The Beer Thread: Mach 2

[carl320]

Those are actually real dead squirrels. 

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

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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

[veronica]

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 ).

Yeah, the fact that it's a fundraiser makes me feel a little better about spending $25 I shouldn't be spending

The stupid website won't let me buy advance tickets though 

[King Postwhore]

 Wynkoop's Parade of Darkes7.   

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[King Postwhore]

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.

[axeman90210]

so I'm currently a little bit sick, and it is totally fucking with my ability to enjoy beer

[PlaysLikeMyung]

any other craft stuff you can recommend thats available in the philly area? i quite dug the dogfish head

[King Postwhore]

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.

[axeman90210]

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).

[carl320]

Having a Founders Backwoods Bastard (Ale aged in bourbon barrels) 

[axeman90210]

man, being sick sure does suck. I haven't been able to drink all week

[carl320]

Man, that must be a bad cold.  You feeling any better?

[axeman90210]

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

[veronica]

Still jealous of the Parade of Darks Think of me when you drink Serpent's Stout?

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

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.

[axeman90210]

very cool veronica (pun not intended) 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.

[veronica]

Me neither! Most pilsners are bland, watery stuff -yuck. So we thought "we can do better than that!" Have any of you tried "the original" pilsner, Urquell? That's not bad at all, it actually tastes something!

[carl320]

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...

[carl320]

Good drinks?  That was a long list you posted 

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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 

[axeman90210]

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.

[veronica]

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

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

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.

[carl320]

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?

[veronica]

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.

[axeman90210]

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.