We managed to get some Hopslam and poured it right down our throats!
Style: Double IPA
Container: 12oz Can
Glassware: Snifters
Notes: (From Site) Selected specifically because of their aromatic qualities, these Pacific Northwest varieties contribute a pungent blend of grapefruit, stone fruit, and floral notes. A generous malt bill and a solid dollop of honey
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 4.75/5
Here we have another Nerdsense Drinks volume! We’ve compiled Nerdsense Drinks Episode 7 and Episode 8
Style: IPA
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Spiegelau Pilsner Tulip
Notes: Malty with hops on nose. Taste: Juicy, citrus, pine, great finish
Overall Nerdsense Rating: Nose: 4.75/5
Style: Strong Ale
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Spiegelau Snifter and Firestone Walker Tulip
Notes: Nose: Malty caramel with apricot, boozy. Mike got “sewage” or bad water” Taste: Better beers have come since this. Taste: Malt and caramel comes through as it did on the nose. There are hops for sure.
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 3.50/5 — We were thrown off by how much our tastes have changed given this was one of the craft beers that got us really loving it.
Style: Strong Ale
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Spiegelau Snifter and Firestone Walker Tulip
Notes: Nose: Oak (obviously), maple which adds sweetness on top of bourbon. Taste: Smooth and balanced. Sweetness and mellow compared to the normal Arrogant
Overall Nerdsense Rating: Nose: 4.25/5
**BLEND** (Shaun’s favorite part!) 4/5!
You lose the oak and it kind of makes the regular Arrogant a little more smooth and tasty
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New batch of Morph!!!
Style: IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: 2016 Night Shift Barrel Society snifters
Notes: Features Citra, Topaz, Cascade and Colombus hops; candied orange, lemon rind, and soft, lingering bitterness. (6.8%)(Night Shift tasting notes)
Rating: 4/5
This was the first video we recorded using the new setup. We’ve since released a few other videos before releasing this. The main reason was we wanted to get the Night Shift Morph reviews out while the current release was still on the shelf.
All of our old videos with the previous setup are in the wild now so please enjoy our new setup. We like it and hope you do as well!
Lawsons & Otter Creek Double or Nothing
Style: Barleywine
Container: 12oz bottle
Glassware: Snifters
Notes: (From website)Our second collaboration creation with Sean Lawson of Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Double or Nothing is a devilishly sweet Barley Wine that’s aged on maple wood and brewed with a heavenly dose of Vermont maple syrup.
Enjoy fresh or lay one down for future indulgence
Rating: 4.25/5
HEADY TOPPER *MIC DROP*
Style: Double IPA
Container: 2 x 16oz Can
Glassware: Small tasters for look only then drank from the can
Notes: (From website) Take a big sip of Heady and see what hop flavors you can pick out. Orange? Tropical Fruit? Pink Grapefruit? Pine? Spice? There is just enough malt to give this beer some backbone, but not enough to take the hops away from the center stage.
Rating: 5/5
This was another pretty awesome beer I brought back from January trip to Chicago. Don’t worry, we made this video when it was only a few weeks old.
Arcade Brewing out of Chicago! IPA brewed with Grapefruit JUICE! Not grapefruit but grapefruit juice! This grew on us for sure. I want more. It now comes in 6 packs!
We had a problem with the mic audio on this one, so it’s a mixture of mixer and camera audio so you’ll notice the quality go from nice (mixer) to pretty good (camera) back to nice (mixer)
Style: Grapefruit IPA
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Tulips
Notes: (From Website) Arcade Brewery has crafted this very sessionable IPA featuring citrus hop aroma and the addition of grapefruit; creating an awesome balance between hop bitterness and the citrus bite. A fine balancing act of biscuit malts allows a long hop finish wont fatigue taste buds; allowing the second pint to build off the first. An immensely sessionable ale, [the] Grapefruit IPA will win over all drinkers and give IPA lovers a new take on the incredibly popular style.
Rating: 3.75/5
Another week and another fresh new batch of Morph!!! Do we really need to say anymore?
Style: IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: 2016 Night Shift Barrel Society snifters
Notes: Beastly heaping of Citra, Mosaic, Simcoe, and Topaz hops – saturated, juicy notes of orange, pine, and honeydew melon. (6.2%) (Night Shift tasting notes)
Rating: 4.25/5
We dive into the 3rd offering from America’s first Trappist brewery! It’s Spencer Brewing out of Springfield, MA Imperial Trappist Stout!! Let this sucker warm up and you’ll be in for a tasty treat!!
Spencer Trappist Imperial Stout
Style: Russian Imperial Stout Stout
Container: 750mL corked bottle
Glassware: Spiegelau Stout Glasses
Notes: A massive, roasted, malt-forward American Trappist take on the Anglo-Russo Imperial Stout tradition. Luxuriantly frothy foam, waves of coffee, chocolate and caramel sensations, a generous blend of dark fruit flavors. Intense and robust.
Rating: 3.75/5
We got our very first growler! We’ve got a Oatmeal Stout from Night Shift called Bennington!
We recorded this episode back in February. I wish we released this sooner as Bennington is no longer available. Hopefully they’ll brew it again so you can grab a growler to try for yourself!
Style: Oatmeal Stout
Container: 32oz groweler
Glassware: Night Shift snifters
Notes: (From Website) Oatmeal stout aged with maple syrup. Notes of maple, toffee, and milk chocolate with a delicately roasty finish
Rating: 4/5
Welcome to another Nerdsense Drinks compilation episode!! We’ve edited together Episodes 4 and Episode 5 which are Ecliptic Brewings Canopus IPA and a head to head battle between Sierra Nevada’s Narwhal Imperial Stout and their Barrel Aged Narwhal!
Style: IPA
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Firestone Walker Tulip and Tulip
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 3.75/5
Notes: Light and crisp. Awesome citrus malt balance. Super smooth. Floral and grapefruit on the nose
Sierra Nevada Barrel Aged Narwall
Style: Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Firestone Walker Tulip and Tulip
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 5/5
Notes: Nose – Bourbon (Duh!) Vanilla, sweeter aroma, caramel and chocolate makes the sweetness. Flavor – Chocolaty and much sweeter with less coffee than the regular Narwall. Lots and lots of bourbon
Style: Imperial Stout
Container: 12oz Bottle
Glassware: Firestone Walker Tulip and Tulip
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 4.5/5
Notes: Smells mellow coffee, very boozy on the nose, cocoa. Taste is dark chocolate, coffee, boozy without a burn in the back
Narwall + Barrel Aged Narwall Blend
Notes: Milkshake or Sweet Stout. This takes the harshness out and it’s extremely smooth. The smell isn’t much but the flavor is great!
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