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
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 week Mike and Shaun are buried under a massive amount of news. Most coming out Cinemacon. Strap in as loads of nerdy news are blown into your ear drums and listen as your hosts try to make Nerdsense out of it (see what I did there?)
Marvel just dropped the latest Captain America trailer and it gives us the debut of everyones friendly neighborhood Spiderman! Check out the trailer below and a pretty awesome gif created by the guys at Gizmodo
Let us know in the comments what you think of Spidey’s underoos!!
This is the last of the Portland beers. It was a sad day. This week we dive in to Alameda Brewing’s Yellow Wolf Imperial IPA!
From Alameda’s site
With over 100 IBUs Yellow Wolf has enough eye-popping intensity to satisfy even the most ardent hopheads. It has bright piney nose and light golden color. We suggest pairing it with sunshine.
http://alamedabrewing.com/yellow-wolf.php
Style: IPA Container: 22oz Bomber Glassware: Tulips Notes: Nice hop and malt on the nose with orange citrus. Malty with nice balance of hops. Smooth pleasant mouth feel Rating: 3.75/5
Another week, another step forward. We are almost there, ladies and gentlemen. Our tickets are purchased. Our seats are guaranteed. But we still have miles to go before we see Batman V Superman.
The train stopped at ‘Batman: Under the Red Hood’ this week, and we weren’t going to complain.
As we’ve done in previous weeks, we take apart the film, talking about the good and the bad, and have fun with it. We also take a look at some of the nerdy news, and discuss the latest episode of Legends of Tomorrow.
There is a heaping scoop of Nerdsense this week, so enjoy the latest pit stop on the our road to BvS. Cheers!
Style: India Pale Ale
Container: 2 x 12oz Bottle
Glassware: Firestone Walker Tulip and Night Shift 2016 Snifter Notes: Notes of malt and sweet fruit on the nose. Malty caramel backbone with candied apricot and peach. Nice soft mouth feel. More English style IPA. Overall Nerdsense Rating: 2.75/5
New batch of Morph is here! Checkout our thoughts!
Beer
Style: IPAContainer: 16oz Can
Glassware: 2016 Night Shift Barrel Society snifters
Notes: Idaho 7, Galaxy, and Simcoe hops that produce ripe honeydew melon aromas, complemented by biting tangerine and papaya flavors. (6.2%) (Night Shift tasting notes)
Rating: 4.5/5
We are all about girl power today in the Nerd Den. It’s yet another pit stop on our journey to Dawn of Justice, and this time the hero has girl parts. In this episode, we deconstruct the 2009 animated film, Wonder Woman, giving the demi-goddess her just due.
This is the first ‘solo’ Wonder Woman film since 1974, and she fairs much better here.
Also, we take another look at the CWDCTVU, discussing most recent episodes of Arrow, Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow.
Spoilers: King Shark returns!
It’s all DC this week on the latest episode of Nerdsense, the best source online for all that is nerdy. Cheers!
Style: Stout Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Night Shift snifters
You’ll have to wait and check out the VideoCast which will be out on Thursday to hear about this one when it hits our YouTube channel!
Netflix just dropped the Elektra-centric trailer for Daredevil Season 2! Check it out below. If you missed the Punisher-centric trailer from a few weeks back then check it out here