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The SARS Volta posted:trying to talk him into a White Mtns. hike + Ebenezer's. Hiking followed by good beer really is the best thing. A few years ago I hiked Pike's Peak in CO then just sat in one of the bars at the bottom of the mountain and drank myself stupid. I don't even remember what beers I had but they were some of the most satisfying ones I've ever had.
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I live in Omaha and this part of the state along the Missouri River is actually hilly as gently caress, but hiking is the one thing we can't do all that well around here — certainly not to the level of the White Mountains. That said, right now I'd settle for a rainy evening spent drinking stuff I can't get here at Redbones in Boston or the Horseshoe Pub in Hudson, MA (blocks from my cousin's house).
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The SARS Volta posted:Well, already had an overnight trip planned to Maine with my Boston cousin in a few weekends — trying to talk him into a White Mtns. hike + Ebenezer's. Going to Portland with my siblings in late September but unfortunately, I probably won't be able to convince them to hit this place...
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danbanana posted:Going to Portland with my siblings in late September but unfortunately, I probably won't be able to convince them to hit this place... just go to Novare, it's got about as much awesome beer as you could hope to find in one place. As long as everyone's headed up to Vacationland, I'm game to hit up some beer spots, and show some non-Mainers how to cross a busy street like you just don't give a gently caress.
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Any recommendations for fruit beers? I had a Raspberry lambic that I really liked, but it's $5 for a single bottle, and that's too much. I also liked the Fort Collins Brewery Pomegranate Wheat I tried, but I want to try some others. I just don't trust myself to tell the difference between a good beer with fruit taste and some knockoff smirnoff cooler.
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Aug 8, 2012 02:30
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New Planet Raspberry, Sea Dog Blue Paw, DFH Noble Rot are my three favs for fruity beers.
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Aug 8, 2012 02:33
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Is DFH Festina Peche still out? Love it as a summery, refreshing beer. 21st Amendment Hell or High Watermelon is an interesting fruit beer. Thought it was weird and disgusting the first time I tried it, but drat, it really shines when you're out in the heat. And speaking of raspberry tarts and WI, it's one of my best friends birthday's this weekend and I'm breaking out a New Glarus Raspberry Tart my boss brought me back from a family visit. Looking forward to it!
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Aug 8, 2012 02:46
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Retemnav posted:
I prefer the Wisconsin Belgian Red, but NG makes my favorite fruit beers by far.
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Aug 8, 2012 02:50
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CalvinDooglas posted:just go to Novare, it's got about as much awesome beer as you could hope to find in one place. List looks really good. Thanks for the recommendation.
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danbanana posted:I prefer the Wisconsin Belgian Red, but NG makes my favorite fruit beers by far. I have one of both...so maybe both of them will get opened! We've got a beerfest to go to, though.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Any recommendations for fruit beers? I had a Raspberry lambic that I really liked, but it's $5 for a single bottle, and that's too much. I also liked the Fort Collins Brewery Pomegranate Wheat I tried, but I want to try some others. I just don't trust myself to tell the difference between a good beer with fruit taste and some knockoff smirnoff cooler. Pyramid's Apricot Ale isn't terrible, Dogfish Head's various fruit beers are all good, and I like Epic Brewing's Brainless on Peaches.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Any recommendations for fruit beers? I had a Raspberry lambic that I really liked, but it's $5 for a single bottle, and that's too much. I also liked the Fort Collins Brewery Pomegranate Wheat I tried, but I want to try some others. I just don't trust myself to tell the difference between a good beer with fruit taste and some knockoff smirnoff cooler. Which raspberry lambic was it? Sadly you probably won't be able to find any good or bad lambics cheaper than $5.
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Depending on if you can get their beers Marin Brewing Company knows what they're doing with fruit in their beer. Sam Smith has some good stuff, too.
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Midorka posted:Pyramid's Apricot Ale isn't terrible, Dogfish Head's various fruit beers are all good, and I like Epic Brewing's Brainless on Peaches. I think Pyramid's Apricot Ale is pretty terrible, actually. It just has this fake, perfumey apricot extract flavor that I definitely don't care for.
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ATTN: cyber slimer, i will be in FL next week and am planning on making the trip down to the tampa area for a night to visit CCB and others, any particular day next week better than others?
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http://ow.ly/i/PLfe Seriously? Goddammit!
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Man, I know Harpoon gets ragged on fairly often, but I'm drinking their new Red Squared and it's a superb hoppy red. Compares favorably with the CCB Tocobaga I had before it, and that's pretty drat high praise since I love Tocobaga so much (although I did have a bad sixer last month, that was kinda a bummer).
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Why are we ragging on Harpoon? I really like most of their beers (get out of here Winter Warmer), but people lump them into the same category as Sam Adams in that they're craft beers for people who don't really like craft beers (IE they're not XTREME enough).
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deadwing posted:I really like most of their beers (get out of here Winter Warmer), but people lump them into the same category as Sam Adams in that they're craft beers for people who don't really like craft beers (IE they're not XTREME enough).
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Angry Grimace posted:I really like Sam Adams Boston Lager completely unironically. I don't get what's wrong with it, it's delicious. The same reason idiots ditch their favorite band as soon as they get a song on the radio. Widely available and popular necessarily means awful, duh 
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I always have at least a case of natural light (always in cans) in the fridge to drink while working on the house/tractors/cars/etc. It's ridiculously light, just a tiny bit of grain sweetness and thats.. well that's all. Also it's cheap as gently caress and I can't be drinking $7 6-packs all day while I'm busy not thinking about beer. e: Sam Adams also makes quite a bit of good beer, and some real standouts that are excellent. Hell, I've met people who will absolutely refuse to drink even Sierra Nevada anything because they're just awful brewers.
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Angry Grimace posted:I really like Sam Adams Boston Lager completely unironically. I don't get what's wrong with it, it's delicious. I like 90% of what Sam Adams does, they're easily one of the most consistent breweries out there. Every season gets a mixed twelve pickup, and the recent move of Noble Pils to year-round is basically the best thing.
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Docjowles posted:The same reason idiots ditch their favorite band as soon as they get a song on the radio. Widely available and popular necessarily means awful, duh I used to be like this with Deschutes beers, because that poo poo is everywhere out west. I got over myself though, because they have some drat good beers. Red Chair? Yes please, anytime.
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SUPER HASSLER posted:There'a a case of Shiner in the fridge right now I'd never heard of Shiner before, but I'm at the beach down south with some friends and we picked up a sixer of all different varieties. The prickly pear lager, or whatever it was, was iffy and I just plain didn't like the Kosmos lager, but the bock, hefe, blonde, and schwarzbier I all thought were solid representatives of their respective styles.
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Hypnolobster posted:
I've put off trying stuff from Sierra Nevada for so long when I first got into craft. No real reason why, just didn't think they were an interesting brewery compared to DFH which has crazy beers! Boy was I wrong...
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lazerwolf posted:I've put off trying stuff from Sierra Nevada for so long when I first got into craft. No real reason why, just didn't think they were an interesting brewery compared to DFH which has crazy beers! Boy was I wrong... I still can't get into DFH. It just seems like all their beers are the same gimmick - take some poo poo they found at the farmer's market and throw it in the beer.
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lazerwolf posted:I've put off trying stuff from Sierra Nevada for so long when I first got into craft. No real reason why, just didn't think they were an interesting brewery compared to DFH which has crazy beers! Boy was I wrong... This comes up a couple times a year so I'll keep it brief, but yeah. Taken on average, Sierra Nevada is probably one of the most consistently great brewers in the US. They may not have that holy poo poo factor that a world-class imperial stout or double IPA or sour beer has, but literally all of their year-rounds and seasonals I consider to be very good to outstanding. There's a reason they're one of the biggest and oldest craft breweries despite the incredible selection we have these days. edit: oh god DFH chat again
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Docjowles posted:This comes up a couple times a year so I'll keep it brief, but yeah. Taken on average, Sierra Nevada is probably one of the most consistently great brewers in the US. They may not have that holy poo poo factor that a world-class imperial stout or double IPA or sour beer has, but literally all of their year-rounds and seasonals I consider to be very good to outstanding. There's a reason they're one of the biggest and oldest craft breweries despite the incredible selection we have these days. This is all true. Their Pale Ale is a standard (maybe THE standard) in the American craft brew scene. But... Like Sam or even DFH, SN falls under the why-when-there's-something-local-or-untasted-on-the-shelf category. I absolutely respect those guys (and as a Sam stock holder from early on, a beneficiary of their growth) but the fact is almost everything they do is done better by a smaller, more local brewery. I'm not talking EXXXTREME beers; I'm talking standard styles that most breweries try. I admit that my location gives me an abundance of great breweries, so my situation may be better than most. But I readily admit I don't even glance at their releases at this point unless there's a lot of chatter about it. This isn't bashing, but one of those simple facts that as good as SNPA is, I'd much rather pay a few more dollars for a sixer of Two Hearted or Founder's Centennial or something from Half Acre or...
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danbanana posted:Like Sam or even DFH, SN falls under the why-when-there's-something-local-or-untasted-on-the-shelf category. At this point I've tasted just about everything I'm interested in that's reasonably priced except one-off releases in my market, and let me tell you, I'm buying at least one twelve-pack of Torpedo a month. Yeah, Two-Hearted is probably just a little better, but is it worth the 50-70% premium it commands? deadwing fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Aug 9, 2012 |
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deadwing posted:Yeah, Two-Hearted is probably just a little better, but is it worth the 50-70% premium it commands? yeah e: but I really like Torpedo as well and have a
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danbanana posted:This is all true. Their Pale Ale is a standard (maybe THE standard) in the American craft brew scene. But... Exactly this. SN Pale is a consistently solid brew that I find at a lot of places that don't generally deal in craft beer, but when I'm at my local shop there are so many better ones around or ones I haven't tried I just never buy a 6er of it anymore.
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deadwing posted:Yeah, Two-Hearted is probably just a little better, but is it worth the 50-70% premium it commands? gently caress. And. Yes. If I was forced to choose one beer for the rest of my life, it'd be Two Hearted, which is absolutely the world's most perfect beer. I like Torpedo, but it's not even in my top 10 IPAs, even considering the price point. Again, I'm not bashing the bigger breweries here. I'm simply pointing out that I think I (and most people, now) have access to local and/or better beers thanks to this boom we're in. Sam and SN do really good things, but I know I can get better things year round. Just my opinion...
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Hypnolobster posted:
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Sierra Nevada make some excellent brews. Their Pale Ale and Kellerweis are excellent, Brux is solid as gently caress and will get better with time, their 30th Anniversary Grand Cru was excellent, Bigfoot is one of the best American Barleywine's I've had, Celebration Ale is great as is Ruthless Rye, and Hoptimum was the bees knees. What is there to complain about them?
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danbanana posted:gently caress. And. Yes. Maybe I'm just a homer but I totally agree. Two Hearted is my go-to at most bars/restaurants and I'd die a happy man drinking it.
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Two Hearted is pretty much what got me into actually paying attention to what I was drinking. I mean, I thought I liked craft beer before, but every beer I've had after that has been completely different. That being said, I don't think I've really had hardly any Two Hearted this summer and have been drinking a ton of Torpedo. Wife's unemployed so I'm on a bit of a budget, and as mentioned before, the price point for Sierra Nevada's stuff makes a pretty strong case. Consistently cranking out solid beer is another big plus. gently caress, now that you guys mention it, though, I think I'm going to have to stop by Bell's next Tuesday though while I'm on vacation and drink some fresh Two Hearted. That sounds like The Best Idea right now.
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Had a J.W. Lee's Moonraker last night, and that beer is so English it's like liquid England. What does tweed and fog taste like? This beer. Had a Dieu du Ciel Route Des Espices tonight, and that's a delicious beer to have with grilled chicken and veggies. Rye and peppercorns, it has that pepper spiciness on the finish that is great with food. Can't wait to visit the brewery while I'm in Quebec.
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I've never understood the appeal of Lagunitas. I haven't had a single one of their beers that I thought was all that great, or at least nothing where I haven't been able to think of several other breweries that do [style] better. Even the "well this could be interesting" beers have always ended up pretty meh in my opinion. I feel like Lagunitas Sucks might've been ok when I had that a while back, but I can't remember well enough to say so And I realize a lot of people probably feel the same way about DFH, Stone, Sierra Nevada and Sam Adams, but at least with all of those I can think of something that is worthwhile to buy every now and then. Whodat Smith-Jones fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Aug 9, 2012 |
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