Beer in the new era

"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

If you're ever bored, read the Beer advocate forum threads about bourbon county and you can find people arguing about supply/demand/yield of barrels/etc. It's quite funny. Especially now that there is going to be a Bourbon County Barleywine.

at my beer shop they say there's a lot of talk about bourbon county going annual-release

or not annual - all-year

Lots of arguing about that too.. http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/goose-island-bourbon-county-stout-to-be-available-year-round.12465/

Just curious, Jeff, where did you find it? I noted this year, in addition to the much greater local supply, they staggered the distro pretty well, so that shipments of this and that would pop up all over the place.

Diversey Liquors, right beside the Diversey Brown line

I picked up three four-packs of the regular BCBS, but haven't been able to come across the coffee or anything else. Also not running into any Hopslam anywhere. Last night I decided to pick up a couple of the New Belgium Lips of Faith series, the Fresh Hop and the Imperial Coffee Chocolate Stout. Also grabbed a six-pack of an old-standby, Founder's All Day IPA, an Apocalypse Cow, and Rye Da Tiger.

Good haul

http://beerpulse.com/2013/01/bells-mallett-on-hopslam-smells-like-your-cat-ate-your-weed-and-then-pissed-in-the-christmas-tree/

“I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.”

lol

Jeff - let me know if you haven't had any of those.

has anyone seen the wake-and-bake terrapin yet?

J/v/c, I've had all of them but the imperial chocolate stout.

Okay, just curious.

has anyone seen the wake-and-bake terrapin yet?

― Mordy, Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:27 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I saw it last night at my local bar. I didnt order it though. It's around.