340 weeks is a damn long time to be on a beer bender! With the #beersaturday crew, time flies when you are enjoying a pint.
Being The Blockchain Beerologist definitely has its perks, including but not limited to getting paid to tour breweries and sample new beers! When I am not globetrotting and chugging pints, my fridge looks like a colorful mosaic of regional craft beer I enjoy sharing with the #beersaturday alliance of #beer bloggers on #hive.
This week, I am listening to vinyl and jumping into a Haze Cube.
Pint o' the Week
The PotW this week is not actually a just a pint. It is actually a couple pints and some other fine cocktails being served at Revival House which is among my very favourite restaurants and event venues in town. The occasion this eve was the monthly Revival Vinyl Society shows where everyone brings their records and the DJ spins 'em. Exclusive and trendy and a whole lot of fun when there are fancy beverages like this.
Refined Fool Haze Cube!
As is common in the season, we are at the end of one of the richest beer gift pack bounties. I have a couple more to review but picked up another Haze Cube from Refined Fool Brewing There are a couple repeats from previous cubes like Rip Zip Slip and Catstronaut so I am checking out the new ones!
Help Yourself to my Parent's Wardrobe
First up in the Haze Cube is what looks very little to be beer. Water, hops, malt and yeast is what purists would consider beer and adding raspberries, lactose and vanilla crosses a line. This really does look like a silly beer but is worth a shot.
Help Yourself to my Parent's Wardrobe Raspberry Vanilla Smoothie IPA certainly is a ridiculous collection of words. Obscure inside jokes written by hipsters are generally not a great idea when it comes to branding but Refined Fool is not alone in this strategy. The beer itself is indeed tasty but you really have to be prepared for a blast of creamy sweetness and not a beer-flavoured beer or bitter IPA. If it was not for the goofy branding and overdone beer style, I would buy this again and definitely don't hate it.
Monday Survivor
Next up is another new brew to discover and share which seems to be a little more reasonable in the style and branding. Monday Survivor IPA makes more sense as a beer as some of us have endured many rough Mondays in our 9-5 wage slave days. Surviving a Monday is definitely worth a beer to cap off the accomplishment. This poor fella is in rough shape crawling out of the hot sun in the desert which doesn't make for a very refreshing image but you can imagine how good this beer will taste when he gets there.
As for the beer itself, I was expecting a nice stiff IPA I might enjoy after a long Monday and came to find it rocks a modest 5%ABV and tasted more like a session IPA. Perhaps a Monday Lunch IPA? The hops were not the standard ones either which made for a different but subtle hop taste at only 25 IBU. It would make me happy to find these individually on the shelf in the summer time when I am keen on lighter beers to enjoy at outdoor events when 4 heavy IPAs would put me on my ass.
Tasty and refreshing on this one. Refined Fool gets the seal for another variety/gift pack that is composed totally of IPAs. A tip of the hat to Monday Survivor too and I hope we meet again in June.
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