The Kick Box - On Hip!

I bought this for some guests on the weekend and they raved about it.

http://www.unibroue.com/en/beers/15 (not my picture)

 

Great beer!

 

Drinking Bissell Brothers Swish out of Maine. This just may be the best beer I have ever tasted!! A double IPA which drinks like a session. Incredible stuff!!!

No review is necessary.

A+++

 

Now drinking Melcher Street from Trillium out of Boston, MA.

This is a 7.2% NE-style IPA.

Absolutely incredible.

WORLD CLASS!

 

2X Stout ST.... topped with 200mg edible oil mixed with some milk and added to my 2X in a glass.

 

Morning beer. Winter storm outside. Off until 11PM. No fucks given.

This is Epiphany from Foundation Brewing Company out of Maine.

Double IPA

8% ABV.

Beer pours a golden orange color that is slightly hazy but transparent with lots of floating sediment.

Brewed with pilsner and pale malts, oats, and Cascade, CItra, Columbus, Ella and Mosaic hops.

CLASSIC Maine IPA right here. Brimming with citrus (pineapple, grapefruit, orange, lemon), floral hops, and some biscuity malts hovering in the background. Lots of dank, resinous pine also, and some peppery spice.

Lots of juicy tropical citrus flavors, namely orange and grapefruit, some bready malts. There is a rather sharp piney bitterness to this beer, with a spicy bite and even some herbal notes towards the finish.

Mouthfeel is medium, crisp, and with a light to medium carbonation.

Nice stuff, but after drinking that Swish from Bissell Brothers last night, this does not even compare.

Still worthy of a solid A

 

Drinking The Substance from Bissell Brothers.

IPA / 6.6% ABV

NO REVIEW REQUIRED.

JUST PURELY AWESOME!!

A+

 

Finally tried that voodoo Ranger last night.
Extremely hoppy but if I remember correctly they advertise that it's 8 different kinds of hops.
I might have other thoughts about it another day...I just wasn't in the mood for something that strong last night.

 

Drinking the lost abbey judgement day ale.
Goes down super easy.
One of the lighter 10% abv beers I ever had, nice light fruity/raisin flavors.

Despite all that I said above...it still feels like a sipping beer.
I could really see this being perfect with some meals. Right now I am craving pasta. Don't know if it's the beer making me want it but I can picture the two working together.

 

The beer gods have been good to me lately.

Drinking Citra from Other Half out of NYC.

This is an IPA which showcases the use of Citra hops.

7% ABV

Pours a very hazy, opaque orange with a tight, white head.

Aroma is pineapple, orange, melon, dank weed, and fresh cut grass.

Flavor is of dank, fruity, tropical hops, with a huge pineapple, melon and and orange hop flavor. The bitterness is very little, and there is a slight bready malt backbone which also provides a slight amount of sweetness in the finish. I am also getting some green, herbaceous flavors which again evoke very good, dank weed.

Mouthfeel is medium and very crisp, with lots of juiciness. Carbonation is light to moderate.

Overall an amazing beer from an amazing brewery which is doing AMAZING things with beer.

A+

 

Glad to see I am not the only morning boozer here. I've been up all night, though.

 

I have worked the night shift for 15 years. And 23 of the last 24 years. And the one year between them was training so I can get on the night shift.

 

Brah, I had no idea. Respek, dude.

 

You saying that reminds me of my first graveyard shift job. (Even before I worked night shift...I am talking back in high school days, I was working 10pm on school days and 2pm sometimes in the summer time.)

Anyway like I said it reminded me of my first boss when I worked the graveyard shift. I said to him that all the people on our shift are a bit strange. His reply was one of common sense. It was "you only work those hours if you are a bit strange."

So interesting that the job I am looking to get is a day shift job...to be fair it is the same job that I worked the day shift for that I mentioned above (they are the ones that eliminated the night shift.)

 

Rather than edit I just decided to clarify here that what I meant was that the one year of day shift for training for the night shift that I mentioned earlier is the same job I am going for now.
Just that the day shift thing would be permanent, being there is no night shift anymore.

 

was able to get some beers and score a t-shirt from my beer place.. was hoping that I could get some video online of the crash thru the door, but Ill have to get the guy that works there to send them to me on my phone.. funny how news is up the ass on everything else, truck crashes into beer store no coverage.. was on the news but i cant seem to find the story online.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vd9loIWS5Rs/WMm4lRHbkPI/AAAAAAAADYE/GJvj-U7IAqQCG--ln6B4fDWTbZ9K6k7bgCJoC/w530-h883-p/17%2B-%2B1

 

so there is a new store that i pass every day, they have craft beer signs up. i always just figured they were blue moon and shock top craft beers. one day last month i decided just to see if they have anything different, mid afternoon and they were closed, two weeks later i see 2 trucks in the lot. pull in...closed. so today on my way home i decide to see if they were open and what do you know, they are actually still in business. and they only have two shelves of beer but it is all craft beers and more than just the locals. it will be my new favorite beer store unless i finally move to nj.

first up is firestones oatmeal stout.

typical high quality oatmeal stout, a bit of zing left on the tongue after each sip. either i am thirsty or it is extremely drinkable because it is almost gone.

 

second up is kentucky bourbon barrel stout.

enough has been said about it already so i am just gonna enjoy it without explaining it.

 

elysian pumkin stout.. 5$ bomber.. wish i got 2..

 

Smirnoff vodka and lagunitas IPA