Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #421 Tree House Abstraction Coffee

Style: Imperial Porter with Coffee
Container: 16oz can
Glassware: Mini Teku
Notes: Tree House Description: It tastes like the most beautifully harmonious cup of coffee we’ve ever had, with virtually no bitterness, and densely packed coffee flavors. It is richly flavorful without weighing down the palate, and it finishes cleanly and boldly (8.8%)

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #420 White Birch Orange Creamsicle

Style: Sour Ale
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Teku
Notes: Sour Ale w/ orange zest and milk sugar (5.5%)

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #419 Night Shift Darkling (2019)

Style: Russian Imperial Stout aged in Bourbon and Apple Brandy Barrels
Container: 750ml
Glassware: Darkling Glass
Notes: Imperial Stout Aged In Bourbon Barrels and Short Path Apple Brandy Barrels (12.9%)

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #418 Benedictine Tyrant

Style: Cascadian Dark Ale
Container: 500ml
Glassware: Arome Glass
Notes: (7.2%)

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 infusing a single beautiful coffee, Guatemala Candelaria! What resulted is a beer that exhibits a subtle and well integrated vanilla note with rich coffee character while retaining a wonderful airiness and drinkability. The crew here tastes bourbon chocolate, brown sugar, and vanilla with a soft coffee acidity on the finish. The vanilla reveals nuanced character as it warms, though never overwhelming the senses, with the coffee notes slowly mellowing. (6.4%)

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 patient in an age of busyness and distraction. In his honor, we crafted and conditioned this Imperial Stout in bourbon barrels from our favorite distillery. We still reflect, daily, upon our Damon and his scruffy chin of grey – of his loyalty and his love.

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

Style: Barrel Aged Imperial Stouts
Container: 750ml & 500ml
Glassware: Sample Glasses
Notes: 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 fans love about this variant: aromatic vanilla, marshmallow, toffee, oak, and floral notes highlighting the creamy mouthfeel and enhancing the chocolate flavors. (14.9%)

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 – #412 Hardywood Banana Bread Ale

Couple review!

Style: Belgian Quad + Imperial Milk Stout Blend
Container: 750ml
Glassware: Teku’s
Notes: Belgian style quad ale blended with our imperial milk stout, Cassowary, with cinnamon, banana, and walnut flavor
(9.5%)