Beer in the new era

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

The problem with Psuedo Sue is that a cannery in Florida contract brews it and then the cans get stuck in distribution centers for weeks and the beer is good but totally inferior to the bombers available at the brewery or around Iowa (did a side by side earlier this year).

Two Hearted has this amazing balance of floral bouquet on the nose and bitter hops and sticky maltiness on the finish.

Jai Alai is not worth the effort of tracking down for me, feel like a hundred breweries make that same beer, as fine as it is.

All Day is whatever. Probably best drank as a flavorful substitute when nothing else is available except adjunct lagers.

Somewhere way the fuck upthread is me extolling the greatness of Two Hearted. Still my favorite beer even though I don't buy it a lot anymore.

Picked up Indeed's Fresh Hop PA last night on the way home. It was canned in the morning and in my fridge by 6. Very good but it could have used a little more booze imho (4.9%).

i saw that on the shelf just now but the light body put me off. got a 4 pack of surly wet instead, quite delicious

we couldn't get Bells down here in the Confederacy until a few years ago.

Must admit I am a bit let down by Jai Alai but it's the best beer from Florida.

Gotta admit that the IPA thing is kind of out of control, there are way too many but the upside is that the localization makes it fun to do taste tests when traveling.

Why is it that double IPAs usually disappoint?

two hearted would join the extremely short list of shelf ipas i bother with if it were distributed here.

https://punchdrink.com/articles/how-other-half-brewery-become-official-beer-wall-street-finance/

Sierra Northern Hemisphere is very nice

Darkness Day was surprisingly laid back! No hassle to get in, quickly moving lines for food and drink, and I bought a couple of bottles and could have had more if I had felt like dropping the cash. After the hell stories I've heard about Dark Lord Day and the like, it was positively refreshing.

just found out my neighborhood bar/restaurant has a tuesday special: 20oz of Bell’s Two Hearted for $5

Greenpoint ‘how austere’
Sick to death of these kinds of names, but this is a cross between a stout and a sour. You can kind of taste whichever you’d like but the other one finishes.

Celebration Ale is out! And snagged some Backwoods Bastard, just cracked one. good chilly sunday beer roster

love Celebration Ale !

i would totally try this https://twitter.com/Gansettbeer/status/926109148651061248