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danbanana posted:Real men pound big bottles, bro. Gets you hosed up faster. Real men pound 32oz cans!  Seriously though.. bombers of this are usually 7-8 bucks. This was like $6.50 @ Costco, and it was awesome.
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Do you route the wiring for the TV through the wall? The can is in the way so my inner home theater nerd is wondering.
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Do you route the wiring for the TV through the wall? The can is in the way so my inner home theater nerd is wondering. Haha, you know it! 
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Capt. Awesome posted:Real men pound 32oz cans! Holy crap, that's a beautiful picture. Lagunitas announced they're finally producing Sucks in 32 ouncers next week. That should be awesome.
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Birdemani posted:Is there something besides 666? FOBAB, Local Option, Goose Island 25th Anniversary Release, Girl and the Goat (eek! Gotta keep the girlfriend in a good mood as I drag her around the city).
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Nov 1, 2013 22:17
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How well does Speedway Stout age? Since I probably won't be able to get it again, when is the sweet spot for drinking? Sooner rather than later so the coffee doesn't drop out?
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Bag of Sun Chips posted:FOBAB, Local Option, Goose Island 25th Anniversary Release, Girl and the Goat (eek! Gotta keep the girlfriend in a good mood as I drag her around the city). Whats the Goose Island release? Girl and the Goat is awesome, and they had Zombie Dust on tap when I went, also Haymarket is across the street.
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broom posted:Whats the Goose Island release? Girl and the Goat is awesome, and they had Zombie Dust on tap when I went, also Haymarket is across the street. Its their last 25th anniversary a sour wheat called Brettanomite. Releases at 10am at Clybourn.
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wildfire1 posted:How well does Speedway Stout age? Since I probably won't be able to get it again, when is the sweet spot for drinking? Sooner rather than later so the coffee doesn't drop out? Yeah, I've always preferred my Speedway fresh, there's something about the coffee they use in the base version that's always come off better when the bottle's really young. It's one of the best things San Diego does, enjoy! (I'm just hoping it was kept in reasonable temps on the way down there)
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MO. I don't understand the "Maine costs too much" argument. This is as wonderful as I remember it: fruit - heavy nose, a little sweetness that falls to a deep bitterness. A great thick head. If there's one complaint it's that it's very light in the mouth, but it's a pale ale so I wouldn't expect it to be. Overall, i'd buy this over any Pipeworks pale any day at the same price.
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Tigren posted:Lagunitas announced they're finally producing Sucks in 32 ouncers next week. I'll be
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danbanana posted:MO. I don't understand the "Maine costs too much" argument. This is as wonderful as I remember it: fruit - heavy nose, a little sweetness that falls to a deep bitterness. A great thick head. If there's one complaint it's that it's very light in the mouth, but it's a pale ale so I wouldn't expect it to be. Overall, i'd buy this over any Pipeworks pale any day at the same price. Well it is pretty drat expensive. The store I got mind charged 7 for a 16 oz or something like that. It is fantastic and still worth picking up especially since it was bottled under 2 weeks ago. I'm going to enjoy the hell out of Mo now before they've been on the shelves for ages.
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There is what appears to be black mold around the lip of this can I just got in a trade -- anyone seen/heard of anything like that? 
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LeafHouse posted:Well it is pretty drat expensive. The store I got mind charged 7 for a 16 oz or something like that. It is fantastic and still worth picking up especially since it was bottled under 2 weeks ago. I'm going to enjoy the hell out of Mo now before they've been on the shelves for ages. That's a $10.50 bomber. I'm not saying it's a deal, since you can get a 4 pack of Daisy Cutter for that. But it's also not unheard of, especially in Chicago. And it's a lot better than a lot of beers I've paid that or more for.
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Oude Tart is yummy. That is all.
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beetlo posted:Oude Tart is yummy. That is all. Oude Tart with Cherries is pretty drat good too. Doesn't hold a candle to Sour in the Rye with Kumquats, though.
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Tried a Don Gavino's Big Guava today on tap at CCB. I didn't get much of the chardonnay taste from the barrel aging, just a slightly tart and boozy ale. I think it will be the only one of the three Catador releases that I won't rush to buy an extra one of if/when they become available to members. I wasn't able to get over to the brewery the last few nights when they have Illuminating the Path and Good Gourd Almighty available for members, but from the comments I've read, they sound amazing. Did any of you guys get to try them on draft? Also, any Tampa area guys going to the Cajun Cafe beer festival tomorrow?
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danbanana posted:That's a $10.50 bomber. I'm not saying it's a deal, since you can get a 4 pack of Daisy Cutter for that. But it's also not unheard of, especially in Chicago. And it's a lot better than a lot of beers I've paid that or more for. I guess it's a psychological thing. I'm used to paying 10 for a bomber but for some reason proportionately scaling it back makes it seem more expensive.
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Just bought some Jai Alai canned on 10/29, Georgia rules for once!
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Just ran into an interesting flaw in a berliner wiesse. Fermented on strawberries and rhubarb, bottle-conditioned and cellared since July. Aroma of hot Styrofoam but good flavor, good carbonation. At first I was thinking chlorophenols, but it isn't medicinal at all - it's straight-up melting styrofoam with no perceptible effect on flavor. Any ideas? edit: funkyb, mad props on the vanilla bean BCBS. Its absolutely wonderful! FreelanceSocialist fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Nov 2, 2013 |
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FreelanceSocialist posted:edit: funkyb, mad props on the vanilla bean BCBS. Its absolutely wonderful! glad you like it, but i don't think the credit is mine...
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Just ran into an interesting flaw in a berliner wiesse. Fermented on strawberries and rhubarb, bottle-conditioned and cellared since July. Aroma of hot Styrofoam but good flavor, good carbonation. At first I was thinking chlorophenols, but it isn't medicinal at all - it's straight-up melting styrofoam with no perceptible effect on flavor. Any ideas? Could be brett? Some people get a plasticy flavor from some brett beers.
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Just ran into an interesting flaw in a berliner wiesse. Fermented on strawberries and rhubarb, bottle-conditioned and cellared since July. Aroma of hot Styrofoam but good flavor, good carbonation. At first I was thinking chlorophenols, but it isn't medicinal at all - it's straight-up melting styrofoam with no perceptible effect on flavor. Any ideas? I had nearly the exact same thing in a fresh bottled Berliner (fermented on raspberries) I've had, big burnt rubber in the nose that carried over a bit to the taste.
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Just ran into an interesting flaw in a berliner wiesse. Fermented on strawberries and rhubarb, bottle-conditioned and cellared since July. Aroma of hot Styrofoam but good flavor, good carbonation. At first I was thinking chlorophenols, but it isn't medicinal at all - it's straight-up melting styrofoam with no perceptible effect on flavor. Any ideas? I think that was me 
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In reading more about the characteristics imparted by Brett, that's definitely it. Trying to dig up more on why Brett produces the "plasticy" aromas/flavors right now. edit: bingo. A combo of 4-ethyl phenol, ethyl decanoate, etc. crazyfish posted:I think that was me Sorry, I had quite a few trades in the same period of time and guessed wrong. Credit goes to you. My whole kitchen smells like bourbon and vanilla right now. FreelanceSocialist fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Nov 2, 2013 |
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I made beer bread yesterday with bells cherry stout and cherry republic dried cherries, with a mix that was bought at meijer. It was delicious, and pretty much pure distilled Michigan. I've always made beer bread with the cheapest lager I can find around, but this opened up a whole avenue of cooking with beer. Definitely going to make some BCBS ice cream this year.
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So the last Evolution beer I had was the Fall Migration, a strong Belgian pale aged in Chardonnay barrels. I thought it was excellent, everything worked really well together and I would drink a bunch of it. Tonight I drank a Spring 2013 Migration, a Belgian golden ale aged in rum barrels. Yuck. Just a big muddy mess. The problem isn't that it was boozy, although at 10.5% you could tell it was strong, it's just that nothing going on in it played well together. Just...ugh, not good. It's always disappointing when a brewery does a great job with one beer and then is completely meh with another.
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So we just had a new label approved for Hoppin Frog... BORIS VanWinkle 
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'Tasting Room' Midcoast IPA from Boulevard's sampler 12-pack is delicious. 104 IBUs. They should bottle this year-round. Anyone try it?
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Am I the only who finds it weird that beer bars frequently have casks on but the cask is never traditional English cask ales? It's always just some 7% IPA.
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Angry Grimace posted:Am I the only who finds it weird that beer bars frequently have casks on but the cask is never traditional English cask ales? There aren't many popular traditional English cask ales brewed in the US. Hell, not many breweries offer casks. I'm also pretty sure that English breweries don't ship casks to the US (I could be wrong, but I work in a bar with a cask beer on tap 24/7 and we can't get anything from any English brewers on cask).
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Kudosx posted:There aren't many popular traditional English cask ales brewed in the US. Hell, not many breweries offer casks. I would imagine that's because properly managing a cask ale would make it really hard to ship.
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I think at our Bend bottleshare tonight we uncapped the first bottle of fresh hop beer from Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery, from beautiful Goochland, VA, that has been popped west of the Mississippi. Perhaps outside of VA even judging by untappd. It is a surprisingly fine beer, specially given that (in addition to the wonderful name) how the eck are they cultivating enough hops to brew by in the climate of central Virginia? Then we had some Hoperation Pink from Hardywood, and that was a collaboration amongst some VA breweries and therefore had Lickinghole Creek's co-founder's signature on the label, and so we laughed at the name all over again.
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Phanatic posted:So the last Evolution beer I had was the Fall Migration, a strong Belgian pale aged in Chardonnay barrels. I thought it was excellent, everything worked really well together and I would drink a bunch of it. This makes me sad. I really liked both Winter and Fall so I picked up two bottles of Spring anticipating that they'd be good. I still have yet to open one but now I'm curious.
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Apache posted:Also, any Tampa area guys going to the Cajun Cafe beer festival tomorrow? Yep I'll be there.
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Kudosx posted:So we just had a new label approved for Hoppin Frog... Is that gonna be a wælzbro?
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HatfulOfHollow posted:This makes me sad. I really liked both Winter and Fall so I picked up two bottles of Spring anticipating that they'd be good. I still have yet to open one but now I'm curious. Yeah, Spring is by far the worst. I don't know why they keep doing it. The base beer, though, Prelude Gold, is actually pretty good. They should just bottle that instead and skip the barrels.
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Sublimer posted:Is that gonna be a wælzbro? Doubt it. Hoppin Frog releases are always low key because of where they're located and they always have case limits.
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Other hilites from last night: Allagash Confluence '12 -- My pick for the best of the evening, maybe because I have not had a real good brett forward ale lately. Smelled awesome and went down extremely smoothly. I would drink a lot of it. Lunch -- Pretty solid IPA. Quite hoppy with a little bit of spice to it. It would hold its own in OR although I don't quite see why it gets enormous BA props. I love MBC's labels. Monk's Mistress -- Way too boozy. I like Midnight Sun's brown ale in cans but I've realized that I don't really like any of their shots at Belgian type stuff. Critical Hit '10 -- Ninkasi's 11.8% barleywine; and remarkably one of the best ones I've had I think. A few years definitely did well for it, this is the trademark "beer you'd have be crazy to drink fresh".
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Don't know if it's been mentioned but has anyone tried to Schlafly Tasmanian IPA? This poo poo is tasty. It's a very citrusy, juicy IPA which is my favorite type. Anyone have any other recommendations for this type? Bell's Two Hearted, Racer 5, and Founders Double Trouble also give me this fruity citrus taste (some more than others). Always looking for another good IPA/DIPA
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