David Kline

9.2

State of Brewing, Holiday Lager, Waunakee, Wisconsin. Aldi advent calendar 2023.
Unexpectedly brown-amber lager with cappuccino-colored head, porcini-pored. Melting mustache lacing devolves to pointillist raven. Spicy nose of cinnamon and nutmeg, allspice, toffee and brown sugar. Elements of palate mirror the nose, including notes of dried lemon peel, cedar and sweet tobacco. Regal.

#stateofbrewing #WIbeer #aldiadventcalendar #advent #lager #holidaylager #waunakee — 10 months ago

with Courtney

David Kline

9.2

State of Brewing, Hoppy lager. Wisconsin. Aldi advent calendar.
Yellow amber with a bubbly white dissipating head, Rocky horror lips lacing. Lime-led and lemon finished clean freak nose has white bread subtleties. Damn delicious palate has a mild sweetness, but lager-clean and refreshing. Great style, great care and restraint here!


#stateofbrewing #wisconsinbeer #WIbeer #aldiadventcalendar #lager #hoppylager #beer #biere #bier #birra #cerveza — a year ago

David Kline

9.2

State of Brewing Scottish ale. Aldi advent beer.
Auburn, red-brown amber. Cream colored head echoes creamy wash of lacing that breaks to chicken bone divination and ant-farm spelunking, and finally to Keith Haring tic-tacs until cobwebs. Malty notes poke through earthy hole of coffee, mocha, and shaved dark chocolate with clove and nutmeg and black mushroom. Coffee emerges strong and all malt lies buried, but it is cold brew, medium body and flatter through creaminess. Lingering arabica.

#stateofbrewing #aldibeer #aldiadventcalendar #scottishale #ale #beer #bier #biere #birra #cerveza — a year ago

David Kline

8.9

State of Brewing chocolate peanut butter porter. Strong chocolate peanut butter nose has mocha coffee influence. Not my favorite style, but a nice offering that steers clear of over sweet. Bittersweet chocolate and heavy lean into the coffee bean. The result is straight forward as the style should be. Beer itself needs to be a strong element in these flavored offerings. This one shows that restraint.


#stateofbrewing #aldibeer #aldiadventcalendar #porter #chocolatebeer #chocolatepeanutbutterporter #wibeer #wisconsinbeer — a year ago

David Kline

9.2

State of Brewing, Waunakee, Wisconsin. West Coast IPA
Rose gold-amber; full opacity. Loose, bone-colored head. Dissolving dinosaur lacing. Malty style with orange and orange blossom, lemon confit, lime zest and clementine. Citrusy hops with light dankity dank. Malty entry rapidly bursts with grapefruit, hempseed, flax, and lemon peel. Light peppercorn. Lemongrass and grape leaf.

#stateofbrewing #aldiadventcalendar #WIbeer #wisconsinbeer #ipa #westcoastipa #waunakee #wisconsin #beer #bier #birre #birra #cerveza — 10 months ago

David Kline

9.0

State of Brewing, Wisconsin. Oatmeal stout.

Almost-black stout with a nuclear head that sizzles in brownish red. Mangrove root lacings turn leaping, pulled taffy reindeer. Chocolate nose shows a slight bent of minty, below molasses and rich coffee. Palate shows pecan and coffee bean, allspice and nutmeg in abundance, but somehow is the perfect ramp up to calendar finale. I am too exhausted to doubt it.


#stateofbrewing #wisconsinbeer #wibeer #stout #darkbeer #oatmeslstout #beer #bier #biere #birra #cerveza — a year ago

David Kline

9.2

State of Brewing, Wisconsin. German Pilsner, Aldi advent calendar.
Light green-gold to straw Pilsner, with a white wool cap, ocean foam lacing that barely sticks, into minimalist swooshes. Fresh lemon juice nose lines a white toast, with lime oil, lemongrass and tangerine pith. Clean and fresh mouth, with lemon-lime and dinner roll echoes; only now we mix in Meyer lemon and key lime in small amounts, and lightest nano-ginger and nano grapefruit. Honestly could drink this all day especially at 4.5 abv.
Excellent German style Pilsner!

#stateofbrewing #getmanpilsner #pils #pilsner #wisconsinbeer #WIbeer #lightbeer #sessionbeer #beer #biere #bier #cerveza #birra — a year ago

with Courtney

David Kline

9.2

State of Brewing, Wisconsin. Aldi advent beer calendar.
Near opacity, golden gel color, shock silo of crystalline white dissipates to perfection evenly with a flattened Fuji moment. Marble vein persistence in its barnacled whale lacing. Black lime nose reveals balsa and lemon bread, yeast-lemon and lightest green olive and chamomile. Palate gives sour note that ‘apricots’, bursts with yeast and marigold, banana pepper, white peppercorn and grapefruit spirit. All while hitting the bullseye on Belgian White Ale style. Resonates with drying sourdough, and popped corn sans butter, Indian gum, and cotton seed notes.

#stateofbrewing #aldiadventcalendar #belgianwhiteale #belgianstyle #whiteale #beer #bier #biere #birra #cerveza — 10 months ago

David Kline

8.9

State of Brewing hazy IPA.
Rose-colored gold, opaque; melting hexagonal beeswax comb lacing turns levitating knives, woodcut claws and feathers. Orange, tangerine and apricot richness with tropical pineapple and banana leaf. Lime and lemon pith, lemon-lime bottlecap candy, Alka-seltzer, strangely, plantain, and truncated grapefruit. Perhaps lacks the creaminess of the hazy style in an attempt to keep the abv reasonable?

#stateofbrewing #aldibeer #aldiadventcalendar #hazyipa
#ipa #indiapaleale #hazy #beer #bier #biere #birra #cerveza — a year ago

David Kline

9.2

State of Brewing Dry Hopped IPA from Aldi calendar. Wisconsin.
Cloudy antique gold-amber with a ropey head; dinosaur fossil and stylized anatomical organ lacing. Big grapefruit green grape and cut lime bullnoses, bends around to lemon panna cotta and vanilla. Hard citrus palatal entry gets cross checked by broom straw and cyprus wood, leaving lemon cookie dough along mid-tongue, walled by lime pith. Acorn, walnut and underripe pineapple enrich the finish. This ipa is aggressive hoppily, but damn refreshing and endlessly informing in the post game.


#stateofbrewing #aldibeer #aldiadventcalendar #dryhopped #dryhoppedipa #hops #ipa #wisconsinbeer #WIbeer — a year ago