New Holland Brewing

Commercial Brewery | Holland, MI, United States of America

Vital Statistics

Beers

Overall average: 71 (logged 38 times)
New Holland Baltic Anomaly Honey Porter: 58 (logged 2 times)
Baltic Porter
New Holland Black Hatter Black IPA
Black IPA / Cascadian Dark Ale / American Black Ale
New Holland Blue Sunday: 83 (logged 1 time)
Wild Ale
New Holland Charkoota Rye
Dunkelweizen (Smoked)
New Holland Dragon's Milk Blonde: 75 (logged 1 time)
Stout
New Holland El Mole Ocho
Vegetable / Spice / Herb Beer
New Holland Farmhouse Hatter Belgian IPA
Belgian India Pale Ale / IPA
New Holland Full Circle Kölsch: 75 (logged 1 time)
Kölsch
New Holland Ichabod Pumpkin Ale: 71 (logged 2 times)
Pumpkin Ale
New Holland Imperial Hatter IPA
American India Pale Ale / IPA (Imperial / Double)
New Holland Mad Hatter IPA: 50 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA
New Holland Monkey King Saison
Saison / Farmhouse Ale
New Holland Night Tripper Imperial Stout: 83 (logged 1 time)
Stout
New Holland Oak-Aged Hatter IPA: 50 (logged 1 time)
American India Pale Ale / IPA (Aged in Barrels, Oak)
New Holland Pilgrim's Dole Wheatwine Ale: 79 (logged 2 times)
Wheatwine
New Holland The Poet Oatmeal Stout: 54 (logged 4 times)
Stout

Limited Edition Single Releases

New Holland Bourbon Barrel Aged Charkoota Rye
Dunkelweizen (Smoked, Aged in Barrels, Oak, Bourbon)
New Holland Brandy Barrel Aged Charkoota Rye: 75 (logged 1 time)
Dunkelweizen (Smoked, Aged in Barrels, Brandy)

Logs for beers from this brewery

Sweet, caramel, a hint of cinnamon. Thinner than I remember Dragon’s Milk being, but it’s been a long while. Tasty.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
This was... mediocre for the series, but okay overall. There've been a lot of peanut butter stouts lately, and this one was more sweet, less balanced, and a little bit sour too. Definitely strong, though, which is quite typical of this line. I think this was maybe my least favorite of the Reserves so far.
Bottle at Home
This beer seems almost too light at first, which in a more boring beer would feel watery. However, the remaining flavors are grassy, fresh, and slightly fruity, making more of an impression than expected.
This beer did not at all taste like a stout, and it never quite stopped being weird. I don't remember the details too well, but I do remember liking it in spite of all that.
Medium-tart sour ale with a bright, rounded berry flavor. Very light on the funk. I really, really liked this.
I wasn't expecting such a tasty beer. Maybe I've had a bad run of "bourbon barreled stouts" that weren't some pricy $20/bottle special release but this one is smooth and very quaffable.
Bottle
Malty, strong amber with a prickle of hops on top. Well balanced.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
I thought this was fantastic, maybe my favorite of the Reserve series so far. You'd think this would be too sweet, but the banana is a very nice, rich, banana cream pie kind of flavor and the coconut smooths it and melds it nicely with the base stout. So yummy!
Thick, sweet, fake cherry. Cloying finish, like cough syrup. I mean, yuck.
It was good? I remember that, but can't remember anything else. Waited too long to log it.
Just seemed like a nice stout.
Bottle at Home
Starts with a high roast opening and then smooths out with a sweet, cloudy honey-funk flavor. I actually thought it was too sweet, too mellow; it removed any kind of edge on the finish and I think this beer needed that.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
The Reserve series continues to outshadow the regular Dragon's Milk. This one is pretty much exactly as advertised, with chocolate, clear marshmallow notes and sweet-but-somehow-not-too-sweet flavor through the duration. Yum!
Bottle at Odin Lounge
I think I liked this more than the regular Dragon's Milk by a fair margin. Not super bourbony, but otherwise the rest is as advertised, with light but clear spice and molasses flavors melding nicely with the base stout. Delicious.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Very strong, although the alcohol is masked behind a syrupy sweet, stout. You could probably have poured this over pancakes and had a very good time, but drinking this straight was... difficult.
This is good but I'm getting kinda tasted out.
Fairly thick, roasty flavor to start, with a middle body that is both unsubtle sweet alcohol flavor and a bit of lactic tackiness smoothening it out. Overall the impression is roast -> sweet -> milk-malt. Pretty good, but not in the top tier.
This one actually smells like a stout. It has kind of a sharp sweetness, rather than the creamy sweetness as billed. A little more like the cherry you get from a barrel aged stout, but not as overwhelming and nauseating. Still not really my sort of thing, but not actively offensive this time.
Bottle at A Friend's
Strong pumpkin pie smell. The pumpkin spice are nicely done.
Bottle at Xbeer One
Kind of a funky, skunky smell on this one, as well as subtle pie spice. Flavor-wise, this makes it less sweet, which is nice and keeps things interesting, but the skunk is there as a kind of constant undertone.
Bottle at Xbeer One
On draft for the first time. It was still quite nice but not nearly as special as when I first encountered it, and it definitely (unfortunately) sat forgotten after trying the Plead the 5th.
A somewhat watery, slow to appear but sharp bitterness. Not particularly roasty. In fact it's very slow to even taste like a stout. I will admit that I get different things out of each sip. For instance, this last one had an odd sweet note. Very strange. I don't think in a good way.
I can't even pretend to rate this. It was basically tasteless after six high gravity beers.
Bottle at Odin Lounge
Had this just cooler than room temperature. A roasty, sweet, thick stout. Very well balanced with a clean finish. Without going too far in any direction, it's very, very drinkable.
Bottle at Work
New Holland Mad Hatter IPA (unknown release)
Echo what I said about my palate, but this just came across as a slightly over-sweet IPA.
Bottle at Xbeer One
Started off super-nice. Very smoky but somehow well-blended, with a nice barrel characteristic and a very dark, malty doppelbock base. Teach me to mix beers, though -- after a few sips of Dragon's Milk, this started tasting unnervingly like bacon. And then it was all bacon all the time city.
Bottle at Xbeer One
Still quite good, but there was just so much more of the candy-like quality than I wanted, probably because I had it right after a sip of some smoked beer.
Bottle at Xbeer One
I didn't taste any oak at all, but I may have been burnt out by other beers today. Other than that, it's got a nicely floral smell that turns a little too candy-like in flavor. No bitter finish to speak of.
Bottle at Xbeer One
Maltier than other bourbon barrel stouts, which took a little getting used to. Almost creamy. But quite good.