What Northeast beer are you drinking now? (2022)

Boston brewery #3 of the night. Trillium! Aerial Roots corn IPA and Endless coconut BA stout. Delicious.

 

Boston brewery #4. Harpoon. But drinking a 16% barrel aged espresso stout (interrobang). Cheers!

 

This was good.

 

Boston brewery #5. Lord Hobo (seaport). Beer is an IPA called Banger #5.

 

And this was great.

 

Just finished this IPA:

 

Dessert beer shelfie. Cannot lie, it's a great one.

 

Finishing my Boston brewery crawl at Castle Island with an Italian Pilsner (horrorscope). Cheers!

 

never get tired of this one

 

I have a “friend” who was coming from the city to pick up some cans who asked me if I wanted anything from finback on his way out.
Normally I’d pass but when I saw the can list I caved for this root and branch DIPA collab and another beer I intend to get to later.
I know I suck at describing beers but for me this one is all finback and little root, which makes sense as it was brewed at finback. It’s really good, but not on the level of what root puts out on their own.

 

this one is growing on me.

 

the other finback I had to have was coconut drip. I’ve loved loved loved the drip series and the coconut varietal was the only one that had eluded me. But to be honest, this batch is letting me down compared to others like blueberry or banana.

 

Fegley's Brew Works - Rude Elf's Reserve. I have a bunch of Christmas beers from a case exchange I was apart of. Bready malt, mulling spices, a bit sweet.

 

Had to go to Framingham to do a little Christmas shopping….and stopping at Jack’s Abby for a beer is a no brainer in my book! Uberholt, a triple decocted lager by the way.

 

It's not a NE beer, but I've said it before and I'll say it again, I like you guys more than the "BIG" thread in the main forum.

Sierra Nevada Celebration. Still drinking great, one of my favorite beers.



Now fun story time. 5 or 6 years ago my old band, Ian Cat & The Crimsons (live video of us below, I'm on drums), played a show at the Midway Cafe in Jamaica Plain in Boston. Also on the bill was Dan Blakeslee, who is the guy who did the Heady Topper and Focal Banger art. He made a poster for the show and printed out some extras for the bands. So now I have a cool souvenir of a fun show with some beer crossover. Super nice guy too, turns out that my wife was friends with his cousin.

 

Kinda reminds me of Bardo Pond.

 

oh! This whole thing is very cool. The opening rif reminds me of “Stairway to Heaven.” Is the song original to your band?

Maybe you can kickstart the Art thread by cross posting.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/drawings-paintings-anything-art-and-creative.664484/

 

Yep, it's an original song. The band broke up, unfortunately. We're all still friends, adult life just made practicing harder and harder.

It was a fun record to make, the vibe we were going for was "What if Neutral Milk Hotel and Cocteau Twins loved fuzz and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot."

 

Decided I needed some MBC in my life tonight

 

@SLeffler27
Revisiting sensate now. Adjusted my original score downward this evening. Low carb… no smoke in the traditional sense. Tastes very good, but nothing memorable. Look and mouthfeel are below average for a Suarez offering. I think I said it last time, I’d much rather have While if I’m looking for a Suarez helles.
Still have a bunch of these to drink, which is fine, but I don’t see myself buying this again the next time it comes out.

 

MOAR BEERS.

I have tomorrow off and I'm going to have to do a bunch of snowblowing tomorrow so I'm getting my beer on this evening.

Bldg8 - The IPA -- Still nice. Limey / citrus thing going on with a good amount of bitterness. I'm happy to see that this had a canning date on it of 11/30.



Followed by -- Sam Adams - Cold IPA -- It's fine. I literally don't know what else to say about it. It's fine.

 

Enjoying this lager with dinner!

 

This is awesome. I never really put it together but Dan's son owns White Heron Tea/Coffee in Portsmouth and they have his art hanging up. I always knew it looked familiar...

 

First time having a beer with Nectaron. Damn good.

 

Old Fezziwig from the mixed pack.

 

Trivia Night at Blueprint Brewing. It was Classic Rock Name that Tune hosted by "Pops" the dad of the owner. One round each for the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s (side note: 90s rock now being played on Classic Rock radio stations makes me feel so old). He didnt make it easy, most songs were just the opening riffs, no lyrics. My wife and I are normally pretty good at this theme but we didnt win any of the rounds, a couple teams kept getting perfect scores.

Drank pints of (clockwise) the Hazy Waves IPA, Schnitzel Vienna Lager, Hazel Von B Brown Ale, and Lotta Sap Milk Stout.


Hardest clip of the night was this song by a 1960s band called Strawberry Alarm Clock. Never heard of them before

 

Thanks for the reply. Too bad. I had expected Suarez was onto something. Maybe they will turned the dials for a future batch.

 

Huh! So THAT’s who sang that song. My wife knew who they were. She nonchalantly said, “Yeah, they did Incense and Peppermints.” I recognized the song immediately, but had no idea the title, or band.

 

Happy Friday. Cheers!

The Standard

 

Basking in the Glow, Kühl IPA #2

 

Delaware is almost Northeast, right?

Dogfish Head - Wake Up World Wide Stout -- This drinks absurdly easy for the ABV. The cold brew coffee is definitely present. Really nice big beer. Great for a stormy vacation day.

 

Černé Pivo

 

John F. Kennedy's hopeful gaze shines upon me as I crack beer #2 of the day. Trillium - The Harbor Islands. Really nice DIPA. Pillowy, the Nelson hops really shine here.

 

Purchased for the name only, but tastes good too.

 

First up for me tonight is Hopcelot

 

Next up from Troegs

 

thoroughly enjoying.

 

Thought I was all out of Daze…..but found a couple in the downstairs fridge! Good beer!