New Beer Weekend #44

Now up Notch Kölsch, good stuff and I’m excited to try the other German style brews I got from Notch.

4.23/5 rDev -1.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

16 oz can poured into a mug

A- A clear golden straw with a two finger white head.

S- Pale malts, some pears, hints of white grapes, floral, some toasted sweet bread.

T- Sweet bread, touch of honey, hints of pears, floral, touch of grapes, slightly earthy.

M- Smooth, medium body.

O- A well brewed and easy to drink Kölsch with a nice amount of sweetness while still being balanced.

Cheers!

 

Drekker Cyber Scream TNEIPA, 10% ABV. Pours hazy bright gold, with a two-finger snow white head that left foamy lacing. Nose is fruity. Taste is a mashup of fruits including melons and tropical, light sweetness and moderately bitter. Excellent mouthfeel, overall excellent to outstanding.

4.15/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Taking a break from replacing outlets and switches, I've gotten about half of the house done. Old ones were starting to wear out after 25 years. In the process I've found a number of mistakes the original electricians made, like untightened terminals and a miswired three-way circuit. The new ones are Leviton Renu, which come in 20 colors and the plates are screwless.

 

Honeystone by Transient

4.25/5 rDev +0.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Can received in a ninja strike from @ovaltine in association with Bif13



Appearance

Pours a deep hazy amber liquid, almost brewed tea in appearance. Capped with a three finger foamy white foam cap. Good retention sticky Lacings reduces to a frothy ring with islands

Aroma

Aroma is honey, Malts, tropical fruit

Taste

Taste is honey, Malts, tropical fruits,

Mouth feel

Medium sudsing, some gravity in The feel, no hop bite, hop taste only

Overall

Good beer, enjoyable and repeatable

Thank you @ovaltine

 

Good Saturday afternoon, New Beer Weekenders. Magnify Brewing Co., one of the pillars of our local craft scene, it celebrating its 6th Anniversary this week. Early in it's days of brewing it produced a series of Farmhouse-styled beers, the "Woah" series. I enjoyed a pour of Woah Nelly, the Farmhouse DIPA hopped with Nelson Sauvin, the first time I visited the small, raucous taproom, 2016. I wasn't able to make notes and never reviewed this beer. I recall wanting to buy cans but they were sold-out. So, 5 years later, a proper review. I'm drinking it in my circa. 2016 Magnify tulip glass.

It pours an opaque, bright golden orange with more than a finger of fluffy, milk-white head and spotty lacing. On the nose there is bready yeast with a hint of Belgian funk, lite citrus, and floral hops. The taste opens with a tangerine sweetness balanced by tart lemon and grapefruit and white wine grape from the generous use of Nelson Sauvin hops. The malt in the background provides some additional sweetness. And the farmhouse influence is obvious; it provides just enough funk to make the taste unusual. The mouth feel is surprisingly lite and crisp for the 8% ABV. Overall, it's been a long time since I first had this beer on draught at the brewery and I'm enjoying the canned version immensely. I hope Magnify doesn't wait so long to brew it again.

While Woah Nelly isn't my favorite Magnify DIPA by a longshot, it's nicely crafted and brings back great memories of the early days of one of my go-to breweries.

4.04/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

See you tomorrow with a couple of new reviews. Cheers, NBW!

 

Second new beer of the weekend: Opalescent Tree Shark by Cloudburst.

16oz can served in a can-shaped pint glass. Dated 5/13/21. Bought it at the brewery a couple days ago.

Pours hazy yellow-amber with a huge head that collapses to a moderately thin cap, thick and craggy. Smell is pineapple and resin.

Taste is pineapple, a little mango and citrus, more pith, maybe a little melon. With a strong bitter finish.

Mouthfeel is light and smooth. Overall, very good beer.

 

Thanks for kicking us off @SawDog505
Jumping off with a new beer to me, new brewery to me, and a newly added to the database by me. Here we go, a SoCal take on a hazy.

Bunny With A Chainsaw by Paperback Brewing in Glendale, CA.

16 oz can. No date.
Fluffy white cap pushes more than 2 fingers high. hazy straw to subdued orange in hue. Good retention. Pretty nice layered lacing.
Nose pumps grass and then citrus notes go orange and lemon zest. A smooth grain note is also detected, but tamed by a slightly herbal onion note. As it sits, notes of pineapple and mango come through as well. This all works well together.
Flavor is mostly following the grass, citrus and grain from the nose.
Mouthfeel is medium, decent carb, and a very light prickly finish. Lively.
Overall, pretty solid.
3.81/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

 

Enjoying some nice tree and cloud cover from the heat with a Levante Kolibri.
4/5 rDev +5.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

16 oz can poured into a mug

A- A clear golden straw with a two finger white head.

S- Bread/biscuits, earthy, slightly floral, hints of light fruits.

T- Bread, doughy, wheat, earthy, a little floral with hint of light fruits.

M- Smooth, light to medium body.

O- A nice Kölsch, easy to drink.

Cheers!

 

I always enjoy your musings on the drink, but this was classic:
"With the low din of a continuous Star Trek phasers firing in the background as 17yr old bugs tried to get laid..."

 

Howdy NBSers! Got up early for work today, and the product wasn't ready to be packaged. I coulda stayed in bed. Starting my beer day with a new one from Reuben's, Golden Gardens. I guess this is a Golden/Blonde ale, but the breweries website had no details under the beers listing, just marketing jargon. Is it so fucking hard to put the damn style on the label? Apparently so:

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/29693/550527/

 

Trillium Twice the Daily Serving with Raspberry. As I've said with other iterations in this series, this can really hardly be called beer; it ostensibly has a Berliner-like base, topped off with tons of fruit puree. What I can say is that these are probably the best fruited beers I've ever had, just exploding with fresh fruit, with no weird lactose or flour additives. I'm a little torn between this and the mixed-berry version that @tasterschoice62 sent me as my first exposure to the series. That one was slightly more complex, but the off-the-wall raspberriness of this puts just as big a smile on my face. Oh, and the mouthfeel of the "Twice" versions is a pure delight. It's probably a good thing that Trillium limits its shipments to PA residents (three 4-packs a month), or I'd be drinking these every day. Cheers!

 

Thanks! I now know at least two people read my marathon post

Funny thing is I don't hear too many cicadas nearer to me right now. So even though I'm finding a good number of the insect, they might only be the appetizer. I was thinking it didn't seem as crazy as 2004... yet?

 

Up next on this NBS is a local brew, Kulshan Helles. It's a good, solid take on the style.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/28281/550548/

 

Moving on to Notch Tenner.
4.3/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

16 oz can poured into a mug

A- A fairly clear golden copper with a small white head.

S- Sweet bread, earthy spice, some biscuits, a little floral.

T- Crackers, sweet breast, earthy spice, hints of citrus, a little floral.

M- Smooth, crisp, light to medium body.

O- A well done and nicely balanced Pilsner.

Cheers!

 

A third beer, also from the Ballast Point mix pack.

Ballast Point Wee Gus



Can notes: 12 oz 1/26/21 11:21 am. 4.2% abv. A hoppy lager. Poured into a shaker pint glass.

Appearance: Faint straw color, minimal carbonation, light creamy head leaves soapy lacing and foam over the base. 3.25

Aroma: Bread, cracker, salt. Light lemon sand pine. 3.5

Taste: Nice firm lager, bread, salty. Hops more prevalent in the taste, pine grapefruit. Complements the malt taste profile. 3.75

Mouthfeel: Thin, minimal carbonation, salty with faint hip bitterness, very easy drinking. 3.5

Overall: Nice light lager, like the hops presence here and pine grapefruit presence to the typical lager taste profile. Would grab these again. 3.75

Cheers!

 

Howdy NBWs
Cross post from WBAYDN
Drinking this for the first time.


Poured from a can dated 4/8/21
Slightly cloudy golden yellow, thick foamy head, soapy lacing thin cap.
Aroma is floral and tropical, notes of pineapple and grapefruit rind. some malt may be a hint of lemon.
Taste is fruit forward lending to floral to a bitter grapefruit rind finish
Mouthfeel is a bit of a sticky start to an astringent finish, thin feeling and medium carbonation. Lingering lemon rind finish
Overall it is not as mellow as Sip, it's light quite bitter feeling, not a bad IPA

4.25/4.25/4.25/4/4.25 4.23 rDev. 1%