What beer are you drinking now? #1561

good mornin', BA!

 

Wow, this beer is amazing. Definitely lives up to the hype. Great way to start the weekend. Cheers!

 

The Bruery • Cuivre

 

Good morning, all!
Celebrating my wife's birthday today.

 

Good morning BA, have a great Saturday! Finally got my W-2 in the mail this week, so I got all my tax returns filed last night before I went to sleep. Need to go out to the LHBS later today and get my CO2 tank filled. I discovered it was empty a couple days ago when I went to pour a brown ale, and nothing happened. I hope that keg doesn't have a leak in the seals. I always use keg lube when I fill new beers, and never had any problems before. Will investigate further when I have the tank filled. Might have to recarbonate that one. I haven't brewed anything in a few months, need to figure out what to make next. I still have an empty keg waiting.

Really nice pale ale. Flavors of grapefruit, lemon zest, orange peel, citrus rind, and pine hops; with moderate spicy rye bread and light honey malt balance; with herbal, floral, grassy hop earthiness. Moderate pine/rind bitterness and peppery rye spice on the finish. Medium bodied; crisp, sticky, resinous, and fairly creamy/grainy balanced mouthfeel. Very refreshing and enjoyable. A little rough on the hop bitterness and peppery rye presence, but very drinkable. Will get again soon.


Awesome this year! Flavors of ruby red grapefruit, tangerine, pineapple, peach, mango, passion fruit, lemon/orange peel, citrus rind, and pine; with some honey, cracker, bready malt balance; and floral/grassy hop earthiness. Moderate pine/rind/peppery bitterness on the finish; touch of fruit tartness. Medium bodied; crisp, sticky, resinous, and fairly grainy mouthfeel; touch of fruit acidity. Very drinkable with juicy hop/fruit flavors; a bit dank. Increasingly drying and never astringent. I finally finished off my 3rd 6 pack of Born Yesterday last week; I am tempted to go buy a full 12 pack of this now. Seriously delicious.


Delicious American stout. Flavors of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, cinnamon, raisin, nutmeg, vanilla, caramel, toasted dark bread, and brown sugar; with lighter notes of coffee, toffee, smoke, and charred grains. Moderate roast/char and piney/spicy hop bitterness on the finish. Medium bodied; balanced malt creaminess, chalky roast, and hop/spice stickiness in the mouthfeel. Light-moderate increasing bitter dryness. I like this just about as much as the base beer for the most part, but it has some differences. Feels less aggressively roasty/bitter; in favor of the spice and toffee/vanilla notes. More residual sweetness, which helps showcase the flavoring better. Will definitely keep grabbing more singles, I'm a big fan of this one.


Cellar grabbing last year's BA Bigfoot from the high altitude packs. This is fantastic! Flavors of caramel, toffee, toasted biscuit, brown bread, molasses, raisin, plum, fig, date, brown sugar, vanilla, toasted oak, bourbon, coconut, citrus zest, and herbal/piney hops. Light-moderate pine/citrus peel bitterness and bourbon/oak spice on the finish. Full bodied creamy/slick mouthfeel; with some balancing hop stickiness and light resins. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering resins, zero hop astringency. Outstanding beer all around as usual. Really mellowed out on the hops from the 1 year barrel aging, plus the 10 months I have cellared this bottle. Amazing barrel balanced with the base beer; no barrel booze, mildly warming 11.6%. Looking forward to buying this again this year. This was originally my 2700th review in 2014, still just as amazing or even better this time around.


Cheers

 

Happy birthday to her! A date at York River Landing later?

 

More than likely. YRL usually has the sours that she enjoys.

 

Good morning BAs! Well, it's a another snowy day here in NW PA - got a couple more inches overnight so we've got about four now - another four and I'll clean my driveway. Since I don't have to be anywhere until 5 Feb, there's no rush. Today's New Breakfast Beer:



Interesting (to me, at least) that this "porter" is more of a stout than yesterday's "stout". I guess the sliding scale from "porter" to "stout porter" is ambiguous at best. And I like the name - any beer named after a old novel by Edmond Hamilton can't be all bad! Now I've got to try Aztec Mummy and Infinity Beach. sounds like somebody naming beers is a science fiction fan.

One thing I don't like about MT bottled bombers is where they place their dates:



It's on the widest part of the ring and is the most likely spot to get worn off. At least they date their bottles, unlike too many other brewers.

 

Hey BA's

It's Saturday, the last one in January

This calls for a Celebration!

Cheers!

 

Last night was:

Lags IPA
Galaxy IPA
Hopsolutely

Welcome weekend!

 

I love that beer!

 

9.5% alcohol. 30 IBU. Brewed in Colorado.

 

Westmalle: Dubbel

 

Good Saturday morning !!!

 

I just had 3 farm fresh eggs mixed with American cheese and leftover porterhouse with Montreal seasoning scrambled together. Along with that I had a room temperature 2014 Backwoods Bastard in a tulip glass for breakfast. Outstanding combo!!!

 

I'm more than a little hungover so excuse my ramblings. These beers are all actually from my journey through DC yesterday, but we ended up meeting some fantastic couples at the bar last night and the conversations took precedence over posting beer pics. Forgive me.

Started off nice and easy with a Natty Boh at the Bier Baron Tavern to prepare myself for the various malt beverages I was about to consume.



Then, The Angel and The Sword by Civil Life brewing, described as their ESB



Then, Atlas Brewing was having a tap takeover, this is their Helles Lager



After that, we cashed out and walked over to The Big Hunt, where they had this on cask, Oliver Ales Creator and Destroyer, a brown Ale finished with vanilla, espresso and cocoa nibs if I recall correctly. Absolutely delicious.



Then I had the Teddy, a wet hopped pale ale from Heritage Brewing




Then a couple more of their house beers there at the bar before we left for Churchkey. I'll upload those pics later, I need to get ready to check out of the hotel so we can hit the Smithsonian. Cheers all.

 

Goodmorning BA starting the day with some delicious coffee coming from a amazong collab between barrier and other half so you knilow its going to be a good day... damn i feel good lol have a blessed day

 

Dry and delicious. Perfectly balanced One of my top 20 beers and I grab a least one case every year when it comes out. Good stuff if you can find it!

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Happy Saturday, BAs! We've got some light flurries here. Nothing too major thankfully. Going to look at houses a bit later, but getting some drink time in first.

1 week old. It's a goody.