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 Click on this if you'd like to try trading beer with goony goons Goon Beer eXchange Thread Click on this if you'd like to stalk them on Untappd too GoonTappd Looking for beer destinations by city? Check out the Goons with Brews wiki (edit it, even, if you like) Hello  And welcome to the third Let's talk beer thread on GWS. We sit here and post all day about beer, breweries, beer reviews, beer travel, things to eat with beer, things to do while drinking beer, and how dreamy the beard on that one guy in the Sam Adams commercials is. Somehow this sort of thing has managed to become the biggest thread in GWS. Who knew. A new thread has been posted up at mod request and in order to shake things up a bit. General GWS rules apply -- keep discussion decently purposeful, don't pick on other people's beer preferences (too much), and try to keep the thread from degenerating into idle chatting. Don't be afraid to participate, however, especially if you're new and/or curious about beer. We love new people! Beer's at its best when it's shared among other folks, after all. NOTE: Despite what you may see at bars, you are not actually required to grow an unkempt, scraggly neckbeard in order to be a beer fan. Don't throw out those razors! A word about beer  Beer -- a drink made chiefly out of water, malted grain (usually barley or wheat), yeast, and hops -- is old. Very old. Arguably the oldest alcoholic beverage ever. As Garrett Oliver writes, the history of beer is "quite literally the history of human civilization." The best estimate we have is that the secret behind brewing beer was stumbled upon around 5000 years ago in Sumeria. It never really caught on in ancient Greece and Rome, but was a hit in western Europe -- by the year 1376, there were 475 breweries in the city of Hamburg alone, pushing out around 113,000 barrels per year. Thirsty serfs. Beer was brought to America on the Mayflower and local breweries popped up immediately thereafter. The industry boomed worldwide in the 1800s, but two world wars and 13 years of Prohibition changed beer enormously in the Americas. After the war, the business was dominated by mass-market golden lager which, while a technical achievement to make, was low in flavor and generally designed to be cheap and easy for baby-boomers to drink by the case. What's worse, this crap was also being brewed by an increasingly shrinking group of enormous brewing conglomerates. In 1900, there were around 2000 breweries in the US; by 1978, when Jimmy Carter signed a law that legalized homebrewing, there were only 82. But all wasn't lost. Smaller breweries began to pop up in the UK in the late 1970s, and the trend moved quickly over to the US. Places like New Albion (1976), Boulder Beer (1979) and Sierra Nevada (which pushed out their first batch of Pale Ale in November 1980) set the stage for a revolution in brewing, experimenting with older styles and exercising their creativity with things like IPAs, stouts, amber ales, and flavorings like chocolate and fruit. Nowadays there are 1927 operating breweries in the US (as of last November), and the craft-beer revolution has taken hold on a massive, worldwide scale. It's an exciting time for beer fans, and if you're still a $2 PBR kind of person, now's the best time ever to start trying a few other things, all right? Beer terms/background knowledge  IBUs (International Bitterness Units): A measure of bitterness in beer. The higher this is, the more hoppy/bitter-tasting the beer will generally be. The Bud Lights of the world have around 5-10 IBUs, while the extreme imperial IPAs can go up to 100 and higher. It's usually around 60 IBUs or so when you start remarking to yourself how hoppy the beer is. ABV: Alcohol by volume. The amount of alcohol in the beer you're drinking. Generally speaking, a beer's alcohol level depends on the type of grain used, as well as how much is used in the recipe -- it's the sugars in these grains that get turned into alcohol by the yeast. Most beer is between 3-6% ABV, with stronger stouts and IPAs going up to 8-9% and higher. Depending on where you live in the US and Canada, supermarkets/convenience stores may not be allowed to sell beer higher than a certain value, often 3.2%. Bomber/growler: A bomber is a 22-oz bottle often used by craft brewers for selling their less common/more alcoholic/nerdier beer varieties. The European version is 750ml, about 25oz. A growler is a half-gallon jar with twist-off cap; mainly used for "take-out beer" from breweries or bars, in states where that's legal. Glassware: Some people really care about glassware. Serious beer bars will bust out different glasses for each style of beer (or even for individual beers, especially Belgians). Some glasses are mostly traditional in origin, such as the goofy one Pauwel Kwak comes in, but others are shaped to show off color, keep the foam head intact, and allow as much of the beer's aroma to come through to your nose. Here's a guide. Bottles 'n cans: Most beer comes in bottles that are tinted brown in order to keep UV and visible light from coming in and spoiling the beer (making it "lightstruck") before its time. You will notice that some beer, mostly macro, is put out in green or clear bottles. These offer no protection against UV light, and some breweries take steps to get around this, but either way don't trust the beer inside. Cans are growing increasingly popular with small breweries. They're lighter, cheaper, more easily recycled, offer the best light protection, and can be taken out to places where glass is prohibited. Don't look down on a craft beer just because it's canned. (Still a good idea to pour it out into another cup first, though.) Goofy laws: After Prohibition was repealed, different state governments had different ideas about how to regulate alcohol. The result is a dizzying patchwork of laws that make any brewery distributing in multiple states want to kill themselves. Some states do not allow beer sales on Sundays; some require it only be sold in liquor stores; a couple (Alabama and Mississippi, of course) still ban homebrewing. Then there's Pennsylvania, which is its own realm of crazy. Cask conditioned beer/"real" ale: Unfiltered beer that's stored in a cask for secondary fermentation instead of placed in a pressurized, carbonated keg. This leads to higher alcohol content, as well as aging (which results in different flavors over time). Served off a "beer engine" which the bartender has to manually pump. Big in Britain. The main reason American tourists think that British people like warm beer. Some beer is "bottle conditioned" for a similar effect. Brettanomyces (Brett): A genus of wild yeast that's generally considered undesirable, but is used in certain beers (Belgian lambics/gueuzes, New Belgium's Lips of Faith series, etc) for a fruity, sour effect. The resulting flavor is often called "barnyard" or "horse blanket" by beeradvocate forum posters trying to look smart. (Do not use these terms in real life, unless you actually brew with Brett or you are actually a horse.) Dogfish Head: A brewery/microdistillery established in Milton, DE in 1995 by the likable and telegenic Sam Calagione. Largely known in the industry for being intensely experimental, doing stuff like brewing beer with algae, chemically analyzing residue on ancient drinking vessels and making beer based off it, and so forth. The resulting beer is original, if not necessarily good all the time. 3 Floyds: A microbrewery in Munster, IN which beer geeks worldwide have the worst hard-on for. Known for intensely-flavored beers and for Dark Lord, a Russian imperial stout. Dark Lord is released once per year at the brewery, an event called Dark Lord Day that's turned into a massive party/bottle-share. The aftermarket prices on Dark Lord bombers, especially the rarer variations, are a bit nuts. A few basic beer styles (lightest to darkest)  Pilsner Invented in Pilzen, in today's Czech Republic, in the mid-1840s. Golden in color and bearing a distinct hop aroma. By far the most popular style of beer, with something like 95% of all global beer volume done in pilsner style. Examples: Pilsner Urquell ("the original"), Warsteiner, Victory Prima Pils, Sam Adams Noble Pils. Nearly every cheap macrobrew is a pilsner in style, although they're very different from the real thing, filled with adjuncts to lighten the color and flavor. Wheat: Beer brewed with a large proportion of wheat. This is probably how the Sumerians did it 5000 years ago, although it's not so common nowadays. Can be further divided into witbier (popularized by Hoegaarden) and weissbier ("white beer" in German, available in lots of forms). Witbier has a certain haziness and often has a sour, spicy flavor; weissbier can have a range of wheat flavors, from light to dark. Examples: Hoegaarden, Celis, Paulaner, Franziskaner, Boulevard Unfiltered Wheat, Troegs Dreamweaver  India Pale Ale (IPA): Beer characterized by lots of alcohol and hop bitterness. A lot of restaurant menus will say that this evolved as a beer capable of surviving the ship journey from England to outposts in India in the 18th century. This is actually a myth; the (very small) India market of the time just liked really hoppy ales, and the brewer that supplied most of the ships to India happened to produce really hoppy beer. The style all but died out in the 20th century before getting revived by craft brewers seeking intense flavors in the '80s; it helped that American hops tend to have more powerful flavor and aroma than European plants. Nowadays there are many variants, such as black IPAs, double IPAs or even imperial IPAs, that try to push the bitter flavor envelope ever further. Occasionally people criticize this as resulting in nerdy, expensive crap that no one but utter beer snobs would enjoy. Examples: Sierra Nevada Celebration, Bell's Two Hearted Ale, Dogfish Head 60/75/90/120 Minute IPA, Russian River Pliny The Elder  , Saint Arnold Endeavor  (out today!), really every microbrewer ever has an example so check your local one outAmber: Not a style so much as a term American breweries invented for "beer somewhere between pale and brown in flavor/color". Tends to feature decent bitter flavor mixed with medium-to-dark malt sweetness. Examples: Bell's Amber Ale, Alaskan Autumn, Anderson Valley Boont Amber Saison: French for season, originally a low-alcohol pale ale brewed in the French-speaking part of Belgium for farmhands to drink during harvests. A little hard to define, as it can come in all kinds of colors, bodies and sweetnesses, but generally they're very dry, carbonated, and often fruity/sour. Another formerly near-dead style that craft brewers have brought back in quantity. Examples: Saison Dupont (the standard bearer), Boulevard Tank 7, The Bruery Saison Rue, Ommegang Hennepin. There's a brewery in Colorado that does nothing but saisons. Brown Ale: Generally British beers with a sweet to bitter and malty flavor. Another very broad term -- included in this is everything from mild ales (a very low-alcohol but still malty and flavorful style) to darker caramel/chocolate-tinged varieties. Examples: Newcastle Brown Ale (get it in cans, bottles in the US are lightstruck and taste crappier), Samuel Smith Nut Brown, Smuttynose Old Brown Dog Ale, Dogfish Head Indian Brown Stout/Porter: Stouts are dark/black beers made with roasted malt. They come in a variety of flavors, from the toasty-ish Guinness all the way to the intensely alcoholic Russian imperial stouts. Porters are closely related to stouts and tend to be a little easier on the alcohol. Like IPAs, this style is often home to races between nerdier craft breweries to see how original they can be with it -- stouts have been brewed with coffee, chocolate, oatmal, peanut butter, cookie dough, you name it. Beer nerds love this style and nearly all of the beers on Ratebeer.com's top 50 are imperial stouts. Examples: Guinness, Young's Double Chocolate Stout, Avery Out of Bounds, Bell's Kalamazoo Stout are all basics. On the extreme side there's Three Floyds Dark Lord, Jester King Black Metal, Goose Island Bourbon County Stout, Cigar City Hunahpu's, BrewDog Tokyo  etc.Sours/Belgians: An entire world of its own. Can be somewhat advanced beer-drinking, but it's totally worth it if you've got a curious palate. Look at the post below this for a full intro. Further reading  Books: Michael Jackson (no, not that one), who died in 2007, was an incredible writer/traveler and one of the pioneers of the craft beer renaissance. He wrote a ton of wonderful and approachable books about beer, including The Great Beers of Belgium and Michael Jackson's Great Beer Guide. Garrett Oliver, owner/brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery, wrote The Brewmaster's Table, a fantastic guide to how craft beer is made and how to pair it up with food for great results. More recently he edited The Oxford Companion to Beer, an encyclopedic yet very engaging volume containing everything you'd possibly want to know about the subject. There are several US magazines/newspapers on the subject, including (in no order) Beer Advocate, DRAFT, All About Beer, Beer, Ale Street News, Celebrator Beer News, and the assorted Brewing News regional newspapers. Websites: The two largest beer-rating websites are beeradvocate.com and ratebeer.com. Beeradvocate is larger and a good resource for looking up basic facts/ratings on any beer you can think of, but the forums are full of enraged beer nerds and the user reviews can often go into nonsensical geeky bullshit. Ratebeer offers a much better interface and also makes it a lot easier to look up locations and reviews of breweries/bars. Untappd is one of a number of beer-related social media sites. It's my favorite because it's fast, bare-bones and does exactly what I want it to do and no more. It has native iPhone and Android apps. There are tons and tons of beer blogs nowadays, and instead of recommending any particular one I suggest just googling "beer blog [name of city]" and the best local one will probably be up top. In CO, at least, Fermentedly Challenged is by far the best. Old beer thread (9/11 - 3/12?) Older beer thread (4/07 - 9/11) This post was brought to you by: Backcountry Breakfast Stout Pug Ryan's Funky Monk Belgian Ale Elysian Avatar Jasmine IPA One final note Don't drink and drive. I feel obliged to write about this a bit more because a friend got popped for DUI a bit ago after drinking a tremendous amount. He's lucky in that the worst he'll likely face is a fine, but DUI most often means probation, interlocking devices on your cars, suspended licenses, and so on -- and that's assuming you don't cause any damage/injury. Some states have mandatory prison terms if you blow over a certain amount. It's never worth it. If you do drink and drive, don't hit me. SUPER HASSLER fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Apr 28, 2013 |
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Lots of words about sour beers:quadrophrenic posted:Hey goons, Certified Cicerone and former brewing industry lackey quadrophrenic here, and I want to make an effortpost about my favorite family of beers, sour beers. SUPER HASSLER fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Mar 4, 2013 |
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The talk about Hopslam and other super IPAs aging really quickly has me curious as to how long an IPA can sit before it legitimately loses its hop and citrus character. Is there a rule of thumb?
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Mar 2, 2012 22:10
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Julio Cesar Fatass posted:The talk about Hopslam and other super IPAs aging really quickly has me curious as to how long an IPA can sit before it legitimately loses its hop and citrus character. Is there a rule of thumb? Good job on the OP, although I wish we could not classify PBR, Budweiser etc. as pilsners. It's a nerdy distinction, but I prefer the term "American adjunct lagers," which frankly describes what they are quite accurately since they have large proportions of corn/rice to reduce the body and taste to somewhere around nothing. Angry Grimace fucked around with this message at 22:35 on Mar 2, 2012 |
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Mar 2, 2012 22:24
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Lots of awful awful people on Ratebeer actually believe that Hopslam is total dogshit after a month.
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Mar 2, 2012 22:47
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I have a question about the price of locally brewed beers in the US. I live in the UK and I don't think I've ever paid more than £20 for a bottle of beer, a nice Belgian abbey beer would probably set me back this much. However recently I've been reading about beer trading and selling beers in the U.S. for upwards of $60. How long has this been happening? and am I missing out on some great new level of beers from the US, or is this similar to the locally brewed beers I can get here in the UK, only with a massive price tag? I've always been happy with the variety of beers and styles a can get here and around Europe. Just with the incredible prices of the beers in the US, I feel like I'm missing out on something, please set my mind at rest.
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Mar 2, 2012 22:54
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Owithey posted:I have a question about the price of locally brewed beers in the US. I live in the UK and I don't think I've ever paid more than £20 for a bottle of beer, a nice Belgian abbey beer would probably set me back this much. The most I've actually paid for a beer at a store was $23 for CCB/Bruery collaboration Marron Acidifie. What you're probably referring to is the secondary ebay market which can get out of hand pricewise pretty quickly if a beer is deemed a 'whale' Long story made short: No you're not missing out on anything. There are plenty of fair priced great American beers.
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The ridiculously priced beers in the States are usually artificially inflated due to scarcity and would rarely set you back more and $25US in a retail situation. The fact is that yes, there are some incredible things coming out of American breweries, but you can get just as many innovative and experimental beers from Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, and tons of other places. A lot of the beers that are fetching enormous fees on eBay are massive Russian Imperial Stouts or similarly large high ABV beers, some that have spent significant portions of their life in oak barrels of various types, and sometimes the brewers feel that they warrant a release day celebration. It's all very silly, really (though the release day festivities can be very fun).
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Well, that's good to hear at least. There are plenty of inventive beers around here and it's pretty easy to get the European beers as well. I just hope that trend isn't going towards beers with the same kind of pricing as wines, with a artificially inflated premium level of beer.
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Owithey posted:Well, that's good to hear at least. There are plenty of inventive beers around here and it's pretty easy to get the European beers as well. I just hope that trend isn't going towards beers with the same kind of pricing as wines, with a artificially inflated premium level of beer. The important thing to remember is that even though these expensive beers can be rare and special, there are unbelievable beers being brewed everywhere that are not being marketed into ridiculous scarcity and are nearly as good.
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bananasinpajamas posted:Lots of awful awful people on Ratebeer actually believe that Hopslam is total dogshit after a month. I actually prefer Hopslam after a month, a bit of the upfront burn it has relaxes just a bit by then.
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Stella Artois is doing another free chalice giveaway thing, this was also posted in Coupons but there's enough glass talk in here that I figure someone would be interested. Bonus, this time they are CUSTOM ENGRAVED!! so you can actually have your gaudy Stella glass say "Stella Sucks" and feel less terrible about yourself. Here's a link to the details. Basically just mail them a card with name, address, and age and I guess get a code in the mail from them to enter on the website. For real beer talk, the Wegmans near me is still working through leftover Celebration Ale and told me they wouldn't get Bigfoot until that was all gone  I think more than half their IPAs are at last 3 months old, and a ton of them are beyond the drink-by dates (if they have them). I might have to write in a complaint... again.
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Cross posting this from the old thread since it is pretty stupid to keep discussions going over there:Kudosx posted:Yep! That's the latest release, let us know how you like it. I've heard good things... Ya you guys have officially pre-hyped it (Maharajah) for me so I hope it lives up! You know, I actually almost didn't find it (it wasn't amongst the other Avery beers, but thats because they actually keep it cold while the rest are warm) and was about to pick up another sixer of the Brew Kettle's White Rajah. I can't thank you enough for that recommendation, I REALLY enjoyed it and it is easily one of my top 3 beers now.
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cool poo poo post tag
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Totally just heard a dude at the bar say "horse blanket" when explaining Belgian sours to his girlfriend. I'd shake his hand, but it'd be embarrassing for both of us.ShaneB posted:cool poo poo post tag This is the sort of thing that happens when the last post you made on SA was four years ago over on PI.
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SUPER HASSLER posted:Totally just heard a dude at the bar say "horse blanket" when explaining Belgian sours to his girlfriend. I'd shake his hand, but it'd be embarrassing for both of us. I'm just hatin' 
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SUPER HASSLER posted:Totally just heard a dude at the bar say "horse blanket" when explaining Belgian sours to his girlfriend. I'd shake his hand, but it'd be embarrassing for both of us. Did you at least ask how the lacing was?
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Mar 3, 2012 02:20
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lazerwolf posted:Did you at least ask how the lacing was? Is it quite as douchey to call it a sweaty taste? Because I do that and want to make sure its ok. It's almost Collette season!
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Mar 3, 2012 02:27
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SUPER HASSLER posted:Totally just heard a dude at the bar say "horse blanket" when explaining Belgian sours to his girlfriend. I'd shake his hand, but it'd be embarrassing for both of us. True story: right before I ran into you at Funkwerks the assistant brewer was talking about Crooked Stave's stuff and described brett as contributing "barnyard" and "horse blanket" character 
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Docjowles posted:True story: right before I ran into you at Funkwerks the assistant brewer was talking about Crooked Stave's stuff and described brett as contributing "barnyard" and "horse blanket" character I, finally, will bite, and ask what I know a number of people want to ask but won't. I didn't grow up on a farm or around a barn or stable or Mr. Hands. What the gently caress does a horse blanket smell like? And please don't say Band-Aids or something obtuse like that, give me something an ol' fashioned city boy would know.
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wattershed posted:I, finally, will bite, and ask what I know a number of people want to ask but won't. "Horse blanket" is a stupid loving term people made up. I can't really describe the actual smell since I'm very bad at these things, but go drink an Orval and then whenever you smell things that remind you of that beer, you'll be able to claim you detect horse blanket.
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RiggenBlaque posted:"Horse blanket" is a stupid loving term people made up. I can't really describe the actual smell since I'm very bad at these things, but go drink an Orval and then whenever you smell things that remind you of that beer, you'll be able to claim you detect horse blanket. When I first had an Orval (after reading Brewmaster's Table) I smelled it and immediately thought "ah, that's the horseblanket then, I can see that"
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Arnold of Soissons posted:When I first had an Orval (after reading Brewmaster's Table) I smelled it and immediately thought "ah, that's the horseblanket then, I can see that" Orval  so delicious.
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LeeMajors posted:It's almost Collette season! Great Divide pulled out of central VA last spring, but this is the first time it's really gonna bother me. had some Soft Dookie on tap this afternoon, i think that's my favorite Evil Twin beer (although i'd love to try the Taji Stout on tap). maybe not the most complex stout, but so rich, creamy, and chocolaty that it's hard not to love.
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Midwest beer goons, how many of you are planning on going to Dark Lord Day this year? So long as I get tickets, my wife, brother in law, father in law, and several friends and local homebrew club members are making the trek from Fort Wayne to Munster. Last year was awesome, and I hope the weather cooperates again this year. Anyone want to meet up and drink ridiculously awesome beer? I'd be down with trading, but if I am going to meetup with some other beer goons I say we break into our cellars and drink some ridiculous poo poo and make other people jealous. Here is my current cellar list I plan on bringing some bottle of Cantillon, Jolly Pumpkin, New Glarus, and some others that I need to open soon. I promise not to be a dick or spergelord, and drinking with goons is generally fun from past experience.
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RiggenBlaque posted:"Horse blanket" is a stupid loving term people made up.  To me, horse blanket reminds me of new leather and fresh hay and maybe a bit of sweat. Unfortunately that's not going to help you city slickers much, sorry. It's a lot of things that shouldn't be pleasant to taste, but somehow beers with that aroma end up ambrosia-like. A lot of times I hear descriptors like "gym sock" used for probably the same smells. I've been lobbying my local tasting group in an attempt to bring "jock strap" into general parlance; thus far I've met with limited success.
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Had DFH My Antonia last night. It was good, but not $16 good. Who prices these things? Really I just wanted to say the poo poo post tag is a blight on my control panel edit: oh it's fixed now
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Huge_Midget posted:Midwest beer goons, how many of you are planning on going to Dark Lord Day this year? So long as I get tickets, my wife, brother in law, father in law, and several friends and local homebrew club members are making the trek from Fort Wayne to Munster. Last year was awesome, and I hope the weather cooperates again this year. Anyone want to meet up and drink ridiculously awesome beer? I'd be down with trading, but if I am going to meetup with some other beer goons I say we break into our cellars and drink some ridiculous poo poo and make other people jealous. Here is my current cellar list I plan on bringing some bottle of Cantillon, Jolly Pumpkin, New Glarus, and some others that I need to open soon. I promise not to be a dick or spergelord, and drinking with goons is generally fun from past experience. After a few years of contemplating, and plans falling through, I think this year I'm going to try to make the trek for DLD. On my one visit to 3 Floyds, I wasn't particularly impressed, but the beer trading/tasting aspect of the event has me really interested. Guess I should start planning on booking a hotel room and such....
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Mr. Glass posted:Had DFH My Antonia last night. It was good, but not $16 good. Who prices these things? 16 sounds really expensive, did you have the Birra del Borgo version imported from Italy, or the DFH brewed version from the USA? The DFH version should retail at about 9 bucks a bottle, but the Birra del Borgo version isn't all that overpriced at 16.
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Horse blanket is more descriptively a spectrum of musk and leather. And really delicious. I prefer the term horse butt, really.SUPER HASSLER posted:It's an exciting time for beer fans, and if you're still a $2 PBR kind of person, now's the best time ever to start trying a few other things.
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deadwing posted:16 sounds really expensive, did you have the Birra del Borgo version imported from Italy, or the DFH brewed version from the USA? The DFH version should retail at about 9 bucks a bottle, but the Birra del Borgo version isn't all that overpriced at 16. It was definitely the DFH version. I was driving back from DC with the wife and we stopped at a beer store in Maryland; I probably was a little bit  at the selection even though the prices weren't all that great.gently caress Pennsylvania 
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SUPER HASSLER posted:Totally just heard a dude at the bar say "horse blanket" when explaining Belgian sours to his girlfriend. I'd shake his hand, but it'd be embarrassing for both of us. Does anybody else get a "cat urine" smell when drinking certain sours? I'm being 100% serious. Huge_Midget posted:Midwest beer goons, how many of you are planning on going to Dark Lord Day this year? So long as I get tickets, my wife, brother in law, father in law, and several friends and local homebrew club members are making the trek from Fort Wayne to Munster. Last year was awesome, and I hope the weather cooperates again this year. Anyone want to meet up and drink ridiculously awesome beer? I'd be down with trading, but if I am going to meetup with some other beer goons I say we break into our cellars and drink some ridiculous poo poo and make other people jealous. Here is my current cellar list I plan on bringing some bottle of Cantillon, Jolly Pumpkin, New Glarus, and some others that I need to open soon. I promise not to be a dick or spergelord, and drinking with goons is generally fun from past experience. Assuming I can get tickets, I'm definitely going and I'd be more than happy to drink all your Cantillon and New Glarus. Corb3t fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Mar 3, 2012 |
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Corbet posted:Does anybody else get a "cat urine" smell when drinking certain sours? I'm being 100% serious. Not impossible. Biochemistry can be pretty weird.
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Corbet posted:Does anybody else get a "cat urine" smell when drinking certain sours? I'm being 100% serious. something my girlfriend was drinking the other day smelled remarkably like cat piss, but i didn't say anything because she was enjoying it. can't remember what it was; i wasn't interested in drinking it, myself.
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Corbet posted:Does anybody else get a "cat urine" smell when drinking certain sours? I'm being 100% serious. I definitely get cat urine whenever I drink something that's got Simcoe hops in it, I think that might be common though cause one of my friends who doesn't drink much beer but has had cats all his life picked it out pretty instantly.
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dumptruckzzz posted:I definitely get cat urine whenever I drink something that's got Simcoe hops in it, I think that might be common though cause one of my friends who doesn't drink much beer but has had cats all his life picked it out pretty instantly. Yeah, I definitely get the cat piss aroma from beers heavy on the Simcoe hops. I think it's one of those things that only some people are sensitive to, like Summit hops smelling like green onions, or amarillo hops tasting like aspirin. I haven't gotten cat piss from a sour beer before, though. Lots of other nasty stuff, but not that.
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Mar 3, 2012 06:05
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I was way too happy to finally get my hands on a six pack of Sam Adam's Noble Pils. For all the talk RIS, and IIPA/DIPA/whateverIPA, and Sours get (rightfully so I guess), there is beauty in a well made Pilsner. Now, I just need to get to Plzen.
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Mar 3, 2012 06:17
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Perfectly Cromulent posted:Yeah, I definitely get the cat piss aroma from beers heavy on the Simcoe hops. I think it's one of those things that only some people are sensitive to, like Summit hops smelling like green onions, or amarillo hops tasting like aspirin. Citra hops can also give off a cat urine smell. I tried an experimental IPA from Thirsty Dog that wasn't ready for the public because they're still fussing with the recipe, and it smelled 100% like cat piss. It tasted pretty good, but the smell was rather off-putting.
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Mar 3, 2012 08:08
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funkybottoms posted:something my girlfriend was drinking the other day smelled remarkably like cat piss, but i didn't say anything because she was enjoying it. can't remember what it was; i wasn't interested in drinking it, myself. I had a beer once that smelled like dog biscuits, so that's certainly not out of the question. Also, never buy this poo poo. Please.
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Darth Goku Jr posted:I was way too happy to finally get my hands on a six pack of Sam Adam's Noble Pils. For all the talk RIS, and IIPA/DIPA/whateverIPA, and Sours get (rightfully so I guess), there is beauty in a well made Pilsner. Now, I just need to get to Plzen. Is that out again? I thought they discontinued it for Alpine Spring, which is actually really good but pissed me off because I had Noble Pils all of once and kept missing it since spring is apparently late January through mid-march now.
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