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Bag of Sun Chips posted:Most beer nerds think Dark Lord are extremely overrated, contrary to popular belief. It's way too sweet and not worth the hoops you have to go through to get it.
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Bag of Sun Chips posted:Most beer nerds think Westy and Dark Lord are extremely overrated, contrary to popular belief. Cue same for PtE, Heady, 120, I feel like an era really shifted in 2011/2012. Or some point after the Alchemist flooded.
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Sep 16, 2014 17:00
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air- posted:Cue same for PtE, Heady, 120, I feel like an era really shifted in 2011/2012. Or some point after the Alchemist flooded. I wouldn't lump Heady in to the same list of overrated beers, because Heady is absolutely as good as its reputation has made it out to be (imo). 120 makes me want to puke.
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Sep 16, 2014 17:28
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Heady is good but I still stand by my belief that "the best ipa you can drink is the freshest one".
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Sep 16, 2014 17:47
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Is anyone going to the GI Clybourn release tonight?
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Sep 16, 2014 17:48
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Bag of Sun Chips posted:Heady is good but I still stand by my belief that "the best ipa you can drink is the freshest one". AFter having gone to Vermont last month.. and having Heady Topper, Sip of Sunshine, Society of Solitude #5, and then coming home and having Morph, Substance and some Tired Hands stuff.... and the week prior to that having Focal Banger, Crusher and Rapture.. I stand by my rating of Heady being the ultimate IPA. It's balance is phenomenal, and it's world class in every aspect.
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Sep 16, 2014 17:52
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Bag of Sun Chips posted:Heady is good but I still stand by my belief that "the best ipa you can drink is the freshest one". That's my mentality these days as well even if my ultimate IPA is 3-way. I dream of it being made forever and ever and ever. I can easily get extremely fresh Lone Pint Yellow Rose, Community Mosaic, or when they make it, Peticolas Sit Down or I'll Sit you Down. I really should send out growlers of the fresh ipa's coming out of Texas these days as they're all top notch for the style. Sure they aren't quite world class, but they're 90% of the way there, and far easier for me to get.
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Sep 16, 2014 17:55
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Vertigo posted:AFter having gone to Vermont last month.. and having Heady Topper, Sip of Sunshine, Society of Solitude #5, and then coming home and having Morph, Substance and some Tired Hands stuff.... and the week prior to that having Focal Banger, Crusher and Rapture.. Morph is selling like goddamn hotcakes. Batch 2 is way better than batch 1 imo. Julius gets my nod, I do need to go back out there since I left my camp chair in the parking lot last time...
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Sep 16, 2014 18:34
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I had the 9/9/14 Morph last night. It was quite tasty. Wish I would have grabbed some when I was up that way.
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Sep 16, 2014 18:40
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The new brewspace they have now has done wonders for their production. New beers practically every week and I don't even have to go by on the day of a beer release to get bottles of some of the stuff. Sour Tea was a bruery type sour (read: accidental) but its way better than the base beer. Trillium though, way harder to get unless it's at the tap room. Wormtown is one of the real sleepers. Hopulence won some medals and be hoppy/be hoppier are super elusive this side of 95.
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Sep 16, 2014 18:46
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Vertigo posted:AFter having gone to Vermont last month.. and having Heady Topper, Sip of Sunshine, Society of Solitude #5, and then coming home and having Morph, Substance and some Tired Hands stuff.... and the week prior to that having Focal Banger, Crusher and Rapture.. How do you even taste after that? Tastebud marathon.
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Sep 16, 2014 19:35
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Shabadu posted:Wormtown is one of the real sleepers. Hopulence won some medals and be hoppy/be hoppier are super elusive this side of 95. our brewer used to work with their brewer, been hoping he'd work out a trade so i can try some of their stuff- a shame she had such a crappy time of it at Blue Jacket
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Sep 16, 2014 20:14
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pugnax posted:How do you even taste after that? Tastebud marathon. Wasn't all in one night... I had a 3 day Vermont trip. However, now that I'm back into gym mode, and working my way to lose some weight, I'll probably be giving my tastebuds a break in the action, as they definitely went into overboard mode for awhile.
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Sep 16, 2014 20:15
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Get ready to start hearing some hype for this new Oregon brewery: http://newschoolbeer.com/2014/09/wolves-and-people-farmhouse-brewery.html
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Sep 16, 2014 20:35
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Founders Mosaic Promise is out now and it's really good, but also very light (5%). I just assumed it would be an IPA because I'm dumb and it's more of a session-y pale ale. Still a good showcase for mosaic hops, especially in the aroma, you just have to taste it a little harder. And no I'm not sure what I mean by that. Also I had Oracle again and concluded that it tastes like several aspirin have been dissolved in it... just way too bitter, to the point of being highly unpleasant. I would drink Mars by the gallon, though.pugnax posted:How is Samichlaus? I see it on the shelf but haven't brought myself to spend the money on it to see if it's crap or not. Adding my award-winning opinion to state that it tastes like a combination of cough syrup, nail polish remover and pennies.
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Sep 16, 2014 20:55
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dphi posted:Get ready to start hearing some hype for this new Oregon brewery: And here everyone thought he was starting up his own place in Texas. I guess begin the walehype.
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Sep 16, 2014 20:56
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dphi posted:Get ready to start hearing some hype for this new Oregon brewery: sounds awesome, but some of that article... also, lol at "nationally known brewers such as Evil Twin"
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Sep 16, 2014 21:03
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dphi posted:Get ready to start hearing some hype for this new Oregon brewery: Christ. I can practically hear the clickity-clack of terrible beer nerds frantically pounding ISO on their keyboards. I'll hop on the hype train when they actually release some beer.
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Sep 16, 2014 21:20
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With Toronto beer week in full swing, the event I've been waiting for has finally announced some (about a half) of the beers that will be available at the event.  Definitely skipping out on work early for this one.
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Sep 16, 2014 21:31
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In additional beer news, Live Oak is supposedly going to start canning oh god everyone will want me to send the hef now huh http://crafttaste.com/live-oak-brewing-to-start-canning/ They've also been saying they'll be expanding since I first got into craft beer back in 2006, so who knows how much truth there is to this.
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Sep 16, 2014 21:41
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air- posted:oh god everyone will want me to send the hef now huh first in line.
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Sep 16, 2014 21:52
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krustster posted:Founders Mosaic Promise is out now and it's really good, but also very light (5%). I just assumed it would be an IPA because I'm dumb and it's more of a session-y pale ale. Still a good showcase for mosaic hops, especially in the aroma, you just have to taste it a little harder. I had this last year on tap at Founders and loved it. So happy to see it land in 6ers, def a pick up.
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Sep 16, 2014 21:57
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Midorka posted:This time I'm bringing my Double Simcoe Habanero Peach hot sauce along. Screw the beer, tell us more about this.
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Sep 16, 2014 22:06
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See and I've had heady a good many times and find it massively overrated. It's worse than every IPA I've had from TH or HF or RR or Bell's. The IPAS that I find overrated are Double Trouble, Heady, and that Great Divide DIPA that I cannot stand. Oh, and White Oak JA is disgusting. I've had most of the great IPAS at the source and think that a decent percentage of the Pliny backlash is from the school of people who want to seem cool for tearing down a golden calf of beer. But that's just, like, my opinion man.
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Sep 16, 2014 22:30
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krustster posted:Adding my award-winning opinion to state that it tastes like a combination of cough syrup, nail polish remover and pennies. I was saying that eight years ago.  (Except it also tastes so vegetal I get asparagus out of it too!)
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Sep 16, 2014 22:55
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Phanatic posted:Screw the beer, tell us more about this. Pureed up habaneros with a combination of apple cider vinegar/distilled white wine vinegar/Double Simcoe with two huge mangos. It's too hot for me to enjoy in it's current iteration, but I see potential in it. I'm working on new combinations constantly, I made a Goose Island Bourbon County Stout, cherry, and cayenne/chipotle one early Summer that came out pretty great though. I've pretty much stopped brewing and have replaced that with making beer hot sauce and beer soap. The first batch I did was a pineapple serrano double jack hot sauce that I'm going to recreate because it was fantastic. Beer talk: I really don't like Southern Tier's Warlock, something about the way the malts they're using interacts with the sweetness of the beer really doesn't work for me.
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Sep 16, 2014 23:13
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dphi posted:Get ready to start hearing some hype for this new Oregon brewery: Thanks Hill Farmstead for making out-of-the way destination breweries with a sense of heritage and location, a thing. Does this brewery have a favorite philosopher? Unrelated, but I scored a HF Aaron and I can't wait to try it. I hate Shawn Hill, but I love his magical brewery powers.
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Sep 17, 2014 00:40
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Vertigo posted:Why do people seem to hate him? He's a pretty surly guy.
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Sep 17, 2014 00:58
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cryme posted:He's a pretty surly guy. Really? When I was in line at HF, he came over and said hi to the people in line and then went about his business... seemed OK by me. Edit: As long as he keeps making his delicious nectars, he can be whatever he wants to be.
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Sep 17, 2014 01:11
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Shawn is just a weirdo artist type and can rub people the wrong way because he's not the gregarious sort like Sam C or Greg Koch. His beers are incredible and anyone who thinks otherwise has a loving bad palate. Is the whole "name every other beer after philosophy" thing weird in a world where people generally name their beers for dick jokes? Sure. But he is hands down the most talented brewer in the world, if we're going for quality+breadth of work.
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Sep 17, 2014 01:52
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Daunte Vicknabb posted:Shawn is just a weirdo artist type and can rub people the wrong way because he's not the gregarious sort like Sam C or Greg Koch. His beers are incredible and anyone who thinks otherwise has a loving bad palate. Is the whole "name every other beer after philosophy" thing weird in a world where people generally name their beers for dick jokes? Sure. But he is hands down the most talented brewer in the world, if we're going for quality+breadth of work. I don't really like his artist/philosopher persona or whatever, but I'll be goddamned if he didn't make the best hoppy beers and saisons on this planet.
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Sep 17, 2014 02:14
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I'm usually too poor to regularly buy good beer...but not today! I just picked up a 12 pack fall sampler from Sierra Nevada for $13 (Pale ale, Oktoberfest, Tumbler brown ale, and Vienna Lager).  I had never tried their Vienna lager before, and I really like it. In fact I'd never had that style of beer at all before, anyone have some recommendations for it?
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Sep 17, 2014 03:25
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I am not uninterested in Wolves 'n People, but living in OR has made me so lazy that I hate actually having to drive to a brewery.
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Sep 17, 2014 03:47
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Vertigo posted:Really? When I was in line at HF, he came over and said hi to the people in line and then went about his business... seemed OK by me. he's a autistic stoner who alternates between being really friendly and being an aloof, arrogant dickhead. he doesn't beat up his wife or anything truly hosed up, though, so i will continue to enjoy the beer that he makes.
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Yeah the dude doesn't have any truly repugnant opinions or actions, he might just be a little awkward, but he makes great beer and that I can get behind
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Rah! posted:I'm usually too poor to regularly buy good beer...but not today! I just picked up a 12 pack fall sampler from Sierra Nevada for $13 (Pale ale, Oktoberfest, Tumbler brown ale, and Vienna Lager). Do you have access to Great Lakes? If so, pick up Eliot Ness, as it is probably the best Vienna Lager in the US. If not, Negra Modelo and Victoria are actually not bad examples either, though Sierra Nevada is definitely far better than both combined.
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crazyfish posted:I don't really like his artist/philosopher persona or whatever My ex-boyfriend, who's a philosophy PhD and a Heideggerian who wrote his dissertation on gender theory, looked at some of Shawn Hill's quotations and said, "Wow, that's too pretentious even for me." The guy makes some fabulous beer, though.
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Sep 17, 2014 04:36
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Did anyone in Chicago end up getting (or trying) Grimm Vicar? Any good?
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ChiTownEddie posted:Did anyone in Chicago end up getting (or trying) Grimm Vicar? Any good? Ran by there at 7 with the gf, walked right in and picked up 2 bottles. We were late to dinner plans, so I couldn't stay to try it. I had a buddy who went by around 10 and got to try it, he said it was phenomenal. More like a barleywine than a quad, he said it reminded him of BCBW. There were still plenty left when he picked his up, I might try to grab another if there's any left when I head to the cubs game tomorrow night.
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