Any reason why ILM is so quiet these days?

Yeah Monks is the bomb. I loved living in Philly.

Sixpoint Jammer > Otra Vez

Xp

yes, monk's the bar but also monk's the beer! so good.

rodenbach grand cru....mmmmmmmm. gonna get all sour tomorrow. it's a date! fuck cigarettes. i really want a cigarette...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gose#/media/File%3AGoseLeipzig.jpg

I wonder what this tastes like, if it's like the goses I've had on tap in American bars

Oh yeah yes to rodenbach grand cru and monk's beer. Legit sours are amazing. I think their appeal might be limited -- goses I can see blowing up, and this is a website where we are supposed to examine culture/evaluate trends/stay relevant

For instance Cinammon Horchata Ale is good as a metaphor

this is where i worked. i think the dutch guy sold it though. it was a really hard place to work! it was like a cave in back. and it would get insanely busy on the weekend. people would come from new jersey to buy beer. this was before there was good beer everywhere.

http://www.fooderybeer.com/

i switched to days there and the owner would just watch me all day on the hidden camera he had in his office upstairs. i would get a million phone calls from him. everything had to be just so.

I had a pretty good nitro spiced stout at the movies tonight.

Oh yeah yes to rodenbach grand cru and monk's beer. Legit sours are amazing. I think their appeal might be limited -- goses I can see blowing up, and this is a website where we are supposed to examine culture/evaluate trends/stay relevant

The Grand Cru and their yearly vintage releases are absolutely my favorite beers of all time.

how does ilx feel about these guys?

http://gearpatrol.com/2015/03/13/best-american-wild-ales/

guys=american wild ales

I've only had supplication. It's nice but one of those hard to find beers so I wouldn't go out of my way for it

Will try to do a little more drinking than usual this weekend

i think ilm needs more women but that time has probably come and gone? idk.

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 6 February 2017 19:40 (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cue 50000 posts about steely dan & ipas

jsl :/

I joined in 2007. I was at one of the lowest points in my life and was googling things like "I am sad" and "I am lonely" etc. One day I made a conscious decision to turn that around and google things that I actually liked instead, and I googled "I love music". It was a move that exponentially enriched my life.

― how's life, Friday, 10 February 2017 00:42 (eight hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i know scott remarked on this already but i just want to say orson_welles_clap.gif

I posted 15 years ago with a thread that reflected my age and naivete. I got made fun of for liking Tori Amos and some ilxors were pretty mean. Didn't post for 15 years but lurked the whole time and honestly love this place.

― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Friday, 10 February 2017 01:08 (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh man! :/

you know some of the most 'canonical' ILM posters ever absolutely ADORE tori amos

lol I wasn't here 15 years ago but a couple of years after that one of my motivations was to set all you people right about Tori Amos

to no avail though - Tim F has to be one of ILM's greatest tastemakers, rightfully able to get most of the board to follow him wherever he goes, but even when he posts about Tori it's met with tumbleweeds (outside of the hardcore fans)

Boys for Pele >>>>> your fave

Only been lurking/posting for about five years but this place always seemed way more in to Tori than anywhere else.

I joined in 2007. I was at one of the lowest points in my life and was googling things like "I am sad" and "I am lonely" etc. One day I made a conscious decision to turn that around and google things that I actually liked instead, and I googled "I love music". It was a move that exponentially enriched my life.

this is so sweet & heartwarming, & should def be the advert that ilx aspires to deserve

I've been listening to Tori quite a bit lately. I have had a few beers in the past week or so: PBR, Tecate, oh and a Lagunitas something or other that was free at work.

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There is a coriander bitter called umbel that you see in pubs round here, it is not v nice

those sound like the beer equiv of jute gyte

not sour enough

jute gyte is closer to rodenbach grand cru (and i've long associated it with the complexity and obsession-forming violence of higher-tier belgian sour) - no idea how it was conceived of or made but it's the greatest stuff out there. and yes, xposted by ogmor there in concordance

novelty ales* are more like the weird wonky artpop i get gleefully distracted by every year - see for instance blanche blanche blanche

*i appreciate that yesterday's novelty ales can become tomorrow's neoclassical masterpieces and indeed the trend towards gooseberry gose is already creating a formidable canon, but i'm essentially talking about those ales whose value is anecdotal rather than savoury

that does blanche x3 down rather though. the analogy is increasingly flawed the further one escapes formalism

or perhaps blanche x3, connan mockasin etc are among the gooseberry goses and the coriander umbels are the ones that don't stick despite an initial flourish - ingenious gimmicks like the band pivot from a while back

it doesn't quite settle along esoteric vs exoteric lines, but we are in the realm of high formal anguish

the beer that would least fit my personality would be.....a smoked porter. with bacon.

i am definitely a sourpuss.

high five, smoked beer is repulsive

(usually)

wrong

http://www.schlenkerla.de/indexe.html

In the middle of the old part of Bamberg, directly beneath the mighty cathedral, one can find the historic smoked beer brewery Schlenkerla. First mentioned in 1405 and now run by the Trum family in the 6th generation, it is the fountain of Original Schlenkerla Smokebeer (in German language it's called "Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier"). The smoked beer is here at the brewery tavern still being tapped directly from the wooden barrel according to old tradition.

"Even if the brew tastes somewhat strange at the first swallow, do not stop, because soon you will realize that your thirst will not decrease and your pleasure will visibly increase."

i've posted this before but it bears repeating.

that was definitely the first smoked beer i ever had. i didn't have too many though.

me too. my girlfriend loves it though

i wonder which musical ideology that parting aphorism lines up most snugly to

every time i read their site i just imagine myself strolling through bamberg on some cold winter day and wandering into the brewery to a big roaring fire and some wurst and beer, a sort of vision of the afterlife.

playing an oompah version of 'Peg'

reminds me of..........i had one of those strange experiences recently where i put on a CD to check something out that i remember people raving about years ago and i kinda made one of those faces while it was playing like: ehhhhh, yeahhhhh, okayyyyyy.....i GET this. like a jaded jerk. and then a day later i thought....hmmm, MAYBE i'll play it one more time. heard one song that sounded better than the first time i played it. a day later i played that CD ten times in a row. and i was like WOW talk about the slow burn! it came out in 2003. an American indie rock album.

and that CD was.....

i don't know if its the smoked beer of indie rock records though.

i'll give you ten guesses.

Dumpy's Rusty Nuts

close. wait, not close.

The Wrens

you got it!

two guesses. very impressive.

Now I can die.

Now we can all die.

Dumpy's Rusty Nuts has become my default answer to all bands questions these days.

they are probably better than Pavement or whoever.