Juicetree DIPA by Portage Brewing

I love a good DIPA. I love Dua Lipa. Listening to Dua Lipa while drinking a DIPA just sounds delightful. It’s the TRIPLE D! Dua Lipa, DIPA, Delight!

This Juicetree from Portage, out of Walker, MN, makes me think I never want another beer I can see through. When I first poured it was clear but then as the settled bits came in it turned into this delicious cloudy drink. I’m a fan of thick beer. If I needed a spoon to drink my beer, well, that’s a positive. It’s fruity and hoppy and just yummy.

This is the first time I’ve updated my blog in awhile and I didn’t look back to check how I was rating things before so I’m using a scale of how many thumbs up it is. I will say it is an 8.0 on the drunkenscale and it drinks so smooth that it’s dangerous.

I give this Juicetree by Portage 88 out of 100 thumbs up. So many thumbs...88 of them to be precise. 

MmmHops a dooby dops a doo wop dooby dop a!

DISCLAIMER* The Beerd Baron is not sure that is how the actual song goes and I didn't want to look it up so I went with my best guess based on my memory of the seminal Hanson hit..."Mmmbop"


I had an amazingly generous person send me some beer recently and in there was the tight little number Mmmhops by the Hanson Bros. They've branched out of music and into beer! I'm honestly surprised that nobody else had already named a beer Mmmhops but I'm glad that they were the first since they are most deserving of the title.

Oh...you want to know how the beer was? Is that why you came here? Not to listen to me bastardize Hanson lyrics?

It was good! I hate being so general but that was my honest thought while drinking it.

It's a pale ale and its a solid example of a pale ale. I can't think of anything particularly special to say about it though.

Here is some decent praise for it...it was a good beer. If I wanted to pour someone a glass of something that I thought was a solid representation of the word beer then I could do a lot worse than a can of Mmmhops.

It's a strong 7.5 on the Drinkenscale though so a little over average on the booziness but it didn't really come through in the flavor, which is a good thing. It was definitely hop forward which is what I'd expect from a beer with the word hop right there in the name.

I'd love to tell you how it poured or how the lacing kissed and caressed my glass but...I drank it straight from the can like a fucking savage.

Mouthfeel? MOUTHFEEL??? It felt wet in my mouth like a liquid should. Cold and carbonated. Not a lot of carbonation...I'd say just the right amount.

Honestly, this was the perfect beer to call Mmmhops. Like the song, it is a generic representation of a genre that is catchy as all hell and you can't help loving it even if you aren't 100% sure why you love it.

Good job, Hanson Bros. You keep on mmmbopping through life!

I'M COMING BACK!

Keep an eye out for some new, fresh reviews coming very soon!

Odell Green Coyote Tomatillo Sour

I'm bringing back the Beer'd Baron because I'm bored and I miss writing about beer.

Figured I'd start with something interesting... Odell Green Coyote Tomatillo Sour.

Wait...not that one.

THAT'S THE ONE!

Sours are HUGE right now. Last beer festival I went to was teeming with them. I personally love a good sour and I welcome the new sour REVOLUTION.

I had to try this Green Coyote. I've had sours made with just about every fruit imaginable but tomatillo? That's unique... THAT'S A TINY GREEN TOMATO LOOKING THING!

I popped it open and poured it. A hazy yellow beer with a decent head filled the glass. The smell... Was skunky...not a great start. Anything that reminds me of a Corona is not going to fare well. I love the Fast and Furious series but I never want to have a beer with those guys because all they drink is Corona. I'm thinking the Fast and Furious Franchise takes place in an alternate universe where Corona is the only beer. It's really the only thing that makes sense.

The taste... Its not bad. It tastes sour, but there really isn't any specifically discerning flavor otherwise. A little tang, maybe a drop of lemon? The description mentions kiwi but I'm not tasting it. Cucumber is in there a tiny bit if I really strain my taste buds but I'd hate to pull one.

Green Coyote is coming in at 5.1 on the drinkenscale. It's a lighter beer that you can drink all day if you like the flavor. It would probably be a fine beer after working up a sweat outside.

This is a tricky one. I don't feel strongly one way or the other about this beer. Would I buy it again? Not at full price but if there was discounted 6 pack or something I'd grab it. I don't feel like I wasted my time drinking it nor was there a party in my mouth.

Now for a new section of Beer'd Baron articles

THE MY WIFE HATES BEER SO I'M MAKING HER DRINK BEER AND GIVE ME A QUOTE SECTION:

AKA: TMWHBSIMHDBAGMAQS

"It's sour. It tastes like an old Lemonhead candy that was left in a car and then sprayed by a skunk."

Thats high praise right there.

If you see one in the wild during a beer hunt, grab it, you might really like it. It's not a bad beer, just didn't make my tastie buds dance.

It's good to be back.

Cheers, chummer.

Oskar Blues Death By Coconut

It took me awhile to find this beer. It eluded me. I was worried that I was never going to find it, then one day, while at the beer store, I found a lone can sitting on a shelf marked for $3. Not cheap, but not super pricy either. I had to have it though. I'd been longing for it ever since I first heard they were making it. Coconut is one of my go to flavors with anything, and the idea of a good stout blended with coconut sounded like heaven in my mouth...and I was pretty close to being right.

It poured a nice brown, with a lot of effervescence. I could have easily fooled someone into thinking it was root beer based on the appearance. The smell was stout-y (NEW WORD) with a hint of coconuttiness (ANOTHER NEW WORD).

Oskar Blues has never made a beer that I don't like. Old Chub on nitro is quite possibly the finest beer ever canned. Death by Coconut is an excellent stout....it just wasn't COCONUTTY enough for me. I wanted more coconut. It's not called, Injured by Coconut...it's called DEATH BY COCONUT. I expected to be blasted in the face with coconut flavor and that didn't happen. Now, there was a lot of coconut, don't get me wrong. Most people will probably drink this and think, "man...that's a good amount of coconuttiness" and they would be right. I just wanted MORE. I WANTED CHUNKS OF COCONUT FLOATING IN MY BEER! Ok...maybe not that much. Still, this is the best coconut beer I've had. If you like beer, you like stouts, and you like coconuts then you really should be drinking this right now. I don't care if you're delivering a baby! Do it while drinking a beer! It calms the nerves!

Fruitin' It Up With Stevens Point

Bought a 12 pack mixer of fruit beers from Stevens Point a while back and figured I should write them up on here...since that's what I do.

 Mango Lager

 Tart Cherry Lager

Watermelon Mojito

NOT PICTURED

Lime Lager

Part of the reason why it has taken me so long to write about these is because their really isn't a whole lot to say. All of them weigh in pretty light on the Drinkenscale with a 4.2 and none of them are exceptional.

If I'm picking a favorite here it was the Mango Lager but only slightly. It had a mango flavor(I would hope it did...) and the beer itself was ok. 

The beer on all four of these was the same with just different fruit tastes so the differences in them were the fruit flavors themselves. Give me this lager without the fruit and I'll tell you it is ok. With the fruit it was at least somewhat interesting.

The Watermelon Mojito was my least favorite but again, it's a small margin from first to last here. I just don't really like the flavor of mojitos and that is what I tasted instead of watermelon.

Cherry tart had a slight cherry flavor, but after drinking far, far, far superior cherry beers in the past I just can't give this beer a good review.

I forgot to take a picture of the Lime Lager which kind of fits with the beer because it was pretty forgettable. Better than Bud Light Lime (I assume because I've never had Bud Light Lime...I'm not a sadist) but still...just a boring lager with a lime-ish flavor.

You can do worse that these beers, but you can also do a lot better. If you're drinking with some friends who don't really like beer, and might like a fruity drink a little more, this MIGHT work but probably not. Because it is still pretty beer-y and not particularly fruity, I'm not sure who would really LOVE any of these beers. I guess the FRUIT BEER AFICIANADO maybe...I don't think those exist though.

What's The Only Thing Better Than One Woman?

Two Women...

M Looking for F for FFM

Oh New Glarus...you've never failed me and this is no exception. German Pilsner so really subtle in flavor but damn delicious. Clocks in at a 5.0 on the Drinkenscale, a really light, easy, drinkable beer. 

The name of this beer is because it is a collaboration of two breweries led by women: New Glarus and Weyermann Malting. Never had anything else by Weyermann but New Glarus is 100% class and always amazing.

This is a perfect beer for a good day drinking session. I've said it before on here but pilsners are not easy to do because you can't just load up on the flavor to hide the flaws. A good pilsner has to be damn near perfect and Two Women is right up there.