I tend to agree. It was a great sour, but not for $14.
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I tend to agree. It was a great sour, but not for $14.
Disappointed in Shipyards variety pack (the cover lied to me and I got applehead instead of the IPA)
Thinking of picking up something nice soon.
Gimme recommendations. Stuff I can find in Boston. Might try a different variety of Founders, only had their All Day IPA and Red Rye PA
I like IPA's the best, love me hoppy stuff
Some Porters and Stouts
Pale Ales, Refreshing lagers
I don't like stuff thats grassy/spicy
I don't like stuff with a high Alcohol value. Anything other 7-8 is kinda eh. I don't like boozey beers.
Thinking of picking up something nice soon.
Gimme recommendations. Stuff I can find in Boston. Might try a different variety of Founders, only had their All Day IPA and Red Rye PA
I like IPA's the best, love me hoppy stuff
Some Porters and Stouts
Pale Ales, Refreshing lagers
I don't like stuff thats grassy/spicy
I don't like stuff with a high Alcohol value. Anything other 7-8 is kinda eh. I don't like boozey beers.
MacGurcules
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Not quite sure what's available in Boston. But if you can get Founders, Founders Porter is a fantastic archetypical porter and Breakfast Stout is pretty much everything you want in a dark beer. It's fairly boozy, but really accessible for how big it is.
From looking at a list, I see that maybe you get Two Brothers. They're from my neck of the woods. I like their SideKick Extra Pale Ale. Very bright with a juicy hop profile. It's a great, easy-drinking, warm weather beer.
I'll be on the lookout for it. Been wanting to try the Founders Porter.
I can second that recommendation.
We just started getting Founders in Oklahoma and I've had it a few times. Very enjoyable.
That's about right on price for this year, GI increased the prices on all the "sisters". Most are in the $25-29 range now.
It is a very good beer though, and this years was aged in the barrels longer than previous years. I think it is worth splurging for one bottle.
Not 'all' of them. Any of the 80/20 blends are still $10 and under, like Sofie, my personal favorite.
Well they didn't have any founders in today but I got an expired six pack of Casco Bay IPA for 5 bucks. In my experience expiration date doesn't change much. Especially for that price difference.
Picked up Bear Republic Red Rocket Ale bottle and something called Two Roads Honeyspot Road White IPA.
The Red Rocket was pretty good. Love me some reds. Forgot to mention that, if you have any good red reccomendations lemme know
Picked up Bear Republic Red Rocket Ale bottle and something called Two Roads Honeyspot Road White IPA.
The Red Rocket was pretty good. Love me some reds. Forgot to mention that, if you have any good red reccomendations lemme know
This years is a 750ml according to folks on BA. I heard previous releases were 22oz though. So this night have been a 2012 (or Wendy this was released last) or they are wrong
If its 2014 then $25-30 send to be common.
Matilda and Sofie are still priced well. I don't think Goose Island includes them with the label "sisters" though.
Yeah Goose Island is trying to market these as if they are a fine bottle of wine. With the new 750 champagne bottles, and fancy labeling I think they are marketing these as a higher class drink.
Judging by the way they are selling, I'd say they made the right business decision. I still think it is too much for beer.
Can't the same be thrown at the likes of wine given you can get Charles Shaw for $2.49 or so and many for <$10? Not that I really want to spend $25-30 on either wine or beer, but it seems more an image instilled by the likes of Bud, Miller, and Coors being cheap and the most popular options out there when certain beers would be more costly to make and sell I'd think.
EDIT: Though by the same token some will pretty up a product and sell as premium when it's not THAT expensive. Universal truths I guess.
i had it on tap the night i had the bcbs coffee, so i think maybe the 2014 isnt out yet.
It's out in some areas. Pretty sure New York has received it, and it is out around Chicago. Should be hitting other distro areas soon.
distantmantra
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I've got an Abacus (2011) that I need to open one of these days...
yes, very good beer, inexpensive and easy to find around here
Valkyr Junkie
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scary path, once the boozy stouts go down really easily you enter dangerous territories
bumbillbee
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Drinking a Deschutes Hop Henge right now. It's been a while since I had anything by Deschutes and a while since I had a big sweet DIPA like this but it's enjoyable. Kinda like a sweeter, boozier Sculpin.
I wish I were more in the mood for big boozy stouts/barleywines but it's so fucking hot here and will continue to be for a while. There's not a lot better than sipping on a nice barrel-aged stout or barleywine on a cold winter night but LA doesn't exactly get a lot of nights like that.
I wish I were more in the mood for big boozy stouts/barleywines but it's so fucking hot here and will continue to be for a while. There's not a lot better than sipping on a nice barrel-aged stout or barleywine on a cold winter night but LA doesn't exactly get a lot of nights like that.
sharkmuncher
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Shenanigans, pretty good. A friend brought some over and we went into full stoop kid mode.
I'm a big fan of Indeed. Awesome tap room solid beers. Up there with Dangerous Man and Surly for the MSP breweries.
MacGurcules
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My girlfriend really likes their Strawberry Lager and I must admit, when I'm in the mood, it goes down pretty easy.
codswallop
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Melbourne (Australia) has a ton of beer events this week as part of Good Beer Week. I went to a sour beer event last night which had a few beers from four brewers. One brewer had a basic beer base and brewed three different batches - one with lactic, one with acetic and one with malic acids. Very interesting to compare the three. The acetic one was pretty funny, he'd used 2L of the cheapest vinegar he could find in a 20L batch.
One of the standouts of the night was a light peach sour, which was started in 2011 and racked onto peaches a year later. Incredibly complex, really amazing stuff. The other was a soured stout made from second runnings of a Russian Imperial, racked onto blackberries after 11 months for a further three months.
Really eager now to kick up my sour beer production, only have one at the moment but might find ways to increase this by brewing bigger beers and having a crack at light ones with second runnings.
One of the standouts of the night was a light peach sour, which was started in 2011 and racked onto peaches a year later. Incredibly complex, really amazing stuff. The other was a soured stout made from second runnings of a Russian Imperial, racked onto blackberries after 11 months for a further three months.
Really eager now to kick up my sour beer production, only have one at the moment but might find ways to increase this by brewing bigger beers and having a crack at light ones with second runnings.
MacGurcules
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I'm sure you've already done the reading, but a sour mashed Berliner Weiss can come together in as little as a few weeks. Not as complex or satisfying in the same way as a solid, aged Flanders. But they're good for keeping a little sour fix on hand while your more complex sours sit around for months-to-years.
distantmantra
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Off to Bend (ie. Crux, Boneyard, Ale Apothecary, Deschutes, 10 Barrel, etc.) this weekend, with quick stops in Portland on the way there and back. Lunch at Hair of the Dog on Tuesday.
_illmatic_
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If anyone else is in the Baton Rouge, LA area Calandro's on Perkins has Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout and India Ale for $1.00 for 18.7 oz bottles. I deff grabbed a few hand fulls for myself.
PlayALLtheGames
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I just had a Victory Hop Session IPA at a beer tasting event. Holy shit. Might be one of the best beers I've ever tried. Low on alc (4.5%) but with that taste I could make up for it.
Problem is: I can't fucking find it anywhere!
Problem is: I can't fucking find it anywhere!
codswallop
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Thanks for the response. Yeah, I've already got a Berliner Weisse on the brew schedule for when it gets warmer. I haven't had a truly good one since I was in Berlin last year.
I'm planning on aging 2-3 months and want it ready for (Australia's) summer, so will be brewing it in July/August. Going to leave the mash tun in the shed outside over a weekend I think, the wife won't be happy with the smells coming out of it!
The World of Beer by me got a keg in of KBS last week so I had to check it out. To me it's miles ahead of their regular Breakfast Stout. I thought it had much less of the strong coffee taste, and more of the oak and vanilla bourbon taste from the barrel aging.
They also had a Goose Island Bourbon County night where they had bottles of the Sout, Coffee Stout, and Barleywine. Ending up costing about $10 a bottle.
They also had a Goose Island Bourbon County night where they had bottles of the Sout, Coffee Stout, and Barleywine. Ending up costing about $10 a bottle.