What beer are you drinking now? #1611

morning coffee. rise & grind.

 

Good morning BA, have a great Sunday! I ended up waking up really early and couldn't get back to sleep. Got bored and discovered how ridiculously easy it is to upload beer photos with the photo resizing site they link. Never used it until now. Since I take really consistently framed photos of all of my beers, I just started going through my review list and ended up adding 80-90 to the site. Easy to just crop the bottle/can out. Still have tons more I can do, but I will do it some other time I am bored again. Be assured that all beers I review will have a label photo from now on. Another usual Sunday of bottle returns, laundry, and catching up on work for tomorrow.

Insane DIPA as always. Finally found a fresh 4 pack last week. Bright hop flavors of lemon, orange, grapefruit, pineapple, peach, passion fruit, papaya, mango, melon, berry, citrus peel, light pepper, and pine hops; with light honey, bready malt balance; and herbal, floral, grassy hop earthiness. Moderate pine resin/spicy bitterness. Balanced sticky/resinous hops and creamy/grainy malts in the mouthfeel. Increasing bitter dryness, no hop astringency. Highly drinkable and pretty crisp finishing. One of my top favorite DIPAs when fresh, just wish fresh packs were easier to find more often. Seems to only be every 6 months or so around here. Very juicy/dank on hop characteristics and not overly resinous, just the right amount. Mosaic hops are the best, this might be the first one I had with them included. Reviewed it in 2013.


Still tasting amazing. Flavors of coconut, vanilla, spiced rum, milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, toffee, brown sugar, toasted dark bread, oak, and light molasses/coffee. Light roast bitterness and rum/oak spice on the finish. Full-ish bodied and nicely creamy/silky in the mouthfeel; with some light sticky/chalky roast, and a touch of roasted dryness. Lightly warming finish; no barrel booziness at all. Very smooth, rich, and complex. Lots of coconut and rum, but still very well balanced with the base beer. Glad I bought a lot of these, still plenty left. Probably my favorite variant they released so far. Luckily ended up getting 1 triple mash from one of my main stores last week, will have to check it out soon. Next release is going to be Mexican Spice Cake. Just got label approval last month. Will definitely be stocking up. Love pepper stouts.


Outstanding quad! Glad these are year round and 4 packs now. Flavors of raisin, plum, fig, date, lightly tart cherry, apple, pepper, clove, brown sugar, brown bread, toffee, vanilla, toasted oak, bourbon, coconut, and yeast earthiness. Moderate peppery yeast/oak spice and light fruit tartness on the finish. Medium-high carbonation and medium-full bodied. Creamy/grainy with slight slick/syrupy notes in the mouthfeel; but still ending nicely crisp and drying from carbonation. Awesome barrel balance, with great well rounded complexity from yeast and malts. Very smooth sipping, mildly warming 11.9%. I really should buy a full 4 pack soon, I keep buying more singles every single week. Great price. Hoping to see Sixth Glass 4 packs around here soon as well.


Got my KBS this week, but going for a 2016 this morning. Tasting insane as it was last year, probably the best batch of recent memory(6 year span since I first tried one). Will have to compare to this year. Flavors of big nutty dark roasted coffee, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, caramel, molasses, vanilla, toffee, bourbon, toasted oak, and coconut; hint of smoke. Bittersweet roast and lightly spicy oak/bourbon finish; with a creamy/silky/velvety full body, touch of chalky roasted dryness. Minimal warming 12.4%. Pretty much perfectly balanced between coffee, malt, and barrel character. This definitely takes me back to memories of having my first KBS. Mind blowing delicious. Might have to update this review, though the score might not change much. Been 5 years since I wrote it.


Cheers

 

I'm up! Cheers BA and happy breakfast and brotziet!



It's not even 9 am and I already drank all my beer for today

 

Uhm, is that scrambled eggs with sage

 

Yes! and cheese! It's Sunday so there's cheese =) Cheers!

 

The Commons • Maybelle - Farmhouse ale aged in Chardonnay barrels

 

Morning Sunday BA's

Got my morning coffee, and CREAM....yum

Getting ready to go out for a foggy misty hike in a few minutes....



some recent thrift store finds....gotta love Pete's



quite a craft pioneer - blast from the past!

 

Good morning BAs! A cross-post with NBS, from @THSdrummer in NBS BIF #5:



I like this better than most saisons that I have tried.

 

Happy Sunday folks!
I am having my night cap.
This is one darn well brewed beer.
Cheers.

 

Thirsty this morning so having some Lost Nation Mosaic Juice, yum goes down way too fast. Cheers all.

 

2015 MILF in #properglassware from the generous @jdell15. Happy Sunday, BAs!

 

Thank you @Rcruz9230

 

Long walk to and back from park with the dogs. My new beer this Sunday morning is "Barrel Aged Bible Belt", a Prarie collab w/Evil Twin:



Big bourbon nose. Chocolate, chilies, and cinnamon...still taking notes as I sip this 13% breakfast beer...will post on NBS shortly. Have a great Sunday and go UK!

 

Good morning, BAs! Starting off this morning with the remainder of my Burley Oak - Haze Craze howler. Damn fine ipa.

 

I have a couple Pete's Wicked Ale pint glasses that I got back in the 1990's.

 

Me too! I think I have 4 different Pete's glasses now....very cool!