Beerneuring – BAFS 2020

[reji]

Jan 6 at Heritage Brewing in Arlington. I had one of their flagship beers, Live Free or Die, a west coast style IPA. Easy drinking, pleasant citrus and piney notes.
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[sjclaeys]

@reji 196034 wrote:

Jan 6 at Heritage Brewing in Arlington. I had one of their flagship beers, Live Free or Die, a west coast style IPA. Easy drinking, pleasant citrus and piney notes.
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Did you make sure that they brewed it there, rather than at their main brewing facility?

[reji]

@sjclaeys 196069 wrote:

Did you make sure that they brewed it there, rather than at their main brewing facility?

Yes I did. In fact, I didn’t get the beer I really wanted because it wasn’t brewed on site.

[smb9600]

Beernuering #1: Heritage Brewing – Ironsides Sessions IPA. Personally- Is prefer a stronger IPA…

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[DrBullet]

Did a ride to Vanish Brewery North of Leesburg on Xmas Eve. It was a (mostly) asphalt ride but good options for gravel or road ride. Would be happy to lead a ride there sometime over the next few months, if anyone is interested. We started from Vienna but could equally have people join in Leesburg.

[Boomer Cycles]

#BAFS2020beerneuring 003 – Heritage (Clarendon in Arlington VA)

I had their signature “dairy wars” nitro milk stout, which is brewed in the sweet English style and has an ABV of 5.4% It’s supposed to have hints of chocolate and coffee, but I could not get past the sourness, which was way over the top for me. It’s not yet rated on beeradvocate.com, but I think they might’ve lost the war with this one.

(Note: the bartender said that it was brewed on site)

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[CateO]

1 – Streetcar 82 Brewing Co, Hyattsville, MD
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Ordered the flight:
The Colonel: A smooth and crips Pilsner named for the owner’s father-in-law. If ordered, it comes with much boasting from said father-in-law and eye rolling from owner.
Old Man Winter: Comes with a rosemary sprig! Smooth and complex, great aroma.
Scoth’d Pumpkin: Cinnamon and brown sugar rim! A little malty, not overwhelmingly pumpkin
Livn’ the Hy-Life: Very smooth and rich. Collaboration with Vigilante Coffee

Also tasted the MISC, aged in rye whiskey barrels. Really good!

[Boomer Cycles]

#BAFS2020beerneuring 004 – Audacious Aleworks (Falls Church VA)

You can customize your own flights as they sell them by individual tasters, so I order all of their available “Darker than Light” series.

1. Black Forest Imperial Stout: The coffee, chocolate and sweet cherry notes all came through nicely. It would be easy to drink too many of these and have the ABV of 12.4% hit you like a sledgehammer before you knew what happen. As they say: be careful in the Forest!

2. Clan Macleod Immortal Scottish Ale: this was perhaps my favorite as they did an extraordinary job brewing this from 6 different grains in the “wee heavy” style. It would’ve been easy to screw up this brew with that many ingredients. But luckily they didn’t!

3. Westminster Bridge Extra Special Bitter: this wound up being my chaser… a dark amber “bitter” that was not bitter at all. Nice notes of nuts and malt.

I enjoyed all three brews, and would repeat them again.

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[CateO]

2 – Denizen’s Brewery, Riverdale, MD
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Georgia Avenue
Great session beer, light, low alcohol, tart and crisp, very juicy.

[reji]

Jan 10 at Settle Down Easy. I like this place and it’s really close to my house! I got Val’s Imperial Sting, a chile pepper honey ale. I’ve been looking forward to it since I really like their Scoville Sting and Val is its big sister. Lots of honey malty notes to balance the pepper. Liked this a lot and bought some more to take home.
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[smb9600]

#BAFSBeernuering #2: District Brewery

I got the National Landing – a citrusy, slightly hazy IPA. I think one of my favorite beers they’ve done!

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[Boomer Cycles]

#FS2020beerneuring 005 – Settle Down Easy

Le Gran Chocolat Imperial Milk Stout
An English-style, Barrel-aged, dark beer with high chocolate notes, creamy and very smooth. Hints of whiskey and oak from the barrel aging, but not overwhelming. I think this should also qualify for #FS2020chocolateuring !!
(Note: doubleheader w/ El Tío tacos [emoji895] served on site;-)

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[lossomes]

(2) Port City; Alexandria, VA

Schwarzbier

Nice roasted malt notes. Doesn’t go down heavy.

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[TimmyD]

FS2020beerneuring #2 – Port City

Very warm and windy today! But the beer was still cold. Got the Integral[emoji2398] IPA. Not as cloudy as a New England IPA, drinkable.

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[Brownws]

@secstate 195544 wrote:

Some of us have only one liver

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Or several little ones

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