Beer in the new era

that's amazing imo

X-post that in the seltzer thread

I had the Lagunitas terpine-infused double IPA (avec alcohol but sans THC) and it was fantastic.

ive come to the realization that many ohio and cleveland beers are bad

there are some pretty good places but so many mediocre to bad places

and the good ones are not really mind blowing

that's like the entire country tho

I like Platform. Not sure where they are though, somewhere Midwest

Ya that’s definitely the case in california

I like some of the Boulevard (KC MO) I've tried, the Bourbon Barrel Quad for instance.

ive come to the realization that many ohio and cleveland beers are bad

― marcos, Wednesday, June 27, 2018 4:50 PM (six hours ago)

Jackie O's is one of my low-key favorite breweries... esp now that they've solved their infection issue from a few years back.

yea Jackie o's is good

that's like the entire country tho

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, June 27, 2018 7:56 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's true, tho I just came back from Vermont and picked up like 4 different goses randomly and they were all outstanding

feel like Michigan has a better scene than Ohio

Exploring bc’s beer scene has left me with a massive limp dick

Luckily there’s still a lot to explore

You have an interesting relationship with beer.

hops are aphrodisiacs

little known fact

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/36487/282732/

Platform lemon ginger saison

feel like Michigan has a better scene than Ohio

― marcos, Friday, June 29, 2018 4:37 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

than just about anywhere

congrats to lagunitas on that new beer posted above that breaks their "love to get some with a lady" naming theme that's so gratingly embarrassing

Here in MI I was just talking the other day to a grad student from OH about beer and she was blown away by everything here compared to Ohio. I can name at least two brewers from MN, IL, WI, IN, but could only think of Great Lakes out of Cleveland for Ohio beers.

I enjoyed Rhinegeist beers when I visited Ohio earlier this month.

Central Waters continues to be one of my favorite deals in craft beer, their new Vanilla Bean BBA stout is super good. Hoping to visit their facility when driving through WI later this month.

Ha rheingeist was the only other brewery out of Ohio that she could come up with. Granted, she is a broke ass 23-year-old masters student right now so cost is her main factor in her beer choices

Urban Artifact (fruit beer + sours) had really good ones when I tried them last year, kumquat and such.

Braxton Brewing, right across the river from Cincinnati in northern Kentucky, has good ones as well, especially Dead Blow (with macerated dates). They took over a nearby brewery/taproom and opened Braxton Labs, which has all kinds of experiments. Hoping they get wider distribution sometime.

Urban Artifact website - also a music venue

Central Waters continues to be one of my favorite deals in craft beer

Seriously.

urban artifact does have a few god sours

platform is totally hit or miss. they just brew so many new beers all the time so consistency is not really what they are going for

urban artifact does have a few god sours

*good

I haven't checked, has anything from Iowa made it outside the state recently other than Toppling Goliath?

hm idk, i don't think i see any iowa beers here

I'll stop drinking them all before they're loaded on a truck

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/07/324-of-the-best-ipas-blind-tasted-and-ranked.html

Paste mag with another IPA blind tasting.

Love reading all the @‘s with people bemoaning the popularity of IPA’s.

Blood orange pales and IPAs have become my new summer obsession. I've been drinking a lot of the Lagunitas and 21st Amendment versions. Anyone else have recommendations for easily obtainable ones?

I can still remember when I lived in Seattle years ago a brewery did a Christmas ale that dispensed with the usual darker, heavy body and the spices, and basically brewed an orange IPA that I thought was the best thing ever (at the time.)

Had some great ones last week. A blueberry sour from upland (Indianapolis iirc). Was not cloying. it ruled. And a triple IPA from killer ipa-makers Novo Brazil (Chula Vista) which was like 9% and i couldn't even taste any alcohol. Oh! And one from de dolle, who are maybe my fave Belgian producers.

weird no ithaca flower power or neshaminy shape of hops to come or unicorn vs ninja or heady topper or any beers by victory on that paste list

Do you like flower power Mordy? Not a fan myself

i guess i'm going to have to try a ripe, i've read articles in two different mags touting it as one of the great ipas. i don't get why one of the best ne ipas would come from portland, but i guess that's portland for you, and if i'm gonna drink an ipa it's probably gonna be an ne.

Nb I probably haven’t had one for a year but I like it a lot

The theoretically limited Lagunitas blood orange IPA is one of my faves, and I noticed they produced a shit ton more of it this year than ever before.

I'm going to be road tripping from Portland down to San Francisco is a couple of weeks. Any suggestions for Oregon or California beers I can't get here to keep an eye out for? The only one on my radar right now, honestly, is Pliny. And now I've added the Ripe (from Great Notion, right?) to my mental list as well.

****heater allen****

Lemme look at my untappd

Russian river supplication cherry wild ale

Craftsmen el prieto sour black ale (effing amazing tbh)

Kern river river buddy

Alpine duet
Alpine mandarin nectar (delicious)

And others I wouldn’t go out of my way but are very decent:

Craftsmen peachy keen

Golden road point the way ipa (LAX brewery — again, dece)

Stone brewing wootstout
Stone merc machine

Also you might as well visit Modern Times brewery in downtown LA, they have vegan food as well — fruitlands passion fruit with guava is nice

Can you get a lot of sierra nevada in yr area? If not, hop bullet dipa is surprisingly decent

Novo brazil pool party haze

Arrow lodge guava berliner

Lemme kno what u think of em

Oh missed that you’re only going as south as san fran

Im sure u can still get a lot of those

Theres a modern times in portland, only been to the dtla loc tho, so not sure if its worth it

In Portland proper, Upright is one of my favorite breweries.

If you go the coastal route south, hit DeGarde & Pelican in Tillamook

Other breweries along the way:

Block 15 in Corvallis
Boneyard in Bend
Crux in Bend
Ale Apothecary in Bend (appt-only but amazing)
Sierra Nevada in Chico
Moonraker in Sacramento
Moksa in Sacramento
Moonlight in Santa Rosa (just opened a new spot)
Russian River in Santa Rosa
Beercraft in Rohnert Park (not a brewery, but one of the best bottleshop/taprooms in the North Bay)
Lagunitas in Petaluma

xp
I'll second the El Prieto, but I doubt Craftsman is available in SF.

also: Great Notion will be out of Ripe cans, they sell out they day they're released. I went to a lesser release and it was a total shitshow. The spot is all right and they'll have most everything on draft (Double Stack is great).