We’ve got some Headroom with 2 new guests! Well, 1 is only sort of new. We locked ourselves in a bedroom and popped open a growler of Trillium’s yearly release of Headroom!
Style: DIPA
Container: 64oz Growler
Glassware: Trillium snifters
Notes: Simply put, Headroom is the hoppiest beer we’ve ever brewed with more than 7 lbs. per barrel featuring heavy doses of Galaxy & Mosaic. (8%)
Rating: 3.75/5
The final video in the “Nerdsense Casting Couch” series from Mike’s bachelor party in Vermont!
Style: Russian Imperial Stout
Container: 16.9oz bottle
Glassware: 4oz tasting snifters
Notes: Batch 3 (Spring 2016): Aged in apple brandy, port, bourbon, and Mount Gay rum barrels before blending. (10.5%)
AlamedaIslandBCFinally got some Alameda Island at the table! This one sparked some discussion…
Style: IPA
Container: 22oz bomber
Glassware: Flutes
Notes: The hazy, Vermont/New England IPA. Over 4lbs a barrel of Amarillo and El Derado hops (64lbs) of dry hop alone). Drinks like orange and grapefruit juice. Welcome Island Haze to our island. (6.1%)
Cheers to Rich for sending this one along! Always love a good German beer especially when it’s a Weihenstephaner!
Style: Weizenbock
Container: 12oz Bottle
Glassware: Weizen Glass
Notes: The result is a unique beer that we have brewed back in the middle of the last century before and which was forgotten about unfortunately within the last decades. (7.5%)
Hoof Hearted keeps on impressing. Check out Mike’s first full solo review!!
Style: DIPA
Container: 16oz can
Glassware: Flutes
Notes: Bodaciously dry-hopped with the Dank n’ Fruity combo of Mosiac, Simcoe, and Galaxy hops. (8%)
Rating: 4.25/5
Sam Adams is jumping into the New England IPA game! How does it stand up?!
Style: IPA
Container: 64oz Growler
Glassware: Sam Adams Tasting Glass
Notes: It’s like a juice bomb trying to come through but some much bitterness just holds it back (7.4%)
Rating: 3.25/5
Hoof Hearted keeps on impressing. Check out Mike’s first full solo review!!
Style: DIPA
Container: 16oz can
Glassware: Flutes
Notes: Double IPA with Pink Guava, Lactose, and Vanilla added (9%)
Rating: 4.5/5
If you guys are in Vermont and haven’t heard of Four Quarters, do yourselves a favor and go there.
Style: IPA
Container: 16oz can
Glassware: Flutes
Notes: A juicy citrus forward IPA with a nice amount of bitterness to balance it all out (6.6%)
Rating: 4.25/5
This doozy of a review comes courtesy of Mike’s bachelor party. It appears Shaun was having more fun than Mike was!
Style: DIPA
Container: Growler
Glassware: 4oz ballon glasses
Notes: tropical fruit, soft resin, nutty (9.2%)
This is a blend of recipes of Trillium’s Dialed In and Monkish’s Dial the Seven Digits. Is it delicious or does it lead to a throat filled with fire like their previous collab?
Style: DIPA
Container: 16oz can
Glassware: Flutes
Notes: Combining the recipes for Dialed In (our Double IPA brewed with various wine grape juices) and Monkish’s Dial the Seven Digits Double IPA, DUT7D is a harmonious marriage of dank hop flavors and smooth, subtle muscat juice. (8.2%)
Rating: 3.75/5
