This week we have Hop Nosh Tangerine IPA from Uinta (YOU-INTA) Brewing from Salt Lake City, UT
Style: IPA
Container: 12oz Can
Glassware: 13oz snifters
Notes:A play on our flagship IPA, this beer features an aromatic menagerie of tropical hops and tangerine zest. Wraps up with a crisp, bitter finish. (7.3%)
Rating: 3.5/5
MORPH MORPH MORPH MORPH….MORPH!
Style: IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Night Shift Flutes
Notes:This batch features Motueka, Cascade, and Topaz hops; fresh juicy orange and white grape aromas, giving way to resinous pine flavors and a lingering bitter finish (6.1%)
Rating: 4.5/5
Another rotating IPA series from Night Shift! This particular one is called One Hop This Time and each batch is brewed with just a single hop variety!
Style: IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Night Shift Flutes
Notes: (From Website) Sipping with apricot, lime, and orange notes(6%)
Rating: 3.25/5
New batch of Morph!!
Style: IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Night Shift Flutes
Notes:Topaz, Cascade, and Simcoe hops; big, dank notes of apricot, citrus, and grapefruit (6.0%)
Rating: 3.25/5
This is the latest offering in Night Shift’s Presidential DIPA series! Is it relaunch of the series since there was a large gap between their last one and Roosevelt? Would Truman technically be considered #2 in the relaunch? Eh, it’s beer…so we drink it!
Style: Double IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: 2016 Barrel Society Snifters
Notes: (From Website) Loaded with Idaho 7, Simcoe, and El Dorado hops, this 8.0% DIPA has piney, resinous character with a dank, orange pith finish.(8%)
Rating: 4.5/5
Another very sought Vermont DIPA
Style: Double IPA
Container: 12oz Can
Glassware: 16oz Tulips
Notes: (From Website) BIG juicy tropical hop aroma, smooth finish, and a bright brilliant color.(8.1%)
Rating: 3.5/5
New Morph.
Style: IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Night Shift Flutes
Notes:Idaho 7, Nelson Sauvin, and Simcoe hops. Dominating citrus flavors; lime leaf and honeysuckle; smooth finish (5.1%)
Rating: 4.5/5
We’ve got another edition of Nerdsense Drinks! This collects Episodes 35 and Episode 36 in which the dynamic duo review 2 beers brewed by Night Shifts to celebrate their 4 year anniversary. Let your ears be tickled by the sounds us slurping on Night Shift’s 4 Year Stout and Double IPA!
If you dig the episode then head over to our YouTube channel and actually watch us slurp these 2 behemoth beers!
Style: Oatmeal Stout
Container: 25.4oz Bomber
Glassware: 2016 Night Shift Barrel Society Tulips
Notes: Oatmeal stout fermented with maple syrup and aged in apple brandy barrels
Rating: 5/5
Style: Double IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: 2016 Night Shift Barrel Society snifters
Notes:Our hoppiest beer ever, this DIPA is bursting with Galaxy, Motueka, Idaho 7, and El Dorado hops. Huge flavors of melon, mango, and passionfruit
Rating: 3.75/5
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Well here’s another big one folks! We’ve got Russian River Pliny the Elder!
Style: Double IPA
Container: 500mL Bottle
Glassware: Balloon glasses
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 3.75/5
Notes: Pliny the Elder is brewed with Amarillo, Centennial, CTZ, and Simcoe hops. It is well-balanced with malt, hops, and alcohol, slightly bitter with a fresh hop aroma of floral, citrus, and pine.
We have a special treat for everyone this week! Mike and I go behind the camera and MC what very well be the greatest blind taste on the entire internet!!! Just kidding, but we do have a blind taste test that we found pretty fun to record and think it’ll be fun to watch.
Mike and I didn’t think it was fair to do this blind taste test ourselves as we could easily pick out the two since we’ve had Heady so much and the taste is extremely different. Instead of comparing the two which is like comparing apples to oranges these days, we thought we’d bring in a panel of outside judges.
We have (from left to right in the video) my lovely girlfriend, Kerry, Melanie from Melly Mel’s Cookin and our semi-frequent guest and Mike’s brother, Josh.
All 3 of them did a blind taste test about a year ago. Kerry and Melanie chose Pliny and Josh Picked Heady. Let’s see what they pick this time.
Hope you guys enjoy!
-Shaun
