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Midorka posted:Yeah I've heard nothing but fantastic things about New Belgium, I mean just this list and tell me you aren't jealous. Totally applying for an business operations position when they start posting Asheville jobs. edit: at the end of 2014, apparently. Corb3t fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Apr 10, 2012 |
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mysterious frankie posted:Éphémère pairs AMAZINGLY well with pork chops. Excellent accenting. Unibroue was one of my introductions to the delicate, sweet flavors of Belgian-style beer. And tonight I'm drinking a Helios bomber. Good saison, if a little simple. Definitely good for the price.
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Troegs new digs were super nice. My buddy and I were the only ones who signed up for a 1PM tour today, so it was pretty cool getting to walk around the brewery asking whatever we wanted, and the tour guide was amazingly helpful, and knowledgeable. Got to sample their Sunshine Pils right from the fermenter. It's about a week away from being released, so it was "almost" done. Definitely a different taste as it wasn't filtered at that point, and was very Dreamweaver-y, yet still very Pils like. The tour itself was really cool, mostly due to the fact that it was Tuesday afternoon, and I was the only person who had signed up, so it was just me and my friend. Saw all their new equipment, was really impressed at the upgrades they made from the old brewery... and really liked how the whole place seemed "fun'... everyone said hi when you walked thru the brewery, and you could ask anyone what they were up to, and they would explain what their job was, and what part of it they were doing. Saw their barrel aging room for their splinter series stuff, and got to try 3 scratch beers. Scratch #57 - Chocolate Weizenbock. I could drink it all day. I dont' know why. It didnt' have any particularly amazing flavors, it was just well done. Chocolate came thru nicely, and it had a great finish. The guy in the gift shop said they had cases of it, up to a week or so ago :-/ Scratch #60 - Spring Fest Lager - A lot different than I expected. A hoppy lager. Was very solid. Great hop flavor (Sanz hops i believe the guy said), nice and drinkable.... Scratch #61 - Russian Imperial Stout. Reminded me of a Storm King. Hopped up RIS. Smooth chocolate/coffee notes, with a great hop finish. Not as hoppy as fresh Storm King, but more chocolatey. Really liked this one. They opened a new restaurant where they serve actual food, the menu was getting very "Victory-ish" already, as I had a BLT, served with thick sliced bacon that they had smoked that morning outside the brewery. While we were having the #61, a guy with a Troegs shirt sat down, and started chatting about the beer, and he had gotten a sample as he hadn't had it yet. Started talking about how he liked the beers they brew because most of them are very sessionable, and when they do make the one offs and things like Mad Elf, people seem to really go nuts for them... and he thinks there may be more "big" beers in the future. Overall, I'd say if your'e in the area, the 'tasting tour' is worth the $5 admission. You get 30 minutes walking thru the brewery, seeing the new equipment. You get about 2 beers worth of samples, a take home pint glass that they do not sell , and it ends in their tasting room, where you can have a nice meal served by super cute bartenders Edit : Forgot to add, they had full cases of Nugget Nectar , the last batch  Got myself a nice case of it since everyone around here is sold out.
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Apr 11, 2012 04:10
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Awesome, now if only gas wasn't so expensive I would be up there now. It's pretty much $50 in gas alone there and back.
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Apr 11, 2012 04:31
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Vertigo posted:Troegs stuff drat, sign me up.
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After finishing my 6 Stoudt's Pils and a Victory Prima Pils is it fair to say I don't like the style? I'm very much so enjoying my Golden Monkey though, a lot spicier than I remember it being but it's still readily available at a great price, I mean $10.99 for a 6 pack of this? Yes please.
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Midorka posted:After finishing my 6 Stoudt's Pils and a Victory Prima Pils is it fair to say I don't like the style? I'm very much so enjoying my Golden Monkey though, a lot spicier than I remember it being but it's still readily available at a great price, I mean $10.99 for a 6 pack of this? Yes please. I never found Prima to be a good beer, but people love it. That being said, I once again found that Sunshine Pils from Troegs is pretty much the only Pils I enjoy.
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My approach to beer has been that if I don't like an entire style, the problem is on my end. I mean, it's beer - it has to be good. I didn't like pilsners for a while, probably because they reminded me of the poo poo lagers I drank for years before. I went out of my way to try new pilsners for a year or so before I really "got" the style and started enjoying them generally. That's not to say I don't have style preferences, but a good pilsner is just perfect on a hot, sunny day. CalvinDooglas fucked around with this message at 05:30 on Apr 11, 2012 |
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I could see that, but I'm just starting to learn to appreciate things like Sam Adam's Summer Ale on hot days, so pilsners will have to wait while I soak up the summer seasonals! Also, Epic Brewing's Big Bad Baptist Imperial Stout is a delicious bourbon barrel aged coffee forward imperial stout. I would definitely buy it again, it's got good balance to it and the oak isn't forward like you find in other beers.
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Vertigo posted:I never found Prima to be a good beer, but people love it. That being said, I once again found that Sunshine Pils from Troegs is pretty much the only Pils I enjoy. I spent a year living in Prague in college drinking nothing but pils and Prima is a pretty drat good, by-the-books example of the style. I love it mostly because pils don't seem to travel well at all (I can never get drinkable Czech beer here in MN) so it's a great way to relive Prague, if only a little bit. Blue Paddle comes in a distant second in the category for me.
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Tonight it snowed in Ohio, so I decided it was a good night for Porters, and Stouts. I gave Samuel Smith a shot tonight, which I had previously never tried. I got a bottle of Taddy Porter, Oatmeat Stout, and Imperial Stout. All of them were really, really good, and I definitely see why people say they make phenomenal beer. If I had to rate them in order of how much I liked them, I would say it would go: Oatmeal Stout, Taddy Porter, Imperial Stout. I liked the Imperial Stout, but I've tried so many good Imperial Stouts that it's hard to rate it too high. I was incredibly impressed how drinkable all the beers were, with none of them clocking much above 7% abv. I often drink a glass, or two, of beer and feel like I need to stop, so I can drive home without worry about being above the limit, but I was able to drink three glasses, and felt completely fine to drive an hour later.
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Midorka posted:Also, Epic Brewing's Big Bad Baptist Imperial Stout is a delicious bourbon barrel aged coffee forward imperial stout. I would definitely buy it again, it's got good balance to it and the oak isn't forward like you find in other beers. i actually found this to be quite an unbalanced beer- taste was all over the place and the coffee was way too much (and i'm a coffee drinker who likes coffee beers). i think it's almost a really good beer, though, with great chocolate flavor and a nice mouthfeel, so i'm gonna sit on one for a while and hope it settles down. added: contrast Rogue's jobs page with Allagash's employment page. funkybottoms fucked around with this message at 12:56 on Apr 11, 2012 |
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a couple of rye beers in the last couple of days: tyranena's dirty old man... rye porter aged (40%) in rye whiskey barrels. s'okay. booze heat builds a little as you go, but in general it comes off as a mediocre rye porter. a little smokey. not bad, just not noteworthy. boulevard's rye on rye... rye ale aged (67%) in rye whiskey barrels. excellent and recommended. a near perfect amount of booze heat. never overpowers the light-ish beer style, but works as a great compliment. i like how with this and their chocolate ale, boulevard avoids the obvious choice of doing a porter or stout and instead works with lighter ales.
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funkybottoms posted:
oh goddammit. I was passed over for the Tour Guide job, got hired for an unrelated non-profit job, and now they post all the other jobs.
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Vertigo posted:
I had this and didn't particularly enjoy it even though it sounded great on paper. The chocolate definitely came through perfectly, but I think the base weizenbock was a little too dry and that didn't play well with the fruit.
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CalvinDooglas posted:oh goddammit. I was passed over for the Tour Guide job, got hired for an unrelated non-profit job, and now they post all the other jobs. Sorry you missed out on tour guide, but grats on the new job.
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People comparing this Sneaky Pete's to Hopslam is going to cause me to pick up a bottle after work today.
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I went to a meatballs and beer festival put on by these guys in Manhattan last weekend and was totally blown away (literally, figuratively, etc). Here's the full beer list: Pale Ales/Amber Ales Two Brothers Bitter End 21st Amendment Bitter American Bronx Pale Ale Empire Amber IPA’s Two Brothers Cane & Ebel Green Flash Hop Head Red Green Flash West Coast IPA Blue Point Hoptical Illusion Dogfish Head Aprihop Empire Rye IPA Ithaca Flower Power Black IPA’s 21st Amendment Back in Black Double IPA’s Oskar Blues Deviant Dales Green Flash Palate Wrecker Captain Lawrence IIPA DFH 120 min Belgian Style IPA’s Ommegang BPA Belgian Golden Ales La Trappe Isi'dor Ithaca White Gold Captain Lawrence Liquid Gold Belgian/American Strong Ales (dark, malty, etc.) Kulmbacher Eisbock Weyerbacher Quad Dogfish Raisin D'Etre Brown ales Cigar City Maduro Oatmeal Brown DFH Indian Brown Rye beers Founders Reds Rye Pilsners Oskar Blues Mama's Little Yella Pils Victory Prima Pils Smuttynose Vunderbar Victory Braumeister Seasonals Greenport Harbor Spring Anderson Valley Summer Solstice Blue Point Spring Lagers Sunner Kolsch Stoudt's Kolsch Ciders Farnum Hill Dooryard Doc's Framboise Original Sin Newton Pippin Original Sin Newton Pippin Cherry Gluten Free DFH Tweason Ale Saisons Sly Fox Saison Vos St. Feuillien Saison Stillwater Stateside Stillwater As Follows Saison Dupont Sours Rodenbach Grand Cru Ommegang Aphrodite Fruit beers Blue Point Blueberry Ithaca Apricot Wheat Barley Wines 21st Amendment Lower de Boom Tripels Victory Golden Monkey Allagash Curieux Allagash Tripel Wheat beers Lagunitas Doppelweizen Ommegang Witte Sierra Nevada Kellerweiss Southern Tier Hop Sun Porters Avery New World Porter Founders Porter Ballast Point Black Marlin Stouts Keegan Mother's Milk Left Hand Fade to Black 3 Ballast Point Sea Monster Biere de Gardes Flying Dog Garde Dog Southampton Biere de Mars Smoked beers Kelso Rauchbier barrel aged Captain Lawrence Smoked Porter Pins/Firkins Dogfish Head 75 Min Lagunitas Imperial Stout Ballast point sculpin Ballast Point Tongue Buckler Wandering Star Mild at Heart Wandering Star Rude Bo The real standouts of the night for me were the Ommegang Aphrodite, Captain Lawrence Smoked Porter, Lagunitas Imp Stout Firkin, and both Ballast Point IPAs on firkin. Sculpin in particular was great as usual, but I liked how the cask conditioning brought out more tropical flavors than even the bottled version has. I was also able to confirm that 120 minute IPA does indeed still suck.
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Bottle shop has firestone walker xv and firestone walker sucaba $30 each. ARe these worth buying at this price?
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Vertigo posted:Bottle shop has firestone walker xv and firestone walker sucaba That's a loving price gouge.
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CalvinDooglas posted:I didn't like pilsners for a while, probably because they reminded me of the poo poo lagers I drank for years before. I went out of my way to try new pilsners for a year or so before I really "got" the style and started enjoying them generally. Exactly the same for me. I spent a lot of time disliking pilsners, then one day one just clicked with me for whatever reason and now I drink them all the time. A German friend left some Warsteiner lager at my houe a while back, and it was the perfect thing to drink while homebrewing last weekend. Refreshing, hoppy, balancing malt sweetness, and only 4.8%.
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ShaneB posted:That's a loving price gouge. yeah. I got XV for ~20 and sucuba for ~15 in NJ
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Yeah, I guess they dont' exactly distribute those beers to this area, so it's like 3rd party stuff ...
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Vertigo posted:Yeah, I guess they dont' exactly distribute those beers to this area, so it's like 3rd party stuff ... Also, illegal!
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Schpyder posted:In other GR beer news, I stopped by Vivant on the way home from work today, and they're canning both the Zaison and their Tripel. Both are awesome. Also, if one of you goons stop by and they still have the wood-aged Triomphe on tap, try it, because holy poo poo. It's goddamn amazing. Thanks for the reminder about the Zaison and the Tripel, I had heard they would be canning it but totally forgot about it. Will have to stop by tonight and pick some up to celebrate getting a raise. May need to try the Triomphe as well, that sounds great.
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Mikey Purp posted:Lagers Kolsches are ales, not lagers.
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True that and good eye. I didn't notice the mistake myself.
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Kudosx posted:Tonight it snowed in Ohio, so I decided it was a good night for Porters, and Stouts. I have such a love-fest with the Oatmeal Stout every time I buy it. It's a great value beer to me. funkybottoms posted:i actually found this to be quite an unbalanced beer- taste was all over the place and the coffee was way too much (and i'm a coffee drinker who likes coffee beers). i think it's almost a really good beer, though, with great chocolate flavor and a nice mouthfeel, so i'm gonna sit on one for a while and hope it settles down. Which release # did you have? I had a bottle of release one which was bottled in September of 2011, though it was brewed in December of 2010 and added to the barrels in June I believe, so the coffee flavor definitely was a bit mellow but still prominent. It was as if the coffee was sitting on-top of a semi-sweet oak, cocoa, and bourbon that played a supporting role to the coffee. From my experiences coffee flavor falls off pretty fast, I drank a Wake and Bake from the latest release and it lost a lot of the far too forward coffee flavor to me. Vertigo posted:Bottle shop has firestone walker xv and firestone walker sucaba If you have the money both are very good beers, but I would recommend going in on a bottle with a friend as they're both hard to drink a whole bottle of alone in my opinion. It sucks you're being gouged though.
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I'd probably share it with someone, especially at that price. I guess my issue is the $30 price tag on it. Thats a chunk of change for something as "trivial" as a bottle of beer.
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Vertigo posted:I'd probably share it with someone, especially at that price. I guess my issue is the $30 price tag on it. Thats a chunk of change for something as "trivial" as a bottle of beer. if this was your only chance ever to buy a Parabola, i'd say go ahead, but for these... no, not unless you're a barleywine fiend.
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funkybottoms posted:if this was your only chance ever to buy a Parabola, i'd say go ahead, but for these... no, not unless you're a barleywine fiend. I kind of agree, Parabola is something pretty special, while Abacus I was indifferent with. XV was really nice to try and I have a second bottle aging, but I wouldn't buy another. Parabola I'll buy every time I see it though, which will be a lot next month since New Jersey gets an overload of FW stuff. Seriously there are places with unopened XV cases on display.
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funkybottoms posted:if this was your only chance ever to buy a Parabola, i'd say go ahead, but for these... no, not unless you're a barleywine fiend. yeah, i could see doing that for parabola, which is better than either of these. i stopped at a local shop last night (famous liquors in forest park, for you chicago folks) and they still had bottles of XV for $17 and sucaba/abacus for $14. both are well worth it for those prices, especially abacus, which i think is one of the best barley wines i've ever had.
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Ok... awesome. I'll pass on both then. I spent that much money on a beer, one other time, and it was the Angel's Share ... I felt underwhelmed beause it just didn't taste like a $27 beer to me... Going out to one of my favorite bars I haven't gone to for a long time tonight for dinner... This is tonite's tap list quote:GOOSE ISLAND INDIA PALE ALE
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danbanana posted:yeah, i could see doing that for parabola, which is better than either of these. One local store is charging $26 for XV and I don't think they ever got Sucaba at all. I would buy XV at $17 in a second if it were available to me, as I really enjoyed it when I had it on tap a couple weeks ago. When does Parabola come out?
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Vertigo posted:This is tonite's tap list drink yuengling the whole time and call everyone hippies
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I've never heard of Clown Shoes or Spring House. Are they newer breweries, or recently expanding, or am I just not up on things?
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crazyfish posted:One local store is charging $26 for XV and I don't think they ever got Sucaba at all. I would buy XV at $17 in a second if it were available to me, as I really enjoyed it when I had it on tap a couple weeks ago. FW's site says may is the release month, so probably headed east by june or july. that's about the time chicago saw it last year (maria's in bridgeport and poor phil's in oak park both had it on tap one especially drunk weekend in july last year). i've only seen it on the shelves once last year and bought that bottle. pricing for FW stuff seems all over the place. when the first bottles of XV hit in late 2011, i paid $22. the famous by me is still charging $17. sucaba is $14 by me, but i've seen as high as $27 (at maria's). i bought a few bottles at a whole foods for $15.
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Arnold of Soissons posted:I've never heard of Clown Shoes meh. i've never had anything particularly good from them and their clementine was kind of straight-up bad...
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Decided to go beer shopping today to a store I don't frequent often, found a Beer Geek Brunch Weasel Cognac Aged, a bit pricey but I figured why not. I also found a case+ of Struise Pannepot from 2011. I picked up a few for $6 and will be aging a few.
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