Me in Reverse posted:

Snitching is just fine when people are abusing things like this. You could have had one of that guy's memberships if he wasn't a shithead. It's in direct violation of CCB's rules, even though he's 'found a loophole'.. lovely behavior shouldn't be allowed.

Rapman the Cook posted:

The Little Creatures IPA, a "local" beer, is very nice, and Im glad they have put this on as a regular release beer. Its very sessional like most of their beers, and still very hoppy but always more towards the flowery side than the bitter/pine/etc. Has as good body that Im still working out what to say about - malty like an aussie beer?. It does have a nice hit of grapefruit/pine bitterness. Its more of an initial hit and its decent, it stays very on the front of your tongue and fades quite fast to the back and lingers a little. The worst part, and why i said "local", is this has had awful distro in its home state...very depressing.

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Loonytoad Quack posted:

Yeah exactly, it's never going to be a daily drinker, but as a one-off thing for a special treat I'll take the plunge once. To be fair Ruination sells here for £4.50, is never anywhere near as fresh as this and comes in a bottle not far off half the size, and I still buy that every now and then.

I really just want to see how it compares with the super fresh IPAs the UK brewers are pushing out - Bristol Beer Factory did an Un/Limited Double IPA that had the date plastered all over the front and was clearly an attempt at an Enjoy By thing so I really want to see how it stands up to stuff like that and some of the Kernel stuff.

Even having said all that I have to say the price still stings a bit, but I've spent money on stupider poo poo so what the hey.

Loonytoad Quack posted:

If you want cases of beer from a single brewer EeBria is about as good as it gets - they dropship directly from the brewery, I've had Buxton beer from them that was bottled the same day it shipped!

I subscribed for 3 months to their Discovery Case and so far the selection has been awesome, so if you're after a random mixed selection that might be the way to go. If you go for that I have a 15% off your first order code on the tasting notes from this month's selection.

Loonytoad Quack posted:

I'm in the South West, in Gloucestershire. I'm less than an hour away from Bristol too which is like a beer Mecca frankly, craft beer bars and breweries popping up on what seems like a weekly basis. If you're ever down this way give me a shout and I'll show you some of the good pubs!

Fluo posted:

This is a solid list, but I'd like to also add Dark Star (mainly for their Espresso and also Hophead which is only 3.8% but it's a great session beer which you need sometimes when spending hours at a pub with your mates) and New Bristol Brewery, their Super Deluxe Stout is just amazing all round. Caramalt, crystal, chocolate malt, Munich, roasted barley, oats, wheat, milk sugar, East Kent Goldings then in the cask vanilla pods and cold extracted/pressed coffee.

XxGirlKisserxX posted:

I pissed off some locals on BeerAdvocate because I essentially made fun of them for wanting to camp out for El Catador Club signups on Sunday. They don't trust us because of the Hunahpu's Day fiasco, yet they're going to camp out for our beer?

"gently caress CCB, they lied about Hunahpu's Day and hosed everyone over. Oh this tent? I'm going to camp out in the shady parking lot across the street from CCB so I can purchase bottles of beer that don't exist."

Beer geeks are the worst

pantsfree posted:

I'd also add Beavertown to this list. Gamma Ray is a fantastic pale ale (especially for £2 a can), and they have some excellent stouts and porters.
Moor in Bristol also have some lovely cask ales.

Perfectly Cromulent posted:

That's funny. This sort of behavior has nothing to do with a lack of good beer.

Loonytoad Quack posted:

I thought I'd put Moor on there (Hoppiness is probably the best cask beer I've had in years) and Beavertown definitely deserve a spot but I forgot about them. Their new cans and bottles have some of the best art going too.

dphi posted:

I've now had 3 different beers with rhubarb in them in the past 2 days.

Bundt Cake posted:

OK so for my honeymoon I might get to go to Belgium for a week (or two, Im trying not to contemplate the possibility because i feel that I am already at the maximum excitement level). My goal is to drink a large number of beers, both in terms of different beers and in total. Has anyone gone? Help me drink beer in another country

Y-Hat posted:

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/18-overrated-beers-1609092735

A mix of macros and craft brews on this list, but here's something that caught my eye:

Throwin some shade.

Wamsutta posted:

I don't think it's fair to put Abita in with Magic Hat. Abita isn't amazing, but I haven't had anything from them that's just plain bad.

I am also partial to Abita because I drank a couple of Ambers with Clarke Peters, who played Lester Freamon on "The Wire", when I was in the French Quarter. This is for sure a humble-brag because that guy rules.

saints gambit posted:

I feel like people don't take the English breweries seriously because of the way in which it is difficult to standardize the experience due to cask service. I was at the first London Craft Beer Festival and there's some truly interesting craft beer. Siren was great. If you can get their Oatmeal Stout, it's fantastic. I liked Magic Rock and Partizan and the new school stuff. The odd thing was that even though they clearly have ability to keg and filter these North American craft style beers to make them consistent and manageable, they persist in trying to make casks try to drop bright despite the dry hopping and unfriendly yeast strains.

What you end up with are some incredibly tasty beers that are really ugly. My Yorkshire friends refer to it as "London Murky" and complain that everything tastes like Grapefruit. They're not wrong. Still, if you get people like Thornbridge or Darkstar or even Crate in Hackney who can prime the casks right, they're adopting old techniques to new ideas and it's really exciting.

Ideally, in craft beer generally, we end up in a situation where all styles continue to exist without being pushed out of the market via prejudice and everything increases in quality. London struck me as being in a weird middle ground where the CAMRA folks hate some of the innovation and the innovative folks lack the respect for the older technique. I hope to check in in about three years and see how it went.

No_talent posted:

When I was in Ireland last year, tons of people were drinking MGD. I thought it was reeealy odd to see 7 Euro pints of MGD on pretty much every table in every bar I went to.

Loonytoad Quack posted:

I'm going to start sounding like a shill, but if you're one of the half-dozen UK beer people who post here, you have to consider taking a look at EeBria's Discovery Case thing.

My second month's one just turned up and it's even better than the last one I raved about. Look at this poo poo!



You even get some funky little tasting notes:



It's not cheap but if you get the 3-month option and use the 15% off code it works out about £2.54/bottle which delivered I don't think is bad at all, and some of the bottles are less than 2 weeks old. And 'dat selection.

Compusaurus posted:

Beer nerds are the worst. Taken about 1.5 hours ago for the NG release.

funkybottoms posted:

but is it $18 per six-pack good?

Podima posted:

Ah, the authentic CT experience during rush hour! Glad to hear you made it to NEBCO though, did they have the latest Fat Ten-er on tap? (#9 - a "Belgian table beer" - sounds interesting)

Kaiho posted:

Far Skyline is loving banging, as is Brew By Numbers 04/01 Berliner.



edit:

I run a beer shop in London, UK. I have a good relationship with a guy who travels for business out of Raleigh, NC quite often. We trade beer. What are locally-available beers I should get him to bring me? I've managed to score Heady Topper and Prairie BOMB off him, which I thought were quite good finds, but I'm starting to flag a little on my knowledge of what to ask for. I've really loved all the Wicked Weed stuff he's brought over too.

Kaiho posted:

I'm a bit leery about posting exact details online given anonymous hahaha but it's run as part of a young but rapidly-expanding brewery with a load of bars across the UK and some internationally. Make of that what you will. Or check my post history.

Fluo posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-tl4Km1l7E&t=75s

krustster posted:

I tried/blasted a couple of interesting tapes/beers last night.

De Molen Hel & Verdoemenis: A really, really good bourbon barrel stout, which we didn't expect since it's from the Netherlands and just says "Ale" on the label (didn't research ahead of time). It had a lot of dark/milk chocolate action going on with the bourbon. Too bad it was like $14 for a 11.2 oz bottle.

Fluo posted:

It must be a transport issue I guess, I don't know what import prices are (they get kind of silly both ends of the pond, seen Alesmith Speedway Stout for £28 a bottle here before ) but I found the same issue with American beers coming to the UK, the hoppy ones are alot more obvious though.

HatfulOfHollow posted:

Was the JW Lees fresh? I haven't had one recently, but most of what I've tasted have all had a few years on them and they've all been great. I had a 9 year aged calvados barrel JW Lees a few years ago at Monk's that was absolutely divine. And I'm sitting on a 2010 and a 2011 that I'll probably hold onto a bit longer.

But I agree with the english barleywine love. I'll also take all of your Old Ales while we're on the subject of sweet boozy syrupy brews.

KiteAuraan posted:

Tried the Boon Oude Geuze tonight. It was a good geuze, not the best I've had, but pretty darn good regardless. All the usual flavors were their, even if it was fairly standard overall. Can't beat it at $7 a bottle though.

Related to geuze, is the Drie Fonteinen Doesjel worth getting at $20 a bottle? That's what my local place wants and I would like to try it since I love their standard geuze.

MunchE posted:

I don't have high expectations of BrewDog in general but I actually quite liked Tokio

KiteAuraan posted:

I can never find BrewDog here that's not their IPA. And a year old. That tells me something.

Loonytoad Quack posted:

I've drunk a lot of Brewdog and a lot of (very expensive in comparison) American beer, and Brewdog's good stuff is easily up there with the best of the US stuff. I'm sure after it's sat on a boat for 12 weeks then takes another few months to make its way through the ludicrous distribution systems you guys have that it's well past its best, but it's totally unfair to say it's poo poo.

Yeah they're brash, but they're slowly growing up, the absolute poo poo they used to write on the side of their bottles has gone, the new labels are quite classy (albeit boring), they have a fund used to support up and coming craft brewers and they're the UK's only national brewer who pay all staff a living wage. Plus, honestly, without them the UK craft beer explosion wouldn't be anywhere near as far along as it is today - the idea of getting a sour or an imperial stout in a UK bar before Brewdog turned up was just unheard of.

It winds me up the hate they get on here when there are companies like Stone who are worse in almost every way yet don't get 1/10th of the BD hate.

internet celebrity posted:

Dogfish Head actually makes outstanding beer though. Granted I'm in the US but everything I've had from Brewdog has been fair to okay. They don't have anything near as good as 60/90 minute, Festina Peace, My Antonia, etc.

The only real problem I have with Dogfish Head is their legal department.