Another week and another fresh new batch of Morph!!! Do we really need to say anymore?
Style: IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: 2016 Night Shift Barrel Society snifters
Notes: Beastly heaping of Citra, Mosaic, Simcoe, and Topaz hops – saturated, juicy notes of orange, pine, and honeydew melon. (6.2%) (Night Shift tasting notes)
Rating: 4.25/5
Welcome to another Nerdsense Drinks compilation episode!! We’ve edited together Episodes 4 and Episode 5 which are Ecliptic Brewings Canopus IPA and a head to head battle between Sierra Nevada’s Narwhal Imperial Stout and their Barrel Aged Narwhal!
Style: IPA
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Firestone Walker Tulip and Tulip
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 3.75/5
Notes: Light and crisp. Awesome citrus malt balance. Super smooth. Floral and grapefruit on the nose
Sierra Nevada Barrel Aged Narwall
Style: Barrel Aged Imperial Stout
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Firestone Walker Tulip and Tulip
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 5/5
Notes: Nose – Bourbon (Duh!) Vanilla, sweeter aroma, caramel and chocolate makes the sweetness. Flavor – Chocolaty and much sweeter with less coffee than the regular Narwall. Lots and lots of bourbon
Style: Imperial Stout
Container: 12oz Bottle
Glassware: Firestone Walker Tulip and Tulip
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 4.5/5
Notes: Smells mellow coffee, very boozy on the nose, cocoa. Taste is dark chocolate, coffee, boozy without a burn in the back
Narwall + Barrel Aged Narwall Blend
Notes: Milkshake or Sweet Stout. This takes the harshness out and it’s extremely smooth. The smell isn’t much but the flavor is great!
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Another new batch of Morph has arrived!!
Style: IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: 2016 Night Shift Barrel Society snifters
Notes:Blend of Motueka, Idaho 7, and Chinook hops for an IPA bursting with bright notes of citrus and pineapple. (6.3%) (Night Shift tasting notes)
Rating: 3.75/5
This is the last of the Portland beers. It was a sad day. This week we dive in to Alameda Brewing’s Yellow Wolf Imperial IPA!
From Alameda’s site
With over 100 IBUs Yellow Wolf has enough eye-popping intensity to satisfy even the most ardent hopheads. It has bright piney nose and light golden color. We suggest pairing it with sunshine.
http://alamedabrewing.com/yellow-wolf.php
Style: IPA
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Tulips
Notes: Nice hop and malt on the nose with orange citrus. Malty with nice balance of hops. Smooth pleasant mouth feel
Rating: 3.75/5
EXTRA EXTRA! NIGHT SHIFT RELEASES NEW MORPH!!
Here is our review of the latest batch from Night Shifts rotating IPA series, Morph! This batch was canned on 02/02/2016!
http://www.nightshiftbrewing.com/morph-batch-tasting-notes
Style: IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Night Shift Flute, Firestone Walker Tulip, Spiegelau Pilsner Tulip
Notes: This recipe combines Azacca, Simcoe and Galaxy hops. Grassy lemon nose, notes of orange rind, and a dry, grapefruit finish. (6.5%) (From Night Shift tasting notes)
Rating: 3.5/5
What?!?!! Two Nerdsense Drinks episodes in one week?! I know it’s crazy but we felt with Beer Advocate’s Extreme Beer Fest coming up this week, we would release two videos.
In this episode of Nerdsense Drinks we review Breakside’s IPA. Breakside Brewery is out of Portland, OR and we can thank Mike’s good buddy Spencer for sending this to us to try.
Style: India Pale Ale
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Firestone Walker Tulip, Spiegelau Tulip and Balloon Glass
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 4.25/5
Notes: Look: Burnt orange Nose: Sweet malt, grapefruit, pine. Taste: Good hop and malt balance. crisp and easy on the palate .
This week the boys try the latest from Night Shifts Rotating IPA Series, Morph
Style: IPA
Container: 12oz Can
Glassware: Firestone Walker Tulip and Spiegelau Pilsner Tulip
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 3.5/5
Notes: We love the Morph series at Nerdsense. Some have been great, some have been good, 1 or 2 didn’t really hit home for us but this batch hits the spot. Juicy and malty but still great. There is a strange after taste that lingers which gave it a lower rating
In the latest episode of Nerdsense, your hosts give a shout out to some of the highlights of the past year, talking about some of their favorite movies, video games and albums.
They also discuss the latest Deadpool trailer and finally get around to talking about the latest Mission Impossible film, Rogue Nation.
It’s a pretty informal conversation, and the boys definitely get their buzz on, but it’s lively and fun, with an over abundance of f-bombs courtesy of Mike. It’s the year end episode and they do not disappoint.
Style: IPA
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Spiegelau Pilsner Tulip
** Shameless Plug! You’ll have to wait and check out the VideoCast to hear about this one when it hits our YouTube channel!
Style: Double IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Firestone Walker Tulip and Spiegelau Pilsner Tulip
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 4/5
Notes: Great great DIPA from Night Shift. This has what we want. Juice, hops, super floral citrusy punch
Style: IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Spiegelau Pilsner Tulip
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 4.5/5
Notes: Unfortunately this can has been sitting in the fridge for awhile. While Sip of Sunshine is one of my favorite beers, this was muted and less than fresh. Granted it’s still tastier than alot of other IPAs!
Style: Double IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Firestone Walker Tulip
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 4/5
Notes: Really hoppy, juicy and great malt balance.
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Wow! We did another video! I will say, editing audio is far easier than editing video.
Mike got his hands on the latest from Sam Adams. First off, this beer has definitely caused some conversations on the interwebz when it was first announced. When Sam Adams first announced this beer, it was pretty clear they were going after the Vermont IPAs you find in cans and are supposed to “Drink Fresh”
It’s pretty much what they did and for a company as large as Sam Adams they pretty much did just that. This is by far one of their best brews in years. It’s hoppy, it’s juicy, the nose is outstanding.
Give the video a watch to see what else we had to say.
Style: Double IPA
Container: 16oz Bomber
Glassware: Spiegelau IPA Glasses
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 4/5
Afterthought
After having this and the Grapefruit Rebel a few weeks back, I’m hoping Sam may start doing some more interesting brews.
We have Josh join us this week as we discuss proper craft beer glassware.
This episode is a overview of all the different types of glassware for different beer styles.
We’re going to continue this discussion in a future episode and actually sample beers in their proper glassware. This episode is just to familiarize people with glassware if they don’t already know much about the topic.
Style: Belgian Dark Ale
Container: 22oz corked Bomber
Glassware: Firestone Walker Tulip, Smuttynose Snifter, Night Shift Flute
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 4/5
Notes: Really great spiced beer. Perfect for the holidays. Would definitely age well in the cellar.
Style: American IPA
Container: 22oz corked Bomber
Glassware: Firestone Walker Tulip, Smuttynose Snifter, Night Shift Flute
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 4/5
Notes: Really good malt to hop balance. Very citrusy and juicy with still some malt on the back. Great and very drinkable IPA
Style: Porter
Container: 12oz can
Glassware: Firestone Walker Tulip, Smuttynose Snifter, Night Shift Flute
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 4/5
Notes: Super drinkable porter. Big chocolate caramel and malty flavors. So glad this is in a can. Makes it easy and portable
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