What Are You Drinking? October 2022
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Other Half Smokescreens + Oil Slicks Cognac Barrel Aged Smoked Imperial Stout, 11.5%.
Other Half collaboration with J. Wakefield Snowbirds 3 VIP Version for Pastrytown. With coconut, Emperors toasted coconut, marcona almonds and wild Thai banana, 16%.
Pastrytown Version 2 Imperial Double Stout conditioned on Colombian Coffee, cacao nibs, hazelnuts, vanilla and cinnamon, 15.5%.
We caught some vermin! Never saw blood like this from a mousetrap before!
Charcuterie!
We caught some vermin! Never saw blood like this from a mousetrap before!
Charcuterie!
Damn, you prepared that mouse-meat platter fast!
Good on you for not letting a bout of late night rodenticide put a damper on what looks like some fine festivities. I know I wouldn't fare that well--I'm far too neurotic and OCD, and I'd probably knock over a full bottle of wine just trying to reset the trap...
John and Superman doing a shot of Jargermeister with Wasabi!
Other Half Bad Desisions brewed with our Manchester, UK friends Cloudwater Brew Co. Aged in Willett bourbon barrels for a year and conditioned on coconut, cacao nibs, cinnamon and ancho peppers, 13 %.
I would frame this photo in the Prado Museum in Madrid. It is an authentic work of art.
Correction 1: Jägermeister
Correction 2: Other Half Bad Desisions brewed with Cloudwater Brew Co. Aged in Willett bourbon barrels for a year and conditioned on coconut, cacao nibs, cinnamon and ancho peppers, 13 % (we aren’t friends with the folks at Cloudwater—I copy and pasted the description from Other Half’s website).
Correction 2: Other Half Bad Desisions brewed with Cloudwater Brew Co. Aged in Willett bourbon barrels for a year and conditioned on coconut, cacao nibs, cinnamon and ancho peppers, 13 % (we aren’t friends with the folks at Cloudwater—I copy and pasted the description from Other Half’s website).
I’m drinking rum. Actually my rum collection is about 20 times bigger than my pipe collection and I’m better acquainted with rum than with pipes.
But for logical reasons those two vices just do not go well together.
But for logical reasons those two vices just do not go well together.
Settling into my work day with some black dragon pearl tea.
An amber ale I brewed up for my wife & I to enjoy on our 7th anniversary. We dubbed it Avanursey Amber(cuz that how you talk after a couple). Goes great with C & D Burley #1.
I picked up a bottle of that a while back. I should probably get another soon. Man that was great whiskey
Went to the Wooden Match in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania for the monthly Lehigh Valley Pipe Club meeting earlier tonight. Had a Singlecut Bon Bob 2xTNT DDH IIPA, Imperial/Double IPA, 8% and a Brü Daddy's Brewing Company, Sour, Pastry Fiend: Key Lime Pie, 7.3% (the out of focus shot).
Ah whee dram or 2 of this. They also make a 1 and 3 year old cellared in casks which is really good.
Latvian brewer Hopalaa Double Dry Hopped Double Indian Pale Ale where some just would call it DDHDIPA. They claim to be one of the best IPA makers, so I was curious about this brewery, while Double Hopped IPA is also my jam. The DIPA part seems gimmick to me, I'm not about the hazy color of it and I see no other function to it taste wise, but it's not color I'm drinking but beer, so let's go.
Amazing flavourbomb, first it's very citrusy where you would think it's generic IPA, but mixed with a oatmeal mouthfeel comes in, it is brewed with oats so that's no surprise, but it holds that citrus quite long. Then it tickles the mouth with a bit of spice like you would have with retroing a VaPer without the stewed fruit (that would make it really good), where grapefruit peel creeps in and mixes with the spice, very complex. It's pretty linear, but it is that way from opening the can to the last sip it, no need for opening up, no drop of flavor while I savour it. No beer for while mowing the lawn, but a beer to sit down with. I wouldn't pair this to anything, the complexity will not be ruined, you'll ruin the pairing to it.
It's unseasonably warm out here and this tickles my fancy more than it should be during this times of year.
Did they live up to their claim? For me the verdict is out, but this is one of the most special DDH beers I've had. I've had their normal IPA and it was good, but not mind blowing. If you can get this brand in any way, do it. I've got a sampler from a beer subscription and I'm going to enjoy it a lot. Some don't care about can design like tin designs for pipe tobacco or boxdesigns for cigars (like me), but the cans are really well done, my photography skills don't do it justice.
Rant off.
Amazing flavourbomb, first it's very citrusy where you would think it's generic IPA, but mixed with a oatmeal mouthfeel comes in, it is brewed with oats so that's no surprise, but it holds that citrus quite long. Then it tickles the mouth with a bit of spice like you would have with retroing a VaPer without the stewed fruit (that would make it really good), where grapefruit peel creeps in and mixes with the spice, very complex. It's pretty linear, but it is that way from opening the can to the last sip it, no need for opening up, no drop of flavor while I savour it. No beer for while mowing the lawn, but a beer to sit down with. I wouldn't pair this to anything, the complexity will not be ruined, you'll ruin the pairing to it.
It's unseasonably warm out here and this tickles my fancy more than it should be during this times of year.
Did they live up to their claim? For me the verdict is out, but this is one of the most special DDH beers I've had. I've had their normal IPA and it was good, but not mind blowing. If you can get this brand in any way, do it. I've got a sampler from a beer subscription and I'm going to enjoy it a lot. Some don't care about can design like tin designs for pipe tobacco or boxdesigns for cigars (like me), but the cans are really well done, my photography skills don't do it justice.
Rant off.
I tried the Clement ‘52 once. Don’t recall much as it was following by an embarrassment of unicorn Agricoles. I still have a bottle of the original XO (52, 70, 76) and one bottle of the 1976 that I visit every now and again.