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New Years Day

AmyMWolfe — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 05:05:00 +0000

New Years Day

Ok, my Pennsylvania Dutch is about to come out a little bit. Pork and Sauerkraut on New Year’s Day is a tradition in my family. Served with mashed potatoes of course! I know, I know, sometimes the sauerkraut isn’t so pleasant. My mom perfected the recipe to take out quite a bit of the tartness and sourness. We always cut up an apple to put in the sauerkraut, to give it a little sweetness. Also sautéing some onions and searing the pork in the sautéed onions. Mix those sautéed onions in with the sauerkraut.

Then roast the pork in the sauerkraut to cook it through in the oven.

I’m at a bit of a cross roads when it comes to pairing a beer with this yearly meal. I think a very malty and sweet hefeweizen will pair nicely with the palate cleansing of the sauerkraut. I’d reach for a Level Up Hefeweizen by Idiom Brewing Company. Level Up comes in at a 3.79 overall rating on untapped. It has a 5.6% ABV, just like a good Hefeweizen should! It is described on Untapped as “Brewed with 60% malted white wheat and a touch of honey malt, then fermented to provide a balanced profile that sits squarely between clove and banana. Super smooth, super creamy with a bready finish and light bitterness”

When you are enjoying that pork and sauerkraut dinner pair it with a hefeweizen if you are still afraid of the sour or tartness of the sauerkraut. Then when I go for seconds I will pair it with a good sturdy stout. A strong stout is usually what you would reach for to compliment a nice pork dinner. I’d grab a Wookies and Cream Oatmeal stout from Tall Tails Brewing Company.

Wookies and Cream comes in on Untapped with a 3.77 overall rating. It has a 6.11% ABV and is given a rather. This stout is so smooth it is dangerous. It will go down even smoother with a delicious pork dinner.

Happy New Year!
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Amy

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Beer Review: Level Up (Idiom Brewing)

B. Kline — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 02:30:00 +0000

Drinking a Level Up by Idiom Brewing while playing Mario Kart 8 on Mario Day

It’s a me – Mario!

We all know our favorite little plump Italian plumber who enjoys jumping on mushrooms that may not be politically correctly named…. thats right…. Luigi!

Er….. wait…. no…. I mean, Mario! Its a me – MARIO!

And of course you know today of all days we are going to do a beer review dedicated to our favorite Goomba buster here on the Nerd Thrillers… I mean… Beer Thrillers. We do love our pop culture and nerd culture and nerdy beer reviews. (As evidenced by the loooooong looooong loooooooooooong list of them, which you’ll find at the end of the article here.) So strap yourselves in, get a big mushroom and grab a nice enjoyable Hefe for this beer review.

Idiom Brewing

I’ve gotten the pleasure of getting to stop at Idiom Brewing a few times now. First time was with my daughters on our Monocacy trip, which you can read about here:

Idiom Brewing is a fantastic little spot along the canal with a great view, great brewery, and wonderful beers.

As per Untappd: Idiom Brewing is a micro brewery located in Frederick Maryland with 247 unique beers and an average Untappd rating of 3.9. (You can currently vote for Idiom Brewing in our March Madness tournament here: The Brock Lesnar Conference – Round 2 Voting.) They have 52, 997 ratings currently (as of 3.10.22). Their Untappd description reads: Idiom Brewing Co. has a simple goal in mind – To bring people from all walks of life together, to enjoy themselves and each other. Whether you’re a hop head looking for explosively juicy IPAs; are one of the adventurous few looking to try boozy, sour or complex flavors; or you’re just looking to enjoy classic styles and seasonal favorites, we’ll have a little something here for you!

You can find their website here: Idiom Brewing.com and their Facebook here: Idiom Brewing on Facebook.

Now that we know who made the beer, let’s get into the beer review.

Beer Review

Level Up by Idiom Brewing

Beer: Level Up
Brewery: Idiom Brewing
Style: Wheat Beer – Hefeweizen
ABV: 5.6%
IBU: 12
Untappd Description: Brewed with 60% white wheat and a touch of honey malt then fermented a touch warmer than typical for the style to balance the ester profile between clove and banana. Super smooth, super creamy with a clean finish and light bitterness.

First, I will acknowledge the picture above wasn’t the best… but it was after a few breweries and while trying to take a picture with my Switch in the background which I only had as the mobile tablet part and not tethered to a TV. So it goes.

(Ya’ll never came here for the pictures anyway right? Just my nice pretty words.)

But, lets start with the look of it. It is a beautiful golden Hefe orange hue. Light yellow percolating with the orange golden vibes you can get from a pretty hefe. It straddles the border of transparent and opaque with a cloudy turbulent look, but with some transparency to it. Some cloud and sediment but nothing on the ‘yeasty everywhere’ side of things.

Smell is a lovely Hefe banana and clove aroma. That distinct appeal of a hefe’s aroma, where you are given the banana, the clove, the smell of yeast, and wheat, almost like bread being baked on a lovely brisk morning.

This is a very smooth wonderful sipping beer. Extremely tasty and easy to drink down with zero problems. You get your distinct flavors and notes that are the typical of Hefeweizens – the banana, the clove, the yeast, the malt, and the wheat; and they are all done so well here and work in such a good unison. Very good mixture, very good compliment to each other. This is a smooth beer, don’t let any of the bottom sediment (which there was a tiny wee bit of) fool you, this isn’t a cloudy hazy monster or anything like that, there’s not tons of floating yeasties or sediment in it. This drinks smooth, it stays smooth after pouring and is settled, and its a good smooth flowing Hefe that we all know and appreciate and like. There is nothing that is going to absolutely blow your mind about this beer – but no Hefe has really ever done that, and thats not really particularly the point of the style. I enjoy Hefes very much and their one of my favorite styles for their sheer normalcy, wheaty taste, their banana and clove mix, the yeast aroma, and how (to me) simple they are. They taste like what beer can and should taste like. Similar to a good lager or pilsner or similar. A good well rounded, well crafted Hefe is phenomenal in its own right, in its simplicity of style and taste and enjoyment. Perfect backporch beginning of summer sippers. And Idiom knocked it out of the park with that and with this beer and nailed all of that for me. This is definitely a level above some other Hefe’s I’ve had. (See what I did there? Eh… ehh…. nudge, nudge?)

My Untappd Rating: ***.75
Global Untappd Rating: 3.81 (as of 3.10.22)

Post Beer Review Wrap-Up

Let’s discuss how often I do pop culture beer reviews and nerd reviews shall we? Haha, I do enjoy them. And actually have quite a few more beers of that vein to do in the near future. (A few Star Wars ones I want to knock out and finish up here on the blog as well.) Also, we are looking to be hitting Brewery Fire in the upcoming days, where we know we’ll be getting some hot nerd beers for the blog too.

But, first, let’s look at all the pop culture beers I’ve covered:

Pop Culture Beer Reviews

As always with these articles, I like to link to all the various pop culture and nerd culture beer reviews we’ve done, and you can find them here below:

Star Wars:

Rick and Morty:

Beer Review: Peace Among Worlds (Cushwa Brewing Company)

Space Balls:

Beer Review: Moon of Vega (Equilibrium Brewery)

Game of Thrones:

Beer Review: Game of Thrones: My Watch Has Ended (Omnegang Brewery)

The Simpsons:

Back to the Future:

Beer Review: Back to Reality (Three 3s Brewing Co)

Scrooged:

Beer Review: Scrooge IPA (Iron Hill Brewing)

Groundhog Day:

Beer Review: Prognosticator Pils (Logyard Brewing Company)

A Christmas Story:

Pro Wrestling:

Matrix:

Matrix Monday

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

Beer Review: Terpenes in Time (BAREBottle Brewing Co)

Seinfeld:

Paradise Lost:

Beer Review: Paradise Lost (Southern Prohibition)

Other:

So…. like I’ve said, quite a few ‘nerd culture’ beer reviews. Please be sure to check them out! I hope you’ll like them!

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