What Beer Are You Drinking Now? #2795

Have a good Monday. I have been playing Call of Duty Warzone with a good squad of 1 local friend and a couple other people we met online. Been going for 5 hours now. No plans to quit just yet.

Stone Neverending Haze IPA. Excellent session NEIPA. Opaquely murky. Great fluffy head retention/foamy lacing. Aromas and flavors of big mandarin orange juice, red grapefruit, lemon, lime, peach, pear, pineapple, apricot, passion fruit, mango, honeydew melon, blueberry, gooseberry, citrus peel/rind, wood, peppercorn, pine hops; with moderate wheat, cracker, biscuit dough, toasted malts; and herbal/floral/grassy hop earthiness. Light-moderate pine, citrus peel/rind, herbal, floral, woody, grassy, peppery bitterness on the finish. Medium carbonation and body; balanced creamy/bready/grainy malts, sticky hops, and some resins/rinds in the mouthfeel. Light-moderate increasing resin dryness; no hop astringency. Very smooth/soft, zero warming 4%, with minimal lingering hop burn after the finish. Awesome Citra/Mosaic profile. Very juicy, vibrant, and fairly dank/earthy hops; with a great wheat/oat/malt backbone for the ABV. Minimal residual sweetness with lingering resin dryness. No complaints. Held up extremely well for December canning. Loved the hop profile as expected.


Cheers

 

Good day BAs! The sky is threatening to burst open and rain today - OK by me since I got the lawn mowed yesterday and the garden won't mind the free water. Besides, there's always plenty to do inside the house and garage. Today's New Breakfast Beer:



If you're in search of the feared Estonian Tick, go for it. Otherwise save your money for a less-ordinary (3.6) Impy Stout.

 

Prairie Pirate Noir. Amazing as usual. Aromas and flavors of huge dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, toffee, fudge, vanilla, coconut, cream, toasted oak, brown sugar, and dark bread; with lighter notes of molasses, rum raisin, fig, date, cherries, licorice, smoke, and charcoal. Increasing booze in the aromas as it warms, but not overwhelming. Light roast/char bitterness and rum/oak spice on the finish. Light-medium carbonation and very full bodied. Very creamy/silky mouthfeel; with light slickness, chalky roast, and oak tannins. Slightly increasing bitter roast and tannic oak dryness. Never acrid/astringent. Incredible balance of the rum barrel and base stout. Pleasantly warming, but not boozy finish. Dangerously smooth sipper. Prairie imperial stouts rarely disappoint, very top tier stuff. I was able to get a lot of it this past year. Their BA stouts seem to be not as hard to come by anymore.


Cheers

 

Waldmann Brewery, Golden Lager

 

Good morning BA
Nightshifts start tonight. Gearing down for a nap...

Look at the head on that beer. First one from the pack that I've poured into a glass. Cheers all!

 

Block 15 Brewing Co. -- Sticky Hands

 

My Monday closer...

Stroh's brewed in Milwaukee and bourbon from Ohio. Strange times.

Cheers all and enjoy your Monday!

 

Good afternoon advocates and happy Monday. Getting into some monkish. Just more spectacular hop juice cheers

 

Everybody's Brewing -- Mountain Mama (courtesy of @Mister_Faucher)



3.46/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Beautiful yellow gold body; fair amount of yeast sediment clouding the appearance; excellent thick and sticky white head. Minimal smell; mainly light grain. Decent flavors; diluted citrus juiciness; very mild bread crust; fair hop bitterness. Relatively heavy mouthfeel yet flat and watery; mild citrus acidity; semi-sweet.

There was no canning or packaging date found on the can. The beer is drinkable yet unremarkable.
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...gonna have a beer finger and hot wing brunch with Rocket the Wonder Dog...

 

Who made the Ohio bourbon? Tom Foolery?

 

Head High an excellent AIPA from Kane Brewing one of the best breweries in NJ

 

Balebreaker -- Bottomcutter (another quality quaff by way of @Mister_Faucher)

 

Zed Lupulin DIPA from KCBC

 

A little Kettlehead before I mow and weed wack. Cheers all.

 

Toppling Goliath - Intergalactic Warrior IPA (16oz can).. cheers!

 

Monkish riffs. Double Dry Hopped Double IPA with Citra & Galaxy hops. Cheers

 

Lunch beer, another Cumbre Acclimated. 8 mile run earlier, before the heat hits. Just another 90 degree day here on the Front Range. Good for the garden though.
I still miss John Prine. Only saw him once, live, in Austin - but he's one of the greatest song-writers of the last 40-50 years in my opinion (whether or not you like his voice).

Cheers!

 

Went to the store today for the first time in months?? It was fairly empty at the 8 AM hour. Grabbed some tall boys I haven't had and brought them home with a sixer of 40th Anniversary that turned out to be 6 months old??
The Tropic Of Thunder turned out good in spite of being 3 months old.



Starting early today. Got a new CD from Josh Ritter.

 

Nice - never heard of this guy (Josh Ritter). Yeah, I probably do live under a rock sometimes. Good discovery - thanks for sharing. Puttin that on my listening list.

 

Budweiser -- Bud Light



...with Lowell George...

 

Not a sour fan, but this nice.

 

Starting off with some Six Year from Finback. Cheers, advocates!!!

 

Kicking off yet another day of SIP Fest 2020 with Alesmith's Forgeberry.

It's fine. It tastes like a kettle sour with raspberry juice added to it. At least the kettle sour flavor isn't overwhelming, I really don't enjoy that.

Activity today is approaching the end game of my wife's birthday cake -- crumb coat done and waiting for the whole thing to cool down for final frosting and decoration. Going to need to make a little more frosting, though.



No music at the moment -- although Mrs. snaotheus and I took today and tomorrow off, the kids are still "in school," and it's best not to offer them distractions.

 

Good afternoon everyone, lunchtime temporary picture hosting

 

Heard it here >> @KHYI.com "The Range" Josh has more.

 

Cheers!

 

Cheers!

 

Urban Chestnutt -- #6



3.24/5 rDev -14.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25

Revisited June 15th, 2020

Original ratings: 3.75 3.5 3.0 3.0 3.0

head is thicker, stickier, longer lasting. More mainstream AAL scents; light malt. Still a light and indistinct beer taste. The body is light with a modicum of body.

Some general improvements this go around, yet still a mediocre AAL...
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Outstanding pale straw yellow body; minimal carbonation; thin, white head; patchy fingers of foam stick to the glass. Fair aroma; a little honey and corn. Some bright sweetness to the taste and a bit of bitterness appearing towards the finish; a touch of adjunct corn taste is also in the mix. Light body; thin yet crisp; semi-dry.

Even for an adjunct lager, this beer is pretty mediocre, especially when it comes to taste and mouthfeel. I can see this being a decent beer for a summer cookout or a ball game or at the beach.

May 23, 2020
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Believe I picked this piece of vinyl up at WOM (aka World of Music off the Ku'Damm) in then West Berlin back in the late 80s...

 

#600 rating/review. Another new beer for Monday. More California beer. Pretty much a Little Sumpin' Sumpin' Light but damn good. Wifey is making the Cincinnati Chili today.

 

Ain't Nothing Nice from Other Half. We'll see about that. I wish I could rely on my ratings/reviews, but I simply can't. I have too many that I need to log right now, but I'm not inspired. I've lost so many beers over the years because I'm simply not keeping score. Peace to whatever is in your glass!!! I love you.

Shorty, let me tell you 'bout my only vice
It has to do with lots of loving and it ain't nothing nice...

 

We love Josh Ritter.
Heres one of my favorites
Cheers

 

Does this count as lawn mower beer? NEDIPA from Kettlehead.

 

Beer 2

Black Project's Tombstone.

This is a nice sour.