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funkybottoms posted:geographically, that's the closest thing that's been mentioned, but still no distro to central VA! We get it up here in NoVA if you're ever coming through!
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Eejit posted:Okay then, tops for Denver are Crooked Stave, Denver Beer Co, Great Divide, River North, and Epic. Other good spots but not must-visits are Black Shirt, Our Mutual Friend, TRVE, Renegade, Strange, Beryl's, and Diebolt. Avoid: Breckenridge, Wynkoop, and big chain places like Rock Bottom, Yard House, Gordon Biersch, etc. Thank you for this. I may well come back to the thread to ask about specific areas once my plans have clarified a little bit (currently they are: get a car in Denver airport. See what happens.) FYAD SECRETARY posted:Cellarmaker and The Rare Barrel are both only 2 to 3 years old and are both awesome. Those two also don't get a ton of distribution so visiting the brewery is recommended for those. as far as breweries just to be on the lookout for on draft at random bars: Faction, Fieldwork, Altamont, Berryessa, and maybe Knee Deep. Cellarmaker were at CBC this year, weren't they? That's a pretty quick rise. Also hell yes Rare Barrel - I love specialist breweries like that. Might have to go by myself rather than drag friends but I'm looking forward to it! Also excited about going to the wonderful dive that is Toronado again.
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Portland just started getting Knee Deep and so far I am totally unimpressed. Hoptologist was all resin and bitterness. Simtra is just boring. There are so many breweries making great hoppy beers, I don't understand how these guys gained a reputation for their IPAs.
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Perfectly Cromulent posted:Portland just started getting Knee Deep and so far I am totally unimpressed. Hoptologist was all resin and bitterness. Simtra is just boring. There are so many breweries making great hoppy beers, I don't understand how these guys gained a reputation for their IPAs. Hoptologist is a big fat meh and Simtra is freshness dependent. Lupulin River is fantastic. They have some other great hoppy stuff, but they aren't blowing the world away per se - they are just well above average and relatively easy to get and widely distributed. Being in Portland I assume you can fill a Doc Marten with Boneyard beer at every corner store so you're a bit spoiled
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Cross-posted from the Fantasy Football thread: If there's any interest in doing the Beer Trade Fantasy League again this year, I activated it in ESPN this morning, and started a new thread here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3732413 Last year's participants get first crack at joining, and I'll post back in this thread if any slots open up. It is basically a Fantasy Football BIF. [Edit: Link should be fixed] Quarterroys fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Jul 22, 2015 |
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Cervixalot posted:Cross-posted from the Fantasy Football thread: Nice link.
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This sounds horrible. Beer brewed with live lobsters
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Nth Doctor posted:This sounds horrible. oh hey a lobster stout sounds pretty good I wonder what they're calli-"The result is a saison-style beer called Saison Dell’Aragosta, that’s brewed in collaboration with a brewery in Parma, Italy. It’s 4.5% alcohol by volume and is only available on a limited basis." Yeah that sounds awful.
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MunchE posted:you're a bit spoiled That's a huge understatement. Had both on tap at Bailey's, so I'm reasonably sure Simtra was fresh.
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Spanish Manlove posted:oh hey a lobster stout sounds pretty good I wonder what they're calli-"The result is a saison-style beer called Saison Dell’Aragosta, that’s brewed in collaboration with a brewery in Parma, Italy. It’s 4.5% alcohol by volume and is only available on a limited basis." It's not bad. Definitely not their best, though.
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Stevie Lee posted:It's not bad. Definitely not their best, though. yeah, i enjoyed it enough on draft that i bought a few bottles. wouldn't trade for more, though.
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Perfectly Cromulent posted:That's a huge understatement. I wasn't impressed with Hoptologist, didn't try Simtra. Breaking Bud was pretty solid though.
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funkybottoms posted:yeah, i enjoyed it enough on draft that i bought a few bottles. wouldn't trade for more, though. Yup, Had this on draft and brought a bottle home. Wasn't outstanding but certainly quaffable.
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Nth Doctor posted:This sounds horrible. Coppertail does a stone crab stout that isn't bad. All you get from the crab is a little salt.
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Carton just re-brewed Digger, a wheat ale brewed with lemongrass and clams. I thought it tasted like "the bay at low tide" which is not really a flavor that I want to drink a lot of, but they certainly captured what they were going for.
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Kaiho posted:Cellarmaker were at CBC this year, weren't they? That's a pretty quick rise. Also hell yes Rare Barrel - I love specialist breweries like that. Might have to go by myself rather than drag friends but I'm looking forward to it! yeah, I think they were. basically everyone in the area recognizes them as the best brewery around here. as far as the recent Knee Deep chat, I like Hoparillo more than Simtra, but Lupulin River is my favorite of theirs
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There were a few cases of Knee Deep that made their (possibly grey market) way into the UK last year. They sure were... big C hop big. Possibly more exciting when fresher, but honestly can't everyone brew a massive CCCC IPA these days?
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Apache posted:Coppertail does a stone crab stout that isn't bad. All you get from the crab is a little salt. I'm going to look for it but I doubt it's here in sarasota//bradenton.
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Kaiho posted:can't everyone brew a massive CCCC IPA these days? Anecdata says "no, not at all"
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Has anyone tried Jolly Pumpkin Rojzilla or La Roja du Kriek? It looks like the former has been in Chicago but I haven't seen the latter yet. Granted, I haven't been looking very hard. Regardless, I picked up a bottle of the Rojzilla and am debating whether to buy more and also, if it's worth trying to track the Kriek down.
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Compusaurus posted:Has anyone tried Jolly Pumpkin Rojzilla or La Roja du Kriek? It looks like the former has been in Chicago but I haven't seen the latter yet. Granted, I haven't been looking very hard. Regardless, I picked up a bottle of the Rojzilla and am debating whether to buy more and also, if it's worth trying to track the Kriek down. Rojzilla is loving great. It tastes like liquid oak. Where have you seen a bottle recently? I'd pick up a couple... The Kriek was okay. Not as good as 'zilla.
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Rojzilla is great and I would pick up another one if I spotted it. Have not seen the kriek. On another note, Pipeworks Ninja vs Unicorn is out in cans now. Tasty and definitely worth buying at $12/4.
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So, I popped that 08-08-08 Vertical Epic just now. Verdict: not too good. It's still well-carbed, but the nose has only a few vague hints of honey and esters. The mouthfeel is kind of buttery, but without any noticeable diacetyl. Lots of bitterness still present, but almost no hop character (what a surprise). Whatever yeast or malt character there might have been has heavily receded, leaving only that buttery mouthfeel, an initial hit of bitterness with some honey-ish sweetness and stale malt, and a LOOONG finish reminiscent of wet cardboard and ash. Reminds me of a really stale IPA, just with some Belgian yeast character. Drainpoured after about a quarter of a glass.
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Jul 23, 2015 02:27
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4 Hands Passion Fruit Prussian is a nice Berliner. Recommended for the $10/4 pack price. The Wiseacre/Off Color collab Future Ancestor is, unsurprising, unique. Heaver lager sweetness accentuated with actual sugar. It's not quite cloying, in part because of the very light tartness, but it's not exactly the most drinkable. For $5/bomber, it's worth a try I guess.
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I just bought a 6 pack of Devil's Backbone Vienna Lager for $10 - a local company in Virginia. Good God this stuff is fantastic - if you are a fan of Vienna style lagers this is a must buy. A really clean finish!
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Jul 23, 2015 02:58
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 This stuff finally landed in VA. I could drink gallons of it. Couldn't be more tropical.
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I had the Wingman cucumber brett ale thing. It was delicious despite the nose having a strong sulfur/old hardboiled egg smell. It could have been been a lil less sweet but the umami funkiness was weirdly refreshing when combined with cucumber.
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nosleep posted:
OH HOLY JESUS DID IT?! Sorry. I had that on tap months and months ago and I've been constantly drooling waiting for cans to show up. Are you in Richmond/NoVA/???
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poop dood posted:OH HOLY JESUS DID IT?! Also name the place you bought if from. I sense a road trip coming up.
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Thunder Moose posted:Also name the place you bought if from. I sense a road trip coming up. Yea I'm in NoVa. Bought it from Dominion Wine & Beer but I guarantee it will start showing up everywhere this week. I just have to figure out how many more 4 packs I want to stockpile.
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Thunder Moose posted:I just bought a 6 pack of Devil's Backbone Vienna Lager for $10 - a local company in Virginia. not the sexiest thing in the world, but it is delicious and one of my top "daily drinker" kind of beers along with Weihenstephaner lager. if you haven't had Gold Leaf yet, you should should definitely grab a six-pack- a bit less malty, light, super clean, and crisp. drinking a 2008 Bigfoot. it tastes kind of like oxidized dirt- and not in a good way. funkybottoms fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Jul 23, 2015 |
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crazyfish posted:
I am unreasonably excited about this. Although I searched all over today and no one had any. Probably my second favorite Pipeworks beer, and an awesome DIPA. In other news, I did find tons of Corybantic sitting on shelves today. I think that's the longest any beer with Cory King's name attached to it has sat on a shelf.
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In contrast to the previous prices I reported, Chuck's Hop Shop in Seattle is pretty incredible. 42 taps with a really solid selection, including some Midnight Sun, and ridiculously good bottle prices ($5.60 for Hop Stoopid? Yes, please), and specials ($5 for a flight of 4 IPAs always plus events, which tonight was $5 for four radlers), and a pretty damned good food truck out front. Go there. Drink things.
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trauma llama posted:I am unreasonably excited about this. Although I searched all over today and no one had any. Probably my second favorite Pipeworks beer, and an awesome DIPA. I had Corybantic over 4th of July weekend and thought it was boring. It probably needs time. Vas Foremost on Milwaukee still has a large amount of cans if you're still looking.
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Compusaurus posted:I had Corybantic over 4th of July weekend and thought it was boring. It probably needs time. I almost picked one up, but for $18 I wasn't that interested. It feels very gimmicky with the "wine barrel aged water."
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trauma llama posted:I almost picked one up, but for $18 I wasn't that interested. It feels very gimmicky with the "wine barrel aged water." wait, that was real? i thought people were just making fun of Cory
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funkybottoms posted:wait, that was real? i thought people were just making fun of Cory  Secret ingredient, yo. Word was that the TTB asked them to clarify the process for that... As an OC fanboy, I snagged a bottle. The price was high but I liked Radiolaria enough to not really hesitate.
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trauma llama posted:I almost picked one up, but for $18 I wasn't that interested. It feels very gimmicky with the "wine barrel aged water." Yeah I agree. Usually I'd be all over anything from OC/SP but this one was not getting good enough reviews for me to justify the price. I'm surprised it didn't sell out instantly based on the breweries involved alone.
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LeafHouse posted:Yeah I agree. Usually I'd be all over anything from OC/SP but this one was not getting good enough reviews for me to justify the price. I'm surprised it didn't sell out instantly based on the breweries involved alone. Seems like it'd be a nightmare to mash with wine barrel aged water.
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Maybe they liquored back with it?
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