Beer in the new era

yes!!!!!!!!!!!

So I'm doing this thing where I drink the whole beer list from my neighborhood bar. It's going to make me drink a lot of beers that I normally wouldn't even think to order. Like porters, because I hate porters. Here's what I've had so far:

Stone IPA
3 Floyds Gumballhead
Lefthand Milk Stout
Two Brothers Domaine Dupage
Great Lakes Dortmumder Gold
Tyranena Rocky's Revenge
Dark Horse Reserve Special
O'Fallon Smoke

I started with my favorites but quickly realized that I need to get the unfamiliar ones out of the way first. Actually like the porter, which is surprising. The Tyranena is a brown ale that was really good and a style I don't normally like.

Add Metropolitan Flywheel Lager to the list. Too light and fluffy though.

lately... coors, bud. in 16 and 24 oz cans. dark times.

Cool project, Jeff. I should try that!

Currently enjoying a BridgePort IPA. Solid if unspectacular.

i always want to send ian $20 in the mail when he posts like that

you can paypal me, harbl! ;) it's not that i don't have money actually, i just spend it on food and weed and records and so lately i have been trying to keep the beer budget low.

For some reason I really am not a fan of Bridgeport's IPA - it tastes like the homebrews I've made which isn't a good thing.

Still drinking the list at my local:

New Holland The Poet
Founder's Red's
New Holland Dragon's Milk

All good! Surprised by the poet since I don't normally like oatmeal stouts.

Finally tried Founders Breakfast Stout. Was enjoying it until someone I was with had a sip and said it tasted like soy sauce.

Also, what do you consider yr local, Jeff? Delilah's?

Dmk burger bar. Because they got this drink the list thing, I'm here like every other night.

Turn anything into a game/competition and I'm hooked.

Ha. I think Sheffield's has something like that, too. Anyway, we should hang out there sometime. I loved their salmon burger.

(DMK, that is.)

A byproduct of drinking the beer list is that I'm most likely going to end up eating the burger list as well. Somehow that seems less glorious.

Let me know when you want to go.

Oh no, not in my home bar!!!

Green Flash Le Freak. Tasty, potentially deadly.

North Coast Pranqster. Drinkable. Tasty.

Wow, I suck at describing beer. Especially while actively drinking beer. Just try everything.

I had a Le Freak a few days ago. Will drink again.

the winters are out around my town....time to retreat to shit beer for the winter.

Been drinking a ton of Rogue John John Ale. Like an Arnold Palmer for alcoholics.

http://www.rogue.com/images/misc/john-john-diagram-large.jpg

like the diagram!

you know what? franziskaner dunkel can eat my shorts. that shit is way too sweet.

i dunno what i was thinking. i almost never like wheat beers. but i had a trappist thing that i liked and thought i might be ready to branch out. i was not.

I had the Stone Vertical Epic 10.10.10 and the Sierra Nevada Estate Harvest Ale last night.

The Vertical Epic was a Belgian trippel, with some botanical additives. 9.2%!!! Belgians are not usually my thing, but this was pretty great.

The Estate Harvest Ale might have been the best beer I've ever had. Wonderful hop/malt balance, full and well-crafted flavors, and a wonderful effervescence.

Will go back and get another of the Estate this evening. So good.

anyone tried Gordon's from Oskar Blues? a "double-red ale" ... I got a growler of it last week and polished it off probably too quickly. kind of pricey though, one of those $11 for a 4 pack beers.

gonna have to seek out that Sierra!

Its that good. Get thee some if you can.

anyone tried Gordon's from Oskar Blues?

I've had the Gordon and liked it, but the Old Chubb from them is good too and much more reasonably priced ($9 for a 6-pack at BevMo), so it gets my money.

Just had a Vertical Epic recently and liked it. Gonna try the Harvest Ale.

been on a brooklyn black chocolat stout kick, no lie.
but right now i am drinking a 24 oz can of Genesee Cream Ale.

my wife speaks longingly of brooklyn brews, i don't think i've ever had a single one. : /

Man my uncle (of upstate NY stock, now living in VT) LOVES Genesee. loves it.

Brooklyn beers I can take or leave. They're good and all, but I think the distributor here in Chicago must charge a lot because they always seem overpriced in the stores.

one reason i miss chicago is that the area just seems to get a lot of beer from everywhere and even the divier sports bars have excellent brews on tap. and binny's is just O_O

Yeah I was at the Binny's formerly known as Sam's on Saturday, could have spent my entire paycheck. I got a 12er of Summit Extra Pale to take to a Halloween party with ilxors.

that sierra nevada sounds nice. gonna look for that tonight.

I am not a huge Bells fan but holy shit Bell's Quinannan Falls Lager

I think I am in love

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/287/58981

Oh man, haven't seen that one yet. Although I did see a large, Bell's branded delivery truck/trailer the other day, that was a first.

I am completely in love with Six Point beers lately. Red Hook Bait and Tackle has something on tap right now called Sweet Reaction (the bartender said it was "what they made before sweet action" and didn't know anything else) -- so delicious. I also kind of like the fact that it's not in bottles at all - makes it more exciting to get it when you go out.

I also kind of wonder whether the local-ness of the brewery just leads to more consistently fresh beer.

i love the whole can revival for good beer idea. had a few of the oskar blues and i like but don't quite love 'em. old chub was a little sweet for me. i like their little yellow pilsner, though.
was in Chico last weekend and my bro-in-law gifted us an estate harvest - trying to wait for some kind of special occasion; or maybe just the weekend.
got a sixer of Lagunitas Brown Shuggah (9.9%) yesterday. now that i think about it it may be on the sweet-ish side like old chub; but i still likes

I also kind of wonder whether the local-ness of the brewery just leads to more consistently fresh beer.

― portrait of the artist as a yung joc (Hurting 2), Thursday, November 11, 2010 4:06 PM (34 seconds ago)

I've always been a big fan of Orion beer, a great light "American-style" beer from Okinawa, Japan but it wasn't until I had it in Okinawa that I really understood what happens to beer during transport (sea/air/land), the beer was miles better, like a completely different flavor.

i think some beers might be less forgiving for shipping (thinking lighter pilsner types moreso than dark ales). another key factor though , imo, is where/how it was wherehoused before it gets to you, too

yeah the quinannan falls is draft only so grab it if you see it on tap somewhere before it goes away.

i would be more down with the can revival thing if the 21st amendment stuff wasnt among the worst $$$$ beers i have ever had.

i always enjoyed guinness as a great chillout sesh beer but when i had it in dublin it was on another level.

yeah i had the same experience but all the locals kept making fun of me because i wasnt ordering the far superior in their opinion tap budweisers.

laugh ended up being on me tho because apparently budweiser is brewed over there and when i finally had one it was fucking awesome in an almost kirin ichiban + sorta way

i mean the budweiser served in ireland is brewed locally duh i cant make my brain type this late in the day

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I've always been a big fan of Orion beer, a great light "American-style" beer from Okinawa, Japan but it wasn't until I had it in Okinawa that I really understood what happens to beer during transport (sea/air/land), the beer was miles better, like a completely different flavor.

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Friday, 12 November 2010 00:10 (1 hour ago)

Yeah, I always order Orion when I go to the local Japanese place. It's very clean tasting so it goes well with delicate flavors. But no surprise it's better in Japan. Had a similar experience with Mexico and Bohemia -- there it was one of the best beers I had ever tasted, but trying it when I got back was disappointing.

http://robeystreet.com/blog/2010/11/19/secret-santa-holiday-beer-exchange/

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dope Australian ale of the moment http://i51.tinypic.com/11l3fao.jpg