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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: axeman90210 on May 01, 2010, 04:07:22 PM
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It's been so long since the last one's been bumped, I say time to start fresh. I'm sitting here with about six gallons of liquid boiling on my stove, which will hopefully have turned into a nice saison about a month from now. I'm celebrating my first homebrew with a bottle of Ithaca's LeBleu. It's a limited one-off beer from them, I was lucky to snag one of about six hundred bottles that were released for distribution. It's a blueberry sour, and it's quite good. I'm not getting a ton of blueberries in the taste, the sour aspect seems to be dominating there, the blueberries show up more in the nose. It's a little highly carbonated, but not to the point where it ruins the beer.
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Mmm, blueberry sour. I haven't had anything spectacular lately (drank some Dale's Pale Ale and Fat Tire at the movies last night :D) but will report back tonight after I finally try Supplication while viewing the epic that is Face/Off. Also really want to try this Odell Saboteur stuff in my fridge (https://odellbrewing.com/beers/saboteur) but intimidated by its size (shh) and alcohol content :lol... I need friends who appreciate beer out here.
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Had some Imperial blonde ale and Rouge's Mom's Hefeweizen and Koncord Kombat Ale
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moved on to a nice Surly CynicAle (saison) with dinner now that the hectic brewday is over
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I've got two bottles of Ranger IPA(absolutely delicious beer) plus my third different Saranac 12-pack mixer and this one's called Adirondack Trail Mix for Face/Off tonight. It has:
- Black Forest
- India Pale Ale
- Black and Tan
- Pale Ale
- Adirondack Lager
- Brown Ale
Before getting this mixer I'd recently gotten their 12 Beers of Summer and 12 Beers of Winter. Summer(Pale Pale Ale{yep, two "Pale"s}, Pomegranate Wheat, Amber Wheat, Helles, Rye Pilsener, Summer Ale) disappointed me for the most part as it seemed they used the same bad-tasting hop(s) in each one with only slight variation such as an additional hop variety here or a slightly less-worse barley used there. The winter mixer(Belgian Ale, Big Moose Ale, Maple Porter, Winter Lager, Rye IPA, Black Lager) left me quite wonderfully surprised at the turnaround in taste and quality. The Maple porter stood out with it's rich maple flavor reminiscent of waffles/pancakes. I'm now on the Adirondack mixer(Black Forest, India Pale Ale, Black and Tan, Pale Ale, Adironack Lager, Brown Ale) and am interested to see where it'll rank compared to the other two mixers.
Great value nonetheless since you get 6(count 'em, 6!) new bottles for your collection and your own palate's résumé whereas Sam Adams, Flying Dog, and Michelob as well as the vast majority of other brands only give 4 or 5. Another sweet thing about this is that there were ZERO DUPLICATES amongst all three mixers so I got 18 new bottles to put me around 300-325 different beers represented in my collection with each 12-pack mixer costing only $13.97!
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Saranac makes the beer-lemonade...have you tried it? It seems like two great tastes that wouldn't go well together.
I started a batch of homebrew on Wednesday, a kiwi-strawberry wheat. It's my first attempt at a beer that is my own recipe. I just hate waiting the 5 weeks to find out if its any good.
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Saranac makes the beer-lemonade...have you tried it? It seems like two great tastes that wouldn't go well together.
I started a batch of homebrew on Wednesday, a kiwi-strawberry wheat. It's my first attempt at a beer that is my own recipe. I just hate waiting the 5 weeks to find out if its any good.
We here at DTF patiently await the results of your diligent efforts.
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Saranac makes the beer-lemonade...have you tried it? It seems like two great tastes that wouldn't go well together.
I started a batch of homebrew on Wednesday, a kiwi-strawberry wheat. It's my first attempt at a beer that is my own recipe. I just hate waiting the 5 weeks to find out if its any good.
We here at DTF patiently await the results of your diligent efforts.
So no word on Saranac's beer-lemonade, or is that in a different variety pack?
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When I saw the "six gallons of liquid boiling on my stove" I wasn't sure if that was a tip off to the lack of fresh water we'll be having for the next few days or not.
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Normally, I'm a Bud man, but I tried Pliny the Elder a couple of weeks ago, and damn that shit was tasty. At 8% alcohol, I could see myself getting thoroughly polluted on it.
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Bud
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Saranac makes the beer-lemonade...have you tried it? It seems like two great tastes that wouldn't go well together.
I started a batch of homebrew on Wednesday, a kiwi-strawberry wheat. It's my first attempt at a beer that is my own recipe. I just hate waiting the 5 weeks to find out if its any good.
We here at DTF patiently await the results of your diligent efforts.
So no word on Saranac's beer-lemonade, or is that in a different variety pack?
Correct. Different variety pack. I've only had one beer lemonade but the name eludes me at this time. While it was pleasant tasting I wouldn't waste my time on it again since the label says something like "half beer, half lemonade" which I think is fairly accurate since it tasted virtually nonalcoholic.
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Bud
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:lol
I tried Russian River's Supplication last night and it was very good but not necessarily worth the price...
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Bud
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:lol
I know, what can I say, deep down I'm white trash.
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Due to the massive popularity of my first batch of beer, I have decided that a celebrity spokesperson would be wise, but I had to let them put their name on it. At least this way I make money. Here's a commercial for it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtdFRHQwF2I (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtdFRHQwF2I)
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:lol
Mmm mmmmm, bitch!
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found a couple cool videos in google's speaker series. Each one is an hour long, but very cool
Sam Calagione, founder Dogfish Head (he mostly focuses on the state of the brewing industry)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPOewnwgO0Q
Rob Tod, founder Allagash Brewery (discusses a few of his own beers as well as brewing Belgian style beers in general)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aJVpcyJ2is&feature=channel
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I will watch this when my wife works late this week!!
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tonight's victims were a Bear Republic Racer 5 IPA (very good, total hop bomb) and New England Brewing Company Gandhi-Bot Imperial IPA (awesome name, and I may have to post a picture of the can, but they went a bit overboard on hop bitterness as opposed to hop flavor).
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I'm hardly a beer connoisseur, but I prefer Keith's to the other beers I've tried.
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A beer fan favourite:
(https://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h172/solgarm/guinness.jpg)
:hefdaddy
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This probably isn't an original sentiment, but seriously, how can you drink Guinness? It's like drinking bread...
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This probably isn't an original sentiment, but seriously, how can you drink Guinness? It's like drinking bread...
Because it's excellent and you fail hard :-*
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This probably isn't an original sentiment, but seriously, how can you drink Guinness? It's like drinking bread...
Because it's excellent and you fail hard :-*
Was thinking the same thing :yarr
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This probably isn't an original sentiment, but seriously, how can you drink Guinness? It's like drinking bread...
It's smooth and has a nice bitter chocolate taste to it.
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This probably isn't an original sentiment, but seriously, how can you drink Guinness? It's like drinking bread...
Guinness is actually a pretty watery stout, at least the one people usually drink. They have other heavier kinds though.
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This probably isn't an original sentiment, but seriously, how can you drink Guinness? It's like drinking bread...
It's smooth and has a nice bitter chocolate taste to it.
This, although I'd almost say it leans a lil more towards espresso. Also, for anyone who does like Guinness, do yourself a favor and try a draft of Rogue's Chocolate stout. You'll have zipper marks on your pecker.
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This probably isn't an original sentiment, but seriously, how can you drink Guinness? It's like drinking bread...
It's smooth and has a nice bitter chocolate taste to it.
This, although I'd almost say it leans a lil more towards espresso. Also, for anyone who does like Guinness, do yourself a favor and try a draft of Rogue's Chocolate stout. You'll have zipper marks on your pecker.
I'll tell you what expresso stout kicked ass this year, it was Longtrail's private stock. Had to drive to VT to sample and bought a six pack for home.
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Molson Export is the best them.
Seriously.
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Molson Export is the best them.
Seriously.
When in Montreal, only. Even then I'd go with Unibroue.
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Molson Export is the best them.
Seriously.
When in Montreal, only. Even then I'd go with Unibroue.
Good thing truthing ain't illegal in these parts or else you'd have to shower with a vise-tight grip on the soap.
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Molson Export is the best them.
Seriously.
When in Montreal, only. Even then I'd go with Unibroue.
Good thing truthing ain't illegal in these parts or else you'd have to shower with a vise-tight grip on the soap.
And pretend it's a woman. ;)
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I think people tend to have an issue with Guinness because usually it's someone's first really dark beer, and I think the appearance builds up some preconceived idea of what it's going to be like. I know I wasn't crazy about Guinness when I first had it, but I kept on drinking it because I :heart irish car bombs, and eventually I grew to love it, as well as other dark beers (Russian Imperial Stout ftw). More Racer 5 last night and then I opened a bottle of Dark Horse's Double Crooked Tree. It's an imperial IPA clocking in at ~13% ABV... it was pretty good, but malty enough that it seemed more like a barleywine than a complete hop bomb, which is what I usually expect from DIPAs
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13% ABV's! A little kick!
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I love dark beers but didn't dig Guinness when I tried it.
Anyway, need to go beer shopping this week.
(Bill, for real, if there's anything you ever want me to send your way, just let me know)
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thanks, if any more rare Russian River -ation beers get released I might just have to take you up on that :D
tonight I had a big bottle of Flying Fish's Exit 16, a double IPA brewed with wild rice. The rice dried the beer out to make the hops the main focus, but it was a little too dry for my taste, could have used a bit more malty sweetness. Now I'm working my way through a bomber of Goose Island's Night Stalker. This is the base beer they use to make Bourbon County Stout each year. It's a bit hop forward for a stout, but they manage to pull it off quite well because the citrus and pine hop flavors blend well with the massive dose of malty chocolate I get from each sip. It's also impossibly rich/creamy, like some sort of adult milk shake :hat
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My mouth is watering Bill. Damn you. I'm at work.
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I'll be heading over tonight to Cambridge Brewing Company for their 21st anniversary party, with more than 21 of their beers on tap (actually, as I look at the list I may have to go back tomorrow night too :lol )
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That sounds wonderful.
Got a bottle of that aprihop stuff last night on your recommendation, Bill. Also got some Victory Hop Wallop because I was in a hoppy mood :D
Haven't tried either yet either because I went to bed early last night :(
The store is having a wine and beer tasting this evening and I am so there.
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I'll be heading over tonight to Cambridge Brewing Company for their 21st anniversary party, with more than 21 of their beers on tap (actually, as I look at the list I may have to go back tomorrow night too :lol )
Damn you and your easy to access T lines. A hop, skip, and jump to beer heaven. Make sure you give us the lowdown.
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absolutely :hat
oh, and I forgot to mention, the second half of that awesome stout last night was enjoyed in conjunction with Ben & Jerry's Magic Brownie ice cream... black raspberry ice cream with sweet cream ice cream swirls and fudgy brownie bits. I'm still having orgasm aftershocks :D
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I just tried this guy at the tasting: https://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/30/53167
Pretty good, nice and hoppy.
And some wines. Buzzed. Now going to drink more :D
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nice, I've heard good things about that. I went to CBC and had their Cerise Cassee (*very* sour beer aged on cherries... pretty good but it obliterated my palate and affected my enjoyment of beer #2), 3 Rings Belgian Pale Ale (good, but a bit more tart than I remember, which I blame on the Cerise), and YouEnjoyMyStout (bourbon barrel aged imperial stout... the taste was a bit off for me, as in addition to dark chocolate and dark fruit notes I was getting a bit of black licorice, which I did not care for. The bourbon influence was nicely understated though). I think there's a Terrapin Monk's Revenge and maybe a Racer 5 in my future as I relax tonight
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:D
Eww, licorice.
I'm trying to decide what to bring to my friend's. He has chocolate cake though!!
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either find a chocolate stout for an all out chocolate fest, or if you can buy a raspberry lambic that would be awesome too
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I hate raspberry-flavored stuff :(
Anyway, I wanted to bring something from my fridge because some of them have been sitting there too long so I brought the Odell Saboteur and it was quite yummy. Tasted nothing like it smelled. Not sure quite how else to describe it right now. I'm still feeling pretty good. Typing words accurately is laborious :lol
We ended up not having cake >:(
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Have two bottles of Delrium Tremens :laugh: I love this stuff
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Last night, I had a friend over to watch the B's game and we had a little beer.(Shocking!)
La Fin Monde---Tripple Fermentation
Manchester Brewing--Imperial Blonde
Portsmouth Brewery--Farmhouse Ale.
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how did you like La Fin du Monde? I always hear good stuff about that and Unibroue's lineup in general
Hit up CBC again tonight and was supposed to start with their Tripel Threat, but I'm pretty sure I got their 3 Rings Belgian Pale Ale by accident (wasn't going to complain, either way it was a damn good beers). Followed that up with a Resolution (Belgian Strong Dark Ale, pretty tasty and with a tart kick at the end that added something new to the style) and a Reckoning (blonde ale ferment entirely with brettanomyces... despite being 100% wild the sourness/funk was held well in check and go well with the bready maltiness that comes through from the beer), and capped the trip with a Blunderbuss Barleywine (aged in port barrels, this was really good. Caught somewhere between a malty English Barleywine and Hoppy American Barleywine, this beer made the balance work, and the vanilla notes I got from the barrel aging only made it better). Now that I'm home I tihnk I'm going to crack my bottle of Flying Dog's Raging Bitch Belgian-IPA
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Very smooth for a high alcohol %. Very fruity aroma. A fine beer.
BTW, had a Rouge, Dead Guy Ale tonight!
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Very smooth for a high alcohol %. Very fruity aroma. A fine beer.
BTW, had a Rouge, Dead Guy Ale tonight!
They are dee-lish! I still have an XL white shirt for that beer I got on a promo night when some cutie was giving out swag if you bought a pitcher of it. Too bad I have room to spare in an L but it still makes a comfy sleeping shirt.
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I'd look like a sausage in the XL. ;D
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I'd look like a sausage in the XL. ;D
The girl that gave me the shirt turned my sausage XL with her cleavage.
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BUMP
home for a week with a six pack each of Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA and Southampton Double White Ale. The Torpedo IPA is pretty tasty, but I'm a bit let down by the Southampton. I had it on tap a while ago and thought at the time it was great (that was well into my Saint Patrick's Day pub crawl though :lol), but the beer I have now seems a bit watery and not flavorful. I also have a big bottle of Victory's Wild Devil (their Hop Devil IPA brewed with wild yeast), which I'm looking forward to cracking one of these nights
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You bastard! :D I'm a plain jane tonight with only Shipyard mixed pack tonight.
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Want beer. Afraid to drink :(
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Want beer. Afraid to drink :(
You should never be afraid to drink. To drink is to live! ...irresponsibly...
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Want beer. Afraid to drink :(
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To live is to die! viva Metallica \m/
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Just got a sixer of Kashmir IPA. It's got a gentle dryness that belies the usual-yet-everpresent hoppiness of IPAs. I like it quite well as it goes down smoother than an experienced callgirl yet has all the desirable bite that makes this style such a good go-to for those in search of a hearty beer. The color is great too. In a pint glass held up to the light it's got an orangey/light-amber color with enough cloudiness to show it has not been corrupted by over-refining through techniques more akin to beers of the more top40 variety.
Altogether a fine beer but I wish I hadn't had Ranger IPA as recently as last week since that beer still has me hypnotized with its awesomeness.
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In the past two days I've had:
Samuel Adams Boston Lager
Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat
Blue Moon Belgian White
Yuengling
Yeah, nothing remotely exciting.
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@black_floyd, yeah, that's totally what I was getting at. :lolpalm:
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:lol
goes down smoother than an experienced callgirl
:eyebrows:
Anyway, I was able to drink but all they had for free was Stella so I had two of those. Really losing my tolerance for that kind of stuff.
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Really losing my tolerance for that kind of stuff.
Careful saying stuff like that! There are men around here. Strange men...
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@black_floyd, yeah, that's totally what I was getting at. :lolpalm:
Glad to hear :D o/
Also thanks for sigging me as my hat wasn't all that fashionable for summer without a feather in it.
goes down smoother than an experienced callgirl
:eyebrows:
Oh you :P
Anyway, I was able to drink but all they had for free was Stella so I had two of those. Really losing my tolerance for that kind of stuff.
By that stuff you mean that particular beer or all beers in that style?
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Sipping from a pintglass of Weyerbacher's Blithering Idiot as I post this... dear god I love this brew so much.
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@black_floyd, yeah, that's totally what I was getting at. :lolpalm:
Glad to hear :D o/
Also thanks for sigging me as my hat wasn't all that fashionable for summer without a feather in it.
goes down smoother than an experienced callgirl
:eyebrows:
Oh you :P
Anyway, I was able to drink but all they had for free was Stella so I had two of those. Really losing my tolerance for that kind of stuff.
By that stuff you mean that particular beer or all beers in that style?
Style.. it's so... sweet. Ugh. I had the same reaction the last time I had Heineken.
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@black_floyd, yeah, that's totally what I was getting at. :lolpalm:
Glad to hear :D o/
Also thanks for sigging me as my hat wasn't all that fashionable for summer without a feather in it.
*\o
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Sipping from a pintglass of Weyerbacher's Blithering Idiot as I post this... dear god I love this brew so much.
I thought fresh Blithering Idiot was a little rough around the edges, but Insanity (barrel aged BI) was *fantastic*
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I am deliberately going to Belgium for my next European trip just because of the fantastic beer. On my second Duvel for the night...everyone already knows it's great so I don't need to say it. I can't imagine what it would be like to visit some of the breweries in that country :hat
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that's absolutely going to be my first vacation after I get a job and start making some money, a guided beer tour of Belgium.
Last night I cracked open a bottle of Stone's 12th Anniversary Bitter Chocolate Oatmeal Stout... delicious with almost 2 years of age on it. Any alcohol heat has basically faded, and it was just a total dark chocolate bomb. Also :heart the smoothness you get from a beer with oatmeal in it.
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been working on my 750 mL bottle of Wild Devil for almost 2 hours now. This beer is a bit of a letdown because it looks great and the smell is an awesome combination of piney-hop goodness and brett barnyard funk, but the taste loses that great balance and is pretty much a straightforward wild ale. It's an American IPA fermented with brett. so it is pretty hard to hit the sweet spot with this beer, as the hops are fading while the funkiness is only getting more pronounced with time.
Also, today is the start of American Craft Beer Week, so make sure you celebrate appropriately :hat Massachusetts has a disappointingly small number of events going on, especially in the downtown Boston area. Only really exciting event is Armsby Abbey having a boner inducing list of beers on tap/on deck this week, but that's a bit of a hike for me. I have the ammo to celebrate on my own though :metal
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BUMP
last night I had a Sierra Nevada Summerfest (Alright, but a little too light on the hops, the flavor was barely there. Awesomely drinkable though), an Ommegang Abbey Ale Dubbel (delicious, nice blend of yeasty spiciness and the taste of alcohol soaked dark fruits from the malt), and a Dogfish Head Immort Ale (boozy mess, the advertised maple and vanilla syrup were barely perceptible). Tonight I mowed through a couple Racer 5 IPAs and am now finishing a bottle of Terrapin Monk's Revenge (seriously, I love this beer. It's like drinking pine flavored cotton candy, and I mean that in a good way).
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god dammit people, there will be beer discussion on DTF whether it's just me talking to myself or not :lol
I'm bottling my first homebrew tomorrow and I need a few more 12oz bottles, so I went to my bottle shop and picked out a 6 pack of random 12oz beers I've never had before to go through tonight (tried to keep them all relatively low ABV). I started out with a Smuttynose IPA ("Finest Kind" on the bottle) which was pretty good, but a little too grapefruit-centric for me (I'm guessing lots of late amarillo hop additions). A Dogfish Head Festina Peche was next. It's a berlinner-weiss, a low ABV wheat beer brewed in part with a bacteria that sours it. The appearance and smell were a bit underwhelming, but this was still a damn refreshing and tasty beer (DFH adds peach concentrate to balance out the sourness... awesome). I just finished an Avery Karma Belgian Pale Ale, which was decent, a nice blend of caramel malt sweetness with yeast spices, orange, and a little bit of funk going on in the background. Not sure what to have next :D
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Axe, save me a bottle, I'dlove to try it. BTW, some of us have to travel miles and miles to drink greatness so we live through your posts! :D
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god dammit people, there will be beer discussion on DTF whether it's just me talking to myself or not :lol
:lol
Anyway, I tried that Dogfish peche stuff and it was pretty tasty but I wasn't too impressed by it.
I've never had that Avery but have been slowly trying more of their stuff. I didn't know they sold it back east; never saw it til I came out here... but then again, one of my BK friends texted me about one of their beers a week or two ago.
PS- Bout that homebrew. Jackie's birthday=3 weeks :angel:
edit: bout to pick something up for a party.. not sure what yet but the possibilities are endless!
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I read an article in Time a few days ago that said there was a beer in Scotland that reached about 42 % ABV, making it the most alcoholic beer in the world. It was done through a process called "freeze brewing" or something to that effect. I'll dig up the article for you guys.
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Brewdog makes Sink the Bismarck, which clocks in at I think 41% ABV. They're engaged in a pissing contest with a German brewery who just announced a new 43% ABV beer sometime this week. Beers this potent are made through freeze distillation, where they take an already boozy beer and put it in freezing temperatures. The water in the beer freezes before the alcohol, so they can extract a more potent version. Some would argue that since these guys (both breweries) are doing that repeatedly (as opposed to a style like eis-bock where it's done once to bring a beer from ~9% to ~13%) and with an increase in ABV as the focus rather than the flavor of the beer that these new creations aren't even beers at all but more akin to spirits
/beer nerd
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That's what I was referring to :P
Now I don't have to look for the article :D
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yeah, whatever time I spend on the internet not on dtf is most likely spent either on beer advocate's forums or reading beernews.org :lol
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:lol
Anyway, I had some beer tonight and I'm not really sure how to describe it because I'm drunk but maybe I'll post about it romorrow GODNIGHT
oh fuck I am keeping those typos :lol
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so the second half of Bill's six pack adventure last night was Mayflower Pale Ale (very malty for a pale ale, though the hops were still there too... more akin to an English version than something like Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, but pretty tasty and very drinkable), Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier (classic hefe, light and bubbly and a tasty blend of clove and banana and vanilla, I'm gonna be coming back to that one a few times over the summer), and Smuttynose Big A IPA (again, a little on the English side for a DIPA, with more piney and floral hops used than the traditional American citrus varieties, along with an increased malt presence, and the alcohol came through a bit on the back end which hurt it a little bit).
In a minute I get to go sanitize almost 60 beer bottles... joy! :lol
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Tis the season for es, banana's & vanilla. My favorite summer beer my favorite is Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier but there is another I love but get the name wrong. I think it's Shawlmers or something close to that.
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I now have 36 bottles of homebrew put away in cases, just have to wait around two weeks for it to bottle carbonate. Quite a few bottles less than I would have expected, but I chalk it up to a few learning experiences... time to plan batch two :D
edit: had an Allagash Dubbel while I worked which was good, but paled in comparison to the Ommegang version I had the other night. I've got some cleanup to do and then it's off to a local bar for a victory dinner :lol
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Just got back from taking my mom out for her birthday. I had a Blue Moon Belgium White Ale. Nothing beats a fresh, lines cleaned, tapped beer. Refressing. Got home and just opened up a bottle of my Magic hat Odd Notion Series. Summer 2010. A ginger Beer. Very good, sharp beer. I like it!
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hit Sunset for my victory dinner and had a St. Bernardus Wit (Either they gave me the wrong beer or there was a problem with the line because this was way less carbonated than the bottle version I had last month), Pretty Things Jack D'or (Saison, love the hell out of this beer) and a Brooklyn Dark Matter (newest Brewmaster's Reserve, a bourbon barrel aged brown ale. Very nicely done, I get a lot more vanilla from the barrels than bourbon, which is very subtle). I came home and eventually cracked a Angel's Share Brandy Barrel from Lost Abbey. It's a shame, because the beer is delicious, but not carbonated at all, I poured it and there was absolutely zero head and no lacing left on the glass.
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Gotta have the head... speaking of which, I had this Het Anker Gouden Carolus Noel stuff last night (2008, apparently, couldn't find a date but that's what the dude told me) and the head never went away. It kinda looked like Coke. It grew on me a bit, but the presence of alcohol in the smell and taste were SO strong it kind of killed it for me. Took me FOREVER to finish, and not in a good way... on the other hand, today I had the Wynkoop's Tripel Sixes, and this was just great. Definitely a sipping beer, didn't want it to end. Kind of sweet and very spicy and just overall pleasant. When I found out it was over 10% I was pretty damn surprised. Did not taste like it at all... but definitely felt the effects. I want to go back and get more since it's not a regular beer. The name comes from 06/06/06, when it was first brewed (also my first day at Bottle King. COINCIDENCE?) but I guess they occasionally break it out. Perhaps I will go back next week when the year is officially over to celebrate :D
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Brooklyn night tonight for me, had a bottle of their Sorachi Ace (saison hopped exclusively with the rarely used Sorachi Ace hop, gives off a very lemony/grassy taste, very nice summer beer) and now I'm nursing the one, the only, Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
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Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout, a home run in the stout family.
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It's definitely my favorite of the regularly available imperial stouts I've had, but I think that the nose has a fantastic coffee/chocolate blend that smells just like chocolate covered espresso beans, while the chocolate dominates a little too much for it's own good on the taste and I wish coffee was a little more prominent. It's also remarkable that for a 10%+ beer I get no alcohol heat whatsoever (protip: I always take this beer out of the fridge about 15-20 minutes before I'm going to drink it, drinking it at fridge temperatures I usually can pick up on some booziness)
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Bill, If you ever get the chance to go to Longtrail in jan thru feb they have a stout made with Green Mountain coffee that is damn good, but you have to go there to get it.
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Mmm, that sounds awesome. Love my coffee. Still haven't made it to Long Trail but have had their Brewmaster Series Coffee Stout :D
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so I came home last night, ate dinner and literally was in between opening and my last bottle of Pretty Things February 27, 1832 Mild when my power went out. Very annoying as I've started reviewing beers on Beer Advocate and that was going to be my last chance to try that beer, but sitting in a pitch dark oven of a room didn't seem like a particularly ideal way to formally review a beer. I ended up putting the lid back on and putting it back in the fridge and heading down to a bar to kill some time while I waited for maintenance to come. Had a Festina Peche (still good, but the tartness was a little more pronounced on tap, not a good thing imo) and a Hennepin (:heart Brewery Ommegang, :heart saisons)
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I found the Dogfish Head Peche had the same Tartness on tap that you spoke about.
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yeah I mean it's a berliner weissbier so it's supposed to be sour to a degree, but the draft version just seemed a little ramped up
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BUMP
last night I split a bottle of DFH Squall IPA with a buddy. It's their 90 Minute IPA, except bottle conditioned and in big 750 mL bottle. Honestly, I was a bit let down. DFH is known for having a more than average malt presence in their IPAs (so are east coast brewers in general, but especially DFH), but this beer was cloyingly sweet, which for an IPA (where the hops are supposed to be the showcase) shouldn't be the case.
tonight I started a bottle of Southern Tier Pale, their Pale Ale, which was really good but flavorful and big enough (6%) that I would call it a full on IPA. Just now I finished a bomber of Ballast Point's Sculpin IPA. It was really good except for the first few sips, where the citrusy hop flavors had this unfortunate undercurrent of bitterness that was just a bit too much. That cleared up as the beer warmed though and it really was a great west coast IPA (in contrast to the DFH IPA this beer was all hops, no real malt sweetness to speak of).
Tomorrow morning I'm going to one of the best beer bars in Cambridge (Lord Hobo) as they're starting a brunch menu this weekend (normally they don't open until 5pm) and to celebrate they're putting a keg of Founder's Kentucky Breakfast Stout on tap. It's a bourbon barrel aged coffee oatmeal stout (damn, long description) that they release once a year (at $22+ a four pack :( )
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Dayum!
Just had three Oskar Blues brews at the movies. I already knew I liked Dale's Pale Ale, then I tried an Old Chub (a scotch ale- jesus christ) and a Mama's Little Yella Pils which was pretty good and helped to wash away the taste of the Old Chub (along with some popcorn). Being the lightweight I am, feelin' good.
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Brunch and Beer sound soooo good. Can't wait to hear your reveiw. Also I've never tried the Founder's Kentucky Breakfast Stout. Man that sounds good.
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Holy shit, KBS ftmfw. I don't think I can wax poetic any more about this beer, so I'll just c/p my review that I just posted on Beer Advocate
"Served in a flute glass at Lord Hobo. KBS pours an absolute, all encompassing black. There's an impressive creamy milk chocolate cap, 2-3 fingers, that just refuses to go anywhere. Almost 10 minutes later I still have a solid 1.5-2 fingers of foam on top. There's a beyond ridiculous amount of gorgeous lacing left behind as I (all too quickly) empty my glass, especially for a beer of this size. The nose is great, a hearty mix of bourbon and coffee, heavier on the latter. I'm a little let down though because I don't find any vanilla or anything else in the nose, I was hoping for a little more complexity. That complexity I was looking for? Well, I found it even in my first few sips. There's an opening blast of coffee, supplemented by rick dark chocolate, before the beer transitions to a wonderful vanilla sweetness mid palate. The bourbon comes on strong (but not too strong) to close things out. KBS goes down absurdly smoothly, with a fine amount of carbonation. For a beer this big and flavorful, I found the body to be just a little bit thin (but this is a minor quibble in the grand scheme of things). While there's definitely a bourbon kick to this beer, there's no hint of any alcoholic heat, which for a barrel aged stout clocking in at over 11% ABV is absurd. I'm firmly convinced Founders sold their soul to the devil to be able to craft such an exquisite beer. "
I should have known that I was in for something special when I saw that despite over 1,100 reviews KBS still has a weighted average score of 4.52/5 (I ended up scoring it a 4.85/5). I was doubtful even as I forked over the money for the 4-pack I bought back in March that this beer could be worth $23 for a four pack, but after having it on tap I only wish I had taken the chance that I had to pick another one up at a different store that was asking $30. If it wasn't for the fact that I had an hour commute home with 1+ mile of walking involved I'd still be there drinking it now. And as an added bonus, they just tapped it this morning and I don't think it was in the computer system yet, because they only charged me $5 for my glass, which seems absurdly cheap for this beer.
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I cracked my first homebrew last night a week before I told myself I would (lol patience) and it wasn't bad, but there was definitely a buttery/green apple taste there that I've read shows up in beers that haven't been given enough time to condition. I'll give another one a go next weekend. I had a bottle of Captain Lawrence's Captain's Reserve Imperial IPA which was good, but nothing mind-blowing and then their Xtra Gold American Tripel. That beer was a little bit of a let down, the goal I'm assuming was to add some citrus American hops to a Belgian Tripel and they almost succeeded too well, as the hops were by far the dominant flavor and the traditional white clove/coriander spiciness one would expect was barely there.
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I loved your detailed description of the Founder's Kentucky Breakfast Stout. Reading your desription makes me want to go on a road trip tommorow to find it.
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I don't know if it's the best beer I've ever had, but if it's not it's damn close. I managed to score one four pack at release in March, I gave one away and have one in my fridge and the other two are sitting in my beer cellar at my parents' house. I just hope that one of the other bars around here that got a keg held on to it and puts it on tap soon.
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It's my birthday next Sunday.
The UK's second biggest beerfest was this week.
I think "FML" is appropriate here.
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was this your "legal drinking age" birthday then?
Had a bottle of White Birch Belgian Pale Ale tonight. It's a new, small brewery out of New Hampshire that just started distributing to Massachusetts. The guy who started it is a long time homebrewer and poster on Beer Advocate who finally decided to take the plunge and go pro. The beer was good, very different from what I'm used to though. Instead of a heavy dose of malt sweetness and some spicy yeast flavors this one was grassy with a nice bitter lemon citrus kick at the end. Good beer, the only problem is this (and all his beers ) are pretty expensive, close to $15 a bomber, so I doubt there'll be anything in the way of repeat buys. I still have a bottle of their tripel to try as well
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Last night a had another bottle of homebrew (definitely noticed some improvement, the buttery/green apple taste I noticed on Saturday was much less pronounced), a bomber of Wachusett Larry (new-ish imperial IPA, pretty tasty) and a bottle of Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron (love this beer, so unique because of the wood aging).
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Man I love Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron too. All their hard to get beers are top notch.
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I'll be in the Outer Banks for my brother's wedding this weekend, and I hope to sample some beers while I'm out there :D
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If you're going to the Outer Banks you *need* to go here https://www.chipswinemarket.com/ It's right on the main highway there and they have a giant beer wall of over 400 bottles that they sell as singles. When I go down with my family every summer I end up there at least 2-3 times that week and end up bringing a case or two home with me :lol
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If you're going to the Outer Banks you *need* to go here https://www.chipswinemarket.com/ It's right on the main highway there and they have a giant beer wall of over 400 bottles that they sell as singles. When I go down with my family every summer I end up there at least 2-3 times that week and end up bringing a case or two home with me :lol
My brother visits his wifes cousin every year there. I 'll pass it on.
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I know they get Terrapin beers as well as Bell's (neither of which make it to the northeast), probably Sweetwater too. I'm not too well versed with some of the smaller southeast breweries though.
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I had my first Harppon Imperial Red last night and WOW did it pack a bold flavor. I must make a trek(nerd can't himself) to VT for lunch and more of this!!
Harpoon Imperial Red Ale is a feast for the senses. This deep amber beer has an intense hop flavor that balances with the complex caramel character derived from the use of seven different malts. The fruity esters of the yeast blend perfectly with the citrusy aroma of the dry hops. This full bodied beer is one to be savored slowly.
Original Release: February 2010
BEER SPECIFICATIONS
Style:
Imperial Red
Original Gravity:
19
Alcohol by Volume:
9.2%
IBU’S:
75
Recommended Serving Temperature 50-54° F
Color:
40 EBC
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Just tried Sam Adams Double Bock from their Imperial series and I can confidently say that its only redeeming value is that at 9.5% abv I can at least clean a wound with it since as soon as I finish my 4-pack I'll probably never have it again since it tasted as harsh as Samichlaus which is 14%.
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sounds good king, I haven't had many reds
Just tried Sam Adams Double Bock from their Imperial series and I can confidently say that its only redeeming value is that at 9.5% abv I can at least clean a wound with it since as soon as I finish my 4-pack I'll probably never have it again since it tasted as harsh as Samichlaus which is 14%.
never had either beer, though I usually hear good things about Samichlaus (I think people tend to age that for a few years to let it mellow out first though).
the initial beer list for the American Craft Beer Fest went up today
https://beeradvocate.com/acbf/beer
over 400 beers, I won't know where to start :caffeine:
I just polished off a bottle of Sweet Water Big Ol' Belgian Blue Balls... the name was the best part of this beer :lol I'm a bout to have a Stone/Victory/Dogfish Head collaboration, Saison du Buff (seasoned with parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme) with dinner :hat
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had a Festina Peche, something nice and light while I was straightening up. Now I'm drinking a De Struise Black Albert, big Belgian stout, not really sure what to make of it yet
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I just bought some Purple Haze for the first time. I 'll have it with the bacon burgers(already mixed in the meat) I bought today.
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haven't tried any of Abita's beers yet. I started the day with a saison double play, Ommegang Hennepin and then my homebrew. Tonight was Bill checks out Mikkeller night, they're a European brewery that doesn't have a brewhouse of their own, but rather go from brewery to brewery brewing their beers like gypsies :lol First I had their imperial IPA 1000 IBU (IBU, or international bittering unit, is a measure of the amount of compounds in a beer that contribute to bitterness. ~12 is supposed to be the lower threshold for human perception, and supposedly 100 is the max for what we can differentiate. Lab work can calculate exact IBU #s, but most time brewers rely on formulas to estimate IBUs. As the bitterness rises the formulas begin to drastically overshoot the IBUs, a formula value 0f 240 may turn out to be 85 according to a lab. As the name suggests, this beer has 1000 theoretical IBUs). It was pretty good, surprising amount of malt presence, and not as bitter as I was expecting. Now I'm just finishing Beer Geek Brunch Weasel (oatmeal coffee imperial stout, made with this coffee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_Luwak)). This is a damn good beer, and if I hadn't had a borderline religious experience with Kentucky Breakfast Stout over the weekend I'd probably be raving about this beer more.
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When's Boston Beer Society: The Sequel?
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good question, you going to the DT show in Worcester?
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good question, you going to the DT show in Worcester?
We need to get there early and knock a few down. Then meet up with the others at the irish bar. BTW axe, the purple haze was a very good summer drink. Very light with just the right touch of raspberry. Though, reading your post about the oatmeal stout peaked my intrest.
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Yeah, adding oats/oatmeal to the grain bill doesn't really add anything in the way of a flavor that I can notice, but it gives the beer a uniquely silky smooth mouthfeel. Samuel Smith's makes an oatmeal stout that's pretty damn good.
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I had a pretty disappointing oatmeal stout at a brewery called The Library in Laramie, WY the other day. It wasn't BAD, but eh. Tony's porter was better.
Went to three breweries in Fort Collins Friday.
New Belgium is like the BIG one around here; Fat Tire is on tap everywhere and most places have some of their other stuff, too. Tried their trippel, abbey and Mothership organic wheat. Surprisingly, I liked the wheat the best, followed by the abbey and then the trippel. All pretty good, but this was the most underwhelming of the breweries. This also goes for the general atmosphere, because the place is too damn big and corporate. We were told by a tour guide (we didn't take a tour because you have to book about a month in advance) that we weren't supposed to be outside on the brewery grounds by ourselves (we were just walking around one side of the building in a parking lot).
Odell was next, where we tried Doug's Wild Rice Ale (yummy), Dortmunder (not bad), Snowriders Ale (I honestly don't remember much about this one so not incredible), Town Pump Pail Ale (not bad), Nitro IPA (pretty good, although I have suddenly developed an occasional intolerance for IPAs, which was kicking in), and last but not least Cutthroat Porter and Nitro Cutthroat Porter... this stuff is awesome! We could not figure out if we liked the nitro or regular version better, but we got pints of both after sampling.
Last was Ft. Collins brewery, which was our favorite. Sampled Major Tom's Pomegranate Wheat (also surprisingly good for a wheat, and the pomegranate flavor was subtle but there), 1900 Amber (don't remember much about this one, was a bit tipsy), Retro Red (I liked this one, interesting), Rocky Mountain IPA (eh, nothing special), Z Lager (yummy), chocolate stout (not the best chocolate stout I've had, but yummy), Colorado Common Steam Beer (very good) and Kidd Lager, which was awesome (I even bought a shirt).
It was all kind of a blur and I don't remember enough to go into more detail about any of them but a lot of fun and some great beers and breweries :D
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so last night was a Pretty Things night... First I had my last bomber of Fluffy White Rabbits, a hoppy tripel that was their spring seasonal this year. It was damn tasty, just like a traditional Belgian tripel and then it finished with a burst of citrus hop flavor. I followed that with Field Mouse's Farewell, a late spring/early summer seasonal. This beer's a bit hard to classify style wise, but the grain bill includes barley, oats, wheat, and rye. I was a little apprehensive because I'm not a fan of beers with big rye flavor, but the rye played a supporting role in this one and it worked out well.
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Last night before the Rush Doc we wnt to the Grill Next Door in Haverhill Ma.
https://www.thegrillnextdoor.net/
I had the Dupont Saison. It had a very nice peppery taste to it then I finnished off a Berkshire Coffeehouse Porter Nitro. What a way to finish the meal.
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ya know it's funny... I love saisons and even made my first homebrew a saison, and Saison Dupont really is considered *the saison*, the benchmark against which all others in the style are measured, and I've never had it :lol
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ya know it's funny... I love saisons and even made my first homebrew a saison, and Saison Dupont really is considered *the saison*, the benchmark against which all others in the style are measured, and I've never had it :lol
I'm shocked you never had it!!!!!
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Tonight I got a sixer each of Harpoon IPA and Sweet Water 420 Pale Ale. Apparently New Belgium's Ranger IPA has thoroughly ruined me on ales for the time being since nothing I've tried alewise has been even close to it in terms of flavor/quality/nuance/mouthfeel.
The Sweet Water 420 tasted more reminiscent of a Belgian blond mixed with the nearly-savory richness I notice in quality porters but without the actual fullness of a porter(good thing since it's a pale ale :P ) As for Harpoon IPA, I'd say I like it a little better than the 420 but still nothing that causes crimson to race to my man-vessel. It has a distant piny-ness that is one of my absolute favorite flavor notes that I find in beer especially since my alltime fave, Redhook's Winterhook, is dripping with it. All in all, pretty good but not something I'd pass over Guinness or any of my other supermarket staples for.
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ya know it's funny... I love saisons and even made my first homebrew a saison, and Saison Dupont really is considered *the saison*, the benchmark against which all others in the style are measured, and I've never had it :lol
I'm shocked you never had it!!!!!
me too, the problem is that I've literally never seen it on tap, and I only see the big bottles of it and not the 12 oz version, and it only comes in green glass bottles. Basically brown > green > clear when it comes to bottles preventing beer from skunking (seriously, the whole put a lime in a Corona thing was started by the brewer because the lime helped mask the taste of skunked beer), and even though I'm probably exaggerating the risk, I just haven't felt like dropping the cash on a huge bottle of beer that might well be no good :lol
tonight me and a couple buddies each had a bottle of my homebrew (I'm alarmed that I'm hearing stuff like "citrusy" and "reminds me of Magic Hat" when that's not at all the style of beer I set out to make, nor is it in the flavor profile I've noticed thusfar :lol We then split a bottle of Brooklyn's Sorachi Ace, which I think I've touched on before, but this year's bottled version doesn't quite live up the the first batch from last summer which was draft only because the bottles are bottle conditioned with champagne yeast, which leaves the beer with more carbonation that, to me, blunts some of the flavors trying to come true.
The only Sweet Water beer I've had is their Big Ol' Belgian Blue Balls, a big blueberry fruit beer, that was average at best. I hear good things about them though, and I still have a bomber of their quad as well as a one liter bottle ( :eek) of their Happy Ending stout.
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epic mail day today, received ingredients for my second brew (something between an IPA and an imperial IPA) and a Russian River care package from the west coast (4x Pliny the Elder, Consecration, big bottle of Damnation). Can't wait to dive in after class tonight :D
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epic mail day today, received ingredients for my second brew (something between an IPA and an imperial IPA) and a Russian River care package from the west coast (4x Pliny the Elder, Consecration, big bottle of Damnation). Can't wait to dive in after class tonight :D
Is it less heavy than that brewery's other brews?
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it's not super light (7.75% ABV) in terms of alcohol, but it's probably their most accessible brew if I had to guess (though I've never had it), since it's a straightforward Belgian Strong Golden Ale, and pretty much everything else they make is either really hoppy or sour :lol
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Well Axe, I stoped at a little srore on the way home for a few beers for tonights game. I'm going over my friends house again who has the movie theater we watch it on and the was a beer tasting going on for Allagash :)
I was very happy but I realy had a smile on my face when I tried there Curieux!! It's a Tripel Ale aged in Jim Beam barrels for 8 weeks. It was unbelievable!! Then I tried there Allagash Black. It's a Belguim Stout!! What did I say!?? It was so damn unique. I loved it.
So I went on to try 4 more beers. It added up to 10 oz(almost a free beer ;D) and I bougth there Tripel Reserve for tonight. But wait!! I found a new beer I have never tried!! Widmer Brothers(Red Hook) made a Prickly Pear Braggot!! So yea, I'm all win tonight(Celtics you better make my post come true)!
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Allagash is hit and miss with me... Allagash White is pretty much the American interpretation of a Belgian Wit (and damn good), and I thought Allagash Four was a phenomenal quad. I wasn't as big of a fan of the Black, I think I remember it being a little chalky for my taste, and I thought their Dubbel paled in comparison to the Ommegang take on the style I had had a few days prior. The Curieux does intrigue me, but I haven't had a chance to try it yet, and my other problem with them is that most of their big bottles are $16+ which is a little pricey for my budget :lol
I started tonight with a Festina Peche as I relaxed for a few minutes after class and cooked dinner. Then it was time for my first Pliny the Elder in far too long. I'll defer to my Beer Advocate review to sum it up...
Glad to crack a beer of this caliber for my 50th review, and cheers to psiweaver for the May 12th 2010 bottle. The beer pours a burnt orange in my Duvel tulip, with a frothy, 3 finger off white head quickly forming and lingering. The lacing is decent, but just a bit short of earning a 5 for appearance. A pungent hop aroma is present even as I pour, and grapefruit, pineapple, and bitter orange peels are appreciable. Each sip leads off with the briefest of flashes of bready and caramel malt sweetness, before a shotgun blast of hop bitterness asserts itself. This fades into a more citrus hop flavor, largely pineapple and grapefruit. If the hop bitterness vs flavor balance was tipped a little bit more towards flavor Pliny would get a 5, but it's not quite there. Carbonation is high, but to good effect as it helps highlight all the juicy hop goodness, and I'm surprised at how creamy the mouthfeel is given the relative lack of malt presence. I wouldn't expect to notice much alcohol at 8%, but I don't find any at all as I sip on Pliny, and it's so damn tasty that it's a struggle to stop and savor this despite the bitterness. Truly world class, and the template against which all DIPAs should be measured.
Just draining my glass of the last of it now, and there's a Brooklyn BCS and some ice cream in my imminent future.
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Don't you just love the citrus smell of effervescence!! bTW I am buzzed tonight those 2 bottles killed me. Damn. ;D
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had a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale that went well with my dinner out at a bar tonight, and now I have been nursing (and will continue to for a while) Sweetwater's Dank Tank BSP Quad, which is quite tasty.
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had a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale that went well with my dinner out at a bar tonight, and now I have been nursing (and will continue to for a while) Sweetwater's Dank Tank BSP Quad, which is quite tasty.
I wasn't blown away by it when I first tried it some eight years ago but like an indie band bound for top40 limelight it has worked its way into my alltime top 20 with a vengence over the last few years.
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funny enough, this was only my second time having it. It's definitely tasty, and it was awesome with my chicken tenderloins in a spicy white wine and garlic sauce, but I didn't really get a chance to focus on the beer as I was with my family in a noisy restaurant.
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I haven't had a chance to read the second coming of this beer thread but I will now, while enjoying my Newcastle.
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so yesterday was my sister's graduation party and I proceeded to mow through all or part of four bottles of homebrew, a Pliny the Elder, aSouthern Tier 2xIPA (very tasty), and Sierra Nevada Kellerweis Hefeweizen (not bad, but I'm gonna have to give this one another show). Good times all in all :hat Not sure what I'm gonna crack tonight, and then tomorrow starts Boston Beer Week for me :caffeine:
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so yesterday was my sister's graduation party and I proceeded to mow through all or part of four bottles of homebrew, a Pliny the Elder, aSouthern Tier 2xIPA (very tasty), and Sierra Nevada Kellerweis Hefeweizen (not bad, but I'm gonna have to give this one another show). Good times all in all :hat Not sure what I'm gonna crack tonight, and then tomorrow starts Boston Beer Week for me :caffeine:
Dude, do you sell weed to afford your beer escapades?! :laugh:
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:lol no I just don't have much else that I spend money on. I cracked a Kellerweis when I got home from my group meeting, which was a very solid hefe but just a little too highly carbonated for my taste. I think a Yuengling is next.
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Yuengling was skunked, moved on to a Brooklyn Lager. It's always interesting to come back and drink a beer I've had casually a bunch and really focus on it and force myself to review it.
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Yuengling was skunked, moved on to a Brooklyn Lager. It's always interesting to come back and drink a beer I've had casually a bunch and really focus on it and force myself to review it.
After a few trial runs I feel qualified to tell you it ain't skunked, that's how it actually tastes...like the wringings from a saturated gym sock...nothing more nothing less.
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heh idk, it's in a green bottle which has me wary to begin with and then it was outside in the sun for a few hours this morning. I'll give it the benefit of the doubt this time.
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heh idk, it's in a green bottle which has me wary to begin with and then it was outside in the sun for a few hours this morning. I'll give it the benefit of the doubt this time.
Alky beware. I woke up vomitting shrimp (https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=9978.msg344071#msg344071) into my lap last time I drank it.
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:lol yeah I took about a sip and drain poured it. Brooklyn Lager has been vanquished and now on to a Southern Tier 2xIPA
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so here's the list for the rare beer tasting tonight at 7 I'll be going to. If you'll excuse me I need to go fap
2003 120 minute ipa
04 old guardian
05 old gaurdian
06 old gaurdian
rogue imperial pilsner 2007?
allagash victoria 2007?
fantome black ghost 2007
2001 aventinus
unibroue 2004
unibroue 2005
unibroue 11
2007 raison d'Xtra
2007 burton baton
08 zinnibir xmas
dfh forte
allagash four 2008?
06 ruination
05/05/05 stone vertical
06/06/06 stone vertical
alesmith holidale 07?
04 stone RIS
dfh malt liqour!
russian river consecration
1996 rogue russian imperial stout
1988 lees harvest ale
1994 thomas hardys
1996 harveys elizabethan ale
1996 synebrychof porter
1999 a le coq RIS
2000 a le coq RIS
1997 jw lees
1999 jw lees
1994 rogue old crusty
1997 gales prize old ale
1999 gales prize old ale
1999 fullers vinatge
01-02 brooklyn black chocolate
05-06 brooklyn black chocolate
various westy 8- years unknown
various westy 12- years unknown
victory v-12 2005
2007 peche mortel (first batch in US)
2008 mikkeler beer geek breakfast
dfh festina lente
cantillon iris 06
cantillon vigneronne 07
de ranke pere noel 06
stone 11th anni
2001 fullsail barleywine
drie fontienen- various vintages
2006 goose island matilda
2003 anchor christmas
southhampton imperial porter 2007
cisco baggywrinkle barleywine 07
2006 rogue RIS
2006 jopen koyt
dfh pangea 07
oud beersel- various
dfh golden shower 07?
2007 mikkeller santas little helper
dfh olde skool 07/08/09
06 duchesse
06 flemish primitive
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I don't drink, but my Dad does, and he just brought home some Blue Moon and is cumming all over the place talking about how it's the best beer he's ever had in his life.
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well then you should tell him to pick up some Allagash White, and be sure to have him cover the furniture in plastic before he does
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OMG, some rare vintage, ages beers!!!!! :metal I expect a report by tommorow soldier!
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Posting from Lord Hobo where I've just been poured a *gorgeous* .5L Weihenstephaner Hefeweiss to refresh me after the long trip here. I've got fries incoming to get some food in my stomach, and we're at T - minus 30 minutes until the epic starts :hat
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so tonight's tasting went like this for me (in order)
Stone 05 VE
Dogfish Head 05 Olde School
Brooklyn Black Ops (I believe 07-08, it was in the 2 ring bottle that got discontinued shortly after Local 1's launch)
Dogfish Head 07 Burton Baton
01-02 Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
05-06 Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
2008 Allagash Four
2007 Allagash Victoria
Stone 06 VE
2003 Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA
Cantillon 2007 Iris
Cantillon 2004 Grand Cru
Stone 2004 Old Guardian
Schneider 2001 Aventinus
Lees 1988 Harvest Ale
Westvleteren 8
99 Fuller's Vintage
Gueze Boon
Westvleteren 12
Portsmouth Kate the Great 2009
the word of the night is "oxidation", the wet cardboard taste you get in many vintage beers due to excess exposure to air. This taste can work either for (Westvleteren 8, '88 Harvest) or against (all 3 Brooklyn beers, disappointingly enough) a beer. It's the reason some brewers coat the top of each bottle of a beer intended for cellaring with wax, and why some people with serious cellars coat all their beers in wax. Tonight I learned that I love vintage barleywines, the powerful hop bitterness and alcohol heat fades and you're left with a gooey, complex, caramel malty treat.
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Hey Bill, how do you mail your beer? The last time Tony sent me some MH through UPS it came through without an issue but this time he got it back because of the contents... which I'm guessing required an x-ray to find because it was packaged really well, so not sure if there's a way around that besides finding a place that doesn't x-ray. I want my fuckin' 9 :censored :censored
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I've always sent it UPS and haven't had any issues in ~16 trades. I usually wrap each bottle 2-3 times around with bubble wrap (big bombers I wrap top/bottom halves separately), and then just use packing peanuts. I also set up a free account on UPS's website so I can generate the shipping label on my own (and low-ball the weight to save a few bucks :lol) and I literally just walk in a UPS store, drop the box on the counter, and go. If Tony's had a package sent back because they saw it was beer, I'd maybe recommend he either start using a different UPS location or FedEx because he might be red-flagged a little bit. Just as long as he doesn't use USPS (shipping beer is against the terms of service for UPS/FedEx, but technically it's a felony if done via USPS, even if they usually don't make a big deal about it).
on the other hand, there's probably enough good beer floating around Colorado that he doesn't need to send you any #9 in the first place :P
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DON'T JUDGE ME! I just need it once in a while :P
(did just buy an interesting Tommyknocker variety pack that I can't wait to try)
Anyway thanks, I will definitely pass on that info. I don't think the way he sent it was much different (except he didn't print his own label) so I dunno, do you think they randomly x-ray or just certain places do it more? (go figure, the first time he sent it from Bayonne and it was fine, this time it was Medford :lol)
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I think it was definitely more just bad luck than anything, if UPS interference was at all common then I don't think there'd be such a vibrant beer trading community :lol I'd say for him to definitely start printing his own labels (cuts down on interaction with UPS staff and no reason to make them suspicious, and maybe avoid the store that was used the time he got nabbed
started tonight with one of my homebrews, plan on hitting a Schneider-Brooklyner Hopfen Weiss next and then closing with a Uinta Anniversary Barley Wine that I received as an extra in a trade a while back. Lots of tasty beer for me tomorrow too while I make my second homebrew
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True. I will pass it on.
PS- WHERE IS MY HOMEBREW? :P
Oh, and Tommyknocker Butthead is very sweet. Don't think I could drink more than one...
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heh, between my dissatisfaction with how the first batch turned out and my current lack of funds I don't see a package destined for Colorado leaving my apartment any time soon :P
Brewed batch two this afternoon (IPA) and enjoyed one of my homebrews, along with an Ommegang Abbey Ale and a Pliny the Elder. After a brief respite and some dinner I plan on cracking the big bottle of Russian River Damnation currently living in my fridge
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I had the Ommegang Abbey Ale sunday night :tup I'm stoping for a few bottles for game 7 tommorow.
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it really is phenomenal, spicy and a hint of dark fruits, possibly the best American made dubbel I've ever had.
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My head was spinning after drinking that and the Rare Vos.
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Rare Vos is quite good as well from what I remember, but it's been almost a year since I've had some. Hennepin is also a frontrunner within its style (saison), but Ommegang Witte (while good) is overshadowed by the superior Allagash White. I also had a glass of Ommegang BPA (new Belgian Pale Ale that got a limited release and is in consideration for inclusion in their year round lineup) that was quite good.
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moved on to the Uinta Anniversary barley wine that I didn't make it to the other night. Total malt bomb, but damn tasty (caramel covered fruit).
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Btw Bill, do you have a scale you use for shipping?
And all of those sound wonderful. I had a couple of Boulder beers today (Hazed and Infused and Mojo, both yummy and hoppy). I asked a guy for directions home tonight from the light rail (just moved into a new place and confused) and ended up walking with him because we're sort of neighbors and he paid for my six pack of Monty Python's Holy Ail or Grail Ail or whatever you call it. Not sure if it will be any good but I had to get it... and it ended up being free. That guy rocks.
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I just bought some Blue Moon Honey Summer Ale last weekend..and its just mediocre..nothing special, would not recommend
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I just bought some Blue Moon Honey Summer Ale last weekend..and its just mediocre..nothing special, would not recommend
I agree. Their standard offering(Belgian White) is a bit better than any of their seasonal offerings as far as I'm concerned. Rising Moon(a spring ale{whatever the fuck that really means anyway}) is one of the five-at-most beers I've ever bought that weren't produced for the "megabrew" crowd (Bud, Coors, Miller, Natty, Steel Reserve, etc.) that I actually had trouble finishing. By the third one I was so hesitant to fight the good fight that it warmed completely and I had to pour it down the drain and I usually am man(i.e. alky) enough to finish even the crappiest of beers as long as they're even a nano-degree north of room temperature.
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When Blue Moon first came out, their beers had character. Now they all taste the same.
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When Blue Moon first came out, their beers had character. Now they all taste the same.
My guess(not that I've thought this through all that much) is that they probably use a similar array of hops/barley in most of their brews and just change out a couple things from beer to beer much in the way I've suspected Saranac of doing with their lagers and other lighter-colored selections. Saranac's darker brews on the other hand have been pretty okay in my book especially the Pale Pale Ale(yes two "pales" :lol) and the Maple Porter.
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When Blue Moon first came out, their beers had character. Now they all taste the same.
My guess(not that I've thought this through all that much) is that they probably use a similar array of hops/barley in most of their brews and just change out a couple things from beer to beer much in the way I've suspected Saranac of doing with their lagers and other lighter-colored selections. Saranac's darker brews on the other hand have been pretty okay in my book especially the Pale Pale Ale(yes two "pales" :lol) and the Maple Porter.
Saranac is a great example. I find Sam Adams in that same boat.
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When Blue Moon first came out, their beers had character. Now they all taste the same.
My guess(not that I've thought this through all that much) is that they probably use a similar array of hops/barley in most of their brews and just change out a couple things from beer to beer much in the way I've suspected Saranac of doing with their lagers and other lighter-colored selections. Saranac's darker brews on the other hand have been pretty okay in my book especially the Pale Pale Ale(yes two "pales" :lol) and the Maple Porter.
Saranac is a great example. I find Sam Adams in that same boat.
Very true. The only Sam Adams I have been bowled over by have been Octoberfest, Cherry Wheat, and Black Lager. The Octoberfest was easily in my alltime top 5 when I first had it in '03 but my lord have the year-to-year inconsistencies sucked the life out of that one over time. The Black Lager though was fantastic when I first tried it while watching Score the day of its release...ahhh meh-muh-reeeez :)
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I just bought some Blue Moon Honey Summer Ale last weekend..and its just mediocre..nothing special, would not recommend
I agree. Their standard offering(Belgian White) is a bit better than any of their seasonal offerings as far as I'm concerned. Rising Moon(a spring ale{whatever the fuck that really means anyway}) is one of the five-at-most beers I've ever bought that weren't produced for the "megabrew" crowd (Bud, Coors, Miller, Natty, Steel Reserve, etc.) that I actually had trouble finishing. By the third one I was so hesitant to fight the good fight that it warmed completely and I had to pour it down the drain and I usually am man(i.e. alky) enough to finish even the crappiest of beers as long as they're even a nano-degree north of room temperature.
I agree 100%!!!
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When the Honey Porter from Sam adams first came out it was dark, robust and it tickled the taste buds. Years later they brought it back in a mixed 12 pack, I took a sip and it didn't even taste like a porter!!
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I had a sixer of the honey porter back in the fall and was extremely underwhelmed.
So today was the first of three epic beer days... I was on a pub crawl all afternoon with the founder/brewer of Pretty Things, the brewmaster from New Belgium out in CO, and some other cool people. I tried to limit myself to one beer per stop to pace myself and ended up having
Pretty Things Saint Botolph's Town (cask ale)- Spicy, tasty brown ale that is one of the few beers I've had that works for me on cask. Only problem was the bar (in downtown Boston) charging $10 a glass :tdwn
Duvel Green- The tap version of Duvel, this one seemed a little bit watered down/lacking in flavor compared to what I'm used to from a Duvel.
Pretty Things Field Mouse's Farewell- Split a bottle with two other people. This really is a superbly crafter beer, excellent balance in flavor between the rye, wheat, and hops.
Mayflower Summer Rye- Spicy, tasty, and at 3.8% ABV ridiculously drinkable.
Saint Botolph's Town- Last stop of the tour proper (celebrating Saint Botolph's Day), so I felt it was only appropriate to close with it. We then proceeded to join the American Craft Beer Fest a block down, where I indulged in...
Stone/Victory/Dogfish Head Saison du BUFF- Not a bad beer, but the board just said "Stone Saison", so I was expecting more of a traditional saison and wasn't in the mood for the sage/rosemary that heavily spice this beer.
Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout- If it wasn't for all the other people in the bar, I would have done immoral things to this beer. Just as magical as it was on tap a few weeks ago
Allagash Curieux- You called it king, phenomenal beer. Very tasty, and the bourbon barrel influence was magnificently understated.
Pretty Things Baby Tree- I :heart quads, so rich and malty and complex. The fact that this one is brewed with plums certainly doesn't hurt either.
Tomorrow I report in a 2pm to help set up for the Friday night session of the festival, I'll be reporting in early tomorrow with the list of beers I'll be targeting
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That Allagash Curieux was just the right touch of flavor. It was one of those "wow" moments sipping it. And thanks for the visual of you with the Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout. All I can picture is you in a corner of the bar googling the beer. :D
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too lazy to list all the beers I was interested in, but highlights from last night include
Allagash Victor, a beer brewed with some red grapes and wine yeast, the vinous character gave the beer a hint of acidity that was pretty cool
Sam Adams Kosmic Mother Funk - Straight gueze style sour that shows SA can still make a hell of a beer when they want. I'll be going back tomorrow for more since this is the only chance I'll get to have it
Brewery Ommegang Ommegeddon - Wild Ale that was tasty, heavier on the funk than the sourness
Cambridge Brewing Company The Colonel - Wild, barrel aged porter, which seems like a really weird combination, but was *delicious*
about to head out for back to back volunteering at both sessions :metal
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You can't beat Newcastle Brown for a macro IMO. It's more refreshing than water. But I hope to soon have money for micros again.
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Bill, I desperately need a list of as many of your favorite beers as possible since I'm heading to a beer emporium to stock up. Here are some requests:
-pale ales
-saisons(never had one and based on your constant smileing over them I'm more than intrigued)
-smoked beer if you've had any
-gueuze(really wanna try out)
-IPA
-trippels(never had yet, curious to see if there are any with notes of plum or cherry[not like a lambic but as in a subtle hint])
-barley wines
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Bill, I desperately need a list of as many of your favorite beers as possible since I'm heading to a beer emporium to stock up. Here are some requests:
-pale ales
-saisons(never had one and based on your constant smileing over them I'm more than intrigued)
-smoked beer if you've had any
-gueuze(really wanna try out)
-IPA
-trippels(never had yet, curious to see if there are any with notes of plum or cherry[not like a lambic but as in a subtle hint])
-barley wines
I hope you've got some bills in that wallet BF for the heaven you will enter. You should check out the Beer Advocate web page. It's the best.
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Bill, I desperately need a list of as many of your favorite beers as possible since I'm heading to a beer emporium to stock up. Here are some requests:
-pale ales
-saisons(never had one and based on your constant smileing over them I'm more than intrigued)
-smoked beer if you've had any
-gueuze(really wanna try out)
-IPA
-trippels(never had yet, curious to see if there are any with notes of plum or cherry[not like a lambic but as in a subtle hint])
-barley wines
I hope you've got some bills in that wallet BF for the heaven you will enter. You should check out the Beer Advocate web page. It's the best.
Thanks KSM. Well ya know I'd prefer to call you "shmeg" since it's a pain to fully type your name and I'd mean it more as a playful jest and not at all as a jab. I say this because "King" and "land" are both very run of the mill words by themselves but we all know you're the lone person on this forum with some shmeg in you. So for the record what is your preferred abbreviation?
Btw, I just cracked open a Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA and it's the closest any beer I've tried this year has come to New Belgium's Ranger IPA in terms of overall taste and quality. Very nice.
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You can do any. It doesn't bother me! :laugh: It a reference to Rush when they recorded Power Windows so the meaning isn't what people think! ;D
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You can do any. It doesn't bother me! :laugh: It a reference to Rush when they recorded Power Windows so the meaning isn't what people think! ;D
Yeah, I remember you saying it was an impromptu alias conjured by Alex, yes?
Oh, cool. I just realized I surpassed you in ePenor size via higher postcount :lol
*races to see who's next*
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It's not the size of your post count, It's how you use it! Oh wait that's for........
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It's not the size of your post count, It's how you use it! Oh wait that's for........
The art of Bansai :neverusethis:
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It's not the size of your post count, It's how you use it! Oh wait that's for........
The art of Bansai :neverusethis:
I'm married, I don't have to manscape anymore, :laugh: but it does immigrate north.
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Just went to Total Wine(Fantastic store btw :metal ) and got these:
Sam Adams:
Imperial White(Not bad but like their Double Bock did a poor job of integrating the high alcohol content gracefully...chemically harsh but acceptable)
Imperial Stout(Tasty firm and thick{insert innuendo here}...I enjoyed it a fair bit as it was very malty and smoother than Velvet Jones)
Highland:
St. Terese's Pale Ale
Black Mocha Stout
Flying Dog:
Double Dog Double Pale Ale
Kerberos Tripel
Horn Dog Barley Wine
Red Hook:
these two are limited releases
8-4-1 Expedition Brown Ale
Tripel
All single entries from this point forward
New Belgium 1554 Enlightened Black Ale
Young's Luxury Double Chocolate Stout
Dogfish Head 90 Minute Imperial IPA
Fort Collins Chocolate Stout
Unibroue Don De Dieu Triple Wheat Ale
Thomas Creek Orange Blossom Pilsner(Diamond in the rough; the cartoony label had me fearing "gimmick" but it was upliftingly fruity with definite citrus and the honey-although subtle-was as good a role player as Derek Fisher)
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Bill, I desperately need a list of as many of your favorite beers as possible since I'm heading to a beer emporium to stock up. Here are some requests:
-pale ales
-saisons(never had one and based on your constant smileing over them I'm more than intrigued)
-smoked beer if you've had any
-gueuze(really wanna try out)
-IPA
-trippels(never had yet, curious to see if there are any with notes of plum or cherry[not like a lambic but as in a subtle hint])
-barley wines
seriously, king nailed it when he said to check out beer advocate. On the left side you'll see a link that says "beer styles", and from there choosing any style will let you see the most often reviewed beers of that style and, if you follow a link on that page, the best reviewed beers of that style. It'll be hard for me to make a ton of recommendations since I'm not sure where you're living and even if I did, I probably won't have a great idea of what's distributed in your area. That said...
Pale Ale: I'm going to assume you mean american pale ale (in the style of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale). I haven't had many, but Southern Tier's Pale is good (though potent enough both in ABV and hop flavor to be a full fledged IPA imo) and I had my first Dale's Pale Ale from Oskar Blues tonight and enjoyed it.
Saison: Saison Dupont is the beer that defines the saison style, it is to saison what Master of Puppets is to 80s thrash. It's bottled in green glass bottles though, so make sure if you buy it you do so from a place that cares about beer, because those color bottles skunk much easier than the traditional brown ones. Ommegang Hennepin is also a classic, from one of the best Belgian style breweries in the country.
I've never really explored smoked beer, but Weyerbacher makes a winter seasonal called Fireside Ale that's a smoked beer and I thought wasn't bad.
Gueze is kind of hard to say, because most of the traditional brewers of gueze are small Belgian breweries that don't really make it into the country. Girardin and Cantillon are probably the best known producers, and Cantillon is very well respected on the BA forums.
IPA: I'm going to assume you mean American IPAs, and probably lump a few double IPAs in there two. First of all, Russian River IPAs = God, Pliny the Elder and Blind Pig are the shit. Smuttynose makes a regular IPA (says "FinestKind" on the bottle) and the Big A Double IPA, and they're both solid beers. Ballast Point's Sculpin is pretty good too. Sierra Nevada makes Torpedo, which they describe as an "extra IPA", somewhere between an IPA and a double, and is pretty good. One general difference within the style is that west coast brewers tend to have more hop dominated beers (Russian River, Stone IPA/Ruination) while east coast brewers tend to have a bit more balance with the malt (Dogfish Head 60 minute IPA)
Tripels can be good, but I doubt you'd find much in the way of plum or cherry in them as they use mostly pale malt and candi sugar, while dubbels and quads tend to be darker and correspondingly have more of a dark fruit flavor. Chimay White is a tripel and pretty good from what I remember, and Allagash makes a tripel as well (though I haven't had it, but they're generally regarded as one of the top producers of Belgian style ales in the country.
Barleywines generally fall into two categories, American and English. American styles are super hoppy and bitter (think a total hop bomb double IPA with comparatively focus on hop bitterness than hop flavor and more of a malt backbone) and Sierra Nevada Bigfoot, Stone Old Guardian, Dogfish Head Olde School and Rogue Old Crustacean are probably the most well known/widely distributed versions of the style. English style Barleywines still have a good amount of hops, but that's only to balance out the *huge* malt presence. These aren't as common here, but Brooklyn's Monster Ale and Anchor's Old Foghorn are both English barleywines, as is Weyerbacher's Blithering Idiot (though I prefer the barrel aged version of this one, Insanity). In general I can enjoy American Barleywines fresh (I like fresh Old Guardian, but Olde School is too boozy for me when it's young), but I think they're really something special with a few years of age on them when the hops fade and the malt flavors meld together and come forward. I had a 5 year old Olde School Monday night that just about made me cream in my shorts.
Also, American Craft Beer Fest was *epic*, as was all of Boston Beer Week. I was so fried when I got home last night that I started typing this reply last night and then got up mid sentence and went to bed :lol I'll give an ACBF recap tomorrow
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Thanks for all the feedback Billiam. I'm really stoked about my haul from today and I'll be sure to return to the store later this week to put your suggestions to good use.
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had a rare treat tonight (late this afternoon) when me and a buddy I made at the American Craft Beer Fest found out that a bar near my apartment was going to have Aventinus Eisbock on tap. Aventinus is a wheat bock, and it's delicious (and probably readily available at many good beer stores). Aventinus Eisbock is a freeze-distilled, concentrated version of it (8.2% jumps to 12% ABV), and as one might expect, is just concentrated tastiness. It can be difficult to find in bottles, and I've *never* heard of it being on tap before (for example, the beer has 740 reviews on Beer Advocate where the serving type was bottle and only 20 tap reviews), so despite the group meeting I had to go to for school later that night we had to hit up Publick House to grab a glass. It made me weak in the knees, so god damn sweet and malty and drinkable for 12%. Now I'm home and I just had a Hennepin and I'm contemplating what to have as a nightcap.
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I realize that fruity wheat beers aren't most people here cup of tea, but I just needed to update everyone on the kiwi-strawberry beer I started at the beginning of this thread. It's fucking unbelievable. I would be more than willing to share the recipe to any other homebrewers.
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update/recipe plz. I planned on trying to do a strawberry hefeweizen for next summer
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update/recipe plz. I planned on trying to do a strawberry hefeweizen for next summer
I'm thirsty and that sounds like a great beer to drink when it's hot out.
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yup, I'd try it this summer but I'm not doing any more brews in my apartment as my IPA currently fermenting is undoubtedly going to suffer from lack of temperature control, and when I get home in August I plan on brewing a barleywine and imperial stout to start aging for the winter
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You going to any Jets games this year. I always shock my friends with the beers I drink.
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nothing planned, I am and will continue to be a very poor individual for the next little while :lol (not poor in the real sense of the word, but not much in the way of extra money), I still haven't even been to the new Yankee Stadium. I can only hope either my uncle gets tickets through work and has one for me (he took me to a Jets-Patriots MNF game at the old Giants stadium in his company's luxury box a few years ago :hat), or I can convince my dad to splurge on tickets for us.
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Axeman - check your PM for the recipe I used.
It's still hella good.
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Axeman - check your PM for the recipe I used.
It's still hella good.
dreamtheatervt, are you going th the Palladium show? If so, you could meet up with axe and I for some tasty brews and then meet with the others at the irish bar.
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I planned on going to the meetup, so I'll see you two there.
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much obliged for the recipe. I'm not sure if I'll get to experiment with strawberries or not this summer, but I think I'm leaning more towards a strawberry hefe, always good to see how people are using fruit though.
last night I started with a Smuttynose Summer Weizen, which was a bit underwhelming, and then made up for it with my one bottle of Russian River Consecration. It's a dark, wild ale that had currants added to the barrels while it was aging, quite tasty. I cracked my one bottle of Kentucky Breakfast with breakfast this morning for the USA game, and it was good, but there was a bit of alcohol heat that I didn't find in the two draft pours I had.
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last night began with a 21st Amendment Brew Free or Die IPA which was a fairly good beer, but not at all the American IPA that it purports itself to be. Afterwards I cracked open a bomber of White Birch Tripel, and the taste was somewhat off but it was still a well crafted beer and just missed being great
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last night I started with a Smuttynose Summer Weizen, which was a bit underwhelming, and then made up for it with my one bottle of Russian River Consecration. It's a dark, wild ale that had currants added to the barrels while it was aging, quite tasty.
Oh god I loved that one. Almost bought a bottle recently but it's so expensive.
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I received it in a trade from the west coast, that and four Pliny the Elders. One of these days I'm gonna get my hands on some of their other wild ales
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I hit a bar yesterday afternoon for the World Cup game and had a Bear Republic Racer 5 IPA, Allagash Curieux, and Goose Island Bourbon County Stout. All were delicious, though the BCS arrived at the exact moment Ghana scored their goal in extra time, so it may be a while before I can bear to drink that one again :lol Later on last night I had one of my homebrew saisons and then my last bottle of Pliny the Elder
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My nephew is tung 21 this week and he wants me to take him to Sunset. Win for him and me!
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that's awesome :metal Looks like they have some good stuff on right now
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that's awesome :metal Looks like they have some good stuff on right now
We'll see how he likes it after I get him smashed. :laugh:
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:lol :lol well played
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So my friends and brother are teaching me more about alcohol and the most particularly awesome types. Old Peculiar remains my favourite beer, with Corona a quite distinct second. I'm drinking a concoction of 50% red wine, 50% port from my work (i'm a waiter), and it is tasteeee, thought admittedly not a beer, but there is no general alcohol appreciation thread.
I still cannot believe that the age is 21 for drinking in America, and that the federal government pushed it through to the resistant states by pretty much blackmail. What's up with that?
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it's pretty lame, but I would say a huge majority of Americans are drinking before 21.
king, not sure if you're going to Sunset like this week with newly-legal-nephew, but if you go there and they still have Pretty Things Field Mouse's Farewell one of you *must* order a glass. The grain bill is perfectly balanced between barley, rye, wheat, and oats, it really is a beautiful beer. Brooklyn Buzz Bomb is also pretty interesting, it's a braggot, meaning a large part (25%) of the fermentable sugars came from honey, and it's somewhat spiced. Very easy drinking beer for the summer, despite the 8%ABV
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it's pretty lame, but I would say a huge majority of Americans are drinking before 21.
king, not sure if you're going to Sunset like this week with newly-legal-nephew, but if you go there and they still have Pretty Things Field Mouse's Farewell one of you *must* order a glass. The grain bill is perfectly balanced between barley, rye, wheat, and oats, it really is a beautiful beer. Brooklyn Buzz Bomb is also pretty interesting, it's a braggot, meaning a large part (25%) of the fermentable sugars came from honey, and it's somewhat spiced. Very easy drinking beer for the summer, despite the 8%ABV
He's hard to pin down but we'll see. Thanks for the info. I hope he wants to go this weekend.
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BUMP
while I was home in between summer sessions I primarily spent my time on Duvel (it's a classic for a reason) and Weyerbacher's Merry Monks' Ale tripel (not bad, but a little harsh if served cold). I also had a bomber of Stone IPA the other night, very good and nice to have an IPA that's not a citrus bomb for once. I came back up to Boston earlier today and bottled homebrew batch 2, an IPA (honestly, I don't have high hopes for it, it fermented *way* too hot and will probably have a somewhat strong unpleasant alcohol taste, we'll see though), and I've had another Duvel and a homebrew so far. Maybe going to crack a Merry Monks', but definitely leaving room for a bomber of Imperial Stout Trooper tonight.
heading to Sunset for the World Cup semi final tomorrow afternoon. King, you make it there yet with your nephew?
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while I was home in between summer sessions I primarily spent my time on Duvel (it's a classic for a reason) and Weyerbacher's Merry Monks' Ale tripel (not bad, but a little harsh if served cold). I also had a bomber of Stone IPA the other night, very good and nice to have an IPA that's not a citrus bomb for once. I came back up to Boston earlier today and bottled homebrew batch 2, an IPA (honestly, I don't have high hopes for it, it fermented *way* too hot and will probably have a somewhat strong unpleasant alcohol taste, we'll see though), and I've had another Duvel and a homebrew so far. Maybe going to crack a Merry Monks', but definitely leaving room for a bomber of Imperial Stout Trooper tonight.
heading to Sunset for the World Cup semi final tomorrow afternoon. King, you make it there yet with your nephew?
No, we are going the last week of July. We are on vacation and he doesn't have to hang all night with the old fogies. :laugh:
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I headed over to Sunset for the World Cup semifinal today and had a Brooklyn Buzz Bomb (very drinkable for the summer, the large amount of honey results in a thin body), Pretty Things American Darling (crisp, flavorful craft answer to a macro lager), Southern Tier Back Burner Barleywine (solid barleywine, and a steal at $4.99 for a tulip glass full of it), and Allagash Victor (very unique, takes on a certain acidity from the use of grapes). Tonight I had a Great Divide Belgica Belgian IPA (a bit weakly flavored to be honest) and now a Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary Charlie, Fred, and Ken's Imperial Boch (very nice, spicy hop flavor and very clean)
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I think that Belgica stuff was the guest beer at my favorite Denver bar but I never tried it because I was in love with their tripel and they brought the silverback smoked porter back :metal
Hey Bill, ended up in your territory tonight. Drove by Holsten's by accident (took a wrong turn) to get to a bar in Montclair. Had my first Long Trail in ages (lt ale and double bag.,. oh goddammit typing properly is killingh me right now fuck this
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haha, what bar were you en route to?
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Just Jake's on Park.
Went there once to meet the Bottle King people and could not stay because it was obnoxiously packed so we went to see District 9 instead and I assumed I didn't like the place because of the crowd... this time we were supposed to meet friends who were doing trivia but my phone died and they were gone by the time we got there so we just stayed to have a beer... except they have a $10 credit minimum and it was $2 draft night :lol
It was cool because it was DEAD and it was a beautiful night so we just sat outside at a table with the two other people outside. The beer selection isn't great (besides the two Long Trails and the Victory that they were temporarily out of) but the outside is cool when it's not packed.
Weird clientele.
Fun story: I got hit on by a very drunk preppy dude at the bar who shook my hand for an uncomfortably long time and said "Hi, I'm Todd." He wanted to buy me a drink. I tried to explain to him that I needed to buy my own drink because there was a minimum, so he insisted on buying my NEXT drink. I told him I didn't want another because I was already drunk. He said if I changed my mind to let him know because "I think you're extremely beautiful and someone should buy you a drink and I want it to be me. I'm Todd."... followed by a second uncomfortably long hand shake. I thanked him and went on my way. On his way out, he came looking for me outside and asked if he could buy me breakfast (it was 1 AM), followed by "Your loss" when I said no :lol
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Any Shiner Bock appreciation?
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too lazy to type up recent drinking exploits (though myself and the shmeglands had a fairly epic afternoon of beer at Armsby Abbey before the DT show on Saturday). I had a bottle of Terrapin's Iron Tankard old stock ale tonight, fantastic. Gooey caramel and alcohol soaked dark fruits.
king, let me know what you think when you crack that bomber :metal
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I have been enjoying Modelo Especial ...
Its a nice Mexican beer.. its like a richer fuller Corona..
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I have been enjoying Modelo Especial ...
Its a nice Mexican beer.. its like a richer fuller Corona..
I went to New Jersey on Sunday to watch the world cup final and drink before the DT/IM show. Maloneys pub and grill in manarac,nj(some town like that). 26 beers on tap, I tried arrogant bastard (its normally 15 dollars for 6 pack in my town), quite delicious.
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too lazy to type up recent drinking exploits (though myself and the shmeglands had a fairly epic afternoon of beer at Armsby Abbey before the DT show on Saturday). I had a bottle of Terrapin's Iron Tankard old stock ale tonight, fantastic. Gooey caramel and alcohol soaked dark fruits.
king, let me know what you think when you crack that bomber :metal
I've wanted to save it for something worthy of it, but that just might be tuesday. ;D
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I finally trekked over to Sam Adams for the tour this afternoon. It wasn't bad, but I had to bite my tongue to not correct the tour guide once or twice :lol At the end we all went in the tasting room where we got 7oz tasting glasses and samples of Boston Lager, the Summer Ale, and then we voted between the Brick Red (draft only, and Boston area bars only and a sour weizen (probably will never see the light of day outside the brewery) and there were a ton of wussies afraid of the sour weizen. It was a good tour overall though, the guide kept things pretty fun, and we got to meet the brewer in all the Sam Adams commercials who's bald and has that crazy beard :D Afterwards, out in their beer garden they were pouring small samples of two prototypes, an American Rye Ale and a Belgian IPA, and asking us to vote on which we liked better, with the winner over the course of the whole summer getting distributed this winter (I voted for the IPA). I stopped at Sunset on the way home and had a glass of Laguinitas Old Gnarlywine (just meh, but I'm not complaining since they only charged me $3.99 for it :hat) I just polished off a homebrew and after dinner I'll be cracking a bomber of Smuttynose Imperial Stout
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I did that tour last summer when I visited Boston. We sampled boston lager, summer ale, and the brick red. The brick red was delicious, I'm hoping I'll start seeing those at package stores some time soon. The tour lady we had at the time seemed to know what she was talking about, where was yours incorrect? Now I'm curious because I took a lot from that tour
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just really minor stuff. The only one that immediately came to mind was saying that the Reinheitsgebot was enacted in 1516 and set forth barley, hops, water, and yeast as the only ingredients allowed in beer, when in 1516 it only made mention of barley, hops, and water because yeast hadn't been invented yet. I feel like there was one other that I can't remember right now.
Also, fuck the Reinheitsgebot :lol I won't get into a rant about it, but yeah.
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I was reminded tonight why I *never* usually order bottles in a bar. I was at a not particularly beer geek friendly bar with some buddies after class tonight and ordered a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. They were out of it on draft but had some in bottles, and since I was already in the mood for a SNPA and the rest of the tap list wasn't exactly inspiring I said sure... fucking $5 for a bottle of SNPA, a beer that sells for $9 a six pick in liquor stores. I can't sit down comfortably after paying that. I'm trying to make the pain go away with a bottle of Southampton Abbot 12, a quad. It's not a bad beer, but a well made quad is one of the best beers on the planet imo and this just doesn't quite measure up
Glad to hear you liked Field Mouse's Farewell king, it's one of my favorite beers that I've had this year. To me the remarkable thing is that the grain bill has barley, wheat, oats, and rye... normally a brewer might use one of those last three ingredients on it's own, or split the grain bill between one of them and barley, but Dann Paquette did a masterful job of incorporating all four into FMF. It really is a beautiful beer :hefdaddy
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I was reminded tonight why I *never* usually order bottles in a bar. I was at a not particularly beer geek friendly bar with some buddies after class tonight and ordered a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. They were out of it on draft but had some in bottles, and since I was already in the mood for a SNPA and the rest of the tap list wasn't exactly inspiring I said sure... fucking $5 for a bottle of SNPA, a beer that sells for $9 a six pick in liquor stores. I can't sit down comfortably after paying that. I'm trying to make the pain go away with a bottle of Southampton Abbot 12, a quad. It's not a bad beer, but a well made quad is one of the best beers on the planet imo and this just doesn't quite measure up
Glad to hear you liked Field Mouse's Farewell king, it's one of my favorite beers that I've had this year. To me the remarkable thing is that the grain bill has barley, wheat, oats, and rye... normally a brewer might use one of those last three ingredients on it's own, or split the grain bill between one of them and barley, but Dann Paquette did a masterful job of incorporating all four into FMF. It really is a beautiful beer :hefdaddy
In Worcester me and my buddy did a shot of grey goose at Irish Times. 15 dollars for 2 shots. You could almost buy a whole bottle for that.
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Shiner Bock is alright... not a huge fan.
I've tried some Northcoast Brewing recently (Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout, Brother Thelonius Abbey Ale and Pranqster). I was afraid to spend the little bit to try the BT, but I"m glad I did... it was amazing :tup
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Just got back from 2 weeks in Europe and tried a buncha commercial beers. Here's a running tally:
1664 (France)
Affligem (Belgium)
Carlsberg (Denmark)
Eichbaum (Germany)
Fuller's London Pride (UK)
Fuller's Chiswick Bitter (UK)
Jever (Germany)
Kronenbourg (France)
Maccabee (Israel)
Meteor (France)
Peroni (Italy)
Radeberger (Germany)
Sapporo (Japan)
Singha (Thailand)
Warsteiner (Germany)
I fell in love with Affligem, which unfortunately is not distributed in the US. Meteor is surprisingly good...who knew the French can make a good brew? Again, no US distribution for Meteor :sadpanda: And for some reason, Peroni seems hugely popular in the UK.
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Shiner Bock is alright... not a huge fan.
I've tried some Northcoast Brewing recently (Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout, Brother Thelonius Abbey Ale and Pranqster). I was afraid to spend the little bit to try the BT, but I"m glad I did... it was amazing :tup
I've only had their Old Rasputin, which is pretty good. I have a four pack of their Old Stock Ale sitting in my cellar door, I should crack one of those soon
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So I picked up a Black and Blue from Dogfish Head and 5 others from the Berkshire Brewery. It will be tipped when I see a friend and his family tommorow. It's been 20 years so I can't wait.
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probably already been posted 100 times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y39JehmZO4
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it hasn't, but I like it :lol Although, they're wrong about beer not tasting good when it's warm... real beer tastes just fine (sometimes better) warm, it's just shitty macro swill that tastes terrible (when beer's cold it numbs your tastebuds, so warm beer lets you actually taste what you're drinking).
Last night I had a bomber of Goose Island's Christmas Ale 2009, which was a bit of a miss for me. It was just way too spiced and it overwhelmed completely the base brown ale. Tonight was a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale with dinner (a classic, and it went great with my chicken tenderloins in a spicy garlic and white wine sauce :D) and now a Guinness because we have one or two laying around randomly. Sunday hopefully starts a week of awesome beer from breweries that don't distribute to the northeast, as I'll be on vacation in the Outer Banks :metal
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I'm firmly entrenched in the vacation home and beer awesomeness starts tonight. Last night I ran through a six pack of Bell's Oberon because they were closing by the time I got there, but tonight I went back and got two mix six packs of beers from Bell's, New Belgium, Flying Dog, and Duck Rabbit among others. They also have a deal there where any glassware is 1/2 off if you buy two mix sixers, so I got a new Chimay goblet for $3 :hat
First up will be Flying Dog's In-Heat Wheat in a few minutes.
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To celebrate my recent employment, I cracked open a Victory Golden Monkey I had shelved since October. Man, that was strong stuff!
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To celebrate my recent employment, I cracked open a Victory Golden Monkey I had shelved since October. Man, that was strong stuff!
That's on my "to try" list, love me a good tripel. I heard it was a bit on the spicy side, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
In-Heat Wheat was a major letdown, it was like a macro version of a hefe (watered down nose/flavor and an abrasive, fizzy carbonation). It's gotten the lowest score of the 71 beers I reviewed so far. Time to find something good to drink with dinner
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I've got to saill that the Pretty Things Field Mouse's Farewell was quite bold for a Golden Ale. A Bold flavor with a big kick that surprised both Lisa and I. we've never heard of this brand before and it just so happened that after we drank it I found 5 or 6 other beers from Pretty Things at my place in Haverhill. Thanks you again for the gift. We loved it.
I also got Dogfish Head's Black and Blue. I was suprised at how smooth it was. When a beer is at 10 ABV's, it has a blod flavor and a buzz occurs damn fast. This didn't have that strong alcohol flavor too it so it surprised me.
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Glad it made an impression, and surprised you found them up by you (I thought they only distributed to the greater Boston and NYC areas). I can highly recommend anything of theirs you find. I've had each of their beers at least once and they've all been at least great, Pretty Things might be my favorite brewery right now.
I also had a Duck Rabbit Amber Ale tonight (decent), followed by a Bell's Kalamazoo Stout (very tasty, especially with some coffee chip ice cream) and a little bit of the bottle of Chimay Blue my aunt commandeered from my stash. Overall a very good beer night :hat
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After trekking for 121km (75miles) me and my friends went to the pub, and I had 4 local ales. Best aftertaste ever, it must have been because it was so fresh or something, but it was truely amazing :hat
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To celebrate my recent employment, I cracked open a Victory Golden Monkey I had shelved since October. Man, that was strong stuff!
That's on my "to try" list, love me a good tripel. I heard it was a bit on the spicy side, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
It's not my favorite tripel... that crown goes to Westmalle Abbey Ale :hefdaddy
It's still great though, and certainly one of my favorites. It was even better after being shelved for 9 or 10 months.
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Anyone seen the movie Beer Wars? It's made by the woman who started Mike's Hard Lemonade and it chronicles the rise of craft breweries and how the larger companies are adapting/trying to shut them down. The Dogfish Head guy is in most of the movie too.
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yeah, I saw it. It's not a bad movie, but the funny thing is that it follows that woman trying to get Moonshot off the ground and Moonshot is a terrible, terrible beer.
I had a Bell's Pale Ale with lunch; it's a beer with something of an identity crisis as the front of the label says it's a pale ale but the back describes it as a blonde ale, but the taste ends up being somewhere in the middle. Pretty good though. The beer store down here has a free wine and beer tasting Tuesdays at 4:30, so I think I'm gonna catch that in a little bit
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Yeah the Moonshot lady had some bad marketing skills. There's probably a reason that was the first time I'd ever heard of that beer.
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I went on to have a Mother Ship Dark Cloud Dunkel on tap at the local beer store down here during a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate a change in ownership. After coming home I had a Flying Dog Snake Bite IPA and a New Belgium Ranger IPA, neither of which was overly impressive. I capped the night with a Terrapin Gamma Ray Wheatwine, which was delicious
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yesterday I started off with a bottle each of Bell's Pale Ale and Snake Dog IPA in the afternoon poolside. I cracked my bottle of Brother Thelonious while I hung out inside before dinner (it was quite good, pretty big for a dubbel). After dinner I had a bottle of Duck Rabbit's Milk Stout (not bad, but the bitter roasted coffee flavor was a bit much, it became a little bit astringent). I was relaxing in the hot tub before lunch today when me and my cousin decided "Fuck it, we're on vacation, why not have a beer". My aunt was going to grab them for us and I told her to bring me down whatever, figuring she would grab me one of the many Beck's or Coronas in the cooler. Well, she managed to bring down the very last of my beers, Flying Dog Double Pale Ale, an 11.5% double IPA :lol That was a lot of fun trying to drink at noon before I had lunch. Another beer store run was made tonight and I mixed two more six packs to last me through the rest of vacation. I love the deal this place offers, 50% off glassware with two mix six packs. So far this week I've gotten a Chimay goblet and a 16oz Allagash chalice for $6 total. Just finishing a Bell's Lager right now, tasty straightforward beer
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Nothing fancy for me right now. Just having a Smuttynose Summer Weizen. It's ok.
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Yeah, I didn't think much of that one myself. Not much going on there besides the distinct wheat sweetness (makes me think of vanilla every time) which is not enough to carry a beer, and it was a very forgettable beer
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Last beer I had was Long Trail coffee stout :D
Got some new ones to try at BK the other day but haven't cracked 'em yet.
Totally going to at least Magic Hat factory this weekend (Vermont trip to visit family and celebrate Tony's birthday) :D
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Okay, I just looked at a map and Long Trail is 45 minutes directly beneath my aunt's so we're defnitely stopping there on the way and at Otter Creek on the way back from Magic Hat :D :D
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so tonight I had a Duck Rabbit Brown Ale (excellent), New Belgium Mothership Wit (solid), Duck Rabbit Porter (very good), and New Holland Imperial Hatter Double IPA (less than great, way too much hop bitterness vs not enough hop flavor). Duck Rabbit's really impressed me the last month or so, I had a few of their big beers at the American Craft Beer Fest and they were all very good, and I've sampled all of their year round lineup in the last few days and that's been quality as well
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Okay, I just looked at a map and Long Trail is 45 minutes directly beneath my aunt's so we're defnitely stopping there on the way and at Otter Creek on the way back from Magic Hat :D :D
Don't forget Harpoon on RT 5 (I think) for some 100 barrel series and their Levithan series!
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Drinking a Moose Head Light. I saw a case of this at Publix! I didn't know they sold Moose Head in the south at least. I was very pleased and happy i bought this
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Okay, I just looked at a map and Long Trail is 45 minutes directly beneath my aunt's so we're defnitely stopping there on the way and at Otter Creek on the way back from Magic Hat :D :D
Don't forget Harpoon on RT 5 (I think) for some 100 barrel series and their Levithan series!
Nah, we didn't have time for any more breweries. Long Trail had amazing food, man. Best burger I've had in a looong time. Cabot cheddar :heart... there I only had the double IPA and the ale, both even yummier on tap of course (drink the ale regularly, tried the double IPA once last year).
We hit up Magic Hat yesterday and got to try a couple of new ones, the Encore (new winter IPA, I forget the combination here but I really enjoyed it) and the Hex (Ourtoberfest, interesting, different than an Octoberfest which is good for me because I'm generally not too crazy about them), plus the HI.P.A. (I've had this before, but it does not quite have the same flavor and cannabis smell [lol] when it's bottled) and the standard #9 (mmmm).
After that we went to Otter Creek/Wolaver's, where we tried pretty much everything they had. My favorites were the Wolaver's oatmeal stout, OC stovepipe porter, and OC black IPA (brand new and delicious) but they were all pretty good (just wasn't as crazy about the light ones). That is a great little brewery, tiny with friendly and knowledgable employees. They have these VT beer passports we picked up (of course the first two places did not have them, so now we need to go back to those plus all the others :p). A wonderful fun two days of beer. Oh yeah, also had some Trout River red. Now I need to go eat my maple cheddar :D
Ah, Vermont.
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I love eating at Longtrail, outside on the deck. I should post a pick of me there in the winter. They've got a little pit for fire to drink around. And the river right next to it. Love it all.
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I spent the weekend in Asheville, NC (home of Brewgrass Beer Festival) and encountered a couple of brews from Highland Brewing Company https://www.highlandbrewing.com/main.htm
I especially liked the Gaelic Ale and the Kashmir IPA. Mmmmmm...
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who neesd a bt ere whn oyou can have soutrnt comfor? Though honestly a i haed a beer or 4 in scotland that wer w a relaly good so i cant be one ato judgeyou beer poeple badly
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:rollin :rollin :rollin
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Oh man :lol :lol
I love eating at Longtrail, outside on the deck. I should post a pick of me there in the winter. They've got a little pit for fire to drink around. And the river right next to it. Love it all.
That's awesome; have to go there in the winter one of these years! Yeah, it's beautiful there.
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Heading to the Sea Dog Brewing Co. today mixed with a nice ride in Maine.
Edit: Too long. We're heading to Allagash!!
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who neesd a bt ere whn oyou can have soutrnt comfor? Though honestly a i haed a beer or 4 in scotland that wer w a relaly good so i cant be one ato judgeyou beer poeple badly
No matter how drunk I get I have never, ever had a problem typing. It takes me 5 times longer to type but dammit everything is spelled right.
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well, I've been lax in posting here the last few days...
The last day of vacation was a fairly epic beer day. Started off with an Allagash White with breakfast (awesome idea :D) and then throughout the day also had a Bell's Porter, Bell's Kalamazoo Stout, Terrapin Gamma Ray Wheatwine, Duck Rabbit Duck-Rabbitor Doppelbock and, after an interlude of Coors Light during drinking games with the family, cappped the vacation with my first Rochefort 10. All of them were solidly above average (except the Coors Light :neverusethis).
On the drive home Sunday I convinced the family to indulge me and detour to the Dogfish Head brewpub for lunch. Very cool place, and the food was pretty tasty (most of us had individual sized wood oven pizzas). I had a Festina Peche to start and then Namaste, currently a brewpub exclusive Wit that they brewed with lemongrass in addition to the standard orange peel and coriander. I *really* liked the Namaste, the lemon was a very welcom addition to the typical Wit. Picked up a shirt and a bomber of Wrath of Pecan (brewed for Extreme Beer Fest back in February, made with pecan wood smoked malt and plantains) which I have yet to dip into.
I had a Verboten Monday night, a Belgian Pale Ale from Weyerbacher that was alright, but a little muddled. Tuesday night I had an Omegang Three Philosophers Quad w/ Cherries... malty and delicious, toeing the line of being cloyingly sweet with actually ever crossing it.
Made it home for the weekend last night and cracked one of my remaining bottles of Bell's Batch 9000, a big imperial stout brewed with brewer's licorice. It's definitely better now with a few months of age on it, the licorice was a bit overwhelming fresh
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Argh too much berr tonight! Started out with a couple of pints of Staropramen (an amazing beer) as all drinks were half price before 8pm, but after that I moved onto the slightly cheaper option wich was Becks.
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Drunken mods FTW :lol
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until he goes on a drunk banning spree :lol
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*hides, cowering in fear*
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I started tonight with a Weyerbacher Merry Monks'... the more I drink this beer the more I realize that, while it's enjoyable, it's far from a world class tripel. I tried pairing it with my dinner of fettuccine carbonara, and though it had the heft and the carbonation to pull it off, the flavors didn't quite work together. I moved on to a bomber of Stone's 14th Anniversary Emperial (sic) IPA. They brewed an English style IPA, from the hop selection to the lack of crystal malts and the Burtonizing of the water, and then they ramped it up west coast double IPA style. It's definitely unique, and after a few sips I warmed up to it.
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:lol Last night was fun, and I'm mostly not hungover.
Do you get Staropramen in the US? It's a very nice lager!
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Well the beers were great last night at my friends party. I stared off with Allgash Odyssey barrel aged dark wheat beer at 10% ABV's it packed a punch and I loved an almost sweetness to it. Then we moved on to Allgash Black Belgian Stout. I was a little dissapointed with this one. It lacked character that I like in stouts. The last beer we had was a classic. Allgash Tripel. A fruity and spiced aromma(sp?) that doesn't dissapoint. What a great head on this beer. Now I have a cloudy Allgash head this morning. ;D
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I've never had the Odyssey, but their tripel is very good. I was also a bit let down by Black, if I remember correctly it had a certain chalkiness to it that I didn't care for. I also had their quad (Four) right after it, which definitely made it look bad by comparison :lol
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I think you'd like the Odyssey Bill. Right up your alley. They also hade a 2008 and 2009 version of it but I just couldn't pull the trigger on a $30 bottle.
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yeah, I probably would. All those Allagash bottles are so damn expensive though (even the non vintage ones) :lol I think I'll have to pick up a bottle of this year's Fluxus (they release it once a year, different beer every year) as it's a big imperial oatmeal stout that had cacao nibs added to it at the end of the boil
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Oh, they had that there plus the 2 years before and I cried because I didn't want to spend $90 on 3 bottles. Though, I did spent $32.
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Tuesday afternoon I went to Sunset with a buddy and had a Rock Art Sunny and 75 Saison (not bad, very dry though even for a saison), a Pretty Things Field Mouse's Farewell (man I still love this beer), and a Lost Abbey Angel's Share Bourbon Barrel (also pretty good, a little heavy on the booze though, which I suspect I should expect with a 12% beer). Was very sad to discover though that I missed out on the super rare Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout (similar to Kentucky Breakfast Stout, except aged in bourbon barrels that also held maple syrup). It's tap only and doesn't show up outside of the brewpub all that often, especially this far east. A wave of kegs must have come in and went on tap all around town this weekend, but they were all gone before I got any :(
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Aww, lame.
Never had that Rock Art but I enjoy their beers generally. I <3 Vermont.
I picked up this mid atlantic brewer's newspaper at BK and am really hoping to get some of this stuff soon (put in a special order at BK). I think it's an awesome idea for an amazing album:
https://www.dogfish.com/brews-spirits/the-brews/occassional-rarities/bitches-brew.htm
https://feature.legacyrecordings.com/milesdavisbrew/
And you can actually listen to the music on the website!
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Tuesday afternoon I went to Sunset with a buddy and had a Rock Art Sunny and 75 Saison (not bad, very dry though even for a saison), a Pretty Things Field Mouse's Farewell (man I still love this beer), and a Lost Abbey Angel's Share Bourbon Barrel (also pretty good, a little heavy on the booze though, which I suspect I should expect with a 12% beer). Was very sad to discover though that I missed out on the super rare Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout (similar to Kentucky Breakfast Stout, except aged in bourbon barrels that also held maple syrup). It's tap only and doesn't show up outside of the brewpub all that often, especially this far east. A wave of kegs must have come in and went on tap all around town this weekend, but they were all gone before I got any :(
Man does that sound good Bill. I would have loved to seen your review.
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Almost to the bottom of a bottle of Ommegang Abbey Dubbel. I think I found happiness there. :D
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that's a hell of a tasty beer, definitely the best american made dubbel around, though I'm not sure if it quite matches some of the trappist versions.
Last night me and some family mowed through a six pack of Sierra Nevada Kellerweis, great beer and what's not to love about a hefe in the summer :D Today was two each of Troegs Hopback Amber (solid) and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (fucking classic) whilst watching the Yankees game
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Yeah, lemony wheaty beers are great in the summer... had a Fransiskaner and a Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat with dinner out last night.
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The other day me and my family absolutely killed a sixer each of DFH 60 Minute (solid) and Harpoon UFO (a little watery/weak imo). Today is my big farewell to Boston beer day, gonna head up and do the Sam Adams tour again and then lunch at Deep Ellum (small, but very good beer bar with very good food) and then walk a few blocks over and camp out for the afternoon at Sunset :hat
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The other day me and my family absolutely killed a sixer each of DFH 60 Minute (solid) and Harpoon UFO (a little watery/weak imo). Today is my big farewell to Boston beer day, gonna head up and do the Sam Adams tour again and then lunch at Deep Ellum (small, but very good beer bar with very good food) and then walk a few blocks over and camp out for the afternoon at Sunset :hat
Go out in style at Sunset!! :metal
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indeed... Utopias shots all around :metal (not really though :lol)
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got to Sam Adams a little after noon today with a buddy of mine. We were able to jump in with a tour that had started like ten minutes prior (jackpot for us, less waiting/talking before we got free beer :lol). Tasting featured Boston Lager and Summer Ale (as usual) and the third specialty beer was Old Fezziweig, a beer usually only available in their winter mix pack that I've never had before and was pretty tasty. Our table was filled with old people, some of which couldn't have some of the beer because it wasn't kosher, so there was a lot leftover in the pitchers for me and my friend :hat We then hit up the lobby for samples of the Belgian IPA and Rye American Ale from the Drinker's Choice (or whatever the hell it's called) contest before heading to lunch. We stopped at Deep Ellum for lunch where I had a pretty tasty burger for lunch and a glass of Smuttynose Oak Aged Tripel that was a bit overbearing on the oak flavor at first, but really smoothed out as it warmed. Next and final stop was Sunset where I had a Great Divide Oak Aged Espresso Yeti (very good, as a non coffee drinker I have a definite upper bound for how much coffee flavor I like in a beer, and the balance that the oak brought to an espresso stout let this beer toe the line without going over) and a Bourbon County Stout (I wanted a World Wide Stout to go out on, but the tap wasn't working, so I had to settle for this rich, viscous dessert of a beer). All in all a good day and a fond farewell to some of my favorite beer spots in Boston. I look forward to grabbing one last meal at Cambridge Brewing Company Thursday night
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You've got to pm me when your up for the beer festivals. I want to take my brother.
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Next beer festival is the Belgian fest November 5th and 6th. Tickets are on sale now for Friday night and the Saturday sessions. My current plan is to volunteer for all 3, and then maybe cancel for Friday depending on how my work situation shakes out between now and then
https://beeradvocate.com/fests/bbf
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Next beer festival is the Belgian fest November 5th and 6th. Tickets are on sale now for Friday night and the Saturday sessions. My current plan is to volunteer for all 3, and then maybe cancel for Friday depending on how my work situation shakes out between now and then
https://beeradvocate.com/fests/bbf
I may be effed that weekend. It's Lisa's birthday and sunday it's football. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll look into it.
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if you go to beer advocate, on the front page they have the dates for all their festivals through next June.
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if you go to beer advocate, on the front page they have the dates for all their festivals through next June.
Thanks. We will have to meet up for at least one.
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Yay, my Otter Creek fall variety packs came in! And I just confirmed my volunteer shifts at the Great American Beer Festival, so I can go and bring my roommate for free afterwards :D :D
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went to Cambridge Brewing Company last night for dinner with my family before trekking home to NJ today. I had a CBC Hefeweizen to start. It was pretty good, the wheat sweetness was more forward than in most hefes I have, and so there was a little bit less banana/clove flavors from the yeast. Next was a tulip of their Belgian Pale Ale with dinner (a burger with onions they caramelized in their house amber ale, boner inducing), it's a solid BPA with a little extra hop bite. After dinner I had a little glass of Arquebus, their summer barleywine... hot damn, very unique beer (and very tasty). They brew it with honey and white wine grapes and serve it flat, and it's like the beer equivalent of an after dinner liqueur. It was also aged in french oak chardonnay barrels for a year, so even though it's 14% it's smooth as hell. Do want more (if only they bottled)
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Finally tried the Dogfish Raison D'etre and really enjoyed it. I try not to think this way, but it REALLY reminds me of another beer and I can't figure out which one... just love the flavor, though.
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two nights ago I had a bottle of North Coast Old Stock Ale, which was decent but not nearly as good as the other Old Ale I've had (Terrapin's The Iron Tankard). Last night I spend about three hours with a big 750 mL bottle of Boulevard's Bourbon Barrel Quad. They brewed a quad, let it ferment on cherries, and then aged portions of it in bourbon barrels for varying lengths of time before blending them together for this beer. It tasted incredible, one of the finest barrel aged beers I've had, but it was a little bit thin and a little bit overcarbonated, otherwise it probably would have been one of the highest scoring beers I've reviewed
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Ive thought about the NC Old Stock, but I didn't know if it would be worth it...
Recently I had a couple bottles of the Sam Adams Imperial Stout. It wasn't bad, but if I wanted a dark SA, I'd buy the Black Lager. The Imp Stout wasn't worth the price IMO.
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I'd say the Old Stock is worth trying, but if you have a bottle shop that sells singles just buy one. Last night I had a Terrapin Hopsecutioner (I let this get *way* too cold before drinking and I think that seriously messed with the hop flavors) and a North Coast Old Rasputin imperial stout, which was good but for the same price I'll take Brooklyn BCS every time. Tonight I'm working on an Oskar Blues Ten Fidy, which is a pretty damn solid RIS
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spent 3+ hours tonight with a bottle of Ithaca Brute. It's a golden ale that they aged for months in oak barrels that were overrun with Brettanomyces (wild yeast strain). This bottle is from a batch that was released somewhere around a year ago, and given that the effect of brett only grows with age this one was tart, funky mofo of a beer by the time I cracked it tonight. The flavors were a bit harsh when the beer was fresh out of the fridge, but as it warmed everything smoothed out and I was left with one hell of a beer
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spent 3+ hours tonight with a bottle of Ithaca Brute. It's a golden ale that they aged for months in oak barrels that were overrun with Brettanomyces (wild yeast strain). This bottle is from a batch that was released somewhere around a year ago, and given that the effect of brett only grows with age this one was tart, funky mofo of a beer by the time I cracked it tonight. The flavors were a bit harsh when the beer was fresh out of the fridge, but as it warmed everything smoothed out and I was left with one hell of a beer
When you say 3+ hours do you mean a bit of cuddling, forplay and then a slow pour into a glass? :D
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Seriously. Three+ hours is a twelve pack of Bud to me. I do appreciate your love of beer though, you sound like many of the wine snobs I come across in my line of work, but better, cause it's beer.
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Seriously. Three+ hours is a twelve pack of Bud to me. I do appreciate your love of beer though, you sound like many of the wine snobs I come across in my line of work, but better, cause it's beer.
You just redeemed yourself lonestar with the "cause it's beer" line. :laugh:
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Whenever I come into this thread now, I feel ashamed to talk about the coronas and heinies I guzzled last nite. :justjen :sadpanda: I blame axe and king.
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Whenever I come into this thread now, I feel ashamed to talk about the coronas and heinies I guzzled last nite. :justjen :sadpanda: I blame axe and king.
:laugh: I still can't keep up with axe. it is a bit expensive so I do buy the 12 pack on sale for $10. Like Magic Hat or Long Trail, but they pale in comparison to the crafted beers.
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$10 for 12 MH or LT?? And they are awesome beers :heart
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$10 for 12 MH or LT?? And they are awesome beers :heart
On sale this week at a local grocery store!!!
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That's awesome... we just got the new MH variety packs in and my coworker put a case aside from me. Can't wait! I liked the Hex a lot at the factory and always happy to have the hIPA...
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Seriously. Three+ hours is a twelve pack of Bud to me. I do appreciate your love of beer though, you sound like many of the wine snobs I come across in my line of work, but better, cause it's beer.
Part of it wasn't due to any kind of restraint, the beer was so tart and funky that it was impossible to drink it quickly. It's funny though, I just went back and read the first page of this thread the other day and it's awesome that you jumped from your regular Bud right up to a Pliny the Elder, a seriously hopped IPA, and loved it. If you were any other profession besides a chef I'm not sure that you would have enjoyed it :lol
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Just tried a River Horse Tripel Horse and at first I wasn't sure how I felt about it because it tasted too strong, but it grew on me and developed a very nice flavor. I don't drink much Jersey beer...
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neither do I, but I want to try some Cricket Hill stuff because I think I'm going to enter their homebrewing contest this fall. Kept it simple tonight, just a Terrapin Hopsecutioner. It's not a bad beer, very good in some aspects, but the hop flavor is a little weak for an IPA. The bitterness is there, but the beer needs some more late or post boil hops.
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I just tried that one like last week...
Btw, I went to BK to get my Magic Hat on the way home just now and everybody was outside because the power went out (wooo no traffic lights! chaos!) so no beer for Jackie :sadpanda:
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Well we had Bacon burgers last night with Shipyards Smashed Pumpkin Ale. Axe, I know your not a big pumpkin guy but it is the top of the line best pumpkin ale I've ever had and someone else in our family agrees.
(https://i583.photobucket.com/albums/ss272/kingshmegland/IMG_4903.jpg)
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yesterday I mowed through some Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ales (forgot how tasty that beer is) and Brooklyn Lagers (just solid) with Jackie at Nick's. We also had a bottle of Jack D'or with dinner (*sigh* I miss Pretty Things). After the epic win that was Piranha 3D we went to a brewpub in Allentown where I had a hefeweizen (solid, but I just find that even good American craft brewers have a hard time doing this style as well as their German counterparts. Points though for serving it in an appropriate 23oz glass.) and an IPA called Hop Explosion, or something like that, that was very good (though not quite in the west coast style as advertized). Late dinner for me and then I think I'm gonna crack a Smuttynose Wheatwine to enjoy while I watch tonight's Mad Men
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I love the Smuttynose wheatwine. I haven't seen it in a few weeks around here.
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LUCKY LAGER!!!
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nothing too crazy the last week or so. I was working on a sixer of Cricket Hill's Hopnotic English IPA for a while, it was pretty decent but I bought it mostly because the brewery is having a homebrew competition this fall that I plan on entering. I also picked up a six pack of Dogfish Head Indian Brown, which is just a damn tasty beer. I did get to try a bottle of the newest Sierra Nevada 30th Anniversary collaboration beer, a black American Barleywine that had a great roasted malt flavor but was lacking a little bit in the hop department to live up to the barleywine billing (though it was still very good). I received a trade in the mail with 2(!) bottles of Russian River Supplication and some Bell's Expedition Stout that I hope to dig into soon, and I've got another one in the works for some new Terrapin beers. I also ordered a bunch of homebrew stuff midweek, and should be working on a hoppy brown ale and an imperial stout soon enough.
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Last night my brother and I tried Samuel Adams Stony Brook Red (Barrel Room Collection). We were realy impressed with it's tart fruits and a smooth taste to it.
Then we tried Dogfish Head Theobroma. this beer is made with honey, ancho chilies, annatto & cocoa powder. The beer was very smooth and had a nice peppery finish to it.
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I haven't had the Stony Brook Red, I think I only tried the Kriek (at a festival awhile back) and didn't much care for it. I would like to try that and the Tripel that are part of the Barrel Room Collection though, I'll have to snag a few bottles next time I'm up in Boston. I had a bottle of Theobroma last summer, and it was just a miss for me at that point. I'd be interested in trying it again sometime though, because my palate has been exposed to a lot more since I first tried it.
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I don't think the Theobroma is something that grabs you right away. It's very subtle in it's flavor. The Red barrel was very good for Sams. I've always thought Sam Adams had been going downhill for a while. While it's not a home run it is a lot better than anything they put out today.
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hmmm, what have I had lately. My uncle gave me a Saranac summer 12 pack, unfortunately it's spent an entire summer (if not a year) sitting in his garage and the heat has totally ruined the beers and given them all a wet cardboard taste. I'll end up drain pouring them and harvesting the bottles for homebrewing. For the most part I've just been working through my sixer of DFH Indian Brown. When we were out to dinner the other night the waiter earned my ire by only giving me the shitty half of their beer list, and then after I settled for a Blue Moon I wandered over to the fridge by the bar and saw Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Sierra Nevada Torpedo, and Ommegang Abbey Ale... that stupid son of a bitch :lol Last night I cracked my first ever Russian River Supplication (brown ale aged in pinot noir barrels with wild yeast and souring bacteria), which promptly began making love with my taste buds. Tonight me and my cousin unpacked a bunch of homebrewing supplies that came in the mail and are now splitting a bomber of Goose Island Bourbon County Stout (mmmmm, chocolate milkshake with a shot of bourbon dropped in). We'll be up early tomorrow to head into NYC on a beer buying/drinking trip :metal
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That Goose Island Bourbon County Stout sounded delish!
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my beerventure to NY was sabotaged by a bus driver strike that I didn't know was going on. Ended up going to a couple places local and picking up some good beer (both for me and for some trades) before my cousin and I split a bottle of Brooklyn Sorachi Ace over lunch. Contemplating what to start with tonight, possibly a Terrapin Rye Pale Ale
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I did indeed start off with a Terrapin Rye Pale Ale (better than last time I tried it, still nothing mind blowing), followed by a Sierra Nevada Tumbler (new fall seasonal, just a great traditional, well crafted brown ale), and now am enjoying my first Dogfish Head Punkin Ale (only thing missing is a little bit more of a rich mouthfeel, otherwise it's straight pumpkin pie. This is definitely getting used for my pumpkin spice cake this fall). Probably going to call it a night after this one.
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I had two beers last night. One was very disapointing.
I'ts name is Brew Dog, Punk IPA. It was the least bold IPA I have ever had. It was smooth with not a hint of hoppiness at all. It's color wasn't even copper. I could have sworn somebody drank it and poured a bud into it and re-caped it. 2 thumbs way down.
The second beer was much better. It was from Longtrail and it was a brewmasters series. An Imperial Poter. 8.3% abv. A nice head to it. A nice expresso flavor to it with a hint of hoppiness. A very nice porter.
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Mmm, Long Trail Imperial Porter and RR Supplication.
Tonight I pick up Bitches Brew and have a listening/drinking party :D :D
Bill, interested in a bottle? I probably won't need all ten...
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actually, a bottle would be awesome. I managed to pick one up, but I'm sending it out in a trade. By the way, I went to Oak Tree Discount Wine and Spirits in South Plainfield... hands down the best beer store I've been to in the state.
Did your place get any Founders 2010 Nemesis in by chance? The place I went to had a one bottle per person limit :(
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I don't think so; we don't have too many bottles like that if they aren't special ordered (although we're working on it) and we just recently started carrying anything from Founders if I'm not mistaken.
Gotta check that store out, damn... probably not til Christmastime, though.
How much did you pay for the BB, out of curiosity? Like I said, pretty sure I won't need 8 for the party tonight (Tony and I both want to hold onto an extra so it can age) so I will keep one for you (may or may not be able to actually get it to you before I leave, though) :D
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to be honest not sure, I knew I was gonna get a bottle and didn't scope the price :lol
nothing crazy for me tonight, just an Oaked Arrogant Bastard
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I had a very interesting Imperial Pumpkin Ale today from Weyerbacher today after kicking my brothers ass in golf today! :metal I put it right up there with Shipyard's Smashed Pumpkin and Fishermans Pumpkin Stout. 8.0 ABV's with a great spiced flavor to it.(Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Cardamom, Cloves)
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I liked Weyerbacher's Imperial Pumpkin last fall, but I have two four packs of the DFH Punkin so I think that may be the only pumpkin brew I try this year. Tonight I started with a Terrapin Hop Karma (decent, but not as good as I remember), followed with a Hitonachi Nipponia over dinner (my first beer from Japan, a little bit of a mess to be honest), and finished with a Founders Devil Dancer Triple IPA (monster of a beer, but good... think of it as DFH 120 Minute IPA's little brother).
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I love the pumpkin ales so much that I try to get as much as I can cause it's seasonal. So I overdo it a bit.
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tonight was a River Horse Hop-a-lot-amus (name was the best part of this beer, seriously underwhelming for a DIPA) and a Terrapin Hopzilla (phenomenal double IPA, right up there with Pliny for me).
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Axe, that place in Haverhill Mass that I've told you about just got a boatload of Pretty Things beers. I will, in the next week or so try some.
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Facebook just posted this, I must have.
Original Release: as part of 100 Barrel Series (#10) in Summer 2005; as part of Leviathan Series in June 2008
Re-released: Fall 2010
Latin for "wheat," Triticus is a strong and dark wheat wine-style ale that boasts 11.5% alcohol-by-volume. The blend of 50% wheat malts, including caramel and chocolate, provides color and depth of flavor. Complex hopping and dry-hopping lends a delicate spiciness and just enough balance to complement its strength.
We originally brewed Triticus in 2005 with guest brewers Jason and Todd Alström, founders of BeerAdvocate.com, as part of Harpoon's 100 Barrel Series. A draft-only batch was brewed to launch the Leviathan series two years ago and we have wanted more ever since. We are happy to now offer Triticus in bottles for the first time since its 100 Barrel debut five years ago.
BEER SPECIFICATIONS
Style:Wheat Wine-Ale Style
Original Gravity: 27.5
Alcohol by Volume: 11.5%
IBU’S:57
Recommended Serving Temperature 49-51° F
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I've heard good things about it on Beer Advocate, hopefully I find some in NYC tomorrow. Also, try any and all Pretty Things you can get your hands on :lol
So my childhood buddy came by last night for our man date ritual any time I'm home, lots of beer, lots of pizza, and lots of hanging out/movies/video games. The damage report comes in at
Weihenstephaner Hefe (500 mL)
Brooklyn Local 1 (750 mL)
Ommegang Hennepin (750 mL)
Dogfish Head Punkin (12oz)
Weyerbacher Merry Monks (12oz)
Terrapin Gamma Ray (12 oz)
Weyerbacher Insanity (22oz)
all beers I've had before, all phenomenal :hat
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Just got a shirt that says....
SAVE THE PLANET
It's the only one with beer!
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Well I need to figure out what to by for Sunday's Tailgating. Go PATS!!!!!
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Denver beerfest is officially on! I've just been drinking in my apartment to celebrate so far, but will be enjoying some beer ice cream tomorrow, whatever other events I feel like attending, and of course the Great American Beer Festival next weekend. I don't even know how I'm going to handle that considering there are like 1000 beers...
forgot to mention I just had a Founders breakfast stout for... brunch... and this Indiana beer last night, fuck what was the name?? The beer was Alpha King, but I'm too lazy to go to my fridge and find the brewery name. It came recommended to me by some guy in Indiana.
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Alpha King is from 3 Floyds (yes, I'm enough of a nerd to know the regular lineup of breweries that don't distribute to my state :lol )
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Alpha King is from 3 Floyds (yes, I'm enough of a nerd to know the regular lineup of breweries that don't distribute to my state :lol )
You have notes. ;D
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Haha, dork. So many beers I don't usually see in Indiana, it was hard to choose.
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Just got a shirt that says....
SAVE THE PLANET
It's the only one with beer!
axeman approved :tup
Epic beerventure yesterday. Took the train in to Penn Station and hit up probably the two best bottle shops in Manhattan (conveniently just a few blocks from each other). I picked up a bunch of things for trades, but managed to also nab two more bottles of Nemesis, as well as Ommegang Zuur and Biere de Mars and two bottles of J.W. Lees Harvest Ale (1999 vintage :hat). We then hit up one of the better beer bars in the city for lunch, the Rattle n Hum. I ended up having a Stone Levitation (to be honest, this beer's a little too hopped for its own good) and a Brooklyn Detonation Ale (newest Brewmaster's Reserve, a monster 10%+ double IPA that was freaking awesome). We came home, reorganized and catalogued my beer cellar, and then I got an email about a free beer tasting at a local store with a new brewery. We hopped in the Brewmobile and got there right at the start and got to talk awhile with the founder of the New Jersey Brewing Company, who was a very cool guy, while trying their Pale Ale (meh) Abbey Single (pretty good) and Stout (both from bottles and on cask, not bad at all). After returning home I had a Delirium Tremens (damn tasty), Racer 5 with dinner (great IPA), Terrapin Rye Squared (meh), and my first bottle of JW Lees 99 Harvest Ale (toe curling orgasmically awesome). Tonight is nothing crazy, just a Weyerbacher 14th Anniversary Wheatwine from the cellar (now with almost a year on it). It's pretty good, but nothing earth shattering. Tomorrow night though I crack my first bottle from Cantillon to celebrate my 100th review.
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoUS96bplKrmdDBjLU91Zi1IcDdRZkxpRWFSWEplMVE&hl=en#gid=0
my current cellar (134 bottles)
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Can't view >:(
Isn't NJ Brewing Company the one in North Bergen?? I heard about it but never got a chance to check it out while I was around. My one good friend from NB just moved to Montclair so I really have no reason to go to that terrible place with all the hills anymore.
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yeah, they're in North Bergen, just started brewing back in April and their beer hit shelves in May
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So today at the Pats game I had Chatoe Rogue OREgasmic Ale & La Fin Du Monde. Lets just say I had a great buzz at the game.
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I'd be willing to bet on that :lol
I'm a one beer kinda guy tonight, spending it with a 750 mL bottle of Cantillon Iris. Cantillon is one of the most respected producers of Belgian Lambic. Their beers are spontaneously fermented by leaving the wort exposed to whatever natural yeast/bacteria are in the air, which in the area of Belgium Cantillon is located (the only place in the world where a beer can be considered an authentic lambic), is lots of wild yeast and souring bacteria. This kind of beer is definitely an acquired taste (I gave my mom a sip and she responded by shrieking "get that away from me" and going into another room :lol ), but as someone who digs sours/wild ales Cantillon is a treat.
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That sounds yummy. I haven't had anything sour in a long time :(
Still drinking Alpha King, will switch it up tomorrow. This beer produces a nice burp.
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Went to the Boston beer Works last night before the Rush show. I had an Imperial Red Ale and was dissapointed. No character at all. The Imperial ESB was much better but the highlight of the night was the Double Pale ale. A deep orange, high gravity American Pale Ale that had a great citrus undertone to it. A strong grapefruit flavor to it.
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mmmmm, citrus.
Hqaven't had anything really exciting since the Cantillon. Monday I was at a bar for Monday Night Football and had some Flying Fish IPA and Victory Golden Monkey Tripel. The IPA was so-so, but the tripel was pretty good. Tonight I'll probably dip into some good stuff from the trade I got in the mail the other day, got a big bottle of dubbel from Terrapin, a bomber of imperial pilsner from Sweetwater (we'll see how that goes, pils might be my least favorite style), a bottle of DIPA from Arcadia (a brewery I've never heard of before), another bottle of Nemesis, and a bottle of the guy's homebrewed IPA.
Speaking of homebrew, I think I'm all set for brewing two batches on Friday, a hoppy brown ale and an imperial stout. I've been working on building up a starter to grow the yeast sample for the stout all week and I just picked up a second fermentation bucket this morning.
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Bill, I want to try your damn beer this time if it comes out okay (especially a hoppy brown or imperial stout)!
Drinking Cricket Hill American Ale, nothing special about it but not bad. My last Jersey beer. It's all Vermont and I states (Indiana, Iowa) from here on out... until the Great American Beer Festival on Saturday, of course :caffeine:
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I'll see what I can do :P The first batch just all disappeared before I came back home, and the second batch got drain poured. I should have either the hoppy brown or whatever batch five is (I'm thinking IPA) laying around late this year, but the imperial stout might not be ready until after the first of the new year.
Starting tonight with a bomber of Sweetwater's imperial pils (awesomely named Magnum IP) which isn't bad, but tastes almost closer to an English IPA to me in terms of the hop flavor.
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I don't care when, silly. Just don't forget about me :(
I am trying to decide if I want to have one more beer. I have to be up early... and I also found out some liver thing in my blood test came back high last time :|
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(Disclaimer: This is more about the experience and less about the beer right now, so don't read if you don't want to, just wanted to write about it :P)
Holy shit, guys. Great American Beer Festival Night was an epic journey through space and time. I have to come back to the actual beer (I wrote down the ones that stood out but I have to translate my handwriting) but the evening was hilarious. Probably about 13,000 drunk-ass people in one giant room, and 2,000 or so beers to choose from (or less, actually, since they tend to run out of some stuff by the last session).
We did one round of sampling, started to feel funny, and got cheesesteaks. Then more sampling, followed by rice cakes. I stuck mostly with dark beers throughout the night (lots of coffee porters, mmm), and a lot of IPAs but kinda got tired of those after a while. There were just so many breweries and beers. Tried to go with ones I'd never heard of and ones that sounded interesting/unique.
Anyway, then we did more sampling, followed by a trip to the merch booth, which was overwhelingly huge. After standing in line for about ten minutes and finally deciding on a pair of "I :heart hops" underwear, I got up to the front of the line only to see a woman take down the last pair for someone two in front of me >:( :'(
At this point I was drunk and overwhelmed with the selection, so I just decided on some Raging Bitch panties instead, which I then proceeded to put on over my jeans and leave on for the rest of the night. More sampling, and time really flew. Suddenly the guy we were talking to told us last call was coming, so we found a promising-looking booth and I closed it out with an amazing sour (will let you know what it was when I figure these notes out :lol)
Then my damn roommate got us tangled up with some guys (from Jersey, of course) who wanted to go to a bar and were probably hoping for us to come home with them based on the way the one was talking to Kim (but she was too drunk to realize what was going on, I think). I was not drinking any more, so we got to the (very crowded) bar, broke free from them by going to the bathroom, and bolted... to a gyro stand, mmm.
Found the train station somehow, made friends with a brewer on the train, then went into a bar to wait for a cab like two miles from our place... where there was karaoke, and we danced like morons, and the DJ asked if I was a superhero because of my underwear (which of course I forgot about until he mentioned)... until these three women started singing Bohemian Rhapsody and pulled us on stage, where we belted it out with them until Kim got a call for the taxi and we ran off stage right after singing "Just gotta get right out of heeere"
Took the cab home, Kim made pizza, fell asleep with half a slice on my chest, woke up, ate it, went to sleep, woke up at 9 am still kinda drunk, went back to sleep, and woke up to a nightmare feeling surprisingly good, except for the phlegm I was coughing up. At least I ate enough to leave my stomach in good condition :D
Oh, and I woke up with a blue mustache on my finger.
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sounds like a pretty epic time Jackie, now make with the beer talk :P
tonight was the last of a four pack of Duvel (seriously, fucking love that beer) and then a 750 mL bottle of Ommegang Zuur. It's a Flanders Brown Ale, so it's nice and malty and it has a bit of tartness to it. Very good, to say the least. My parents got back from a long weekend in Vegas tonight and they brought me back 11 bombers and a one liter bottle of beer, most of which doesn't make it out to the East Coast :D
I took off work tomorrow night (I guess tonight at this point) to attend a cooking class in Brooklyn that's being taught by Garrett Oliver of the Brooklyn Brewery, should be pretty fucking awesome :hat
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Thanks for the reminder; I'll start translating tonight.
And I wanna hear those recipes.
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I took off work tomorrow night (I guess tonight at this point) to attend a cooking class in Brooklyn that's being taught by Garrett Oliver of the Brooklyn Brewery, should be pretty fucking awesome
This sounds epic. We'll need details.
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Well, the website updated with the courses today, so I'll let you guys drool along with me for the next few hours :D
First course:Sauted Granny Smith apple and Goat Cheese Omelette paired with Brooklyner Weisse (bottle-conditioned version)
Second course: Linguine Carbonara paired with Brooklyn Local 2
Third course: Indian-spiced Crab Cake paired with Brooklyn East India Pale Ale
Fourth course: Boneless Quail stuffed with Foie Gras and Black Truffle, Balsamic demi-glace paired with Brooklyn Wild 1
Fifth course: Black Ops Ice Cream Float
Brooklyn Wild 1 is a wild ale version of Brooklyn's Local 1. The yeast they were having delivered to ferment a batch of Local 1 got held up in transit, which damaged it. They used it anyway and the resulting beer, while good, wasn't quite Local 1. They racked that batch into barrels for a few months and hit it with some wild yeast and/or souring bacteria and bottled it. It was never released though, only makes appearances at select events that Garrett Oliver is appearing at
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Well, the website updated with the courses today, so I'll let you guys drool along with me for the next few hours :D
First course:Sauted Granny Smith apple and Goat Cheese Omelette paired with Brooklyner Weisse (bottle-conditioned version)
Second course: Linguine Carbonara paired with Brooklyn Local 2
Third course: Indian-spiced Crab Cake paired with Brooklyn East India Pale Ale
Fourth course: Boneless Quail stuffed with Foie Gras and Black Truffle, Balsamic demi-glace paired with Brooklyn Wild 1
Fifth course: Black Ops Ice Cream Float
Brooklyn Wild 1 is a wild ale version of Brooklyn's Local 1. The yeast they were having delivered to ferment a batch of Local 1 got held up in transit, which damaged it. They used it anyway and the resulting beer, while good, wasn't quite Local 1. They racked that batch into barrels for a few months and hit it with some wild yeast and/or souring bacteria and bottled it. It was never released though, only makes appearances at select events that Garrett Oliver is appearing at
I'll never do this. It's too good. I'm already way too fat to splurge like that for a course. You'll need to join a gym after taking this course.
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Most of that sounds awesome, I seriously want recipes.. except for the quail/foie gras, ewww
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Fucking incredible, the whole night. The beer, the food, Garrett (:heart). There were only 16 of us, and the class ran an hour more than it should have. We also got some Local 1 right at the beginning to "get some booze in you so you don't get fidgety while I talk and cook the first dish" :lol Thank God they're working on a commercial release version of Wild 1, because it's among the best wild ales I've had in my life. The tart funkiness of the brettanomyces and the bourbon/vanilla flavors from the Woodford Reserve barrel aging melded totally into each other, and it took me most of the glass to tease them apart and appreciate them separately. I am not worthy (I'm scum) :hefdaddy
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Well, at least you know now.
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I heard that Arthur Guinness' birthday is soon, so I'm enjoying a Guinness Draught. Personally I like the Guinness Extra Stout better...
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I also prefer the extra stout, and Guinness just announced that they're finally bringing another beer to the US. Guinness Foreign Extra Stout is available in tons of other places around the world and makes up a good chunk of Guinness's total global sales. After a couple months test run in NYC and Atlanta it should be popping up in stores in the next little while.
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I also prefer the extra stout, and Guinness just announced that they're finally bringing another beer to the US. Guinness Foreign Extra Stout is available in tons of other places around the world and makes up a good chunk of Guinness's total global sales. After a couple months test run in NYC and Atlanta it should be popping up in stores in the next little while.
Mmmmm. I think I will try it as soon as I see it.
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Anyone have any New England (particularly New Hamsphire or Vermont) beers that they can recommend? Recently moved to the area and want to check out some local stuff. I don't like anything super heavy or bitter, but otherwise I'm pretty open.
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Anyone have any New England (particularly New Hamsphire or Vermont) beers that they can recommend? Recently moved to the area and want to check out some local stuff. I don't like anything super heavy or bitter, but otherwise I'm pretty open.
Lox, check out this link to all the great N.E. plus N.Y. micro brew stops. I personally like to tracel to Vermont.
https://www.brewingnews.com/yankeebrew/
Click on the Craft Beer Directories and pick a state!! Have fun!!
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Magic Hat, Long Trail, Otter Creek, Rock Art (all VT)... shit, and I can't remember the other one I just recently tried and liked. But yeah, Tony and I took a small trip and toured the first three breweries, which I HIGHLY recommend doing :)
Magic Hat is a lot of fun, great atmosphere and lots of great beers to sample. Long Trail has a restaurant with some kick-ass burgers, and Otter Creek is a small place with not much going on but some great employees and awesome beer (Wolaver's is also there).
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Alright peeps, my experience in the beer world has pretty much been limited to the basic light beer piss that's all too common here (hence why I stick to hard alcohol normally), but since I'll both be in London and able to drink legally, I want to try some better stuff. So, if you wouldn't mind, recommend me some good beer that I'll be able to get over there. Also, some resource for learning all the different terms and types you guys are throwing around would be nice. I have no idea what an IPA or stout or whatever is.
Danke.
/beer nub
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I'll type up a big long post in a bit, but it's going to be hard to give a ton of suggestions as far as breweries/beers because I drink mostly American craft brews while you'll be drinking a lot of English stuff.
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Start out Sigz, with something not too bold like Boddington. See how that is first.
Also, to expand on what BTC said, Trout River brewing and go to Downtown Burlington and try the Vermont Pub and Brewery. My wife and I love this place.
https://www.vermontbrewery.com/
also https://www.unionbrewhouse.com/beerclub.htm
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This might be more a midwest thing, but has anyone heard of the New Holland Brewing Company (Holland, MI)? I haven't tried much, but the beer that did have (Dragons Milk, a stout aged in oak barrels) was amazing.
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I've heard of them, but never tried anything of theirs.
Sigz, the only British breweries I know of are Fuller's, Young's, and Samuel Smith, all of which are highly regarded in the craft beer community
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Alright peeps, my experience in the beer world has pretty much been limited to the basic light beer piss that's all too common here (hence why I stick to hard alcohol normally), but since I'll both be in London and able to drink legally, I want to try some better stuff. So, if you wouldn't mind, recommend me some good beer that I'll be able to get over there. Also, some resource for learning all the different terms and types you guys are throwing around would be nice. I have no idea what an IPA or stout or whatever is.
Danke.
/beer nub
*takes deep breath*
I'm gonna start by trying to talk about the differences between shitty macro and craft beer. The four main/standard ingredients in beer are malted barley, hops, yeast, and water. There are other things that can go in beer, and can go in good beer (anything from using some wheat instead of barley to using cocoa nibs or various herbs), but those are the big ones. Malted barley is soaked in hot water and that releases sugars. Some of the sugars will eventually be consumed during fermentation and turn into alcohol and CO2, and some of these sugars will be unfermentable and remain in the beer to provide body and sweetness. Malt also will determine whether the beer is golden colored and clear or black as ink. This sugary solution (called wort) will then be boiled for some amount of time (usually an hour). During the boil hops will be added. Hops added early in the boil will give the beer any bitterness it has, which is needed to balance out the sweetness. Hops added later in the boil, at the very end of the boil, or after the boil and fermentation (called dry hopping) will contribute aroma and flavor. Depending on the hop variety (and country of origin) aromas and flavors contributed can range from spicy, flowery, grassy and herbal to straight up citrus bombs (either orange/lemon or often times a grapefruit). Some people even find a certain dank pot like odor from some hops (which isn't totally surprising since hops and marijuana are genetic cousins). The beer then is cooled down and yeast is added. You've probably heard the terms ale and lager before, and they come from what kind of yeast is used to ferment a beer. Ale yeast works at warmer temperatures and tend to add their own flavor or characteristic to a beer. This may range from a subtle fruitiness in an English IPA to complex spiciness in a Belgian ale where the yeast is the primary source of flavor. Lagers on the other hand usually undergo a longer, cooler fermentation, and one that's often called cleaner because they tend to not add flavors and just get out of the way and let the malt/hops do everything.
So that's a beer overview, and basically what happened to the American beer scene is that Prohibition ended and breweries had to sell beer to a generation that didn't go up drinking beer. They had to sell beer to people that only knew drinking sweet, fizzy sodas. Thus bitterness (which is a a prime attraction in some good styles of beer) became a dirty word (culminating in those fucking atrocious BITTER BEER FACE :neverusethis: commercials) and beers began being made much lighter (both in alcohol and in body) and higher carbonated, and much less bitter to appeal to the young crowd. Modern macro lagers are hopped barely to the point of perceptible bitterness (if even that much). They also, instead of using malted barley, tend to use more "cheap" adjuncts such as rice and corn that will add nothing but fermentable sugars to a beer, and thus contribute no sweetness, body, or flavor. They also perpetuate this idea that beer should be consumed as cold as possible (see: the "When the mountains turn blue" Coors gimmick). The truth is that the colder a liquid is the more it numbs your tastebuds as you drink it. The makers of Bud/Miller/Coors (BMC) literally don't want you to be able to fully taste their product because they know that it's poorly crafted. Even a BMC drinker would have a hard time drinking a serving of that beer at room temperature (meanwhile, some craft beers peak in terms of flavor at that temperature).
As far as craft beer terms, I urge you to just check out www.beeradvocate.com (you may have to create a free account to access some features) and explore some of the stuff you see on the left hand side of the site. It'll also be helpful when you're in London because you can look up specific beers, breweries, and pubs and see reviews from craft aficionados. I'll cover a few things though... India Pale Ale is a particularly popular style of beer in the craft beer community. It started with a style in England way back in the day called pale ale that had a little bit of malt character, but was primarily about the hops. A bigger version, called India Pale Ale was brewed, and it was bigger (both in alcohol and hops) so that it could survive the ship voyage to the british colony of India. Eventually a ship carrying IPA wrecked right after it set sail, and when the barrels of it washed up on shore English locals discovered they liked this stronger version of their beloved pale ale and thus IPA was really born. Stout is a wide reaching category. A beer like Guinness is a stout, but it's an Irish Dry Stout, which is generally probably the smallest kind of stout out there. There are many other kinds of stout, and some can get very big in malt presence and alcohol (typical light beer is mid 3 to low 4 in alcohol percent, I've seen imperial stouts get as high as ~18%). All are characterized by a black appearance due to use of heavily roasted malts in the brewing process. Often times there's a pronounced dark chocolate or coffee flavor to these beers.
OK, I think that's enough for now :lol
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Bill, you are a god among men. :hefdaddy
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Bill, you are a god among men. :hefdaddy
Amen.
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heh, thanks guys :lol I really do love talking about this stuff, so if anyone wants to ask/discuss stuff feel free to either post in this thread or shoot me a PM
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I just had several Otter Creeks (Solstice Ale, Stovepipe Porter, Oktoberfest) while taking a children's intelligence test (my roommate has to do it for school). Amazing.
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shoot me a BM
Didn't know you were into that kinda stuff Bill :eyebrows:
Anyways, had a Fuller's London Pride today at lunch. It was pretty damn good, but halfway through the pint my sandwich arrived and it got this really shitty aftertaste :(
CURSE YOU SANDWICH
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heh, that's the danger of frequenting multiple message boards, every once in a while wires get crossed (private messages on beer advocate are called beermails and often abbreviated BM).
English Pale Ale is probably a pretty good style for someone just getting into beer, as well as English style brews in general now that I think about it, as the Brits tend to favor a bit more balance and subtlety in their brews rather than some of the sensory overloads of their American brethren.
Just an example as to how beer advocate might be helpful... You can search and find the page for Fuller's London Pride and then click on links right on top to either bring up the Fuller's entry and see the other beers they make (if you decide you like the brewery, or would like to check out more of their stuff), or read about English Pale Ales and see a list of highly rated beers in the style. [/PSA]
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heh, that's the danger of frequenting multiple message boards, every once in a while wires get crossed (private messages on beer advocate are called beermails and often abbreviated BM).
English Pale Ale is probably a pretty good style for someone just getting into beer, as well as English style brews in general now that I think about it, as the Brits tend to favor a bit more balance and subtlety in their brews rather than some of the sensory overloads of their American brethren.
Just an example as to how beer advocate might be helpful... You can search and find the page for Fuller's London Pride and then click on links right on top to either bring up the Fuller's entry and see the other beers they make (if you decide you like the brewery, or would like to check out more of their stuff), or read about English Pale Ales and see a list of highly rated beers in the style. [/PSA]
Words of wisdom for you Sigz. From Axeman, verse 1:13. :laugh:
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Headed into the city with a friend for a "Brooklyn takes over the taps" night at a bar. Lots of past Brewmaster's Reserve beers on tap as well as some vintage stuff. Between the two of us my friend and I had...
2x Schneider Brooklyn Hopfen Weiss (hoppy weiss beer)
Detonation Ale (massive double IPA)
Cookie Jar Porter and Cuvee de Cardoz (saison type beer brewed with a blend of spiced handpicked by an Indian chef)
Buzz Bomb Ale (beer made with a large percentage of honey) and Savoir Faire (biere de garde)
Dark Matter (barrel aged brown ale) and Blunderbuss (old ale)
07 Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout and Monster Barleywin (english barleywine)
Most of the beers were excellent (I did think the Cuvee de Cardoz had lost a little something from when I last tried it a year ago), but the star of the night was the Blunderbuss old ale. Sweet and malty, it was plums and raisins soaked in a little bit of alcohol and covered in caramel and toffee :hat
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That last one actually sounds disgusting :P
But I'm intrigued by Cookie Jar Porter...
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BUMP TIME
This past weekend was the close of NY Beer Week. Saturday I went into town in the afternoon to check out a well regarded bar called the Blind Tiger Alehouse. Very cool (albeit cramped) place with a very good tap list. I started with a Bear Republic Ryevalry. It's an American Imperial IPA fermented with a Belgian yeast strain and containing a decent amount of rye in the grain bill. There was a lot going on, but the brewers at Bear Republic juggled it all very well. Afterwards I went with Sixpoint's Pumpkin Ale since I had a coupon for a Sixpoint beer for $3 at Blind Tiger and that was the only one they had on tap. Worst. Pumpkin beer. Ever. Seriously, no pumpkin at all, it was just a mouthfull of liquid ginger with a dash of pepper. Then it was on to the Voyage of the IPA; some of you saw the picture I posted in the picture thread of me with Garrett Oliver. It was a cool time, as we had perfect weather, but I was disappointed that the IPA discussion only lasted about ten minutes, I was just expecting a bit more in terms of that. That also left an hour and fifty minutes for everyone to hang out with their friends and talk, but since I went by myself that didn't work out as well :lol I started the trip off with a Brooklyn Blast in one hand and a Brooklyn Detonation in the other. That's right, I was double fisting double IPAs, I'm just a badass like that :hat I wanted to do the side by side comparison since Detonation (the current Brewmaster's Reserve) is described as Blast's (year round draft only DIPA) bigger brother. Pretty apt description, as Detonation came across as bigger and more flavorful, but with a lot of the same characteristics. I can say pretty confidently that if either of them was bottled it would probably be the best American IIPA on the East Coast. I had a Captain Lawrence Captain's Reserve imperial IPA and a Brooklyn East India Pale Ale afterwards, but those were just to pass the time and get my money's worth :lol I did get to speak one on one with Garrett towards the end, which was very cool. I was asking him about timing hop additions when it comes to creating beer recipes.
Sunday I went back into the city to one of my favorite bars, the Rattle n Hum for a Stone Tap Takeover event. The bar would be pouring 40 Stone beers on tap, including many rare beers and alternate versions of regular beers. I planned on spending a good chunk of Sunday there, eating and drinking, but between the crazy over crowding and terrible service I got (a whole rant to itself), I ended up leaving after 3 beers. First was their 9th anniversary beer (for reference, this year they released their 14th anniversary beer). It started out I believe as a big hoppy american wheat ale, but I think it's a bit past its prime at this point. Next was Stone's 2007 Vertical Epic that had been aged in red wine barrels. Holy shit what a great beer. The 07 VE was roughly a Belgian Strong Pale Ale that was bombed with a believe orange and lemon zest to create a very citrusy flavor. 3 years later the beer is still very citrusy, and it worked well with the fruitiness contributed by the barrel aging. I closed it out with Stone's 2010 Belgo Barleywine, their Old Guardian Barleywine fermented with a Belgian yeast strain. I've had this beer before, but it really never gets old. It's big and sweet and has this great bubblegum flavor from the yeast, and it's still plenty hoppy too. Stone's starting an "Odd Beers in Odd Years" program where starting next year, every other year the version they release of their Old Guardian Barleywine and Imperial Russian Stout will be tweaked/different somehow, and if this Belgo Barleywine isn't bottled as next year's version I'm going to be very upset :lol Those two beers (07 VE in red wine barrels and 2010 Belgo Barleywine) are probably now my two favorite Stone brews, so having them back to back was very cool.
I was a bit bummed with my experience at the event overall though Sunday, so when I heard that RnH was keeping all the Stone beers on tap until they were gone, and they still had just about everything as of Monday night, I decided I would go again for lunch on Tuesday. I got there at noon, I think I was the first customer of the day, and settled in for a few hours of drinking. Quick aside: this place serves possibly the best burger I've ever had, thanks in part to serving it with a beer, bacon, and shallot reduction. Anyway, I started with a collaboration beer they did with I believe Ballast Point Brewery out in San Diego with them and a well known San Diego Homebrewer. The idea was basically a super hopped session ale(less than 4.5%, though some people will say the threshold is actually 4%). Bad idea, nowhere near enough malt sweetness to balance out the hops and the result was that it was basically like drinking a pint of hop juice :lol Next I had to go back to the 07 VE, I just loved the beer that much. Next was a special version of Stone's RIS. 2010 is their tenth year of making the beer, so they did some special mixes for this year of various vintages. One blend was called the GK (Greg Koch, Stone founder) Madman Mix. In addition to blending various Stone IRS vintages he added some sage and chipotles (and possibly some other Stone beers, though I'm not sure on that part). It sounds weird, but god damn did it come together nicely. I closed out the afternoon with a 2004 Old Guardian, which while nice and malty, had a surprising amount of hoppiness left for a six year old beer.
Other than that just been drinking some random stuff this week. Had another New Belgium 1554 (very cool) and a Rogue RIS (not so much). I had a Brooklyn East India Pale Ale earlier tonight, which is decent for what it's trying to be, and am working on a Dogfish Head Raison D'Etre as I type. Thinking about how bottling my hoppy brown ale tomorrow is going to work :lol
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I just kind of skimmed that and read the bottom because I reaaally have to go to bed, but I enjoy 1554. My favorite jazz club out here had it on tap for a long time and then it was gone when I came back last month. New Belgium has some good stuff but they're probably my least favorite out here so far.
Going to attend the tapping of the Wynkoop's pumpkin after work tomorrow, wooo! They also recently started serving some hardcore brewers vault beers that I'm looking forward to trying some more of (had the big easy barleywine and orville, a belgian strong golden ale saturday night). I just fucking love that place so much. They always keep it interesting.
::crosses fingers and waits for hoppy brown ale :D::
(still have to send you that RR when I have some spare time, Bill)
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1554 is a good black ale. My favorite of the New Belgium beers I've tried.
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Yeah, it's definitely one of my favorites. Went to the brewery a few months ago and tried pretty much everything and also really liked the trippel and abbey. I liked the Mothership a lot, which was kind of surprising since I'm not much of a wheat fan. But a lot of the other ones are underwhelming... and I am really sick of people acting like Fat Tire is so amazing!
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Yeah, Fat Tire is alright... not one of my favorites either. I haven't had the Abbey. The only way I can find it is when they put them in the Folly Packs. That's one I'd like to try.
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Hmm, where do you live?
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I live in Northern Indiana. I know that there are a lot of NB brews available here, but Abbey isn't available by itself :(
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Lame! I just recently had my first Indiana beer (I think I posted about it a while back) and I enjoyed it- Three Floyds Alpha King
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Cool Beer Story, Bro time.
I wanted to get my friend a housewarming gift because I'm going to his new place for the first time to watch the Rangers/Rays game tonight. I go to the supermarket to get something to eat and saunter over to the beer section to try to find him a nice beer. I feel stymied by the options until I see a big "B" on one of the six packs. I thought to myself, "BROOKLYN BREWERY! AXEMAN!" and picked up a six pack of Brooklyn Lager for him :lol
So as some of you know, I've been gluten-free for a year now, which makes drinking normal beer impossible. Couple this with the fact that me drinking too much one night was the spark of all the gastrointestinal problems I've had over the past two years and you have a college senior who hasn't had a drink in nearly two years. I've REALLY been wanting to go try some gluten-free beer but I've always been too nervous. Well, "fuck it," I decided. I need to live my life, dammit.
(https://imgur.com/9HlLMl.jpg)
I'm still not sure I'm going to drink it yet. I need to be in the right state of mind :lol
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Heading over my brother's house for beer and Rush music and a fire beer pit. Beer list to follow the next day.
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(https://imgur.com/9HlLMl.jpg)
I'm still not sure I'm going to drink it yet. I need to be in the right state of mind :lol
DOOO IT
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I've had four New Belgium beers; two were great and two were subpar. I thought 1554 was very cool, it was inhabiting this cool space between a belgian strong dark ale and a stout. Mothership Wit was also great, one of my favorte witbeers. Ranger IPA and Fat Tire were both a bit meh. I've heard that back in the day Fat Tire had a bit more to it, but it sold its soul to a degree en route to mass acceptance out there. If it allows them to make some of their other cool beers then it's all good with me.
Well done antigoon :D
sounds like a good night in your future king :hat
I spent the first half of yesterday with my cousin bottling homebrew. We ended up with either 54 or 55 bottles of hoppy brown ale (one of which is only half full. I had my last each of Brooklyn EIPA and Dogfish Head Raison D'Etre during/after our late lunch. My buddy came over last night and we had the following:
12oz bottle each of New Jersey Beer Company's Abbey Single... not bad at all. It's like a Belgian lite, but that's all the style aspires to, so I find it hard to hold it against the beer. It's the kind of "table" beer that the monks would brew for themselves to have with meals but didn't usually sell to the outside public.
750 of Ommegang Witte... solid beer, but there some plenty of available wits that are better (Allagash White, Saint Bernardus Wit)
bomber of Fat Tire... I think this bottle suffered a little bit from some crazy temperature exposure at some point before it reached me. I don't think a great beer was ruined, but an amber ale is always nice to have with pizza.
750 of Saint Bernardus Abt. 12... How can you not love a good quad? Sweet and fruity and super smooth. Really world class.
Tonight it's just me, I'm having another of the NJBC's Single with dinner and then it'll be a Terrapin special release dubbel and a bottle of Stone 2009 Imperial Russian Stout
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Bill, have you been drinking the Terrapin/Left Hand collaborations? I forget what they call them but I remember really enjoying the first one, I guess it was last fall or something? I have the latest one sitting in my cupboard and have yet to try it...
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I didn't get a chance to try the last one (an espresso milk stout I believe) which I heard was *phenomenal*. This year's is called Oxymoron, right? Haven't seen that one on shelves anywhere. I'm about to crack their second beer in a series of four that they're releasing to raise money for a local landmark theater that burned down early this year. The first one was an Old Ale (spectacular), the second is what I'm having tonight and is a dubbel, the third is a big pilsner that just got released, and the final one will be a smoked imperial IPA.
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That sounds awesome... and yeah, it's Oxymoron. I really need to get to the Left Hand brewery.
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DOOO IT
JACKIE I'M SO AFRAID HOLD ME.
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quote fail... but DO IT, DO IT NAO
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Terrapin Double Feature was a little bit of a letdown. It was also a better beer than it was a dubbel (if that makes sense to you guys). Now it's time for a leftover pizza intermission before the Stone imperial stout.
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:heart Stone IRS. Hard.
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When you say hard?... never mind.
DOOO IT
JACKIE I'M SO AFRAID HOLD ME.
:eyebrows:
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So. Where to begin. We got to the Grill next Door at 6pm.
https://www.thegrillnextdoor.net/
I started out with a pint of Southern Tier Pumking (NY) 9% ABV. They coated the rim with caramel and brown sugar. I was in heaven with this beer. The Salad with blue cheese came next (Blue cheese is my kryptonite). Durring the salad, I ordered a sampler of 4 5oz beers.
Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout (CO) 9.5% ABV (My favorite beer of the night.)
Kwak (Belgium) 9.6% ABV
Meantime Scotch Ale (England) 9% ABV
Ommegang Zuur (NY) 6% ABV(The most unique beer of the night)
My Baked Mac N Cheese and all it's delightful gooiness came. So before we left there was time to get one more beer before my sister in law picked us up. I had the Unibroue Maudite (Canada) 8% ABV. A great flavored red ale.
We then got next to the fire pic. Cranked Rush tunes on ramdom from my brothers I-Pod and has a few Wolavers Will Stevens Pumpkin Ale and Stone Ruination IPA's. I am too old for this much fun.
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That sounds delicious and awesome.
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Tried some Deschutes Mirror Pond pale ale, not bad but nothing stood out about it.
Currently drinking Boulder Kinda Blue, a blueberry wheat that is surprisingly yummy (not usually my type).
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I'm not drinking anything worth mentioning right now.
I did try a few North Coast brews last weekend that I had not tried before... Red Seal Ale (I liked it) and Scrimshaw Pilsner (didn't really care for).
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Sounds like a good time the other night king. Zuur is definitely unique :lol I've only had one of the yetis once and enjoyed it, I should pick up some more one of these days.
Ya know, I don't think I've had any of North Coast's more regular, year round stuff. All I've had is Old Rasputin, Old Stock Ale, and Brother Thelonious.
I had my first Deschutes beer last night, a bottle or Mirror Mirror from 2009. My understanding is they double the recipe of Mirror Pond Ale to create an American barleywine. I like my American barleywines with some age on 'em, and I was surprised by how mellow Mirror Mirror was after only a year or so. The hops were still there, but the malt was definitely the star of the show. Great beer.
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Axe I'm back in Boston for the night. What stores have a really good selection of craft brews?
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My personal favorite has been Publick House Provisions on Beacon Street (Tappan St. stop in the C branch of the green line). They have arguably the best selection around, and if you go next door to American Craft or down a block to Publick House (both great beer bars) and have a round or two, you can bring your receipt to Provisions and get 10% off (all three places have the same owner).
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Omg Bill we both may have been drinking our first Deschutes at the same time last night (mine was like 7-8 MT). SYNCHRONICITY.
Oh wait never mind, I think I tried one of their others last year.
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Oh, so at some point last year I signed up for this quote of the day email but I usually delete it unless the topic catches my eye. This was today's newsletter (heard most of these before, but not the second one :lol):
BEER
It was on this day in 1810 that Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen, previously on the list of potential brides for Napoleon, married Ludwig I of Bavaria at the Theresienwiese, in suburban Munich. It wasn't called that at the time, the name came later in honor of the bride. After the service, they had a horse race, and they invited the whole town to join them for a beer or two. Ludwig went on to have a couple of famous mistresses, and was king of Bavaria from 1825 to 1848, but that's not why we remember the wedding. No, we remember the wedding for the beer, and the fact that the beer flows again every year in commemoration of that party. As you read this, the 200th Oktoberfest is being celebrated.
You can't be a Real Country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have a football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least, you need a beer.
- Frank Zappa, 1940 - 1993
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
- Kaiser Wilhelm
I never drank anything stronger than beer, before I was twelve.
- W. C. Fields, 1880 - 1946
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
- Dave Barry
Payday came and with it beer.
- Rudyard Kipling, 1865 - 1936
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
- George Carlin, 1937 - 2008
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Bill, I was so drunk I thought I left you a message on your cell while I was at the place but I left the message on my buddy's phone. :lol He called me up and gave me shit about it. So yes, I had a great time. :laugh:
Bout. Kaiser Wilhelm had it right!
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Yeah, except I'll be the one doing the conquering :yarr
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My wife is a beer drinker so I must be her bitch! :laugh:
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That's fuckin' right.
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that's how you *know* it was a good night king :lol :lol
I've seen a few of those quotes before, I found a poster with about twenty awesome beer quotes on it, but they don't get old to me.
A bit of a repost from the food thread, but I made meatloaf tonight and a gravy to go along with it where I used a 750 mL bottle of Ommegang Abbey Ale as the base... it was fantastic :hat I poured myself a Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale to go with dinner (very good brown ale), and now I'm just finishing the bomber of Southern Tier's Backburner American barleywine that I've been working on for a while. It's a pretty solid beer, though the Mirror Mirror I had last night was definitely better.
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:heart Stone IRS. Hard.
I've heard good things about this... I'd like to try it sometime.
Any other recommended stouts that I should try?
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Colorado Fresh Hop Celebration in less than two days, woooo!
https://www.freshhopcelebration.com/
Breweries will be Left Hand, Oskar Blues, Deschutes, Full Sail, Sierra Nevada, Ska, Tommyknocker, and Strange. Can't fucking wait. I will be a mess by 2 PM.
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:heart Stone IRS. Hard.
I've heard good things about this... I'd like to try it sometime.
Any other recommended stouts that I should try?
depends, what state do you live in (so I can figure out what's available to you)
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:heart Stone IRS. Hard.
I've heard good things about this... I'd like to try it sometime.
Any other recommended stouts that I should try?
depends, what state do you live in (so I can figure out what's available to you)
Northern Indiana
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:heart Stone IRS. Hard.
I've heard good things about this... I'd like to try it sometime.
Any other recommended stouts that I should try?
depends, what state do you live in (so I can figure out what's available to you)
Northern Indiana
Definitely grab some Stone IRS, it's a very good stout if a bit hoppy for the style (a hoppy beer from Stone, no wai! :neverusethis:). Brooklyn Brewery also looks like it distributed in your state, their Black Chocolate Stout should be hitting shelves for the season soon and it's probably my favorite stout out there. North Coast also makes an RIS called Old Rasputin that's pretty solid (though inferior to Brooklyn BCS in my mind). Samuel Smith out of England makes both an Oatmeal Stout that I've had and is very good, and an imperial stout that I haven't had but is supposed to also be pretty tasty. Founders in all likelihood distributes to you as well, and their breakfast stout (coffee oatmeal stout) is awesome. Stouts (and especially imperial stouts) are some of my favorite beers, and one thing I've started doing is drinking them closer to room temperature than fridge temperature, I find them to be a bit more rich and smooth (less alcohol heat) when they're not as cold.
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Bill, I got out of work today and went to my little store for some beers for the tailgating Sunday and there was sampling going on for Brooklyn Beer tasting! :metal Home run!! I knocked down a few dixie sips of #1 and #2 (which I bought a bottle for the tailgating) and a few others. So it was a win/win for me!
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My dad and I started brewing today. Everything went smooth though my dad melted the airlock for the primary fermenter by accident.
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good man, :heart those beers (especially Local 1). I actually just picked up a bottle of that to take to my aunt and uncle's for dinner on Sunday. They drink mostly wine, but they should be open to trying some. On vacation this summer I gave my uncle a little bit of stout to enjoy with some chocolate he had and he was still talking about it the next day :lol Out of curiosity, what does a bottle of Local 1 go for up by you?
Carl, one more stout I forgot to mention is Goose Island Bourbon County Stout. As the name implies, it's an imperial stout aged in bourbon barrels and it really is phenomenal. It's like a big chocolate milkshake with some bourbon poured in.
Last night I went to Basil T's in Red Bank. One New Jersey magazine named it the best brewpub in the state so my parents and I went to check it out. To be honest, while the beer was decent, I think they got named that much more for the food. It's an italian grill/brew pub and the food was phenomenal. Only problem was that it's pretty expensive ($24 for pasta in bolognese sauce), though all the pasta is made on the premises daily. I had their pale ale, which was serviceable but unremarkable, their amber ale that I thought had a funny aftertaste that almost reminded me of the little sour kick in a dry irish stout like Guinness, and then I ordered their extra special bitter but I think they brought me their american wheat, which was also just alright. I was bummed that their dry irish stout, which has won some medals out at GABF wasn't available.
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My dad and I started brewing today. Everything went smooth though my dad melted the airlock for the primary fermenter by accident.
I've got to get off my ass and brew, minus the melting. Let us know how it goes orc.
Bill, $8.50, no bottle crap in N.H. :metal
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Thanks for the suggestions, Axe. I've had the Old Rasp, and it's very good. I pick that up occasionally when I don't feel like trying anything new. I went ahead and picked up a Stones IRS, so I'm (hopefully) going to enjoy that tonight :D
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Bill, #2 was the bomb!!! :metal Lisa and I loved it. I've had #1 a bunch of times but never #2. I'm glad I got it.
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Went on a daytrip to Bruges today, so I grabbed a variety of really strong belgian beers (all in the 10-12% range) for tonight.
I shall report to findings of my study tomorrow.
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In fucking Bruges?
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In fucking Bruges.
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Epic Sigz. After 2 you shall have quite a buzz. :lol
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Colorado Fresh Hop Celebration in less than two days, woooo!
https://www.freshhopcelebration.com/
Breweries will be Left Hand, Oskar Blues, Deschutes, Full Sail, Sierra Nevada, Ska, Tommyknocker, and Strange. Can't fucking wait. I will be a mess by 2 PM.
Oh man, what a day. I had so many fresh hop beers and came into contact with so many hops that my hands and clothing smell like them... and my farts literally smell like hops. Jesus Christ.
There were some breweries/people not mentioned above there, like Great Divide, who brought easily my favorite beer with them (their fresh hop pale ale). Also some guy named Gordon who brought his amazing homebrew (pale ale with jasmine) and was just there for fun.
The Tommyknocker really stood out to me (they also had a black IPA I didn't get to try :( ). The Strange one was... well, strange. Very unique but by the end I'd had enough. Deschutes brought this crazy sweet potato beer (Yamalama?) that was only 5% but tasted strong as hell. I had a sip of the pourer's beer and that was enough for me :lol (it wasn't bad, but I kinda hate sweet potatoes and it smelled like them). Their Hop Trip was very yummy. Wynkoop also showed up with their Belgorado Harvest Ale. Port was there, but I cannot remember the name of the one they brought. I really need to take notes at these things. Sierra Nevada had their Estate ale and then this organic one. There were more, but I can't keep track. They pour very big samples and don't really take tickets so I lost track.
All I know is I pretty much tried everything and I have a baggie full of hops (pulled off the vine!) in my kitchen.
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carl/sigz, I'm waiting for feedback on your drinking experiences :biggrin:
glad to hear you liked Local 2 king, I've always had a slight preference for #1 but they're both very good.
that fresh hop festival sounds awesome jackie, I haven't ever gotten around to trying a harvest ale.
Friday night I kept it simple after work, just a bottle of Orval. It really is a unique beer, the only trappist ale brewed with brettanomyces, and it's quite good. Saturday I went into the city to see my old roommate's band play. I hit up a bar beforehand and had a Weihenstephaner Hefe, which I could never get tired of, and a Firestone Waker Union Jack IPA, which was also excellent. i then moved to the bar where my buddy was playing where I had a Smuttynose "Finestkind" IPA, which was good but overshadowed by the Union Jack I had just had, and two Delirium Tremens. Today was my goddaughter's birthday party and I worked my way through a Rogue Hazelnut Brown Nectar, a Guinness, and most of a Brooklyn Local 1. I'll be cracking a Hitachino Nest Espresso Stout in a little bit.
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I had the Stones IRS on Friday night (it was that or a New Holland brew, Night Tripper, so I got the Stones). It was very good. I was expecting a bit of a hoppy taste after what you said, axe, but I didn't notice. I couldn't get over the smell. I opened it and just smelled it before taking a drink, and it smelled very good.
:tup
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So I did some damage at the Pats game. Of course I had a bottle of Smashed Pumpkin from Shipyard and then I tried Red Hook's new beer Eisbock 28. Very syrup like with a bold caramel taste to it. No carbonation at all and was very thick. Not something I'd drink all the time but it was very unique. Oh yea, I had a jager bomb, and chili I made. The body is paying for it today! :laugh:
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The wifey and I tried a beer we have never had. It is from France. The name is Gavroche. It's a french red ale 8.5 ABV. It's a strong amber ale that at first seemed mild to me but over the glass, had a strong finish to it. It's a smother Red ale than Harpoon's Levithan Red Ale but it still packs a punch. This beer is worht the find. Here's a real revue of the beer.
https://www.thebrewsite.com/2009/10/26/french-beer-week-gavroche-french-red-ale.php
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Having this right now:
(https://www.montistudio.com/temp/beer1.jpg)
8% alcohol per bottle
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I had the Stones IRS on Friday night (it was that or a New Holland brew, Night Tripper, so I got the Stones). It was very good. I was expecting a bit of a hoppy taste after what you said, axe, but I didn't notice. I couldn't get over the smell. I opened it and just smelled it before taking a drink, and it smelled very good.
:tup
I can't really say I've ever had a bottle of it that was fresh, only aged where the hops would have faded. I've just heard a lot of people talk about it being hoppy for a stout. Glad that you digged it though.
@Aythesryche: Color me jealous, I hear nothing but great things about Great Lakes and they don't distribute to the East Coast.
I got a box in the mail this week from a trade and I've been working through it all week. I got a mixed six pack of Bell's beers, of which I've had their Amber Ale, Two Hearted Ale, Java Stout, and Third Coast Old Ale. The Amber was alright, the Third Coast was decent, and the Java/Two Hearted were outstanding. Bell's is another brewery I wish came this way.
I went on a beer run with my cousin last night, and came home and drank a Terrapin Big Hoppy Monster (hoppy imperial red ale that was fantastic) and a Guiness Foreign Extra Stout (old beer for Guinness, newly distributed to the US, their biggest/most flavorful beer). I also split a 750 mL bottle of Alesmith Speedway Stout with my cousin. I got that in the trade too, it's a monster of a coffee infused stout (12%). As I said to my buddy the next day, it was so good I didn't want to distract myself from enjoying it by writing a review for it. I've got another bunch of beer lined up for me and a buddy tomorrow night :hat
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The Two Hearted Ale is a pretty good IPA. I've had it a few times and have like it whenever I had it. I'm kind of surprised that bells doesn't make it your way... it seems to go everywhere else.
Tonight, I'm drinking the standby Old Rasputin. Always a good choice.
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Bell's doesn't distribute to the northeast in general. I have to get my fix when I go to North Carolina for a family vacation every summer. I like Old Raspy, but usually end up going for Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout at the same price.
So my buddy came over on Saturday and we had a hell of a beer night. The lineup we split was as follows:
750mL bottle of Duvel Triple Hop (a rare, extra hoppy version of Duvel)
12oz bottle Terrapin Big Hoppy Monster (made for a great pairing with pizza for dinner)
750mL bottle Ommegang Biere de Mars (big-ish malty beer brewed with brett, pretty tasty)
750mL bottle Allagash Curieux (At $15 a bottle I won't be buying this bourbon barrel aged tripel all that often, and that's a shame because it's a damn tasty beer)
12oz bottle each 2008-2009 Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout, with a scoop of homemade vanilla chip ice cream from my dad's store dropped in each pint glass (:hat, just :hat)
Last night I kept it simple, just a bottle of Bell's 25th Anniversary Ale (big malty beer, but a bit underwhelming for a major anniversary beer from a great brewery). Tonight I had a Troegs Scratch Series #33 Belgian Style Saison. Troegs' Scratch Series is a run of very small batch fun/experimental beers that Troegs makes just once. I believe the beers only are available at the brewery. This one was pretty good, it was a saison that was spiced with coriander and orange peel, so it ended up tasting like a cross between a saison and a wit. I followed that up with the Bell's Consecrator that just finished disappearing from my glass (it was a slightly above average doppelboch).
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I had an Ayinger Ocktoberfest last night, *awesome* beer. I also picked up a six pack of Sam Adams Latitude 48 IPA. It's a really good brew, fairly balanced with the malt, and they also use a blend of American and European hops so it's this cool hybrid between an American and English IPA. I'm having some of that tonight and I'll finish the night with a year old Brooklyn BCS.
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The wife and I picked up Harpoon's Winter Warmer 12 pack. We always like it.
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Okay guys, I'm joining your club now that I'm officially 21 :metal
I need some beer recommendations. Stuff that I can get here in Philadelphia (I'm looking at you, Bill :P)
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Welcome the the club, PLM :tup
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Alright PLM, I typed up a big post about beer for Sigz a while ago, I'll find it and PM it to you. I would say that beers from Sam Adams, Brooklyn Brewery, Sierra Nevada, and Anchor are probably some good first beers to have. They'll be well crafted and tasty (kingshmegland's disapproval of modern day Boston Lager aside :P ) without throwing anything too intense or crazy at you in terms of flavors. You could also try Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA to get a taste of what a hoppy beer can be like (although Sierra Nevada Pale Ale works for that as well), and Ommegang Hennepin and Duvel for a sample of Belgian brews. There's also a really good Belgian beer bar in Philly called Monk's Cafe, and if I were you I might go there one night and tell them you just turned 21 and would like to check out some good brews, and see what they pour you. The only other thing I'll say is don't go drinking good beer straight from the bottle, pour it into something (wine glass, pint glass, anything). That'll allow you to appreciate the aroma much bettter, and our sense of smell is a big contributor to taste.
I just had a Russian River Redemption (Belgian Pale Ale, very good but a letdown in that it wasn't as mind blowing as most of RR's other beers have been for me) and I'm about to move on to a Firestone Walker Velvet Merlin. Maybe tomorrow I'll stop being lazy and put together a big Belgian Beer Fest weekend post.
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Damn straight on Sam Adams demise. You know me too well. :laugh:
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*long post*
Actually, when I got to the pub today, the first thing I noticed they had on draft was some Sam Adams Winter Lager, so I just got that. It was pretty darn tasty :D
I plan on going out tomorrow night, so I'll see if I can get some of the other stuff you mentioned. Dogfish Head looks like it's brewed in Delaware, and that's generally where I head when I'm bored, so I'll see if I can find some of that
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Denver has a new tiny brewery called Strange, and the place is fucking awesome. Did the Denver Brews Cruise a couple weeks ago, which took us through there (as well as Breckenridge Brewery and Pints Pub, an English place that brews), and my bro lives right near them so my sister-in-law took us down to get a growler tonight. Their Tainted Black Pale is amazing, wonderfully hoppy.
Breckenridge has some kick-ass beers, sampled a lot of them when we went and had a full pint of the black IPA, which was great but wish I'd had more time for it to warm up.
Right now drinking a Grand Teton (Idaho?!) Black Cauldron Imperial Stout. Not feeling it too much.
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So after many different beers, I've found that I'm really enjoying belgian beers the most. Probably the best so far was the Gulden Drakke I got in Bruges, which was 12%, but Leffe and Hoegaarden are both fantastic as well. I've been sampling a lot of the ales that people here (as well as on Beer Advocate) have been recommending, but I'm not as much of a fan. I had a Doom Bar earlier this week, I think that's been my favorite out of the ales thus far.
Also, my roomate and I ordered a homebrew kit which arrived today :metal :metal :metal
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Sigz, I am sooooo jealous that you sampled some Belgian ales in Bruges. Sounds like a slice of heaven.
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as am I, the first real vacation I take on my own will be to Belgium. English ales tend to be a bit smaller in terms of ABV and a bit more subtle in flavor, and it also take some used to getting served cask ales. Belgian brews are usually a bit more bright and flavorful, more exciting to drink in my opinion.
Homebrewing ftw, have fun with it :hat I'm not all that happy with how my hoppy brown ale turned out. It's a bit over-attenuated (meaning the yeast consumed more of the sugars than I had anticipated), so the body is a bit thin and the typical malty brown ale flavors aren't shining through much. At the same time I think I might have overdone the amarillo aditions to the boil, and the result is more a weird brown IPA than what I was shooting for. The guy I crashed with in Boston put it well when he said that if he was rating it to the American Brown Ale style I was shooting for it would be a C, but in terms of just drinking it it's a B.
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Hey Bill I'm definitely going to check out that Belgian beer bar next Saturday when I have some free time
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I'm going to enjoy some Brooklyn's Black Chocolate Stout. Axeman has raved about it, and I found it locally :laugh:
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I'm going to enjoy some Brooklyn's Black Chocolate Stout. Axeman has raved about it, and I found it locally :laugh:
It is to die for!! :metal
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Oh Longtrail Centennial Red, where have you been in my life. :heart
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A week from tomorrow then PLM? I'll try and remember to take a peek at the tap list online closer to Saturday and post some thoughts.
Carl, not sure if I mentioned this in previously talking about stouts, but especially with Brooklyn BCS I find it much better if I take the bottle out of the fridge about 15 minutes before I'm going to drink it and let it warm up a bit. It definitely tastes a little bit more mellow and less boozy at the warmer temperatures.
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Yeah, a cold stout is not much fun. I hate when they serve them cold at bars and I have to fucking WAIT!
Oh Longtrail Centennial Red, where have you been in my life. :heart
I am intrigued.
Tonight I had a Bristol Winter Warlock oatmeal stout, which was quite yummy. I tried my bro's Avery The Reverend quadrupel; a very good sip but can't make a fair judgement on it. Then I had Newcastle in a can, eww. Then I had a Great Divide Titan IPA, fucking delicious as usual. Now I'm having an Otter Creek Copper, which I think I've kinda lost my taste for. Oh well.
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Jackie, I've liked that I've found in the last month 3 new red ales that are imperical or centennial. All have been outstanding. If you do see it. Get it. The wifey and I loved it.
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Carl, not sure if I mentioned this in previously talking about stouts, but especially with Brooklyn BCS I find it much better if I take the bottle out of the fridge about 15 minutes before I'm going to drink it and let it warm up a bit. It definitely tastes a little bit more mellow and less boozy at the warmer temperatures.
I skipped the fridge completely :biggrin:
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good man, how'd you like it?
And now, without further ado, Bill Goes to Belgian Beer Fest: Part the First
I bussed up to Boston on Thursday morning (with one and a half bags of beer and half a bag of clothes in tow :D ). Arrived mid afternoon and, as a sign of my priorities for the weekend, headed immediately to a bar from the bus station. I met the guy I was staying with at Cambridge Brewing Company for a late lunch and a few rounds. First was Bumper Crop IPA, the first in a line of upcoming IPAs they had because evidently they had ordered too many hops for the year (didn't realize that was possible :lol). It was alright, but I was picking up a certain onion-y taste that I usually get from Summit hops. Next was Cerise Casee. Every year CBC brews the same batch of sour beer and ages it on cherries in french wine barrels. Every year they put together a blend of various vintages of this beer, and that becomes the Cerise Casee they serve for the year. It was pretty tart, but the cherries still shone through and I really enjoyed it. After a brief stop to drop my stuff off we continued to the Publick House, Boston's premiere Belgian beer bar, for a couple rounds at the official pre-fest party (which featured lots of Allagash beers, since they're the official brewery of the festival. The first round was a beer called Big Little, which was one of two beers the Beer Advocate founders went up to brew with the guys at Allagash just for the festival. It's a Belgian Single/Table beer, pretty light with a little sweetness and a lot of yeast flavors, and pretty good. Next was Allagash Ghoulship. The name comes from a coolship, an old school Belgian way of fermenting beer. The unfermented wort, rather than being transferred into the kinds of tanks we usually see on tours, is pumped into a long shallow pool (called the coolship) where it is allowed to sit and cool down overnight, and windows are left open so whatever natural yeast and bacteria are in the air can come in and ferment the beer. Not many brewers still bother with one in Belgium, and a few years ago they built the only in in the US. None of the beers they've produced from it have been released commercially, but they do a lot of experimenting and bring some of the better ones to festivals/special events. This one was brewed with pumpkins (hence the name) and was good. I couldn't taste much pumpkin though, it was mostly sour/funk from whatever's in the air up in Portland, Maine. Last round we split a Little Big and a Lawrence. Little Big is Big Little's companion, a more concentrated version of the latter that was thrown in oak with some brettanomyces for a few months between brew day and the fest weekend. I didn't care for it too much, I thought it was way too oaky and just tasting of wood. Don't know much about Lawrence, other than that it was pale sour ale that was *very* good. The party was starting to get crowded, so we headed next door to the sister bar, American Craft, for dinner and a few rounds. First we each had an Ithaca Brute, a yearly released sour blond ale from Ithaca that is very very good (and rarely on tap). For my last round of the night I needed something with big flavor to cut through all the sour on my palate, and Brooklyn's monstrous Detonation double IPA did just the trick. We did hit the bottle shop next door for a minute since Left Hand was doing a tasting there. We tried a bunch of Left Hand beers (not that I remember anything about any of them :lol ) and talked with the rep for a few minutes before heading home for the night.
Holy shit, that's a lot of text and we haven't even gotten to the fest proper yet... that'll be for tonight after I make it home from work.
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I just love hopping around(Pun intended) to different bars like that Bill. And Damn you and getting to try beers no avalible to the public. Allgash is top notch in whatever they make. I wish I didn't miss the tour when we went up this past summer.
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(quick posting at work before we open). That's just the tip of the iceberg in terms of me and Allagash beers this weekend :hat
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Welcome back to Bill Goes to Belgian Beer Fest...
After a late morning wake up and some frozen pizza, I was back out and returned to the bottle shop from the previous night. I picked up a very nicely priced Ommegang gift set (750's of Three Philosophers, Belgian Pale Ale, and Tripel Perfection, as well as an Ommegang glass for $25) and a round of Pretty Things beers (available in NYC, but a bit more expensive). After talking beer with the guy at the shop for a while I headed over to the venue for set up for Friday night's session, Night of the Barrels. My job for the night, as it would be for the whole weekend, was to wristband guests on the way in to the venue. I ended up not trying a bunch of the beers on the floor because I spent my breaks hanging out at the speaker panel. The fest format was changed this year so that the panels were limited to 30 people and cost $10 extra, but with the bonus that some beers would be brought just for the panel. The panel speakers were Jason Perkins (head brewer at Allagash), Will Meyers (brewmaster at Cambridge Brewing Company) and Tomme Arthur (founder of Lost Abbey). I lucked out in getting to try all the special panel beers... Allagash Vagabond was sour and aged for 3 years in oak barrels, and it was decent but a bit underwhelming. Tomme Arthur brought Cuvee de Tomme, which I guess is a rare, yearly released sour from Lost Abbey that was pretty good. The star of the show though was CBC's Creaky Bus, a blend of six year old kriek (sour beer aged on cherries) and fresh Arquebus (their summer barleywine) that was thrown together at the last minute when the original beer they were gonna bring wasn't ready. Stars from the floor included Ithaca Frute (the previously mentioned Brute further aged in barrels on strawberries) and CBC's The Colonel (sour barrel aged porter). After clean up (and some more Creaky Bus) I headed to a hotel around the corner for a post fest tasting. People brought a lot of cool stuff, and some of the favorites were The Bruery's Melange #3 (a blend of a few of their beers) and CBC's Great Pumpkin Ale. Probably hung out there drinking for about an hour and a half before calling it a night.
Axeman9182 will return in: Bill Goes to Belgian Beer Fest Part III
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A week from tomorrow then PLM? I'll try and remember to take a peek at the tap list online closer to Saturday and post some thoughts.
sounds great. i've got to start budgeting for beer now lol
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I'm having a Tyskie right now, and realizing that I really need to try more eastern european lagers. I think a trip to Poland or the Czech Republic over spring break is in order.
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Just finnished the leaf blowing/raking anf putting up the gutters. This called for a Brooklyn #2 and it tastes like victory.
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A week from tomorrow then PLM? I'll try and remember to take a peek at the tap list online closer to Saturday and post some thoughts.
sounds great. i've got to start budgeting for beer now lol
:lol yup. I'm lucky in that living at home and not having a car means I have no expenses besides beer :hat
I'm having a Tyskie right now, and realizing that I really need to try more eastern european lagers. I think a trip to Poland or the Czech Republic over spring break is in order.
I haven't really explored the world of lagers a ton. The most prominent kind (pilsner) is probably the only style I've found that I'm really not a fan of, and I'm more fond of the more interesting flavors one can find in an ale.
Just finnished the leaf blowing/raking anf putting up the gutters. This called for a Brooklyn #2 and it tastes like victory.
I think that's how I'd describe the house taste to Brooklyn's beers, victory :D
and now, the thrilling conclusion of Bill Goes to Belgian Beer Fest...
I was up early Saturday morning to head back to the venue for setup for the Saturday sessions. Spent a while lugging kegs and cases of beer to various tables. I was on wristbanding duty again for the first session, but as this was my fourth straight session (going back to the last fest in June) wristbanding, my relative seniority started to reap benefits. I was pulled a half hour after the door opened to help get ready and then work pouring for the Saturday afternoon session speaker panel. This one was billed as "An Intimate Afternoon with Allagash" and featured their founder (Rob Todd) and head brewer.We had four beers lined up from the festival: Big Little, Little Big, Lawrence, and Interlude (another wild ale from Allagash). We also had three panel exclusives lined up: Victor Francenstein (a sour version of Allagash's Victor, aged in barrels on grapes), Coolship Cerise (another Coolship beer, this one I believe aged on cherries), and a 6 liter bottle of 2010 Fluxus (a big stout brewed with a ton of cocoa nibs). We poured almost everything, but ran out of time and had to skip the Coolship beer. Myself and the other two volunteers working the panel had to pour for all the guests first, but then had plenty left for ourselves. We were bummed at not getting to try the Cerise, but when Rob Todd came back to collect what was left after the discussion he gave us one bottle to split and try. The coolship beer was good, but not overwhelming. Victor Francenstein, on the other hand, was absolutely phenomenal and running neck and neck with Frute for my favorite beer of the weekend. It's a shame it was a mini, 500 bottle release at the brewery. The other major standout of the day was Lost Abbey's Framboise de Amorosa, a sour ale aged on raspberries. It was released in bottles, but the tap version brought to the fest was a special "double fruited" version that was fantastic, I must have gone back to the Lost Abbey table 4-5 times that night for more samples. Sam Adams brought a super cool surprise, some of a beer they call their "Old Lambic". It was brewed in 2003 and the unfermented wort was brought up to an apple orchard in New Hampshire and left out to be naturally fermented, and has spent it's time since then sitting in oak barrels. Seven years later it's super tart and super tasty. Only 53 gallons were made, so I may well never seen it again. There was also a collaboration brew from Bell's and the Belgian brewery De Proef. It was a sour dubbel/porter aged on cherries, and just very well executed, all aspects of the beer shone through. The fest closed down at 10 and cleanup was done at 10:30. A few kegs were left out for us to enjoy, and a few rounds of that and a group rendition of the Bed Intruder song later it was time to collect my bottles and head out. I guess there were a lot of half empty cases for them to give out, because I ended up leaving with three 12oz bottles and five(!) 750mL bottles. Sunday morning was the post fest brunch at The Asgard, with $25 of my bill being covered by Beer Advocate as a thank you for volunteering. My buddy and I went and each had a big plate of breakfast as well as three beers. I started with an Allagash White, then an Allagash Curieux (:heart that beer), and then when I realized I had some more time before I had to leave I ordered some Allagash Black. I thought it would be an 8 or 12oz pour, but was served this Belgian stout in a 20oz pint :lol All in all it was an incredible weekend, I can honestly say my only problem the whole time was having to figure out transporting all the beer I had amassed by Sunday morning (half of it is still in MA with family, and I will be reunited with in when said family comes down for Thanksgiving). I'm very much looking forward to doing it all again for Extreme Beer Fest next year (king, it's March 11th and 12th).
This weekend's featured a couple phenomenal new IPAs I got as extras in a recent trade. Nelson is an IPA from Alpine that uses rye in the malt bill and an unusual new hop from New Zealand. It tasted absolutely phenomenal, but was a bit of a miss in the looks/mouthfeel departments. Kern River's Just Outstanding IPA is good, but straightforward IPA brewed with classic american hops (Simcoe and Amarillo figure prominently), but it was absolutely gorgeous looking and nailed the body/carbonation. If I could somehow fuse the best parts of these two beers I'd have just about the best IPA ever :hat
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OM NOM NOM BEER WHY ARE YOU SO DELICIOUS
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Just finnished
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Just finnished
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Jackie, I'll foward all my posts first so you can be my editor. :P
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Oh jesus.
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Oh jesus.
:lol I know. It's a lot of work with my spelling. I guess I would pay you in beer currency. :lol
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Deal.
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Get ready for the bigest beergasm EVER!!!
https://dsc.discovery.com/tv/brew-masters/?#mkcpgn=semdsc6
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Axe, My birthday IS ON MARCH 12TH :metal :metal :metal Who's that for a b-day present!!!
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Guys we need to plan a weekend soon, seriously. I need to go get some stuff from a storage place in Boston so it's a perfect excuse.
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Tonight's weapon of choice was a bomber of Great Divide's fresh hop pale ale, thanks to Jackie. Pretty tasty brew :tup
Axe, My birthday IS ON MARCH 12TH :metal :metal :metal Who's that for a b-day present!!!
That. Is. Awesome. Tickets go on sale soon I believe for the fest, so if you want to give yourself an awesome birthday present I would look into it :D I plan on working all three sessions again, so I wouldn't be around much to hang out and drink until after closing on Saturday.
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So it traveled okay? I was just reading about fresh hop beers and one thing mentioned was that they don't travel well. ::shrug::
I LOVED that stuff at the CO Fresh Hop Celebration, and it was still good bottled but not the same. I guess my tastes were tainted or something (and maybe the passage of time didn't help either). It seemed like there was this awesome fresh grassiness to it that was kind of lost in the bottled one, though. I still have a Deschutes Hop Trip in my fridge that I need to drink soon.
Anyway, for some reason I still have Magic Hat from September so I just had a Hex :)
So much fucking beer to get through before I leave Denver. MY LIFE IS TERRIBLE.
edit: Now I will have a hipa in the bathtub before sleep :D
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Have two nice beers lined up tonight. Belgium-style wheat-bear and a strong IPA. Both from Australian craft brewers. Hopefully they complement the warm summery weather tonight. :azn:
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Guys we need to plan a weekend soon, seriously. I need to go get some stuff from a storage place in Boston so it's a perfect excuse.
Give us a date orc and we'll make it happen.
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God I fucking love HI.P.A. so much. The smell makes me happy.
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God I fucking love HI.P.A. so much. The smell makes me happy.
You'd love the Harpoon stop in VT. They have the hopps growning rigth outside. I need to make a winter trek to there and Longtrail. It's fun when there is snow up there.
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Sweet... I hope I can get to VT in December when I'm back east. I won't have a car so I'll have to convince someone else to drive up there :(
Right now I am drinking the Terrapin/Left Hand collaboration Pt. III, Oxymoron... first India Pale Lager I've ever had and probably the last. It's nice and hoppy at first which is great, but the lager really comes through at the end and I am not a fan of that. I really can't stand maltiness anymore, it seems.
I am very excited to announce that Left Hand's Fade to Black is back on the shelves, which I LOVED last winter. Just bought a six-pack even though I promised myself I wouldn't buy any more beer til I got low :p
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I keep driving by my favorite stop for beer next to work and I'm already thinking of what beers I want to take to the Pats vs. Indy game. I'm thinking a cigar is in order toosince it's my last game till the playoffs.
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I just picked up a six pack of Dogfish Head.
I'll be testing it out later tonight
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which of their beers was it?
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shelter pale ale
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Thank god it wan't 90min IPA His name would change to Puckerslikerichards.
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should i avoid that?
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Just stopping in to say Rickard's white with a slice of lemon is pretty damn good.
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This bottle of Leffe is probably the best beer I have ever had.
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should i avoid that?
It is the hoppiest beer I have ever tasted. It's not for your average beer drinker.
This bottle of Leffe is probably the best beer I have ever had.
It is a slice of heaven.
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should i avoid that?
It is the hoppiest beer I have ever tasted. It's not for your average beer drinker.
I NEED this. My head would completely hate me (I get hop-induced headaches :P ) but oooooh. Do you know what kind of hops they used?
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should i avoid that?
It is the hoppiest beer I have ever tasted. It's not for your average beer drinker.
I NEED this. My head would completely hate me (I get hop-induced headaches :P ) but oooooh. Do you know what kind of hops they used?
Here is your answer!
https://www.dogfish.com/brews-spirits/the-brews/occassional-rarities/120-minute-ipa.htm
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Huh, so "American Hops" is a definite hop type...did not know that, thought they were just being patriotic and vague :D
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American hops isn't a hop type, some brewers don't like divulging all the particulars. Simcoe, Amarillo, Columbus, and Centennial are some of the more common american varietals, they usually have an intensely citrusy flavor. 90 Minute IPA is pretty hoppy, and I definitely wouldn't recommend it to someone just starting out into beer like PLM. The bitterness can be a bit to get used to. 90 Minute, while hoppy though, has a fairly large dose of malt to balance out the hops (as is common in east coast style IPA/DIPAs). There are some west coast brews that are just as hoppy without the malty sweetness to counteract them and they get pretty intensely bitter (but it helps the hop flavors come through even more).
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American hops isn't a hop type, some brewers don't like divulging all the particulars.
That's what I originally thought, but then King came and made me think it was a hop type named "American". hmf.
I've made good friends with Centennial, Simcoe and Amarillo. We used Amarillo in our award winning( :lol ) christmas beer both as bitter and flavour hops. Yes, we had a lot of malty goodness to outweigh the bitterness!
Cascade is also a favorite, that's American, right?
(sorry if I use the wrong words, I'm used to talking and reading about beer and especially brewing in Norwegian)
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yes, there are basically 3 Cs of american hops, and I couldn't remember that cascade is the third one. My next beer is going to be a big, dry, double IPA. It's going to use all Simcoe and Amarillo, and most of the hops will be added late in the boil. There are a few breweries that have experimented, and believe that getting your bitterness from late addition hops rather than traditional, beginning of the boil additions, yields a smoother bitterness.
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Sorry V. I didn't mean to lean to to think it was american hops. Like axe said, some brewers travel the world for the right hops. Most companies, like axe said, keep their secrets and don't divulge what the ingredients are.
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Drinking Blue Moon out of a can. NOt a huge fan, but it's not terrible either.
The Brooklyn BCS was very good. I was pleasantly surprised that it was more of a mellow flavor than I expected.
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Why is it that some beers are kick-ass out of cans and some are disgusting?
Anyway, having the 22 oz. #9 I've been holding onto for a while. Now I only have to wait three weeks until my next Magic Hat :D
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I had a Samuel Smith's Nut Brown Ale tonight with dinner. Very nice beer that was extra tasty alongside meatloaf covered in Ommegang Abbey Ale Gravy :hat After that was a Green Flash West Coast IPA, which is good but totally unremarkable compared to some of the other IPAs coming out of Cali.
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BEHOLD MY EPIC HOMEBREW
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wait, I thought you just got the kit recently... how do you have homebrew already?
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I forgot I had some Russian River Blind Pig sitting around (never tried it before, friends brought it to me a month or two ago). What a wonderful smell...
Oh yeah, and it tastes okay too.
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If I ever hear about you leaving Russian River IPAs around without drinking them super fresh again you're in trouble :P
PLM, if you are indeed going to Monk's Cafe today... Allagash White is one you should definitely try, it's pretty much the quintessential American version of a Belgian witbier. Stoudt's Pils is another one probably worth trying. Personally I don't care much for pilsners, but many craft fans do. Also, that's the style that Bud/Miller/Coors are purportedly brewing their beers in, so drinking a real one should make for a fun comparison. If you want to see what a hoppy beer is about, Bear Republic's Racer 5 is an excellent (though bitter) IPA. St. Bernardus 12 is an absolute malt bomb from Belgium. It's dark and rich and super sweet, and quadrupel is one of my favorite styles. The item that made me drool the most though was that they have a keg right now of five year old Dogfish Head World Wide Stout. This is a monstrous imperial stout that clocks in at 18% (so 4x the alcohol of a normal beer). I (and many people) can't stand this beer fresh, it's too boozy. I've heard (though never been able to try for myself) that it's absolutely sublime once it gets a few years of age on it. So those are my picks, I would say for some of the beers I listed (especially the last three) maybe ask the bartender for a sample before you commit to ordering a whole glass if you are interested. I'm sure if you ask the bartender he'll be glad to point you in the direction of some other good stuff on tap as well.
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ARE YOU MAD MAN!!!! WORLD WIDE STOUT! :laugh:
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If I ever hear about you leaving Russian River IPAs around without drinking them super fresh again you're in trouble :P
PLM, if you are indeed going to Monk's Cafe today... Allagash White is one you should definitely try, it's pretty much the quintessential American version of a Belgian witbier. Stoudt's Pils is another one probably worth trying. Personally I don't care much for pilsners, but many craft fans do. Also, that's the style that Bud/Miller/Coors are purportedly brewing their beers in, so drinking a real one should make for a fun comparison. If you want to see what a hoppy beer is about, Bear Republic's Racer 5 is an excellent (though bitter) IPA. St. Bernardus 12 is an absolute malt bomb from Belgium. It's dark and rich and super sweet, and quadrupel is one of my favorite styles. The item that made me drool the most though was that they have a keg right now of five year old Dogfish Head World Wide Stout. This is a monstrous imperial stout that clocks in at 18% (so 4x the alcohol of a normal beer). I (and many people) can't stand this beer fresh, it's too boozy. I've heard (though never been able to try for myself) that it's absolutely sublime once it gets a few years of age on it. So those are my picks, I would say for some of the beers I listed (especially the last three) maybe ask the bartender for a sample before you commit to ordering a whole glass if you are interested. I'm sure if you ask the bartender he'll be glad to point you in the direction of some other good stuff on tap as well.
Thanks man I'll be sure to try at least one of those. Do these sorts of places generally let you sample stuff before buying?
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Varies from bar to bar somewhat, and also probably depends on how busy they are, but any good beer bar should. As long as you don't ask to sample everything you should be OK :lol
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ARE YOU MAD MAN!!!! WORLD WIDE STOUT! :laugh:
only because it's five years old, so A) It shouldn't be a booze bomb and B) I can live vicariously through him, because I would give my left (but not right) nut for some vintage WWS. PLM, just don't close your trip with both the Saint Bernardus and the DFH WWS, that's a recipe for disaster :lol Those are definitely sipping beers, best consumed over a good while.
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Yeah, some places let you sample and some don't... some also don't let you sample the more hardcore beers.
I loved the Blind Pig... also had a Fat Tire last night (that was literally the best option, which pisses me off), which was pretty good at this particular place on tap. Sometimes it sucks. It's not my favorite beer to begin with, so I'm picky. Also had a Great Divide Hibernation Ale, which was okay. Not really my style.
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Here is the beer list for tomorrows tailgating at Foxboro.
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Last night I started with another Sam Smith's Nut Brown Ale with meatloaf leftovers. Then it was a 750 of Lost Abbey's Red Barn Ale. This is one of the bottles I got from working BBF, and it was a pretty good saison. A bit of a changeup from the typical saison flavors as LA went heavy enough on spicing it with orange peel that citrus overtook spicy notes from the yeast, black pepper, and grains of paradise to become the predominant flavor. I checked in on my homebrew next and I'm still not happy with where this is. It'll probably be months before the hops die down enough to where I think the beer's approaching what I'm looking for from it. I only had half the glass before I decided to ditch it for another Sam Smith's
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Bill, was the Lost Abbey's Red Barn Ale too strong on the citrus side or was it just enough to make it a pleasant drink.
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No, I wouldn't say too strong on the citrus, but enough to make it interesting. I think the way I put it in my review was that I prefer the typical, spice forward saison flavor, but this would be a nice occasional change of pace saison. Almost how I prefer Coca Cola to Pepsi, but every once in a while a Pepsi really just hits the spot.
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I am currently drinking Tommyknocker's Hop Strike, which is a black rye IPA... and VERY interesting. Smells great and just has a really nice, different taste to it. It's hoppy and chocolately and... rye-y?... at the same time. Also produces a nice burp (this is important). I think I am gonna have to try and get some more of this before I go back east.
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Just finished my work for the quarter and am celebrating being 2/3 done with grad school with a 2009 Alaskan Smoked Porter. This is really yummy; I can see why it won at the GABF. Gotta give it some more time to warm up, though.
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I cracked my first bottle of Temptation last night (thanks again Jackie!), super tasty beer from Russian River. I'm gonna cellar my other bottle for a while and see what happens. Anybody else catch Brewmasters last night on Discovery? I thought it was pretty good.
Also, PLM hasn't posted in this thread since early Saturday. I'm starting to worry he hit the World Wide Stout too hard :lol
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I blame you! :lol
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:lol
I have no TV so I did not see Brewmasters but Tony loved it so I'm gonna try and see if I can watch it online.
Glad you like the Temptation (did you know it traveled in my mom's boot? :lol). I put mine in the fridge last night finally, will probably drink it in the next couple of days.
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:lol
I have no TV so I did not see Brewmasters but Tony loved it so I'm gonna try and see if I can watch it online.
Glad you like the Temptation (did you know it traveled in my mom's boot? :lol). I put mine in the fridge last night finally, will probably drink it in the next couple of days.
Mmmn. Beer in a boot. Sounds so familiar? :biggrin:
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Also, PLM hasn't posted in this thread since early Saturday. I'm starting to worry he hit the World Wide Stout too hard :lol
I ended up not going. It's a long story involving the theft of my debit card information. I'll see if I can go sometime in the next few weeks though
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Oy, that sucks!
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Had my Temptation in the bathtub last night :metal
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Had my Temptation in the bathtub last night :metal
What was his name? ;)
I've never had it. I must search it out.
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:lol
It is yummy! I suppose they don't sell it back east since Bill asked me to send it to him but I'm sure you can find a way to get your hands on it.
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My perusal of recent posts was admittedly quick, but I didn't see any mention of Brew Masters on the Discovery Channel. Anyone catch it? I've enjoyed everything I've tried from Dogfish Head, except raison d'etre, and i thought the show was pretty entertaining. It was a bit of a stretch, though, to buy into the significance of releasing a beer to coincide with the re-release of Miles Davis's Bitches Brew. I dont see any connection besides the play on words used. Nevertheless, I think I would like to try some of it if it is still available anywhere.
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DVR'd. I will watch it soon.
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My perusal of recent posts was admittedly quick, but I didn't see any mention of Brew Masters on the Discovery Channel. Anyone catch it?
Look about 7 posts up :P
It was a bit of a stretch, though, to buy into the significance of releasing a beer to coincide with the re-release of Miles Davis's Bitches Brew. I dont see any connection besides the play on words used.
One word: fusion.
And yes, hunt it down. There's a new batch out, apparently. I still have one bottle from the last :)
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I watched the show, thought it was pretty good. Jackie, I forget, did you hold on to one of your bottles for me?
No beer for me tonight, I was cooking and drinking port with my mom. I have a fairly epic lineup in place for Thursday though :hat
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Yeah, I think I still have two in NJ.
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Yeah, I think I still have two in NJ.
Jackie, the human squirel. Hiding beers across the states in human tree huts.
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:rollin
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I KNEW IT! Those poor Squirels are wondering, "Where the hell is my nuts and why isn't this squirel talking to me"?
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Jackie. My wife almost fell over at the Squirel koozies picture.
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Those are actually real dead squirrels. :eek
https://www.nowpublic.com/strange/end-history-roadkill-beer-sells-out-within-hours-2643564.html (https://www.nowpublic.com/strange/end-history-roadkill-beer-sells-out-within-hours-2643564.html)
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I know! An article was posted here a while ago... I can't remember if it was me or someone else. I just tend to associate myself with anything squirrel-related that goes on here :lol
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Next weekend is the Wynkoop's Parade of Darks (https://wynkoop.com/happenings/206-parade-of-darks)
The almost-final beer list:
Avery Brewing - The Czar Imperial Stout, Old Jubilation
AC Golden - Colorado Native, Baltic Porter, Dunkel
Bateman's - Mr. George's Ruby Porter
Boulevard Brewing - Dopplebock
Breckenridge Brewery - Christmas Ale, Oatmeal Stout, Vanilla Porter
Bristol Brewing - Winter Warlock Stout, Old #23 Barley Wine, Christmas Ale
Bull & Bush - Big Ben Brown, Stonehenge Stout, Yule Fuel
De Proef - Witte Noire
Drydock Brewing - Black Death Russian Imperial Stout, Malted Milk Stout, Belgian Quadrupel
Golden City Brewery - Christmas Ale
Great Divide - Yeti Imperial Stout, Oak Aged Yeti, Old Ruffian Barley Wine, Claymore Scotch Ale, Hibernation
Grimm Brothers Brewing - Master Thief German Porter, Fearless Youth Munich Dunkel, The Owl Smoked Porter
Left Hand - Fade to Black, Milk Stout, Wake Up Dead Imperial Stout
Lost Abbey - Serpent's Stout
Maui Brewing - Coconut Porter
Pints Pub- Dark Star Yorkshire Olde Ale (firkin)
Port Brewing - Santa's Little Helper
Pug Ryan's- Kitchen Sink Barrel-Aged Stout
Ska - Ten Pin Porter, Nefarious Ten Pin Imperial Porter, Steel Toe Stout, Clancy's Black Beer
Strange Brewing - Pumpkin Porter, Vanilla Rum Porter, Paint It Black Honey Coffee Stout, Tainted Black Pale
Twisted Pine - Pearl Street Porter, Honey Brown, Imperial Porter
Wynkoop Brewing - Sagebrush Stout, Cowtown Milk Stout, B3K Schwarzbier, Coconut/Vanilla/El Dorado Hops Milk Stout, 2010 Barrel Aged Barley Wine, Gingerbread B3K
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Holy wow of epic list! And it's a fundraiser!
..I think the only brewery on that list I've seen for sale in Norway is Left Hand, and then only Haystack Wheat. Also I've drank (drunken?) Lost Abbey 10 commandments once. Oh my. Enjoy, bout to! Sounds awesome!
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Oh man, Left Hand has so many awesome beers! I've never had the Haystack because I'm not a big wheat fan but everything else I've had from them has been awesome (I've got some Fade to Black in my fridge right now, a smoked baltic porter :D).
Yeah, the fact that it's a fundraiser makes me feel a little better about spending $25 I shouldn't be spending :lol
The stupid website won't let me buy advance tickets though >:(
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Wynkoop's Parade of Darkes7. ;D
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:lolpalm:
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So at Thanksgiving my brother and I shared a Petrus Gouden Tripel ale. Ringing in at 7.5 ABV's it was a smooth accompaniment to my shmorgishborg of side dishes.(I don't eat turkey. WUT you say?)
Tonight I tried for the first time Victory V-12 Belgian-style specialty ale. HOLY SHIT is this strong. At 12 ABV's it packs a wallop in taste and alcohol. I'm buzzed sharing a bottle with the wifey. It reminds me of a beer at the Boston Beer Works called Hercules Strong Ale. Drink at your own risk but enjoy it's bold flavor. I love it.
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Never tried that one... really strong beers are kind of hit or miss with me but I definitely don't like a beer that really tastes its alcohol content... like I had that He'brew 14th anniversary stuff at my friend's the other night and I think it's like 14%... no thanks.
Tonight I had the Strange coffee stout and did not like it as much as I remember liking it last time. They're awesome, though. Also had Boulevard's Sixth Glass quadrupel which was pretty good (and got better as it warmed up a bit) but tasted a bit strong compared to similar beers I've had.
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so I'm currently a little bit sick, and it is totally fucking with my ability to enjoy beer :(
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any other craft stuff you can recommend thats available in the philly area? i quite dug the dogfish head
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so I'm currently a little bit sick, and it is totally fucking with my ability to enjoy beer :(
My brother said the same thing at thanksgiving and he was a bit upset since he was going the day after to the Bruins game and then on to Sunset. He said at dinner he couldn't taste a thing.any other craft stuff you can recommend thats available in the philly area? i quite dug the dogfish head
PLM. Try Victory Beer. https://victorybeer.com/
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so I'm currently a little bit sick, and it is totally fucking with my ability to enjoy beer :(
Lame :(
Yeah, I usually don't even bother when I'm sick because I can't really enjoy it and I feel like I'm wasting it. Drink some tea, motherfucker.
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yeah, I had a little bit of an issue enjoying everything at Thanksgiving, and I had a few beers at a bar for lunch yesterday that I know I like (Bear Republic Ryevalry, Troegs Mad Elf) that just didn't seem right. I'm gonna hold off an any future libations until I'm feeling a bit better.
PLM, I would second king's mention of Victory, and add in Troegs and Weyerbacher as very solid breweries. Chimay is probably the most ubiquitous of the Belgians if you want to dip your toes into that pool. Another option to explore Belgian style brews is Ommegang. They're out of Cooperstown NY, but they should be relatively easy to find. Hennepin and Ommegang Abbey Ale would both make great intros to their styles (saison and dubbel respectively).
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Having a Founders Backwoods Bastard (Ale aged in bourbon barrels) :tup
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man, being sick sure does suck. I haven't been able to drink all week :(
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Man, that must be a bad cold. You feeling any better?
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Yeah, thanks. It actually turned out that I had bronchitis. I've been on medicine and I think the sickness is gone, but I still have some congestion left behind, and that's what's messing with my ability to drink.
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Fuckin' bronchitis. I had that back in September, with a hint of pneumonia. Not fun. Glad you're getting over it!
As for beer... I just had an Alaskan winter, which was okay. Last night I had stouts from Avery (I think it was called Out of Bounds?), Boulevard (I'm too lazy to look up the name right now but it was maybe the hoppiest stout I've ever had), and Dogfish (Chicory).
Tomorrow is the Parade of Darks, where I will hopefully get to try most of these-
Next weekend is the Wynkoop's Parade of Darks (https://wynkoop.com/happenings/206-parade-of-darks)
The almost-final beer list:
Avery Brewing - The Czar Imperial Stout, Old Jubilation
AC Golden - Colorado Native, Baltic Porter, Dunkel
Bateman's - Mr. George's Ruby Porter
Boulevard Brewing - Dopplebock
Breckenridge Brewery - Christmas Ale, Oatmeal Stout, Vanilla Porter
Bristol Brewing - Winter Warlock Stout, Old #23 Barley Wine, Christmas Ale
Bull & Bush - Big Ben Brown, Stonehenge Stout, Yule Fuel
De Proef - Witte Noire
Drydock Brewing - Black Death Russian Imperial Stout, Malted Milk Stout, Belgian Quadrupel
Golden City Brewery - Christmas Ale
Great Divide - Yeti Imperial Stout, Oak Aged Yeti, Old Ruffian Barley Wine, Claymore Scotch Ale, Hibernation
Grimm Brothers Brewing - Master Thief German Porter, Fearless Youth Munich Dunkel, The Owl Smoked Porter
Left Hand - Fade to Black, Milk Stout, Wake Up Dead Imperial Stout
Lost Abbey - Serpent's Stout
Maui Brewing - Coconut Porter
Pints Pub- Dark Star Yorkshire Olde Ale (firkin)
Port Brewing - Santa's Little Helper
Pug Ryan's- Kitchen Sink Barrel-Aged Stout
Ska - Ten Pin Porter, Nefarious Ten Pin Imperial Porter, Steel Toe Stout, Clancy's Black Beer
Strange Brewing - Pumpkin Porter, Vanilla Rum Porter, Paint It Black Honey Coffee Stout, Tainted Black Pale
Twisted Pine - Pearl Street Porter, Honey Brown, Imperial Porter
Wynkoop Brewing - Sagebrush Stout, Cowtown Milk Stout, B3K Schwarzbier, Coconut/Vanilla/El Dorado Hops Milk Stout, 2010 Barrel Aged Barley Wine, Gingerbread B3K
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Still jealous of the Parade of Darks :( Think of me when you drink Serpent's Stout? :P
We made a Pilsner the other day, it's supposed to ferment at 10 degrees (50 F) which it was in the basement. Until suddenly it got much colder in the basement :flail: We had to open the window in our bedroom and sleep in 10 degrees for 4 nights until we found a refrigerator someone wanted to give away and then we put that in the basement with a heating source inside and put the beer there. This beer better get good! My toes was constantly cold for 4 days :P
Also beer related - Adresseavisa, the big paper in our part of Norway interviewed us about home brewing while we made an IPA the other day.
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very cool veronica (pun not intended) :hat Pilsner is probably the only style of beer I can say I've tried and I'm not a fan of.
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lolcool
Yeah, not a pilsner fan either.
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Me neither! Most pilsners are bland, watery stuff -yuck. So we thought "we can do better than that!" :lol Have any of you tried "the original" pilsner, Urquell? That's not bad at all, it actually tastes something!
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I had Urquell once, but wasn't a fan. I've had a few other pilseners but didn't really care for any of them.
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I haven't had it.
Btw, Parade of Darks was fucking awesome yesterday! I was such a mess...
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Good drinks? That was a long list you posted :P
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Yes, a very long list... which is why it's difficult for me to form a coherent narrative about the experience :lol
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I've never had Urquell, but I've had a few highly regarded American craft versions (Victory Prima Pils, Sam Adams Noble Pils, Brooklyn Pils, Trumer Pils) and they all have a similar very grassy hop characteristic to me, and it's just not my bag.
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Pils usually tastes...nothing. Here in Norway, at least. It's the beer you get when you order "one beer", every kinda-big brewery has its own version... meh. But yeah, the pilsner Urquell is thoroughly hopped, and so will ours be as well. It'll be interesting.
I thought I'd link you to some tales of our brewing session but everything we write is in Norwegian and google translate just made a jumble out of it all :lol
Today I've bought one Trappistes Rochefort 8, and one Trappistes Rochefort 10. Because I never can remember which one I like best and now I'm gonna find out for certain.
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That sounds like a plan :lol
I'm having my second to last Left Hand Fade to Black (smoked baltic porter). Fucking mmmm. I'm really in a smoked mood right now.
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I'm having a Blue Moon Winter Abbey. It's not too bad.
Which leads me to a question. I've had three different abbeys (this Blue moon seasonal, the New Belgium Abbey and the North Coast Brother Thelonius). I know they're not the original Trappist ales, but similar. Which of the three I tried are closest to the original?
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The Trappist beers are different from monastery to monastery, the link is that they're all Trappist monks and brew in similar style and very "Belgian". That said, I haven't tasted any of those you mentioned. They're all American abbey-style beers, I guess?
FAKE EDIT:
Husband says Brother Thelonius tastes very little like a Belgian, more like a dark lager if he remembers correctly.
And so I assume that the New Belgium Abbey is the most similar to that trappist style, since Blue Moon is from Corrs (or Corrs micro brewery)?
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I have no idea, but I liked New Belgium's when I went to the brewery this summer... and enjoyed Brother Thelonius too if I remember correctly.
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THREAD BUMP
I'm too lazy to recount drinking adventures of the last few weeks, but many awesome beers were consumed (Ithaca Brute, Deschutes Abyss to name two). A special shoutout to Pretty Things Our Finest Regards though, it's an English Barleywine that clocks in at 13.5%ABV yet manages to be so drinkable it should be illegal. Right now I'm sipping on a Terrapin Moo Hoo, their new Milk Stout that lives up to its name and is in fact just like drinking chocolate milk. Delicious grownup chocolate milk. On deck is a Terrapin Wake n Bake, their imperial coffee oatmeal stout.
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Bill, a guy I met at GABF just told me how much he loved that Terrapin. Where did you get it? I haven't done much shopping lately but probably should.
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I had me a few DABs the other night..very good
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The last memorable beer I had was the New Belgium Trippel. Not too bad.
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I enjoyed that one!
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I spent a few hours last night nursing my own 750 of Ommegang 3 Philosophers... really wish I had taken it out of the fridge a while before I was going to open it, because it was much better as it approached room temperature. The blending of a litttle bit of kriek (the bottle says 98% Ale 2% Ale on cherries) gives it a unique touch for a quad.
So there's a brewery, the New England Brewing Company, that releases an imperial stout every winter called Imperial Stout Trooper. For the first 3 years of release (running up through last year) the bottle label looked like this
(https://img844.imageshack.us/img844/458/imperialstouttrooper.jpg) (https://img844.imageshack.us/i/imperialstouttrooper.jpg/)
Eventually they got a cease and desist letter from George Lucas and friends for the label (but not the name). All year people have been wondering what the redesigned label would look like, and we finally have our answer :D
(https://img716.imageshack.us/img716/8962/newist.jpg) (https://img716.imageshack.us/i/newist.jpg/)
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$17!! :omg: It better be good. I love the Groucho look!
I've got to be a good boy and drink only 12 packs that are on sale till I find a job so I'm drinking a Long Trail Hibernator right now.
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They sell it at the brewery for a week or two before sending it out for distrobution (they may even still be selling it for all I know), and it's only $12.99 there. I scored one bottle of last year's batch and it was alright at first, but its deliciousness really came through once it warmed. I got in contact with a NJ beer advocate who drove up to the brewery and bought two cases, and he's gonna hook me up with five bottles in exchange for some stuff from my cellar.
Tonight I had another Terrapin Moo Hoo (really liking this beer, too bad it's only going to be a seasonal), part of a Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout (rest of the bottle went into a batch of brownies), and a bomber of Terrapin's new Side Project beer Big Daddy Vladdy. It's a Russian Imperial Stout, and it's alright, but it tastes a bit young. I'll probably stick another bottle or two in the cellar, because I really do think it has some potential, but just needs some time to mellow out and come together.
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sipping tonight on my first bottle of Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Vanilla Stout. I'm sure I've waxed poetic in the past about what a rich, chocolaty, bourbon-y delight regular Bourbon County Stout is, and this is a special release of that beer that was aged on vanilla beans. It's absolutely delicious :D
I got a ton of beer from family for Christmas, and the one major surprise was my parents finding a bottle of Brewdog's Sink the Bismarck, a freeze-distilled barrel aged imperial stout that clocks in at 32%ABV. When it was released a year or two ago it was the "highest ABV beer in the world" (though some, including myself, might balk at calling it truly a beer). I also got a bunch of DFH beer to add to my cellar for an ongoing experiment/adventure where I aim on documenting how some of Dogfish's big beers change with age on them. Specifically I'll be looking at World Wide Stout, Olde School Barleywine, and Palo Santo Marron.
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Jeeze, 32%!?
So uh, Bill... about sommadat Imperial Stout Trooper in exchange for the Temptation I got you... :P
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i wanna try some stuff while partying for new years. bill can i have some suggestions?
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What kinda stuff you lookin' for?
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@Jackie: Definitely. I'm supposed to be getting my bottles shortly after the new year. Make your way down here for a hang out session and you can have one :P
@PLM: First thing that came to my mind was it could be cool to do a night of Chimay. Check out the red (dubbel), white (tripel), and then crack a bottle of the blue (quad) at midnight.
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My local bottle-o sells a nice 750ml bottle of Duuvel. picked one up tonight. Such a reliable brewery. Beautiful Belgium golden, just like Delirium. God I want to go to Belgium one day :biggrin:
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Chimay red is by the way an excellent beer choice if you're having turkey for new years! Soooo good combination.
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I would bet. I had Chimay Blue with some nice steak for dinner on Christmas Day, and it was *awesome*
tonight I led off with a Dogfish Head Punkin, if for no other reason than to make room in my fridge and get another bottle for homebrewing. Then I had a bottle of each of my batches of homebrew I have lying around, a hoppy brown ale and an imperial stout. The hoppy brown is alright, but I don't think I'll be sharing much of it (at least if I'm not there to handle it) because there's way too much yeast left in each bottle. The imperial stout I think will be good, but it's probably still a little green. I closed the night with another bottle of Terrapin Moo Hoo, which is quickly becoming one of my favorite winter seasonal beers.
I spent some of my free time today working out the details and putting together a shopping list for my next homebrew batch. It's going to be a big double IPA, brewed with all simcoe and amarillo hops. It's also going to be my first crack at using grains and mashing in instead of just using dry malt extract :hat
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I want that Terrapin, dammit.
@Jackie: Definitely. I'm supposed to be getting my bottles shortly after the new year. Make your way down here for a hang out session and you can have one :P
I'm leaving Saturday :sadpanda: :sadpanda:
Just save me one... and I still have your Bitches Brew!
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Tonight (after work), if I feel well enough, I have a Southern Tier Big Red sitting around I'd like to try.
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I want that Terrapin, dammit.
@Jackie: Definitely. I'm supposed to be getting my bottles shortly after the new year. Make your way down here for a hang out session and you can have one :P
I'm leaving Saturday :sadpanda: :sadpanda:
Just save me one... and I still have your Bitches Brew!
boo hiss :(
Tonight's main event was a half liter bottle of Aventinus. Such a delicious beer, and a freaking steal at ~$4 a bottle. Following it up with a 2009 Brooklyn Monster Ale (English barleywine). It's alright, but a bit too boozy/young for me.
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I just saw the Monster Ale at one of the two places I shop at, yestersday. My wife and I would rather drink fine beer then champagne. Don't you just love her. :laugh: I'll post our 3 picks later.
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The wife and I stayed in for new years and I made my veg. fried rice. We got a bottle from Berkshire Brewery. It's a Bourbon Barreled Aged Scotch Ale. WOW!! It packed a punch. they don't tell you the avb's but I've got a good buzz on with food in my belly so you can take a stab that it is high. Smokey, rich and a strong taste of alcohol are there with every sip. Here's a link about the beer. More to come!
https://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/33/62660
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very nice way to kick things off :hat
I went to dinner with some family and ended up drinking a bottle of Brooklyn Local 1 all by my lonesome. Drinking a Terrapin Coffee Oatmeal Stout now to bridge to the special bomber I have lined up for midnight
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Love the #1 and #2 Bill
Next on the bill was Southern Tier Imperial Choklat Stout. This......was........outstanding!!
It was paired with Ben and Jerry's Magic Brownies ice cream and it was to die for. A whoping 11.0 ABV's with such a robust coffee flavor to it. Here is the link to the beer.
https://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/3818/40058
One more to go at midnight.
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I'm imagining Choklat and Ben & Jerry's Magic Brownies ice cream, and there' now noticeably less available real estate in my pants. I rung in the new year with a bottle of Firestone Walker's 14th Anniversary blend. Firestone Walker is a brewery out in Cali that does some kind of barrel aging on all their beers, even if it's just a few days in giant oak barrels during primary fermentation for their pale ales. Starting with their 10th anniversary they began releasing anniversary blends, where they would bring in some local wine and beer experts to sample all the different beers in different barrels they had laying around and collaborate on a blend of them for that year's beer. This year the blend includes, among others, an imperial stout, an American barleywine, an English barleywine, and a double IPA. It's without a doubt one of the best beers I've had in a long while.
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The Mrs. and I were growning in pleasure like Homer J. Simpson having the Ben & Jerry's with the southern Tier. :laugh:
At the crack of midnight the wife and I had the Berkshire Dean’s Beans Coffeehouse Porter. It was like drinking coffee beans. I love the robust coffee flavor and very creamy.
https://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/33/85/?ba=bros
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I grabbed a half liter bottle of Schneider-Brooklyner Hopfen Weiss (not to be confused with the Brooklyn-Schneider Hopfen Weiss :lol) that went very nicely with grilled vegetable sandwich for dinner. Came home from the movies and cracked a 750 of Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence which, while not bad, is neither chocolaty nor... indulgenty.
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Tonight was a New Jersey Beer Company Abbey Single (decent), Anchor 2010 Our Special Ale (way overspiced winter warmer for my taste), and a year old Terrapin Wake n Bake (the coffee has definitely faded, but this one is drinking nicely I think). More importantly, I completed my trade for Imperial Stout Trooper and reorganized my cellar. Here's everything pulled out and ready to be counted and put back in place
https://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss196/axeman9182/Beer/DSC02938.jpg
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Here's everything pulled out and ready to be counted and put back in place
https://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss196/axeman9182/Beer/DSC02938.jpg
:eek :hefdaddy
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Tonight was a New Jersey Beer Company Abbey Single (decent), Anchor 2010 Our Special Ale (way overspiced winter warmer for my taste), and a year old Terrapin Wake n Bake (the coffee has definitely faded, but this one is drinking nicely I think). More importantly, I completed my trade for Imperial Stout Trooper and reorganized my cellar. Here's everything pulled out and ready to be counted and put back in place
https://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss196/axeman9182/Beer/DSC02938.jpg
This picture needs to be framed.
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yeah... when you work full time and have literally no expenses (live at home, no car, etc...) then there's lots of money left over for beer :D
191 bottles and counting, and that's after moving a couple bottles to my "drink in the immediate future" fridge. The whole list got reset yesterday
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoUS96bplKrmdHd3UGMyX3pVT0sxeEozSmFvWFNGTGc&hl=en&authkey=CKPru8UB
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(https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3413/3334993956_9c5fb77f3c_o.jpg)
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:hefdaddy Thorny!
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Well. Here is the menu for the tailgating at the Pats/Jets game.
Peak Organic Expresso Amber Ale
Smuttynose Wheat Wine Ale
And the best for last,
Brooklyn Local #1
Game on!!!
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I had a Ska Nefarious Ten Pin imperial porter the other night, which was quite yummy.
I'm also psyched because I picked up more Tommyknocker Hop Strike! Black Rye IPA, which I just fucking LOVE.
I also picked up two others that I can't remember at the moment.
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went out and bought a bunch of beers with my cousin today. We then cracked a bottle each of Sierra Nevada Porter and Flying Fish American Trippel while watching Inception. Next stop was the Cloverleaf Tavern, one of the few decent beer bars in northern NJ. They have an MBA (Master's in Beer Appreciation) program where you need to complete a 45 beer checklist. I started in on that before suffering (not an exaggeration) through glasses of Stella Artois and Palm. I thought I was stepping up to good beer when I ordered a pint of Cricket Hill's Bourbon Barrel Porter, but it honestly tasted like a run of the mill porter with a bunch of shitty bourbon poured in. No smoothness/integration/complexity at all. I did manage to end on a high note with a glass of Rodenbach Grand Cru on tap, a very delicious sour. Other recent adventures include getting reviews down for fresh Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron, Olde School Barleywine, and World Wide Stout, so I can track how I like each beer as it ages. Ingredients for my massive double IPA hop bomb should be in soon, hopefully I'll be brewing next weekend :D
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Oh man, I have one of those Cloverleaf MBA things but I've only had like 2-3 beers there and that was maybe 2 years ago. Wtf is Palm?
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the Coors Light of Belgian Pale Ales
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Picked up a 70 cl bottle of Leffe Brune (Brown) today. I've only ever had the blonde before, but it's one of my favorite belgian beers so I'm really psyched to try it out.
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Whelp, I definitely approve of that beer. :hat
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Almost all set to go on the homebrewing front, except the stupid supply store mailed me a one ounce bag of hops instead of a half pound bag. My replacement better be here in time for Friday night's brewing :D Saturday I'll be doing a daylong trip into PA with my cousin to buy some beer and visit Monk's Cafe for a late lunch. I'll be cracking a 750 if Ithaca's 12th Anniversary quad for the Jets game today, hopefully it won't be blended with my tears by the end :lol
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I've always read of Monk's Cafe. You must give us your review Bill.
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Well, brewday is gonna be delayed at least through the weekend due to my hops not getting here in time. Still set to go to PA on Saturday though, and possibly meet PLM for a beer at Monk's.
Oh, and my Ithaca Twelve was tear free and awesome on Sunday :D
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Trying a Well's Banana Bread Beer right now; it's really interesting. The banana is really light, almost citrusy. It works really well.
Also, have a Brewdog Punk IPA in the fridge for tomorrow night :caffeine:
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Went to a soup shop tonight and the wife and I shared a Dogfish Head Chickory Stout. Man they make great beers.
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Found that our cellar is the perfect temperature to bottom ferment something in right now, and the weather is supposed to be exactly like this for over a week, so late last evening we decided to brew a bayer today in addition to the planned bitter-brewing. Oh yeaaah.
The name of our bitter will be "The World's About To End". Points for reference ;)
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:metal
I've tried a lot since I last posted in here, such as everything at Port 44 in Newark, NJ (get yo ass over there, Bill). My two favorites were Devil's Red and the stout (forget the name) but most of them were good. The only one I didn't dig was the pomegranate wheat, too sweet. But even the Goldfinch ale was yummy (I was expecting more boring), and I'm usually not a wheat fan but that one was good too. We went back for the new scotch ale they just put on tap Tuesday, and that was pretty good (I only tried it because I'm not usually into those but Tony really liked it).
Tonight I got to have the Wynkoop's Mile HiPA, which was even better than the last time they had it on tap. I even took a growler home :D
God, the smell is just so good.
I'm pissed though, I got some beers in Jersey City that I forgot to bring to Tony's parents' place (including that coffee Terrapin stuff) so now I'm not sure if they'll be good when I go back that way. May have to convince him to mail them.
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So my weekend started with a trip into NYC to do an in person trade over lunch on Thursday. Left with a couple bottles each of Boulevard Brewing's quad aged on cherries in bourbon barrels and brettanomyces infused saison, as well as a year old bottle of Deschutes cocoa nib/coffee infused bourbon barrel aged porter. Friday was a brewday, and I have a massive double IPA happily fermenting away as we speak. Saturday was a day long roadtrip into Pennsylvania with my cousin. We hit up a distributor for a case of Hopslam (fucking delicious once a year release from Bell's), then a rare PA bottle shop where I got a 3.5 year old wild ale from Ommegang among other treats (could have spent way more money, but ended up behaving myself because the place was way overpriced). Final stop was a well known Belgian beer bar in downtown Philly that was a pretty cool visit. We then headed home and to the Cloverleaf for dinner. In my stupidity I lost my MBA card, so I'll have to choke down a Palm and Stella Artois again at some point in the future. I started off with a tasty Weihenstephaner hefe, before choking down a severely skunked Pilsner Urquell. Sam Smith's Nut Brown Ale was a nice accompaniment for dinner before capping my night with another glass of *delicious* Rodenbach Grand Cru. Tonight was a bottle of Southampton's quad for the Jets game (:() and now some Hopslam to try and numb the pain.
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Monday night a took a trip to a Belgian beer bar in NYC for a special Brooklyn night. I had on tap Brooklyn Blast (Double IPA), Dark Matter (bourbon barrel aged brown ale), 2007 Monster Ale, and 2007 Black Chocolate Stout. In addition, Garrett Oliver and some other people from the brewery showed up and started pouring what they call "ghost bottles", stuff that was bottled but never made available for purchase. They poured bottles of the original 2006 test batch of Local 1, Local 1 aged on Riesling lees (what's left behind in the barrels after wine is made), Wild 1 (wild, bourbon barrel aged Local 1), and bottles of a new collaboration with an Italian brewery. They also had bottles of 1997(!) Black Chocolate Stout, but they brewery staff basically hoarded them for themselves :lol I came home and, despite being pretty drunk cracked a 12% maple bourbon barrel aged barleywine. Founders Nemesis 2009, despite being a year old, is still a bit boozy.
Last night I cracked a bottle of Hopslam when I got home from work (absolutely delicious) and then after dinner a bomber of Terrapin's Hoptaneous Combustion. It's a smoked double IPA and a fairly unique brew. They almost pulled it off, but the smoky finish blots out a bit too much of the hop flavor.
5 days after brewing my Double IPA has just about finished fermenting out. A couple more days and I'll be ready to add in the dry hops :hat
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Wild 1 (wild, bourbon barrel aged Local 1) :omg: *Homer drools*
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Wild 1 (wild, bourbon barrel aged Local 1) :omg: *Homer drools*
Yeah, pretty much. Fingers are crossed for a commercial release of that one later this year
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Wynkoop Mile HI.P.A.
Tastes better every time I drink it.
And more cannabis-like.
:heart :heart
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just got back from Southampton's Russian Imperial Stout release party. My cousin and I got up at 4am to drive out to Long Island and get on line. We got out allotments of bottles (I ended up with some of my cousin's bottles as well) plus a signed copy of the Southampton brewmaster's book on Farmhouse Ales, and then sat down in the dining room for lunch and a few rounds. All in all a very smooth release party with lots of good beer, and they even got us complimentary snifters commemorating the day. Now it's time for a nap :D
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started tonight by dumping almost half a pound of hops into my double IPA for some dry hopping. Kicked off drinking with some Hopslam, before cracking a bottle of Deschuted Black Butte XXI. It's an imperial, 11% version of their regular Black Butte porter, infused with coffee and cocoa nibs and partially aged in bourbon barrels. They've released it as an anniversary beer starting with Black Butte XX is 2008, and the XXI is drinking incredibly right now. One of the best beers I've had in a good while.
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Sweet! I remember trying the Black Butte, last year I think it was.
I just tried Rogue's Yellow Snow IPA, which started out more yummy than I expected but got a little more... boring as time went on.
And now I'm finally drinking the Founder's Nemesis 2010 I've had since September and wooooo. I have trouble with barleywines but it's pretty good. Not as strong as I expected for 12% but still strong.
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Yeah I really liked Founders 2010 Nemesis (2009 not so much, at least yet). I had to go back to my reviews to check though, because Sierra Nevada released one of their 30th anniversary beers that was a black barleywine at the same time and I always get the two confused. Funny enough, the SN brew ended up with a slightly higher score even though I thought the Founders one tasted better, just because Sierra's scored a bit higher for things like look and mouthfeel.
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Hmm, I wonder if that was the one they were serving at the Wynkoop Parade of Darks. I can't keep track of all this shit :lol
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So in planning my travels for this easter break, I found a bar in Brussels that serves 2000 different beers.
Not just buckets, but casks were come.
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So in planning my travels for this easter break, I found a bar in Brussels that serves 2000 different beers.
Not just buckets, but casks were come.
Is that some of the pics you friends posted of you on FB? 2000 beers. *Mind Blown*
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Picked up some Odell Cutthroat Porter, which was my favorite at the factory last year. Hadn't had it in a while and just read it was voted one of the best CO beers from a local magazine so decided to pick some up :D
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I had a really good beer the other weekend..I think its called Paulener.. very good German beer
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So in planning my travels for this easter break, I found a bar in Brussels that serves 2000 different beers.
Not just buckets, but casks were come.
Is that some of the pics you friends posted of you on FB? 2000 beers. *Mind Blown*
No, that was from Amsterdam. But yeah, 2000 beers. :hefdaddy :hefdaddy :hefdaddy
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no beer for me tonight, but last night I had some more Hopslam and then a bottle of a beer called Van Twee. It's a collaboration between Bell's brewery and de Proef (a Belgian brewer). They brewed a dark hybrid of a porter/dubbel and added a ton of sour cherry juice and fermented it with brettanomyces. Incredibly tasty beer :hat
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What's everyone drinking tonight for the Super Bowl? It's gonna be a steady diet of Hopslam for me :metal
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After I finish this Stella Artois :blush it's on to Jameson for me.
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Finnished a few Smuttynose from a mixed 12 pack.
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BUMP
Not going to recap all my recent drinking adventures, but Tuesday night I went into Brooklyn as I had won invites for me and my cousin to the release/expansion party at the Brooklyn Brewery. We began the night with a couple rounds of the release half of the party, their new Brewmaster's Reserve beer Main Engine Start. It was the first beer they brewed on their new system, and it's a rather tasty abbey single. They had a bunch of other stuff on tap as well and I quickly saw to getting myself in a bit of trouble :lol A glass of Weiss, a glass of Blast double IPA, and two Black Chocolate Stouts later I was feeling pretty damn good. We left the party and stopped in a bar on the way back to the subway and had a round of Rodenbach Vintage (sour belgian amber/brown ale) before finally heading home. I wasn't in the best shape the next morning, but it was definitely worth it :metal
Homebrewed DIPA went into bottles last weekend and should be good to go soon, and I've got some awesome hoppy beers and sours in the fridge :hat Also, booked a hotel room for Extreme Beer Fest in Boston next month, should be a fairly epic weekend.
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Had a Chimay the other night, probably the best beer I've had so far. SO GOOD I NEED TO FIND MORE
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Sigz, you can never go wrong will any Chimay.
Bill. My brother waited too long and we couldn't get tickets for March. We'll go to the one in June. :'(
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Red, White, or Blue label Chimay Sigz?
king: Yeah, the tickets actually sold out in about 8 hours (whereas for every previous festival they had lasted at least a couple weeks). ACBF tickets for June are now on sale.
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Red.
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The Red is very good, you should try a Blue sometime soon. It's basically an amped up version of Red. White, on the otherhand is a very different kind of beer (as a tripel it's much lighter in color and more about hop/yeast flavors). Tonight I had a super fresh Troeg's Nugget Nectar (tasty) and just now finished a bomber of Firestone Walker's Double Jack Double IPAs. It's up there with Pliny the Elder as one of the best of its kind.
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Yeah I'd definitely like to, the only problem is trying to find it. I'd heard of it before I even came here, but thus far the only place I've seen it was at the club I saw Kayo Dot at :sadpanda:
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Really? That's funny, all three Chimay beers are fairly ubiquitous here. Even non craft liquor stores will have them sometimes.
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So, we have a great time at the Amesbury Ale House last night. First I've start with the food. The app. was shaved onion with a spicy ketchup, very ggod. The main course was a smoked chicken ravioli in a light white sauce. It was very good and seemed very light. The smoked gouda cheese in the ravioli made the dish.
So my first beer was a sampler of 4, 5oz Sierra Nevada specialty beers. I had the Hoptimum, a nice malty drink. At 10.4%, it was the only beer worth drinking. I was very disapointed with Sierra Nevada. Th reast of the beers lacked character at just seemed to strong in an alcohol flavor. I'll just list the other 3 beers. Bigfoot(Malty/hops) at 9.6%. Jack & Ken(Barleywine)8.2%. Grand Cru(blend of Bigfoot/Pale Ale/Celebration Ale)9.2%.
The second batch of samples I had was top notch compared to Sierra Nevada. First was Allagash Curieux. A tripple ageg in bourbon barrels. So smooth with a hint of banana & caramel. It didn't even seem like it wasthat high in alcohol at 11%.
Next was Piraat Belgan IPA. Another tripel loaded with hops. Had a good zing to it and again the alcohol is well hidden even though it's at 10.5% Fruit aroma in abundance here.
The third was Lagunitas Olde Gnarleywine. A dark copper color with a fruity, hoppy taste tht becomes a hint of sugar. Not much head on this one but very tastefull and again the alcohol is hidden in it's delishious flavor at 11%.
Last, like a desert was the Southern Tier Choklat stout. 11% Talk about for the love of chocolate!! I never get sick of the beer. This is the best of the best for chocolate stouts!
Well there you have it!
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My favorite Summer beer is Corona.
My favorite all around beer is Sam Adams Boston Lager.
I had a couple Guinness on tap at an Irish pub in NYC on Monday. Delicious! :tick2:
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I hit review number 200 on Beer Advocate tonight (or rather am in the process of doing so) and opened a bottle of something special to do so. Goose Island releases their Bourbon County Brand Stout every year, and in 2010 they released a few variations on that beer. The crown jewel I guess of last year's releases was Bourbon County Brand Rare Stout, which was aged in 23 year Pappy Van Winkle barrels instead of whatever brand they usually use. I'd be embarrassed to admit what this ran in stores, but it's absolutely incredible. An absolutele chocolate bomb, with supporting roles from vanilla and a smooth whiskey bite, with just a hint of oak. One of the best beers I've tasted in my life.
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Living in Beer City USA (Portland, OR) where there are 46 microbreweries, good beer is literally at every bar, restaurant and pizza joint, and of course at the breweries themselves. Kind of take it for granted these days actually.
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Color me jealous. Portland's one of my tip places to visit for a beercation (behind only Belgium and California).
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Haha You get used to it after awhile.
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Yesterday at lunch I had an Innis & Gunn oak aged rum cask beer, it was really interesting. My food kinda fucked with the taste though, so I'll have to get it again to give a full rundown. I also have a bottle of the normal oak aged beer, so I'll have to give that a go soon.
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I forgot to add what my wife had while we were at the Ales House. Of course I sampled the ones I did not have.
Sampler #1
Sierra Nevada --Hoptimum
Hill Farmstead--Holger 7.5% A Smoked brown ale. brown ales are my least favorite beers but this had some character to it.
Gulden Draak--Belgian dark ale at 10.5% I loved it. Dark belgians are my favs.
Smuttynose S'muttonatoe 8.5% Doppelbock. Very good. I've had it before
Sampler #2
Haandbryggeriet Menno & Jens--7% A beer made with no hops that is made from yarrow, myricagale & mugwort. It's a true gruit beer and very unique herb ale. Very sweet to the taste buds. Very interesting.
Allagash White Ale. 5.2% What more can I say about this perfect unfiltered white ale.
BBS Coffeehouse Poter. 6.2% What can I say about one of my favorite local brewers. This is a top notch porter with nodes of chocolate.
Dogfish Head Red and White. 10% A white ale that is made with pinot noir juices and fermented. Hints of cherry and sweet but drinkable. A beer worth taking you time with.
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Can not wait for this weekend :metal One of the recent additions to the beer list is Dogfish Head's Palo Santo Marron (a big 12% brown ale aged on Palo Santo wood) run through a Randall with bacon and roasted habaneros. Fucking win right there :hat
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Getting ready to crash for the night so I can get up and head to Boston for Extreme Beer Fest. Here's some of what I'm looking forward to
Friday Night (Night of the Barrels):
Sam Adams Utopias
Sam Adams WTF (the notes for this beer say "No notes give, just drink it")
Ommegang 3 Philosophers aged on bourbon
Cambridge Brewing dubbel aged in bourbon barrels
Dogfish Head Palo Santo Marron through a bacon and habanero Randall
Firestone Walker 13 (the anniversary blend predecessor to 14, which is abso-fucking-lutely incredible)
Firestone Walker Abacus (barrel aged English Barleywine, and a main component of the anniversary blends)
Pretty Things Baby Tree aged in wood
Pretty Things White Fluffy Rabbits dry hopped while aged in wood
Short's Whiskey Sour (their tasty Key Lime Pie beer aged in whiskey barrels)
Short's Strawberry Milkshake
The Bruery Black Tuesday (18% barrel aged imperial stout)
The Lost Abbey Sinner's Club Blend 2010 (a blended wild ale available only to their club members)
The Lost Abbey Double Fruited Framboise de Amarosa (2x raspberry multiplier, this was an all star from Belgian Beer Fest back in the fall)
Saturday Sessions
Cambridge Brewing Rose de Cambrinus (blend of wild ales aged on cherries and raspberries)
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout through espresso-packed Randall
Dogfish Head Namaste (wit with lemongrass)
Ithaca 13 (hoppy imperial wit)
Ithaca LeBleu (wild ale aged on blueberries)
Short's Almond Joy
Short's Another Caucasian Gary (White Russian Inspired)
Sierra Nevada (1996 vintage Bigfoot Barleywine)
The Bruery Hottenroth (Berliner Weiss)
The Bruery Melange #3 (barrel aged blend of beers)
The Bruery/Cigar City ISo/FT: (barrel aged imperial red sour)
The Lost Abbey Cuvee de Tomme (blend of barrel aged sour quads on cherries of different ages)
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I am happy for you but sad for me. But my brother is having a party over his house so I have a whole bunch of good beers there. I expect a full report on each night!
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Definitely. You may have to wait a couple days though as I'm not bringing my laptop with me and a recap post would be a lot of typing on my Blackberry :lol
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Wuss :lol I'd love to see one post in drunken gibberish!! :laugh:
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Well, I'm not gonna lie, I'm hurting a little bit this morning. I tried everything on the list except Black Tuesday, and a bunch of other stuff as well...
Allagash Bourbon Barrel Black
Allagash Indigenuts
Avery Dihos Dactylion
Avery Samael's
Avery Quinquepartite
Cambridge Brewing Nomi Sugi (beer/sake hybrid)
Cascade Kriek 2008
Cigar City White Oak IPA
Clipper City One Eyed Woody
Ithaca SuperBlends (wild IPA)
Sierra Nevada 2x4
Stone Crime and Punishment (2 of their beers with extra dry hops and chili peppers)
Lost Abbey Veritas 008
Lost Abbey Double Fruited Red Poppy
There was a lot of good beer, but not much that really stood out. Well, Sam Adams WTF stood out, but only because it was awful. Whenever I was working but had nothing to do I would just stand by their table and listen to everyone's reactions to trying WTF :lol
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So the title is poetic then. :lol
That sake hybrid sound good as well as the Allagash Indigenuts
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Well my brother and sis in law got me a beer club of the month for a year! It starts in April. Man do they know me!
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Alright, let's see if I can remember everything that I drank on Saturday
Allagash Vrienden
San Adams Wee Heavy
Cambridge Brewing Rose de Cambrinus
Captain Lawrence 5 Years Later
Captain Lawrence Saturday's Sour Blend 2011
Dogfish Head Fungus Tea'mungus
Dogfish Head Pappaskull
Dogfish Head Namaste
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout through espresso beans
Dogfish head Noble Rot
Firestone Walker experimental sour ale
Firestone Walker Velvet Merkin
Founders Red's Rye IPA
Founders Double Trouble DIPA
Founders All Day IPA
Founders Nemesis 2010
Founder Kaiser Curmudgeon
Founders Backwoods Bastard
Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout x4
Harpoon 2009 Chocolate Stout infected with brettanomyces
Harpoon Uncle Fester
Haverhill Fire and Weiss
Hill Farmstead Ephraim
Ithaca LeBleu
Ithaca 13
New England Brewing Company 668: The Neighbor of the Beast
New England Brewing Company Imperial Stout Trooper x2-3
Short's Almond Joy
Short's Another Caucasian Gary
Short's Pineapple Upsidedown
Sierra Nevada 1996 Vintage Bigfoot
Sierra Nevada Peach Pit Ale
Sierra Nevada Saison de Haricot
Sierra Nevada Ovila Abbey Dubbel
Sixpoint Bolshoi
Sixpoint Berserker Bock
Stone Supremely Self Conscious Ale
Stone Smoked Porter with vanilla beans
The Bruery Hottenroth
The Bruery Melange #3
The Bruery Black Tuesday
The Bruery Pintolamicus
The Lost Abbey 2010 Brandy Barrel Angel's Share
The Lost Abbey Cuvee de Tomme x2
Weyerbacher Quatro Krazy
Wormtown MassWHole
Wormtown CocoNutty
Wormtown Egg Nog Ale
and that's not even counting all the drinking the volunteers did after cleanup. Gee, now I know why Sunday morning was so painful :lol :lol
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Holt shit that was an outstanding list!! How was the breakfast at sunset Bill?
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In a word, a shitshow. I've always said it, but the service at Sunset drops off a fucking cliff when it gets busy. I don't know if they understaff or just have not the best waitstaff, but it gets pretty unfortunate. The food was fine, and I had a mimosa made with a splash of Namaste (witbier from Dogfish Head) that was pretty tasty, but everything took forever. Also, despite asking politely when we first went to order, our waitress refused to do split checks for a table full of strangers. Then when I ordered a beer and asked for the table's bill it took 15+ minutes plus to get those things, meaning I had time to enjoy about a third of my beer before I had to dash off to catch the bus home.
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So I had my first White Birch Brewing beer last night. It was their Indulgence Ale. To say this is an ale seem weird to me because it seemed more of a coffee porter to me. Very nice flavor with a hint of chocolate and it hides the alcohol well. ABV's 8%.
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I had a couple White Birch brews last year, and they were pretty good, but a bit expensive for me to pick up. They do have a lot of interesting beers though, so I might try some more of their stuff it was something that interested me more than a straightforward Belgian Pale Ale or Tripel.
Last night my cousin and I split bottles of Sweetwater's Rye'd Ale (not bad, but a bit old) and Hickory Stick Stout from Olde Hickory brewery (received as a trade extra, solid stout). Then I cracked a bottle of Heavy Seas/Clipper City Holy Sheet, a self described "Uber-Abbey Ale", but basically just a ~9% Belgian Strong Dark Ale. I didn't hate drinking it, but to my mind when you aim to brew in the Belgian style you have to compete with some of the world's finest, especially when it comes to body and mouthfeel, and this one just didn't measure up. The whole charm of these beers is that they pack a ton of malt flavor while still finishing somewhat dry, so that the body's not too heavy. At the same time they're usually fairly highly carbonated, giving them almost a spritzy character sometimes. This one though finished too sweet and the carbonation was inadequate and low, and the result was a cloyingly sweet, syrupy beer.
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I'm doing a trip to new hampshire for the week, just picked up a pack of sam adams irish red and dogfish head indian brown ale for it. Good choices? First time trying them
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The Sam Adams is ok but I do like the Dogfish Head indian brown ale and I'm not keen on brown ales. Remeber all the Dogfish Heads are quite unique and bold in flavor(mostly). What so you normally drink Elsydeon?
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Well the 60min ipa has become a favorite of mine recently. Usually I'll pick up that or a sam adams seasonal
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where at you going in NH? There's a few good beer stops
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Up at bretton woods near mt Washington
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Here's a link to brewpubs in the N.H. mountain region. Enjoy!
https://www.nhliving.com/microbreweries/whitemtns.shtml
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So Bill. here's the weekend of debauchery.
Friday at 99 Restaurant-- Sam Adam's Noble Pils.
Friday at Sunset-- Sampler #1-- Brooklyn Monster Ale Barleywine
Shared with the Mrs. Dogfish Head My Antonia
Harpoon Oyster Stout
Cisco's Santa Beered
Sampler #2-- Dogfish Head Red & White
Dogfish Head Burton Baton
Mort Subite Kreik
Sampler #3-- Pierta Bier De Garde
Klokke Roeland
Corsendonk Christmas Ale
Lost Abbey Brandy Barrel Angel Share
One Glass--- Lexington Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale
Sat-- At The Barley House in Concord N.H
Barley House 10 Year Pale(Harpoon made)
Three Philosophers--Belgium Style Quad
Sunday at home Sam Adams---Wee Heavy
Breckenridge---Vanilla Porter
Dogfish Head---Midas Touch
This week. Not much drinking! :lol
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that's a whole lotta tasty beer for one weekend (:heart Angel's Share). My buddy came over the other night and while shooting the shit for about 4 hours we went through bottles of Sam Adams/Weihenstephan Infinium (major fail), Ommegang Adoration (tasty spiced winter belgian), Sweetwater Mean Joe Bean (very good coffee imperial porter), and finally cracked a bottle of 2010 Imperial Storm Trooper. Tonight I've got a few bottles from the Southampton release I went to back in January lined up, and I'll also be continuing my love affair with Allagash White as a spring beer :hat
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Found an awesome beer seller in the Boroughs Market the other day, here's my (relatively small) haul:
(https://i.imgur.com/PflF2.jpg)
From left to right:
Leffe 9 - 9% ABV leffe, I'm ultra psyched cause thus far I've only had the Brunne and Blonde brews but they're two of my favorites so far.
Chimay Red and Blue - I've only had Red before but it was amazing
Delerium Red - I'm visiting this bar when I got to Brussels next weekend :caffeine:, and the bottle is ceramic, it's badass
La Trappe Witte Trappist - I knew nothing about this when I bought it, but it has good reviews on Beer Advocate
Hel & Verdoemenis - Same as above, but it has even better reviews on Beer Advocate
God I love Belgian beer. :caffeine: :caffeine:
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HOLY FUCK This Witte Trappist is amazing.
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You typing a bit in Dutch is amazing.
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wat
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Witte Trapist
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Why is that amazing?
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Because no one in the whole world speaks dutch.
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But that's what the beer is called... what else would I type?
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That's a damn nice haul there Sigz. I did a bit of barleywine shopping today and scooped up a few bottles of Firestone Walker's limited release barrel aged barleywine Abacus, as well as a four pack of Weyerbacher's Insanity, another barrel aged barleywine. I've been waiting for a while now for Abacus to make it to NJ, can't wait to pick a night and savor a bottle for a couple hours.
Tonight I begin with the last of my second four pack of the spring of Allagash White.
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Great haul Sigz!!!
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Just about done with Southampton's Saison Faucille. It's a mixed grain saison brewed with barley, oats, wheat, and rye, and while it isn't bad, it doesn't live up to the only other brew of this kind I've had, Pretty Things' Field Mouse's Farewell.
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Had the Delerium Red and the Hel & Verdoemenis the other night. The Delerium Red was quite interesting, kind of a standard Belgian brown ale but with a heavy cherry flavoring. I'm not the biggest fan of cherry, but it was still good. The Hel & Verdoemenis was all right, it was a pretty spicy imperial stout. I'd like to try it again sometime, I feel like I wasn't in the mood for it last time, especially after the Delerium.
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My favorite beers at the moment:
Molson Canadian
Shock Top
Magic Hat #9
Monty Python's Holy Ale
Coors Classic
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One out of those five beers doesn't make me want to pimp smack you :xbones
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I posted this is the DTF Side Chat Thread, and was directed here. I could use the insight:
Recently I've been trying a world of beers/ales/lagers/stout etc. and I've come to the conclusion that I'm an Ale/Stout man. My favorites so far have been Hobgoblin, Old Rasputin, Chimay and Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout.
Any recommendations on what to try next?
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I know axeman will have a good list of what to try, but my suggestion would be the Stone Russian Imperial Stout. That's a pretty good one. Also, if you have it in your area, New Holland's Dragon's Milk is a very good bourbon barrel aged stout.
And welcome to the thread :)
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Thanks, it's good to be here. I've tried Dragon's Milk before, sadly didn't do much for me. I thought it had too much of a cream taste for me, course it could be the name that threw me off.
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The Delerium Bar in Brussels is the greatest bar ever and was god's final creation before he rested. I shall come back later with a full report, I'm going back to drink more amazing beer.
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@THED6... A couple recommendations would be St. Bernardus 12, Three Philosophers, Boulevard The Sixth Glass, and Rochefort 10 (similar to Chimay Blue), and Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout, Goose Island Bourbon County Stout, Stone Imperial Russian Stout, Victory Storm King, and Oskar Blues Ten Fidy. I also highly recommend Beer Advocate (beeradvocate.com), it's a great resource for learning more about beer. You can look up beers, see how highly they're rated, and then find other beers in a similar style. You can also use it to find good beer stores and bars in your area.
I hit up the local good beer bar with my cousin tonight, as we were a bit overdue for a session. My lineup for the night was Hacker Pschorr Weiss (mediocre), Allagash White (:heart), Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA on draft (delicious), and Firestone Walker Abacus barrel aged English barleywine (possibly a top 10 all time beer for me, so glad I managed to get my hands on 3, soon to be 4 bottles). I was somewhat dismayed to find that they had updated the list of beers one had to drink to finish the Master's in Beer Appreciation program and in the process gotten rid of most of the shitty beers on the list. The problem with that is I had set out to get the shitty beers out of the way early, and had suffered through swill the likes of Labatt Blue. Now, I got credit for a beer on the new list for each beer on the old list I had checked off, but in most cases I would have been happier having the new beer than the one I actually had :lol
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^You sir, know your shit.
If I ever have a question about anything alcoholic I'm going to you FIRST. Thanks for the info. and I shall use it wisely. We have this place nearby called Prestige Liquors. I don't know if it's a chain, but it's got some great selections. I'll bring your list with me next time I have expendables on me.
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Happy birthday to me!!
Well my brother and sister in law got me for my B-Day in March a beer club of the month and the first batch came in today!
Floreffe--- Tripel A 7.5%. I says it's brewed with cane sugar. It's bottled in Belgum
Penn Brewery-- Marzen A 4.5% A spring beer from Pittsburgh, Pa.
Dominion-- Oak Barrel Stout 6.1% vanilla fermented stout from Dover Delaware.
Last, Belhaven Scottish Ale. The only beer out of these I've had. 5.2% from Scotland.
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^Great haul, King.
Recently tried Leine's Limited Lager. Not bad at all. Much smoother than their regular selections.
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Nice haul indeed. All those beers have pretty solid reviews on BA and it's a nice range of styles. Not too much crazy for me on the beer front lately. I recently tried Gnomegang (collaboration Belgian Strong Pale Ale from Ommegang and Achouffe), which was pretty good, and Ovila Dubbel (new dubbel which is the first in a series of Belgian/Abbey ales from Sierra Nevada) which was a bit of a letdown. I'll be bringing a couple bottles of Pretty Things Fluffy White Rabbits and my one bottle of fresh Kentucky Breakfast Stout to Easter dinner on Sunday.
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Breakfast Stout? You have my attention. Do tell more.
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Founders makes a beer (which you might be able to find on shelves) called Founders Breakfast Stout. They brew an oatmeal stout (a particular kind of stout brewed with oats... they don't add much in the way of flavor, but leave the beer with a fantastic silky body/mouthfeel) and infuse it with some coffee. Coffee + Oatmeal = breakfast stout. They then make two other versions of this beer. One is Kentucky Breakfast Stout, it's the same recipe idea (though the exact specifics aren't the same), and then the beer is aged in bourbon barrels (hence Kentucky). It's released in limited quantites in bottles once a year and despite its high cost ($20+ for a four pack, or often $6+ for single bottles) often times doesn't even make it to shelves, with stores having waiting lists in excess of their meager allotments. A final version of the beer is Canadian Breakfast Stout. It's the same idea as KBS, but the beer is instead aged in barrels that first held bourbon, but more recently held maple syrup. As of now it's currently draft only, and basically the equivalent of seeing a unicorn. Rumor has it though that in about a year they'll have scraped together enough for a release in 750mL (wine sized) bottles.
Well... you said to tell you more :lol
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And I expected nothing less. That's going on the list too. Chances are even if I try my best, I'll still never end up tasting it, but at least I'll have something to shoot for.
Should I have bacon with it?
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That stout is a little slice of heaven.The one time I got my hands on it I,
(https://i583.photobucket.com/albums/ss272/kingshmegland/inmypants.jpg)
So ever two months I'll get a 12 pack of new beers for a year.
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And I expected nothing less. That's going on the list too. Chances are even if I try my best, I'll still never end up tasting it, but at least I'll have something to shoot for.
Should I have bacon with it?
Well the Founders Breakfast Stout may well still be available, wouldn't shock me. KBS was just released last March, so bottles won't be around until next year. Keep your eye out though, not every bar that gets a keg puts it on right in March. Release for CBS is still up in the air, but with a little advanced knowledge you could be able to get your hands on some. It's always helpful to be on good terms with the beer manager at at least one liquor store, they can often times give you a heads up or hold bottles of rare releases for you. At this point I get my hands on rare stuff by a combination of being a good enough customer at one store that the beer manager sends me personal emails when new stuff comes out, and then just a little bit of hustle with calling/checking online for other stores in the area.
I have had breakfast stouts before with breakfast, and they're good, but sometimes a bit much for me first thing in the morning (usually 8%+ ABV). For my money, a nice citrusy, spritzy witbier is the way to go with a plate of eggs and bacon, it just takes the place of orange juice. Also, there's no coffee in it, but especially as someone who likes stouts you should pick up some of Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout. No coffee, but it'll give you a good idea of what oats does to a beer, and it's a wonderful, widely available beer from a brewery in England.
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Also, there's no coffee in it, but especially as someone who likes stouts you should pick up some of Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout. No coffee, but it'll give you a good idea of what oats does to a beer, and it's a wonderful, widely available beer from a brewery in England.
I love Samuel Smith's!!! Anytime I go to the Meijer in town or Prestige I always go straight for it to make sure they still stock it. I once had it with overeasy eggs & crisp bacon. There are few moments in life that make me smile over food, and that was one of them.
o/
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Alright these beer are going down during the B's/Habs game. Also it was nice to down a Brooklyn Local 1. Yea, I'm buzzed.
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Epic beer day today. Started off at one bar that was having a tap takeover event with Kuhnhenn Brewery out of Michigan. I first had a hefeweizen and tangerine wit for them that were a bit underwhleming. Then though, I got to a couple of beers that are ranked in Beer Advocate's Top 100 Beers in the World, and were the reasons I even went in the first place. First up was Bourbon Barrel Fourth Dementia, a bourbon barrel aged old ale. Holy hell, rich and malty and delicious, and, for what I believe is a relatively fresh brew, insanely smooth at 13.5%. Next was a raspberry eisbock they're fairly well known for. I believe I overheard the bar owner telling the bartender that this keg alone ran them $800 as it's one of the last remaining in the brewery's stash from when they made it back in 2007. To me it didn't quite live up to the BB4D, but it was like drinking a raspberry truffle. Very clean raspberry taste up front, with milk chocolate coming in at the end. From there I went to another beer bar that was having an Oskar Blues night. There I had a Deviant Dale, an imperial version of their Dale's Pale Ale, Old Chub scotch ale aged on Hungarian Oak, and Old Double Bagger american barleywine. The Old Chub was easily the standout, the rich coffee and chocolate notes complemented by just a touch of smoke.
Oh, and before the beer started flowing I hit some bottle shops and picked up some sours from Goose Island that were aged in wine barrels with raspberries and cherries respectively. A belated happy birthday to me :D
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BUMP
It's been a good beer week. I cracked bottles of Goose Island Lolita (wine barrel aged wild ale with raspberries, which was just OK), Goose Island Madame Rose (wild brown ale aged on cherries, very good), and Firestone Walker Abacus (delicious, but not quite as mind blowing as the draft version I had a few weeks ago). Today my local beer store had a class on hoppy Belgian ales that went quite well. The official beer list was Thiriez Extra, Hop Ruiter, Urthel Hop It, Great Divide Belgica, De Ranke XX Bitter, Flying Dog Raging Bitch, and Houblon Chouffe. Everything was at least good, if not better. Then, the beer rep leading the class busted out a couple bottles of a brew called Lambrucha that he brought special for the class. It's a blend of young lambic and kombucha tea (a fermented tea sometimes utilizing wild yeast/bacteria). The result was a refreshingly acidic 3.5%ABV beer that I thought was quite tasty, but many people dumped by about halfway through the glass :lol
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MEGA BUMP
So yesterday was a bar sponsored trip to Dogfish Head. Everyone arrived at the bar by 7am, and the bus left at 7:30 with about 45 of us on board with a freshly tapped keg of 60 minute IPA and a case of Hellhound On My Ale (new DIPA brewed with lemons) to keep us company (and Super Troopers and Anchorman for our viewing pleasure :D). We got to the production brewery at 11 and had a tour and a quick tasting. After some time for souvenir shopping it was on the the brewpub at Rehoboth beach. We had two hours of free pizzas and beer on tap, and I had Sah'tea (brewed with juniper berries and chai tea, delicious), Red & Black (imperial stout made with mint and raspberries, a little over minted for my taste but not bad), Palo Santo Marron (such a wonderful beer), and Hellhound On My Ale (I really dug the lemon + citrus hops combo). The bus ride home took a bit longer than the one coming down due to traffic and an extended stop at a rest area once people realized at least one person had puked on the bus (amateurs :lol) so it could be cleaned. We still got back to the bar though in time for me to enjoy a glass of 2007 Stone Imperial Russian Stout before heading home. Next trip is to Victory some time in July... can't wait :D
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Paulaner
best ever
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idk, I :heart Weihenstephan and Schneider as far as German breweries go.
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MEGA BUMP
So yesterday was a bar sponsored trip to Dogfish Head. Everyone arrived at the bar by 7am, and the bus left at 7:30 with about 45 of us on board with a freshly tapped keg of 60 minute IPA and a case of Hellhound On My Ale (new DIPA brewed with lemons) to keep us company (and Super Troopers and Anchorman for our viewing pleasure :D). We got to the production brewery at 11 and had a tour and a quick tasting. After some time for souvenir shopping it was on the the brewpub at Rehoboth beach. We had two hours of free pizzas and beer on tap, and I had Sah'tea (brewed with juniper berries and chai tea, delicious), Red & Black (imperial stout made with mint and raspberries, a little over minted for my taste but not bad), Palo Santo Marron (such a wonderful beer), and Hellhound On My Ale (I really dug the lemon + citrus hops combo). The bus ride home took a bit longer than the one coming down due to traffic and an extended stop at a rest area once people realized at least one person had puked on the bus (amateurs :lol) so it could be cleaned. We still got back to the bar though in time for me to enjoy a glass of 2007 Stone Imperial Russian Stout before heading home. Next trip is to Victory some time in July... can't wait :D
Awe man I am so jealous. Lisa and I want so bad to go there.
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Note to self, never enter beer thread BEFORE YOUR FUCKING SHIFT STARTS!!!!
(I so wish I had a beer right.....about.....now :( )
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MEGA BUMP
So yesterday was a bar sponsored trip to Dogfish Head. Everyone arrived at the bar by 7am, and the bus left at 7:30 with about 45 of us on board with a freshly tapped keg of 60 minute IPA and a case of Hellhound On My Ale (new DIPA brewed with lemons) to keep us company (and Super Troopers and Anchorman for our viewing pleasure :D). We got to the production brewery at 11 and had a tour and a quick tasting. After some time for souvenir shopping it was on the the brewpub at Rehoboth beach. We had two hours of free pizzas and beer on tap, and I had Sah'tea (brewed with juniper berries and chai tea, delicious), Red & Black (imperial stout made with mint and raspberries, a little over minted for my taste but not bad), Palo Santo Marron (such a wonderful beer), and Hellhound On My Ale (I really dug the lemon + citrus hops combo). The bus ride home took a bit longer than the one coming down due to traffic and an extended stop at a rest area once people realized at least one person had puked on the bus (amateurs :lol) so it could be cleaned. We still got back to the bar though in time for me to enjoy a glass of 2007 Stone Imperial Russian Stout before heading home. Next trip is to Victory some time in July... can't wait :D
Awe man I am so jealous. Lisa and I want so bad to go there.
You guys should go down for a weekend. The brewpub is right by the beach, and the production brewery is maybe like a 15 minute drive away.
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My brother says he might this year when he stays at the same place you do on the coast last year, the Outer Banks. He's thinking of a side trek.
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Yeah, it's really not too far out of the way on the drive there/home. Only problem is the crazy crowd that'll probably be there on a summer weekend.
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yo Bill we should do a trade soon. I've got tons of stuff from Founders (no Canadian), Deschutes, RR, and I some North Coast cellar reserves. You wouldn't happen to have any older Abyss or Imperial Stout Trooper?
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Imperial Stout Trooper
You have my attention...proceed.
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Imperial Stout Trooper
You have my attention...proceed.
gotta love the trooper
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Kepping it on the cheep watching the B's play. 12 pack of Magic Hat Mixed summer pack. Having a Single chair right now.
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BUMP
Yesterday was brewday, and I've got a nice traditional hefeweizen fermenting in my basement. Today was a beer day in NYC. First I hit my bottle shops in the city and picked up a couple Pretty Things brews and a bottle of cave aged Aventinus from 2004. Then I hit my NYC bar, the Rattle n Hum, in hopes of getting a head start on their Founder's Day. Unfortunately, I got there at 1:30 and Founder's wasn't being tapped until 4. Fortunately, they still had a bunch of sours from a weekend event on tap. I started my day with Cantillon Cuvee des Champions and Saint Lamvinus. Then the Founder's shenanigans started with Centennial IPA over lunch. At this point I had made friends with the guy next to me at the bar, so we decided to split ordering Founder's stouts and share them. We split Founder's Imperial Stout, Breakfast Stout, Kentucky Breakfast Stout, and Canadian Breakfast Stout (ftmfw). Then I went back to ordering my own beers and had a Black Biscuit (old ale brewed with molasses), Kaiser Curmudgeon (maple bourbon barrel aged old ale), and, because the bartender bought me the previous beer, another KBS as a nightcap. Everything aside from the Centennial IPA was *excellent*, and it was crazy to watch the CBS kick in less than two hours. I'm just glad mrjazzguitar swung by in time to get some and for us to have a round or two :metal
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BUMP
Yesterday was brewday, and I've got a nice traditional hefeweizen fermenting in my basement. Today was a beer day in NYC. First I hit my bottle shops in the city and picked up a couple Pretty Things brews and a bottle of cave aged Aventinus from 2004. Then I hit my NYC bar, the Rattle n Hum, in hopes of getting a head start on their Founder's Day. Unfortunately, I got there at 1:30 and Founder's wasn't being tapped until 4. Fortunately, they still had a bunch of sours from a weekend event on tap. I started my day with Cantillon Cuvee des Champions and Saint Lamvinus. Then the Founder's shenanigans started with Centennial IPA over lunch. At this point I had made friends with the guy next to me at the bar, so we decided to split ordering Founder's stouts and share them. We split Founder's Imperial Stout, Breakfast Stout, Kentucky Breakfast Stout, and Canadian Breakfast Stout (ftmfw). Then I went back to ordering my own beers and had a Black Biscuit (old ale brewed with molasses), Kaiser Curmudgeon (maple bourbon barrel aged old ale), and, because the bartender bought me the previous beer, another KBS as a nightcap. Everything aside from the Centennial IPA was *excellent*, and it was crazy to watch the CBS kick in less than two hours. I'm just glad mrjazzguitar swung by in time to get some and for us to have a round or two :metal
yea man - great hang yesterday. That Canadian was fantastic. After you left my buddy and I split a 3L bottle of Double Bastard and got some burgers -- best. burger. i've. ever. had.
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3L Double Bastard bottle... color me jealous. And yeah, RnH makes some fucking excellent burgers :metal
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also the best fries I've ever had.
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Beer list from watching the B's win last night.
La, Divine S'Landelin
Long Trail Coffee Stout
Berkshire Maibock Lager
Sam Adam's Rustic Saison
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How'd you like the Rustic Saison, I haven't gotten around to trying it.
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How'd you like the Rustic Saison, I haven't gotten around to trying it.
For the standard 12 pack guy it's good but it doesn't compare to a real Saison. Think Haproon's hefeweizen compared to a real hefeweizen.
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post American Craft Beer Fest BUMP!
I'm going to save my tasting list from the actual fest for another post. I bused up to Boston early Friday and hit Cambridge Brewing Company for some pre fest lunch. I had their Regatta Golden (year round refreshing German Kolsch style lager), Red God (9% DIPA), and Bad Knees (bourbon/Sam Adams Utopias barrel aged Old Ale). The Regatta was nicely done, crisp and refreshing and really the perfect beer after a long day of traveling and a walk to the bar on a hot day. Red God was a little bit of a letdown, didn't finish dry enough and had too much sweetness to interfere with all the hoppy deliciousness. Bad Knees though... holy hell what a wonderful malty brew. CBC gets some really unique flavors out of the barrels they use both for this beer and a barrel aged dubbel they do, namely lightly toasted marshmallows. The fest went Friday night and all day Saturday, and I left with a six pack and two big bottles of free beer :D. Sunday was the post fest brunch, back at CBC. I had their hefeweizen to start, which also had a little bit too much malt shining through for my taste. Next was a special collaboration brew they did that was a gruit style beer (no hops, herbs and spices used to balance the malt). Not usually up my alley but they only had five gallons of it on tap and I'm a sucker for the rare stuff :angel:. Next was Flower Child IPA, their version of Ithaca's Flower Power (I believe they got the recipe from Ithaca's brewmaster). Flower Power is a damn good beer on its own, and this was just like a super fresh version of it. Couldn't resist another round of Bad Knees before I departed. I took the bus back to NYC this morning and saw an opportunity to extend my beercation by grabbing lunch at the Rattle n Hum. I had two Bruery beers on tap. Saison de Lente is their spring seasonal, and a quite refreshing brew. Cuir is their third anniversary ale, a partially barrel aged 14.5% old ale. It was pretty good, remarkably little alcohol heat for such a big beer, but was a little syrupy/cloying.
Needless to say I'm taking tonight off :lol
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Sounds like an adventure. You had me at marshmallows.
In a nutshell, I had an intense week in Portland (4 days, or 3 actually since I spent one driving along the coast and couldn't drink) and then back in Denver with my family in town. Did taster trays at pretty much every place in Portland I could (and am not going to try and name all the beers right now, maybe later :lol): Deschutes, Rogue, Bridgeport, Lucky Lab, McMenamin's Kennedy School (this is a really interesting company- they take all of these old buildings like schools and turn them into breweries/restaurants/movie theatres/etc), Widmer Bros.(sampler plus Pitch Black IPA :D), Mash Tun... also checked out Green Dragon, the Cascade barrel house (yummy sours), another McMenamin's movie theatre (Terminator Stout!)... and I'm sure I'm missing some (it's a bit of a blur). Some really great beer and atmosphere there. Also found a very cool beer shop (by law they can't sell liquor and beer/wine in the same stores there) that also has a bar in it, where I sampled a couple.
Came back to CO and just kept drinking with the family. Strange is the shit, and my brother/sister-in-law got me a growler of their Patience Saison as a graduation gift, which was awesome. Then we hit up Freshcraft, a place with a good list of beers, where I had some Crazy Mountain (new to me) Old Soul (belgian strong ale), which was pretty good. Then my favorite spot the Wynkoop for a Mile HI.P.A. :heart
Been working on that growler and still have a bunch of stuff in my fridge to tackle... my other bro and his gf gave me bombers of Ska's imperial IPA and Boulder's Hoopla pale ale for graduation (man, my family knows me well). Also have a 6-pack of Durango's dark lager courtesy of my new boss for passing the test of not selling alcohol to a guy with an ID saying he was still 20.
Oh man...
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Bill, looking forward to your revue of the beers at the fest.
Jackie, don't you love when the family knows what to get you!
For me, I got a few beers on sale this week for the Bruins game Monday. For $5.99 I picked up a bottle of Ommegang Abbey Ale and a bottle of Hennepin Saison. Can't say no for that price.
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There aren't many prices that would get me to say no to Ommegang, :heart those beers
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Beer list for tonight's B's game.
Brooklyn Local 2
Allagash Tripel Ale
Peak Organic Weiss Principal (New! Can't wait to try this!!)
Here is a link for the new beer!!
https://ma.worldclassbeverages.com/beerspy/product/peak-organic-weiss-principal-ale/8718/
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Bill, you need to try Peak Organic Weiss Principal. It's like drinking a combination of a hefeweizen & a double IPA. Bananas and cloves and a hoppy IPA bite to it. Really unique.
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Got my second round of beer from the Beer Of The Month Club. Got to let them chill but I'll get you their descriptions.
First up is Choc Beer Company and it's trademark Choc beer. A recipe from a man who after a mining accident crushed one of his legs so he from his own house decided to made beer. In 1919 he perfected a recipe from the native Choctaw Indian Tribe and started to sell to the minor who came by his house. The man went to jail when he continued making this beer in the prohibition days. It is an American Wheat Ale at 4.7% ABV
Next is Lake Placid Ubu Ale. The founder like so many home brewers decided to open his own restaurant at a place he bought in Lake Placid in 1996. This Ubu Ale is an English Style Strong Ale and gold medal winner at the World Beer Championships. 7.0% ABV
Next is Brauerei Goss, Gosser Dark. From Rakszawa, Poland. This brewery was founded in 1020. That's right., 1020 by nuns(I always thought they were only good with rulers to the knuckles :lol) This brewery was closed in 1782 onlt to reopen in 1860. Of course he was contracted for the army and the plant was partially damaged by WWII. Chocolate notes and cake like sweetness yet it says it's very light on the palate. 4.5% ABV.
Last is Stawski Premium Lager. A pale lager, crystal clear and malty with a grassy note to it. A small town that was known for brewing beer in the 1713 but faded away in the 1900's. In 1989 it started at a canning facility and shortly after they opened as a brew pub in 1993. 5.3% ABV.
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that's a pretty wide range of brews.
So I've been lazy in bumping this thread (which only shows me that I shouldn't bother with the beer blog I sometimes think about starting). I'll skip a bunch of relatively ho-hum beer shenanigans and skip to the Goose Island event at my spot in NYC, the Rattle n Hum, this past Tuesday. Holy Santa Claus shit. I got absolutely wrecked by like 7pm because there were just too many fucking delicious beers on tap. I had (not in this order) a 2008 version of their Bourbon County Stout that was also partially aged in brandy barrels (very cool, but I'm glad it was a few years old, fresh it was probably pretty harsh), Bourbon County Vanilla Stout (so fucking rich/tasty), a new mystery variant of Bourbon County Stout (my guess is either a saison yeast or brettanomyces version), Big John (the base beer for Bourbon County Stout aged on a ton of cocoa nibs), Dominique (a sour, bourbon barrel aged Belgian Strong Pale Ale), and Scully (a 9% saison brewed with strawberries, white pepper, and honey). Everything was top notch.
I made my way back to the Rattle n Hum after the Adrenaline Mob show tonight for a couple quick rounds. First was Brooklyn's new Brewmaster's Reserve (one off, draft only), The Concoction. Based off of the cocktail The Penicillin, it uses smoked/peat malt, ginger, honey, and lemon. Very out there as far as beer goes, but they pull it off nicely. My other beer was Stone's Ruination double IPA, this batch was double dry hopped with Citra and Centennial hops. Pretty tasty, despite the fact that I'm not a huge fan of Centennial hops. It tastes like overly bitter grapefruit to me, the kind of flavor you'd get from trying to zest a grapefruit and getting into the white pith as well by accident.
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Had a few "local" beers tonight (local meaning within 30-45 minutes). Keegan Ale's Hurricane Kitty IPA, which was a little sweet but with an edge (think Dogfish Head 90 Minute), something I could definitely see being a go-to beer. Cooperstown Brewery Benchwarmer, which was a solid porter, and Strike Out, a stout that would've been better in a glass. The place I went only served in bottles. Anyone in the Rhinebeck/Kingston area should give these beers a shot.
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tonight's beer is Stone's Odd Years release of their Imperial Russian Stout. Basically, every other year starting in 2011 (odd years) they will release a specially treated version of their Barleywine and IRS (odd beers). The inaugural Odd Years IRS was fermented with a Belgian yeast strain and brewed with star anise, and partially aged in oak. Anise basically gives a strong liquorice flavor, and as someone who does *not* enjoy black liquorice, this beer (which I contend could also have been called Stone IRS: Jager Barrel Edition) is just a miss for me.
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Stone needs to bring back their Bitter Chocolate Oatmeal Stout in the worst way. Hands down my favorite stout ever.
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Bill. I saw this today and wanted to know if you had it yet. I needed small bottles for a cook out I was going to so I didn't pick it up.
https://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/3818/49286
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haven't had that one, but Southern Tier has a whole line of imperial stout type brews (Mokah, Jahva, Choklat, Oat, and Creme Brulee) that tend to be pretty divisive. Some people (myself included) enjoy them (I've had Chokat and Creme Brulee), and some thing that they're overly sweet and should have some sort of "Caution, may cause diabetes" warning on the bottle.
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I've had the Choklat and it's to die for so I think I'll pick it up next week.
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I can only take so much sweet.
I was in Utah this weekend and went to Wasatch Brewery, where I had a Polygamy Porter :lol.. pretty light but still good, I thought.
Also drank a shitload of my friend's beer because she couldn't handle it- Squatter's Outer Darkness (Russian Imperial Stout)
At my friend's wedding yesterday had several Uinta Cutthroat Pale Ales, which I enjoyed very much.
Then had some Montana IPA (forget the name right now) which was okay but I couldn't finish it.
Bought a few other UT ones which I will report on when I drink them, as well as one from Wyoming (too lazy to go to the fridge and get the name).
Just had a Bridgeport Cafe Negro, which I enjoyed.
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I'm currently working my way through a 750 of Boulevard's Sixth Glass quadruple. A bit of a letdown, because I've had the special release version of it before (aged in bourbon barrels, on cherries), but the base brew is just a step down from Chimay Blue, Rochefort 10, and other truly great quads.
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Just bought a 750ml bottle of French ale. 8.3% :biggrin: Will post more details (and more incoherently) later tonight.
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So for my first american microbrew I got a pack of Karl Strauss Amber Lager, brewed in San Diego. It's pretty damn good, don't really know how to describe it though.
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Tonight I'm slowly working on a Fantome Saison. Hell of a beer from a very small artisanal Belgian brewer. There's some definite brettanomyces funk, but damn if this thing doesn't have a juicy, fruit sweetness to it. It almost makes me think of biting into a Starburst.
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That sounds awesome and overwhelming at the same time.
I can't drink tonight because I'm on call :sadpanda:
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Oh, and I take my first step towards becoming a professional brewer tomorrow when a friend from work buys a six pack from me :lol
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Sweet! You still owe me some of your beer :D
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You'll get some of my beer when I make something that's good :P What I'm giving the guy is a bush league version of a hefe that seems to be popular with non beer drinkers :lol
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So I bought a new beer from Shipyard. It's called Smashed Blueberry. We report my findings tonight,
https://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/139/68949
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I'm not a big fan of blueberry stuff usually... but I may actually be in Maine next month to check out Shipyard and some others!
You'll get some of my beer when I make something that's good :P What I'm giving the guy is a bush league version of a hefe that seems to be popular with non beer drinkers :lol
Blah, hefes...
You keep saying that, you bastard. I'll bet you've made something halfway decent by now.
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yeah, my first batch, which disappeared back in the fall :lol
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Jackie, when your in Maine you need to check out Allagash in Portland Maine. Take the tour and try their beers. For my money they're the best N.E. has to offer.
https://allagash.com/
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Yes, I was planning on it! If we do end up in ME we will probably be in Portland so there are a few around that sound interesting. Any other recommendations?
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Are you looking for Maine only or all of N.E?
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I'd say mostly Maine. We won't be there long so won't have time to travel around a lot.
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Jackie. Go to the interactive digital edition and there is a map to all of Maine for every beer stop you'll need. It's at the right of the page.
https://www.brewingnews.com/yankeebrew/
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hit up the local bar with my cousin tonight to work more on their beer program list. Ended up drinking the following
Stella Artois (just to get it over with)
Flying Fish Farmhouse Summer Ale (meh)
Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA (reliably tasty)
Allagash Four (Belgian style Quad, not on the list and a bit underwhelming compared to how I remember it being back when I lived in Boston)
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Stella Artois is the one beer I will always present in any European who claims American beer is piss.
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Yeah, Stella's pretty unfortunate as far as beer goes. I'm just bummed that I drank it the first night I started on this bar's "beer appreciation" list, only to lose my checklist and have to redrink it tonight.
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Bill, is this that place in Caldwell or whatever? I think I remember you saying you had to drink Stella there once.
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Jackie. Go to the interactive digital edition and there is a map to all of Maine for every beer stop you'll need. It's at the right of the page.
https://www.brewingnews.com/yankeebrew/
Wooo, thanks!
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Bill, is this that place in Caldwell or whatever? I think I remember you saying you had to drink Stella there once.
Yeah, that's the place in Caldwell (The Cloverleaf Tavern). I've got 24 of 45 beers down :metal
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The wife and I shared a few bottles last night.
First up was Mokah by Southern Tier Brewing Co. It says it's great with a desert........IT IS A DESERT!! Talk about a fantastic rich bold chocolate and coffee flavor and at 11.2ABV's it packed a wallop!! We loved it.
https://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/3818/49286
Next was Ommegang BPA (Belgian-style Pale Ale). These guys and gals can't do no wrong. Talk about the perfect summer evening drink. The notes had citric and flowers just tempting my nose. Nice head and a bit of hoppy without overbearing your senses. At 6.2ABV's a fine Pale Ale for all to enjoy.
https://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/42/56875
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Finished off a six pack of Otter Tail Summer seasonal beer last night. Very good. I'm a big fan of summer beers, mostly because I'm not a fan of anything very bitter.
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Had a Backcountry Saison last night. Didn't really stand out as far as saisons go but wasn't bad. Hit me surprisingly hard, though!
Also had a Pint's Pub Dark Star (from the cask, mmm), which I am a fan of.
Then went home and had a couple of these Wyoming pale ales I got at a liquor/firework store somewhere on the side of Rt. 80 last week, which were pretty yummy. I can't remember the damn name now and don't feel like getting up to look :D
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Still not sure where I'll be living, but signed up to work the Safety Team at GABF again (and get a comp ticket), woooo!
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So as I texted Jackie about yesterday, I went to my bar in the city for another Tuesday brewery event. This week was Mikkeller, out of Denmark. They just recently did a series called their Single Hop IPA series. They brewed the same beer (grains, yeast, fermentation schedule etc...) 19 times, and each time hopped it with a single different hop. This way you could really see what different hops are all about and compare and whatnot. This bar had 17 of the 19 on tap, and I managed to get a 4oz taster of each one over the course of a few hours. 4oz isn't enough for me to review a beer on Beer Advocate, but I did take notes on each one for myself to refer to for when I'm building future homebrew recipes.
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Very cool, again! My friend sent me their coffee IPA a while back which was pretty good...
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BUMP
I had a couple of *very* good IPAs from a small outfit in California this week, Alpine Brewery. I've had them before and loved them, but they can be a bit tricky to get a hold of (especially when you have to trade for them). I made a new drinking friend at an event at my bar in NYC a while back who was in visiting from Cali, and ended up leaving a book behind that night. The guy emailed me the next day saying he would mail me the book along with some brews after he got back home, and lo and behold I received a box with Alpine's Nelson and Duet (as well as my book) in the mail last Saturday. Duet is good, but Nelson is a top 5, if not top 3 IPA for me.
Also, I'll post a link when it's up and running, but I reserved a name on blogger.com for a beer blog that I hope to start soon. Should be fun, give me a place to review beers more informally than on Beer Advocate and discuss my various beerventures. Hopefully I'll get up and started with that proper in the near future :D
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I'm all in Bill.
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Wooo!
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No beer for me tonight, but I had a borderline religious experience with my first bottle of Firestone Walker Parabola (barrel aged imperial stout) the other night. Got my camera in the mail today, so hopefully I'll have an introductory post up on my blog soon, and then I'll coincide posting about beers with whatever ends up being my 300th review on Beer Advocate :D
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Bill's Brew Thoughts is officially under way
https://billsbrewthoughts.blogspot.com/
I'll be posting again tonight with thoughts on the beer I chose for my 300th review for Beer Advocate, Trapped Under Eisbock.
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Bookmarked. Now that I have money to spend I can afford some better beer.
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Bookmarked.
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I've really been digging Karl Strauss brews (https://www.karlstrauss.com/index2.html)since I got back to the states. Dunno if any of you east-coasters can get it though.
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I have never. Looks like some good stuff.
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So last night I went to the Nobel Ale Works (https://www.noblealeworks.com/), who were showing the finals of the MLG Starcraft 2 tournament at their bar/tasting room area. Great time drinking with fellow nerds/drunks, and I tried quite a few beers.
Their Pale Ale was probably the best of their brews, it was pretty smooth with a nice bite to it. The Alpha Red was only okay, had some weird spices to it that I wasn't a huge fan of. On the guest tap they Victory Brewing Company's Golden Monkey (https://victorybeer.com/beers/golden-monkey/), which was absolutely fantastic. I had no idea what it was when I got it, but it ended up being a brilliant Belgian ale, almost like a smoother, light version of Leffe Blonde (although it was 3% stronger at 9.5% ABV). I liked it so much I got another pint after the first, and then finished off the night with Noble's Sybian IPA, which was not bad, but I'd really need to try it again as I was a bit drunk following those two 10% pints :lol
All in all, definitely enjoying the American craft brew scene thus far.
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Golden Monkey is indeed a good one. My local dive bar that friends like to hit up usually has a mediocre IPA and Golden Monkey on tap, which I usually partake of. There should be another blog post tonight (feel free to start leaving comments guys :P), but here's a picture of the beer store I'm frequenting while on vacation
(https://i575.photobucket.com/albums/ss196/axeman9182/OBX%202011/IMG_0015.jpg)
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So I'm taking a few days off after all the drinking debauchery of my week down in North Carolina, and I thought I'd see if anyone had ideas as far as other beer related stuff they'd like me to talk about on the blog. A couple ideas I had were
Overview of a style a style
Overview a brewery
Review of a bar I've been to
Also, don't be afraid to leave comments :P
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Your favs and dislikes in styles of beers.
Also sucking down a Hoegaarden.
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Also sucking down a Hoegaarden.
I love you.
And got myself a six pack of Golden Monkey. OMNOMNOM
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mmmm, Golden Monkey. Made it through part two of "Bill's beer related activities" on the blog this week with a diatribe about aging beer. Either tomorrow or Friday I'll finish with a primer on homebrewing (yesterday was trading beer). Then Saturday my self imposed dry spell is over, and it's back to regularly scheduled programming, including a pretty awesome beer adventure planned for Monday.
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Also sucking down a Hoegaarden.
I love you.
And got myself a six pack of Golden Monkey. OMNOMNOM
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Bill I'll check out your blog. Tonight is Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin. I am happy.
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Big love on the Sah'tea. Unique is the only way to define it and I love how out there Dogfish Head is.
I too was disappointed with Breckenridge Vanilla Porter. Good yes. Great, no.
You can never go wrong with Unibroue. I took the tour 7 years ago and I just love the culture and the beer portrays that. Class beer all the way.
I've got to say anything from Sierra Nevada just isn't good enough. There's something I just don't like about all it's beers.
And finally, I need to get off my as and homebrew. I've got the kit which make me even lazier. :lol
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Did a little blog redesigning this afternoon after posting a massive homebrew intro. Tonight is my last night off of beer this week before I break back into it after a bottling session tomorrow :metal
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First blog entry of the day is up on this afternoon's bottling https://bit.ly/pNQfhW and there'll be another one tonight on today's beers. First one is Belvidere Big IPA from Rock Art, which is a bit underwhleming to be honest.
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Blog entry #2 for the day, this one on tonight's beers https://bit.ly/nWv70Z
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I turned 30 this year and just started drinking beer for the fist time. So far I've had yuengling, Guinness, shiner bock, and molson xxx. Any suggestions?
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Black Sheep
Holden's Mild
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I turned 30 this year and just started drinking beer for the fist time. So far I've had yuengling, Guinness, shiner bock, and molson xxx. Any suggestions?
depends, which ones have you liked?
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Bill, my brother raved about this place and we will be making a trek (nerd pun) up to them in Oct.
https://hillfarmstead.com/wpblog/
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Joe, that place is getting very popular in the craft beer community/on Beer Advocate. Lots of good buzz about their beers.
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My brother's wife was up visiting family and my brother had a gig in Mass so he drove up the next day and on the way he made a pit stop and he sampled everything. He called me on his cell to rave so I must go and try all of them. It's my beer civic duty.
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indeed it is *salutes*
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3 beer day today. After mowing the lawn I cracked open a Shipyard Pumpkin Ale. Never can go wrong with that beer. Then the wife and I moved onto a Smuttynose fall release from it's big beer series. Farmhouse Ale. I know it's your favorite style Bill and I'm with you. Very high though on the alcohol scale. Lastly I had a resurrected beer that Magic Hat did for it's fall variety pack. A red ale that pours dark. Malty and just a touch of smokiness a favorite of mine 10 years ago. So glad they brought it back.
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I can't stand how beer companies roll out their seasonal beers a good month or two before the season actually starts. August 1st I went to look for a summer beer and the store already had their Octoberfest beer instead. It's freaking two months until October. Now all the other brands are switching over as well. As much as I love fall beers, I enjoy them in the fall when it's cool, not in the summer when it's hot.
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yeah, it's pretty weak to already be hearing about pumpkin ales hitting the shelves, for me at least
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It's like that in everything now. You should see all the stuff at the Wal Mart Distribution center I work at.
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new blog post about today's trip into NYC https://bit.ly/pDrRt8
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It's like that in everything now. You should see all the stuff at the Wal Mart Distribution center I work at.
I know... I saw Halloween candy at the grocery store the other day. For a second I thought it was clearance stuff from last Halloween still. Then I realized that Haloween is only two and a half months away, so logically, it's time to start stocking up.
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had a couple Founders beers tonight and blogged it up https://bit.ly/r7N2Wa
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in today's blogventure https://bit.ly/re8zG4 beer trades arrive and Bill drinks more tasty beer :hat
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look at what the postman brought me today :D
https://bit.ly/qQEbpJ
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look at what the postman brought me today :D
https://bit.ly/qQEbpJ
I tried great lakes a few months ago. Not bad.
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Anybody here a fan of Buffalo Wild Wings + Bud Light on summer nights? That's tonight for me :D
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I'm never a fan of Bud Light.
Ever.
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I'm never a fan of Bud Light.
Ever.
Seconded
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a wrap up of the weekend's drinking https://bit.ly/mSam0C
I've got a couple fun events coming up this week :D
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So I'm drinking Kelpie Seaweed Ale from Scotland right now. Not sure about it yet.
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wut
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wut
You heard me!! :lol Seaweed Ale. I really like the Key West Southernmost Belgian Wheat Ale. Not bad at all.
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Last night the wife and I tried Stone Old Guardian Belgo Barley Wine Ale. Very heavy on the booze side at 12%. Loved the color in the glass, a burnt orange and it had a quick and bold flavor. Not the best barley wine I've had but very good.
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Got some Firestone Walker Solace (https://www.firestonebeer.com/beers/products/solace-spring-and-summer). OM NOM NOM NOM
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Last night the wife and I tried Stone Old Guardian Belgo Barley Wine Ale. Very heavy on the booze side at 12%. Loved the color in the glass, a burnt orange and it had a quick and bold flavor. Not the best barley wine I've had but very good.
I really like that one, dig the Belgian yeast combined with the hops. A lot of people seem to not particularly like the Belgian strain Stone usually uses though.
Got some Firestone Walker Solace (https://www.firestonebeer.com/beers/products/solace-spring-and-summer). OM NOM NOM NOM
Haven't tried that one, we only get FW's special releases, but they are all phenomenal. Firestone Walker is one of my absolute favorite breweries.
Tonight I had a bottle of Great Lakes Oktoberfest, which was pretty solid. Now I'm on to a bomber of Stone's 15th Anniversary beer, a massive (10.8%), hopped to the gills black IPA. Really digging it :hat
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I'll get a blog post up about yesterday in a bit, but the short version is that it was an epic day of drinking. I spent the first half of the day drinking a bunch of Cantillon at a bar while waiting for a special worldwide tapping of a new, limited release one off from them. I was having some beers at another bar later on and ran into Todd Alstrom (one of the BA founders) and his wife (who runs the volunteers for the festivals) along with one of the staff captains for the fests and his wife. Ended up grabbing a couple drinks with them before making my way home.
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Got a good buzz from this beer tonight. Dark, bold alcohol taste. Not the best Belgian Strong Dark Ale I've had but not too bad.
https://beeradvocate.com/beer/style/56
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Won't be able to make a run to any decent place til sunday for good beer so I made the mistake of grabbing a Sam Adams 12er mix of Boston Lager, Octoberfest, Black Lager, Irish Red, Pumpkin Ale, and Bonfire Rauchbier. I've either gotten pickier over time or their quality is slipping a tad. The Pumpkin Ale and Rauchbier were okay (and nothing more) but the Red, Boston Lager, and Octoberfest had me drinking more quickly just to (hopefully) get on to something more flavorful. I'm going try the Black Lager which I've only had one other time in celebration of the Score DVD release.
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I'm having me one hell of a drink. Water. I'm not 21 so I can't drink :biggrin:
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I'm having me one hell of a drink. Water. I'm not 21 so I can't drink :biggrin:
If you weren't such a metalhead heathen I'm sure Jesus would probably come over to your place and turn it into wine. He surely needs some way to kill time between sundays.
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I'm having me one hell of a drink. Water. I'm not 21 so I can't drink :biggrin:
If you weren't such a metalhead heathen I'm sure Jesus would probably come over to your place and turn it into wine. He surely needs some way to kill time between sundays.
I imagine Jesus as some guy wearing a loincloth all oiled up wearing gauntlets with crosses instead of spikes, and a crown of thorns over his head with his blood running down. And then we mosh
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That was kinda like a \m/ version of the Talladega Nights scene where Will Ferrell's wife tells him to not pray to baby Jesus.
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report on gabf tomorrow.. maybe
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report on gabf tomorrow.. maybe
I look forward to it.
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Went out for lunch with the family yesterday and went to the Amesbury Ale House. Had a wonderful Founders Breakfast Stout. Yummy.
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Just discovered two Firestone Walekr DBAs and two Solaces hiding in my kitchen.
Day = Made
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lol so much for my GABF report
All I need to say right now is that Deschutes' Hop Trip is THE SHIT.
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I picked up a few beers so a report tomorrow night for Y'all.
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Enjoying some Founders Breakfast Stout :D
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Brooklyn Local #2 and I have a love/love relationship.
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Such a good day so far (and it's not even over yet) :hat My cousin and I headed into NYC early because a bar was having a special Founders tapping. We got on line outside the bar 15 minutes before they opened, with about 20-25 people in front of us. At 12:30 they opened the door and started pouring Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout (a slightly bigger version of Founders Breakfast Stout aged in maple bourbon barrels). That keg kicked in 15 minutes, and we followed with Kentucky Breakfast Stout (same idea, but regular bourbon barrels instead of maple bourbon barrels). At this point I had planned on us leaving, but we ended up sharing a table with a couple other beer drinkers from NJ and decided to finish the breakfast stout family with regular Founders Breakfast Stout. From there it was a quick walk to the Rattle n Hum to get our refund for the recently cancelled bus trip to Victory, and of course have another round. This ended up being Brooklyn's The Companion, a nice, malty wheatwine with a juicy fruitiness to it from the (I'm guessing English) ale yeast used to ferment it. We headed home from there, and after (somewhat) sobering up, I embarked on an effort to make Founders Breakfast Stout brownies, which should be done any minute :hat
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Sweet Bill. I'm tasting a new beer for me right now. The company is Green Flash Brewing Co. and I'm having their Barleywine Ale right now. It's very good.
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double post...sorry
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Drinking Duck-Rabbit Milk Stout (https://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/9790/20216) right now. It's at least 50-60% as savory as a typical smoked beer and that richness tickles me pink. This shit is decent and, as of now, I'd gladly buy it again.
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:heart Duck Rabbit, and their Milk Stout. I hit up a couple Surly brews I got as trade extras recently. First was CynicAle, a good brew roughly in a saison style. Now working on a Bender, one of my favorite brown ales... so tasty and smooth :D
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Glad to hear you and I agree Bill. One of these days I'd love to go on a tasty bender with you as you seem quite capably seasoned and I love you for that. We shall see my friend.
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So I'll be in Montreal, Canada this weekend. Anyone up around there in this thread? Any breweries, packies worth checking out. Or any canadian beers that I should keep an eye out for? I'm looking to bring a bunch of beers back home, and don't say Molson :D
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Not really. Quebec is the spot to go for micro brews but the city still has a good array of beers. Maybe somebody else knows better than me. It's been a while since I've been there.
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Don't know of any local spots/breweries, but Unibroue is from... somewhere in Canada :lol and they make wonderful Belgian style beers and are worth checking out if you haven't done so already
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Thanks Axe, knew I could count on ya!
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Maybe one day, I will acquire a taste for beer. Not looking to bright right now. :lol
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Upon tjanurANUS' recommendation, I've bought Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale. It's got that autumn spice thing going on with definite caramelly goodness underneath it and at 7.2% abv it's smoother than 19-year old labia minora and sure as hell tastes a lot better.
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:rollin
Don't know of any local spots/breweries, but Unibroue is from... somewhere in Canada :lol and they make wonderful Belgian style beers and are worth checking out if you haven't done so already
Quebec, hence all the French and shit :lol
I really dig the Trois Pistoles!
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Upon tjanurANUS' recommendation, I've bought Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale. It's got that autumn spice thing going on with definite caramelly goodness underneath it and at 7.2% abv it's smoother than 19-year old labia minora and sure as hell tastes a lot better.
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Don't know of any local spots/breweries, but Unibroue is from... somewhere in Canada :lol and they make wonderful Belgian style beers and are worth checking out if you haven't done so already
They are in Quebec. You've got a long drive.
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So I'll be in Montreal, Canada this weekend. Anyone up around there in this thread? Any breweries, packies worth checking out. Or any canadian beers that I should keep an eye out for? I'm looking to bring a bunch of beers back home, and don't say Molson :D
Just remembered Dieu du Ciel is another great Candian brewery, especially known for their imperial coffee stout Peche Mortel
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So I'm back! picked up a pack of unibroue don de dieu, I'm quite happy with it....even if it cost me 15 bucks for a 6 pack...
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So I'm back! picked up a pack of unibroue don de dieu, I'm quite happy with it....even if it cost me 15 bucks for a 6 pack...
Sweet. The do sell 22 oz bottle at my grocery store, (Market Basket) for $6 or $7. Good beer. Hope you had a great time. Any picks?
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Enjoying my first taste of the new Samuel Adams Alpine Spring. I never had anything like it, and it's hard to describe, but it's great!
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Hooray thread bump! I organized a bottle share at my local shop tonight, at any point between about 5:30 and 8:30 tonight we had 10-12 people sharing great bottles of beer. I'll do a blog post with the complete list and some impressions later this week, but lots of cool stuff got passed around.
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When I get home from work I'll repost my beer weekend with the new beers I had last night from Hill Farmsted.
Edit.
Maine Peeper Ale
Southern Tier 2X Cream Stout
Avery Maharaja Double IPA
Boulevard Chocolate Ale
Brooklyn Companion Wheat Wine
Left Hand Oak Aged Widdershins
Monks Cafe Flemmish Ale
Dark Horse Tres Blueberry Stout
Ommegang Seduction
Sam Addams Double Pumpkin
Corsendonk Christmas Ale
Einbecker Schwartzbier.
Also had from Hill Farmstead that my brother picked up in VT for me,
Harlan: India Pale Ale
Society and Solitude #2
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Havinme some St. Bernardus Prior 8 Belgian Abbey Ale Watou whateverthefuckit';scalled and getting a goo dbzz going. :)
One pint motherf(%#^#ers!
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Shared a bottle of Longtrail Coffee Stout with the Mrs. last night.
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BUMP!
If you like Sam Adams Oktoberfest, I highly recommend trying Dundee's version. Almost as great, and about $12 less per case.
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Wow, this thread has been so active I've got several posts on the last page :lol
It's getting to be that time of year! Three weeks to GABF and four to the CO Fresh Hop Celebration :heart
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Try the new 100 barrel series from Harpoon. It's called White IPA. Think Allagash white ale with hops. It's very good.
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Bottled up an English Barleywine tonight (half aged on french oak cubes that I soaked in Woodford Reserve... and then added a couple ounces of Woodford Reserve at bottling) and drank a year old bottle of Firestone Walker Parabola while I was doing it. Bourbon barrel aged Russian Imperial Stout ftw :hat
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Sweet. My brother linked some picks of our pumpkin ale going into the secondary staging. He added the spices. Can't wait to try it in about 5 weeks.
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Sam Adams Oktoberfest I have been enjoying..
have fun ya'll..
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Has anyone tried the Sam Adams White Christmas yet? I'm wondering about it.
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Oh shit, it's aliiiive!
I actually had the White Christmas yesterday (on a white Christmas- whooda thunkit?). It was yummy, but nothing spectacular.
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I have not. I meant to pick up a Sam Adams winter pack, just never got around to it.
Right now I'm sipping on a Duck Rabbit Baltic Porter, which is pretty nice. Idly daydreaming about what I'm going to brew to fill the homebrew kegs I got for Christmas :D
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If I can't see through it, i'll most likely enjoy it. If it looks like piss, I'll usually pass on it.
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Oh shit, it's aliiiive!
I actually had the White Christmas yesterday (on a white Christmas- whooda thunkit?). It was yummy, but nothing spectacular.
Yeah, the White Christmas is just ok. That Chocolate Bock is better.
Going to check out a new brewer in NH Friday. Blue Lobster is the name and I am picking up a few 750ML. Will report back.
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Merry Mischief is where it's at, as far as Sam Adams winter beers are concerned.
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Merry Mischief is where it's at, as far as Sam Adams winter beers are concerned.
That gingerbread stout is fantastic.
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Drinking my brother Brian's home brewed IPA. He calls it BRI-PA. :lol
Nice hoppy aroma and taste.
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:lol, BRI-PA.
In one month it will be stout month at one of the local breweries, and I am very excited for this.
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My brother has a porter in the works. 3 more weeks Trying to get him to name it Brorter. Part Brother part Porter. :lol
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He fucking better.
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Had Dark Horse Thirsty Trout Porter, Three Floyds Dreadnaught, and Left Hand Milk Stout (on nitro!) for lunch today. Today was a good day.
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Visited a new-ish NJ brewery called Kane (just released their first anniversary beer). Had glasses of their Belgian single, Belgian IPA, and Belgian strong dark ale (I swear I didn't plan that :lol). I took home a growler of a special version of their year round IPA (which is excellent in its own right) that had some rye added to the grain bill and a couple 750s of the aforementioned anniversary beer, that being a blend of Belgian strong dark ale and bourbon barrel imperial stout.
After that hit a local bar and had a round each of Sam Smith's Winter Warmer and North Coast Old Rasputin. I've now ticked 44 of the 45 beers on their MBA (Masters in Beer Appreciation) syllabus. After I order a Chimay Blue on New Year's Eve, I get a t-shirt, my name up on the wall, a $15 gift card, and free upgrades from 16oz to 20oz pint servings for life :hat
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the aforementioned anniversary beer, that being a blend of Belgian strong dark ale and bourbon barrel imperial stout.
Oh my fuck
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Oh I agree orc!!
So in 3 week my brother and I start on our Russian Imperial Stout. Then wait a year for it. That's not fair.
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the aforementioned anniversary beer, that being a blend of Belgian strong dark ale and bourbon barrel imperial stout.
Oh my fuck
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. If it turns out to be good, and I get some more, I'll send you a bottle.
Oh I agree orc!!
So in 3 week my brother and I start on our Russian Imperial Stout. Then wait a year for it. That's not fair.
Mmmmm, imperial stout. Just make sure you don't leave it in the fermentation bucket for too long, either bottle it and age it, or siphon it after a month or so into a different container for bulk aging.
Just poured a rye imperial IPA from a Mississippi brewery called Lazy Magnolia, and a friend surprised me at work today with a box of Sam Adams big bottle releases (Gingerbread Stout, Chocolate Chili Bock, Sahti, and Oaked Blonde Barleywine) because her husband works for the local Boston Beer distributor.
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My brother bought an oak barrel Bill. We are going to rock this.
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Man, you guys do not mess around :lol Just make sure to keep an eye on how long you keep the beer in there. The surface area to volume ratio is way higher with a five gallon barrel than it is with the full size barrels that breweries use. Your beer will probably pick up all he oak flavor you want in days to weeks, rather than months to years.
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Love that Chimay blue! I just tried Sam Adams White Lantern this past weekend, and it was incredible. Checking out their maple pecan porter tonight, and their double agent ipl tomorrow.
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Renegade's peanut butter stout is back. Growler in my fridge. :heart.
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Smuttynose Gravitation 2013 is outstanding. Malty, boozy, a great rum soaked raisin flavor. Man I'm loving it.
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I just got a case of Budweiser Project 12. I'm by no means a Bud fan, but there are 3 varieties in the case...I'm on the 2nd one, and I'm really liking it a lot!
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Glad to see this thread resurrected. I'm celebrating the end of a hellish week at work (65 hours from Monday-Saturday, including 48 over the last four days. My last day off was 12 days ago), and I just cracked my last bottle of JW Lees Harvest Ale from 1999. This barleywine is ~14 years old, and it's absolutely stunning. It's well oxidized, but there's also still a strong caramel backbone.
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14 years old Bill?! Wow, I'd love to get my hands on something like that!
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14 years old Bill?! Wow, I'd love to get my hands on something like that!
Yeah bottles of this popped up at a spot I used to go to in NYC a couple years ago I ended up grabbing three bottles, and last night I drank the last of them. Wish I had bought a bunch more though. That was easily the oldest bottle in my cellar. Now that honor belongs to a couple bottles of Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout from 2005.
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Those are strong a year or two in. My favorite from Brooklyn. If you ever see any your way you much try Clown Shoes Beer. Everything I've tried is gold so far.
https://www.clownshoesbeer.com/
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I'm loving getting back into hefeweizens.
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I downed a bomber of Hoppin' Frog DORIS (Double Oatmeal Russian Imperial Stout) last night. Man, that is some great stuff. Along with pretty much everything Hoppin' Frog brews. I just wish it wasn't so expensive.
Had some Green Flash Palate Wrecker today, which is also quite delicious if you're into IPAs.
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So true, I've loved their beers. That DORIS was outstanding.
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just curious, has anyone ever tried Billy Beer? From what I've heard, it was horrendous.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7NqZx6lMqMw/T9hGz_EntEI/AAAAAAAAAIs/1Ouh4PmB-JM/s1600/billy+beer.jpg)
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I went to a happy hour last week and they had $1 apple something or other drafts... I never had an apple beer (not one for flavors) but I loved it. I've tried Angry Orchard and Shock Top Apple Crisp since then... awesome.
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I love the Sam Adams Spring Thaw collection! The Maple Pecan Porter is absolutely delicious!
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Yeah, I really liked that one too.
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I went to a happy hour last week and they had $1 apple something or other drafts... I never had an apple beer (not one for flavors) but I loved it. I've tried Angry Orchard and Shock Top Apple Crisp since then... awesome.
I really like the Lindeman's stuff, though it's way pricey compared to those ciders. I like it way better than coolers though, because it's actually like drinking a fruit beer, rather than a carbonated vodka and cranberry.
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I love the Sam Adams Spring Thaw collection! The Maple Pecan Porter is absolutely delicious!
I liked my first sip of that, but by the end tasted like cough syrup. I love the White Lantern!
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Just picked up a bomber of Dayman, a coffee IPA collab between Stone, Three Brothers, and Aleman. I'll have a full report some time soon.
At the moment I'm enjoying some Rushing Duck Naysayer Pale Ale, a local brewer that opened relatively close to me over 6 months ago. I hope they expand more because their beers are top notch. Their Beanhead Porter (coffee porter) is outstanding and so is their Ded Moroz imperial russian stout, which they age in whiskey casks for their third fermentation stage.
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I love the Sam Adams Spring Thaw collection! The Maple Pecan Porter is absolutely delicious!
I got Alpine Spring at a restaurant and did like it quite a bit.
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I as well went to a new local brewer today. Had many beers, all good quality. Brought home their Ragged Neck Rye Porter. Great roast and smoke to this one.
https://untappd.com/beer/327458
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Picked it up a few days ago. Finally got a round to trying it. Oh my god, if you can find this I would definitely recommend this.
(https://i.imgur.com/vzs8Zr1.jpg)
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My brother just picked up a bottle but hasn't had it yet. I will hunt one down.
So my brother wants to wait 3 more weeks for our Jalapeno cream ale but the sucka used it in a veggie chili he made today. Dammit! It sounds good!
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Dayman wasn't bad, although it combines two different types of bitterness that seemed to clash more often than not. Still worth a taste, though.
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I'm not really a beer guy but i thought it was a fantastic beer, and would drink it again. I didnt seem to find any bitterness that clashed . But then again my taste buds dont worrk 100% :lol
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Anybody else track down any KBS this year?
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Anybody else track down any KBS this year?
Not yet but I here it will be on tap soon at a place my brother and I go to. Bill, let me know the next time you are up here for a fest. Love to get together with my brother and you.
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Picked it up a few days ago. Finally got a round to trying it. Oh my god, if you can find this I would definitely recommend this.
(https://i.imgur.com/vzs8Zr1.jpg)
That looks absolutely amazing.
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Anybody else track down any KBS this year?
Not yet but I here it will be on tap soon at a place my brother and I go to. Bill, let me know the next time you are up here for a fest. Love to get together with my brother and you.
Definitely man. Won't be making it up for the American Craft Beer Fest, but hoping to be up for the Belgian Beer Fest.
Drinking a Bourbon Barrel Barleywin from Central Waters tonight. These guys do barrel aged beers right.
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Picked it up a few days ago. Finally got a round to trying it. Oh my god, if you can find this I would definitely recommend this.
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That looks absolutely amazing.
I'm terrible with describing tastes and flavors, so I wont try, but it was definitely delicious.
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Picked up a couple more Stone collab beers to try out: Saison du Buff and The Perfect Crime. Will report back.
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Picked up a couple more Stone collab beers to try out: Saison du Buff and The Perfect Crime. Will report back.
I've had The Perfect Crime. Solid, but not spectacular. Tried 21st Amendment's Hell or High Watermelon today. Very, very drinkable, but not really my type of beer. I've really been digging Troegs Nugget Nectar lately.
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They have that at the local beer store for growlers although I opted for 90 Minute instead. May do that next time.
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Got together with some people last night and did a big Stone IRS tasting. We had bottles of the classic version from 2013 back to 2008 as well as the 2011 Belgo Anise and the 2013 Espresso variants. The biggest change in vintages was easily from '13-'12 as the hops just completely disappeared (which wasn't a bad thing imo). From 2012 back it was just a matter of slowly increasingly noticeable oxidation. The 2009 was the sweet spot for me. The Espresso version was good, but a little to coffee forward for me, and the Belgo Anise is still probably my least favorite Stone beer.
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Here is the Jalapeno Cream Ale that my brother & I brewed. It's smooth with a nice, light roasted jalapeno flavor to it. Not too strong, it's just right. There's a slight burn to the throat after which is a great sensation for a beer. I really like it.
(https://i583.photobucket.com/albums/ss272/kingshmegland/4-28-13023_zps86fb15a2.jpg) (https://s583.photobucket.com/user/kingshmegland/media/4-28-13023_zps86fb15a2.jpg.html)
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That sounds great, king. I always look out for beers that feature pepper. I've liked the few that I've tried, but it hasn't become a very widespread style yet.
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I bought some Sixpoint Bengali Tiger the other day in a 4-pack of pint cans. Not crazy about it. It's almost trying to be a belgian style and a hoppy pale ale at the same time. I've liked other Sixpoint beers, but this one is just sitting in my fridge now.
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KG53xbdoXHY/T-tfiLvb74I/AAAAAAAAARs/vm-pVYKN9hg/s1600/Bengali+Tiger.jpg)
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My buddy swears by Bengali Tiger. I like it, but it's not a favorite. I do really like Sixpoint's cans, though, with the ridiculous little poem-like things on the back.
I had a pint of Finch's Secret Stache Stout last night. I highly recommend it.
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I find Sixpoint to be pretty hit and miss in general. Not crazy about some of their business practices either.
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Brewing a Belgian wit with the bro tomorrow then watching the B's playoff game. Win/win.
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Just tried for the first time Hoppin' Frog Outta Kilter Wee Heavy Scotch Style Red Ale and I love it! What a unique flavor.
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Leinenkugel's Big Eddy Wee Heavy Scotch Ale is great, too. Also got my hands on a Sam Adams Imperial White last weekend...fantastic!
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Just tried for the first time Hoppin' Frog Outta Kilter Wee Heavy Scotch Style Red Ale and I love it! What a unique flavor.
Everything Hoppin' Frog brews is great. Worth the steep price, in my opinion.
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BUMP!!
Bought a Wee Heavy Scotch Ale from a local brewer, "Blue Lobster" and I can't say enough about it.
Bill if you're up here lets connect and I'll take you to them.
My brother and I will be brewing a coffee stout in two week in his back yard with a fire pit going and the tunes and beers flowing. :metal
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I'm on untappd, if it's not been posted, it's where you check in your brews. Follow me (splent) :-)
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One of these days I'm gonna make it up by you Joe.
My next brewday is Sunday, making a hoppy Belgian tripel for a local homebrew competition.
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Sweet. I love a strong beer. By brother put his Peppercorn Saison in a competition and got trough to the 3rd round out of 5 rounds. Not bad for his first time.
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I'm on untappd, if it's not been posted, it's where you check in your brews. Follow me (splent) :-)
Untappd is one of the most used apps on my phone. I love it. :lol
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New from Brewmeister, the brewers who previous held the record holders with their "Sink the Bismarck" beer, weighing in at 41% ABV and "Armageddon" at 65%: Snake Venom.
67.5% ABV.
Holy. Crap.
https://www.brewmeister.co.uk/#/snake-venom/4580369643
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Hosted a divorce party for some friends from another forum online, this weekend. This was the pic form Early Saturday afternoon:
(https://i.imgur.com/XnJhB70.jpg)
Later, a case of Troeg's (Pale Ale, Mad Elf, Hopback) and a bottle of their "Master of Pumpkins" showed up, as well as several more growlers worth of beer.
Also, there was this:
(https://i.imgur.com/iGylkrQ.jpg)
This recycle bin was empty on Friday night. This pic was from Sunday morning. This doesn't count all the cans that went in a separate receptacle, and bottles that ended up elsewhere.
(https://i.imgur.com/PDlg9z2.jpg)
I still have some growlers from Rohrbach (Highland Lager, Scotch Ale, and Kacey's Kristmas Ale), most of the Saranac Winter collection, some Troeg's and Yuengling Octoberfest, and probably some other stuff.
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Awesome! Uinta, nice.
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I am having my first Goose Island IPA. Any fans?
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I don't mind a Dubbel from Goose Island.
https://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1549/16807/?sort=serv&servT=2&start=0
Brewing a Quad with my brother next Saturday. We are trying an old school European method of brewing.
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So going on a day trip Monday to Vermont and hitting these 2 places to eat and checkout their tap lists!!
For Lunch -- https://www.prohibitionpig.com/
For Dinner -- https://www.bobcatcafe.com/location.html
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Tonight I tried for the first time Founders Breakfast beer
(https://www.putnamandvine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Founders-Breakfast-Stout.jpg)
Wow, this was really good. My go to beer is usually a stout and this one was pretty damn good.
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Yeah it's damn good. I've got to get me a 4 pack of their Backwards Bastard.
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Yeah, Founders Breakfast Stout is pretty damn tasty. Soon to be year round, which is great.
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I am having my first Goose Island IPA. Any fans?
Love it! Serious business. Had a couple this past weekend. Sorry it took me almost 4 years to respond.
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The Founders Breakfast Stout is one of my favorite stouts. It's pretty much perfect in the colder months. I may have to go buy a pack tonight.
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Founders Breakfast Stout is one of the finest "shelf beers" in existence. Outstanding.
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I know Axeman has been on a beer trip to all my favorites in N.E. He's post some outstanding stouts now doubt.
Bill I didn't check, I hope Hill Farmstead has Damon.
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I know Axeman has been on a beer trip to all my favorites in N.E. He's post some outstanding stouts now doubt.
Bill I didn't check, I hope Hill Farmstead has Damon.
Not to go unfortunately, but they will hopefully still have a version of it made with coffee available for onsite consumption today.
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Still was kicking.
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Mmm beer. Resurrected thread! I've got nothing to add except the beer scene in Denver continues to be ridiculous. It seems like all the new breweries have slowed down a bit but I still can't keep track.
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That's how it is here in charlotte, there seems to be a new brewery opening every weekend.
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Tonight at dinner I got Sunny side up coffee Stout
Wow, it was pretty damn good
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Today I had Blood Orange IPA by 21st amendment brewery
(https://brewpublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Blood-Orange-Brew-Free-Or-Die-IPA-from-21st-Amendment-Brewing.jpg)
Pretty decent
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:ooh I've been killing it with beers from Hill Farmstead and The Alchemist.
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Had a 32 oz Pig's Ear at KC's today, Joe.
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KC's?
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KC's?
KC's Rib Shack in Manchester. Ever heard of it? Amazing place!
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KC's?
KC's Rib Shack in Manchester. Ever heard of it? Amazing place!
I was wondering! 25 minutes from where I live! That meat shovel dinner is insane!
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Yeah, that's the place. I got the beef brisket sandwich. Their fries are great!
We met my parents and my brother and his wife. We went at the beginning of the summer, but since today was my birthday, that's where I wanted to go!
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Hot damn my friend! Happy birthday!!
My wife works 2 minutes away from it at the Elliot Hospital!
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Hot damn my friend! Happy birthday!!
My wife works 2 minutes away from it at the Elliot Hospital!
Thanks!
We turned around in their parking lot! :lol
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:lol
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Had this New Holland Dragon's milk Oatmeal stout today
(https://i.redd.it/27qxa3hfxfp31.jpg)
This was pretty damn good
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I started drinking craft beers about two years ago, but I rarely drink anything that's not domestic (Norwegian or Serbian), so I can't really post all that much.
Having one of these now:
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Yeti Imperial Stout from Great Divide (Colorado). Packs quite a punch at 9.5%. :angel:
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Picked this up yesterday along with a few other things. $23. I make odd choices when I go beer shopping. I don't often drink sour beers, but I'm really enjoying this. Delightful drink
(https://i.imgur.com/G3p33HO.jpg)
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I'll make you feel better Mike. I bought 3 cases at Treehouse Brewing today and it totaled $450.00.
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I'll make you feel better Mike. I bought 3 cases at Treehouse Brewing today and it totaled $450.00.
Dude!! :lol What did you get?
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I bought a 12 pk of Moosehead for $10.99. :lol
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I bought a 12 pk of Moosehead for $10.99. :lol
Put that in a shopping cart did ya?
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So, there's actually a story behind that and I was about to post a pic the other day. I was at the package store while the other thread was getting locked. :lol
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So, there's actually a story behind that and I was about to post a pic the other day. I was at the package store while the other thread was getting locked. :lol
I blame Kade. :lol
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I'll make you feel better Mike. I bought 3 cases at Treehouse Brewing today and it totaled $450.00.
Dude!! :lol What did you get?
Here is my checklist at the brewery.
(https://i.postimg.cc/vmDn63mF/20191222-124540.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/v1FTJ793)
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That's fucking crazy bro.
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Couldn't make up your mind on the Julius eh? :lol
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Nope. Lol. It's like having 20 new CD releases that you want to own but you can't buy it now.
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No Curiosity cans? Madness.
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Tried 2 stouts for the first time:
Stone Xocoveza stout:
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Had high hopes for this one, but it wasn't for me. Didn't like the main taste and really didn't like the after taste.
Mora had posted about this next one as well, but I now got a chance to try it.
Great divide Yeti Imperial stout:
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Really excellent. Very smooth, and rich taste all the way through :tup
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The Yeti is good stuff. :tup
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Having a barbecue and beer Instagram page, most of my BBQ pics have a beer in them, and it's usually a Yuengling. One of the most common comments I get, either on my IG or when I post to a BBQ Facebook group is; "I wish I could get that beer over here".
Well, if you're "over there" (mostly west of the Mississippi), looks like you'll be getting Yuengling soon:
https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/sightlines/9/15/yuengling-to-expand-with-help-from-molson-coors (https://www.goodbeerhunting.com/sightlines/9/15/yuengling-to-expand-with-help-from-molson-coors)
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