Beer in the new era

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

fuck treehouse is great, bit of hyperbole but i feel like why ever buy other beer eh?

welcome to my world dude. i live abt 30 minutes away now and my beer stock is never less than 80% treehouse.

Hate both of you tbqh

I've only had Green and Haze, a couple of years ago. Would like to try more. I couldn't imagine just buying on breweries beer all the time tho, just isn't one that would provide me everything I need around here.

yea im 45 min away, contemplating an xtra fridge

November around here is beer insane. Festival of Barrel Aged Beer this weekend, Revolution releasing Deth’s Tar/Cafe Deth/ Deth by Cherries (13% barrel aged beer in 12 ounce cans), Abraxas release, bourbon county release, Half Acre Benthic release, etc. Wallet takes quite the hit.

Intended to buy fries but got the sour instead

Out of nowhere I got two bottles of Black Note on the way home this afternoon, enjoying one now and saving the other for a special occasion. I've been drinking Bell's products for 20 years and this is the first time I've had it. It's basically the most balanced BBA stout I've tasted, not as balls out as BCBS but definitely a more barrel/bourbon flavor present than say Dragon's Milk. Great body too. I wish there were more than two bottles left at my local! Gonna have to lurk and see if they put out any more…

Love Black Note.

Black Note's been a tough one to find.

I have a ton of stuff I've collectedhoardedaccumulated, and now I don't know what to do with it. That's the downside of these huge beers. I just can't seem to make a dent.

I've loved everything I've had from 18th Street and Noon Whistle these days. I keep drinking that stuff.

I have a ton of stuff I've collectedhoardedaccumulated, and now I don't know what to do with it. That's the downside of these huge beers. I just can't seem to make a dent.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, November 10, 2017 8:19 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i am really limiting my purchase of ageable beers these days b/c i never really find the occasion to drink them.

I've made a huge dent in my beer, didn't buy anything unless I was going to drink it within a few days. Pulling vintages every week for no reason at all. Probably down to 30 to 40 bottles? BCBS will up that a little bit, but that is always worth it.

Peak Evergreen anyone?

This thread should probably be segregated into east coast / Midwest / west coast
Not that Ilx has that many posters thoうgh

I've made a dent in my little beer collection. Moving helped, I basically drank/shared all the large format bottles before packing. I do have 4 year verticals of KBS and Backwoods Bastard, and I've got 2 year verticals going of Central Waters' BBA stout, barleywine, quad, and scotch ale. I might drink the Founders during Tgiving and/or Xmastime, but I'm tempted to keep them going for one more year. I'll probably keep the CW going for a while.

Peak Evergreen IPA

Dan that sounds like a plan
Favorite pastime while drinking?

I did FOBAB all wrong last night, drank way too much. Most everything was awesome, but it all blends together once you’ve sampled 40 different beers.