Singlecut is in cans and they’re expensive as fuck!
Style: Session IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Nerdsense Snifters
Notes: JIWH features all PNW hop varieties (think classic citrus/pine/resin) delivered with present malt smoothness – punching much harder than it’s weight class would suggest. (4.6%)
Rating: 3.75/5
Mike and I take a stroll down A Street…Double Dry Hopped to be exact! *Ba Dum Tss!*
Style: IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Nerdsense Snifters
Notes: Same base grist as A Street IPA, but with a double dose of Amarillo in the dry hop. These Amarillo hops impart a powerful floral aroma with distinctive notes of citrus zest. The taste is bright, floral, and citrusy upfront, finishing with candied grapefruit and orange. (7.2%)
Rating: 4.25/5
First Morph of 2017!!!
Style: IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Nerdsense Snifters
Notes: The first Morph of 2017 is crafted with Topaz, Citra, and Columbus hops; resinous and juicy. (5.2%)
Rating: 3.75/5
Style: Milk Stout
Container: 12oz Botte
Glassware: Snifters
Notes: From Website – his smooth, balanced milk stout with the tastes of the holidays brings on mouth-watering thoughts of chocolate covered orange slices. Brewed with sweet orange and cocoa it’s rich in holiday memories and anticipation! (7.0%)
A Vermont brewed beer that isn’t an IPA?! Holy Moly! We’ve got a Sour Belgian Enkel from Hermit Thrush this week!
Style: Belgian Enkel
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Snifters
Notes: Silly Friar uses a hefty amount of European and aged hops, but focuses primarily on the malt profile; strong bready and cracker notes give way to a dry, super malty finish with a touch of yeast funk. Enjoy it with lunch, or on its own for a delicious, refreshing Belgian-inspired treat.(5.8%)
Rating: 4/5
Normally I’d put some sarcastic blurb about the beer but Trillium’s site has a pretty great description on how it came to be. So just read that. It’s better than what I’d write.
“The idea for Pow Pow was born when 2 very passionate individuals joined forces during the epic 2016 beer festival Beer Camp Across America. Devil’s Backbone, Dogfish Head, Sierra Nevada, Stoudt’s, Lawson’s Finest Liquids, and Trillium collaborated to create one of the festival’s signature beer Pat-Rye-Ot, a pale ale that pays tribute to America’s original homebrewers. During the process two brewers in particular were fascinated by a new hop product that was used in Pat-Rye-Ot. The product: lupulin powder. The fascinated brewers: Sean Lawson and JC Tetreault.
Lupulin powder is essentially a super concentrated hop product made by flash freezing and then shattering intact hop flowers. In early November, the team experimented with different ways of utilizing the lupulin powder in both the whirlpool and during the dry hop, taking into account beer and wort temperatures, contact time, lupulin powder temperatures, and consistency of the powder.”
http://www.trilliumbrewing.com/trillium-pow-pow
Style: Double IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Snifters
Notes: Pow Pow is hazy, pale orange in appearance and emits aromatic qualities of orange zest, apricots and honeysuckle on the nose. Bright flavors of citrus pith, along with soft notes of melon are accentuated with a lasting and balanced bitterness. (7.7%)
Rating: 4/5
We managed to get our grubby little hands on the brewery exclusive Rum Barrel Aged Ten Fidy by Oskar Blues!! Watch and see what we thought of it…
It’s a BEAST of a bear
Shout out to our good buddy Larry for sending this!
Style: American Imperial Stout aged in Rum Barreks
Container: 19.2oz Stovepipe Can
Glassware: Nerdsense Snifters
Notes: Ten Fidy Aged in fresh-as-hell Jamaican rum barrels for six months (14.2%)
Rating: Shaun – 4.5 Mike – 3.75
Mike managed to initiate a trade (with one of my beers) for a beer we didn’t expect to get on the show for awhile. The Alchemist’s, American Imperial Stout, Beelzebub graces our table this week!
Style: American Imperial Stout
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Nerdsense Snifters
Notes:The intensely smooth and rich roasted flavor is complemented by the unmistakable presence of hops. The bitterness is held in check, preserving the flavors of dark chocolate. This ale is aggressively dry hopped with Citra to cut through it all. (8.0%)
Rating: Shaun – 3.25 Mike – 4
One of Night Shifts latest offerings. Pale Ale brewed with oats! I’ll just call it an Oatmeal Pale Ale
Style: Pale Ale
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Flutes
Notes: Pale ale brewed with oats and hopped with Simcoe, Citra, and Mosaic (4.9%)
Rating: 4.25/5
“This is everything I want in an IPA at this point in my life” – Mike 12/23/2015
It took about a year but we finally got our hands on some Dialed In. It’s really our fault as 1 brewery is about 30 minutes and the other is 40 minutes. We could have easily went many times.
Style: Double IPA
Container: 16oz Can
Glassware: Night Shift Stemmed Snifters
Notes: Dialed In is a dank, juicy Double IPA intensively dry hopped with Nelson Sauvin and Galaxy. Soft and creamy with moderate bitterness; Medium-Light bodied with a crisp, dry finish. (8.5%)
Rating: 5/5
