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HatfulOfHollow posted:~*beer thread untappd review interlude*~ <triggering> dphi posted:True, but Bravo was $10.50 (which sounds like the typical price around the country) here where Parabola increased from only $13.99 to $14.49 in the last year or two. I think places just don't gouge as much here and the price per ounce on those beers got worse with the move to smaller bottles. I used to stock up on Parabola and still have a bunch going back to '12 - I'll probably still grab 3 or 4 bottles in the new format. <triggering intensifies>
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funkybottoms posted:<triggering> ?? What do you call charging 25% more for the same beer?
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dphi posted:What do you call charging 25% more for the same beer? Juicy
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dphi posted:What do you call charging 25% more for the same beer? oh, man, i think i've been called pedantic for this at least twice: a particular, expensive craft beer isn't exactly a necessity on a tangential note, new me surprised old me by purchasing only one Mattina Rossa so that i could also purchase a six-pack of Weihenstephan Lager; how was i ever not a lager guy? next thing you know i'm gonna be crushing Palate Wrecker...
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funkybottoms posted:oh, man, i think i've been called pedantic for this at least twice: You'd fit right in at Beer Advocate 
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Spuckuk posted:See, I prefer this to 99% of the labels I see, though yes, they put out very different labels for their releases, they don't have a core range at all. This is really fun to order! "Get me that red poo poo"
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Looks like Tree House is better than I realized. I had some rose tinted memories of some Maine IPAs that made me think "hey this stuff is really good but not impossibly good since there are some others that are similar." But now that I live here I've had some of those things again, after tree house, and they just don't taste as good as I remember. I guess I'll be chasing that dragon for the foreseeable future!!!! I got a DIPA from Liquid Riot called "A beer has no name" though and in addition to its cool label, it definitely scratches that same itch. I like Trillium but they aren't distributed here so if I want to drive to the brewery it's about the same drive as TH and that doesn't help me much. Also to y'all whomst we're screaming about the Allagash coolships, make some noise when they get released because I got too many tapes to keep up with here
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danbanana posted:So I guess the Bruery is sending some of their older Reserve-only beers into distro now and Melange #3 is available in Chicago. As I think this was the last beer from them that I remember really liking (back in 2011), I'm tempted. Has anyone had this recently? Did I have a Compusaurus-like lovely palate in 2011 and this is- in fact- another overly sweet Bruery beer? Or is it actually a good blend of bad beers? The Bruery conveniently split all of their good beer off into their Terreux brand. The 19% ABV diabeetus beers were a fun try once novelty but honestly not worth getting again. The farmhouse stuff is dope though, and they toned down their sours so they're no longer "facerape sour" obi_ant posted:I've come to the conclusion that there are simply too many breweries out there. It would be literally impossible to try them all. I trying to be content with my local breweries and it's working pretty well. Assuming you mean LA the city and not the state, I agree! Which is interesting because LA was a lovely beer desert between San Diego and the Bay Area for years until just recently! poop dood posted:I think FW bombers were something like $16 around here, which makes $10.49 for 12oz pretty unfair. In CA the bombers were like $16.49 at Costco and somewhere between $17-20 everywhere else. I welcome you to not buy Parabola out of protest and leave more for me.
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KBS is actually pretty hot and good this year. I'm glad I got a four pack. Is it weird that I prefer BA stouts a tad boozy? I hope not. Parabola literally sold out in hours in my area of southern Virginia. I didn't realize it was that sought after but :welp:
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In PA news Pizza Boy released the newest batch of BBA Sunny Side Up this week and it is awesome. $7.50/can makes my heart hurt a little so I only got a 6 pack but I've already drank 4 of them  .poop dood I just bought a house about 20 minutes (as opposed to my current hour) from the ferm so let me know if/when you want Tired Hands stuff. I'm sure I'll be going to buy their awful milkshake beers to trade them for better out of market beers.
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AUGH YES THANK YOU LYON IM GONNA DRINK SO MUCH MORE WEIRD BEER NOW (also congrats on buying a new house!) My budget has room for TH's expensive weirdo beer now so this is wonderful news. Speaking of their awful milkshake beers I had the Extra Vanilla one and actually really dug it. The absence of fruit meant it actually tasted like an IPA, shockingly. Just had a nice creamy, lightly sweet vanilla finish. It was really good. No chunks either, which is nice. To return to Parabola chat, the 2017 bottle was only the second time I've had it, the first being at the bottle share at Ardent a year ago, which funkybottoms can attest had far too much palate-destroying nonsense for me to make a proper judgment. I really liked the '17 bottle. I can't say it being brewed at Boulevard will make an appreciable difference to the connoisseur.
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funkybottoms posted:oh, man, i think i've been called pedantic for this at least twice: to be fair to new you, Weihenstephaner Lager is absolutely incredible.
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krustster posted:I like Trillium but they aren't distributed here so if I want to drive to the brewery it's about the same drive as TH and that doesn't help me much. Yeah, but if you drive to Trillium you can leave with cases instead of ~8 cans.
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cryme posted:Yeah, but if you drive to Trillium you can leave with cases instead of ~8 cans. Is it naive of me to think that when I see people buying carloads of beer from Trillium and Tree House and poo poo, I assume they're muling and not drinking cases of beer every week or so? Or should I be concerned about all of the livers in the New England area?
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danbanana posted:Is it naive of me to think that when I see people buying carloads of beer from Trillium and Tree House and poo poo, I assume they're muling and not drinking cases of beer every week or so? Or should I be concerned about all of the livers in the New England area? Not everybody lives in the area. I'm sure there are plenty of mules, but the only time I've seen traffic constrict the amount of beer available is at Christmastime. Last time I went, I bought about 3 cases, my wife and I drank ~1.5, and I gave the rest to my friends.
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funkybottoms posted:on a tangential note, new me surprised old me by purchasing only one Mattina Rossa so that i could also purchase a six-pack of Weihenstephan Lager; how was i ever not a lager guy? next thing you know i'm gonna be crushing Palate Wrecker... This is the latest thing I'm embracing about living in Austin. Fuckin a, so many lagers/pilsners here kick rear end
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i just want someone to send me a case of live oak for the summer e: on the pils tip, apparently Ayinger bavarian pils is coming to the US for the first time, anyone had it? I'm going to keep an eye out since everything else Ayinger makes is great, but it seems like we only see celebrator and oktoberfest in any significant amounts around here cryme fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Apr 7, 2017 |
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cryme posted:i just want someone to send me a case of live oak for the summer hmu bruh 
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danbanana posted:Is it naive of me to think that when I see people buying carloads of beer from Trillium and Tree House and poo poo, I assume they're muling and not drinking cases of beer every week or so? Or should I be concerned about all of the livers in the New England area? A 4/6 pack and a bomber is about what I go through on a normal week. I'd buy more than the 1-2 4packs and growler if I could afford it, both in terms of time and cash and waistline.
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cryme posted:i just want someone to send me a case of live oak for the summer Ayinger pils is pretty great
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air- posted:This is the latest thing I'm embracing about living in Austin. Fuckin a, so many lagers/pilsners here kick rear end Yeah, Texas has the right weather for it. It's why I don't get breweries like Brash here in Houston - I'm not a huge fan of their beers to begin with, though a couple friends are, but all they make are giant DIPAs and barrel aged stouts. I don't want a 12% stout when it's 97 degrees out, I want a blonde ale or a pilsner or something easy to drink. Clown Shoes has the same issue, they only make giant beers, nothing even remotely sessionable that I've seen.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Yeah, Texas has the right weather for it. It's why I don't get breweries like Brash here in Houston - I'm not a huge fan of their beers to begin with, though a couple friends are, but all they make are giant DIPAs and barrel aged stouts. I don't want a 12% stout when it's 97 degrees out, I want a blonde ale or a pilsner or something easy to drink. Clown Shoes has the same issue, they only make giant beers, nothing even remotely sessionable that I've seen. This is why I like living in a southern city that still nonetheless has something recognizable as winter (most years, anyway). Lots of delicious saisons and pilsners for 95 degree summer days spent with my feet in the river, and also tasty stouts for 30 degree windy sleet weather.
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The best Texas hot weather / pool beer is
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RisqueBarber posted:The best Texas hot weather / pool beer is Are you my sister?
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Shooting Blanks posted:Yeah, Texas has the right weather for it. It's why I don't get breweries like Brash here in Houston - I'm not a huge fan of their beers to begin with, though a couple friends are, but all they make are giant DIPAs and barrel aged stouts. I don't want a 12% stout when it's 97 degrees out, I want a blonde ale or a pilsner or something easy to drink. Clown Shoes has the same issue, they only make giant beers, nothing even remotely sessionable that I've seen. You could go with something easier to drink, like Texian Charlie Foxtrot, a 7.5% "imperial" Berliner.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Clown Shoes has the same issue, they only make giant beers, nothing even remotely sessionable that I've seen. the fresh clownshoes stuff doesn't get much distro out of state, Mango, their Kolsch was a solid crusher any day of the week
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Shabadu posted:the fresh clownshoes stuff doesn't get much distro out of state, Mango, their Kolsch was a solid crusher any day of the week That's fair - I only see what's on the shelves here in Houston. Their beers are good for what they are, just not what I'm in the mood for most of the time.
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Spuckuk posted:to be fair to new you, Weihenstephaner Lager is absolutely incredible. i always have a difficult time not drinking the entire six-pack; too bad kegs of it don't seem to make it here very often Quorum posted:This is why I like living in a southern city that still nonetheless has something recognizable as winter (most years, anyway). Lots of delicious saisons and pilsners for 95 degree summer days spent with my feet in the river, and also tasty stouts for 30 degree windy sleet weather. FYI we've got 30bbls of pils in a fermenter and will be making rye kolsch and Berliner soon (and we might gently caress around with a helles and/or radler ((the previous radler we did was a weird Frankenstein experiment that i didn't really like))) #neverstoplagering
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danbanana posted:Are you my sister? Are you saying bombshell blonde is for girls or does your sister just like the beer
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Shooting Blanks posted:Yeah, Texas has the right weather for it. It's why I don't get breweries like Brash here in Houston - I'm not a huge fan of their beers to begin with, though a couple friends are, but all they make are giant DIPAs and barrel aged stouts. I don't want a 12% stout when it's 97 degrees out, I want a blonde ale or a pilsner or something easy to drink. In Brash's defense they make regular beers too, EZ-7 is a fine 5% pale in cans. That said Brash is run by Petrol Station people, who are the pioneers of drinking 10% beers outdoors when it's 98 degrees out with 90% humidity. I know because I used to be part of their team until I gained sense and moved out of Houston.
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RisqueBarber posted:Are you saying bombshell blonde is for girls or does your sister just like the beer The latter. She loves that poo poo. Though I really don't know how any beer other than from Live Oak can be anyone's favorite hot-rear end-Texas-weather beer but to each their own!
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danbanana posted:The latter. She loves that poo poo. Just picked up some St. Arnold's Raspberry AF today, it's back at the downtown Spec's. Haven't tried it before but I have yet to hear anything negative about it.
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Just bought a local interpretation of the NEIPA and a Bruery beer. I feel dirty.
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Cigar City just bottled a NEIPA, and I'm pretty sure no one's going to buy it because they're are releasing it in a week.
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Just got a bomber of some overpriced quad for $5 because it was over a year old. Its good
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Control Volume posted:Just got a bomber of some overpriced quad for $5 because it was over a year old. Its good Quads are only good after a year... Drinking this "Northeast Style" DIPA from "What the gently caress is Hailstorm?" because it was canned yesterday and I thought "what the hell, right?" It is... fine. It tastes all the 8% it says it is. Smells nice! Super cloudy so I guess they did it right? Man... I dunno. I don't get this trend and I loving love Mosaic.
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I was going to go to the new Frothy Beard space today and finally get a slice of Zombie Bob's Pizza, but I forgot to bring some stuff with me to work, and so I had to go straight home. Going to make up for it tomorrow night with my friend's birthday. I'll get to open a bottle of Imperial Mexican Biscotti Cake Break among other things.
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