Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #417 Tree House Single Shot (Vanilla Bean)

Style: Milk Stout Container: 16oz Can Glassware: Tree House 6th Anniversary Teku Notes: We are excited to present the first variant of our coffee milk stout: SINGLE SHOT w/ Vanilla Bean! This modification builds upon the original by conditioning the finished beer on Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Beans. We also varied the typical coffee blend by […]

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #416 Wicked Weed Dark Arts (Scotch Barrel) 2018

Style: Scotch Barrel Aged Russian Imperial Stouts with Brett Container: 500ml Glassware: Sample Glasses Notes: Dark Arts aged in scotch barrels. First beer to reach the NC 15% ABV Limit. (15%)

Nerdsense Drinks & No Hype Beer Reviews – #415 Hill Farmstead Damon (2018)

Style: Barrel Aged Russian Imperial Stouts Container: 500ml Glassware: Sample Glasses Notes: Aged in Blanton’s bourbon barrels. (10.5%) Damon (1993-2004) The time spent with loved ones, now lost, seems to affect our mind and body perpetually: memories happen upon us, unsuspectingly, and bring about tears of fond remembrance. Damon was our brother – devout and […]

Nerdsense Drinks & No Hype Beer Reviews – Goose Island Bourbon County Vanilla Rye (2014) vs Vanilla (2018)

Style: Barrel Aged Imperial StoutsContainer: 750ml & 500mlGlassware: Sample GlassesNotes: Vanilla Rye (2014) This years version features a little twist of aging the stout in Rye Whiskey Barrels with a mix of Mexican and Madagascar vanilla beans! (13.6%) Vanilla (2018) Utilizing whole grade A vanilla beans from Madagascar, Vanilla delivers on all the quintessential things […]

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #413 Haw River St. Benedict’s Breakfast Dubbel

Style: Belgian Dubbel Container: 16oz Can Glassware: Spencer Belgian Notes: Brewed with flaked oats, cacao nibs and two types of crushed locally-roasted coffee beans, our Belgian-style Dubbel is an eye-opening take on a classic style. (7.2%)

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #411 Other Half & Foam Mouthful of Diamonds

Style: Imperial IPA Container: 16oz Can Glassware: Teku Notes: Our friends from Vermont came to Brooklyn and brewed a delicious beer with us containing Pilsner malt, wheat and oats. We then hopped it aggressively with Galaxy and our hand selected Nelson Sauvin. (8%)

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #409 Benedictine Saint Benedict

Style: Farmhouse Ale Container: 500ml Bottle Glassware: Flutes Notes: Light, crisp and refreshing farmhouse with notes of banana, cloves and malty sweetness. (4.7%)

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #408 Tree House King Julius

Style: Double IPA Container: 16oz can Glassware: Teku’s Notes: King Julius is an American Double IPA brewed to be an exceptionally flavorful, juicy, and hop saturated beer without rough edges or abrasiveness. Its vivid citrus aromas give way to flavors of orange creamsicle, mango smoothie, and a bounty of fresh tropical fruit. We find it […]

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews #406-407 Trillium The Streets (2019)

This year we decided to review this beer solo given the other beers we wanted to review. It just made sense logistically do this separately during the week since we both had cans of it. Two doses of Nerdsense to go with your Saturday morning cartoons! Style: Triple IPA Container: 16oz Can Glassware: The Streets […]

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #405 Trillium Sprang (2019)

Style: Kolsch style aleContainer: 16oz CanGlassware: Sprang GlassesNotes: Sprang is refreshingly light bodied with aromatics of earthy evergreen, passion fruit, and faint doughy malt. Flavors of concord grape, mango, and herbaceous white wine interweave with cracker-crisp, pilsner malt character and minimal bitterness. The finish is dry with a lasting touch of grain.  (4.9%)