Mother's Day.. Father's Day.. all these days. Everyone does cards, family dinners, some small gifts.. Is that enough for the human beings who combined their genetic material to give life to you? NO! Not just 1 day out of the year! And not just little things like that. What do they appreciate the most? Quality time with you!! (yes.. I'm getting sentimental up in here, so what!) Anything I drink at home (again, I live with the parents currently.. so what!), I've been sharing with my dad. A lifelong BMC drinker, I've been slowly getting him to appreciate craft beer and it's just so darn cute hearing him describe beers! So I thought I'd share some good stuff with him this year
Night Shift Brewing - Ever Weisse Berliner Weisse
a 5.5% ABV Berliner Weisse-style beer brewed with strawberries, kiwis, and hibiscus. Berliners are a sour wheat beer traditionally lower in ABV. They're often served with flavored syrups much like soda shoppes around the middle of last century. So naturally, modern brewers have adopted this and been aging the styles with fruit. The color of this beer is out-of-this-world. Seriously, the picture does it zero justice. A vibrant pink/red pour.. quickly fading head. A tart aroma hits you as soon as the bottle is popped with candy-like fruit sweetness.. some strawberry, but getting other fruits like cherries, blackberries and raspberries. Like childhood bottled and fermented. This has a fantastic level of tartness.. not necessarily towards the realm of being 'sour'.. just enough to pucker up and give you that little twinge in your jaw. There's more fruit sweetness, not exclusive to strawberries again (thankfully - strawberry flavor is one of my least favorite fruit flavors) and touches of tropical - which I'll attribute to the kiwi. There's citric notes and hints of oak and tea (hibiscus?). The finish is sweet, sharp, and a bit dry. It's not overly complex.. just gives you exactly what you want - tart, fruit, sweet, and bubbly. This is pretty damn awesome (oh, and they do 3 more seasonal releases in their Sours [Berliner Weisse] program)
- - 8 Hops!
Jack's Abby - The ABCs Double IPL
A 7.5% ABV 100+ IBU Douple India Pale Lager. yes.. India. Pale. LAGER. C'mon.. you don't know Jack's Abby yet?! WTF is wrong with you! Get with the craft beer picture in New England! JA does lagers.. and lagers only. Personally, I think this results in much 'cleaner' beers, allows the malts, hops, and anything else to really shine through. For this, they used Apollo, Bravo, Calypso, and Simcoe hops.. holy moly! Golden copper/yellow pour and a giant thick head, the hops burst forth from the bottle. Tropical hops dominate with equal parts citrus, grass and a great piney zing that finishes off the nose. Almost no malt is present, the hops are the star here and in the taste. Insane hop flavors, ranging from sharp and piney to really smooth citrus and tropical notes. And let's just say grapefruit grapefruit grapefruit! (tangerine and orange peel too.. but my lord, that grapefruit!) It's smooth for such a strongly hopped beer with just a touch of light caramel and honey malt holding it all together. Brewed for the DrinkCraftBeer Spring Hop Fest, this is the embodiment of unreal hops.. kudos!
- - 9 Hops!
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