Beer in the new era

ok, in general i think the alaskan stuff is pretty mediocre, but their new Hopothermia Double IPA wins the crown for being the worst beer I have had in years.

Serendipity on the other hand is doooooooope, cellaring a bottle as well to bring out some more funk. at this point it is more tart than sour, but you can smell the sour taking shape in there.

Heading up to Wisconsin, may stock up on some New Glarus and/or Central Waters. Any suggestions? Peruvian Stout?

where are you going in WI? i would check for:

-O'So (their Lupulin Maximus is an all-time fav, same for Night Train)
-Lake Louie (Mr. Mephisto imperial stout, they have a nice scotch ale and cream ale too)
-Ale Asylum
-Furthermore (Oscura is a great + unique coffee beer)
-Tyranena (Rocky's Revenge bourbon brown ale, whatever the seasonal special is)

my cousin is going up to CT this week and offered to pick me up some beers while he's there -- any advice?

new england brewing co.--they used to distribute up here but have since scaled back. their canned offerings should be around throughout ct though, and if he's anywhere near new heaven he should stop by and get some growlers.

Furthermore Knot Stock is one of my all time fave weird beers, ipa brewed with black pepper, it is badass.

Tried the next sam adams spring thaw -- the White Lantern. A pleasant, apricotty wheat beer -- tasty enough that I opened a second one. Probably a good summer party beer.

yeah my friend had that one, was super apricotty. decent.

really want to try their "ipl" but they were on the sponsor list for the dumbass exclusionary st. patrick's day parade we have here so not buying their shit for a while.

yeah the double agent is an IPL. It was solid and somewhat interesting - honestly if you had told me it was some local Brooklyn beer I would have believed you.

as I said above, wouldn't have gone out of my way for any of these, just liked the cheapness of the variety pack at costco. Although in retrospect, maybe not the best choice since I'm going to be stuck with a bunch of lagers and Irish Reds that I don't really want.

I guess I can keep it stocked as an offer-to-unexpected-guests beer

yeah the double agent is an IPL. It was solid and somewhat interesting - honestly if you had told me it was some local Brooklyn beer I would have believed you.

― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Monday, March 11, 2013 5:23 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you wouldn't be completely off-base since it's highly likely the idea was borrowed from this: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/26520/71820 from a small mass brewery

oh man, want

Bought a 4-pack of Sixpoint 3Bean the other night, which BeerAdvocate calls a Baltic Porter. (Sixpoint, of course, doesn't like to slap style labels on their unique creations.) Coffee/chocolate notes up front but not too sweet or heavy, which I appreciated. Very drinkable, even at 10%.

"Here at [Fegley's Brewworks] brewery, we're powered by a 44kW solar array that covers our roof. So we like it Always Sunny! (The remainder of our electricity is kite-friendly wind power supplied by Renewable Choice Energy)."

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Kt7xxh5l8PE/UIMeRnwMNQI/AAAAAAAAGIs/V-_JadbgBgo/s1600/fegley

they make a few good beers actually - i had a great bottle of rude elf (bar's last for the seasonal) yesterday *like 10%APVyum* and i've had the devious imperial pumpkin, insidious imperial stout, hop-solutely triple + hop explosion. all excellent i thought.

Bought a 4-pack of Sixpoint 3Bean the other night, which BeerAdvocate calls a Baltic Porter. (Sixpoint, of course, doesn't like to slap style labels on their unique creations.) Coffee/chocolate notes up front but not too sweet or heavy, which I appreciated. Very drinkable, even at 10%.

― jaymc, Monday, March 11, 2013 6:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ah, thanks for reminding me I need to try this.

https://twitter.com/brouwervanklomp/status/311447343859896320

lol

asshole, but lol

amazing twitter feed btw

i was all excited to try 120 minute ipa but it's really syrupy and offensively sweet -> did i just crack a bad bottle or is this beer terrible? (or is my palate not sophisticated enough to enjoy it?)

there's a bunch of similar negative reviews on ba but even more positive reviews so idk

I haven't had in a while, but I seem to recall liking it a lot. Have a couple of bottles in my closet, I'll have to pull one out and try it again soon.

it is really sweet iirc

people hate both 120 min and world wide stout but apparently they make a killer 50/50 mix

interesting bc i have a world wide stout i have yet to open and another bottle of 120 min i no longer want to drink

http://hoptopia.tumblr.com/post/7897548445/beer-remix-dogfish-head-heaven-hell-120-minute-ipa

i wouldn't sweat the world wide stout, i had one that was 5 years old last month and the edge was still not gone.

Ha, 29 ppl have had heaven & hell on untappd. I have a weekend plan now.

i can't remember now if there was an untappd discussion upthread; i'm new on there and looking for friends. username s3anbr4ud1s (fix the numbers)

i can't find u :(

i think i just found you?

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This post is pretty much just for the Chicagoans itt but I went to Beer Temple tonight and it is quite impressive, lots of local/regional big bottles plus a much wider variety of imports than I expected. You can kind of tell that the tastes they're catering to lean a certain way; there's a lot of dark beers, big stouts/porters, and really a lot of specialty stuff there as the focus. Smoked beers, different kinds of barrel aged and series beers, that kind of thing. Nothing you'd have too much trouble tracking down on a dedicated trip to Binny's or Foremost, but in a location that doesn't have anything really like those stores. A much more neighborhoodly feel overall.

I picked up a Pipeworks saison flavored with Szechuan peppercorns and some Green Flash pale ale. They had a shelf of singles of all different kinds, too, plus a surprising amount of cider, wine, and even some liquor. And one unrefrigerated 12 pack of Miller Lite stuck at the bottom of a shelf in a corner.

Las Vegas is a fucking awful beer town. Somebody prove me wrong, I've got another two days here.

The Freakin Frog usually has a lot of the better SoCal stuff (Stone, Port, Lost Abbey, Green Flash, Ballast Point) available.

Also MGM carries the new Robuchon/Yebisu collab brew at their higher end spots.

Am I crazy or should Brooklyn Lager be renamed an ale?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/opinion/sunday/how-beer-gave-us-civilization.html

I have been consistently finding Dogfish Beers too syrupy and sweet. I think I'm pretty much done with the brewery after my last couple experiences.

lol I just was browsing this thread wondering "hey are these dudes on Untapp'd" and presto

i really loved the 90 minute dogfish - really hoppy and delicious, not syrupy at all. that's why i bought (2) bottles of the 120. i figured if 90 minutes was that good imagine what an additional 30 minutes does... turns out the additional 30 minutes just makes it gross. i am going to make that world wide stout / 120 minute cocktail tnite tho.

i haven't had a Dogfish beer since they stopped distributing here. i'm over it, there's so much amazing beer here, we don't need. it.

#shotsfired

daerest dogfish, I will drink all of the sam adams in my fridge, and then probably resort to making some kind of ghetto vodka concoction with my left over svedka, before I drink the last midas touch in my fridge.

hah

I've only had one 4-pack of midas touch, but I remember liking it. Send it to me!

How have I been stupid enough never to have tried great divide oak aged yeti until now?! Good god man, this is is amazing.

i can hang with dogfish's 60 minute and the indian brown ale. the rest, agreed, too syrupy. the 'raisin d'etre' has grown on me a bit, but the 90, 120, aprihop, burton baton and midas touch... all rough going imo.

indian brown is really their best beer by quite a bit