Beer in the new era

On one hand, holy shit King Sue is good!

On the other, it's sort of indistinguishable from a bunch of Half Acre and/or Three Floyds products. Or maybe my sense of taste isn't that great.

A few bottles of KBS mysteriously just appeared on the local shop's shelves. $8.99 a bottle, which is inflated but not the end of the world. Retail was $24 a 4-pack, right?

I paid 20 iirc.

In sorta related news, I noticed Central Waters Brewhouse coffee stout was back on the shelves recently, and it's been said before itt, but that is one hell of a deal at $5 and change for a 22oz.

$24.99 per 4 pack is what I saw

I think I paid $24 for KBS. On that same topic, I heard a couple weeks ago that Founders is gonna release CBS again.

Central Waters has to be the best value in Craft beer... esp. their barrel aged series.

yeah, I think CBS will just be bombers again? still exciting, though.

DC Brau started making Heurich's Lager (this is important DC beer historical shit - the original brewery was on the site that now belongs to the Kennedy Center, and I used to walk by his mansion almost every day when I lived in Dupont) so I had to grab a six pack. It is pretty good as strong lagers go.

marcos have you tried the Long Trail Double Bag? I'm not super into altbiers but I enjoyed it quite a bit - almost got some more recently when we were in Maine but there was other local stuff I'd never tried so y'know

had a six pack of Corruption when visiting, and we enjoyed it

tombot yea that is a great beer! im in vermont right now actually, i should get some.

otherwise I bought a couple goses, one from lost nation and other from collective arts. lost nation is one of the best imo

also I have been dabbling in this new england IPA thing a little? I kind of scorned it as a "movement" before, there have always been hazy fruity IPAs but now I appreciate that they are clearly labeled for when I'm in the mood for one

Pipeworks has been going nuts with IPA variations, hoping to open a few at our block party tomorrow.

https://growlermag.com/farm-to-glass-craft-maltsters-add-more-local-flavor-to-beer/

Our long national obsession with hops is coming to a close. We’ve explored every Columbus, we’ve been showered in every Cascade, we’ve mash hopped, boil hopped, and dry hopped, and blasted our palates with bitterness. Now, trends are focusing more on beer’s opposite number. It feels as if malt is the new hops.

Good article, even though I feel like people were saying the same thing about the passing of hop obsession wrt sour beers not too long ago.

Yeah, hops still going strong.

decent article about specialty malt outfits buried under an incredibly dumb first paragraph.

Yeah, it feels like the love of too many hops will never die -- we'll just get new varieties when people get bored of the old ones. But the new developments in malt are really exciting.

I would like to thank Jeff for taking me to quality beer spots, even though I did not do a good job of taking advantage of it.

I screwed up and had a little bit of a headache, which in retrospect was because I hadn't had enough caffeine. Should have doubled down on it before having beer and dinner!

Insight Splendid Moose might be the best Twin Cities beer I've had since I moved here.

Firestone's Luponic Distortion is pretty amazing for being available in 6-pack cans for $10 at my local Safeway! And they print the canning date on the box so I was able to get it fresh, which is probably urgent and key, as we used to say around these parts.

i know lots of people hate them but two beers from 5 rabbit cerveceria have been my favorites lately: 5 lizard latin-style witbier and 5 vulture dark oaxacan ale. the witbier especially is so tasty

xxp Splendid Moose is really deliious, but the second 4-pack I bought had so many white floaty chunks in it, it was like I had poured it in an unwashed milk glass. Is this normal?

those are the flavor chunks

The other day we were in some distant Illinois town - Freeport? something like that - and got a local brew inspired by the former pretzel factory or something. Consensus was it was gross, but we all agreed it would have been grosser with actual soggy pretzel bits floating in it.

Had a pint of 3 Floyds Lazer Snake last night. Good IPA, not too different from Zombie Dust, heavy on the citrus and really good.

Evil Twin's "The Only Thing I Know Is That I Know Nothing" (way to make ordering it an adventure, guys) was pretty good.

Fair State's Spirit Foul might have wrested the title from Spirit Moose.

Aside: any Minnapolitans want to have beers at Fair State's taproom, or anywhere else in NE Mpls?

FUCK

I meant Splendid Moose

Not even drunk tbh

On a Beck's kick
Stuff messes me up

Had my 1st Wittekerke Wild - sour wit – A+++
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/718/229486/

A truck stop just over the Wisconsin border felt like a New Glarus superstore, displays and piles of cases everywhere.

I picked up two 750 ml fruit ales, having loved them in the past: Raspberry Tart and Serendipity

Would love to learn about any Belgian or other equivalents to these.

Their fruit beers are delicious. My fave is the cherry one. Not quite sours ... we like to serve them in lieu of light wine, akin to a rose or something.

One thing I love about New Glarus is that it has this cache, because it is WI only, but once you go to WI, yeah, you can get it anywhere.

Like so many tiny gas stations in middle of nowhere northern WI have live bait and New Glarus

MN people: Anyone going to Darkness Day? I'm gonna try to go. Some of my friends who are coming from out of town want to get there at FIVE IN THE FUCKING MORNING. Is this insane y/n

people camp out all night- the line does form early but that's only if you actually care about getting darkness. iirc you can just show up and hang out and drink beer without having to get a ticket/pass etc

like darkness is a pretty good imperial stout but not worth the tizzy IMO

Yeah that's kinda what I'm thinking, also I can buy 2016 bottles of it at the store by my house right now for $!9, so…

i just bought this. 24 cans.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLDIYj6W4AAy6yV?format=jpg&name=large

ok www.beavertownbrewery.co.uk/ is pretty fun to look at

Finally, here are the 10 most checked-in beers of summer 2017! Congrats to @foundersbrewing's All Day IPA, which had 64,795 check-ins! 😱 pic.twitter.com/HAwPzcpxZ6

— Untappd (@untappd) October 5, 2017

Bells Two Hearted has been the best beer in America for the last three years running.

that'd make sense, all day is beer geeky enough to 'log in' to but still light. it's also nasty, but then i think that about all 'session' IPAs. i saw a 'session' Barleywine the other day, gtfo

xp true or close enough

for me as far as regular 6 pack ipa's go it's a toss up between Two Hearted and Jai Alai xxp

i've gotten kind of sour on all the mosaic-oriented beers, they seem to lack the bite I crave in an IPA. two hearted to me is nearly perfect

It's absolutely perfect. The IPA bite is there but the finish is dreamy.

Tropicalia by Creature Comfort (Athens, GA) is a close second place for me, but it's rage-inducingly hard to find outside of Athens.

jai alai is one of the few i'd put up against two hearted. also ithica's flower power and neshaminy's shape of hops to come.

Bells Two Hearted has been the best beer in America for the last three years running.

― Randall Jarrell (dandydonweiner), Thursday, October 5, 2017 2:55 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did they change it in some way, or have you just had it only for that time?

Love Two Hearted, to me it's a very unique IPA. I did a blind sampling years ago, and I could always identify it. Very floral (ex-gf said it tastes like soap.)

Jai Alai is wonderfully balanced. I drink all I can when I'm visiting the 'rents in Florida.

My current ideal is Toppling Goliath Pseudo Sue.

we have flats of Pseudo Sue at Costco here