Shaun brought some brews back from a trip to the nations capital a few weeks ago. This is from RAR Brewing in Cambridge, MD!
Style: IPA
Container: 12oz can
Glassware: Flutes
Notes:Big, juicy grapefruit on the nose. Taste follows with pungent citrus, orange rind, and a lingering creamy bitterness. 7.4% ABV(From website)
Rating: 3.25/5 (Shaun would probably give this a 3.50)
On today’s beer centric episode of Nerdsense, we review New Belgium’s Fat Tire & Friends CollaBEERation Pack, featuring radical interpretations of New Belgium’s Fat Tire Ale by distinguished brewers Allagash, Avery, Hopworks, Firestone Walker, and Rhinegeist.
It was an amazing time and, hopefully, an enlightening listen for you, our listeners. Cheers!
Look for the edited down video in the next day or two!
Allagash Fat Funk Ale
Avery Fat Wild Ale
Hopworks Fat Sour Apple Ale
Firestone Walker Fat Hoppy Ale
Rhinegeist Fat Pale Ale
New Belgium Fat Tire Ale
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Wow! We’ve made it to 75 Episodes of beer reviews in under a year! We have many more to release and many more beers to drink.
If you listened to Episode 94 of Nerdsense then this is a edited down video version.
We tackle 6 beers in this video so it’s A LOT longer than our other videos. It’s about 46 minutes of Fat Tire awesomeness! New Belgium got some top notch breweries to brew some interesting variants of their flagship Fat Tire Amber Ale!
We spent a Friday night meticulously going through each variant and just geeking out over what some big name breweries did to New Belgium’s Fat Tire. We even pair them off and cuvée the fuck out of them.
Mike and I had a fucking blast making this video and really hope you have a great time watching it.
Allagash Fat Funk Ale
Avery Fat Wild Ale
Hopworks Fat Sour Apple Ale
Firestone Walker Fat Hoppy Ale
Rhinegeist Fat Pale Ale
New Belgium Fat Tire Ale
We got the Old Guardian joining us for a beer! What did Mike and I think of Stone’s dry hopped barleywine? Watch to find out…or just look at the rating…that pretty much sums it up.
Style: Barleywine
Container: 22oz Bottle
Glassware: Stemmed Tulips
Notes: From time to time, we like to tweak the recipes of some of our most long-standing beers—like Stone Old Guardian Barley Wine—to create unique variations. This year we’re taking it to the next level by dry-hopping it with Pekko hops—a new varietal from Washington’s Yakima Valley—which in turn add notes of stone fruit, orange, lemon and mint to this bready, toffee-like beast of a beer. 11%
Rating: 2.25/5 (After further discussion Mike and I decided the status of the beer may have swayed our reviews and think it’s more towards 2.25.)
Red Band trailer with 1 extra very red band worthy scene!
Marvel and 20th Century Fox just dropped the first trailer for Logan!
This is probably the last time we’ll see Hugh Jackman don the adamantium claws.
Check it out below!
Just a little over two weeks before Marvel’s Doctor Strange hits theaters, they have dropped the teaser and a new poster for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2!
Check out both below!
It’s been a while, but we are finally back!
On the latest episode of Nerdsense, we get down to business talking about the newest Netflix-Marvel venture, Luke Cage. It’s loaded with SPOILERS, so beware.
We also discuss all the latest nerdy news, like the recent Power Rangers trailer, the Iron Fist trailer, and the recent behind the scenes footage from Zack Snyder’s upcoming Justice League.
We also drop some Nerdsense news about our future endeavors! Cheers!
Siren \ Cigar City Caribbean Chocolate Cake
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Holy Smokes! This is a big beer. It was so big that we had to knock it down a quarter of a point!
Style: Bourbon Barrel Aged Stout
Container: 12oz Bottle
Glassware: Stemmed Tulips
Notes: Robust, silky smooth, full-bodied and altogether extremely American rendition of an Imperial Stout aged for 6 months in the very finest Bourbon barrels. 17.1%
Rating: 4.75/5
Another batch of Night Shifts rotating Presidential Double IPA series!
Style: DIPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Night Shift Flutes
Notes: We tried something new this time around, using experimental HBC342 and HBC517 hops. Our latest Presidential DIPA delivers a fruity, pineapple-tinged aroma followed by big notes of citrus. 8.0%
Rating: 3.75/5
Yeah Yeah…We know, we haven’t put out a REAL episode since #88. Life got in the way for both Mike and I which caused us to not be able to record an actual podcast. We were able to get some beer reviews recorded so those will be coming regularly as usual.
While on the topic of beer reviews…this is another Drinks Volume. This could be considered the Chicago episode. This collects two reviews from Chicago based breweries Pipeworks Brewing Company and Arcade Brewery!
This collects Episode 15 – Pipeworks Ninja vs Unicorn Double IPA and Episode 27 – Arcade Grapefruit IPA
Style: Double India Pale Ale
Container: 16oz Tall Boy
Glassware: Firestone Walker Tulip and Spiegelau Tulip
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 4.5/5
Notes: Look: Filtered golden hue with nice white lacing
Nose: Orange citrus, spicy pine. Cotton Candy sweetness Taste:sweet malt at the front with the hops at the back that keeps it balanced
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
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