Thanks for sharing the info/tasting impressions! New Holland makes excellent beers and that sounds like an amazingly tasty dessert: chocolate-y, bourbon-y, coconut and banana. I'll look for that this weekend.
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Creeper (bottled on 5/14/18)-Columbus Brewing Company
This one's spoil-ed: clap, clap, clap/clap/clap
Almost a drain pour. Too foamy. Wet cardboard/Pine Sol nose and tastes.
Lesson learned again: drink your IPAs/IIPAs fresh. Glad fuse didn't get 2 of these. :o
Bourbon Barrel-Aged Dark Rye (Bottled January 16, 2017)-Ardent Craft Ales
From their Black Paper Series
A 750 ml trader from accfanfrom 1970. Many thanks!!
Celebratory beverage divided over two nights. Pour was a viscous, dark, dark brown int a Founder's snifter each night. There was a thin, tan head on night #1 and next to no head tonight, despite careful corking last PM. Seductive aromas of dark chocolate, a whiff of java, dark fruits and some bourbon. Flavors are reproduced on the palate and are accompanied by some plum, molasses, dark caramel, a hint of mustiness and heavily roasted grains. IBUs are 41, about as expected for the style (its base is an imperial stout), and the ABV is 11.9% (so not quite the 118-84 proof I was searching for :D) but this punches at a much higher weight class as 375 ml of this last PM and tonight left me a bit stunned. A superb concoction as expected from Ardent Craft Ales.
Just saw that Foothills released the barrel-aged People’s Cherry Porter today. Draft and bottles at their various W-S facilities. I’m traveling today, but may get over to grab some on the weekend. Hard to tell how widely they may distribute this, but I doubt it’s very far or in high volumes.
Pink Guava Milkshake IPA (draft)-Gizmo Brew Works
Even more local!
Treated myself to a snifter of this while selecting some trading brews on the way home from work this afternoon. Pour was a hazy, hazy pink-yellow with a creamy head. This stuff really, really smells and tastes like an alcoholic tropical fruit smoothie with juicy guava, pineapple, mango and orange scents and palate-tickling flavors. Bitterness is the pithy/rind-y kind and I'll guess 40 IBUs. Packs a moderate wallop, too, at 8% ABV so it's technically an IIPA. No cans/bombers available but someone would be smart serving a growler of this with some curry or sweet and sour entrees.
D9 Trash Panda
Great name, great label.
Sour beer with natural smores flavour.
Smells like chocolate and marshmallow. Wow.
Colour in the glass is sort of amber.
I am so torn by my first sip.
I don’t think sour and smores are a great combination.
Its weird as I think independently this could be a great sour beer, or a great dessert beer.
Perhaps the irony of the name is intentional.
I’m going to try to describe the experience, while suggesting it might need to be experienced to be understood.
First part of each sip is like a sour gummy worm, and then finishes with flowing layers of chocolate and marshmallow, ending with a mild sour note.
An analogy might be if you took some chewy sweet tarts, kit kats, and mallow cups and stuffed them in your mouth at the same time.
A quality “trash” beer. Glad I tried it, and also glad I only bought one.
One twelve ounce bottle might be enough to share among 4-6 friends.
Wish I could have described this like the brewer:
"This prototype beer is a hazy, fruity, bitter sweet symphony of flavor. Not one ounce of the Vic Secret and Azzacca hops were boiled, but pounds on pounds were added to a lengthy hop stand and massive dry hop, lending huge pineapple notes to its juicy flavor and tropical nose into which the guava perfectly blends. Lactose and vanilla beans bestow a sweetness that perfectly meld, ending with a creamy juicy finish."
:o
Aztec Gold (draft)-Gizmo Brew Works
Still local!
Two ounce taster after my Pink Guava Milkshake IPA.
Pour was a thin, dark brown with a small head. Nose of milk chocolate, vanilla and coffee with tastes mirroring the aromas. A bit thin for an imperial stout that had 60 IBUs (I'd have guessed 40-50) with the ABV at 9.2% and not boozy at all. Happy to have tasted but I think I would have been disappointed with a $6 snifter or a $10 bomber, which is not a bad price for a high gravity ale with a couple additives (cocoa nibs and vanilla).
Only six of fifteen...
https://coolmaterial.com/food-drink/best-stout-beer/
Surprisingly, I have had 9 of the 15. I like the list because it has some whales and some accessible beers. Had a 10oz draft of Hunaphu's at my local brewery's (Red Cypress) anniversary party last year. Had some 2014 Dark Lord last year at a good friend's Christmas party.
Will make it 10 at Thanksgiving when I open a bottle of Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout I randomly found at my local liquor store last January.
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Just in case you’d like to convert any free time into reading about beer time.
From 10/31/17:
From sheep-sacrificing tailgate yesterday:
Good Gourd-Cigar City Brewing Company
Bomber, courtesy of August West. Thanks!!
Pretty similar thoughts from just over a year ago from fuse and the knucklehead who reviewed it after him. Modest pumpkin flavors, not overly spiced and mildly boozy. Very good pumpkin ale.
From 1/24/17:
From ramgate yesterday:
Warlock (? 8/25/15 date on bomber label)-Southern Tier Brewing
August West with another cellared/aged winner. Thanks!
Staying with the pumpkin theme, this is the dark side of Pumking and still was quite tasty, thankfully, even after > 3 years in the bottle. Pretty similar tasting impressions with maybe a bit of coffee aromas and flavors, not too heavily spiced and a bit less pumpkin, perhaps hidden by all the dark malts used to create this imperial stout. A nice brew to share 3 ways.
Southern Pines Pineapple Thief
Pretty sure this was NEIPA style.
Appropriately named. Tasty.
Reviews of remaining 2 brews from tailgate yesterday will be submitted tomorrow. Or Tuesday. Too late tonight. Still trying to process how amazing Hamilton was tonight while I sip a raspberry milkshake IPA for my nightcap.