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Sirotan posted:Cease and desist incoming? I don't think so. It's a general color term used in beer. It'd be like Killian's suing over the use of "red." Founders would have a lot of C&Ds to issue: http://beeradvocate.com/search?q=cerise&qt=beer
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Cervixalot posted:From the last few pages, it seems like there are a bunch of Asheville goons in the thread. Hows the craft scene there? Lots of good spots? Totally oversaturated? My wife and I are mulling a move therabouts, and I want to know what im getting myself into beerwise (leaving Chicago). Does NC get good distro from west coast and midwest breweries? Asheville has a pretty good craft scene and it's just going to get better as New Belgium and Sierra Nevada get their east coast facilities up and running. They have beer events/festivals every couple of weeks during the summer. Also lots of great restaurants. I'd say NC gets pretty good distro from the West Coast and spotty coverage from the Midwest. Bring some 3F/Half Acre/Pipeworks with you when you move and you can make a lot of new friends in Asheville quickly.
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I was deeply impressed by the local beer culture in Durham, I can only imagine what Asheville is like.
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Sirotan posted:Cease and desist incoming? for the ugly labels, maybe. sorry, CS, can't agree with you on this.
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May 20, 2013 14:58
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Jester King Salt Lick/Censored makes it to one of the top 3 worst craft beers I've ever had (others: Brooklyn Concoction and Rogness Gigantophis) It's supposed to be a smoked sour saison, with the smokiness coming from smoked malt over pecan wood at the Salt Lick BBQ restaurant. The bottle gushed (in this context, does this mean bad bottle conditioning or an infection?), and the beer itself tasted like an ashtray was dumped into lemonade and mixed with vinegar. Did get to have a Prairie Noir though, and that was quite great. Top tier imperial stout despite still being kinda hot. Really silky smooth and almost like an oatmeal stout, but still a ton of booze up front with dark fruit flavors.
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RiggenBlaque posted:I was deeply impressed by the local beer culture in Durham, I can only imagine what Asheville is like. I think Durham has slightly better beer than Asheville. Asheville has a bunch of good breweries, but none that I'd say are "great". Wicked Weed might be on its way to great, certainly they're one of the best up there right now. Where Asheville wins, though, is the scene, just because of the fact that downtown is actually connected to pretty much all the breweries, and there are great restaurants and shops all within walking distance. Durham is so spread out, and a lot of the breweries are out in basically urban reclamation areas, i.e. rundown warehouses.
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air- posted:Jester King Salt Lick/Censored makes it to one of the top 3 worst craft beers I've ever had (others: Brooklyn Concoction and Rogness Gigantophis) I saw somebody describe Salt Lick as tasting like a rubber glove. Yum. Corb3t fucked around with this message at 16:18 on May 20, 2013 |
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danbanana posted:I don't think so. It's a general color term used in beer. It'd be like Killian's suing over the use of "red." Founders would have a lot of C&Ds to issue: Nitro is trademarked by Left Hand. General descriptors can be trademarked, which is really loving stupid.
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Bag of Sun Chips posted:I saw somebody describe Salt Lick as tasting like a rubber glove. Yum. L'enfant Terrible from De Dochter van de Korenaar was something like that, except also smoked. loving awful.
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May 20, 2013 16:30
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funkybottoms posted:for the ugly labels, maybe. sorry, CS, can't agree with you on this. I guess I just like that sort of stupid art.  No accounting for taste, I suppose. You've got to admit they have some fun names for those brews. And the Kolsch label is awesome.
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Midorka posted:Nitro is trademarked by Left Hand. General descriptors can be trademarked, which is really loving stupid. I don't think Left Hand would have a chance in heck of successfully defending that trademark, and I'd be really curious to see that they were actually granted trademark protection on it in the first place. Trademarks need to be distinctive, with the most distinctive marks because ones that are completely arbitrary, like "Pepsi." Doesn't mean anything, it's not even a real word. Then you get real words used in an unrelated context; "Apple" gets to trademark "Apple" only in reference to computers, they can't come down on a store for selling apple pies. Purely descriptive marks like "Nitro" generally can't be trademarked, unless the term has been already so effectively identified in the market with a specific product that it effectively loses its descriptive nature and just becomes an identifier for that product. In beer, "nitro" isn't even close. I might be able to make, say, a drill press and call it "Nitro" and get a trademark on it, but a beer? "Cerise" is a color. In the case of the Founder's beer, it's even descriptive of the color of the beer. It would literally be harder for them to enforce a trademark on that than it would be if they called a beer "Purple."
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Here's an article. It seems that Left Hand went to trademark "Milk Stout Nitro" while "Nitro" was already trademarked. I couldn't find anything on the ending though.
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camoseven posted:All this talk of lovely Chicago beer fests is making me nervous. My girlfriend really wants to go to this LivingSocial thing, but money is tight and I'm worried it's gonna blow. Anyone have any thoughts/predictions on if/how hard it will suck? I bought tickets for my wife and I, and we're going with another couple, I'm pretty excited. I think it'll be fun and my wife loves the zoo, so she will be happy (and she doesn't drink beer, so I will get her samples).
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May 20, 2013 18:27
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Just wanted to share that a friend of mine who barely drinks beer is drinking Orval at their Abbey. I'm beyond jealous!
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May 20, 2013 18:43
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That's almost as bad as my girlfriend drain-pouring a bottle of Chocolate Rain on her last business trip because it wasn't chocolatey enough. 
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air- posted:Jester King Salt Lick/Censored makes it to one of the top 3 worst craft beers I've ever had (others: Brooklyn Concoction and Rogness Gigantophis) I haven't had a recent Jester King bottle that didn't gush. Both bottles of Funk Metal I've seen opened have been foam monsters.
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So a while back I posted complaining about people "hoarding" beer based on someone's cellar contents, specifically a cache of Cantillon. I was probably being a big whiny baby because I remember when someone cleaned out every bottle at my old bottle shop. I had been happily buying them there for years and was more than a little annoyed when every bottle was gone within a week (apparently all by a small handful of people buying all of them over the course of a few days). So whenever I see a huge stash of something rare it just rubs me the wrong way. Anyway, the point of this story is that in one of the responses to my rant someone came to the defense of the cellar and said something along the lines of "they probably just ordered it from Belgium directly." Holy poo poo. Why have I never thought of that before? That post coincided with me getting a new job and a huge loving raise, so I knew what my next step had to be...  Yeah, that's 16 beautiful bottles straight from Belgium that just arrived on my doorstep. It is a thing of beauty. And because I bought them in bulk it was cheaper than buying them domestically, including shipping. I am now probably an rear end in a top hat in someone else's eyes.
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Interesting. Where'd you order from?
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I've got another Belgium order coming, this time the focus is on the 3F Armand'4 season set. Really really excited to
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Docjowles posted:Interesting. Where'd you order from? belgiuminabox. 10 days to make it from overseas to my door is pretty good. And Kurt threw a bunch of breweriana into the box so now I have 3F coasters and some signs to hang up in my office. crazyfish posted:I've got another Belgium order coming, this time the focus is on the 3F Armand'4 season set. Really really excited to drink those. I was going to order some 3F but nobody buys it around me so I can still take it off the shelves. It's cheaper to order from Belgium, but I wanted to make this order for things I can't actually get around here.
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crazyfish posted:I haven't had a recent Jester King bottle that didn't gush. Both bottles of Funk Metal I've seen opened have been foam monsters. We even followed the store for 24 hours cold instruction on the label. Was that the case for you as well?
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air- posted:We even followed the store for 24 hours cold instruction on the label. Was that the case for you as well? The bottle of Black Metal I recently had was almost as flat as Parabola. I will make sure to take extra care when opening my Das Wunderkind based on y'all's experiences though...
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air- posted:We even followed the store for 24 hours cold instruction on the label. Was that the case for you as well? I did, but then I dragged it to a bottle share and that pretty much negated any effects of it.
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I had a truly vile beer a few weeks ago. Dark Horse Three Guys Off the Scale Sour. Holy gently caress, that beer was terrible. It tasted like rotten vegetables thrown into a bag of melted caramel candies soaked in bourbon with vinegar and nail polish remover. My friend got it sent to him in a trade when DH hosed up the actual Bourbon Barrel version of the beer. Poor guy.
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HatfulOfHollow posted:belgiuminabox Nevermind. I'm dumb. Shipping isn't terrible. danbanana fucked around with this message at 21:34 on May 20, 2013 |
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Daunte Vicknabb posted:I had a truly vile beer a few weeks ago. Dark Horse Three Guys Off the Scale Sour. Holy gently caress, that beer was terrible. It tasted like rotten vegetables thrown into a bag of melted caramel candies soaked in bourbon with vinegar and nail polish remover. Their "lambics" they tried to sell this past December are even worse. Pure nail polish remover. I don't know why they didn't just dump the batches. Thankfully, they were on tap so you were able to try before you buy. Word quickly spread that they were terrible and I don't think many people bothered getting them.
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danbanana posted:Nevermind. I'm dumb. I just priced out an order of Cantillon, 3 Font, and Westy - and it's cheaper per bottle with shipping than a bunch of the stuff I have bought locally. Now, the question is if it will be confiscated en-route...
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FreelanceSocialist posted:I just priced out an order of Cantillon, 3 Font, and Westy - and it's cheaper per bottle with shipping than a bunch of the stuff I have bought locally. Yes. But in my original post I priced shipping as cheaper than FedEx within the U.S. I'm dumb and didn't realize it defaulted to shipping within Europe. I got REALLY excited...
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May 20, 2013 21:39
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Eep. 'Scuse me while I order a box and become King of Oregon in a few days.
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HatfulOfHollow posted:belgiuminabox. 10 days to make it from overseas to my door is pretty good. And Kurt threw a bunch of breweriana into the box so now I have 3F coasters and some signs to hang up in my office. Is there anything like this for US beer?
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Side note from Belgiumchat: Chicagoans: Galactic Double Daisy Cutter bottles at Half Acre released tomorrow at noon. Haven't heard anything about a price or limit.
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Klaus Kinski posted:Is there anything like this for US beer? Varies by region, there's many more but here's some off the top of my head. IMO for the most part, trading is cheaper. NC: http://www.bruisin-ales.com/ Midwest: http://www.france44.com/ California: http://www.bevmo.com/
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crazyfish posted:Side note from Belgiumchat: Chicagoans: Galactic Double Daisy Cutter bottles at Half Acre released tomorrow at noon. Haven't heard anything about a price or limit. I believe the standard DDC was $12 a bottle with a limit of 4 back in January.
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HatfulOfHollow posted:belgiuminabox. Oh my god. http://belgiuminabox.com/shop/428-bag-in-box-young-lambic Boxed lambic. Suck on that, Kendall-Jackson.
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air- posted:Varies by region, there's many more but here's some off the top of my head. IMO for the most part, trading is cheaper. ..with international shipping, probably should have mentioned that.
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crazyfish posted:Side note from Belgiumchat: Chicagoans: Galactic Double Daisy Cutter bottles at Half Acre released tomorrow at noon. Haven't heard anything about a price or limit. $10/bottle, limit 6 Source: http://halfacrebeer.com/blog/2013/5/14/chicago-craft-beer-week
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How hard do I need to try to get to St. Sixtus, if I'm in Bruges? I wasn't planning on renting a car, but...
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I tried Love Child #3 today, and holy poo poo was it fantastic. I was surprised at how tart it was, mostly because the gauges on the back of the bottle show it as only being about a 6/10 on the tart scale. I was also surprised that the bourbon flavor wasn't completely overwhelming, which I actually enjoyed. It had just enough flavor from the barrel aging to let you know that it is barrel aged, without it being overwhelming at all. A really, really fantastic beer, and I'm glad that I have three bottles of it left! All of this talk about ordering Belgian beer online really makes me want to pull the trigger on ordering a bunch of Cantillon, but I still might hold out for another month or three.
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SUPER HASSLER posted:Eep. Hey buddy, need a new friend?
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I haven't had any issues with the two bottles of Jester King I've gotten in the last few months. They were Wytchmaker and Le Petit Prince. Both tasted fine.
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