Beer in the new era

I think so, I just noticed it while paying.

I noticed that Pilsner Urquell is now coming in 330ml bottles instead of 12oz bottles. But they also claim they've cut the shipping time from Czech Republic to US in half, so I guess it's a net positive. It did taste pretty fresh.

I saw some Stone bourbon barrel aged Arrogant Bastard in six packs so I bought one. It didn't strike me as good as the bomber in the 4-pack sampler they had last year, but maybe my memory or others factors caused that. $17 at WF.

later this evening i'll be cracking open Grimm's "Rainbow In Curved Air" -- sour farmhouse ale aged on oak, brewed with peaches. Also it's named after a Terry Riley composition, so there is that. Really enjoyed the last Grimm sour I had, "Telekinesis" and their double IPA "Tesseract" was hella good as well.

Hi ian! That beer sounds perfect for you :)

I have really been enjoying the Anderson Valley Gose, and marcos' phrase "sour, salty, delicious" keeps coming back to me.

anyone try the victory kirsch gose?

I liked it.

me too!

i can't make my mind up abt the victory kirsch gose. i have consumed several of them though so obviously i don't hate it. maybe just wish the cherry was a little more subtle.
did not actually make it to the Grimmmmmm sour last night, so tonight or tomorrow maybe. going to have a drink at Other Half with a few friends in an hour. my fave brooklyn brewery.

yeah the cherry is def not subtle but it was balanced enough for me

looks like there's a sixpoint gose in cans now too (albeit their embarrassing red bull-style skinny cans)

dig the grimm stuff i've tried, barrel aged double negative and gradient were nice. curious about the terry riley thing

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Need to get some of the victory gose

anyway, this was a "9.5% rye tripel" from two roads brewing and it was awful.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, April 8, 2015 10:10 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow yea i did not head this warning & this beer is super terrible

i saw the grimm terry riley beer on the menu at a bad brooklyn restaurant the other night, it was $17 so i didnt fuck w it tho, curious

sixpoint gose "jammer" is garbage fwiw

That's a little harsh I guess

it just totally lacks the sourness that is kind of the main attribute of a gose imo besides the saltiness

av gose is good but Westbrook is still the best American gose I've tried

i can not hang with any of sixpoints beers really. sometimes yer at a shitty bar and their ipa is the best thing on tap and yer like "ok, well, fine" but i am not a fan of them in general. i am not a big fan of the two roads 'rye 95' beer but i like their saison, double IPA and pilsener.

currently drinking "the terry riley beer:" and it is fuckin delicious. you can prob find a bottle in brooklyn for $12ish.

pretty sure i've said this up thread but i am not a big gose fan. i like the ritterguts but most of them are too salty for me. i wld rather drink a berliner weiss or other light sour .

sixpoint must have some slick as hell marketing b/c their beers certainly don't stand on their own.

ya definitely. I think I mentioned this before but the "Brooklyn" location on the label probably helps a little too. I've been disappointed by pretty much everythkng I've tried from them

Ian I also thought the two roads Pilsner was pretty good despite the rye 95 being shit

I liked the Sixpoint Crisp that I bought not too long ago, but yesterday I had it out, and it did not taste good at all. I wonder if it had been stored improperly or something.

spotted and picked up rainbow in curved air today....very curious b/c if it is what it's described as for $10.50 they'll have themselves a winner

it is great. not super sour but tart and delicious with a hint of peach. i am going to buy two more bottles probably.

smuttynose hayseed "country table beer" is a pretty good low abv (3.8%) summer saison i thought, a wonderful lunchtime beer imo

tried Breakside's Lunch Break session IPA yesterday, very nice. Also went down to the Hop Valley brewery and had Citrus Mistress on nitro, that was delicious.

Blakkr seems way sweetr than last year, maybe 'cause I got the Surly version instead of 3Floyds.

sixpoint gose "jammer" is garbage fwiw

― marcos, Sunday, May 10, 2015 5:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's a little harsh I guess

― marcos, Sunday, May 10, 2015 5:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

second time around and no this was not harsh this beer is garbage

also had this http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1114/97343/

it's called le roar grrrz kriek and it's a "wild ale" from bullfrog brewery. another sour beer of sorts but it had other tastes i can't really place. really weird but really cool.

― Treeship, Monday, February 23, 2015 8:49 PM (2 months ago)

Wow, you are lucky, that beer is pretty hard to come by.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, February 23, 2015 9:05 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I asked a friend who has one and he says the brewery produces 250 bottles a year.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, February 24, 2015 10:34 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh i must have had the regular le roar grrrz wild ale. It was on tap at local 44

― Treeship, Tuesday, February 24, 2015 10:36 AM (2 months ago)

The Grrrz set was just released this past weekend and is now trading at a completely ridiculous tier.

bullfrog puts out consistently excellent sours. the head brewer at pizza boy started there iirc.

hey can anybody tell me what hops are being used in Gilgamesh Brewing's Oedipus IPA? I want to avoid them in the future if possible. Definitely not my thing. they are from Salem, Oregon. Beer is fine, but the hop taste feels very very off.

Lol the website says "mystery blend".

ha, thanks

Chicagoans: Maria's is having a Founders event on Tuesday including a CBS tapping.

I was gifted a bottle of Dark Lord and a bottle of Wicked Weed Genesis. My beer runneth over.

was in Copenhagen a couple weeks ago and Three Floyds was selling bottles of Dark Lord for 666 krone at the BBQ place they recently opened up with Mikkeller over there. cute pricing but that comes out to $100! cheaper than a plane ticket to Indiana but still...

what are some beers yall are enjoying this summer? it is hot right now and i am looking for things that are tart, tasty, refreshing, sour (but not that heavy flemish red sour, more like gose/berlinner weisse sour)

The Anderson Valley Holy Gose is back at Whole Foods, now in bottles.

btw i tried the victory cherry gose, it was okay i guess, in general i do not think gose or berliner weisse are improved by having fruit added. anderson valley blood orange gose was pretty good though

I had a New Glarus berliner weisse the other day that was very good but yeah you can only get it in Wisconsin.

i do not think gose or berliner weisse are improved by having fruit added

Some German friends of mine found it humorous that Americans drink Berliner Weiße without fruit syrup.

That said, De Garde fruited berliners which were relatively easy to trade for last summer are now impossible to get without paying a visit to Tillamook, OR.

will be in Denver for a week, anything cool coming out of CO at the moment?

w33d

crooked stave best brewery on earth

also w33d

will be in Denver for a week, anything cool coming out of CO at the moment?

― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Thursday, May 28, 2015 11:28 AM (1 hour ago)

Crooked Stave is in Denver proper but do not overlook Avery (Boulder) nor Casey Brewing & Blending (Glenwood Springs).

trinity is p amazing, out of CO