Beer in the new era

ooh is nugget nectar out where you are?

Hopslam time.

this iis pretty awesome:
http://www.denverpost.com/fort-collins/ci_22377183/colo-brewer-new-belgium-now-employee-owned

ooh is nugget nectar out where you are?

― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer

yeah good as always

this sounds like a beer i would greatly enjoy:
http://terrapinbeer.com/brew/monster-beer-tour/wake-n-bake-coffee-oatmeal-imperial-stout/

yeah me too! haven't seen it out though

First I've heard of Terrapin, and their distro gets nowhere near me. Their Imperial Belgian IPA sounds right up my alley.

Terrapin and Sweetwater are ubiquitous where i live

i've had a few terrapins that i really liked. they did a reunion ale w/ he'brew that was delicious (the most recent one that was brewed in terrapin - i think they alternate), and i really liked the chocolate-milk stout they brewed. well, maybe really liked is overstating it but i was shocked at how much like chocolate milk it tasted and it was a pleasant experience i don't necessarily want to repeat.

if u have the opportunity to drink some of the clown shoes pecan pie porter i highly recommend taking it. i had a growler this weekend and it was super tasty.

got a chance to drink some fresh cans of surly abrasive and furious yesterday. minnesota ppl of this thread, those are some nice beers yall have access to.

my beer store is doing 50% growlers on monday, so i picked up a growler of High Point Brewing Ramstein Winter Wheat and Sixpoint Spice of Life (Sorachi Ace hops, I think) -- $10 total! also i had the amazing southern tier choklat stout last night which might be the most chocolatey beer i've ever tasted.

Still can't bring myself to buy anything by a brewery called Clown Shoes.

I seem to really recall like Clown Shoes Clementine, but I can't remember much about it. Other than that, I've only had Hoppy Feet 1.5, which was just okay.

clown shoes is an interesting case--my understanding is the brand is owned by a distributor with no particular interest in beer. whoever does the brewing has free rein to brew cool stuff. then it is sold with absolutely the worst label art and marketing strategy in the world. i've had some that are pretty good @ bottle shares but also can't bring myself to actually buy the stuff.

"really recall"

I seem to recall.

Yeah, Clown Shoes is like "What, was EVERY other name taken?" but the Imperial Red Ale I had from them was super good.

I had a Hovels Original on draft yesterday. Quite nice. Deep red color, big foamy head, "bitter" and "bready" were adjectives on the beer list and both seem appropriate.

Stumptown has this new "3Beans" thing coming out that has romano beans (?) mast brothers cocoa and stumptown cold brew in it. Will definitely try, although I'm a little skeptical, especially since they basically blend in the already made stumptown cold coffee at the end.

Sorry I mean SIXPOINT has

Green Flash Imperial IPA is a truly remarkable beer. As in, I think it might be an all- timer for me.

Bought an Old Rasputin barrel aged Russian Imperial Stout today ($20 for a half-litre, had a $20 for $10 Groupon so thought I'd splurge). 11.9% abv. Haven't tried it yet.

I've wanted one of those, but they seem to be long gone out of city shops now. Probably still in the burbs.

http://www.seekabrew.com/distro/index.html

Useful map.

I had one Clown shoes offering, it was fine, but I am actively repelled by every other aesthetic aspect of their brand- the ugly fonts, labels, stupid names, etc

Never seen Clown Shoes stuff before and yeah it's not my style at all but at least they seem to have some overarching aesthetic that somebody put some sort of effort into.

Compared to like Russian River who have beer labels that use both Algerian and Comic Sans simultaneously, like they just designed it in Word or something.

clown shoes has become ubiquitous in my local store, they have like 35 different bombers in stock. and wow do i hate the labels.

can i also just say officially that the fact that 2013 seems to be the year of the chocolate milk stout makes me totally unenthused. odell has one that tastes like a fucking hersheys bar. sweet beer sucks.

eww.

you can have a chocolate stout or a milk stout. but not both.

so there's a clown shoes label that is just a butt, huh

on a different braggin tip, we just opened one of the applewines we made and holy shit i would buy this stuff for $$$, its really really good. its also stupid easy to make.

our 90 shilling is ok i guess, its solid just not that interesting. just finished brewing up an imperial IPA which i think has promise.

next up a old ale barleywine that hangs out in the carboy for a year before bottling O_O

is that 90 shilling an odell clone? better to have something solid and drinkable considering you've got 5 gal worth. i recently made an imperial IPA for the hell of it, full pound of cascade hops in the boil along with 4 oz of bittering hops and a lb of table sugar. it is actually delicious but it is quite hard to drink. i've given away quite a lot of it. rather have made something a bit more 'sessionable'

woo! my beer shop just got lagunitas sucks and troegs nugget nectar in. what a wonderful day :)

whoa nice haul

so there's a clown shoes label that is just a butt, huh

massive at-work lol

Imperial and other ultra-dark stouts, barrel-aged or otherwise, still seem to be the trend, which is sort of too bad, because I find them to be more a sometimes beer and slow-drinking (and sometimes all but meant to be shared by friends) to boot. I'd include chocolate stouts as part of this trend, too. Hunahpu's annual stout is coming up ...

chocolate stouts are my wife's go-to beer so I've been psyched at their explosion

DJP, have u guys tried this one? it's insane: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/3818/40058

not yet, but it's on the list

i also got a bottle of the double chocolate rogue stout lately (i'm told it's the only rogue that's any good)

recently i mean. lately - idk grammar

I basically want to drink imperial stouts/IPAs all the time. Every time I get something out of the fridge or the closet I have to talk myself out of drinking a barrel aged stout.

I say that, but still 65% of the beers I drink I've never had before.

Stumptown has this new "3Beans" thing coming out that has romano beans (?) mast brothers cocoa and stumptown cold brew in it. Will definitely try, although I'm a little skeptical, especially since they basically blend in the already made stumptown cold coffee at the end.

Drinking this now. Interesting. I'm not too familiar with the Baltic porter style of beer though, I think this is only the 2nd one I've had.

I just walked into the liquor store off my train stop and picked this up out of the cooler. I was shocked. Supply of the cherry rye was so limited. But this store randomly puts stuff like this out a bottle at the time.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8377/8409969588_aaed030503.jpg

nice!!!

whoa thats crazy

!!!

So that brings my bourbon county haul of 2012 releases to four 4-packs of regular, 3 coffees, and a singular cherry rye.

Last year I got one single bottle of regular. Glad they can put more out these days.

i really wanna try a cherry but i don't think my area got it

If you can be in Chicago weekend after next I'll split it with you.

I can't imagine trying to find it in other states. Here in the city we got more than anyone else and it was difficult.

i plan to crack open the one coffee variant i was able to pick up this weekend to celebrate my brother's new babby's bris