Beer B.S. and Review Thread

Tree House Brewing Company/MA
Big Blue
8.4 ABV
American Double IPA





More hazy goodness from Treehouse. They might actually make me like IPA’s

 

Another in the Melted series from Martin House. Very enjoyable and tasts like you'd expect.

 

Not sure how long this brewery has been here but I just found it.

 

Octoberfest taste test in August.

 

Awesome beer from a brewery I haven't tried before. Punch Yourself from Oozlefinch in Hampton VA. On Ft Monroe. Sour ale with pineapple, lemon, key lime, raspberry lemonade, limeade, vanilla, lactose and rainbow sherbet. I want more.

 

Slugging Gus raspberry ale from 6 Bears and a Goat in Fredericksburg VA. The official craft beer of the Fredericksburg Nationals. Fruit and ale, not bad on a hot day.

 

Root beer, on tap Big Ugly Brewing Chesapeake VA. O ABV. Seriously the best root beer I've ever had.

 

Strainge beast hard kombucha like an ipa but not as bitter light sour sweetness.

 

Had this raspberry matches sour from Side A Brewing the other day. My wife said it was a bit tart/sour but I really liked it.

 

Pink Cadillac from Big Ugly Brewing, Chesapeake VA. Graf cider hybrid.

Graf is basically apple juice mixed with beer wort. This one is infused with cranberries. I was surprised when I sampled this. Definently not a cider. Tart, but not sour. Good on a sunny afternoon. I'll buy it again as long as they have it on tap.

 

One Night in the Thicket, Berliner weisse ale with raspberries from the Virginia Beer Co in Williamsburg VA. Raspberries seem to be popular in beer right now, must be the season? Very crisp and refreshing. And at 4.9 ABV you can have a few and not fall out of your chair.

 

ill have to stop thru there when I get to OBX next

 

White Russians aren't supposed to have vanilla in them.

 

If you do and it's feeding time, it's close to a good restaurant called 2nd Street Bistro. I recommend it. Let me know when you're going to be in OBX. If the timing is right we can make a day or overnight trip.

 

Punch Yourself from Oozlefinch Beers-Blending on Fort Monroe in Hampton VA

Sour ale with raspberry puree, raspberry sherbet, pink lemonade, vanilla and lactose. Really smooth and drinkable. But at 8% abv, a little is enough.

 

Not willing to accept Summer is over, I picked up a few of these.


Unfiltered @Darkness haha, if I ever had a podcast that'd be the name. Tastes a bit like if an IPA and a Shandy had a baby, quite a tasty treat really without the overwhelming lemonade flavor.

 

Had to roll up to Canada last week and made my way to a few breweries. Had some good sours too.
Bad Tattoo Brewing
Copper Brewing also had a good Cherry Vanilla Nitro Stout!


Los Muertos Cerveza Negro
Sweet & Sour Cherry Gose
Piña Colada IPA
Watermelon Gose
Hang Ten Hefeweizen

 

Waited a few years but I busted one of these dirty stouts out last night.

 

This should be said. I live in Southern California and over the last 15 years a million breweries have come and go. Lately they tend to go one way or the other: let's make some fruit enfused nonsense or let's make 5 kinds of bad IPA and see how much we can push the alcohol. Pretty bad trends here.

My brother in law goes to these kinds of places and the last 2 years I've opened many a beer he handed me only to dread finishing it.

3 weeks ago he stayed over for the weekend and gave me a can of beer he picked up in LA. Its made in Torrance, the brewery is called Monkfish and the beer is called Foggy Window. I gave a fake smile, thanked him, and in my garage fridge it went. I'm out of beer today, so I cracked it open and poured it.

Its not what I expected. A double IPA with 8.1 abv and a hazy light yellow color. I instantly thought awesome its gonna be citrus shit, but no, it isn't. It isn't insanely bitter either. Its hazy and very neutral for lack of a better word, not the bitterness of the usual double. A little more like a pale ale than an IPA, not the hops overload. I would buy a few 4 packs of this if I see it.

Excuse the glass, thats from Lost Brewery.

 

You lost me at IPA lol

Jk but most IPAs I try and too hoppy/high IBUs. Glad to here this one wasn’t too bad

 

I rarely drink IPA the last few years. Used to enjoy it until it got hard to find one I liked.