Beer in the new era

The contract brewed TG cans from Florida are garbage imho compared to the the Decorah bombers.

so damn hot lately been enjoying the random sour. had a mraz (sacramento area) 3 berry sour other day that kicked ass. beautiful color, sort of like having a sour smoothie it was so fruit forward. last night had a modern times tropical sour that was really nice (def. got some passionfruit, thought maybe there was guava and mango in the mix too?) but didn't blow me away like the 3 berry one did
also had a sierra nevada BFD (beer for drinking), a 7% dry hopped golden ale that was lovely. the dry hop really made it noteworthy

The problem with Prairie around here is the $$$. Single bottle often $10+. But still, Bomb, Birthday Bomb, and Pe-Kan are all fantastic.

praire makes such good beer but yea they are pricey

Lol I just remembered, one store I checked out here in Mpls is selling 2013 Backwoods Bastard for $3.99 a bottle. Who knows how well it has been kept but that seems like a worthwhile gamble.

(That said I haven't bought one.)

Sierra Nevada's new Beer Camp box is out, it's a colab with 12 different brewers like they've done before. $24 at Whole Foods and $25 at Bevmo (for shame!).

it's fun as always, idk why the price comes up every year for something that's intended to be a treat.

Tried a couple of new beers this evening which were both good: Fortunate Islands by Modern Times (a hoppy wheat beer) and Gratitude by Kent Falls (a hoppy lager).

KCBC marble of doom
Sour and red

The contract brewed TG cans from Florida are garbage imho compared to the the Decorah bombers.

Coincidentally my new local shop just stocked Double Dry Hop Pseudo Sue, bought the bomber and it rules. Very very good.

Evil twin mission gose. Yes

Evil twin James beer. Better than mission.

Way beer graviola has stuff floating in the bottom of the bottle.

I guess it's cool to try a Brazilian spin on sour but I prefer the American stuff

tfw you know the beer at your local better than the bartenders

Yesterday we had a cookout and I think Narragansett tall boys are going to be my new go-to Saturday beer

At least while it's hot

Okay so has anyone tried this SUB Krups mini-keg system? I guess there is a local outfit who sells local brewery "minis" which work with it. It looks kind of neat.

To OL Got Starstruck - not as sour as i expected. Like a blue moon brewed with some funk. Gose flavor mixed with a pale dry wheat beer.

To OL Sur Galaxy - "sour mashed black IPA" yuck

For me the only To Ol really worth it is the shock series. Nothing else quite lives up to the promise.

To Ol's Sky Mountain Sour (a Buxton collaboration) is one of the best beers I've had all year fyi

Owner of this place with all these awesome brews seems to be a millennial douche. Fuck

what's wrong with that

My fave To Ol has been the Sur Mosaic; delicious. Mr Pink was good too.
My go-to summer sour is Newburgh's Checkpoint Charlie -- perfect tartness level and 3% means i can chug a couple after work and be functional.

got the AV G&T gose, it's delicious. would love to try the blood orange variant.

I'm mh'ing it this week and crushing tall boys of the dad stuff

bought a 12-pack pbr the other day after doing a bunch of yard work and draining a garden pond

for me these days it's all:

1) light sours and saisons
2) wheat ales
3) domestic swill

lol I betrayed the cause and drank negronis the past week, but uh forgot the sweet vermouth

I've been due for a break from IPAs for a while, but lost my taste for sours right around the time they became cool again.

I guess most years I get my fill of cheap sweet lagers on work travel, especially conferences. Maybe I should go out on my porch and do a lightning talk? Or a panel with the potted plants.

http://draftmag.com/50-best-ipas-america/

Interesting list. Haven't heard of most of them, they don't get distributed here.

From the selection criteria, it seems that most of the breweries self selected to participate, so the tasting was far from comprehensive.

I haven't heard of most either, and I think I've only drank one, the Golden Road Heal the Bay.

Also this may be be the first time I've seen onion/scallion as flavor descriptors.

I bought Fulton 300 today based on this list.

Evil Twin A is for Apricot gets an A

Fulton 300 is solid, and I like it, but that's a weird placement. Also, we should grab a drink some time!

do any of you know people who are stridently anti-shitbeer, as in if you're drinking something that's not busch or natural light, then fuck you, as an open attitude, like "i only drink shitbeer, fuck that craft shit"?

You mean stridently anti-craft beer?

I do know a guy that religiously orders PBR, and complains about hipsters, etc, but I'm not totally sure he'd look down on say, a craft lager.

ya it's more an anti hipster thing not anti craft beer

Also, we should grab a drink some time!

I'm up for it! Dunno if I still have your number saved.

I've got a good friend who is not currently a big beer drinker, but when he does drink beer it is always exclusively shitty beer like Coors. I've got a couple of other friends who are always wary of drinking beer at my place because they are afraid I'm going to spring something scary on them with a really high ABV.

Everyone I know who derides craft beer mainly does it because of price. Which is a fair point tbh.

if you just want to sit around and knock back beers, then craft beer's value proposition sucks -- the ones you can drink all day without getting wasted aren't very numerous because few places stock more than one or two that's below 5%

if you just want to have a tasty beer and don't mind you're getting all your alcohol in half the beers, if not fewer, they're not that expensive

More NE IPA craziness, went out to lunch and drank two beers .... a Van Hazen II and a Fade2Haze. Don't get me wrong, they were delicious, but then names...

azimut brasserie in bordeaux make some extremely mediocre IPAs but have somehow knocked it out of the park with their 7% "new england ipa". ridiculously good. new england might want to start working on an appellation system tho. it's not as if massachusetts vineyards get to make "champagne"

I know certain breweries in Vermont have:

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/life/food/2017/03/17/flattery-foul-play-vermont-beer-pops-up-out-state/99252424/

http://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/foodfocus/ct-hazy-ipa-craft-beer-food-0705-20170630-story.html

Local beer hype curmudgeon comes around on hazy IPA's.

Been hearing a lot about Noon Whistle lately. Do they have cans available anywhere, or do you have to go to the brewery or get it on tap somewhere?

They have cans, but typically only their milk stout/pale ale/sours (the face smack series). I don't think their gummy series is canned at this time, tap room only.

I assume I can get it to go in a growler. Lombard isn't that far away from me.

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