Beer in the new era

Got a bottle of epic big bad baptista

whole foods bar has CBS on tap. set my soup supplies down and had a half-pour. I certainly enjoy the maple sweetness compared to KBS. hard to say if I like it more than backwoods in the founders lineup.

and no judgement here, but it always surprises me how a bar set in the middle of whole foods deli can actually transform into a "bar" bar. there are people there to drink beer, watch football, fuss over whether or not to get food, etc. I've gotten a beer there twice, and both times I was the only one with a basket of vegetables, grabbing a quick beer while grocery shopping.

I’ve had more beers at the Whole Foods bar in my new town than all other places combined. Hang out with kid, get him some pasta salad, have a beer.

that's a nice idea! A bit amazed by the whole foods bar selection.

The Whole Foods bar thing needs its own thread. It’s so weird to navigate.

I got La Chouffe tonight. Because Happy Holidays.

Anyone ITT near Philly?

a friend of mine bartends at the whole foods near me. he worked in regular bars for a like a decade and while he thinks the "whole foods bar scene" is ridiculous and absurd (what sufjan mentioned -- people actually going there to hang out vs getting a beer while shopping or getting a quick bite) he really loves the pace and the hours. he gets off work at 9:30pm as opposed to 3am or 4am.

xp Mordy iirc

ayo Mordy...

Yo what’s up?

i go to a whole foods very often

its convenient, has everything i need and the beer guy knows me and lets me buy more than the min of limited qty beers before theyre even out in the shelf

it beats driving to more than one place

xp: does your ILX mail work?

Sadly no - ill webmail you my email addy

Whole Foods are among the finest bars.

there are many reasons to hate on WF, but the stores are really well thought-out in my experience

you sure pay for that, though

BA Ten Fidy is very nice. One perk of being removed from the popular white whale beers of Chicago is that others have become seemingly easier to find? Never had this stuff there, it disappeared too fast.

More BCBS data: still sitting at local stores, including easy targets like Binny's. I'm assuming they just must have made a shit ton of it this year.

I’ve only looked one additional place, Lakeview Whole Foods and they were out! Maybe I should just move to the burbs.

A friend from Chicago came to visit over the weekend and brought me 16-17 barleywines and 17 regular. He said it was still easily available in his home burbs, SW side Oak Lawn/Lemont/etc.

going to drink my bcbs then, I guess

do you guys paper bag it on the nj transit?

I think it’s weird they let people get “lit up” on the train to borrow a cherished phrase from my brother

(Mordy, if you sent webmail I didn't get it... but then again, I have no idea what email account is attached to my ILX login haha).

just email me at mms531 at nyu dot edu

i had an amazing beer from tired hands tnite -

Rust & Decay II:
Blended Pennsylvania Sour Brown Ale. 6.9% A blend of oak fermented beers from a dizzying array of wine and spirit barrels, balanced by a small portion of fresh, stainless fermented beer. Naturally carbonated in the keg by refermentation. Surrender to decay.

so good.

Damn... I was hoping to hit you up before you hit TH, but email sent regardless.

Here's the NEIPA Tropical Gravy Train story instead of the link... pic.twitter.com/suhMonUZj6

— Mark Dredge (@markdredge) December 21, 2017

Tonight’s modest haul.
Blood Orange first - don’t taste it at all but it’s passable for a Thursday.
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Kern rivers winter dipa is v dece

O.H.S.O. Boom! Dynamite IPA is really juicy and absolutely hitting the spot atm.

There's a little brewery that opened in Portsmouth, R.I. this year — Ragged Island. Their Five Tsar is honestly one of the best stouts I've ever had. Hopefully they'll get some distribution soon.

I am sure I've said this before but I love coming to visit my parents in rural MI because I can find all the rare Bells and Founders beers that sell so quick in the city. Black Note, Whiskey Barrel Cherry Stout, and CBS, all since Xmas day. Unfortunately, pricing has caught up with urban areas.

Seeing as I am currently about a mile from you, where are you finding these?

Platform cherry donut pie gose
Like drinking an alcoholic donut with sprinkles

I drank a roughly seven year old Pipeworks Imperial Porter tonight and it was super good! Still fizzy, not a hint of sourness.

Almost ordered a bud light

Rejected David Crosby line? "...but I didn't, and I wonder why..."

Ha

Possibly

Because the eagle rock populist ipa i got was just okay — on tap though so marginally better than the canned/bottled stuff

A couple weeks ago I had a bottle of Miller Lite at a bar by my in laws place while waiting for carry out pizza and the place smelled of snowmobile exhaust and the Packers Lions game was on and it was sublime.

Nice

rye pale ale by VAULT brewing company -- pretty good. really mild, low gravity and crisp with a nice rye "bite."

I like Eagle Rock's sours, and their Red Velvet, an 11% abv red ale with rye.

“Can I get a 4 oz of the Unicorn Vomit?” is a thing people say now

(It was very tasty)

I could never drink somehing called that

Naming not quite up to the admittedly high standards of race horses

i want to drink a stout that's called the black stallion

Bronx pale ale, middle of the road. Why is there caramel up in this shit?

what other beers are similar to Sixpoint Brewery's Tesla?

(the tried and true "read beeradvocate" route is giving me a list including a few I've had that don't taste like it at all)