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FreelanceSocialist posted:CCB will be in NC this fall, however. Bout time
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Munkaboo posted:Soon to be no stuff. CCB won't be selling to Richmond much longer. i'm surprised we're still getting anything, to be honest, but that would be weird considering a fair number of kegs we'd never seen before showed up in the last few weeks. also, screw you, North Carolina.
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Jul 12, 2012 21:10
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Just found a bar behind a building two blocks from my school with Pliny the Elder on tap. I am in my last semester. drat.
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Jul 12, 2012 21:48
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Angry Grimace posted:Just found a bar behind a building two blocks from my school with Pliny the Elder on tap. I am in my last semester. drat. Totally their fault: they should have put the bar in front of the building.
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Jul 12, 2012 22:21
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danbanana posted:Totally their fault: they should have put the bar in front of the building. It really is hidden pretty well - it's behind the civic center and tucked into a corner. There's really no way you'd know it was there unless you already knew about it. I had Alesmith's Yulesmith and Green Flash's Pilsner there too - honestly, I think I like GF's pilsner more than any of the other beers they've had. I'm not a huge fan of Green Flash in general.
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Jul 12, 2012 23:00
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Angry Grimace posted:It really is hidden pretty well - it's behind the civic center and tucked into a corner. There's really no way you'd know it was there unless you already knew about it. I had Alesmith's Yulesmith and Green Flash's Pilsner there too - honestly, I think I like GF's pilsner more than any of the other beers they've had. I'm not a huge fan of Green Flash in general. What about Rayon Vert? I also think the Alesmith X pale ale was one of the best things I drank on my trip to San Francisco earlier this year. Just a solid, hoppy pale ale. Wish I would have brought a few bottles home.
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Jul 12, 2012 23:34
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crazyfish posted:What about Rayon Vert?
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Jul 13, 2012 00:14
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crazyfish posted:What about Rayon Vert? Alesmith IPA at Alesmith changed my life.
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Went to the beach for a dip and hung around making music in my warm, sunny apartment, and enjoyed a Schneider Weisse earlier this evening. Pretty standard hefe - banana, clove, bready yeast, some sweetness. Poured dark for the style, almost like a dunkelweizen. Just a notch below Weihenstephaner's, in my opinion. Also enjoying Prima Pils, which is always great.
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Jul 13, 2012 01:39
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Munkaboo posted:Alesmith IPA at Alesmith changed my life. I just hate how they serve it in those drat flimsy plastic cups.
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Jul 13, 2012 04:17
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Well gently caress I've been looking for beers that use hazelnuts and gently caress if Frangelic Mountain Brown isn't a hazelnut coffee beer. There's hints of cocoa and caramel, but gently caress this is hazelnut all the way. I love this beer, I wish they did this one more than once.
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Jul 13, 2012 04:37
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Midorka posted:Well gently caress I've been looking for beers that use hazelnuts and gently caress if Frangelic Mountain Brown isn't a hazelnut coffee beer. There's hints of cocoa and caramel, but gently caress this is hazelnut all the way. I love this beer, I wish they did this one more than once. Comedy Rogue Hazelnut Brown option. It's actually one of their good beers if you haven't tried it.
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Jul 13, 2012 04:50
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FreelanceSocialist posted:CCB will be in NC this fall, however. Allegedly.
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Jul 13, 2012 05:13
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Tigren posted:Comedy Rogue Hazelnut Brown option. It's actually one of their good beers if you haven't tried it. I had it and it was decent, but the coffee profile was a bit bland and there was a bit too much mocha in it for me to consider it a hazelnut beer. It was probably old, but gently caress Rogue for not dating their bottles. Frangelic Brown is an assault of hazelnut as if it were just pressed, I am enjoying the bottle greatly.
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Jul 13, 2012 05:27
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I have a case of Frangelic all to myself  CYBER SLIMER posted:Allegedly. Well, it's showing up in available distributor inventory already. So is Shipyard's  PUMPKINHEAD. For gently caress's sake. They couldn't even wait until August. I could press a button and cases of it would apparently arrive next week. 
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Jul 13, 2012 05:32
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FreelanceSocialist posted:I have a case of Frangelic all to myself My local store only received half a case...
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Midorka posted:I had it and it was decent, but the coffee profile was a bit bland and there was a bit too much mocha in it for me to consider it a hazelnut beer. It was probably old, but gently caress Rogue for not dating their bottles. Frangelic Brown is an assault of hazelnut as if it were just pressed, I am enjoying the bottle greatly. Rogue Hazelnut Brown tastes like almost nothing but hazelnuts. I can't drink more than a few ounces of the stuff because it's such a one note beer. Likely an old bottle, I think.
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Jul 13, 2012 05:52
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I'm tripping it up to Boston soon for an ill-planned vacation and have literally no idea what to do there besides eat some seafood. Does anybody know any good breweries in the area to check out?
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I Dont Like You posted:My local store only received half a case... There's a few stores in town with cases of this left over. I'm assuming because its not barrel aged. Or I guess it could just suck, I haven't opened my bottle of it yet.
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Jul 13, 2012 12:19
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for sale posted:I'm tripping it up to Boston soon for an ill-planned vacation and have literally no idea what to do there besides eat some seafood. Does anybody know any good breweries in the area to check out? Well, Sam Adams is the obvious one. The tour is kinda small but you get a few samples and a tasting glass at the end. Not sure how far you're willing to go from Boston, but Mayflower Brewing in Plymouth is kinda nice. The tour is short but there is a tasting room to hang out in before and after. I've heard good things about the Harpoon tour but haven't been on it. 
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Jul 13, 2012 12:39
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Had a Love Child No. 2 last night at Poor Phil's in Oak Park. $25 bottle and worth every penny. Very tart on the front end and then it mellows into kind of a strawberry ftuitiness before the wood/bourbon flavor kicks in. Possibly the most complex beer I've ever had and it's loving awesome. Too bad it's gone everywhere...
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Jul 13, 2012 12:49
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for sale posted:I'm tripping it up to Boston soon for an ill-planned vacation and have literally no idea what to do there besides eat some seafood. Does anybody know any good breweries in the area to check out? don't know the area well, but i know a dude who works at Cambridge Brewing Company and used to brew there, so i'd check them out edit- i've had his excellent homebrew and i know he's a serious food dude, so if you go and Kevin is your server, tell him steve from Richmond says what's up funkybottoms fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Jul 13, 2012 |
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Jul 13, 2012 13:01
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funkybottoms posted:don't know the area well, but i know a dude who works at Cambridge Brewing Company and used to brew there, so i'd check them out Seconded. CBC is very good and they serve food, too. Sam Adams is "eh". It's a decent tour and you get the obligatory samples at the end, but it's in the middle of absolutely nowhere in a residential area (though it's right off the subway at least). Harpoon's kinda the same except swap industrial for residential. I don't live there anymore so this list might be pretty dated, but some good beer bars in no particular order: Bukowski's, Sunset Bar & Grill, The Squealing Pig, Penguin Pizza. Docjowles fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Jul 13, 2012 |
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Seconding Sunset Bar & Grill, and a Yard House location just opened up near Fenway Park; they've both got a serious amount of taps and the food is pretty decent as well. If you're limited to mass-transit: Sam Adams - Orange Line to Stony Brook and a short walk. Harpoon - From South Station catch a bus/taxi or hoof it. CBC - Red Line to Kendall/MIT and a short walk. If you've got a car and feel like a semi-long drive you could check out Berkshire Brewing Co, (tours every Saturday) or Opa Opa Brewing Co (tours every Saturday).
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Jul 13, 2012 15:20
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Sirotan posted:There's a few stores in town with cases of this left over. I'm assuming because its not barrel aged. Or I guess it could just suck, I haven't opened my bottle of it yet. I opened one of my 3 bottles last night. It honestly tasted and smelled like walking into a Gloria Jean's at the mall. It was good, but it doesn't even come close to holding a candle to any of the other releases in the series. It's also not really a good candidate for long term aging because the coffee flavour is the main focal point of the beer.
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Jul 13, 2012 16:06
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crazyfish posted:I opened one of my 3 bottles last night. It honestly tasted and smelled like walking into a Gloria Jean's at the mall. It was good, but it doesn't even come close to holding a candle to any of the other releases in the series. It's also not really a good candidate for long term aging because the coffee flavour is the main focal point of the beer. I thought it was really good, I hope they do more like that where the hype level is within more reasonable levels. Basically, less barrel aged beers because just those two words send everyone batshit insane.
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Jul 13, 2012 17:15
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j3rkstore posted:Yard House I have not been very impressed with any Yard House location in the past. They have a ton of taps, but most of it is pretty run-of-the-mill beer. I mean, they're a generally okay place with pretty decent food, but the tap list is just a disappointment to me usually.
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Apparently a case of Love Child #2 will fit in a bike basket. I want to be this guy.
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Sirotan posted:There's a few stores in town with cases of this left over. I'm assuming because its not barrel aged. Or I guess it could just suck, I haven't opened my bottle of it yet. It just seems like Milwaukee didn't get that much of it, and what we did get was already called for well before coming here. Oh well.
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Captain Shortbus posted:Apparently a case of Love Child #2 will fit in a bike basket. I want to be this guy. I predict tears whenever he has to stop for, you know, anything in his way...
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Jul 13, 2012 18:24
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I've never heard of this site until now: http://www.saveonbrew.com/home Gives you beer prices on zip code. edit: It kind of sucks for craft in my area but eh maybe you guys could use it.
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beer dude at Whole Foods popped a bottle of the newly-arrived Rogue Voodoo Maple Whatever, so i tried it and, as expected, it was loving awful. easily one of the worst beers i've tasted, something like burnt maple-flavored plastic (think bartolimu might've said something similar). one of those things i really wanted to try because "hey, it can't be that bad," but it really is. i mean, everyone has different tastes, but it's really hard to imagine that someone at Rogue drank that poo poo and said, "drat, that needs to be bottled, because people will love it!"
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Munkaboo posted:I've never heard of this site until now: http://www.saveonbrew.com/home Fails hilariously in my area. Only returned Coors/Bud and some wine coolers (wut). And even then it only listed grocery stores and gas stations, who can't even legally sell anything above 3.2% ABV in Colorado.
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funkybottoms posted:beer dude at Whole Foods popped a bottle of the newly-arrived Rogue Voodoo Maple Whatever, so i tried it and, as expected, it was loving awful. easily one of the worst beers i've tasted, something like burnt maple-flavored plastic (think bartolimu might've said something similar). one of those things i really wanted to try because "hey, it can't be that bad," but it really is. i mean, everyone has different tastes, but it's really hard to imagine that someone at Rogue drank that poo poo and said, "drat, that needs to be bottled, because people will love it!" This is the same group of people who are deliberately making a beer out of face filth. I don't think they specialize in having great judgment.
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mysterious frankie posted:This is the same group of people who are deliberately making a beer out of face filth. I don't think they specialize in having great judgment. Not to mention that a not small amount of people in this thread, who really should have known better, shelled out $20+ for the experience of drinking it. Sounds like they're doing something right. 
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Sirotan posted:Not to mention that a not small amount of people in this thread, who really should have known better, shelled out $20+ for the experience of drinking it. Sounds like they're doing something right. So... you're saying I'm part of the problem? 
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Jul 13, 2012 21:53
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Here's a pretty cool article about Chicago's brew scene: http://eater.com/archives/2012/07/13/taking-the-temperature-chicago.php
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Docjowles posted:Seconded. CBC is very good and they serve food, too. Sam Adams is "eh". It's a decent tour and you get the obligatory samples at the end, but it's in the middle of absolutely nowhere in a residential area (though it's right off the subway at least). Harpoon's kinda the same except swap industrial for residential. Redbones in Somerville (also decent BBQ).
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Sirotan posted:Not to mention that a not small amount of people in this thread, who really should have known better, shelled out $20+ for the experience of drinking it. Sounds like they're doing something right. I saw it and knew better, but Rogue generally makes some tasty brews. I love their Hazelnut Brown Nectar so much, and am overjoyed that it's in sixers now. The Brutal and White Snow IPAs are also really good.
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After the beard filth beer news, Rogue Ales is dead to me.
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