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Oh gosh the ol' 120 Minute discussion again. Can't wait to go get Parabola on tap tonight, I'm wondering how it will compare since I've never had it fresh, the earliest I've had it was near a year. Edit: Top page discussion material, uh, I had Hell or High Watermelon last night and it was okay, it's a beer that almost all of my non-beer drinking friends love for the light watermelon flavor while most of my beer drinking buddies have shrugged off. I'm glad I didn't buy a 6 pack though, I would have been disappointed. Also is Abita Amber Ale worth buying for $10 for a 12 pack? I'm thinking it couldn't hurt to have for company.
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Corbet posted:Has anybody been to Ebenezer's Pub in Maine? It's this ridiculous Belgian beer bar that has an amazing cellar: A few times. On my first visit about five years ago, I was with a group of friends. We had just finished a hike in the White Mountains and stopped in for lunch (food is solid, by the way). The bartender looked at our grubby, sweaty beer-related t-shirts (standard hiking attire) and asked if we were "beer people". Two of us were active on BA, so we nodded. She leaves and comes back with Chris, the owner. We chatted for a bit - politics, brewing, the beers we were drinking (Cantillon Iris and Black Albert at that moment) - before he asked "Hey, do you guys want to see the cellar?" So we walk out of the pub, around the side of the house facing the parking lot, and he takes us down into the basement. Now, it's nothing huge or crazy high-tech. It's a farmhouse cellar. With shelves. And beer. Oh god, so much beer. Really amazing stuff, too. Focused on Belgians but with a smattering of unique stuff. The highlight was definitely when he was showing us some of the crazy stuff he has gotten hold of - he rummaged around in a milkcrate full of newspaper and came back with a hideous looking bottle with a label that looked like it had been through a war. Well it had. It was a still-sealed bottle of King Edward VIII's coronation beer, produced in 1937. Chris kind of shrugged and said "There's only a few of these left in the world" before putting it back into the random milkcrate on the floor and moving on to his collection of gueze and lambic that he has shelved towards the back of the cellar. Second place, a close runner-up, was the group of guys sitting behind us during lunch, ordering Michelob Ultras and making fun of the prices on the beer menu. The pub is right on the golf course in Lovell. Golfers frequent it during their playthrough with absolutely no idea why it is so special. FreelanceSocialist fucked around with this message at 18:41 on Aug 4, 2012 |
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Aug 4, 2012 18:34
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Corbet posted:Has anybody been to Ebenezer's Pub in Maine? It's this ridiculous Belgian beer bar that has an amazing cellar: well, looks like I've got my plans for next weekend. I go hiking in the Whites every couple of weeks, so it'll be an easy stop on the way home.
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Aug 4, 2012 19:11
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I'm thinking a goonmeet involving hiking and beer.
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Aug 4, 2012 19:36
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A hike in the woods would be the perfect place to
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Aug 4, 2012 22:19
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Sublimer posted:A hike in the woods would be the perfect place to Either way, I'm always up for adventure. Anyone who wants to join for a hike and some beers is free to email me, cdgraves at g mail
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Aug 4, 2012 23:30
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Corbet posted:Has anybody been to Ebenezer's Pub in Maine? It's this ridiculous Belgian beer bar that has an amazing cellar: Maybe I am around too many earthquakes, but seeing all those irreplaceable bottles on tall shelves with no rails is pretty terrifying.
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87 degrees today and I had some furniture to build in the garage this afternoon. Perfect reason to head to Alpine for a growler of their new Quad, cleverly named FiringsQuad. Nothing like running a table saw and other sharp things with a glass of high-alcohol beer at arm's length. $23 for a fill, but we're doing a refi and it's the weekend so whatever. Overall, the beer runs a little thinner than I'd take in my ideal, Belgian-born quads. My favorite part of quadrupels is how much they change as they warm up from serving temp to room temp; this one opens up quite a bit, coming off a little less plum-like than the classics but still big on sweetness and raisin profiles. Great mouthfeel and head retention. No real complaints except perhaps price. For a local growler fill of a quad I can get Judgment Day from Lost Abbey for around $18ish. I could see them bottling this, especially if they continue to have the same hop sourcing troubles as some of the other local IPA-heavy breweries. Recommended.
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Aug 5, 2012 02:08
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Chicagoans, if you get a chance to go to Revolution Brewing, get the coffee-infused Eugene Porter. One of the best coffee beers I've had in quite a while.
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crazyfish posted:Chicagoans, if you get a chance to go to Revolution Brewing, get the coffee-infused Eugene Porter. One of the best coffee beers I've had in quite a while. Eugene is good enough by itself. That sounds delicious. Going to FFFs for lunch tomorrow just 'cause. I've actually never been...
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To be honest, even though I know it's NOT GOOD and sort of makes your working out moot, after a hike or at least at the peak, I always have a bottle of beer or a good wine to celebrate. Last one was at a night hike on IPA day. Had some Pliny and Deviant Dave in my camel back for when the peak was hit. Made the trip so well worth it.
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I usually pack my vacuum thermos. It might weigh a bit, but having cold beer for the summit is awesome. Had one hike that took nearly eight hours to summit. Once we were up top, I pulled out plastic cups and poured ice cold Allagash White for everyone. The look of sheer incredulity I got from people was well worth only having half a cup left for myself. Almost.
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danbanana posted:Going to FFFs for lunch tomorrow just 'cause. I've actually never been... My first time was recently, good food, crap service, good beer. Mmmmmm. Coffee Eugene sounds great. I'll have to see when I can make it this week  I am on a saison kick recently. What should I be keeping an eye out for besides Tank 7 (oh god its so delicious)?
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I'd recommend The Bruery's Saison Rue and North Coast's Le Merle. I really enjoyed Boulevard's Saison Brett, but that might not be your thing.
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ChiTownEddie posted:My first time was recently, good food, crap service, good beer. On our way home. They tapped the new Mikkeller collab called RisGoop. Double IPA-ish thing. Good but not great. We brought an empty growler from a friend's previous visit but I guess they don't refill? Fuckin weird. I've never heard that before... Burger was good, though.
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Aug 5, 2012 20:28
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Yield from a random trip to State Line Liquors down in Elkton: So far: The cherry/almond Mikkeller was decent but not worth the $10 price, the single-hop Citra was way too old and oxidized and was just bad (I guess that's why they'd marked it down), and the Ransom gin is loving awesome. And the Maui/Jolly Pumpkin collaboration is much better when it's from Jolly Pumpkin than when it's the Maui can. I hear good things about Tank 7. That's probably up next. ChiTownEddie posted:
Still can't say enough good things about Cellar Door. JP's Baudelaire is also pretty ridiculously good.
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Aug 5, 2012 20:29
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ChiTownEddie posted:
Revolution is bottling their's now!
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danbanana posted:Revolution is bottling their's now! Jackpot. I'll keep an eye out for it
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Aug 5, 2012 20:58
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At Haymarket right now. They have Acrimonious, the base imperial stout for their Indignant. It's excellent.
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Aug 5, 2012 21:57
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RiggenBlaque posted:One of my local beer stores had a display out in the front with a whopping 8 different newly arrived pumpkin/oktoberfest beers. It is currently 85* outside. Why do breweries do this? Do people really buy this poo poo so early into the year? Our tiny PA beer shop in a grocery store just got in 62 cases of Yuengling's Oktoberfest and people are already buying a ton of it, a lot of people have been saying they want to try it out against Sam Adams but they also get at least 2 six packs so I dunno. With the Frangelic talk, right after I started in our beer department which was mid to late July I found our shipment of Frangelic just sitting in the cooler, nobody had thought to put it out. Still don't know if I'm gonna get a bottle though.
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dumptruckzzz posted:With the Frangelic talk, right after I started in our beer department which was mid to late July I found our shipment of Frangelic just sitting in the cooler, nobody had thought to put it out. Still don't know if I'm gonna get a bottle though. i'll send you one, no problem. a few months back we got a shipment of infected Duck Rabbit RIS that ended up being taken back by the distributor, so i had my friend in NC grab a couple of six-packs to send me. guess what. they're infected, too! tasted pretty much the same as the other bottle, so i don't know if it was from the same batch or if it just had the same problem, but it's pretty disappointing, regardless. might be the latter, because one of the dudes i split it with said he had a six-pack of their milk stout that tasted the same. also popped open a really old Portsmouth BC Stout, which is a really excellent dry stout... when fresh. i left it in the back of my brother's fridge for probably close to a year, which is apparently enough time for a brett cell or two grow enough to give the beer a fair bit of funk. not terrible, exactly, but not what i wanted, either. drank some Tank 7 and Imperial Biscotti Break, though, so it wasn't all bad.
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funkybottoms posted:a few months back we got a shipment of infected Duck Rabbit RIS that ended up being taken back by the distributor, so i had my friend in NC grab a couple of six-packs to send me. guess what. they're infected, too! tasted pretty much the same as the other bottle, so i don't know if it was from the same batch or if it just had the same problem, but it's pretty disappointing, regardless. might be the latter, because one of the dudes i split it with said he had a six-pack of their milk stout that tasted the same.  Recently our Flying Saucer did a vertical of Big Boss' Monkey Bizz-ness saison from 2009-2012. It was really trippy to see how much the taste changed even just between the '11 and '12, let alone aging it for 3 years. Fresh, it has a noticeable grassiness and hop tang and then every subsequent year added a bit of smoothness, sweetness and booziness. I preferred the 2010 the most, as it had just the right amount of sweetness without being overly cloying. Verticals in general just make me really happy because I learn so many new things. Also my paycheck was better than I expected so instead of choosing between the Oro de Calabaza and the La Roja, I just picked up both 
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I've bought two sixers of Duck Rabbit in my life. One was infected. Seems like this is the standard rate...
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Duck-Rabbit's Milk Stout is the only reason why I bought their variety case to try. Everything was mediocre (Amber, Porter, Milk Stout, and Brown) except the Milk Stout. Even then I'd take Left Hand's Milk Stout over it, which many seem to disagree with. Thankfully nothing was infected though. Edit: Pyramid's Apricot Ale isn't terrible, the amount of apricot flavor reminds me of how Cherry Wheat used to be. Edit 2: Back on the topic of Duck-Rabbit, their porter is pretty bad. I'm getting such huge fruit flavors from this, grapes and raisins mostly, but there's a slight tart to this. I've never had a porter that finished tart, yes tart. There's some bitter dark chocolate on the finish, but this is definitely tart. It's as if Welch's made a porter. Midorka fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Aug 6, 2012 |
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Phanatic posted:I hear good things about Tank 7. That's probably up next. It is delicious but it can really sneak up on you.
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I will have no ill spoken of The Duck-Rabbit on this thread  Today I finally had Saint Arnold's Divine Reserve 12. The BA nerds are currently busy making GBS threads on it in droves, but it is really good on tap IMO. There is so much going on in this old-ale; I like it now, and I know it'll get better with age. So good on 'em. Now to enjoy some Shiner for the remainder of the night...
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Aug 6, 2012 04:44
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Yeah it seems DR had some infection issues over the last 6 months. Paul replaced some hoses and changed out the way they handled the yeast and it seems to have fixed itself now. It sucks that it happened but now that they have built a lab hopefully it shouldn't happen again.
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Midorka posted:Edit 2: Back on the topic of Duck-Rabbit, their porter is pretty bad. I'm getting such huge fruit flavors from this, grapes and raisins mostly, but there's a slight tart to this. I've never had a porter that finished tart, yes tart. There's some bitter dark chocolate on the finish, but this is definitely tart. It's as if Welch's made a porter. I haven't had their porter in a while but I never got any fruitiness or tartness from it, and I always thought it was an excellent porter. Maybe you got a bad batch because for me it was always just pretty full-bodied with a nice sort of burnt coffee roastiness from the dark malts.
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Midorka posted:Edit 2: Back on the topic of Duck-Rabbit, their porter is pretty bad. I'm getting such huge fruit flavors from this, grapes and raisins mostly, but there's a slight tart to this. I've never had a porter that finished tart, yes tart. There's some bitter dark chocolate on the finish, but this is definitely tart. It's as if Welch's made a porter. oddly sour with a bit of fruitiness? sounds like the infected RIS i had. i certainly don't remember the porter being anywhere close to "tart" or expressing much in the way of fruit flavor. contacted the, via facebook and i received a quick response with Paul's contact info (along with a "yeah, that beer was hosed"), so we'll see what happens. and i'm not talking trash, DR makes some genuinely good beers (although only one of them was in your sampler, Midorka)
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I don't think I've had a bad DR beer, but then I think I've only had like three. Exception being (again) the last bottle of milk stout I had was... off somehow. Not awful, but certainly not how I remember the first time I tried it. I seem to remember something about soy sauce. ick. I also think LH is better but LH seriously costs 50% more a 6-pack around here than DR.
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Aug 6, 2012 14:40
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Having heard so much good stuff about Duck Rabbit, how far east do they distribute?
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Guess it was an infected bottle because this definitely had a lot of dark fruit flavors to it, hell it seemed to be heavily oxidized, but it wasn't old enough to get to that level and the cap was secure so I'm scratching my head.spoon0042 posted:I also think LH is better but LH seriously costs 50% more a 6-pack around here than DR. I bought a variety case of DR and it was like $42 I believe in West Pennsylvania whereas LH is the same price for a case roughly, maybe $1 cheaper. CalvinDooglas posted:Having heard so much good stuff about Duck Rabbit, how far east do they distribute?
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Duck-Rabbit chat: If you've never had their Schwarzbier or their Baltic Porter you're missing out. Their milk stout is good but I'm kind of bored of it since it's everywhere in NC. edit: CalvinDooglas posted:Having heard so much good stuff about Duck Rabbit, how far east do they distribute? They're in Farmville, North Carolina so I'd say they're pretty far east.
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Midorka posted:I bought a variety case of DR and it was like $42 I believe in West Pennsylvania whereas LH is the same price for a case roughly, maybe $1 cheaper. I'm guessing central PA is just crap for beer distribution. Anything from farther west than Chicago gets a ridiculous markup. And stuff isn't even consistent. Some things we get the same distribution as Philly, others we don't. Notably Great Lakes. gently caress driving 90 miles for Ed. Fitz.
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internet celebrity posted:Duck-Rabbit chat: If you've never had their Schwarzbier or their Baltic Porter you're missing out. Their milk stout is good but I'm kind of bored of it since it's everywhere in NC. those and the doppelbock are all really drat good, but distributed in a really haphazard fashion
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funkybottoms posted:those and the doppelbock are all really drat good, but distributed in a really haphazard fashion Yeah, the Rabbator and Baltic Porter are the best I've had from DR. Rarely see the two though. Amber and Milk Stout tend to be pretty easy to pick up. Totally did NOT like their ABA 
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Bout to head to the ol' beer bar for an $11 draft of Karmeliet, my favorite triple. Hope it's worth it~!
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I don't see a reason for me to ever buy Duck-Rabbit again if they can't fix their poo poo. I mean I can get Left Hand's Milk Stout, Troegs Troegenator, Edmund Fitzgerald, Victory's Baltic Porter, and etc instead of risking an infected bottle. Doesn't seem worth it.
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TenaciousTomato posted:Bout to head to the ol' beer bar for an $11 draft of Karmeliet, my favorite triple. Hope it's worth it~! ouch, hope that's at least a full pint
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Ikea is making beer now. I imagine it's as lovely as it sounds. http://drinkingmadeeasy.com/booze-in-the-news/ikea-turns-brewer-with-dark-lager/
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