New Beer Weekend #60

Yes! I can smell and taste it now I just needed my fix, it’s like I said last week.

“I’ll live vicariously through your fresh hop posts till I get to indulge myself and hopefully load my suitcase home “

 

Prairie Sneaking Suspicion Sour ale with Passion Fruit, Pineapple & Mango, 5.0% ABV; overall rating 4.19

Pours a bright & effervescent gold with a little haze and a sliver of rapidly falling beige head. Zero head retention & lacing

S: Tart pineapple & lemons, a little watermelon once warm

T: Follows the nose, plus salt & passion fruit, plus dryness up front. More pineapple tart/sweetness with salt & dryness, more passion fruit as this warms. Finishes tart, dry, salt with passion fruit, salt & pineapple

MF: Medium body, light carbonation

Pretty drinkable, one of the better sours I've had from them in a while. This would be a six pack worthy pick up in the Summer

 

Drekker Coconut Key Lime Pie Slang Du Jour Sour à la Mode, 6.9% ABV. Pours thick opaque pale yellow, with a one finger white head that left puree residue. Nose is lime, coconut, cheese, and banana. Taste is tart lime hitting you hard right up front, then cheese, slight banana, and granola. Excellent mouthfeel, overall outstanding.

4.4/5 rDev +7.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

Supposed to be like a key lime cheesecake. Surprisingly good.

 

Destihl Brewing Haze of the Dead Hazy DIPA, 8.5% ABV; 4.28 overall

Pours an effervescent & slightly hazed gold with a thumb+ of ivory colored head. Good head retention & lacing

S: Pineapple, lemon & mango once warm

T: Green melon dominates, plus dryness & strawberry up front. Pineapple, peach & green melon as this warms, plus a little lime & dryness as this warms. Finishes with grapefruit. green melon, mango & dryness

MF: Medium body, creamy carbonation , nice balance

Super drinkability, very solid for the style

 

Hello New Beer Weekend!!!

Long work week is done, and excited to have a day off work tomorrow. Unless things go awry, I'll be taking a road trip to southern Minnesota tomorrow to relax and unwind tomorrow on my day off.

There's one thing that might cause things to be messed up, and that's the new beer I'm having, well, that, and/or my insomnia I've been suffering from lately.

Now on to my new beer, and it's from a fairly new brewery, and we just got it in the area yesterday.


Barbarian Imperial Stout Bourbon Barrel Aged with Grogg Coffee - 12.0% ABV - Warrior Brewing - Duluth, MN.

I walked into work yesterday seeing this bottle (along with another that will be reviewed down the road sometime). I said, oh crap! Of course I had to get it.

There's a ton of coffee on this beer, and I'm digging it. Lots of great flavors from the stout and barrel. I'm impressed with this brewery, and can't wait to try more of their beers.

Review:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/60972/567909/


4.26/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

Beautiful pitch black pouring. There's a 3 finger tan head. The bubbles are very cloud like looking, soft,, and fluffy, with small bubbles. The head retention is very long lasting for a 12% beer, and there's a good bit of lacing on the glass.
The aroma has a bit of coffee on it. I also get some chocolate, caramel, toffee as well, but mostly coffee.
Taste - There's a lot of coffee, and it hits hard up front, and lingers throughout. The other flavors - chocolate, toffee, caramel, and a hint of lactose, as well - which I didn't expect. These flavors work very well together.
Body is decent, though a bit thinner than I was expecting. A bit of boozy feeling, but just a bit of burn.
Very delicious BA stout overall.


This will end my day, I'll see you down the road with new beers, maybe tomorrow, not sure.

 

Greetings, degenerates. It's been a while since I've had a new beer on a weekend, as I've been drinking old standbys for several weeks now. Yesterday, I took a quick drive into NYC for a couple of meetings, and I was able to drop by one of my former locals that sells single cans of lots of great stuff, including Finback. They mark it up a little high (6.50/can), but that's far less expensive and time-consuming than actually trekking out to the tap room. Anyway, I picked up a couple of cans, including this Finback Road to Earth DIPA. Expectations are high, as Finback has been pretty much at the top of their game for a couple of years now.

Pours a beautiful liquid gold with dense, long-lasting head that leaves behind complex lacing as it recedes. Hazy without being turbid, and would even go so far as to say as good an appearance as the best Tree House or Tired Hands (we'll talk about Other Half in a minute). You just look at this beer and want to drink it. Aroma is layered and somewhat enigmatic at first, but brings together citrus, stone fruit, cannabis, and faint but discernable dried cooking spices. As it warms, the dankness comes a little more to the forefront, but not in an overpowering way. Taste follows aroma and is what Other Half used to be at its best: teasingly bitter, mixing juice and pith in a way I can only call "adult" (this ain't no kiddie beer), and highly dimensional in a way that blends its various components in a way that creates a brew one likes as much as admires. This is a beer which, if you've been drinking a lot of mediocre NEPAs lately, makes you say, "Oh yeah, this is what this style is supposed to be!" Overall, a truly excellent beer. My one regret is that I only bought one can . . . if anyone reading this has access to this beer, let me know (this is not, ahem, a trade request in an inappropriate forum). And if you see this in the wild, pick it up without hesitation . . . you will not be disappointed. Cheers!

 

That was pretty much my take on it. Not a great beer, but a refreshing, relatively low ABV drink on a hot day.

TBH a BA sponsored German charter/brewery tour would probably sell out.

 

Thanks @SawDog505 for kicking this off today!
Today I put together pallet racking by myself. It’s warm out and those parts are heavy. So a sour hits the spot.
Jammy Pants from Great Notion, sent to me by @WunderLlama as part of an LIF associated with NBS BIF #13 (yes, it’s *still* going!)

poured raspberry red with bright pink dense head and smelled of elderberries! Oh, wait, wrong reference. Smelled fruity, raspberry and rhubarb and blackberry and stuff I couldn’t define.
The taste was tart up front and fruit at the swallow, really nice contrast and it worked well.
The feel was excellent, just carbonated enough to cut the dust.
Definitely would seek this one out if it was available here. Thanks Maynard!

 

I stumbled onto this at a shop on the other side of town. Instant purchase. My 10th Belgian IPA tick out of 1500+ reviews

De Ranke XX Bitter

33cL bottle EXP 07/01/2023 poured into a becher glass at fridge temp 6% ABV. The beer pours mostly bright light honey amber with bone colored head. The head builds quickly to a puffy peak and settles slowly to a rocky cap leaving a full lacing. The aroma is mild with floral hops and sweet caramel malt. The taste is semisweet caramel malt with grassy and floral hop notes right up front. Moderate bitterness. The mouthfeel is medium plus bodied with just above average carbonation and a mostly dry finish. Overall, delicious Belgian IPA.

That's all the new beers for me today. Cheers all!

 

Greetings and salutations!

Yet another phone's camera limping along...


https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/46317/566815/?ba=bobv#review




Unlabeled 16 ounce, canned 09/01/21.

Moderate pour yields a 1.5” white head over a bright, golden body with sticky lacing. Nose of citrus (tangerine, orange),
tropical fruit, with a bit of white grape and currants as well. Taste mirrors nose very closely with a finish of the above mentioned fruit with a slight citrus pith bitterness. Quite delicious, and at 5%, extremely crushable! Nice feel and overall, I hope they repeat this (with a label!)
Cheers to the crew next door for the hookup!

 

If you still have the bottle, can you please tell me if it was imported by Lime Ventures?

 

Alright, wish me luck, drinking a huge ABV DIPA for the first time in a while, this one is a whopping 8.8%. I used to enjoy Kane beers a lot more and Ripple, a 4.4% (or so) all nelson pale ale, was one of their original beers I loved best. Sadly they hazed it up and changed the hop bill, enjoyed it when I had it but being a different recipe it wasn't the Ripple I knew or loved. As these things go of course they have made Double Ripple as well, more is always better right? I know the answer here but I still was curious about this beer so I bought a single.

Kane - Double Ripple



This one pours pale light orange murk with a nice dense white head to start. Also had a nice dense white head, the head is mostly gone and leaves behind a thin layer of white with some splotchy bigger bubble islands. Some lacing remains from the original head.

The smell is stinky dank tropical fruit mix, it is not weed dank but rather dank in the sense that it is super pungent. It lacks any of the citrus/sour I associate with cannabis. The fruit notes range from overripe melon to pineapple and maybe a little grape.

Upon drinking it most of the tropical notes are gone and I'm just hit with overripe fruit and that pungent dank flavor. Maybe the slightest hint of white grape from the Nelson but that could be power of suggestion/know.

Mouthfeel is bigger side of medium, it does go down surprisingly easy though the ABV is very noticeable. Not huge ethanol burn, just a subtle warming sensation. It has a little hop bite, I hesitate to call it bitterness because to me it is more of that astringent hop burn bite.

Overall, eh, I guess I just don't get it. I try to revisit beers like this from time to time and every time I just have the same feeling of "why?" Too much alcohol, not much balance, hop burn, etc. Curiosity killed the cat here, there is no real relation to the beer (ripple) that I used to love so much, just another overhopped high ABV beer. It is funny because I know I'm in the minority on my overall impression, I've seen this beer get a lot of love in the regional forum, but I wanted to be truthful as to my personal reaction. A well made beer, just not for me.

 

Stone 25th Anny TIPA. It's a little unfair to drink this after that Finback, but it is a completely different style, etc. I don't know . . . what can I say? It's pretty much what you'd expect, a throwback to Ruination and early Enjoy By, without the inventiveness of their recent Liquid Poem. Perfectly competent, which isn't the same thing as perfectly enjoyable. Happy to have purchased the single can, would be a fine finisher after a night of drinking superior brews in service of keeping one's buzz on. You won't regret buying it, but you won't dream about it, either. Does that count as a legitimate review?

 

Insert hip hop reference anywhere - collaboration beer from Trillium and Monkish

triple ipa using a mosaic hop



4.25/5 rDev -2.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Pint can poured into a teku creates a frothy one finger foam crown , good retention, reduces to a thick layer with clingy lacings over a dark orange juice liquid

Aroma is orange citrus, tangerine, mango, juicy fruit bubble gum

Taste is mango, orange , citrusy

Sudsy mouthfeel , slight bitterness, the hop bite nicely lingers

Good beer