What Beer Are You Drinking Now? #2115

I almost wet myself when I saw the third picture

 

Too Close to Call: 4+ Rated beers this week
077-19148 - Citra | Carton
4.2/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

a) Sticky, clear, lacey.
s) Bigger than most odubs: dank, fruit, berry, grass.
t) more hemp on the way. Follows smell but juicy and supported on caramel malt base.
f) Mid, but extra tongue tickle. Finishes clean, dry.
o) A favorite 077- and I think we need to collect them to blind taste them to calibrate.

Good N' You? | Springdale
4.1/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
One of the juiciest, lovely. A favorite.
A) a waif, fizzy head that fades quickly, dotty lace, dark obscure, cloudy golden-orange body.
S) Big Nose! Of citrus, orange zest, tangerine, orange creamsicle, mango papaya on a creamy malt base, with just enough bittering hops to save it from being all-fruit bomb. Very Juicy.
T) More and juicier, like strained out of the blender, almost pulpy. Long profile.
F) Mid weight, creamy, low carb, filling - a meal.
O) Original, powerful, if you like fruit and power in a single IPA this is it.

Mosaic-Hero India Pale Ale | Revolution
4.1/5
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

All the heroes are great from Revolution. Would have to arrange a blind test to rank them sequentially.
$1.70 at Wegman's in mix-six.
a) Clear, deep orange-amber, with active white head that lasts and laces resonably. Good color.
s) It's a pungent aroma with abundance of tropical fruits including grapefruit rind.
t) Follows the aroma with added pine, wet grass, marmalade, mango, and berries. The caramel malt is balanced by the ample bitter, rendering my favoite kind of flavor see-saw. dank and fruity.
f) Medium bodied, good feel, tickle and finishes crisp and dry. The finish with lingering pine.
o) Mosaic truthfully rendered.

Devil's Reach | Cape May Brewing
4.1/5 rDev +5.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Beast of belgian, great beer, at brewer.
A) Persisting head over golden hazed body.
S) Large Flavors in the Aroma.
T) Ample fruit sweetness, Belgian yeast, pils, grass, orchard, mild bitterness, and alcohol.
F) Mid, creamy, and smooth tickley finish.

JER 1 | Carton (APA)
4.1/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Pleased to be first review of Jer 1 on the Brewers' Board at Carton.
Big flavor for a 5% beer. APA is my favorite style and this fresh flavor bomb made locally wins my vote.
a) Hazed cloud golden body sports a thin white head that bubbles and laces brightly with a swirl. 4
s) Creamsicle, orange, zest, mainly citric nose, on a creamy malt base.
t) Big. Flavor follows smell, with more citrus, orange, creamsickle notes dominating over a pleasant malt ride.
f) Nice dance of creamy, juicy, hempy - that dries in a long bittering finish that sports well with food _ tonight at FRESH with Little Necks, Halibut, Risotto and garden salad.
o) Great food beer.

 

This was surprisingly really nice. Flavors of big juicy strawberry, orange, lemon, lime, citrus zest, peach, pineapple, apricot, papaya, mango, watermelon, and guava fruits; with some cracker/bready malt and white sugar sweetness; light herbal/grassy hops. Light herbal/grassy bitterness and fruit tang/tartness on the finish. Lightly increasing bitter, tart, tangy, spicy alcohol dryness. No cloying. Dangerously smooth, mild warmth of 8%. Liked this more than the Natty Rush Hurricane one, way smoother and less harsh on alcohol. Great spot on fruit punch taste, solid malt presence, mild earthy hops. These things are rarely terrible(to me at least).


Cheers

 

Bretta Rose

 

That’s what you get.

 

Foam bomb.

 

Lazy drinking afternoon.

 

Drinking a Cheetah on the rooftop at Rhinegeist...



Cheers!

 

Getting very little done today - 93 degrees in the shade with a heat index of 103...too hot/humid to even hang out at the pool! A cold Jai Alai on the balcony before retreating indoors:



A pic of most of yesterday’s bottle share:



No wonder I slept in this morning

 

About to go forage the river a block away for a couple large rocks to place on the bottom of a large pot for this new key lime tree. I hope I don't kill it and lots of fresh tasty margaritas with the help of this tree are in the near future. Glad I only grabbed a single of this for a $1.79. Too sweet and definitely not hitting the spot.

 

Was the Lags 12th of Never the palate cleanser?

 

This is the last of the beers I hauled home from DC.

 

Hello Virtual Bar patrons. It's a hot, humid Sunday here in North Jersey. We're still waiting for our new deck to be built (hopefully in time for Marzen season) but I'm happy to escape to the cool, dry atmosphere of the basement. This year's batch of Citrapollo is outsanding! Apollo is becoming one of my favorite hops, thanks to Carton and Magnify.

 

Beer #5. Thanks @larryi86 !

 

Pilsner Urquell. So damn good.

 

With it feeling like October weather in Boston today (well perhaps like October in Death Valley), I thought why not.