New Beer Friday 7/30/21

Level Crossing - VII XXV XVII Wheatwine Ale: The color is a hazy orange-amber with a one-finger milk-white head and thick lacing. It has a nice aroma of malt, butterscotch and dry, dark fruit. It tastes of malt, caramel, and raisin or fig. It starts out with the sweetness typical of a barley wine but the sweetness gives way to a hoppy bitterness and a strong alcohol burn at the finish. In fact, it seemed more hoppy and bitter as it warmed in the glass. It is a medium-bodied, somewhat syrupy ale and the 10.5% ABV is very noticeable. Overall, I enjoyed this wheat wine and would drink it again.

Bewilder - Nouveaux Houblons: For the French impaired "New Hops" is a Franco/Belgian IPA with an all Belgian grain bill, Belgian yeast, and a slew of new French hops, including: Barbe Rouge, Mistral, and Triskel!. I don't know these hops, but they are pretty interesting. There's combo of herbal, berry and citrus. The yeast drives this IPA with bubblegum and clove. This is a textbook Belgo-IPA. 7.3% - On sale today at Bewilder. 

RoHa -  SubLemon: This lemon influenced ale is quite malty and toasty with subtle lemon flavor. The tartness is is light and pleasant but it's all quite busy with the contrasting malt tastiness.

2 Row - Hottest One Yet: Missed this new Mango Habanero Lager. Sounds tasty! 6.7% - Available today at 2 Row.  

Revision - Hi Juno:  Pours a lovely bright straw yellow in color. Haze is evident but isn't a mud bomb.The aroma is really good. Smells like Citra.Tangerine and papaya doing the rounds. Mosaic adds some humid dank notes to the tropical and sweet citrus ones. Taste is classic citrus - grapefruit, orange and lemon. Flavors of mango, papaya, pineapple and apricot also present.  Finish is citrus, melony with slight floral properties. The lactose is sweet and somewhat vanilla-like. Found at The Bayou, Slackwater. 6.5% Not vegan friendly.

Revision/Mosaka - Unrelenting Mauistli: A collaboration with Moksa Brewing. This has attractive clarity with a glowing straw color. Nose is mild with tropical fruit and malt sweetness. Taste is more in line with the style with more fruit and a hint of pine. Finish leans toward dry. Overall: considering the hop bill,of Strata, Simcoe, Citra and Mosaic, this is pretty subdued. Still, pretty enjoyable. 8.5% - Found at The Bayou, Slackwater.

Prairie - Rainbow Sherbet: Looks like pear nectar with little to no head. Aroma is cherry forward rainbow sherbet, with some underlying mineral and yogurt sour notes. Flavor brings a flash of rainbow sherbet, followed by lime seltzer, orange tic-tac, smarties, and strawberry nerds. It's sour candy in a glass. quite tasty, they nailed the rainbow sherbet vibe. 5.2% - Found at The Bayou, Slackwater. Not vegan friendly.

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 7/23/21

Level Crossing - Orange Pez Saison: I wouldn't immediately think Pez while drinking this, It's just an orange forward saison. It's quite phenolic with a decent floral hop bill. 5.0% Only at Level Crossing.

TF/Horus - Atlas: This collaboration beer with SanDiego's Horus Brewing is a Zwiklebier. It's made with Atlas Malts and should be a lager lover's dream. Atlas goes on sale today. 4.7% - Only at TF.

TF - Barrel Aged Grisette: Grisettes are crisp, medium/light-bodied, citrusy beers that hail from Belgium. I have no details on this one; since you're going to be grabbing some Atlas anyway, may as well get on this one too. The Barrel Aged Grisette will be released On Saturday the 24th.  5.0% - Only at TF.

Préaris - Quadrocinno: 10.0% Found at Slackwater

Prairie - Lemon Slice: This is a lemon merengue pie inspired sour ale. 5.2% - Found at Slackwater

Bombastic - Parliament: Missed this one. This is a peach Gose. 5.5% Found at Slackwater.

Bombastic - Dazzle: This is not a sour ale but there is some nice tartness from the raspberries that takes it in that direction. Quite nice.  6.5% Found at Beer Bar.

Mother Earth - Cognitive Aerobics: A very nice NEIPA with the typical tropical flavors along with some citrusy lime. 7.2% - Found at Beerhive, Slackwater

Anchorage - Mosaic Saison: Missed this one. 6.5% Found at the Bayou.

Cascade - Honey Ginger Lime: Missed this one. 7.5% Found at the Bayou. 

Cheers!

New Beer Friday 7/16/21

It was a fairly light week of "research" with just a few local freshies to enjoy. After you've tried this week's New Beer Friday offerings, there's plenty of new beers still floating around from previous weeks. Did I miss something? Please share if I did. 

Bewilder - Altbier: This has a nice chestnut color with an aroma full of sweet grainy malt. This beer is malty with the flavors of light toast and bread crust with a good dose of spicy hops. Overall a toasty and malty German delight with assertive bitterness and dry finish. 5.0% - Available starting today at Bewilder. 

Fisher - Yet unnamed hazy pale ale: Was unable to try this as it's still in the bright tank. Ask 'em for the stuff. 5.0% at Fisher Today.    

Fisher - Yet unnamed pale ale: Was unable to try this as it's still in the bright tank. Ask 'em for the stuff. 5.0% at Fisher Today.    

Shades - Double Trub'l: This is a new addition. This double IPA has large fruit hop overtones and is light on the bitterness. It pours light orange with a light head and medium mouth feel. 10.0% Available at Shades.

Surly - And The Devil makes Three: This TRIPA pours mostly clear with a muted but boozy nose. The taste follows with more heavy alcohol some citrus peel and pine. For such a big beer it seems to lack the characteristics that you'd expect from a Triple IPA. 10.6% - Found at Slackwater 

Surly - Mapping the Multiverse: This Hazy IPA punches out with citrus, pineapple, vague stone fruit and kiwi. Mild grass and herbal hop notes toward the end. A bit of booze warmth in the finish. This is a fine hazy, but not great. 7.3% - Found at Slackwater. 

Robinson - Old Tom: Missed this one. It's described as being rich and warming with a cherry brandy like color and character. This strong ale has a booming balance of ripe malt, and peppery hops combined with roasted nut and chocolate flavours with a smoky richness. A distinctive deep port wine finish with bitter hops balance complemented by heady, vinous aromas of dark fruit. 8.5% - Found at the Bayou.

Robinson - Chocolate Tom: This chocolate version is a rich combination of Robinsons’ Old Tom and the cocoa. It's a full bodied strong ale filled with the flavor of sweet malt and velvety smooth chocolate teased together with an inspired touch of Madagascan bourbon vanilla. 6.0% - Found at the Bayou.

Prost!

New Beer Friday 7/9/21

 

Toasted Barrel - Our Beer: Brewed to help the support the families of fallen local firefighters. So, get your butts over to Toasted Barrel because a portion of every bottle and draft will help a family who lost a hero. This double dry-hopped Czech Pilsner is crackery with some slight cereal sweetness. Snappy herbal hoppiness rounds it out. 5.0% - Only at Toasted Barrel.

Proper - Well Rested: This Mexican style lager with lime was aged in Reposado barrels. There's a nice fruity lime character in the nose that leads you to believe that this will citrusy. In fact it's quite earthy. The barrel provides nice oak and tequila notes with a fair amount of maltiness. This is a very, very limited batch, so don't wait too long on this one.  8.0% Available at Proper starting today. 

Proper - Hop Things with Mr. Talus: This is a hazy IPA that has many of the tried and true flavors of melon citrus and pith. However the finish has a bit of bitterness that gives it "poundability". Nice NE Pale Ale. 5.0% - Available at Proper starting today. 

Avenues Proper - City of Gold: This is a classic old school American Pale Ale that features a generous amount of El Dorado Hops. A good dose of citrus peel, flowery notes and pine. 5.0% -Available at Avenues Proper and Proper Brewing starting today. 

Grid City - Pineapple Passion Fruit Whole Flower Dr-hopped Nitro Pale Ale: I wish I got paid by the word, the name of Grid City's nitro beers would be easily be paying for that new boat. Apart from the descriptive name, this pale features Cryo-Citra, Cryo-Mosaic along with whole flower Simcoe, Mosaic and Citra. Pineapple for sure in the aroma, but I'm surprised by how much passion fruit is there too - along with black tea. Defiantly fruit forward, but less than I was expecting. The hops balance it all out with orange peel. Bitter finish, but it takes awhile to notice it. Another hit from the Nitro Maestro! 5.0% Only at Grid City.

Kiitos - Michelada: This tomato forward beer has notes of chili powder and lime side-by-side with a light body that finishes semi-dry and is very easy drinking. A little celery salt and a dash of tabasco and it'd be perfect. 5.0% - Very limited at Kiitos.  

Here are this week's Small Batch beer from Hopkins Brewing. Cheers! 

New Beer Friday 7/2/21

Bewilder - American Pale Ale: Pours a dark Orange color with an inch of frothy head. Fair amount of lacing. The aroma is earthy, floral and grassy with some light citrus notes. The taste is more of the earthy and floral hops. Light notes of sweet citrus with a fair amount of malt flavor. Grainy. Finishes with more floral and grassy hops. Floral aftertaste. Light bodied and slightly oily. Very little alcohol presence. Available today at Bewilder.

Strap Tank - Guavalution: This fruited wheat ale features big guava flavors with a nice biscuity backbone. 4.9% - Found at Strap Tank (Springville).

Uinta - Party Mansion: This fruited sour features peaches and blueberrie, it also utilizes "philly sour yeast". It's clean like Kevin yeast but slightly more tart. The peaches are a bit muted with the berries and the base sour beer running the show. A nice sour at 6.1% - Available at Uinta.

2 Row - Dank Nugs: This beastly TRIIPA lives up to its name with chewy, earthy and herbal dankness. Some citrus qualities emerge as well but this is all about the hops. There's a nice caramel base to keep it fro getting too dry. Oh, did I mention that it's 11.9%? Available at 2 Row and most of your better beer pubs and restaurants.  

Pipeworks - Things have come to Light: This saison a bright and light saison with gentle peppery notes from the yeast that pair beautifully with the distinctive floral aromas from the freshly crushed pink peppercorns 6.0% - Found at Bayou, Beerhive, Beer Bar and Slackwater

Pipeworks - The Whole Dish: This Milkshake IPA is a tribute to the humble yet incredibly tasty summer hero - the peach cobbler. 8.3% - Found at Bayou, Beerhive, Beer Bar and Slackwater

Pipeworks - Spotted Puffer: The Double IPA is brewed with tart and tropical passion fruit puree, balanced with wild flower honey, and packed with aroma from late addition Citra hops. 9.5%  - Found at Bayou, Beerhive, Beer Bar and Slackwater

Pipeworks - Slow Days: This IPA has all of those brunchy vibes with a delicious combo of fresh blueberries and fennugreek spice which brings a maple syrup flavor.6.7%  - Found at Bayou, Beerhive, Beer Bar and Slackwater

Pipeworks - Lizard king vs The Cryo: This Pale Ale takes on an incredible berry, melon, aroma with floral and rich earthy notes. 6.0% - Found at Bayou, Beerhive, Beer Bar and Slackwater

Pipeworks - Good Dream Dreamsicle: This Milkshake IPA is soft and smooth with a bright pop of tangerine mellowed out with vanilla.  7.8% - Found at Bayou, Beerhive, Beer Bar and SlackwaterPipeworks - Death of Cool: This is a Lemon lime pale ale with Equinox and Cryo Equinox hops. 5.6% Found at Bayou and Slackwater

Pipeworks - Cryptic Bones: This is a Hazy Pale Ale with Motueka & Rakau Hops. Notes and deep aromas of meyer lemon, rosemary, papaya and apricot... this hazy juicy IPA brings something unexpected to the hazy pale ale scene6.5%  - Found at Bayou, Beerhive, Beer Bar and Slackwater

Stone - Buenavesa: Missed this salt and lime lager 4.7% - Found at Bayou, Beerhive, Beer Bar and Slackwater

Cheers!