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Glottis posted:This site is cool but it doesn't seem to be fully updated. I checked Knee Deep brewing and it says it isn't distributed in CA at all, haha. Email the site and have them correct it. I've had them update breweries for both Michigan and Ohio.
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danbanana posted:Had a birthday bottle share thing tonight. Ended up being kind of insane: You left out the Jolly Pumpkin Sobrehumano, which was nice funky passionfruit but not a cherry to be found.
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crazyfish posted:You left out the Jolly Pumpkin Sobrehumano, which was nice funky passionfruit but not a cherry to be found. I also left out the homemade DL De Murte-Cantillon Gueuze blend which I may have liked more than the DL by itself.
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Mikey Purp posted:Weyerbacher Blasphemy - really interesting, a bit rough but has a nice deep candy sweetness with really nice pineapple and vanilla notes from the oak. If I had another bottle I'd feel good about sitting on it for another 6-12 months. Yeah I was really happy with the way that turned out. I opened a bottle that I had been holding onto for just about a year and a half for my fiance's birthday last month. Toffee balanced out by some of the sourness, got better once it breathed a little bit. I have two bottles of their Sour Black I just picked up, I'm going to try aging them for a while. I had a fresh bottle with my family back during the summer and it was like a really good beery red wine, if that made any sense. If you have some wine snob you're trying to convert it might be worth looking into, heh. Unfortunately it's like $17 for a 750ml.
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Ommegang is doing several Game of Thrones beers. Not sure how I feel about this. I like most of their stuff, but a tie-in beer? I can't imagine that would be anything but middle of the road. Still, I'm enough of a whore to buy it.
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Kraven Moorhed posted:Ommegang is doing several Game of Thrones beers. Not sure how I feel about this. I like most of their stuff, but a tie-in beer? I can't imagine that would be anything but middle of the road. i hope they suddenly cut off production of the most popular one
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I just had a Backwoods Bastard on draft. Oh. My. God. What a wonderful creation!
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Captain Shortbus posted:I just had a Backwoods Bastard on draft. Oh. My. God. What a wonderful creation! Cherish that memory, because you'll now spend the next few years trying to find it again. Or at least that's my experience, heh. I can never get out to the store fast enough to buy it when it comes out.
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Mahoning posted:Winter Ales are coming. Gonna be really upset if they don't have Ned's Head Red Ale as one of their entries. Or Ned's Head Flanders Red if they feel like double-dipping with Fox, too.
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LogisticEarth posted:Cherish that memory, because you'll now spend the next few years trying to find it again. Or at least that's my experience, heh. I can never get out to the store fast enough to buy it when it comes out. I figured as much. I also had Jubilale, Friek, and Deconstruction Ale on tap. All were excellent. The shop wanted $43 for a bottle of Friek to go, though. 
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Anyone familiar with Drie Fonteinen Golden Blend? I saw a couple bottles tonight but balked since they were $30 for a 375ml or so. Probably a moot point, I'm sure it'll be gone before I can get back to the store.
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Docjowles posted:Anyone familiar with Drie Fonteinen Golden Blend? I saw a couple bottles tonight but balked since they were $30 for a 375ml or so. Probably a moot point, I'm sure it'll be gone before I can get back to the store. They probably won't be gone. They've been on the shelf for months around me due to price and the regular gueuze is so good that I couldn't imagine that the golden blend is $17/375 better.
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danbanana posted:Had a birthday bottle share thing tonight. Ended up being kind of insane: We need to set up some kind of Chicagoon beer thing again soon. Shared a bottle of Tilquin Geuze with my boyfriend while bottling Christmas beer this weekend. Still an excellent geuze, and far less expensive than a lot of bigger-name sour beers. Even used the dregs to bolster the sour homebrew I have going. 
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Ubik posted:We need to set up some kind of Chicagoon beer thing again soon. Tilquin is great and I'm so glad that I can actually find it on shelves, though I think Drie Fonteinen is better.
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Trader Joe's/Unibroue's Vintage Ale is great, and an incredible deal at $5 for a 750.
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Brewers Association decided Goose Island (and others) is no longer 'craft' beer. http://draftmag.com/beereditor/the-meaning-behind-craft-beer/ I still don't care. ChiTownEddie fucked around with this message at 18:40 on Dec 18, 2012 |
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ChiTownEddie posted:Brewers Associate decided Goose Island (and others) is no longer 'craft' beer.
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Ugh my distro has Bourbon County Brand Stout at 33 bucks a four pack. It doesn't seem worth it, but then again I'll probably buy it anyway.
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Mikey Purp posted:Ugh my distro has Bourbon County Stout at 33 bucks a four pack. It doesn't seem worth it, but then again I'll probably buy it anyway. Worth it. While about 150% mark-up on MSRP, that's still the equivalent of $16 a bomber. Compare that to the $18 I see for Hoppin' Frog's BA'd stout and it's no contest.
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danbanana posted:Worth it. While about 150% mark-up on MSRP, that's still the equivalent of $16 a bomber. Compare that to the $18 I see for Hoppin' Frog's BA'd stout and it's no contest. $18 for a BA BORIS? That's ridiculous. I see it for $12 in Ohio. $8-$10 for the regular version. (Regular BORIS is better than BA BORIS)
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Dec 18, 2012 19:57
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It's worth it if you sit on them, I suppose. And BA Boris is $18 around me also. Saw it at a bar for $10 a snifter (12oz I believe), but with Zombie Dust being $5 a pint I didn't bother..
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Bag of Sun Chips posted:
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Agree that BCBS is worth it at $33/4 (assuming you can't find it elsewhere) but I've never had the occasion to taste BA BORIS, mostly because of how expensive it is. $18-$19 here too.
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crazyfish posted:Agree that BCBS is worth it at $33/4 (assuming you can't find it elsewhere) but I've never had the occasion to taste BA BORIS, mostly because of how expensive it is. $18-$19 here too. Barrel "aged" boris is more appropriate, from everything I've heard.
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Feel like there was a post about this a long way back, but I don't have search. Going to be in the Denver area over New Years. I went a year or two ago and didn't really do my beer homework and only went to Great Divide. (Managed to go to Boulder and Avery though. Boulder was pretty ehhh but Avery was great). Besides Great Divide, which I'll hit up for sure, (because it was awesome), what other tap rooms are recommended by you goons?
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global tetrahedron posted:Besides Great Divide, which I'll hit up for sure, (because it was awesome), what other tap rooms are recommended by you goons? In walking distance of Great Divide is (takes deep breath) - Falling Rock (the nerve center of CO beer; hit this if nothing else) - The 1up (one of the better bar-cades out there) - River North (my pick for best microbrewery in the area that isn't Great Divide) - Wynkoop (CO's first brewpub; not bad but skippable) - Our Mutual Friend (new nano; crap when I went there) - Black Shirt (new nano; pretty OK when I went there) - Freshcraft (gastropub; they get neat stuff on tap) - The Kitchen (gastropub) - Breckenridge (brewpub location; walk past this to get to better things) So that's that neighborhood alone; if you're willing to car/taxi a bit you'll definitely want to hit the Crooked Stave taproom a mile or two north. Over toward Mile High Stadium there's also Strange and Wit's End, both my favorite nanos in Denver. There's a lot more too but that's good enough for a few days I think.
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If you go to 1-up, DO NOT GO ON A WEEKEND NIGHT. You can have your run of the place during down time. They have the best maintained pinball machines I have ever seen.
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ShaneB posted:If you go to 1-up, DO NOT GO ON A WEEKEND NIGHT. You can have your run of the place during down time. They have the best maintained pinball machines I have ever seen. Oh yeah, that's true. 1up is good but it's not worth waiting outside in line for like you're going to goddamn Studio 54 or something.
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2011 Sierra Nevada Bigfoot - when was this bottled? This random liquor store I dropped by had six packs of 2011 for $14. Seemed pricier than I remember Bigfoot being, but its got to have been bottled for quite a while now, right?
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I think Bigfoot is typically bottled in December of each year. 2011 was bottled in Dec 2010, etc.
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A friend mentioned to me on Saturday that he's officially completed a 10 year vertical of Bigfoot. Pretty excited to do that...
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Angry Grimace posted:2011 Sierra Nevada Bigfoot - when was this bottled? This random liquor store I dropped by had six packs of 2011 for $14. Seemed pricier than I remember Bigfoot being, but its got to have been bottled for quite a while now, right? Yeah pretty sure that 2011 has basically been pre-aged, and Bigfoot is like $11 for a sixpack fresh. Not a bad deal at all.
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Cracked an '11 Victory Old Horizontal. If you like American BW's, I highly recommend it. Huge, dry, bitter hops right up front, followed by a nice balance of malts and dried fruits, then a dry finish. Solid stuff.
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SUPER HASSLER posted:Oh yeah, that's true. 1up is good but it's not worth waiting outside in line for like you're going to goddamn Studio 54 or something.
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Drinking a Maine Beer Co. Mean Old Tom tonight. It was really boring cold but it's opening up nicely as it warms. I can understand why this beer/brewery gets a lot of hype, and I can't deny that it's very well made, although I'll probably skip it next time due to the price point ($8.99/pint). I noticed my distro has a bottle of Lunch, so I'll probably give that a spin too.
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global tetrahedron posted:
Vine Street Pub is my favorite place in all of Denver, but you can pull off quite an intense bar crawl throughout downtown (which I did do with SH a little over a year ago). There's a ton of places within a tiny distance.
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BoredByThis posted:Agreed, though, I'm not entirely certain of when I could make it. Same here - the problem is finding a ChiGoon not lazy enough to plan it. So I'm in Italy right now for a business trip with my company. I was walking through Parma with a friend and he showed me a beer shop, as he knew my interest. Typically, I would have passed it up as I have little desire to drink beer in Italy (they're obviously much better with wine), but I thought I'd go in. They didn't sell any Italian beer anyway, so my thoughts were moot, but I found this.  Why are you in Italy?
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Paul Proteus posted:I have little desire to drink beer in Italy (they're obviously much better with wine) Italy has one of the fastest-growing craft beer scenes out there, from what I've heard. I haven't investigated it much, but I've been told LoverBeer is a fantastic sour beer brewery. And if you're in Rome, the bar Mastro Titta might have Executioner IPA, one of the beers I worked on while I was at Søgaards.  Also I will totally work on planning some sort of Chicagoon beer meet after the holidays.
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