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Hub Dirt posted:Any other recommendations for Fall time backyard sippers that aren't one of the 400+ Octoberfests? My heart broke when Victory stopped brewing Moonglow and now it looks like Bell's Best Brown is gone as well. Celebration is like the only beer I get to look forward to now. Troegenator always hits the spot for me. Do they still package it in tall boys? Haven't seen them in a while.
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actionjackson posted:oh yeah you're right, pretty sure it's the same font. Everything they make is fantastic. If you're ever in the New England area highly recommend checking them out.
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Brawnfire posted:I got a growler of Three Heads the other day, tried the Mackinack Wet Hop IPA Sup' fellow Rochester Beer Goon.
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atothesquiz posted:Sup' fellow Rochester Beer Goon. Sup! Actually went back to 3HB yesterday and got two different NEIPAs.
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Since someone else is over there - what’s your thoughts on Other Half? On one hand if you’re into hop forward NEIPA and you want to go full Nelson then they’ve got it. On the other hand there are 25 options at the tap room with many of them just indiscernible. I want to like them but I’m just not finding much excitement to try new releases.
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Same boat as you, they were exciting when NEIPAs were the hot new thing but they're all fairly interchangeable now. Last time I was there (a few years back) they had an imperial stout on tap that was really tasty.
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Are any three competently made NEIPAs distinguishable from each other, ever?
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Weirdly the two I had on Sunday, one was clean and one was sort of hazy. Both tasty tho
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Brawnfire posted:Weirdly the two I had on Sunday, one was clean and one was sort of hazy. Both tasty tho I'm curious what a "clean" NEIPA is.
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Not hazy Or rather not nearly as hazy
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Brawnfire posted:Not hazy So... not a NEIPA? Isn't haze inherent in that style? I know categorization in beer is a crapshoot at best, but once you start getting away from core characteristics then it feels like a brewery marketing the style for sales rather than actually being descriptive about what it is.
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I can really only go off what the brewery tells me unfortunately, I got two beers labeled NEIPA and one was hazier than the other
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Other Half has so many beers that are the same , including oatmeal cream ales that have the same body and mouthfeel as their NEIPA. They’ve replaced singlecut over here though at the hot one. If they can drop a session like Some Cat From Japan it’ll be on it. Still easier to get than Mortalis.
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I actually went back and re-checked https://threeheadsbrewing.com/beers/ and the two beers I had were actually the "Ha Ha Nelson NEIPA" and "Talus Man Hazy IPA" So that explains that, sorry! I guess I got pretty buzzed
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Kaiho posted:Are any three competently made NEIPAs distinguishable from each other, ever? If they switch the hops up yeah but I’ll be damned if I can tell one citra NEIPA from another, unless one’s just flat out bad.
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danbanana posted:So... not a NEIPA? Isn't haze inherent in that style? Haze yes, to an extent, but I don't know without seeing what the two beers looked like. Like, Sip of Sunshine (my favourite ever NEIPA) isn't clear, but it's nowhere near the opaque monstrosity that the likes of Other Half put out. DarkSoulsTantrum posted:If they switch the hops up yeah but I’ll be damned if I can tell one citra NEIPA from another, unless one’s just flat out bad. That's what I meant. Even if the hops are nominally different unless it's the same brewery it'll be hard to tell.
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I like Other Half but I haven't had much besides their collaboration beers lately because I've been taking a bit of a break from NEIPAs. Anyone have any Marzen recommendations? I kinda skipped out on Oktoberfest entirely but now I'm starting to regret it. Think I'm gonna go pick up some 'wurst and pretzel buns.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I like Other Half but I haven't had much besides their collaboration beers lately because I've been taking a bit of a break from NEIPAs. Location? Out of the wide distro ones can't go wrong with the German marzen/festbiers like Hacker-Pschorr, Ayinger, Weihenstephan National US distro: SN, Bells, Sam Adams
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drat, I wish I could hide this thread until at least late afternoon
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Brawnfire posted:drat, I wish I could hide this thread until at least late afternoon It’s late afternoon somewhere
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I think Hamburg makes it your way , they have a good octoberfest, thin man has a few styles
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I like Other Half but I haven't had much besides their collaboration beers lately because I've been taking a bit of a break from NEIPAs. did ours make it up there? we finally made a batch where something didn't go horribly wrong (brewer error, glycol, etc) and it's actually not bad. bingo's is pretty good, too, but i doubt they get to nova. can't think of any other good virginia examples, unfortunately, but if victory or union make it that far south, they're really good. alesmith and green flash were both pretty good this year, but if they're your best american options i'd just stick with the germans. added: op is in northern virginia funkybottoms fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Oct 6, 2021 |
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COPPER LEGEND (jacks abby) is GOLD STANDARD
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Just finished a 2013 BCBS barleywine and it's probably the best barleywine I've had in a decade, easily Was my last one too ;_;
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I normally do not drink barleywines, but that one is on point.
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Barleywines are my wife's favorite style but goddamn she gets twisted off one
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Man, TreeHouse has really accelerated their Lager program. I’d say they’ve got a minimum of a dozen lagers going at all times now ranging from good to great. I’m drinking their Marzen right now and it’s good if a little sweet. Their festbier was on point.
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lol remember brut IPAs?
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sporkstand posted:lol remember brut IPAs? Cold IPAs are the new Brut IPAs.
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Partycat posted:Since someone else is over there - what’s your thoughts on Other Half? I feel like they actually only make 5 beers and its all an inside joke when people rave over one versus another and they're actually the same beer. Sort of like the joke when somoene drinks an NA and thinks they're drunk. Their beers are fine but honestly, I only buy their stuff based on the ABV. anything over 6.5 is a pass for me. I enjoy their pilsners and other lagers but their stouts are trash. Mortalis, in my opinion, started out great but really leaned in hard on the fruit and stupid adjuncts in EVERYTHING. That novelty got old fast. Plus they've been having infection problems recently but their homers still back said infected beers like they're gifts from god. On top of that, other than maybe once they dont post publicly when they find out one of their beers have been infected and will give a redund for the beer. They offer refunds I guess but only if you know enough to contact them, which I think is hosed up. atothesquiz fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Oct 8, 2021 |
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sporkstand posted:lol remember brut IPAs? Remember Belgian IPAs?
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Speaking of IPAs...I see that Sierra Nevada is releasing this year's Celebration in cans. Unfortunately, they're only 12oz and not the far superior 16oz, but I'll take what I can get
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I got started on Belgians (not IPA) , particularly the Unibroue ones. After way to much of them and Hennepin I don’t think I want another Belgian ale ever again. I agree on Other Half, just afraid to out myself as having an inferior tongue or something. I think their beers are so similar that it’s just not reasonable to distinguish them - at least for me - and come back for more. Mortalis , well , I like the Hydra. The peanut butter porter and their stouts were pretty good. I know it al was a fad for a bit but I still like it juxtaposed to endless IPAs so whatever. I didn’t realize their having control issues, and yeah if I waited for three hours to buy a crowler of ruined beer - only to have the brewery pretend like it was a fluke - I’d be pretty pissed. That’s lame.
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sporkstand posted:Speaking of IPAs...I see that Sierra Nevada is releasing this year's Celebration in cans. Unfortunately, they're only 12oz and not the far superior 16oz, but I'll take what I can get This is a bad take. 16 oz cans are great for trying singles of beers you’ve never had before but for a beer like Celebration, you should be buying at least a 12 pack. And 12 packs of 12 oz cans is the ultimate beer package.
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God I hope my local Costco is going to sell cases of Celebration this year 
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Celebration is one of those beers where I’m like “oh awesome Celebration time already!” And I buy a 12 then am like “yep that was alright, see ya in a year.”
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Is Jean still hanging around Tired Hands nowadays? Anybody know if anything actually changed after employee's wrote that letter earlier this year?
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Gay Retard posted:Is Jean still hanging around Tired Hands nowadays? Anybody know if anything actually changed after employee's wrote that letter earlier this year? He stepped down from active leadership afaik
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Mahoning posted:This is a bad take. 16 oz cans are great for trying singles of beers you’ve never had before but for a beer like Celebration, you should be buying at least a 12 pack. And 12 packs of 12 oz cans is the ultimate beer package. I'm sorry sir but you are wrong. All of my beer glasses hold at least 16oz and a mere 12oz can doesn't even come close to filling that up. More space = more beer
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