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So I just found out that my local liquor store a) keeps the good beer in the back to be asked after, and b) had two six-packs of Nugget Nectar left. Hell yes. Now I can trade one bottle of this for all the whales my heart could desire! No I will not actually do this.
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funkybottoms posted:i don't mean this as a criticism of you, but why are people going crazy over Nugget Nectar this year? i don't recall it being that special of a release the past couple years and it's always been fairly easy to find in VA. No worries! It's been pretty hard to find in my part of Central Jersey, and I've been hearing a lot of good things about it, so it was mostly excitement over finding it AND finding out how to get some cool stuff at my local store that I didn't know existed.  (I can confirm what lazerwolf said too, the beer dude at my store mentioned that he was trying to get in on Troegs' second batch of NN. I'm assuming it's just the first batch that people are going berserk over, and things will calm down when the second wave hits.)
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Two crazy different beers to talk about tonight! First, Older Viscosity from Port Brewery. Holy crap, this is a hell of a beer. Both times I've seen it, it's been $20 for a 12oz bottle. A friend and I split a bottle, and it is an amazing sipping beer - thick and rich and full of flavors and warming-ness. Second, Sorachi Ace from Brooklyn Brewery. It's a pretty good saison (sharper than I was expecting), but for some reason it absolutely hits me with that 'holy poo poo this smells exactly like pot' like nothing else I've encountered before. I've seen it talked about in this thread, but it's wacky to encounter for myself! I need to pick up a six-pack of Troegs Hopback Amber Ale tomorrow, I've heard it talked about a lot and I need something to cleanse my palate before the insanity that will be St. Patrick's Day.
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It's just completely fascinating to me how everyone reacts differently to the various hop smells in beer - I have a pretty strong sense of smell (compensation for being deaf, wahey) so I figure that's part of it besides the whole palate thing.
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Kudosx/TenaciousTomato posted:saisons I would heartily recommend the Bruery's saisons if you can get them in your area, they're great! I also like Sorachi Ace as I mentioned earlier in this thread. Triumph in New Hope, PA just finally got rid of its rauschbier in lieu of its Alstadt Lager, great stuff. Was there last night, and the place is awesome as always. For any goons in the area, their trivia nights are 8:00 Thursdays and are a good time all around. RiggenBlaque posted:beer in CT There is an insanely good bottle shop next to the Trader Joe's in Orange that has a MASSIVE selection of singles and various craft brews. I picked up a 2006 barleywine there that absolutely blew my mind. I can't remember the name of the place, but it's right on Old/Boston Post Road. And obviously keep in mind they don't sell alcohol on Sundays in the state still, though I hear that there's yet another attempt to get that changed. Time will tell! vvvv I can confirm that this year's OG is really quite good and doesn't need aging to be drinkable at all. Podima fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Mar 23, 2012 |
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Mar 23, 2012 15:53
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Midorka posted:Deviant Dale's finally came to New Jersey and I picked up a 4 pack for $15 after tax. I'm not sure I'm a fan of this, it's a solid beer showcasing a nice bitter blend of citrus and pine, but I wish the malts were a bit more present. I have a Palate Wrecker as well, but I'm going to save that for another night. Loving Deviant Dale's, quite honestly! I'm on my second tallboy in 2 days, and it just continues to impress. I also got a bottle of Southern Tier Unearthly, and I'm not too fond of it in retrospect - felt overly syrupy/sweet.
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Apr 7, 2012 05:49
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My dad keeping a well-stocked fridge (mostly Newcastle and Stone stuff, but still) and being very encouraging. Also  to La Fin Du Monde, I have a bomber of that in my new beer fridge right this second. Mindblowingly good.Another question - how do you all mark your cellared beers with years and stuff of when you got them? I know some beers have dates printed on them, but not every brewery does that.
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Apr 8, 2012 22:36
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Chill_Bebop posted:Getting in to craft beer was as much a part of my childhood as it was my adult life. I live right up the road from Pizza Port Solana Beach, which was the epicenter of San Diego craft beer. for Pizza Port - my mom lives down the road from the Carlsbad one, and my dad lives right by the Solana Beach one. And of course I didn't realize it was any good until I had moved to New Jersey.  Next time I go back home to visit, I will definitely be stopping there.Incidentally, I may have mentioned this already but if anyone in the NJ/PA area is not already planning on going to the Washington Crossing Brewfest this year, you really should. They have a great list of breweries showing up this year - check it out here and here.
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Apr 10, 2012 00:03
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 Founders Double Trouble is out here!  Picked up a four pack and am drinking the first one now... delicious and incredibly drinkable (yikes, 9.4%?) IPA with a bit of sweetness. Almost reminds me of Nugget Nectar, for some reason.And yes, it's in a Newcastle glass on a Delirium Tremens coaster. 
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Apr 12, 2012 00:56
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Question for the combined expertise of the beer thread: I have a bottle of DFH 75 minute that I'm considering saving till May 5th for my buddy's birthday. Would this be long enough to mess with the flavor, do you think? (yes, yes, I know, DFH is the devil, etc, but looking for insight on how beers age)
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Apr 20, 2012 19:42
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wattershed posted:Apropos of nothing, they're apparently putting a Stone retail store in Oceanside, much more convenient for a lot of the coastal Orange County goons. Holy poo poo, that would put it right in the territory for me to hit them up when I'm visiting my mom. Details?
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Apr 22, 2012 04:10
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That thing looks awesome!  What are some other cool growlers people have found out there, anyhow?
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Apr 27, 2012 22:36
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Aopeth posted:Just a heads up for everyone: Russian River's Damnation is up on Let's Pour  Popped open my Sucaba tonight, this stuff is delicious and I can't wait to see what my second bottle tastes like in a couple of years! Lots of subtle smoothness to it, with a faint hint of chocolate and coffee. Amazing stuff. (I always feel like such a dumbass when attempting to qualify what the beer flavors taste like to me beyond 'delicious' so forgive my boring description)  (there is just no good background for beer pictures on my desk) Podima fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Apr 29, 2012 |
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Apr 29, 2012 00:52
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Drinking DFH's Saison Du Buff. It's like drinking my grandmother's herb garden, but in a good way!
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May 10, 2012 00:29
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Picked up some Stone RIS and Cali-Belgique today at my store, looking forward to trying those out. I also grabbed a four-pack of Sixpoint Apollo on a whim, and I've noticed that there are a few other Sixpoint four-packs available at my store: Bengali Tiger at the least, and I don't remember the other two. Any recommendations or 'stay the hell away' for their beers? Last but not least, my store was graced with some Voodoo Doughnut Maple Bacon Ale... The beer manager brought it out from the back, and my instant reaction was "Yeah, I'll pass on THAT one." His response was something along the lines of "That's the right choice."
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May 16, 2012 23:18
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escape artist posted:I'm sure it would probably be a drain-pour, but I don't know if I could resist at least trying it once. Yeah I'm honestly probably gonna go back tomorrow and get a bottle, just to split with my beer friends for shits and giggles. Plus the beer manager mentioned they had an anniversary ale in that never managed to make it into my hands, so oops?
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May 17, 2012 01:51
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FreelanceSocialist posted:Just got back from an Allagash Tap Takeover... well, actually a sneak-peak of one since it doesn't start till later today. Tried the bourbon barrel aged Black - not bad, a little more bite than normal with some nice vanilla notes. Also had Old HRT (which I think should stand for "Honestly, Really Tasty."), Saison Mihm (was like juniper bubblegum), and Big Little Beer. BLB was different from the last time I had it - this one was a belgian IPA hop-bomb. Really unusual for Allagash, but very good. Rogue Voodoo Doughnut 
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May 19, 2012 18:25
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Munkaboo posted:So are there 2 CCB goons now? Nah, CYBER SLIMER is bananasinpajamas with a rename.
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May 25, 2012 04:11
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Angry Grimace posted:I've been to weddings that didn't have anything and/or kegs of Miller Lite. Blue Moon isn't even that bad. My buddy is getting married AT Stoudt's brewery next year. http://www.stoudtsbeer.com/ He and his fiance are my usual drinking partners, and they went all out to make sure that good beer was an integral part of their wedding. (They just met with a potential wedding photographer yesterday, and when the photographer picked Victory as the spot to meet up and discuss details, it was an instant point in their favor)
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bartolimu posted:I'm at Pizza Port Carlsbad and am phoneposting to confirm my Beer Nerd status because I have to talk about what I'm having right now: Port Brewing Poor Vato. DIPA on nitro. It's like orange sherbet on a pinewood spoon being forcefully inserted into my nasal cavities. Holy poo poo is this an awesome beer. I grew up right down the road (quite literally right down Carlsbad Village Drive) and only found out about Pizza Port being awesome after I moved to New Jersey. I'll be visiting it at the end of this month for the first time when I go home to "visit family." Will report results.
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As an addendum to my earlier whine about East Coast vs. West Coast beer, my birthday's coming up, and I'm gonna ask my dad to send me some beer from Southern CA. Any tips on what kind of stuff to ask for? He has access to pretty much whatever down there that doesn't require going too far afield of the general San Diego area and north (Solana Beach specifically), and I'm out in New Jersey. I already plan to ask him for some Port Brewery, Bruery, and other than that I'm open to suggestions. Thanks in advance!
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Sirotan posted:Aww yeah I did. The Yuengling can just chilling next to all that stuff cracks me up.
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Captain Shortbus posted:So, about the Delirium series, is there a major difference between the two? Is one markedly better? I might just buy both though, because awesome baby Fantasia elepants. I would start with Tremens and see how you like it, I fee like it's a better representative of what you're getting if you buy either one.
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Angry Grimace posted:Victory at Sea isn't in season right now, though. It's a winter seasonal, although they make a lot of it so its not hard to get. However, pretty much any old stock sold out months ago, so you'll have to wait on that one. I bought like 2 cases of it last year and still have about 7 of them in my refrigerator. I might crack one one of these days. I quite literally just came home from the liquor store today with a bottle of this. The only numbering on the bottle is on the neck: code:
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Angry Grimace posted:It means batch 16. That is the last batch they did, bottled sometime around December/January. Thanks for the help! I'll have to see how it held up.  I'm guessing this was just a case of 'had a bottle leftover in the back of a deep shelf.' This particular liquor store (Super Saver Liquor on Route 22, for any central Jersey beergoons) is kind of notorious for having that happen - their beer aisle is crammed FULL and very deep, often with cases of beer hiding parts of the shelves. Kind of a pain in the rear end, but they're one of the better stores in the area that isn't a hassle to get to.
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Just found out about this site today: http://www.beerjobber.com/ Looks interesting, but there don't seem to be that many recognizable breweries from where I'm sitting - seems to be more geared towards smaller breweries that might not distribute as far. You folks should check it out!
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For anyone who's had the Dos Costas Oeste beers from Cigar City (we have a CCB goon here, right? bananasinpajamas?) would you recommend them? A buddy of mine saw that a store by his folks' has all three varieties - lemon, grapefruit, and cedar wood aged, but it'll be at around $20 a pop. I wanted to check with the folks here before telling him to drop that much money, especially since the BeerAdvocate reviews seem to indicate some infection/bottling issues.
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Aug 19, 2012 01:49
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Ugh, god. Great Divide Rumble. Like drinking wood, and not in the good way either. My girlfriend, upon tasting it, described it as "that taste you get in your mouth when you're little and fall down hard enough in the playground to get wood chips in your mouth." Vile!
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XxGirlKisserxX posted:We tapped a keg of the cedar Dos Costas last week and it was sour as gently caress. And completely delicious. We've had reports of exploding bottles of all 3 variations. Basically it's infected all to hell but tastes awesome now so I really wish I had remembered reading this two weeks ago before I opened the grapefruit variation on my desk tonight. Oops. Not as sour as you describe the cedar one, but still very lively and citrusy! It's a nice chance to get at least a little taste of CCB stuff, since I have yet to see anything by you guys in Jersey. 
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Going to be in Dayton, OH this weekend for a wedding, and I'll be in Dayton proper with a car for Thursday night and all of Friday. Any suggestions on stuff to pick up there that I might not get in Jersey, archaic liquor laws to watch out for (I did see they have a 12% ABV cap on beer  ), or particularly good stores/bars to visit?
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Midorka posted:So my girlfriend wants to go to see the cake boss bakery in Hoboken, New Jersey. I know there are some good breweries and brewpubs up north, what is near Hoboken? Guidos. But no, I'm interested in hearing about this as well.Content: I cracked open the Hoppin' Frog Saison IPA the other day with friends, and just got a lot of overwhelming sweetness in the end. Not that exciting! We have discovered, though, that just about any pumpkin beer can be improved by mixing it with cinnamon schnapps. I recommend Great Balls of Fire if you can get it in your area.
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If you're sitting on a bottle of Stone 16th Anniversary IPA, I'd recommend moving it into the 'age for kicks and see what happens' pile. I opened a bottle last night that had been in the fridge for a couple of weeks, and was really disappointed - the hops had fallen out of it, and the lemon was turning astringent. Not a pleasant experience, which is too bad since Stone 15th was still good even almost a year later when I had it.
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I was hoping New Jersey would have calmed down enough from the first release that I'd be able to get it in bottles this time, but so far looking like nope. Bolt Cutter similarly vanished from shelves in a matter of hours, frustratingly, and I have yet to see Brown Shugga.
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Sirotan posted:Do you want some Bolt Cutter? We have tons here. I'm about to go buy a bottle for another goon, I'll ship you some at cost if you let me know soonish so I don't have to make a second trip. I will absolutely take you up on this. I'll buy Plat today and we can take this to PM. Hope it's not too late, and thank you! I have friends out here who would love some, so if you could pick up one I will happily take it. Podima fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Nov 21, 2012 |
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Thanks again, Sirotan, even if I am bit of an idiot sometimes! In beer news: Brown Shugga is dangerous to drink unawares, that stuff does NOT taste like its ABV. I've got some Celebration in the fridge ready to go for today, but out of curiosty, what style of beer would goons recommend pairing with Thanksgiving meals?
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There are two different styles of barleywines - American barleywines, which are hoppier, and English barleywines, which are smoother/less bitter. Brown Shugga is the former, but there are many great examples of the latter that you should definitely try out. Check this list out to get an idea of what you might be able to find in your area: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/style/152 I know that Weyerbacher is readily available here, and Blithering Idiot is not terrible. Sucaba is just GREAT though, if you see that I highly recommend snagging it. e:f;b
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Captain Shortbus posted:Thanks to both of you. Seems the beer world is never deficient of intricacies. The Brown Shugga got easier to drink the more I had (ABV?) but the exploration is part of the fun. Glad to try new stuff/styles. Glad you enjoyed it! I find that when you're drinking hoppy beers, that first initial sip of bitter can really put you off if you're not expecting it and it's what turns a lot of people away from IPAs after being given a taste by a friend/family member. (Also it was probably the ABV for Brown Shugga, that stuff is insidious)
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Midorka posted:Not that many people know of River Horse, nor would most people here consider drinking their beers if they came to their area, but I have to say avoid any Belgian beer they make. I'm guessing they have no idea how fermentation temps work, or have no temperature control and always ferment too high, but all of their Belgian beers are loving banana liquor tasting bombs. Absolutely gross, I drain poured their Tripel last night and did the same with their Belgian Freeze a week ago. Arnold of Soissons posted:that's odd, as I recall the Freeze was the only thing they made that I thought was decent enough to have a second time. My best friends live in Lambertville/New Hope, so this discussion is somewhat relevant to my interests, given that I'm out drinking there at least 1 weekend of every month.  River Horse - Agreed that their tasting room is small and cramped as hell but I give them credit for the fact that it is consistently still to overflowing. Also their tasting pours are like 2 oz for $1, not sure where you got the whole 'regular bar price pours' thing from. I have the same banana issue as Midorka does with their Tripel, and everyone thinks I'm crazy for it. Go figure. I'm actually going to be at their stout release party this coming Saturday, because what the hell, it's cheap and they throw good parties. But of course it's not that awesome to visit normally, it's a working (and highly overtaxed) brewery with a tiny tasting room so people don't walk away disappointed. (also they probably can't sell bottles for cheaper than market price because of distributor laws or something, I remember they couldn't start selling bottles of their new release till after their distributors had it in NJ) Triumph - I wish I liked their beers a bit more than I did. When I started drinking beer I thought this place was the poo poo and was getting a growler of whatever at every opportunity. Lately I've cooled off a bit towards them, but the main advantage of that place is that they have enough variety in their beer that I can generally find something I like. Overall this place is a great choice for food and trying lots of good beer, if you're in the New Hope area check it out.  about New Hope/Lambertville, holy crap.
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For those of you in this thread from the CT area - my girlfriend wants to find some beers in the NJ area as a present for her cousin. Any suggestions on what you don't typically see up that way in stores that I might be able to find in central Jersey?
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Kudosx posted:Here's a great site that will tell you what is distributed in NJ that doesn't make its way to CT. http://www.seekabrew.com/distro/index.html This is AMAZING, thank you! Looks like we'll be getting him a couple of Bruery bottles.
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