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Uuudar posted:Any sightings of the Dark Horse 12 pack of IPAs in Chicago? That is a truly terrible ad
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RiggenBlaque posted:That is a truly terrible ad They also released it on 4/20... so, yeah. Really stupid.  I still want to get it, as I've never tried a single hop IPA made with Falconer's Flight hops.
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I am sitting on a 2012 bottle of it that someone here sent me awhile back - can't get Boulevard locally. I'm waiting for a nice, warm weekend. Hopefully soon.
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I honestly think that, assuming it comes out in Chicago, Saison-Brett might be the #1 beer I am on a look out for this summer. Hell even 2/3 of beers I brew now are saisons. I simply cannot get enough.
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Uuudar posted:Any sightings of the Dark Horse 12 pack of IPAs in Chicago? Is this really that sought after? I've had them all individually on-tap, and they're fine, but nothing I would really feel a need to hunt down. Zombie Dust is way better than the Citra, and Sierra Nevada Pale is better than the Cascade.
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So almost a week after my 21st I've had quite a few beers that were drat good, and a couple that were kind of disappointing. Good: -Lagunitas Lil' Sumpin' Sumpin' - Pretty light taste, I got a lot of citrus from it. Very good, really enjoyed it. -Fegley's Brewworks Hop'solutley - Citrus on the nose but hops and a hint of alcohol in the taste, not bad at all -Allagash White - Tried on tap, at a recommendation from this thread. I really liked it, I need to try more Weiss beers. -St. Bernardus Abt 12 - Another recommendation from this thread, that I actually ended up getting for my birthday. Very good, I like the taste of raisin bread. -Brurey Sour in the Rye - Sour, and I mean SOUR. That said it wasn't bad at all, I really enjoyed it. -Ballast Point Sculpin - Good IPA, but I wouldn't pay $15 for a 6 pack -Old Rasputin IRS - I tried this cold, and then a little below room temperature. Cold it wasn't anything special, but at room temperature it was really good, I really liked the hints of dark chocolate. -Dogfish head Chicory Stout - I really liked the coffee notes in this, I need to remember to pick some up before it's gone. bad: -Dogfish head Burton Baton IPA - I'm not sure what it is about this IPA, but I just didn't like it. The flavor was very off-putting Stuff I have yet to try (these are all beers I have but have yet to open and try.): -Dogfish head Noble Rot -Weyerbacher Double Simcoe IPA -Lost Abbey Serpent Stout -Piraat Ale -La Fin Du Monde -Weyerbacher's Blithering Idiot E: Accidentally posted without finishing the full write-up 
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Cant Ride A Bus posted:So almost a week after my 21st I've had quite a few beers Welcome to your slow descent into liver failure  In general craft beer is meant to be drunk warmer. Not like room temp warm but it does a lot better given a few minutes to warm up than it does straight from a COLD AS THE ROCKIES BRAH iced mug at Chili's. Chilling suppresses flavors, which is why you want Natty Ice at sub zero but your imperial stout is pretty nice at 55 degrees. And not to kick off this loving debate again but Dogfish's schtick is being experimental and weird. Sometimes they knock it out of the park and sometimes they hit themselves in the face with the bat. I actually think Burton Baton is one of their better brews but it's an intense beer and not something I would have liked when first getting into beer I think.
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Astronaut Jones posted:I live like 10 miles from the brewery and I'm still not seeing any aperture cans in stores yet. The Helles is supposed to be the first thing released in them, but I'm not seeing it yet. Also looking forward to trying Victory's Swing (and whirlwind, I missed it since I got really into craft beer this summer) Also man a lot of people in this thread live close to me or not far at all (I'm in Philly) Cromlech fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Apr 24, 2013 |
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man, talk about thread titles! ALMOST stopped by OUaV South yesterday, too- i'll be bummed if i go today and there's no more Sucaba since i only got the one bottle. that's not the first time recently where some bigger release was sold well after it was sold out everywhere else, so i'm assuming that's their new tactic for getting that stuff in the hands of regulars instead of hunters (which is actually kind of cool).
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Cromlech posted:Late, but my friend got helles in the new can from the brewery a few days back. Yup, I'm seeing the new cans in stores now too.
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So I went to the Strangelove's opening in Philly last night. It was like a who's who in there. I sat next to Tom Peters and I saw one of the brewers from Victory. I also recognized a couple food critics and restaurant people from the area. From the tap I had... Cantillon Rose de Gambrinus - which I hadn't had before but was wonderful Hair of the Dog/De Proef Flanders Fred - Fred still ranks as one of the best beers I've ever had. And this might be even better. It adds a great tart note. Dieu de Ciel Peche Mortel - This was a little hot for me. The flavor was right but I just wasn't into it. Dogfish Head Bitches Brew 2010 - The best DFH beer I've had. And one of the best stouts I've had. This beer totally benefits from a year or two in the cellar. The flavors develop so nicely. I'm going to pick up a few bottles for cellaring next time I see it. I forgot to mention the food. They were walking around with free samples of their menu. I tried the chili powder and cotija cheese dusted popcorn, the catfish po-boy, and some mushroom and goat cheese puff. It was all really well done. The catfish particularly was just about perfect. It rivaled the po boys I had in New Orleans earlier this year. Overall it was an awesome experience and the proximity to my office means I'll probably end up there pretty regularly. deedee megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 14:08 on Apr 24, 2013 |
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HatfulOfHollow posted:So I went to the Strangelove's opening in Philly last night. It was like a who's who in there. I sat next to Tom Peters and I saw one of the brewers from Victory. I also recognized a couple food critics and restaurant people from the area. Were you at the table in the corner right by the front door? With Tom standing by the window? Because if so I was sitting right next to you. quote:I forgot to mention the food. They were walking around with free samples of their menu. I tried the chili powder and cotija cheese dusted popcorn, the catfish po-boy, and some mushroom and goat cheese puff. It was all really well done. The catfish particularly was just about perfect. It rivaled the po boys I had in New Orleans earlier this year. Overall it was an awesome experience and the proximity to my office means I'll probably end up there pretty regularly. The mushroom/goat cheese thing was great. My only gripe was that I was sitting right by the front door, so anyone heading my way with free food had to pass through an entire bar of vultures and not much at all made it down to me. Ending up going someplace else to actually get dinner. Also, they lost my credit card, but then they found it again.
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HatfulOfHollow posted:
kinda hate to make a post for the sole purpose of making GBS threads on DFH, but this is so wrong. Peche Mortel is pretty much perfect from the get-go, while aged Bitches Brew turns incredibly dry and woody (the gesho root, i'm assuming) lacking in both honey sweetness and your typical chocolatey stout flavors. if i still had any i'd send them to you for free.
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Phanatic posted:Were you at the table in the corner right by the front door? With Tom standing by the window? Because if so I was sitting right next to you. There was one table between me and the corner. So you were probably at that table. I've got a shaved head, beard, and glasses. I was sitting with my girlfriend. Phanatic posted:The mushroom/goat cheese thing was great. My only gripe was that I was sitting right by the front door, so anyone heading my way with free food had to pass through an entire bar of vultures and not much at all made it down to me. Ending up going someplace else to actually get dinner. funkybottoms posted:kinda hate to make a post for the sole purpose of making GBS threads on DFH, but this is so wrong. Peche Mortel is pretty much perfect from the get-go, while aged Bitches Brew turns incredibly dry and woody (the gesho root, i'm assuming) lacking in both honey sweetness and your typical chocolatey stout flavors. if i still had any i'd send them to you for free. I'd never had either before last night and upon tasting them both I actually thought the bartender had reversed the names when he handed the glasses over. One of them was hot and boring and the other had a lot of depth of flavor and this really great sweetness to it. I went back to BA and read reviews and they line up exactly with how they looked in the glass and tasted, so I'm fairly confident it wasn't a mix-up. I'll give them both another try though. I want to make sure I reviewed the correct beer.
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HatfulOfHollow posted:There was one table between me and the corner. So you were probably at that table. I've got a shaved head, beard, and glasses. I was sitting with my girlfriend. Yeah, my party was the one that grabbed your table when you left, I was sitting just to your right. quote:Yeah, food wasn't really making it up front. Half the plates they brought out never made it past the halfway point of the bar. But what I did get to try was really good. We ended up going to Loco Pez for dinner when we left. Ended up at Standard Tap because Standard Tap that's why.
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HatfulOfHollow posted:I'd never had either before last night and upon tasting them both I actually thought the bartender had reversed the names when he handed the glasses over. One of them was hot and boring and the other had a lot of depth of flavor and this really great sweetness to it. I went back to BA and read reviews and they line up exactly with how they looked in the glass and tasted, so I'm fairly confident it wasn't a mix-up. I'll give them both another try though. I want to make sure I reviewed the correct beer. You don't have to justify liking Bitches Brew. I loved it fresh and have had one aged a year and it was great. I have two more and will be opening one soon.
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Midorka posted:You don't have to justify liking Bitches Brew. I loved it fresh and have had one aged a year and it was great. I have two more and will be opening one soon. I wasn't trying to justify liking it. Beer is a subjective thing anyway (someone last night at the bar gave the Cantillon a half star on untappd). I just wanted to point out that there may actually have been a mix-up since I ordered both at the same time. I went back to some reviews and tried to figure out which was which and it seemed like I had it right. I still want to make sure though. Because if I did have it right then Bitches Brew is fantastic and I need to buy a few bottles.
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I've been told that Parabola should begin appearing in stores in California starting today. I have, however, been informed incorrectly on many, many different beer releases although at least some of the crazy hunter types on BA seem to agree that its showed up in Las Vegas and some other equidistant places.
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HatfulOfHollow posted:I went back to some reviews and tried to figure out which was which and it seemed like I had it right. I still want to make sure though. Because if I did have it right then Bitches Brew is fantastic and I need to buy a few bottles. if one of them tasted like coffee, that was the Peche Mortel, and if one tasted like Chicory Stout with honey in it, that was Bitches Brew. if it was the DFH you liked, you're in luck, because it is orders of magnitude easier to find now than it was four years ago. as for the PM, i can see how it might seem a little hot since it doesn't have the richness of, say, Breakfast Stout to offset the alcohol, but it really is a fantastic beer that you should retry.
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HatfulOfHollow posted:I wasn't trying to justify liking it. Beer is a subjective thing anyway (someone last night at the bar gave the Cantillon a half star on untappd). I just wanted to point out that there may actually have been a mix-up since I ordered both at the same time. I went back to some reviews and tried to figure out which was which and it seemed like I had it right. I still want to make sure though. Because if I did have it right then Bitches Brew is fantastic and I need to buy a few bottles. Bitches Brew is one that provided me with low expectations. A Dogfish Head gimmick-beer ginned up as a marketing collaboration with Sony Music. Assumption: This is going to be terrible. Realization: Goddamn that's a really good stout. One of the rare ones where DH knocks it out of the park.
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Immort Ale is the one beer I will gladly agree with the DFH hate for. I think that beer smells like burnt rubber and tastes like it with alcohol. I hate that beer.
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Immort used to be great. I had it and loved it in 2006, and then had put off buying it until recently and the recipe had changed tremendously in that time. It wasn't always all peat smoke and booze with a sweet finish. It used to be this great vanilla-maple, slightly smoky old ale with the mouthfeel of chocolate milk. It's definitely not that anymore.
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I have tried a ton of beers in the past few days, including my first ever framboise. A little run down: Bière Du Boucanier Red: I thought this was a really good Belgian Pale Ale, although very sweet. A girl at the bar ordered a sample of this at the same time as me, and didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I did. I enjoy my Belgian Pale's a bit on the sweeter side, where as I prefer American Pale's to be hop forward. This was good, and I'd probably order it again if I came across it. Columbus Creeper: This was pretty good. I've seen it advertised as both an American Barleywine, and an IIPA, and I'd have to say it leans much more towards being an IIPA than it does being a Barleywine. It was super hoppy, and had all of the notes which are common in IIPAs, very resionous and citrusy. I prefer CBC's standard IPA and Bodhi to this. Dark Horse Crooked Tree: I enjoyed this, but I was hoping for a bit more out of it. I just enjoy Dark Horse's stouts so drat much that I had thought I would enjoy this a bit more than I did. I think the bottle I got may have been a few months old, because it didn't have quite the hop punch which I think it normally has, and the hop bitterness it did have tasted a bit faded. Fat Head's Head Trip: An American made Belgian Tripel, and a drat fine one at that. It's around 10% alcohol, and it was very smooth, and had wonderful aroma/flavor. I'd put it on the same level that I would Golden Monkey/Thirsty Dog's Cerberus - drat good! Jolly Pumpkin's Bam Noire: I was actually a bit disappointed by this. I found it to be a bit bland, and probably the weakest offering I've ever tried from JP. I guess I was mostly disappointed by this because I was hoping for it to be more tart, but it was quite mild. I will probably pick up a bottle of this sometime and give it another shot, as I had tried it on draft. Lost Coast Indica: I found this to be pretty good, although it's not something I'd probably go out and buy a six pack of. It has a fitting name, as it reminded me a bit of  . This was the first offering I've ever had from Lost Coast, and I'm definitely willing to try more beers from them after having this.Oskar Blues Gubna: I don't know why, but for some reason Oskar Blues just doesn't impress me as much as I hoped they would. We've been getting their beers for less than a year in OH, and the only ones which really stand out to me are Ten Fidy, and Deviant Dale's. Gubna was pretty good, but I found it to be rather uninteresting when comparing it to other IIPAs. Hey, at least they can all their stuff, that helps it sell. St. Louis Framboise: Holy poo poo was this sweet. Like really, really, really sweet. It tasted like drinking straight raspberry juice. Supposedly it has a bit of tartness, but not nearly as much as I would prefer. I knew this was going to be sweet, but it was a bit overwhelming to me. I ordered a sample of this at the same time I ordered samples of Bam Noire, and Creeper, and the second my server walked up to the table I could smell this one. After trying this, I really want to try a framboise which is much more tart, so if anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears. I also snagged a bottle of Dark Horse Pt5, but have yet to try it. Most of the beers posted above I tried a 4-6 oz sample of. Overall, it's been a pretty good week so far. I turn 25 next Saturday, I'm still trying to decide what kind of shenanigans I'm going to get myself into. I was also able to grab another two bottles of KBS on Monday, and my boss told me we're doing another Black Note release sometime in the next few weeks, so I'll be able to snag another bottle of that. 
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The St. Louis lambics don't fall far from the Lindeman's tree in my experience. So the sweetness isn't a surprise. If you want better fruit lambics, you're best off paying more for (and hunting after) the usual suspects: Drie F's kriek, various Cantillon, etc. As for framboises themselves, I can't really help. Other than Upland's Raspberry Lambic, I don't think I've had one I like.
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danbanana posted:As for framboises themselves, I can't really help. Other than Upland's Raspberry Lambic, I don't think I've had one I like. What kind of a bottle limit does Upland usually have for their releases? I wouldn't mind driving to the brewery sometime for a release, but I can't help but think I'd be a bit disappointed if I drove ~5 hours for a single bottle. Doom has started to hit stores in NEOH. I'm not sure if I want to buy a bottle of it yet. I have a feeling that I'm really not going to like it, but at the same time, it's a Founder's Backstage series...
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I was at my local liquor store looking for Parabola (not here yet) and coincidentally, the Firestone-Walker Beer Police came in the door and started inspecting all of the beer on site, including non-FW brands. They said they were doing this to "ensure our brand is being represented fairly" and loudly bitching about all the "out of code" beer from any brewery they could find. They did nebulously say Parabola should come in in the 'next delivery,' whatever that means.
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danbanana posted:The St. Louis lambics don't fall far from the Lindeman's tree in my experience. So the sweetness isn't a surprise. If you want better fruit lambics, you're best off paying more for (and hunting after) the usual suspects: Drie F's kriek, various Cantillon, etc. We had that Cantillon Rose de Gambinus at the last tasting; that's a framboise. Skip the St. Louis and Lindemans lambics and go with Boon and Hanssen's for easily available fruited lambics (Boon for their Mariage Parfait Kriek), 3F and Cantillon if you're willing to order from Belgium or win the 'right place at the right time' bottle shop lottery. Kudosx, for easily available not-sweet raspberry lambics, I think your only choice is going to be Hanssen's (albeit I've never had it). 3F's framboise is called Framboos and you will give up a figurative kidney to land one in a trade. Cantillon's Rose de Gambrinus is probably closer to what you're looking for, but unless you order from Belgium you're not going to get it very easily. edit 2: For American raspberry sours, Lost Abbey, Russian River, Upland, and (probably) Cascade make them. Not sure what the trade values are on any of them except Upland which will cost you a bit. crazyfish fucked around with this message at 20:10 on Apr 24, 2013 |
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Kudosx posted:What kind of a bottle limit does Upland usually have for their releases? I wouldn't mind driving to the brewery sometime for a release, but I can't help but think I'd be a bit disappointed if I drove ~5 hours for a single bottle. Still no info on when this year's release is going to be or what any allocation is. I'm not even positive what they will be releasing. The only reason I've had the raspberry, blackberry, and Gilgamesh is because I had buddies go to the Bloomington Beer Fest thing last year and they brought stuff back. That fest was a few weeks ago and Upland didn't have this year's stuff ready. And they announced it still won't be ready for their own Sour Fest (in 2 weeks). In other words, I have no idea about anything, except that their stuff is top-tier and worth the growing hype. I follow them on twitter (they sure love twitter...) so if I hear anything, I'll pass it on.
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crazyfish posted:We had that Cantillon Rose de Gambinus at the last tasting; that's a framboise. Ahh. That's right. Forgive me. I don't clearly remember drinking Le Petit Mort that night (Chris had to remind me later) so...
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Kudosx posted:What kind of a bottle limit does Upland usually have for their releases? I wouldn't mind driving to the brewery sometime for a release, but I can't help but think I'd be a bit disappointed if I drove ~5 hours for a single bottle. One bottle limit, reserved online. Granted, you got one of each the last time they were released (Blueberry and Raspberry). Taking my girlfriend as a mule and going to the sour fest made it worth driving from Toledo area (7 hours in the car all in one day). Thankfully they'll let someone trustee and pick up bottles for somebody else, I'll probably just have an Indianapolis BA'er pick them up in return for a box of locals or something.
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Kudosx posted:Oskar Blues Gubna: I don't know why, but for some reason Oskar Blues just doesn't impress me as much as I hoped they would. We've been getting their beers for less than a year in OH, and the only ones which really stand out to me are Ten Fidy, and Deviant Dale's. Gubna was pretty good, but I found it to be rather uninteresting when comparing it to other IIPAs. Hey, at least they can all their stuff, that helps it sell. I think Oskar Blues is kind of overrated. Nothing they make sucks (well maybe Lil Yella Pils), but outside of Deviant Dale's and Ten Fidy it's not really best-in-class by any means yet it's some of the most expensive beer on the shelf. Regular Dale's is respectable, Old Chub is notable for being an easy to find scotch ale, that's about it.
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Angry Grimace posted:I've been told that Parabola should begin appearing in stores in California starting today. I have, however, been informed incorrectly on many, many different beer releases although at least some of the crazy hunter types on BA seem to agree that its showed up in Las Vegas and some other equidistant places. So if anyone's in the San Luis Obispo area, they have a few bottles available...  Furthest south I can find it on there is Santa Barbara. e: holy poo poo, 93 in Ventura. Why?? wattershed fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Apr 24, 2013 |
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wattershed posted:So if anyone's in the San Luis Obispo area, they have a few bottles available... Yeah I actually did the same thing earlier today. There's a lot in certain places relatively close to Paso Robles, which isn't in fact surprising. You can just buy as much as you want if you go to the brewery proper to get it from what I understand. Checking in on that, most of them in Los Angeles seem to have it also. Its just not here yet. Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 22:41 on Apr 24, 2013 |
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