Beer in the new era

so i opened my bottle of allagash confluence on thanksgiving. it was good, very interesting finish that was a little funky and weird, very dry. it was good but not $24 a bottle good. shared another bottle of the uinta sour farmhouse ale w/ my brother, still think that is one of the best sours i've had recently.

also any of you folks in the midwest try 5 Rabbit Cervecería? my brother had a lot of their stuff, i was really impressed. oaxacan black beer is outstanding, and i really really liked the latin witbier, it was fucking awesome. was almost like a champagne.

Yeah, they're local here. I usually try everything they put out but don't repeat buy very often. Their recent collab with cigar city was really good. El Bizarron, porter brewed with caramelized plantains.

I've never been too impressed with anything of theirs I've tried, but that's limited to what's widely sold in stores and one pint at their taproom. I'm not super into fruit-flavored beers in general, and that seems to be all they make.

I'm convinced their grapefruit beer is just a single six pack that just makes the rounds. Someone gifts it to someone, they regift it, and it just keeps circulating, because no one really likes it.

anyone know if Allagash farm to face is suitable for storing medium to long term? or is it more like an IPA, best consumed as soon as possible?

porter brewed with caramelized plantains

I'll see you, and raise you milfoil and zebra mussels.

http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2014/11/24/milfoil-and-zebra-mussel-beer-sells-out-in-less.html

farm to face should be fine to store for a while

Skipped the BCBS madness in lieu of the Bourbon Barrel Aged Abominable release at Fremont Brewing in Seattle. Absolutely wonderful beer. Though it's officially an "American Strong Ale" the barrel character makes this taste like a oaky Barleywine.

Heading back to New Jersey this weekend and will try and grab some Carton cans from down the shore to bring back to WA.

xp thanks

xp- i really want to try the fremont barrel aged beers, been hearing great things about the abominable variants and kentucky dark star

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/for/4782207586.html

lol

lol until somebody buys it

what is the typical retail value of that

the regionality of this stuff is weird, BCBS sits on the shelf for months and months in NYC

Thought I noticed a decline in quality in the Ommegangs this year. Probably won't buy again. Or maybe my taste has just changed.

Really enjoyed two Evil Twin imperial stouts I tried recently -- Christmas in a New York Hotel Room, and I Love You With All My Stout

New craft brewery opened earlier this year in Glendale, Queens which is kind of an out-of-the-way neighborhood for something like this (although sort of a beer culture heritage I guess with german beer halls around). Curious to check it out.

http://www.finbackbrewery.com/home.html

what is the typical retail value of that

they're selling it for $20/four-pack at whole foods here in pdx, so about $120 total lol. pretty sure there is plenty to go around still, and no limits or anything either

lol.

i didn't bother trying to get any of the bombers this year, and stores around here still have the regular 4-packs (my gf grabbed one at 8:30pm on Friday).

Still haven't really warmed much to the BCBS, just feel gross when I drink it

I'd sell every beer in my closet right now for 10 grand.

Don't the BCS labels say up to 5 years on them? Could that be why the 2007 was a letdown? I also figure they've been getting better and better at this. Do you remember how much the ABVs varied?

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, November 30, 2014 7:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It does say 5 years. 2007 was the worst, but 2006 and 2005 tasted much better. Not great, and a shell of its former self, but still drinkable. The ABV's did vary, and evidently, GI is better about putting the right ABV on the bottle now. That's why you see two different batches of the current BCS, 13.8% and 14.4%.

still need to try it, but huge heavy stouts i can enjoy every once in a while, but really i am not as into them as i used to be. i had the anderson valley bourbon barrel-aged stout on draft the other night and it was awesome, only 6.9% and it felt nice to drink a barrel-aged stout that wasn't 12% or some shit.

agree w/ feeling gross sometimes with heavy alcoholic stouts. though i could definitely be into splitting a bottle w/ someone when it's -10 outside and i'm sitting by a fire.

The Evil Twin stouts are like 9 and 10%, I think. I find that to be about my limit of drinkable beers.

also noticed when i smoke a little weed stouts are like the grossest fucking thing

Maybe balance it with a bowl of ice cream?

wdyll when holding a 3l bottle of dragons milk

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3zYMBIIYAAHGlM.jpg

xps - i don't see any problem whatsoever with boozy beers in cold weather. in the middle of august - no thanks. but december when it's 34 degrees and raining? yes please, i need something warming.

i broke down and supported the AB-InDevil by buying a couple bcbs 4-packs over the weekend and i have to admit - it's tasting pretty delicious. i also had the 10 barrel rum-barrel aged pumpkin thing and it was damn near perfect for thxgiving dessert. to atone for my sins i made sure to buy a couple of bottles of the also-recently-released deschutes abyss, and a midnight sun berserker (not as much of a bourbon-bomb as bcbs of course, but red wine/chocolate/tobacco/dark fruits for days. my current favorite RIS)

and not to be a west coast cliche, but IPAs + w33d amirite?

hell yeah

+1

yep

Also all you folks regifting the 5 rabbit grapefruit beer should send it my way because I bet I would love it

http://thebrewbuzz.com/5-bourbon-barrel-aged-stouts-better-than-bourbon-county-brand-stout/

saw lots of angry facebook frothing at the mouth about this one

it's so dumb when people compare beers with national distro to beers that are available in like a small region of a single state.

oh goodie http://buy.rogue.com/rogue-sriracha-hot-stout-beer/

official brewery of baconism

got a couple bombers of my favorite beer from this year's Great Taste of the Midwest, 'Convenient Distraction' by O'So (imperial porter w/coffee & vanilla beans).

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CBpF_i6iazkJ:www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/walgreensgate.234398/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Lol @ the drama that unfolds around these things. Evidently a Walgreens had that they would start selling at 12:00 noon, but someone talked a night manager into selling it a case at the time at midnight. Hilarity ensues. This is the response of one guy that bought some of the cases and his justification. Basically, "you guys would have done the same thing!!!"

incredible post.

Yeah, I saw that! Pretty silly, this stuff. There does seem to be a consensus that it was harder to find this year, but there are also strong rumors that GI is planning to up its BCS to year-round, with other limited releases scattered throughout. At the least the new barrel aging warehouse is supposedly Raiders of the Lost Ark huge.

Anyone local considering this:

SUN JANUARY 25, 2015
1:00 PM
(1:00 PM DOORS)
UPPERS & DOWNERS

A Festival of Coffee Beers from Intelligentsia Coffee + Good Beer HuntingFor over a year, Intelligentsia Coffee + Good Beer Hunting have been working with some of the most creative brewers and roasters in the country to create and showcase innovative coffee beers. Through a series of educational and competitive events, the series has inspired some amazing creations, such as a coffee saison, coffee quad, and even a cascara cider among many others.

This event brings many of those concoctions together for the first time, as well as some of the best coffee beers on the market, a multi-roaster coffee bar, cocktails, home-brew competition winners, small bites from Dusek’s, and new-to-the-world beers from a series of one-off experiments with Goose Island and Solemn Oath breweries.

Each ticket offers up to 15 tastings. Passed small bites included.

I haven't found any bcbs at all this year, even at the sweet spot where I got all varieties last year. The booze guy there told me three different stories: first he said they'd be getting some of everything early last week, then that he didn't think they were getting anything and that the GI rep said they weren't making the bombers until January, and finally that they had only gotten the regular stuff. As far as I can tell, absolutely none of these stories have been true.

Almost every shop or store I've talked to said they were hosed. And those are the honest ones. Meanwhile, pictures proliferate of piles and piles of the stuff at Costco and Walgreens and whatnot, with no purchase limits. I dunno. It's good, but it's also only beer.

http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/i-think-i-got-duped-feedback-please.234718/

Just read that this morning. I would be annoyed.

Holy crap, I just watched every ep of Just Keep Tastin' for the first time. Any local dudes know these dudes? Anyway, in the off chance someone here hasn't seen this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIyV0J2IEGI

I follow PK on twitter, he's pretty funny.

These are pretty good too: http://dontdrinkbeer.com/

The should really chug a whole bottle of Utopias.