Happy Mother’s Day

I’m pretty darn lucky.  This is my first Mother’s Day.  I never thought I was going to be celebrating this holiday for myself, but here I sit with a beautiful baby girl.  At first, I felt a bit anxious and nervous for the day, I might have laid in bed and cried a bit while Scarlet was napping.  But thankfully my boyfriend asked what he could do.  I said make me some breakfast!  Please, I mean!

(If you, or someone you know is suffering from post partum depression, or depression in general, please reach out to others. Friends, family, co – workers, colleagues, anyone and everyone. There are numerous organizations you can reach out to as well. Here are two organizations that we suggest:

• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
• Move Forward PA

Please, nobody needs to suffer alone or in the dark. Reach out, seek help, seek people to talk to. There is no shame. Take care of yourself.)

I had scrambled eggs and a TIPA for breakfast.  It made for a perfect First Mother’s Day morning.  The beer and eggs paired very nicely together.  My boyfriend added Worcestershire sauce, taco seasoning and a secret ingredient that added a slightly sweet flavor to some scrambled eggs.  It sounds like a crazy weird combination but it was tasty paired with Tired Hands Triple Pineapple Punge Triple IPA.

Triple Pineapple Punge – Tired Hands Brewing Co.

Beer: Triple Pineapple Punge
Brewery: Tired Hands Brewing Co.
Style: IPA – Triple
ABV: 8.3%
IBU: N / A
Untappd Description: Triple Pineapple PUNGE is an amped up & blissed out version of our already killer Pineapple Punge variant. Triple Pineapple PUNGE is brewed with our dank & oat-y PUNGE base and hopped with the one-two combo of Nelson Sauvin and Motueka… but the real star of this iteration is the absolutely amoral amount of pineapple. An absurd amount of DRIPPY pineapple went into making one of the most decadent DIPA’s you’ll ever taste. Notes of pineapple rings, beachside Pina Colada and Dole Whip. PUNGE IS PUNGE IS PUNGE =)

Triple Pineapple Punge clocks in on Untapped at a 8.3% ABV. It’s described on Untapped as ‘an amped up & blissed out version of out already killer Pineapple Punge variant. Triple Pineapple PUNGE is brewed with our dank & oat-y PUNGE base and hopped with the one-two combo of Nelson Sauvin and Moteuka…but the real star of this iteration is the absolutely amoral amount of Pineapple. An absurd about of DRIPPY pineapple went into making one of the most decadent DIPA’s you’ll ever taste.” The beer is killer since it starts off as a tasty TIPA with a dank and oat-y taste, to agree with the Untapped description, but then the sweet pineapple taste dances over your tongue to finish.

Mother’s Day Lunch / Dinner

Then we were invited over to Ben’s sister’s house to grill for Mother’s Day.  We were lucky enough to enjoy burgers, chicken, ribs, crab and corn; all from the grill.  I brought dessert and the Mother in Law brought fruit and salad.  I was pretty darn lucky again, I was greeted with gifts from Ben’s sister and brother in law, my own mother and Ben’s parents as well.  The thankfulness I feel to be able to celebrate my First Mother’s Day with such a wonderful family brings me to tears.  Like I said, I’m pretty darn lucky. 

Ben meanwhile was enjoying a 3 Son’s Brewing Company pilsner – Ocean Park Pils and Imprint Beer Company’s pilsner – Philsner. (See Ben’s review of the Philsner here: Beer Review: Philsner (Imprint Beer Co.).)

Sunburst – New Trail Brewing Co.

(Ben already had two of these at Drew’s while streaming the new release of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. So my mom and I could only have two. For more Zelda and beer related content, check out Ben’s article – Zelda and Craft Beer.)

Beer: Sunburst – Experimental Hop Blend
Brewery: New Trail Brewing Co.
Style: IPA – Imperial / Double New England / Hazy
ABV: 9.1%
IBU: N / A
Untappd Description: Sunburst is a new Hazy DIPA series focusing on bringing out the best juicy fruity hop characteristics we can. Experimental Blend brings together 3 as-of-yet-unnamed experimental hops from The Hop Breeding Company; HBC 630, HBC 586, and HBC 472. The resulting aromatics are packed with chewy tropical candy, and peaches & cream. Enjoy the sun bursting across the sky with this one.

I split the New Trail Sunburst: Experimental Hop Blend with my mom as we started diving into the yummy grilled grub.  This one went down a little easy for a 9.1% ABV.  Sunburst is counted as an Imperial/Double New England / Hazy.  It is described on Untapped as Straw or deep gold in color, this style has a varying degree of cloudiness.  Starch, yeast, hop, protein and/or other compounds contribute to a wide range of hazy appearance within this style.  There is a perceived silky or full mouthfeel that may contribute to the overall flavor profile.  Grist may include a small amount of oat, wheat or other adjuncts to promote haziness.  Descriptors such as “juicy” are often used to describe the taste and hop-derived aroma attributes present in these beers.”  So my mom and I might have went on to split another one! 

A Great Day

My day consisted of beer, food, family and love.  Again, I’m pretty darn lucky.  Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mothers out there! Can’t beat a day filled with good craft beer, good home grilled food, family, and love!

Drink More Beer!

-Amy

Amy’s Column Series

Since getting back to writing for the blog after a short hiatus, Amy has started up a weekly column style writing for the blog. You can find these articles here:

• I’ve Missed Drinking (A Look at Non Alcoholic Beers)
• Beer and Pretzel Review: Legends and Lore (St. Boniface Brewing Company) and Garlic Parm Pretzels (Pretzels.com)
• Peanut Butter Eggs, Easter, Beer, and YAH Brew’s Shimmy Shake (Beer Review)
• Cox Brewing Company: Back to Their Roots
• Amy’s Day Off
• It Was All A Dream (A Visit to YAH Brewing)
• Just Another Weekend (A Hike at Saint Pete’s Trail and Hares Hill Brewing)
• I’m Pretty Darn Lucky (Happy Mother’s Day)
• You can find all of Amy’s articles here: Amy’s Archive of Articles.

Mother’s Day Shout Out

Ben jumping on here real quick to give a huge shout out to Amy. I want to wish her a wonderful Mother’s Day. She is an absolutely amazing mother to Scarlet and deserves the world today.

I also want to throw out a Happy Mother’s Day to my own mom, as well as my mother in law SueAnn. Both are tremendous mothers, women, and MawMaw and Grandma’s respectively.

Thank You For Reading

Thank you for reading everyone. Was a busy weekend for us! Yesterday was the 8th Annual Hummelstown Hunger Run. Ben did the 5K in 35 minutes. Not bad considering he was out til midnight at Drew’s streaming the new Zelda game on Drew’s page – Knights of Nostalgia | Facebook.

Then today was Mother’s Day of course. Tomorrow is looking busy as well, Amy is getting her drain taken out and Ben has a job interview. We’ll see where the week takes us from there.

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Happy Mothers Day

Lets first start this off with doing a big shout out to all the mothers out there. We wouldn’t be here without them. (Quite literally.) So we here at The Beer Thrillers acknowledge and congratulate all the mothers – we know its not easy. (Ask my mom, she would gladly tell you horror stories of raising…. not me of course, my sister. I was an angel. Perfect child. Clearly the favorite. My sister on the other hand…. *shivers*.)

Every year around this time my grandmother’s peony bush blooms out front. So I cut off some of the flowers, and cut off some similar flowers (this year I cut a few branches of the dogwood and some azalea flowers) and took them out to grammy’s grave. Peonies bloom around early – middle of May and don’t last super long, but have wonderful beautiful flowers and a great aroma. You can read more on them here at Wikipedia: Peony. (Quick fun fact: The peony is named after Paeon [also spelled Paean], a student of Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine and healing. In Greek mythology, when Asclepius became jealous of his pupil, Zeus saved Paeon from the wrath of Asclepius by turning him into the peony flower.)

Yesterday we celebrated Mothers Day at my parents house and I brought my girls over. As per tradition whenever we all get together, we typically play some form of board game or card game. The girls love Organ Attack so we played that with my mom.

Organ Attack was created by the writer of The Awkward Yeti, Nick Seluk. I reviewed one of his comic books here: Book Review: The Heart and Brain (The Awkard Yeti) (by Nick Seluk). The card game is fun, and gets my daughters all in a fiery mood fighting each other to remove and eliminate their organs. It is a fun game, that does help the girls learn a little bit about anatomy (like what diseases target what organs, what the organs do, etc.). There is some awkward moments though, like giving my mom cancer – something that she has survived three different forms. But in true champion and warrior form, we turn it all into jokes and my mom laughs, especially when she got to play the Medicine card on it and remove it. She even joked that it was easier than chemotherapy again.

All in all, mothers day was a lot of fun (well technically Mothers Day Eve, but it was our mothers day). Can’t beat a day spent with family, playing games, delivering flowers, little things like this in life is what’s nice. Like Kurt Vonnegut would say quoting his uncle (Bernard Vonnegut): “If this isn’t nice, what is?”

Boneshire Brew Works

Anyone familiar with the blog knows that Boneshire Brew Works is my local go to brewery. Its about four minutes from home and all but within walking distance. (Rubber Soul is another, also within walking distance.) Needless to say we have covered many beer reviews by them: Sunburst, Pigtoberfest, Dillston, Harrishire, Fall Hippo, Blue Hippo, AuZealand 2.0, Tried and True (Mango), Caucus Race 6.0, The Hog, Long Tongue Liar, Pandemic Pils, Iscariot, Road Less Traveled, Good Walk Spoiled, S’Mores, LazaRIS, and reviewed the flight of Shire variants; we’ve also covered them in various news articles: Boneshire Brew Works Celebrates 5th Anniversary, Pigtoberfest 2021, Boneshire Brew Works Expands With Second Location, Boneshire Brew Works Celebrates 3 Years, Brewery Hopping – 12.27.19, and Breweries around Harrisburg Area (2019).

Soooo….. yea….. I would say we’ve covered quite a few of their brews here on the blog.

And all for good reason – they make some really wonderful beers. Grace (this beer) included. So when I heard they were releasing a special barrel aged beer – and that it was named Grace – I couldn’t slap my money down fast enough for this beaut. It was first released for sale for us mug club members, and then went on sale to the public after that. It was 20$ for the bottle.

From Untappd – Boneshire Brew Works is a microbrewery from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. They have 189 unique beers. They have 41,401 ratings with a global average rating of 3.84 (as of 5.8.22). Their Untappd description reads: “Welcome to Boneshire Brew Works. We are located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Derry Street. Soon you will be able to have our beer and sodas throughout Central Pennsylvania, as they are already flowing in our tasting room. Follow us for updates on beer releases, events, and brewery happenings through your favorite social media site.”

Beer Review

Beer: Grace
Brewery: Boneshire Brew Works
Style: Wild Ale – American
ABV: 7.5% / 6%
IBU: No IBU
Untappd Description: We brewed this beer several years ago and put it to sleep in American Chardonnay barrels with 2 strains of Brettanomyces. This beer is very complex with orange marmalade, subtle coriander spice, dry oakiness, heavy Brett funk and slight sourness.

This is a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful beer. Lovely in appearance, aroma, taste, everything, it just nails it. As per always with my beer reviews, I do it in the order of – appearance, aroma, taste. (Or at least I try to remember to do it that way. No guarantees.) [But have no fears, for this review I am.]

Starting off with the appearance – like I said, its beautiful. Its got a light reddish golden like hue. It has a very striking resemblance to some wines of the lighter scale. its fluorescent in a way, and completely clear. No sediment, no floaties, no deposits. Nice carbonation, slight small head that retains for a fair bit.

Aroma is an interesting mix of wine, Belgian, saison, and a mixture of other notes. Notes of the coriander spice, the grape, the oak, and lots of the chardonnay, gives off the heavy wine like impressions, but the coriander spice and the Brett aroma also gives off strong Belgian and Wilde Ale / Saison impressions as well; making this a wonderfully complex beer.

This is a deliciously tart, mildly puckering, wine like beer, designed for a classier age (not like those blasters they use in uncivilized times). It is a gorgeous looking beer, looks very wine like, and has just a wonderful appearance straight from the bottle to the glass, and undoing wax sealed bottles is always fun. (Really, there’s gotta be an easy way to unseal waxed and sealed bottles, but I haven’t found it yet.) The carbonation on this was nice, and the overall appearance is a medley of wine and Belgian styles, so I dig that. The bottle says its 6% ABV, but the Untappd listing for it says its 7.5%. This has a very complex overall taste to it. Its got a lot of wine attributes and tastes; you get a heavy dosage of oak, grape, Brett, funk, tart, with a dryness, and then you get some subtle notes of coriander spice, orange and orange marmalade, The tartness and dryness to the beer really holds it up well and keeps the medley of different flavors in a very nice sipping beer; this is a perfect dinner beer to share with someone over a nice course meal. This isn’t mean to be a sessionable or poundable beer that you have with your buddies while watching the Phillies blow another game or something similar, this is meant to be a lovely dinner beer, with candlelight, nice music, steak, mashed potatoes, garlic green beans, etc. Thats what makes it so enjoyable too, knowing the work and craftsmanship that went into this beer, making it such a delicious, well rounded beer, adds to the overall enjoyment of the beer itself; knowing that it was worked on hard, that it was barrel aged, that time was spent on this beer, all adds to its overall quality and flavor. Its the small enjoyable things like this – knowing that someone cares about their work and craft – that makes the moments and beer like this so much better. All in all, the flavors work so well, the aroma is lovely, the appearance of the beer is wonderful, and everything about this beer is just great.

My Untappd Rating: ****.5
Global Average Untappd Rating: 3.95 (as of 5.8.22)

Grandma’s and Mothers

Its so nice to get to celebrate Mothers Day and thank my mom for all she has done for me, for my girls, for my sister, and as a teacher all she has done for everyone else. My Grandma (Grammy) Grace was just as much a mother figure helping raise me as I grew up, and so was my Great Grandma – Florence Speck. All three of these women are / and were – such tough as nails ladies, who never gave up. My great grandma passed away at 99, after a long fight of dementia and alzheimers, my mom has survived several fights against cancer.

Its a nice nod to my Grammy that I got to do a beer review with a beer with her name. I think she would have been tickled pink by that. I got to do one for my Great Grandma as well – Florence by Hill Farmstead. I know she would have laughed about that, she loved stealing my dad’s beers when he still lived at home with them and going to college.

So let me just say one last time – Happy Mothers Day to all the moms out there who are doing such a wonderful job.

Thanks For Reading

Thanks for reading everyone. I know this was a bit of a longer winded review, but nice thing is you can always just scroll by my extra crap and get right to the beer review if you’d like. I tend to meander, my apologies for that. I do enjoy everyone indulging me though on all that, especially a beer like this.

I hope you enjoyed the review, and if you have any comments, questions, or anything else, let me know in the comments or contact us through the contact page or e-mail us at thebeerthrillers@gmail.com. We love to hear from you all!

Thanks for reading, Happy Mothers Day, and cheers everyone!

-B. Kline

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