NJ Beer Connoisseur Corner
NAWUATI!!! Pronounced Na-vow-tai, it is a Native American greeting meaning "Walk in Peace and Harmony."
As you may have guessed I am Native American, Cherokee to be specific. I may not be a pure blooded native, but that doesn't stop me in taking pride in the amount of native I have in my blood.
My name is Kevin and since February 2010 I've been keeping a list of all the beers I have had in my life. When I first started making the list, it was a painstaking process to remember all the beers that I have had since I started drinking. The list started with 81. Now in 2012 I'm closing in on my goal of 300. Seeing how many beers there are in the world, my list will not end at 300, the next plateau will be 500. Some people asked, "Why not make it 400?" I am an unorthodox individual who does not like to do things as expected. Those who know me can attest to that ten-fold.
Not only do I love drinking new beers as often as I can, I love reviewing them and letting other know what I think about their smell, taste, and color. My friends consider me a Beer Connoisseur and I would have to agree with them. My palette has come a long way since I started drinking beer and I'd like to think that I'm aware of the subtle differences of ingredients that different beer companies use.
I will do my best to keep this forum up-to-date with the list and the reviews for each new beer I try. I will hopefully post more videos of beer reviews and maybe take suggestions from people who follow me!!!
My little icon doesn’t do any justice to who I am or what I look like. I thought i’d share some of my pictures with my followers to let them know who the NJ Beer Connoisseur is!!
Another passion of mine
8 weeks ago I bought my final piece of zombie survival weaponry.
I have a 7in switch blade with a LED flashlight attached to it.
I have a 23in machete with serrated edge on the opposite side of the blade.
And either today or tomorrow my final piece will be arriving..my 30in SWORD!!!
Add to that my arsenal of 15 total rifles/shotgun with ammo to support a small army..and you can say that I’m prepared and waiting!!!
#371
Fegley’s Blueberry Belch
Alcohol 4.2%
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#372
Sam Adam’s Grumpy Monk
Alcohol 5.7%
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#373
Sam Adam’s Third Voyage
Alcohol: 8.0%
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#374
Sam Adam’s Dark Depths
Alcohol 7.6%
Updated Beer list 374!!!
Below is the list of beers that I have had. The list is split into two alpha-order sections; Multiple beers I’ve had from the same company/brewery and individual beers I have had. There are stars next to most. I have a rating scale of 1-5 stars. 1= Not a Good Beer, 2=An OK Beer, but wouldn’t have it again, 3=An Average Beer, 4= A Pretty Good Beer, 5= Damn That’s a Great Beer! The beers that do not have a rating unfortunately were added before I started the 1-5 star rating scale. :-)
Abita:
1. Purple Haze
2. Strawberry Harvest Lager
3. Turbodog
Allagash:
4. White *
5. Triple Ale **
Anchor:
6. Steam Beer
7. Anchor
8. X-mas Ale **
9. Liberty Ale **
Angry Orchard:
10. Traditional Dry
11. Crisp Apple
12. Apple Ginger
Becks:
13. Becks
14. Octoberfest
Blue Moon:
15. Rising Moon spring ale
16. harvest pumpkin ale **
17. Summer Ale
18. Belgium White
19. Spice Amber Ale *****
20. Winter Abbey Ale **
21. Pale Ale ***
22. Valencia Amber Ale **
23. Spring Blonde Wheat Ale **
24. Summer Honey Wheat
25. Agave Blonde Ale
Blue Point:
26. toasted lager
27. blueberry ale ****
28. toxic sludge **
29. Hoptical Illusion
30. Spring Fling Ale (cooper ale)
31. Rastafa Rye Ale
32. Oatmeal Stout
Brooklyn:
33. Chocolate Stout
34. Summer Ale
35. Pennant Ale
36. Winter Ale
37. Lager **
38. Weiss *
39. IPA ****
Budweiser:
40. Bud Light *
41. Bud Light Lime
42. Budweiser **
43. Budweiser Select ***
44. Bud Ice *
45. Bud Light Golden Wheat **
Chimay Pere Trappist:
46. Premiere
47. Grand Reserve
Coors:
48. Light **
49. Original
Corona:
50. Corona light ***
51. Corona Extra ***
Cricket Hill:
52. Breakfast Ale
53. IPA hopnotic
54. East Coast Lager
Dogfish:
55. Punkin
56. Raisin **
57. 90 min IPA****
58. 60 min IPA ****
59. 120 min IPA **** (300!)
60. Indian Brown Ale **
Dos Equios:
61. Original ***
62. Ambar ****
Flying Dog:
63. Raging Bitch
64. Flying Dog Golden Ale
65. Kujo
66. Double Dog (Double Pale Ale) ****
67. Snake Dog IPA ***
Flying Fish:
68. Octoberfish
69. Hopfish IPA
70. Exit 8 Chestnut Brown Ale
Goose Island:
71. 312 **
72. Honker Island
73. Nut Brown ale ****
74. Summer Time **
Guinness:
75. Draught **
76. Black Lager ***
Harpoon:
77. IPA
78. UFO raspberry hefeweizen
79. UFO hefenweizen *
80. Summer Beer
Heineken
81. Heineken **
82. Heineken Light
Ithaca:
83. Apricot wheat *****
84. Flower Power
Kona:
85. Longboard Island Lager
86. KoKo Brown (Aloha Series)
Left Hand:
87. Milk stout ****
88. Fade to Black pepper porter **
89. Sawtooth Ale ***
Leinenkugal:
90. Original
91. Berry Weiss
92. 1886 Book
93. Classic Amber
94. Honey Weiss
95. Red Lager
96. Octoberfest
97. Sunset Wheat *****
98. Fire nut Brown
99. Summer Shanty
Lindeman’s:
100. Raspberry Frambois****
101. Framboise black current
Long Trail:
102. Long Trail Ale
103. Blackbeary Wheat
Magic Hat:
104. #9 ****
105. HIPA
106. Summer
107. Circus Boy The Hefeweizen
108. Hex Octoberfest
109. Spring Seasonal Amber Lager
110. Black I.P.A
111. Black Lager
112. Blind Faith IPA
113. Elder Betty weiss
Miller:
114. Light **
115. Chill ****
116. High Life
Modelo:
117. Modelo Especial
118. Negra Modelo Ale
Ommegang:
119. Abbey
120. BPA
121. Three Philosophers **
122. Aphrodite
123. Seduction
124. Rare Vos ***
125. Witte
126. Hennepin
Oscar Blues:
127. Deviant Dale’s IPA
128. Mamma Little Yella Pils
129. G’Knight Imperial Red
130. Dale’s Pale Ale
Ramstein:
131. Double Platinum Blonde
132. Ramstein
Rogue:
133. Dead Guy
134. Chocolate Stout
Sam Adams:
135. Boston Lager ***
136. Boston Ale ***
137. Light *****
138. White Ale
139. Summer Ale
140. Winter Lager
141. Cherry Wheat ****
142. Cream Stout
143. Hefenweizen *****
144. Irish Red
145. Blackberry Witbier
146. Double Bock **
147. Nober Pils
148. Latitude 48
149. Octoberfest
150. Thirteenth hour
151. Holiday Porter
152. Blackened Hops
153. HoneyB’s Lavender Ale
154. Friar bitch
155. WhiteWater IPA **
156. Black Lager **
157. Might Oak Ale **
158. Alpine Spring ***
159. Double Pumpkin
160. Old Fezziwig Ale
161. Black & Brew ****
162. Chocolate Bock ***
163. The Vixen ***
164. Pale Ale **
165. Imperial White ****
166. Griffins Bow **
167. New World **
168. Derf’s Secret Alt ***
169. A Dark Night in Munich***
170. Grumpy Monk ***
171. Third Voyage**
172. Dark Depths *
Sarnac
173. Pumpkin Ale *****
174. Octoberfest
175. Black Forest
176. Adirondack Lager
177. IPA ***
178. Pale Ale **
179. Bohemian Pilsner
180. Chocolate Lager ***
181. Vanilla Stout **
182. Lake Effect Lager **
183. Big Moose Ale ***
184. India Copper Ale **
Shiner:
185. Bock
186. Old-time
187. Blonde
188. Hefeweizen
189. Spring ale dortmunder
Shipyard:
190. Pumpkin Head *****
191. Smashing Pumpkins **
192. Smashing Blueberry ****
Shock Top:
193. Pumpkin Wheat **
194. Belgian White
195. Lemon Shandy ***
Sierra Nevada
196. Pale Ale ***
197. Celebration ***
198. Stout **
199. Kellerweis hefeweizen
200. Summerfest lager
201. Torpedo
South Hampton:
202. Double white
203. Grand Cru
Stone:
204. Arrogant Bastard
205. IPA
206. Self Righteous Ale
207. Imperial Russian Stout
TommyKnocker:
208. Tommyknocker maple nut brown ale
209. Cocoa Porter Winter Warmer **
Troegs:
210. Mad Elf *
211. Troegenator Double Bock **
212. Hop Back Amber Ale
Victory:
213. Golden Purple Monkey
214. Storm King Stout
215. Hop Devil
216. Summer Love Ale
Yards:
217. Thomas Jefferson’s Yards
218. Yards Brawler
219. Love Stout
Yueng Ling:
220. Yueng Ling Traditional Lager *****
221. Porter ***
222. Light **
223. Black and Tan **
224. Lord Chestfield Ale
225. Affe
226. Amber Bock
227. Amstel Light
228. Arcobrau Zwicklbier
229. Asahi
230. Aventainius
231. Bass Pale Ale
232. Bavarian Black Lager
233. Birra Moreeti
234. Black and Tan
235. Boddington’s Pub Ale *
236. Bohemia clasica ***
237. Buster Brau Ruby Tuesday
238. Captain Lawrence Xtra Gold American Triple Ale
239. Carib lager
240. Carlsberg **
241. Carton NJ IPA
242. Catskill Hop Harvest Ale
243. Cherry Blossom IPA
244. Circus Boy Hefeweizen
245. Climax
246. Colt 45 *
247. Cornhusker Lager
248. Cristal (imported cerveza) **
249. Cusquena **
250. DAB Pilsener
251. Devil’s Red
252. Dirty Hoe *****
253. Dundee Summer Wheat beer
254. Duvel Golden Ale
255. Empire Premium Beer ***
256. Erdinger hefeweizen
257. Erie Railbender Ale
258. Derailed Black Cherry Ale
259. Farmer Jon’s Oatmeal Stout **
260. Fegley’s Blueberry Belch
261. Firestone Walker Double jack I.P.A.
262. Fosters **
263. Founders Breakfast Stout ***
264. Franziskaner dunkel-weiss
265. Golden Drak *
266. Goldfinch Ale
267. Grolsch **
268. Hacker-Pschott Weisse traditional wheat
269. Harp ***
270. Harvest Wheat Beer
271. Hazed and Infused Dry Hopped Ale
272. Hofbrau original
273. Hopecutioner
274. Ice House **
275. India Pale Ale
276. Indian River Light Ale ****
277. Innis & Gunn Rum Cask
278. Innis & Gunn Original
279. Irvin Horse double wit
280. Jersey summer breakfast ale
281. Keegan Ales Mother’s Milk
282. Keegan Ales Hurricane Kitty
283. Keystone *
284. Killian’s Irish Red
285. Kira
286. Kirin Ichiban
287. Krusovice
288. Kuhnhenn Oatmeal Stout ***
289. Labatt Blue
290. Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout **
291. Leffe Blonde
292. Leffe Brune
293. Lions Head Deluxe Pilsner Beer **
294. Lone Star
295. Longy’s Black Market stout
296. Lost Abbey Devotion Ale
297. Mad Anthony American Pale Ale
298. Maredsous Brune
299. Maredsous triple
300. Magners **
301. Maibock
302. McNeil Firehouse Amber Ale
303. Michelob Ultra
304. Milwaukee’s Best *
305. Mississippi Mud Black & Tan **
306. Molson XXX **
307. Montejo cerveza clara
308. Natty Ice *
309. New Castle Brown Ale **
310. Oude Geuze Boon
311. Oude Kriek Boon
312. Oude Framboise Boon
313. Okcism
314. Old Milwaukee Light *
315. Pabst Blue Ribbon *
316. Pacifico
317. Palm Belgium Amber Beer
318. Palm Triple
319. Paulaner Munsch hefeweizen natural wheat
320. Peak Nut Brown
321. Peak IPA
322. Peak Summer Session Ale
323. Peroni **
324. Pilsner Urquell
325. Poet Outmeal Stout **
326. Poitin Still Red Lager
327. Pretty Thing Jack D’or ****
328. Rodenbach Grand Gru
329. Rodenbach 2009 Vintage oak aged ale
330. Red Rooster Ale
331. Redbridge *
332. RedStripe
333. Rheingold Lager Beer **
334. River Horse Hop Hazard ***
335. Rolling Rock *
336. Ruckus Hoptimus Prime ***
337. Samuel Smith’s nut brown ale
338. Sapporo ***
339. Sharky’s Red Hot Wing Lager
340. Shmaltz Coney Island Imperial American Bock
341. Sirens Wheat
342. Sixpoint Spice of Life
343. Sixpoint Resin **
344. Smiling Pumpkin Ale ***
345. Smithwicks ***
346. Sol especial cerveza **
347. Southern Tier Double Milk Stout **
348. Spaten dunkel **
349. Staropramen premium
350. StrongBow England’s Dry Cider
351. Speakeasy Prohibition Ale ***
352. Steele Reserve *
353. Stella Artois *
354. Superior Cerveza
355. Tecate **
356. Theakston XB ale
357. Thomas Hooker Watermelon Ale
358. Tyskie
359. Ubu Dark
360. Ubu Ale
361. Unibroue Ephemere Apple
362. Victoria modelo cerveza
363. Virgin Islands Tropical Mango Pale Ale (st. johns)
364. Warsteiner
365. Well’s Banana Bread Beer ***
366. Weltenburger Kloster Hefe-weizen Hell
367. Weltenburger Kloster Pils
368. Weihenstephan
369. Weihenstephaner hefeweizen
370. Widmer Brothers Dark Saison **
371. Wolavers oatmeal stout (organic)
372. Young’s Double Chocolate Stout ***
373. Zeppelin Hall Ale
374. Zywiec
"Hey man, I started a tumblr project that I'm hell bent on finishing, but I'm having trouble in one aspect of my beer tasting... the finish. How have you trained your palette to acquire all the finer notes of the flavor?"
Asked by jordan-y
Good question. My answer..
I’m still refining my palette. Some beers that I have tried have ingredients that are difficult to notice. Looking up the beer and seeing the ingredients can help identify those tough to notice ingredients. It really comes down to drinking more and more beer with exotic tastes that way you can learn all the different types of flavors a beer can have. I usually test myself and see what ingredients i can identify and then look up the beer to see what it has.
Just like eating different foods increases the amount of tastes you encounter..drinking different beers allows you to notice the similarities in beer but also see the unique ingredients in that specific beer.
Sixpoint Resin #367
Shmaltz Coney Island Imperial American Bock #368
Ruckus Hoptimus Prime #369
Shipyard Smashing Blueberry
#366
Alcohol: 9.0%
Look: Deep brown look. Holding it up to a light doesn’t really allow me to see through it.
Aroma: Hoppy scent along with a sweet scent of blueberry, but the blueberry scent is not strong. Like the Smashing pumpkin, the alcohol is a noticeable smell as well.
Mouthfeel: Mild carbonation, it’s not a light feeling beer, but it’s not thick like a stout.
Taste: Strong taste of blueberry, way more than the aroma gives off. It is really quite delicious, considering the high alcohol content, this beer is really good! Smooth going down as well.
4/5 stars
Shipyard Smashing Pumkins
#365
Alcohol: 9.0%
