Nerdsense – Episode 102

After a bit of a hiatus, Nerdsense is back. This return is marked by the return of the CWDCTVU, and we are here to talk all about the four shows and their content. We delve into the plots and our favorite, and not so favorite, parts.

Special guest Jonathan throws a wrench or two into the works, but your humble hosts persevere.

Cheers!

Beers

Night Shift Bennington

Sierra Nevada Single Hop Cascade

Night Shift Morph 1/12/2017

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Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #105 Trillium Double Dry Hopped A Street

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

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #102 Hermit Thrush Silly Friar

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

Nerdsense Drinks Reviews – #101 Trillium and Lawson’s Pow Pow

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