Beer of the Week! 04/18/23

Wiseacre Tiny Bomb

Regularly $10.99 / Now on Sale for $9.96
Pilsner Style Lager with Honey

Brothers Davin and Kellan Bartosch founded Wiseacre Brewing Company in 2013, in Memphis, but they cite their first foray into craft beer as having been back when they were 1997 high schoolers, stealing their parents rent-a-car and driving to Sam Adams. (Wiseacres, indeed.) In the years between, the brothers got serious about beer (though they seem serious about little else). Once the beer bug hit these guys, looks like it became a swarm. They read about beer, wrote about it, and studied it. Davin went from homebrewer to pro, with Kellan also working for a brewery (Sierra Nevada, no less!!).

The Tiny Bomb is a Pilsner style lager, and according to the brothers, the soft water from Memphis’ aquifer is similar to the soft water in Plzen. “Not only do we love this style of beer,” they say, “our amazing water makes Memphis the best place in the country to make a pilsner.”

To take a stolen-rent-a-car left turn with this brew, Wiseacre laces the Tiny Bomb with wildflower honey. The honey gives it a little more body than other Pilsners while remaining a subtle addition to the beer’s overall taste. It doesn’t sweeten the beer as much as it provides a nice cushion against the harsher notes that Pilsners can have.

As to the name, it comes from Davin Bartosch’s frustration with people always drinking Bud Light. “People always say, ‘It’s because I can drink four or five. It’s low in calories.’

“I got some answers that, to me, sounded absurd, just being the kind of beer drinker that I am. So, I thought, I’m going to find a way to satisfy everybody. So, tiny alcohol, tiny calories, flavor bomb.”

There you go. Make good friends with better beer. Boom! Can drop.

Bonus Beer of the Week (‘Cause, not being gamblers, good beers are the only thing we double down on!)

Fat Orange Cat Someone in My Head (Enigma)

Regularly $22.99 / Now on Sale for $20.96
Double New England Style IPA

The Enigma hop is a relatively new Australian hop. Used as an aroma hop, it gives you berry fruit and currant on the nose. East Hampon, CT’s Fat Orange Cat has tricked out their Someone in My Head recipe by delivering this variant, double dry-hopped with Enigma.

Though Enigma is the featured hop, it is far from being the only hop in town. Fat Orange Cat loads this brew down with Citra, Mosaic, Simcoe, and Apollo. Almost 15 years older than Enigma, Apollo is a high-alpha acid bittering hop that “packs a punch.”

This combination of hops on top of the off-dry malt backbone delivers a rich, juicy, and complex double NEIPA. There’s melon there with deep notes of pineapple nestled in, all wrapped in a citrusy grapefruit blanket (maybe from the Apollo, the Citra, the Simcoe, or all three). All these children play well together making a big, old, tasty treat.

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