What Beer Are You Drinking Now? #3692

Enjoying a Celebration with round 2 after having a Foothills Sexual Chocolate with round 1 which surprisingly was a heavy roasted and hopped imperial stout with a light touch of cocoa adjunct. Turned out to be much better than expected.
Cheers!
Tom

 

Leinenkugel's Toasted Bock, 5.1% ABV. Pours dark brown, with a one-finger beige head that left no lacing on the fine plastic cup. Nose is toasted malt. Taste is toast, faintly bitter. Excellent mouthfeel, overall excellent.

3.99/5 rDev +9.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

This was a free beer I got with my hotel room in Chippewa Falls, WI, home of Leinenkugel's. I suspect that the brewery provides these at most/all hotels in town. I had a choice of others, but this sounded good, and it was. Just occurred to me - I paid for two rooms, should have gotten two beers.

 

Big Horn (The RAM) Bogus West Coast IPA

 

It's some straight purple bud. Real nice aroma and flavor. Surprisingly its better than the last batch of Gary P. Puts off a lot of kief so iv been topping bowls.

 

Well, the time has arrived for a lawn mower beer except its not grass I'm grooming. The two-stage snow blaster LIVES!! A tin of Labatt Blue Light to clear my elderly neighbor's drive first and I'll take a break w another one B4 clearing my drive. Rock Steady! Cheers!

This tune goes out to @LarryV and @budsNpils

 

G'day all!

Snowy and night it twas. Enjoying this nice "Double Coffee Porter".

Prost!

 

Lovely drawing
So expressive
Cheers

 

That beer is so good
Cheers

 

Life can be unkind at times.

 

Miller Lite is right.....

 

Agreed - it's a bit different than most other brown ales too. Uniquely Berkshires.

 

Tonight’s Blind Battle Beer Tasting Lineup:

1) Alaskan Winter Ale (6.4%): A Winter Warmer from Alaska with flavors of dark bread malt, sweet grape, and chocolate. Malty, yet drinkable.
versus
2) Deschutes Jubedale (6.7%): A Winter Warmer from California that has flavors of citrus, roasted caramel, and bitter pine.
versus
3) New Belgium Holiday Ale (7.5%): A Winter Warmer from Colorado with flavors of cranberry and cinnamon spices.

4) Hubbard’s Cave Fresh IIPA One Hop Simcoe (8.5% canned 8/17/22): A NEIPA from Illinois with Simcoe for flavors of resinous tangerine, earthy grapefruit, and a smooth malty body.
versus
5) Toppling Goliath Soul Hunter (7.8% canned 9/8/22): A NEIPA from Iowa with Simcoe Cryo and Riwaka for flavors of sweet orange flower, pineapple, and mango.
(mismatched #1 and #2 blind, correctly matched the rest)
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Winners:

1) Alaskan Winter Ale: New Belgium drinks like an autumn harvest tea with cinnamon spices, but not quite my "cup of tea". Jubedale drinks much more bitter and piney than I remember.... maybe even up the alley of Celebration. If Alaskan Brewery can do one thing that is make malty beers. This one has tons of dark bread, toasted flavor with some smooth chocolate notes within. Lots of flavor, yet a drinkable ABV.

5) Toppling Goliath Soul Hunter: Approaching three months out and still drinking at top quality. Nice balance of sweet orange, pineapple, and mango balanced by the bitter floral notes. It may be getting even better with some age on it. Simcoe and Riwaka are a great combination here.

 

Sweet!! #ILoveKief

 

Work complete
Cemetery work complete
Service work today, got that canning line running
This now
Do good
It is giving Tuesday, (every day in my mind)
Be well

 

Good tune, going to have to break out the Lambs Bread

 

That's another good brew from BBC. Cheers my friend!

 

Turning into a Bock-like evening. Samuel Adams Winter Lager. Smooth as silk.



No telling how great Lee Morgan could have been. Died at age 33. Shot to death by his common law wife.

 

Picked up some Deschutes Jubel Ale today. Going to try it for the first time sometime this week.

 

Told myself I wouldn't buy any BCBS this year because I just don't need it. Have too much from previous years...but now I'm feeling left out.

Breaking out some 14 from last year to compensate. Tasting quite good actually. Cheers!

 

USA! USA! USA!

Station Craft The Black Dahlia Dark Czeck Lager (and it bangs):

 

Cheers y'all!

Celebration

 

Good evening BA
I took yesterday off to give my liver a break. Unfortunately, that just makes me dream about combos like this.

Danger City Brown Ale provided by @beergoot and Old Forester 1920 gifted by me. Cheers all!

 

Cheers gang!

 

Just finished dinner and now I'm having this excellent beer from Brick & Feather courtesy of @SABERG. I will probably spark up this bone shortly as well.



@budsNpils - launch time ..

 

Break time! One more Labatt Blue Light for me. Driveway 1 complete. Cheers!
Mine.

Neighbor + 40X40 pad on right behind pine

 

I'll join your porter escapade. Having a Mayflower Porter, straight from my basement. It's such a great beer. Salute!

 

Catching up on email while enjoying this beer from @Coronaeus. Very good Marzen.

Also exhausted from watching USMNT game. Great result, but man was that last 20 minute or so stressful.

 

I could definitely drink this one year round.

 

Well why not jump from a 4.2% 96 cal beer to a 9.5% 250 cal beer, it is Taco Tuesday after all..........

 

Phantom Canyon Brewing Co. -- 2022 Bourbon Barrel-Aged Barleywine
Traditional English-style barleywine aged for 3 months in Elijah Craig '14 Year' barrels
ABV: 10.5%; ouring temperature: 41 °F; bottling info: 2022; Limited Bottle Release #49 of 172



4.05/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

Deep garnet hued body; dense carbonation; less than one-finger thick head yet dense, creamy, and light khaki colored; nice sheets of foam coat the interior glass. Mild toffee notes with white oak on the nose. Big malt flavor; caramel and light toffee; light brown sugar and vanilla; fairly bold bourbon element emerges halfway through the taste; earthy sweetness. Heavy body; smooth and velvety; fairly intense alcohol warmth percolates through the residual sugars.

This English-styled barleywine is a fine sipper. Just the base beer would have been nice. I would like to try this one with a year or so of aging to see if it would have tamed the barrel-aging a bit. It has some intensity now that being dialed back a bit would round out the character and overall enjoyment of the beer.

 

Half Acre -Benthic 2x4

a side of one of my favorite albums of 2022

 

Thirsty and planning on crushing this less than stellar collaboration. Cheers all.

 

Old Combine 4 Grain Lager by Moonlight Brewing


3.93/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Can received in a Lif associated in Bif16 from @Beersnake1

Brewers notes: Oats, rye, wheat and barley give this lager an unusually rich and intriguing mouthfeel. Just the perfect zing of hops brings these grains to vibrancy!

American lager has little in the way of hop and malt character. A straw to gold, very clean and crisp, highly carbonated lager. Hop aroma and flavor are low to medium-low, deriving from noble-type hops. Hop bitterness is medium. Toasted, biscuit-like, and/or bready malt flavors along with low levels of fermented-malt-derived sulfur compounds may be evident.

Canned on 10.5, opened 11.29

Creamy , fluffy , long lasting off white frothy cap lazily lingers over a clear golden liquid with numerous carbonation streams . Very good retention , spotty lacings, settles to a thin layer

Aroma is spicy, malty , grains

Taste is malty, rye, spicy notes , the rye seems to dominate , biscuity

Sudsy mouthfeel , hop nibble on the finish

Good beer

 

Next up and I am digging this one more for sure.

 

I don’t know where our athletic got the idea we’re a west coast school** with 9pm tipoffs, especially given our general hubris about the level of academics at the university:


We’ve weaseled into a #3 ranking and hope to take out the team of @jvgoor3786 tonight, likely after I’ve fallen asleep.

**granted the game is in Ann Arbor

 

Oskar Blues Hazy Blues

 

G'evening BA's.

November 29th is a tough day for me...Mom passed away 7 years ago today after a month long battle with numerous health issues.

Going to have a couple beers tonight, starting with this one

Couldn't find Colt 45, which was always a joke she hated; we would say it was her drink. A faux pas we never let her forget.


This one always hits so close to home, almost like they wrote it for her.

Cheers!