Beer in the new era

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.

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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.

That was my feeling a year or two ago, especially with those beers.

xp Did you get to try Upper Hand? Their BA stuff is draft only and I've never been able to find it.

My favorite drinking pastime is thinking about drinking more.

my craft beer consumption has gone up lately and i've been noticing how shit most of them are

so now i mix it up with non-NA macrobrewed beers that i've never had. quite pleased by german and belgian beers

Had my second Death By Coconut (Oskar Blues) this weekend, having been blown away by it two years ago. First sip, couldn’t tell if it was cartoonishly intense, and then it won me over.

Had another coconut stout in Milwaukee a few weeks ago (Good City), and I think I just really dig this style.

I like it a lot, too. It and Stone's Xocoveza are my two go-to easy drinking seasonal dessert-y porters/stouts.

(And by easy drinking, I mean easier than some barrel aged monsters with significantly higher ABV).

had some beers from Great Divide. they were ok.

For holiday beers, Puyallup River's Mexican Milkshake is delicious. Has a nice body, and the ghost pepper heat pleasantly balances with the Mexican chocolate spices. Unfortunately, no brewery/pub presence to visit. Tried some at multi-tap Beer Star.

bell's winter white ale is really good. nice to have a holiday/winter ale that isn't gross syrupy nutmeg/cinnamon/vanilla dreck

going to go out on a limb and feel free to judge me for crowdsourcing my beer request, but of the beers on tap here, is there anything in particular that's not missable? this place rotates taps often:
http://elbaitshop.com/beer-menu/

damn 212 taps? overwhelming

there's another restaurant with 118 beers on tap that is _only_ Iowa beers, it's ridiculous

Quick 2 minute list:
Anchorage Nelson Sauvin Saison
Bell's Expedition Stout
Bell's Two Hearted Ale
Boon Oude Kriek
Firestone Walker Pivo Hoppy Pils
Founders Breakfast Stout
Left Hand Milk Stout Nitro (never had this variant of it either but would be tempted: Left Hand Bittersweet Imperial Coffee Milk Stout Nitro)
Libertine Summer Breeze
Mikkeller Hallo Ich Bin Berliner Weisse Raspberry
North Coast Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout
Oud Beersel Oude Geuze
Pulpit Rock/Single Speed Coconut Migration
Sierra Nevada Celebration IPA
Stillwater Gose Gone Hopped
Surly Abrasive
Surly Todd The Axe Man
Toppling Goliath Pseudo Sue

much obliged

I've had about half of those, will consider the others

Of the stuff I’ve had, I would get the Avery Amicitia, CW BB Scotch ale, Breakfast stout. Of the stuff I haven’t had, I’d probably start with the Crooked Stave stuff, I’ve liked a lot by them and can’t get them frequently. Other than that, I’d just pick random locals.

They are an untappd verified venue, so I would take the app, look at their whole menu and sort by rating. Just go down and get what I haven’t had.

Twin Cities beer scene seems to be blowing up for Fair State Spirit Foul and Insight Terror Bear tonight. Only had the former, it's good, but prices are kinda out of whack with reality.

When in Georgia, it's worth picking up a sixer of Terrapin's Golden Ale. That stuff was good.

Watching BCBS madness unfold on beer forums everywhere

When I was in Atlanta last week I was in a Total Wine and grabbed three of their four Sierra Nevada Beer Camps, two given as gifts. The Raspberry Sundae from The Bruery sounded kind of gimmicky so I drank it early to get it out of the way, but it is a terrific beer.

sierra nevada's celebration ipa is p good