We’ve got another Massachusetts favorite this week! We got some Trillium Double Dry Hopped Melcher Street!
Style: IPA Container: 22oz Bomber Glassware: Snifter and Tulip Notes: This amped up American IPA features a heavy dose of Mosaic hops. The spicy, resinous, herbal aroma bursts with nuances of tart citrus, tangerine, clementine, and subtle green onion. Bold flavors of under-ripe melon, cantaloupe rind, and pineapple are highlighted with gentle bitterness and delicate, biscuity malt character. (From website) Rating: 4.75/5
Mike and I sit down to discuss the latest entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America: Civil War! Which side will we take?! Team Cap or Team Crap!?
The boys pop open a bottle of one of their favorite Night Shift brews! This a double mash stout released as part of Night Shift’s Barrel Society program.
Style: Stout Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Night Shift 2015 Barrel Society Notes: (From Site) Double-mash stout aged in bourbon barrels; powerful aromas of chocolate, walnut and tobacco lead to thick, rich flavors of molasses, charred oak, smokey bourbon, and dark roast coffee Rating: 5/5
This week, your humble hosts do a retrospective on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, covering every film from Iron Man to Ant-Man, all in preparation for the upcoming Captain America 3: Civil War.
In addition, they cover a few news items, and Mike gets drunk off his ass, even though he keeps promising he won’t. It’s another crazy night in the Nerd Den.
Style: Double IPA
Container: 12oz Can
Glassware: Snifters Notes: (From Site) Selected specifically because of their aromatic qualities, these Pacific Northwest varieties contribute a pungent blend of grapefruit, stone fruit, and floral notes. A generous malt bill and a solid dollop of honey
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 4.75/5
Style: Strong Ale
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Spiegelau Snifter and Firestone Walker Tulip Notes: Nose: Malty caramel with apricot, boozy. Mike got “sewage” or bad water” Taste: Better beers have come since this. Taste: Malt and caramel comes through as it did on the nose. There are hops for sure.
Overall Nerdsense Rating: 3.50/5 — We were thrown off by how much our tastes have changed given this was one of the craft beers that got us really loving it.
Style: Strong Ale
Container: 22oz Bomber
Glassware: Spiegelau Snifter and Firestone Walker Tulip Notes: Nose: Oak (obviously), maple which adds sweetness on top of bourbon. Taste: Smooth and balanced. Sweetness and mellow compared to the normal Arrogant
Overall Nerdsense Rating: Nose: 4.25/5
**BLEND** (Shaun’s favorite part!) 4/5!
You lose the oak and it kind of makes the regular Arrogant a little more smooth and tasty
This was the first video we recorded using the new setup. We’ve since released a few other videos before releasing this. The main reason was we wanted to get the Night Shift Morph reviews out while the current release was still on the shelf.
All of our old videos with the previous setup are in the wild now so please enjoy our new setup. We like it and hope you do as well!
Style: Barleywine Container: 12oz bottle Glassware: Snifters Notes: (From website)Our second collaboration creation with Sean Lawson of Lawson’s Finest Liquids, Double or Nothing is a devilishly sweet Barley Wine that’s aged on maple wood and brewed with a heavenly dose of Vermont maple syrup.
Enjoy fresh or lay one down for future indulgence Rating: 4.25/5
Style: Double IPA Container: 2 x 16oz Can Glassware: Small tasters for look only then drank from the can Notes: (From website) Take a big sip of Heady and see what hop flavors you can pick out. Orange? Tropical Fruit? Pink Grapefruit? Pine? Spice? There is just enough malt to give this beer some backbone, but not enough to take the hops away from the center stage. Rating: 5/5
