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Hypnolobster posted:This is even more confusing than horse blanket. Horse blanket isn't confusing at all. You just need to get one of these. I've been living off of Goose Island Summertime and IPA recently because of how stupidly hot the weather's been. Getting them for free doesn't hurt either. But I got to try a few new things while hanging out with some friends last night: Russian River Beatification is very aggressively sour, but still drat tasty. Firestone Walker XV is rich, smooth and delicious, and Parabola is a very nice imperial stout. I can't really give much more detailed impressions of that, unfortunately, since I'd already had a few in me by the time those rolled around. 
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wattershed posted:Most importantly though, while you might find a brewery which makes *a* better IPA (RR, Hill Farmstead), as a stable of beers nobody makes a whole line of IPAs in the world better than Alpine. Hill Farmstead is pretty amazing. We've had several of their beers on tap the last few days at CCB. Their hoppy beers are perfect. Well aside from the fact that they look like dogshit. We're releasing Cognac barrel-aged Church on a Hill English Barley Wine tomorrow. No one knows yet, so this is the ~*~world exclusive~*~ announcement 
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Sirotan posted:(moderate malt heaviness) To save face next time I am talking tasting I am going to slip in moderate male heaviness somehow and see if I can get the term to spread.
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Midorka posted:What is a good glass to drink a geuze from if I don't have a flute? Anything that can hold a liquid
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Midorka posted:What is a good glass to drink a geuze from if I don't have a flute? a piccolo cyber slimer, my brother is going to be down in the Tampa region starting this weekend, any chance of the beer you just mentioned still being around?
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Midorka posted:What is a good glass to drink a geuze from if I don't have a flute? Really, if you aren't going to use an authentic gueuze tankard, I don't see the point of even opening the bottle.
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Much like hydrocarbons and commodity chemicals, the best vessel from which to serve a geuze is a barge. Wait wait, geuze is apparently particularly fizzy if you think you need a flute for it? Opposite of that barge, whatever geometry and size of glass that maximizes glass contact area with a restricted opening. I know that just describes a flute but when dealing with relatives only you know what you actually have in the cupboard.
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zedprime posted:Much like hydrocarbons and commodity chemicals, the best vessel from which to serve a geuze is a barge. I'm just going by ratebeer/beeradvocate, both recommend a flute and I like to drink out of the correct glassware if I can. Edit: I opened a 3 Fonteinen Oude Geuze and just poured it into my chalice for lack of a better choice, I think. Anyway this is pretty sour, but not so much that I can't enjoy it compared to others I've had. I only had a slight pucker on the first sip and now I'm able to pick up a very bright lemon sourness with some spice and funk to this. I see myself enjoying this one, what other geuzes should I try that are similar to this? Midorka fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Jul 6, 2012 |
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CYBER SLIMER posted:Also we're brewing our pumpkin beer in 2 weeks Good Gourd?
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escape artist posted:Good Gourd? Yessir. Got several cases of pumpkin in last weekend. Gonna suck opening all those cans  funkybottoms: yes, there's a lot of it. Re: glassware. I pretty much use a pint glass for anything I want to drink pints of and a snifter for sours, high gravity beers, etc. Beyond that I don't see much need. I'm sure there are plenty of glassware spergs who will disagree, though.
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I have a lot of branded glassware of all types, but I never use any of it. It just sort of accumulates due to my job. For regular use, I have some nonics. For tasting/note-taking/reviewing, I just use stemless red wine glasses. The nonics are easy to clean and pleasing to hold. The stemless glasses accentuate the different qualities I look for in appearance and in aroma and lend themselves to sipping, while the thinner walls seem to allow the beer to warm faster, which is also important if you want a complete picture of how a specific beer behaves. And they're dishwasher-safe and cheap/easy to replace, as well. Always important. I kind of laugh every time I see a BA review that begins with "Poured from a such-and-such into my [BIG NAME BREWERY] [HYPE-TRAIN BEER] [ULTRA-SPECIFIC GLASS STYLE]..." FreelanceSocialist fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Jul 6, 2012 |
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I am a mild glassware sperg and I will be the first to admit you can get away with a pint glass and a wine glass. Basically open top and restricted top. Getting more in depth than that leads into effervescent capacity which I find not incredibly important beyond aesthetic quality of a fizzy beverage continually fizzing throughout your drink.
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Midorka posted:I'm just going by ratebeer/beeradvocate, both recommend a flute and I like to drink out of the correct glassware if I can. Cantillon (good luck on that). Lindemans Cuvee Rene is good and easy to get; St. Louis Fond Tradition is also easy to get, although I don't love it. There's a lot of others, but it's hard to say whether you would like them. None of the reputable Belgian brands are going to be bad, just different; there's only like 6 or 7 authentic lambic producers you can get in the US, so you might as well try them all.
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CYBER SLIMER posted:Hill Farmstead is pretty amazing. We've had several of their beers on tap the last few days at CCB. Their hoppy beers are perfect. My sister-in-law is currently living in VT and I was very blunt in telling her that I want to visit primarily to check out the beer and secondarily to visit her. Somewhere in there are 'autumn leafs,' 'drive up to Montreal,' and 'so you can meet your new niece or nephew.'
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Midorka posted:I see myself enjoying this one, what other geuzes should I try that are similar to this? that you are likely to find: Tilquin > Hanssens > Oud Beersel/Lindemans Gueuze Cuvee Rene >> St Louis. absolutely grab Cantillon or Girardin if you see them FreelanceSocialist posted:I kind of laugh every time I see a BA review that begins with "Poured from a such-and-such into my [BIG NAME BREWERY] [HYPE-TRAIN BEER] [ULTRA-SPECIFIC GLASS STYLE]..." i almost started writing BA reviews simply so i could say things like, "poured into a large plastic Target cup with flowers on it" or "decanted into my Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee teacup," both of which have actually happened CYBER SLIMER posted:funkybottoms: yes, there's a lot of it. cool, thanks. any specific day you would recommend visiting CCB? best bottle shop in the area?
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Chicagoons: I can't make it but Local Option has a nice event tonight.
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wattershed posted:Somewhere in there are 'autumn leafs,' 'drive up to Montreal,' and 'so you can meet your new niece or nephew.' It's usually easiest to meet new relatives drunk.
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funkybottoms posted:i almost started writing BA reviews simply so i could say things like, "poured into a large plastic Target cup with flowers on it" or "decanted into my Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee teacup," both of which have actually happened Also, the Stone Sour Fest list is out. Holy gently caress look at it. So many things. Live barrel Cascades. Marrón Acidifié, which I ran out of a few months ago and was still awesome. So many Avery bottles (that I'll probably never get to taste because the bottle line is always stupidly long and gently caress that, there's beer drinking to be done). Fifteen tickets cannot possibly be enough. I'm so glad I'm going with a group so we can coordinate and taste as many things as possible.
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bartolimu posted:"Rough poured into my red Solo cup" is how I'd put it for maximum nerd rage. Ok maybe this is totally old news for all of you but your comment reminded me of something that blew my mind recently. Solo cups are actually really clever!!   (And I would drink beer out of one if need be.)
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FYI it was a hoax/happy coincidence. http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/solocups.asp
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Docjowles posted:FYI it was a hoax/happy coincidence. http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/solocups.asp Oh.  Well, now I guess I'm a bit disappointed.
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Docjowles posted:FYI it was a hoax/happy coincidence. http://www.snopes.com/food/prepare/solocups.asp
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CYBER SLIMER posted:Hill Farmstead is pretty amazing. We've had several of their beers on tap the last few days at CCB. Their hoppy beers are perfect. Well aside from the fact that they look like dogshit. You guys have really ramped up the release of barrel aged offerings. Is there any strategy on how often you'll be releasing them? Completely random? We've seen 3 different Barrel aged beers in the last month. Corb3t fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Jul 6, 2012 |
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Random beer bits: I had 21st Amendment's "extra pale ale," Bitter American. Honestly, I thought it was watery; no body at all, although perhaps that was the point. It had more flavor than your typical "light beer," but it wasn't supposed to be a light beer, just a low alcohol one. I don't think I liked it at all. Also had Parabola on draft; it reminded me a lot of KBS, actually, although I think it basically did the things that KBS did better.
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Angry Grimace posted:Also had Parabola on draft; it reminded me a lot of KBS, actually, although I think it basically did the things that KBS did better. I think Parabola has a much heavier mouthfeel than KBS, which I find somewhat watery/light compared to other bigger bourbon aged stouts. Maybe because it starts as a coffee stout? I dunno. But Parabola is awesome.
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RiggenBlaque posted:I had the same experience after buying it based on a couple people in this thread saying they liked it. I chalked it up to it being an old batch, but maybe it just isn't very good. The one that I had was on tap at a posh bar that was selling a lot of it due to it being "the lightest beer" they were selling (sit near the bartender in any craft beer centered bar and every girl that walks in with some smug dude trying to impress his girlfriend will ask for that exact beer). The problem is that when you have beer with no body at all, it just tastes like bitter, hoppy water, which isn't particularly interesting. Interestingly, 21AB's site says the grain bill is Golden Promise, 2-Row, Munich and Crystal, but I wouldn't have been surprised at all to find it was all 2-row.
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Some fun stuff just came off the truck. Devil Dancer, Founder's Frangelic Mountain, Stone 10th Anniversary Ruination and smoked vanilla bean porter, and Lynch Pin. Only got a case each of Dancer and Frangelic, sadly.
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Devil Dancer Had one of these last night... First thought was that they managed to create hops-flavored vodka. Super boozy, super bitter. I guess I got used to it as it seemed to settle down a little, but in general I wasn't impressed. There's definitely a few other high ABV DIPAs that are superior in my opinion.
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danbanana posted:Had one of these last night... First thought was that they managed to create hops-flavored vodka. Super boozy, super bitter. I guess I got used to it as it seemed to settle down a little, but in general I wasn't impressed. There's definitely a few other high ABV DIPAs that are superior in my opinion. It has to be better than 120 minute, at least.
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Do any of you chi goons know where you can get Daisy Cutter (besides the brewery) now a days? I want a 4 pack or two for this weekend, but for the love of god I haven't seen it in stores in ages.
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"crazyfish posted:It has to be better than 120 minute, at least. They're different. 120 is so boozy it doesn't come off as any sort of IPA to me. Devil Dancer is very hop-forward and harshly boozy. If you've had Palate Wrecker, think of that but 12% and tasting like it. ChiTownEddie posted:Do any of you chi goons know where you can get Daisy Cutter (besides the brewery) now a days? I want a 4 pack or two for this weekend, but for the love of god I haven't seen it in stores in ages. Now that you mention it, I haven't seen it in a while...
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ChiTownEddie posted:Do any of you chi goons know where you can get Daisy Cutter (besides the brewery) now a days? I want a 4 pack or two for this weekend, but for the love of god I haven't seen it in stores in ages. Whole Foods tend to have them but they are a buck higher than Binnys. Also if you "know a guy" at your Binnys. That said the brewery is the only sure bet for fresh Daisy.
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Was a pretty neat place -- the beer is the usual Austin selection, but the food's good and the location is pretty awesome. Here is the view about 10ft from the bar 
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Just bought a bottle of Boulevard Love Child #2. Gonna let it chill just a bit and then it's go time. I'm freaking excited to try this.
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SUPER HASSLER posted:Was a pretty neat place -- the beer is the usual Austin selection, but the food's good and the location is pretty awesome. Here is the view about 10ft from the bar Awesome. I tend to go to east 6th to places like The Grackle, so good to know about a bar in dirty 6th that's got good choices for beer. Most places around dirty 6th just have macros.
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I'm going to visit my family in the Bay Area and I was wondering if anyone who lives up there can tell me where to find Pliny the Elder. It's absolutely impossible to find down south.
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caiman posted:Just bought a bottle of Boulevard Love Child #2. Gonna let it chill just a bit and then it's go time. I'm freaking excited to try this. Please report back on this. I almost bought one earlier this week, but I couldn't justify $20 for a bottle. If it's great, that could change.
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