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I have listened and now watched on YouTube the final seconds of Portland’s one and only NBA championship win many times and with Bill Schonely, the voice and totem of the Trailblazers retiring, I wish that I could find this beer….
Three cheers for The Schonz!
Eagle Rock Brewery has a new anniversary beer out. Not for themselves but for another Eagle Rock small business, Milkfarm. For a limited time you can get cheese or a sandwich and pair it with a special 7th Anniversary Milkfarm Hoppy Lager.
Gonna review a pair of beers that I bought at the Glendale Tap which has been selling beer from it cellar since the taps are shut and first up is a winner…
Call me jaded but it takes something for a beer to make me sit up straight (I am a natural slouched), and from the moment I popped the cap of Apical Dominance from Russian River, I took notice. The aroma just rolled out. Grapefruit primarily. Then I took a sip and it was magical. All the grapefruit and citrus from hop HBC-692 melded onto a lager. Best IPL hands down. Crisp and bitter.
My wife saw this can that I received in the mail from Stone Brewing and thought the name funny, when I told her there was a pumpkin beer already named that, she revised her statement and thought the name should be changed.
Since I am not a fan, or have heard the music of NOFX, I don’t know if the name fits, but I would agree. Name this hoppy lager something else.
That being said, what about the liquid in the can (I don’t much like the label design either)?
The Punk pours a bright yellow. Getting some sweet tart notes in the aroma and right off the bat on the first sip. Solid bite of bitterness with a nice sharpness to it as well. The aroma barely betrays the hops to come and the bitterness lingers as you drink more. I am torn about where to rate this. It is just a hair too bitter for the base beer but that sharpness is bracing, which I like. 7/10 perhaps.