It's been awhile since I've posted in here so this is several weeks worth of finds and drinks.
EngineerMike posted that he got some Base Camp Brewing beers lately, my wife got me their S'more Stout, actually, come to think of it, she's picked up all of the beers in this post for me
The Grand Cru was awesome, great stuff there. Notice the IPA is a "Northwest India Pale Ale" more on that later.....
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Wife went to New Mexico to visit some family, brought me back some local stuff. She actually had to birthday-present-join-up her sister's-husband to Marble Brewing's beer club to be able to get that Barley wine as they only sell it to members. It is sitting comfortably in my beer cupboard with a very nice selection of other barley wines (also
). The whiskey isn't a beer obviously but looks awesome, it's a small batch, hand numbered bottle. We haven't had whiskey in the house for maybe a couple years now, I think the last one I had was Bulleit's Rye Whiskey, which was fantastic. I'm excited to try the Monks' Dubbel Ale. It comes from Monastery of Christ in the Desert Abbey, wife bought it in a store of course, but yay! monk beer!
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This Imperial Red Ale Also came from my wife's trip, it was yummy.
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Wife and I each had beer from Worthy Brewing last night. Guess which one is her's.....
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Worthy Brewing Co. is somewhat nearby, about two hours away. This Imperial IPA was alright, not awesome. The smell was pretty good, that was the best part. Overall it was kinda unbalanced, not that I minded so much though, they used 8 kinds of hops according to the bottle so there was lots of interesting notes to the beer. For whatever reason, I was inspired to mix it with another beer once I drank most of it. I rarely do this, almost never. The beer I had on hand to try this weird idea was Lagunitas' (one of my favorite breweries) Day Time as The Wife had picked up a 6 pack for me to have on hand as regular "drinking beer" (as opposed to "looking at beer" which mostly just sits in the beer cupboard). I tried to carefully float the Day Time on top of the Imperial IPA, either I don't know how to "float" a drink on top of another or they are the same color
(see pic) not quite as cool looking as a Black & Tan anyways.
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It's probably that they are really close to being the same color, being a Fractional IPA. Remember how I alluded to this earlier, how in the NW, we like to just make up weird beer styles? I'm cool with that, making up new styles, I did blend too wildly different IPA's for some reason after all. So this newly minted "Fractional" IPA is a very light IPA (low avb), it's pretty good, you should try it, don't bother blending it unless you are some weirdo-beer-snob-homebrewing-NW-native though.
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