishes a bit dry, with some grassy notes, but also cloying sweetness

MF: Light body, medium carbonation; skews was too sweet for me balance wise

Not a light beer fan, but this has carbonation and balance issues that make this very disappointing

 

I was quite impressed with this one as well

 

Hello New Beer Weekend!!!

Well, I think it is a good idea to have one new beer tonight.

General Braddock's - BG Brewing - Pittsburgh, PA - NEIPA - 6.8%

This was kindly given to me in a trade, and it is tasty to me, even though I am way off the average here.

Review:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/34599/119709/
4.02/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
From a 12oz can Date is smugged, but I think it was canned on 05/14/25

This beer is a very juicy looking beer. There's a ton of haze to it, and it has a pale orange color to it. There's a 3 finger white head to the beer with good head retention and nice sticky lacing on the glass.
The aroma is quite full of citrus notes from the hops. Nice pineapple notes to the beer. There's a grassy earthiness to the aroma.
The flavor is based on the hops. I get tropical notes here with some pineapple flavor. There's a hint of the grassy earthiness that also shows up in the mix. There's some bitterness on the back with a slight building to it.
The feeling has a nice bubbly feel to it. The carbonation tickles my tongue. Somewhat juicy feeling. Decent depth.
Tasty beer overall, and a pleasure to get the chance to try it. It delivers on what it is intended to be.


I'll see if I have one more in me tonight. If not, see you all tomorrow. Cheers!

 

Good evening and Happy 4th. We had some natural fireworks in the area last night with swirling high winds and thunderstorms. We often seem to be in a pocket with these things - seems to go a little north and south of us - couple of nearby towns got hammered. Direct hit missed us. Humidity cleared out and it was a beauty outside today.

Here's what I'm drinking:



You'd think with all the black-lined text and Proclamation's penchant for clever names you'd think the word "redacted" might come up, but it's just Maibock.

Pours a clear varnish color with a solid inch of dessert white foam. Foam collapses to a thin cap, decent cling to the glass.

The smell is sweet malt, a little bready, nice floral hops even though it's a few months old.

The taste is slightly sweet, caramelly, and bready malt. Lightly floral and grassy on the hops. There's an odd astringency that I'm not digging - can't find a descriptor for it. Almost metallic.

Feel is medium-bodied. The bitterness is sharp and touching on unpleasant. It's not long-lasting but it's so sharp it stands out. It's dry.

Overall, not something I need to drink again. Weird flavor note and the oddly sharp bitterness aren't pleasant. Depending on how the rest of the glass goes, between 3.0 and 3.5 here.

@JackHorzempa - I did try the Jacks Abby Moderns Pils again - warming can and I let it breathe a bit. MUCH better experience - more full flavor, more nuanced, and more in line with expectations.

 

Saranac weekend warrior golden pilsner
...incredibly clear light gold appearance with a thin lasting white head
...medium carbonation with a just below average body
...aroma is vegetable, wort, grain and some cereal
...taste is almost identical to aroma with some mild sweetness. The finish is mostly grain with a hop bitterness that builds in the aftertaste.
...overall its basically a light beer thats better than most

 

This one is from @2beerdogs Prost Derrick

Tarantula Hill Brewing Dankerman 3 Stay Classy Again IPA, 7.0% ABV; 3.73 overall

Pours a bright & effervescent gold with 2 fingers+ of eggshell colored head. Average head retention & good lacing

S: Bready, some tropical fruit, a little citrus, some peach late

T: Follows the nose, some tangerine, green melon & a little grassyness up front. Some breadyness, pomelo, dryness & green melon as this beer warms up. finishes grassy with some citrus & green melon

MF: Medium body, slight carbonation & decent balance. Carbonation was a little flat

Drinks easy, fairly solid but not really that memorable, not near dank enough

 

Twin elephant crocodile tears pilsner
...fairly clear orange/gold appearance with a lasting white head
...around a medium body with aggressive carbonation which starts to dissipate quickly
...aroma is malty bread, earthy hops, grain and cracker
...taste has a very mild sweetness which starts to get taken over by dry earthy hops that leave a bitter dryness in the aftertaste
...overall its an interesting well done beer but feels a bit heavier on the hops than the vast majority of pilsner I've tried

 

I managed to find a new beer in the cellar for today, might have to go get another couple for the weekend.

I picked up a 4 pack in Colorado when I was there for my brothers wedding.
A coffee stout- I love coffee stouts. Mostly.

The pour is stout black with a 1” light brown head that looked fine for about 20 seconds and then the bubbles got huge as it dissipated.
The taste is coffee forward, and not a smooth brew. A touch on the harsh side. Like cheap French roast harsh. The vanilla is present but has a hard time keeping up with the coffee.
The feel is good, just a touch viscous and very easy quaffing.
OA, won’t be a problem finishing the 4 pack, but probably won’t buy more. Of course, since it’s not available in Michigan, probably couldn’t anyway.
Didn’t lack a lot of flavor, I just didn’t like it as much as I expected to. If you like harsher coffee, you might really enjoy this.
Cheers!

 

That’s what I was thinking, just got nervous for no good reason.
Ah well, it’s all good.

 

I agree. The name was a little exagerated. More dank please.

 

New real ale for me at Heathrow:

Doom Bar Amber Ale • English bitter • 4% ABV

No official review but dinnae matter because the bottom line is I love it. It’s much more malt than hops, so its bitter bite is more a late nibble. Still, it smells and tastes of rich dark bread with a hint of honey and peach preserves. Lovely stuff.

This one’s for @snaotheus :


That’s aboot a 5/5/4.25/4.5/4.25 … or some such.

Cheers!