Nerdsense Drinks & No Hype Beer Reviews – #415 Hill Farmstead Damon (2018)

Style: Barrel Aged Russian Imperial Stouts
Container: 500ml
Glassware: Sample Glasses
Notes: Aged in Blanton’s bourbon barrels. (10.5%)

Damon (1993-2004) The time spent with loved ones, now lost, seems to affect our mind and body perpetually: memories happen upon us, unsuspectingly, and bring about tears of fond remembrance. Damon was our brother – devout and patient in an age of busyness and distraction. In his honor, we crafted and conditioned this Imperial Stout in bourbon barrels from our favorite distillery. We still reflect, daily, upon our Damon and his scruffy chin of grey – of his loyalty and his love.

Nerdsense Drinks & No Hype Beer Reviews – Goose Island Bourbon County Vanilla Rye (2014) vs Vanilla (2018)

Style: Barrel Aged Imperial Stouts
Container: 750ml & 500ml
Glassware: Sample Glasses
Notes: Vanilla Rye (2014) This years version features a little twist of aging the stout in Rye Whiskey Barrels with a mix of Mexican and Madagascar vanilla beans!
(13.6%)
Vanilla (2018)
Utilizing whole grade A vanilla beans from Madagascar, Vanilla delivers on all the quintessential things fans love about this variant: aromatic vanilla, marshmallow, toffee, oak, and floral notes highlighting the creamy mouthfeel and enhancing the chocolate flavors. (14.9%)

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #413 Haw River St. Benedict’s Breakfast Dubbel

Style: Belgian Dubbel
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Spencer Belgian
Notes: Brewed with flaked oats, cacao nibs and two types of crushed locally-roasted coffee beans, our Belgian-style Dubbel is an eye-opening take on a classic style.
(7.2%)

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #412 Hardywood Banana Bread Ale

Couple review!

Style: Belgian Quad + Imperial Milk Stout Blend
Container: 750ml
Glassware: Teku’s
Notes: Belgian style quad ale blended with our imperial milk stout, Cassowary, with cinnamon, banana, and walnut flavor
(9.5%)

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #411 Other Half & Foam Mouthful of Diamonds

Style: Imperial IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Teku
Notes: Our friends from Vermont came to Brooklyn and brewed a delicious beer with us containing Pilsner malt, wheat and oats. We then hopped it aggressively with Galaxy and our hand selected Nelson Sauvin.
(8%)

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #410 Casita Captain Boots

Style: Imperial Brown Ale
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Teku
Notes: Brewed with Vienna, brown malt, golden naked oats, crystal malt, muscavado sugar, coffee, and cinnamon.
(7.5%)

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #409 Benedictine Saint Benedict

Style: Farmhouse Ale
Container: 500ml Bottle
Glassware: Flutes
Notes: Light, crisp and refreshing farmhouse with notes of banana, cloves and malty sweetness. (4.7%)

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #408 Tree House King Julius

Style: Double IPA
Container: 16oz can
Glassware: Teku’s
Notes: King Julius is an American Double IPA brewed to be an exceptionally flavorful, juicy, and hop saturated beer without rough edges or abrasiveness. Its vivid citrus aromas give way to flavors of orange creamsicle, mango smoothie, and a bounty of fresh tropical fruit. We find it to be refined and delicate amid an onslaught of flavor. Originally brewed in 2012, King Julius is our endeavor to marry our past with what we aspire to be in the future. (8.2%)

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews #406-407 Trillium The Streets (2019)

This year we decided to review this beer solo given the other beers we wanted to review. It just made sense logistically do this separately during the week since we both had cans of it. Two doses of Nerdsense to go with your Saturday morning cartoons!

Style: Triple IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: The Streets
Notes: The culmination of all our Street beers over the past 6 years, The Streets is a Triple IPA brewed to celebrate our anniversary. Using the same base recipe and bumping the ABV up to 10.6%, we dry hopped with Amarillo, Mosaic, Galaxy, El Dorado, Simcoe, Nelson, Vic Secret, & Enigma. Additionally, as a nod to the neighborhood, we also added Citra to the dry hop this year, the signature hop used for our Fort Point Pale Ale
(10.6%)

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #405 Trillium Sprang (2019)

Style: Kolsch style ale
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Sprang Glasses
Notes: Sprang is refreshingly light bodied with aromatics of earthy evergreen, passion fruit, and faint doughy malt. Flavors of concord grape, mango, and herbaceous white wine interweave with cracker-crisp, pilsner malt character and minimal bitterness. The finish is dry with a lasting touch of grain. 
(4.9%)