We got ourselves a bottle of the 13.8% version of the 2015 Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout.
Style: Stout
Container: 16.9oz Bottle
Glassware: 5oz snifter tasters
Notes:A liquid as dark and dense as a black hole with thick foam the color of a bourbon barrel. The nose is an intense mix of charred oak, chocolate, vanilla, caramel and smoke.
Rating: 4.75/5
New Morph.
Style: IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Night Shift Flutes
Notes:Idaho 7, Nelson Sauvin, and Simcoe hops. Dominating citrus flavors; lime leaf and honeysuckle; smooth finish (5.1%)
Rating: 4.5/5
Another brew that Shaun brought back from his last trip to San Francisco!
Style: Session IPA
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: 2016 Night Shift Barrel Society Tulips
Notes:This Session IPA is a gift to the senses. Made with 6 different hops, this bold brew is refreshing enough to enjoy again and again
Rating: 4/5
Another week, another new batch of morph!
Style: IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: 2016 Night Shift Barrel Society snifters
Notes:Comet, Citra, and Galaxy hops. Boasting fresh peach aromas, flavors of lychee and sweet tangerine, and a soft, hoppy finish. (6.2%)
Rating: 4.25/5
We’ve got another edition of Nerdsense Drinks! This collects Episodes 35 and Episode 36 in which the dynamic duo review 2 beers brewed by Night Shifts to celebrate their 4 year anniversary. Let your ears be tickled by the sounds us slurping on Night Shift’s 4 Year Stout and Double IPA!
If you dig the episode then head over to our YouTube channel and actually watch us slurp these 2 behemoth beers!
Style: Oatmeal Stout
Container: 25.4oz Bomber
Glassware: 2016 Night Shift Barrel Society Tulips
Notes: Oatmeal stout fermented with maple syrup and aged in apple brandy barrels
Rating: 5/5
Style: Double IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: 2016 Night Shift Barrel Society snifters
Notes:Our hoppiest beer ever, this DIPA is bursting with Galaxy, Motueka, Idaho 7, and El Dorado hops. Huge flavors of melon, mango, and passionfruit
Rating: 3.75/5
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Well here’s another big one folks! We’ve got Russian River Pliny the Elder!
Style: Double IPA
Container: 500mL Bottle
Glassware: Balloon glasses
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 3.75/5
Notes: Pliny the Elder is brewed with Amarillo, Centennial, CTZ, and Simcoe hops. It is well-balanced with malt, hops, and alcohol, slightly bitter with a fresh hop aroma of floral, citrus, and pine.
We have a special treat for everyone this week! Mike and I go behind the camera and MC what very well be the greatest blind taste on the entire internet!!! Just kidding, but we do have a blind taste test that we found pretty fun to record and think it’ll be fun to watch.
Mike and I didn’t think it was fair to do this blind taste test ourselves as we could easily pick out the two since we’ve had Heady so much and the taste is extremely different. Instead of comparing the two which is like comparing apples to oranges these days, we thought we’d bring in a panel of outside judges.
We have (from left to right in the video) my lovely girlfriend, Kerry, Melanie from Melly Mel’s Cookin and our semi-frequent guest and Mike’s brother, Josh.
All 3 of them did a blind taste test about a year ago. Kerry and Melanie chose Pliny and Josh Picked Heady. Let’s see what they pick this time.
Hope you guys enjoy!
-Shaun
Grimm is a little brewery out of Brooklyn run by a husband and wife duo. They build their recipes in their kitchen then brew the recipes at other breweries. Gypsy brewing. This is one of my first beers by them and I was so happy we got to try it.
Style: Dry Hopped American Sour Ale
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Teku Glasses
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 4/5
Notes:Hazy golden wild farmhouse ale, dry hopped with Mosaic, El Dorado, and Jarrylo. Beautifully balanced acidity, glowing hop aromas redolent of guava, watermelon candy, pineapple, and ripe mango. Conditioned on oak for light tannin structure.
http://grimmales.com/psychokinesis/
Another of the Vermont greats makes its way down to the Nerd Cave this week!
Style: IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Tulips
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 4.25/5
Notes:This lupulin-laden India Pale Ale is packed with juicy tropical fruit character, bright floral aromas and delectable layers of hop flavor. Pour mindfully, inhale deeply and enjoy a tropical vacation in a glass.
This week we are joined by our good friend Larry who came all the way from North Carolina to be on the videocast! Well, he didn’t come for that reason but I bet he’s glad he visited because we have something really GREAT…you may even say it’s so GREAT that even people named KATE think it’s GREAT!
Ok, that last line was really lame but in all honesty we pop open a bottle of Tributary Brewing Mott the Lesser. Hopefully you got my joke up there, I feel like I’ll just cheapen it if I try to explain it.
Style: Russian Imperial Stout
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: 2016 Night Shift Barrel Society snifters
Notes: Spring 2016 Batch – Aged in apple brandy, port, bourbon, and Mount Gay rum barrels before blending.
Rating: 4.75/5
