What beer are you drinking now? #1100

New Holland Triple Mash Dragon's Milk, thanks to fellow BA @pagriley.

 

NBS X-Post!

I made a very big beer haul on Friday after work, plenty of new beers to try once again. I am going to start buying less regular drinking brews for a week or two, my closet is overflowing with those haha.

Here are today's new beers:

Very nice pale ale. Nice webs of lacing down the glass, with great head retention. Aromas and flavors of big grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, mango, lemon zest, orange peel, and pine; with moderate malts of caramel/toasted biscuit and floral/grassy hop earthiness. Light-moderate pine/grassy bitterness on the finish; with a great hop/malt balance along with bitterness on the finish. Very smooth with balanced bready creaminess and hop stickiness in the mouthfeel. Overall, really well done and very enjoyable. The malt profile and hop balance is reminiscent of how Sierra Nevada goes about things with their harvest ales; and it has a really nice mix of hop complexity.


Wow this was outstanding. Aromas and flavors of big dark roasted coffee, dark chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, toffee, molasses, toast, dark bread, bourbon, oak, and light dark fruit. Light roasted bitterness and bourbon/oak spiciness on the finish; with a really great balance of the coffee/cocoa, malt, and barrel flavors; along with roasted coffee bitterness/sweetness after the finish. Medium-full bodied; with a moderate creamy/silky mouthfeel with some lightly sticky/chalky notes from the barrel, roast malt, and coffee/chocolate additions. The bourbon barrel presence was really awesomely balanced; some may say it is not enough, but it was still very noticeable and had zero booziness, unlike some BBA beers I have had in the past. The nose definitely out-stood the taste, but the taste was still really impressive. Nose was a complete coffee bomb with very distinct earthy/fruity coffee complexity; nearly identical to the Epic Baptist I had last weekend. Smoothness was top tier for 11%, my glass was gone fast. Only a small lingering warming after the finish. I will be getting a few more of these for sure. I had the chili pepper one yesterday, and it was a definite improvement over last year too in regards to the pepper heat/drink-ability.


Excellent Irish red! Aromas and flavors of big caramel, maple syrup, toffee, vanilla, raisin, plum, fig, apple, brown sugar, toasted bread, light chocolate, oak, light bourbon, and light herbal/grassy hop notes. Light herbal bitterness and oak spiciness on the finish; with a really great balance between malt, maple barrel, and fruity yeast flavors. Medium carb/bodied with a nice moderate amount of creaminess/silkiness in the mouthfeel from the barrel and dark malts. Very smooth with zero warming ABV, but it's 5.8% so no surprise there. Overall, zero complaints at all. I really enjoy the regular base beer even though it has a 3.4 rAvg; but this version is much more mellowed out, less dry, and really well balanced between a lot of complex flavors; and has a really great mouthfeel to boot. Love it.


Cheers!

 

Evening closer, hope everyone had a great Sunday! @lambpasty , A little Meat Loaf with this evening closer!

 

Ah, an old favorite paired with an old metal classic from the same region...in time for the Kings/Oilers game. Cheers!

 

Common Roots DIPA. perfection.

 

This was a pricey one, but delicious none the less

 

Love that Scrabble tea towel in the background!

 

Woot!!! Glad you liked the beers!!! Looking forward to anything you're sending

 

Peche Mortel.

 

I love 4 Hands and this a pretty good sour, but the hops are dominating.

 

Cheers!

 

In honor of Al Golden getting fired

 

page 11 on entry #1100... nice

 

Timed out of the last posting attempt of the above so let's try this again, my Surface Pro has not been responding very well all evening for some stupid reason ... meant to post:

Evening closer, hope everyone had a great Sunday! @lambpasty , a little Meat Loaf with this evening closer!

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(Had to finish on a desk top computer ... *geez* ... too much work for electronics that can't work right ... I'm outta here - hope everyone had a great Sunday! )

 

Country Boy Brewing Bourbon Barrel Aged Knotty Pine

aka Country Boy Constant Sorrow. Delicious.

 

Needed the right sized beer for the Homeland/Walking Dead doubleheader tonight.

 

Sunday Cheers BA

 

Saucony Creek (PA) Maple Mistress pumpkin ale