PRs and new releases

This morning started, as Friday mornings usually do, with a team WoD. Today it consisted of burpeeBarbell(4 different), body weight work(4 different) and a lot of wallballs and lunges. While I am usually reasonably happy when holding on to a barbell, doing that while performing a burpee made me significantly less happy. On the other hand, pullups worked much better than expected and I didn't die on wallballs so I guess it all evens out...

I got home from the office at a reasonable time today so the box was still open. I felt good and since I haven't made any PRs this week I decided to drop by the box and max out my front squat. I warmed up with 10x20 and then started with 10x45 and went down 1 rep and up 5kg every set ending at 1x90 which is a 2kg PR for me making my front squat equal my Clean & Jerk for the first time since November's Battle of the Month.





Today was also release day for Systembolaget with a bunch of new interesting beer. I was at Hansa at 10 together with a large number of other beer aficionados, some wine fans and a couple of local drunks. A bunch of fun stuff was bought today some of which will be documented lower in this post and some in coming days.

I wasn't planning to buy this since I am rarely impressed by lagers and I am often extremely underwhelmed by black lagers, but then I saw the can and I just had to. Well, my instinct turned out to be correct. Day of the Dead is a Black Lager with Chili and Cacao where both of them can be clearly felt putting this lager in the must try category.

Modern times delivers new beer quite often and most of it sounds very interesting. Unfortunately, in my view the contents doesn't quite match the hype. This beer was marketed as a hoppy tropical double IPA. While I am very willing to accept that this beer is tropical, it's definitely not hoppy. I don't want to say it's bad, but it's not quite my taste.

To øl is one of the best Danish breweries so when they release something new, I just have to try it. Black Malts & Body Salts is marketed as a Black Coffee Imperial IPA. I completely agree with the first part. This beer is definitely black. There is some coffee taste, but nothing special and I feel nothing IPAish there. I would be willing to accept this as a Stout, or even an Imperial Stout, but it's definitely not an IPA. As a stout it's not bad, but nothing special. Don't see any reason to buy this since there are both better and cheaper options in that style.

Oscar Blues are world renown for Dale's Pale Ale which was considered to be the world best beer in a can. While they lost that position a while ago (which is debatable. While I consider Modus Hoperandi to be a better beer, there are people who are not completely incompetent who prefer Dale's) they still produce a lot of interesting beers. This one is no exception. Death by Coconut provides chocolaty goodness together with a nice coconut aroma making it an awesome dessert beer.