Beer in the new era

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.

https://www.facebook.com/110627652322553/posts/1530351863683451

that's... $170?

It's a benefit sale

Yes, I read the link I posted.

ok - so you want to know the conversion from euros to dollars? Sorry idgi

yes! I wasn't sure.

I'm certain they could charge more. $500 a bottle, I'm sure they will go quick.

buddy I'm drinking beer here, not the pope's piss. I'm not paying that many dollars for nearly anything

yes! I wasn't sure.

I'm certain they could charge more. $500 a bottle, I'm sure they will go quick.

― Jeff, Friday, July 7, 2017 8:55 AM (one hour ago)

Pinot d'Aunis sells for over $1000 on secondary.

Happy to see one of my local liquor stores carries Noon Whistle, so picked up some pale ale (Cozmo) and ... a red sour? Swanky? They also had a Berliner Weisse (Face Smack?).

bought these:

stillwater cellar door
westbrook key lime pie gose
evil twin nomad weisse
avery el gose
two roads persian lime gose
two roads / evil twin geyser gose
dogfish head sea quench ale

evil twin nomad weisse

found this near undrinkable/hope it's better for you

I've been drawn in by the sour beer fad lately. Best I've had is Blue Owl Little Boss sour session wheat. Blue Owl also has a sour cherry stout that sounds intriguing. Not sure if they are available anywhere outside of Austin. Thinking about checking out their brewery some time this summer.

Of that list, I love the Westbrook and the nomader weisse. I also loved the Keyser Gose, but it's really really not for everybody (also, that might be reaaaaaaaly old unless they did another batch).

Stillwater's Stateside Saison - in the 16oz cans - is becoming my go-to summer brew.

i want someone to make a cheap mediocre gose in 12 pks that's not otra vez... local brewery here in mpls started making cheap 4 pack tallboys of a sour, seems like a good start

Sixpoint jammmmmmmers

I dont think they come in 12 packs though

we just got sixpoint, will check out

sixpoint is great. i would also recommend sweet action, bengali tiger, and "the crisp"

the sixpoint 5beans is fantastic too

the svelte cans make me feel like it's healthy to drink them

yeah

Picked up some Noon Whistle (locally) and 18th Street (at their Hammond, IN brewery). I'd never been to the latter, looks like a great operation and they were super nice and helpful. Very apologetic that they could not sell me a blueberry gose to go because of some arcane Indiana law that prevents them from allowing a patron to carry out a beer not brewed on premises or something. Anyway, got their Temporal Purgatory APA, Dozer Pils, a bomber of their Spears of Death Russian Imperial, and ... something else. Or yeah, Rise of the Angles Double IPA. I'm excited, and best of all, for once I like the art, I think. As for Noon Whistle, I look forward to a trip to Lombard to see what I can see.

Man, so much good beer popping up and around locally. Even a top notch brewery down the street from me a bit, Kinslahger.

Back in Michigan, there is just SO MUCH BEER here it's insane. I went to a market the other day with just aisles and aisles of hundreds of beers from dozens of breweries I've never even heard of and kind of just got overwhelmed and kind of just shut down mentally, no joke. I felt like I just couldn't process it all.

The number of craft breweries in the US right now is dizzying compared to even five years ago.