ErnieMcCracken
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Roasted malt. It's a stout, that's going to offset the IPA-like bitterness you would normally get.
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Roasted malt. It's a stout, that's going to offset the IPA-like bitterness you would normally get.
AlimNassor
Banned
I found Old rassy at a gas station. $10.49 psssh...gas station beers are expensive man. Grocery Stores and liquor stores are waaaay cheaper.
Got bored this afternoon and started working on an app I've had the idea for; several of my favorite beer spots aren't on Untappd so I have to go to their separate web sites to find out what's on tap. App would eventually include untappd/taplister/whatever places but also random ass web sites with shitty HTML pages or custom tap list. Just spent a few hours on it and wrote some parsers for a bunch of local places. Obviously this would eventually all go into a database with accounts and alerts and all that jazz but for now I actually made a page that's useful to me. This basically makes it so I don't have to go to 6-7 different web sites to check these tap lists. Idea would be eventually users could submit links to bottle shop / brewery web sites that aren't currently being listed and I'd write the parser for them (takes a few minutes per site.) Right now I have a forced cache of 5 minutes so I don't end up getting my IP banned as some sort of DDOS bot.
http://chugchugpassbeta.azurewebsites.net/
http://chugchugpassbeta.azurewebsites.net/
distantmantra
Member
Brew Notice is a great local app that has pretty much every place in Seattle (Holy Mountain is the only on your list that BN doesnt have) and has other cities like Portland, Bend, Eugene, San Diego, Vancouver BC, etc.
distantmantra
Member
The nice thing about BrewNotice is the venues themselves update their taplists.
distantmantra
Member
Cool. I really like BrewNotice, it's very helpful when I'm looking for something in particular.
Had two Austin beers tonight with my dinner. Thirsty Goat Amber and the Stash IPA.
Neither was terrible, but they weren't exactly stellar either. Hoping to find a better set of taps tomorrow and Tuesday nights.
Neither was terrible, but they weren't exactly stellar either. Hoping to find a better set of taps tomorrow and Tuesday nights.
I'm totally brownbagging New Belgium's "Shitty Mexican Beer" right now, and I'd rather have another one of these than either of the other two
PhoncipleBone
Banned
Old Rasputin is normally $10 for a four pack here. 
For the same price I can get West Sixth Snake Eyes, which is local. A bit heavier, but seasonal. Old Rasputin is an ole reliable you can find just about anywhere if in a pinch, which is one of the reasons it is so good.
Now if only their barrel aged versions weren't so damn expensive.
Only North Coast barrel aged beer that is worth the price is Old Stock.
For the same price I can get West Sixth Snake Eyes, which is local. A bit heavier, but seasonal. Old Rasputin is an ole reliable you can find just about anywhere if in a pinch, which is one of the reasons it is so good.
Now if only their barrel aged versions weren't so damn expensive.
Only North Coast barrel aged beer that is worth the price is Old Stock.
eyeball_kid
Member
Well, it's also one of the few readily available Russian Imperials left sadly, after the fad came and went. And it's a solid example of the style.
theSlacker
Member
While I drove around everywhere in my area to try to get one bottle and struck out/got laughed at. I've still only ever gotten one bottle of it ever and want to try it again. Thought there would be more with the new small bottle this year. :c
Speaking of Old Rasputin, it pretty much is my gold standard. It may not be the beer that got me started into craft beer but it might as well be the one that got me super into it.
Just looked it up, never heard of it, Jackie O makes something fairly similar though probably not quite as good called Noble Sorrel and I love it.
Good luck man.
AlimNassor
Banned
Had a Zombie Monkey Apocalypse Robust Porter. It tasted odd? A hint of bitter, a hint of chocolate, a hint of coffee and a hint of sour? I kinda enjoyed it.
Hops cut back and strings (well, twine with 44lb load capacity) up. Added organic compost from my spent grain compost heap.
Getting the strings over the 16ft bar required tying a heavy wrench to the end of the rope and getting my daughter (who has the best right arm) to throw it over the top. Bloody dangerous
Getting the strings over the 16ft bar required tying a heavy wrench to the end of the rope and getting my daughter (who has the best right arm) to throw it over the top. Bloody dangerous
sharkmuncher
Member
That's a fall seasonal that used to be one of my favorite examples of that style. They seem to have gone downhill on QC when they moved to their bigger brewery and lost their original brewer, and it sounds like you might have gotten one with a slight infection. Still probably the best beer they make now.
AlimNassor
Banned
Tried ShockTop Orange and it was pretty decent. For a$1.25 it was worth while.
ErnieMcCracken
Member
Yes. They are good.
All I need to know
ErnieMcCracken
Member
I've enjoyed everything I've had from them​. Just grabbed a bottle of the Kriek yesterday.
distantmantra
Member
They're good but expensive. I rarely ever buy bottles and just go hang out at the taproom and drink them on tap. Their IPAs lately have been amazing and the people working there are pretty generous. A couple weeks ago I randomly got free pours of beers they hadn't officially released yet alongside a 4 oz pour of a Hill Farmstead farmhouse/lime radler bottle.
Mitch
Banned
Good to know that Platform distribution is expanding even further. This September their production facility off of I 90 in CLE will have a grand opening/blow out concert party. Gonna be sweet.
At the more popular bottle shops it sold out in a few hours here; but the sheer amount of bottle shops, grocery stores, etc. that carry craft beer here made it easy to get. I live pretty far out in the burbs and between bottle shops and grocery stores there's probably 20 places that get beers like Parabola within a 15 minute radius in any direction. 4-5 of those are less then 5 minutes away. Every few months a new bottle shop pops up too; I get the feeling the bubble might burst at some point lol.
I like it but have been underwhelmed in general by Firestone Walker the last year or so; Helldorado 2015 flew off shelves and was great but the 2016 vintage was not very good, and while I liked Bravo it wasn't anything to write home about. The XX anno was great though.
distantmantra
Member
Your snark is always entertaining.
distantmantra
Member
PNC is so much better. Still have one bottle left from the release.
Yeah had it at Brouwers and they didn't charge THAT much; I think it was $40 or something.
They want $75 at Bottleworks.
distantmantra
Member
Difference is Brouwers was charging for in-house. Bottleworks lets you take it with, and people are probably tempted to shitlord it up and trade/razzle that bottle.
Yeah some beers are cheaper at BW though; like the 2010 Deliverance was $10 more to drink at Brouwers. But like you said, less likely to be shit-lorded maybe lol.
newdayrocks
Member
Picked up some nice beers this afternoon, including a 2014 Sitckee Monkee, to give me a nice jump back in time for my vertical.
Also enjoyed both Silver Moon Brewing's Brokedown Palace and Goose Island's Lolita on tap, both of which were terrific.
eyeball_kid
Member
How is that Bravo? Brown ales always seem tragically unloved by American craft brewers, at least on the west coast.
newdayrocks
Member
I'm not a huge expert on brown ales, but I really enjoyed this year's Bravo. Terrific flavor.
I got to try my first Cycle stout. Was Trademark Dispute Red (Vanilla Chiles and Cinnamon). Guess I was expecting more with word of mouth on their stouts, good but not out of this world, I liked Hunahpu more.A store down here got in Six Point Puff and Lagunitas Born Again Yesterday, hope my local TW got some as well. Puff was fantastic last time around, will grab a four or two.
ErnieMcCracken
Member
I really wish FW would hurry up and distribute to OH already.
Mitch
Banned
Girlfriend and I were just talking about this. I really want to try these beers. I've had their IPA and black IPA down in Houston. Love what I tried so far.
LOL; FW, The Lost Abbey and The Bruery and Avery are probably my favorites in no particular order. Fremont is very close but they don't make the sheer amount of BA beers those 3 do.