First Morph of 2017!!!
Style: IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Nerdsense Snifters
Notes: The first Morph of 2017 is crafted with Topaz, Citra, and Columbus hops; resinous and juicy. (5.2%)
Rating: 3.75/5
Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #103 Parkway Brewing A Moment On the Lips
Style: Milk Stout
Container: 12oz Botte
Glassware: Snifters
Notes: From Website – his smooth, balanced milk stout with the tastes of the holidays brings on mouth-watering thoughts of chocolate covered orange slices. Brewed with sweet orange and cocoa it’s rich in holiday memories and anticipation! (7.0%)
Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #102 Hermit Thrush Silly Friar
A Vermont brewed beer that isn’t an IPA?! Holy Moly! We’ve got a Sour Belgian Enkel from Hermit Thrush this week!
Style: Belgian Enkel
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Snifters
Notes: Silly Friar uses a hefty amount of European and aged hops, but focuses primarily on the malt profile; strong bready and cracker notes give way to a dry, super malty finish with a touch of yeast funk. Enjoy it with lunch, or on its own for a delicious, refreshing Belgian-inspired treat.(5.8%)
Rating: 4/5
Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #101 Trillium and Lawson’s Pow Pow
Normally I’d put some sarcastic blurb about the beer but Trillium’s site has a pretty great description on how it came to be. So just read that. It’s better than what I’d write.
“The idea for Pow Pow was born when 2 very passionate individuals joined forces during the epic 2016 beer festival Beer Camp Across America. Devil’s Backbone, Dogfish Head, Sierra Nevada, Stoudt’s, Lawson’s Finest Liquids, and Trillium collaborated to create one of the festival’s signature beer Pat-Rye-Ot, a pale ale that pays tribute to America’s original homebrewers. During the process two brewers in particular were fascinated by a new hop product that was used in Pat-Rye-Ot. The product: lupulin powder. The fascinated brewers: Sean Lawson and JC Tetreault.
Lupulin powder is essentially a super concentrated hop product made by flash freezing and then shattering intact hop flowers. In early November, the team experimented with different ways of utilizing the lupulin powder in both the whirlpool and during the dry hop, taking into account beer and wort temperatures, contact time, lupulin powder temperatures, and consistency of the powder.”
http://www.trilliumbrewing.com/trillium-pow-pow
Style: Double IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Snifters
Notes: Pow Pow is hazy, pale orange in appearance and emits aromatic qualities of orange zest, apricots and honeysuckle on the nose. Bright flavors of citrus pith, along with soft notes of melon are accentuated with a lasting and balanced bitterness. (7.7%)
Rating: 4/5
Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #100 Oskar Blues Rum Barrel Aged Ten Fidy
We managed to get our grubby little hands on the brewery exclusive Rum Barrel Aged Ten Fidy by Oskar Blues!! Watch and see what we thought of it…
It’s a BEAST of a bear
Shout out to our good buddy Larry for sending this!
Style: American Imperial Stout aged in Rum Barreks
Container: 19.2oz Stovepipe Can
Glassware: Nerdsense Snifters
Notes: Ten Fidy Aged in fresh-as-hell Jamaican rum barrels for six months (14.2%)
Rating: Shaun – 4.5 Mike – 3.75
Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #99 The Alchemist Beelzebub
Mike managed to initiate a trade (with one of my beers) for a beer we didn’t expect to get on the show for awhile. The Alchemist’s, American Imperial Stout, Beelzebub graces our table this week!
Style: American Imperial Stout
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Nerdsense Snifters
Notes:The intensely smooth and rich roasted flavor is complemented by the unmistakable presence of hops. The bitterness is held in check, preserving the flavors of dark chocolate. This ale is aggressively dry hopped with Citra to cut through it all. (8.0%)
Rating: Shaun – 3.25 Mike – 4
Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #98 Night Shift Annie Oatley
One of Night Shifts latest offerings. Pale Ale brewed with oats! I’ll just call it an Oatmeal Pale Ale
Style: Pale Ale
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Flutes
Notes: Pale ale brewed with oats and hopped with Simcoe, Citra, and Mosaic (4.9%)
Rating: 4.25/5
Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #97 Trillium Dialed In with Sauvignon Blanc Juice
“This is everything I want in an IPA at this point in my life” – Mike 12/23/2015
It took about a year but we finally got our hands on some Dialed In. It’s really our fault as 1 brewery is about 30 minutes and the other is 40 minutes. We could have easily went many times.
Style: Double IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Night Shift Stemmed Snifters
Notes: Dialed In is a dank, juicy Double IPA intensively dry hopped with Nelson Sauvin and Galaxy. Soft and creamy with moderate bitterness; Medium-Light bodied with a crisp, dry finish. (8.5%)
Rating: 5/5
Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #96 Night Shift Morph 12/15/2016
Another Morph just in time for Christmas but not edited until after Christmas but edited before New Years Eve! Cheers!
Style: IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Nerdsense Snifters
Notes: Our mid-December Morph pairs a blend of Rakau, Citra, and Simcoe hops, with just a bit of honey. (6.0%)
Rating: 4.25/5
Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #95 Hardywood Gingerbread Stout
Since it’s Christmas we thought what better beer to review than a gingerbread stout! We were pleasantly surprised. I was shocked Mike liked it as much as he did!
Style: Milk Stout
Container: Bomber
Glassware: Nerdsense Snifters
Notes: Hardywood Gingerbread Stout offers aromatics of holiday spice originating from the ginger, and balanced with a generous dose of whole Madagascar bourbon vanilla beans and Vietnamese cinnamon. Milk sugar (lactose) contributes to the full body of this stout and tames its roasty character, while oats lend a silky quality. (9.2%)
Rating: 4.25/5