BEER

I picked up some new ones for the weekend.

These are all imperial IPA's in 22 oz bottles:

• Anderson Valley 20th Anniversary Imperial IPA
• Avery DuganA IPA
• Butte Creek Organic Revolution XI Imperial IPA
• Southern Tier Gemini

And this one is the single most expensive bottle of beer that I've ever bought (750 ml corked bottle):

• Brooklyn Black Ops (bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout)

Hopefully, it's worth it. I believe I'll be enjoying it during the super bowl.



EDIT: And now with the current 39 messages/page:

99 pages of BEER on the forum, 99 pages of BEER...

I finally found a bottle of Dogfish World Wide Stout at the store a few weeks back.  First time I've ever actually seen it for sale of outside of the GABF.  It was expensive (~$10) but I'll save it for a good occasion when I can share it.  My 1 oz sample at the GABF made it clear there's no way I could drink a whole bottle by myself anyway.  It's seriously strong at 18% ABV. 

Here's a very entertaining 27 minute video of Stone Brewing and Jolly Pumpkin Brewing visiting Nogne Ø in Norway and Brew Dog in Scotland. Very well worth watching the whole thing!

I know this isn't the kind of stuff that gets discussed here, but I got a free Molson Canadian / Team Canada Hockey beer glass at a restaurant tonight.

Nice collectible.

if anyone happens to come to Australia and primarily come to the state of Victoria I reccommend hitting the microbreweries down here. WE have hundreds of them and they are producing some awsome stuff. Forget this fosters shit(that sells like hotcakes overseas and is like poison here) try little creatures beer, and my fav atm knappstein!! GOLDEN!!!!!!

wish good beer was cheaper....

i been spending like too much for beer lol.  

sam adams cherry wheat is my cheap alternative preference

Used to drink A LOT yearlier. Stopped. I was harder to give up drinking vodka, though. 

Brewed my Czech Pilsner at LoneRider Brewing Company a few weeks ago.  It was a wonderful experience.  They let me have a hand in every aspect of brewing it commercially.  From scaling up the recipe, to the actual brewing.  It was a very busy day, and a lot of work, but so much fun.

Should be approved for sale this week, and will be appearing in bars shortly after.  I've had a keg on tap in my apartment since last Wednesday.  It turned out great, and very faithful to the homebrew I originally brewed.  It's a little hoppier, but I much prefer it this way.  The spicy and floral Saaz hop character dominates, with a nice rounded malty backbone makes this a very enjoyable and drinkable quaff.  Very authentic tasting, and FRESH.  The way pilsner is meant to be drank.

We took some pictures of the brew day, you guys can check them out here if you're interested.

I drank some of my dad's Mexican beer.  Very bitter, but very refreshing.

Congrats again, Kev! I'd love to sample some.

br_wildead


Used to drink A LOT yearlier. Stopped. I was harder to give up drinking vodka, though. 

Are you sure you've given it up?

After 2 years I have reconnected with a former co-worker actuary friend who lives nearby, who used to set me up with cases upon cases of his home brew when we worked together.  We enjoyed come of his double bock last night, and took another tour of his brewing facilities in his cellar.  Safe to say he is one of the most accomplished home brewers in the Northeast.  Hard not to be impressed.


 
Gold Medal brew:
 
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs489.ash1/26733_115258428488276_100000123573647_284454_3771524_n.jpg

^^ Very impressive!

Hey dudes, well a good break from being a moron with foods/beer has the sensitivity to beer all but gone for me,  problem was I was having nasty reactions from not always being on my heart burn medication due to running out and getting too friendly with the macro stuff.  

Well it's a good thing too my good friend and former boss has finally got his own shop going(or at least it will be soon) and I have been nominated The Beer Man! My job will entail selling/promoting and tasting brews as well as teaching (which will eventually involve various classes) I am no where as experienced as some of you guys so I am curious about you think I should carry in stock!

If you can avoid Brew Once types of beers for now just because I don't currently have any of the distributor books yet and looking for the stable n steady products from these breweries, any suggestions are cool,  there's a few companies I know of I will probably have but just do not have any experience with their stuff(like Smuttynose) that I have ommitted for now til I can try a few of em.

Here's a basic list what I got from stuff I have had or have seen regularly, I know it's a fairly generic list but this the very first rough draft and was done from the top of my head of stuff I can account for and as far as I know are at least available part of the year.

12oz
Dogfish head
1.60 Minute IPA
2.90 Minute IPA
3.Midas Touch Golden Exilir
4.Indian Brown Ale
5.Chicory Stout
6.Palo Santo Marron
7.Raison D'etre
8."Seasonal" (Aprihop,Punkin etc)

Leinenkugal
1.Sunset Wheat
2.Berrywiess
3.Seasonals
4.Honey wiess
5.Creamy Dark

Victory Road Brewery
1.Hopwallop
2.Stormking Stout
3.Prima Pils
4.Golden Monkey
5.Hopdevil ale

Newport Storm(Costal Exterme Brewing Co.)
1. Newport Storm Rhode Island Blueberry
2.Newport Storm - James (Cyclone Series) -Scotch Ale

Samuel Smith
1.Imperial Stout
2.Nut Brown Ale
3.Oatmeal Stout
4.The Famous Taddy Porter

Rogue
1.Dead Guy Ale
2. St. Rogue Red

Magic Hat
1. #9
2.Circus Boy
3.Lucky Kat
4.Blind Faith

Stone Brewing Co.
1. Arrogant Bastard Ale
2. Double Bastard Ale
3.Stone Ruination IPA
4.Stone Pale Ale
5.Stone Smoked Porter

Oddball Size+Expensive

Dogfish Head
1. 120 minute IPA
2. Chateau Jiahu
3. Black and Blue
4. World Wide Stout
5. Immort Ale
6. Olde School Barleywine
7. Pangaea
8,Red and White
9.Theobroma
10.Fort

Rogue
1.Chocolate Stout
2.Double Dead Guy Ale

Misc
1. Well's Banana Bread Beer
2. Young's Double Chocolate Stout
3. Southern Tier Chokolat Imperial Stout

Brouwerji Huyghe
1.Delirium Nocturnum
2.Delirium Tremens

Stone Brewing Co.
1. Oaked Arrogant Bastard Ale

^Pretty good.  I would looks to carrying as much as you can from Victory.  I've had a lot of their beers, and I can't remember one that I didn't like.

I'm finishing off the last pint of LoneRider's Gunslinger Pilsner (my recipe).  It sold very well at all of the accounts that got it.  They all got multiple kegs, and each bar sold out completely in less than 2 weeks.  I think I'm going to have to make another homebrew batch soon.  I want more.

I had 2 Turtle Doves from The Bruery recently.  This was a phenomenal beer.  The pecans were at a nice level and wasn't overwhelming, and the cocoa added a nice dark chocolate bitterness to the beer.  I have yet to be disappointed by this brewery!

For whatever reason this is my first time visiting the infamous BEER thread.

Has the fact that it's hilariously ironic that this thread (about beer) is one of the biggest threads on MIKE PORTNOY'S forum been discussed??

hahaha

drumline0671



I had 2 Turtle Doves from The Bruery recently.  This was a phenomenal beer.  The pecans were at a nice level and wasn't overwhelming, and the cocoa added a nice dark chocolate bitterness to the beer.  I have yet to be disappointed by this brewery!

Oh that sounds amazing, I will definately poke around see if it's distributed in RI or Mass.  And I have not been disappointed with Victory so I will probably grab anything they have for the store.  

I am sure you have had it but  Delerium Nocturnum is highly recommended by me, it's almost got a candied fruit(natural tasting) quality to it and it seems that it is getting around now, before I only saw it in one store but now I've seen it in at least 4.   Also Southern Tier's Chokolat Imperial Stout is probably the best chocolate stout I've ever had.

I am a milk chocolate kind of guy, I like dark chocolate and all but some times it's way too bitter(I always forget but I think it was the Brooklyn Brewery Dark Chocolate that I actually had to get colder because it was too much)  but this brew is so ridicuously smooth and rich, and it doesn't do subtle, it's chocolate beer and it's damn proud of it! No cold required of course

I'm taking an Entrepreneurship class this quarter for my MBA, and I'm doing the business plan on starting a local craft brewery. I haven't brewed a pint in my life. Any pointers?

Sirr0


Victory Road Brewery
1.Hopwallop
2.Stormking Stout
3.Prima Pils
4.Golden Monkey
5.Hopdevil ale

There's no Road in Victory Brewing Co. Probably a good thing to know if you're going to be teaching people about good beer.

There are obviously tons of other great beers that you could add to your list, but a few popular choices off the top of my head:
Ayinger (pretty much anything they make)
Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
Chimay (all 3)
Newcastle Brown Ale
Paulaner Salvator
Samuel Smith's Winter Welcome Ale
Schneider Weisse (Hefe-weizen and Aventinus)
Sierra Nevada (Pale Ale, IPA, Bigfoot Barleywine, Celebration Ale, Torpedo Ale)
St. Bernardus (Abt 12, Prior 8, Pater 6)
Unibroue (La Fin Du Monde, Maudite, Trois Pistoles)
Victory (anything you missed especially Old Horizontal, V12, Whirlwind Witbier)
Young's Double Chocolate Stout

Latest I had were

"3 Fonteinen" ("3 Fountains")
De Blonde Deugniet ("The Blonde Mischevious")
and
Keizer Karel (Emperor Charles)

great beers!


There's another one I tried, which was quite sublime, a little akin to white wine and very refined. Though it let to a state of inebration....so i kind of forgot its name! :D

Sirr0

drumline0671


I am sure you have had it but  Delirium Nocturnum is highly recommended by me

Love the Delirium beers, but man do they give you a hangover when you've been indulging!

^Yup, surely. Delirium Tremens even has pink elephants in its product design:) .. great beer!!
 

The NEPA Beer Club had our summer party a couple weeks ago. Here's the list of what we drank:

On tap:

Kasteel Rouge
Tripel Karmeleit
St. Bernardus Abt 12
Chimay Cinq
Hacker Pschorr Hefeweizen
Ommegang Hennepin

Bottles, Growlers, etc.:

Alexander Keith's - Red Amber Ale
Brooklyn - Sorachi Ace
d'Achouffe - Houblon Chouffe Dobbelen IPA Tripel
De Glazen Toren - Saison D'Erpe-Mere
De Glazen Toren - Saison Speciaal Eindejaar
De Proefbrouwerij (bvba Andelot) - La Grande Blanche
Dogfish Head - Namaste
Flying Fish - Exit 11 Hoppy American Wheat
Flying Fish - Exit 4 American Trippel
Foothills - Sexual Chocolate Imperial Stout
Harvey & Son - Le Coq Imperial Extra Double Stout
Heavyweight - Perkuno's Hammer Imperial Porter
Issaquah - Menage A Frog Belgian Triple
Kennebec River - IPA
de Blaugies - La Moneuse
Leelanau - Petoskey Pale Ale aged in Oak Barrels
Bayerischer Bahnhof - Leipziger Gose
Lost Abbey - The Angel's Share - Bourbon Barrel-Aged (2008)
Kevin's Homebrew - Mango IPA
Ommegang - Ommegeddon (2007)
Russian River - Consecration
Short's - Anniversary Ale 2009 Blood Orange Wheat Wine
Short's - Bourbon Barrel Sustenance Black Beer
Short's - Nicie Spicie
Short's - Rich's Rye
St. Bernardus - Abt 12 (60th Anniversary "Special Edition")
Surly - Four
Upland - Strawberry Lambic
Victory - Wild Devil
Weihenstephan - Professor Fritz Briem 1809 Berliner Weisse
Weihenstephan - Professor Fritz Briem 13th Century Grut Bier

Here's a pic of many of the dead soldiers.



I am now over 4700 different beers and counting.

currently I am enjoying a Westmalle Dubbel trappist ale....with plans to throw back some Edmund fitzgerald by great lakes tomorrow
 
on a side note, man are you guys lucky to have so much great beer availible to you.  The northern part of WV is pretty thin when it comes to great craft brew, the three distributors up here carry mainly swill (with the exception of Great Lakes, of whcih I've never had a bad beer)  If only we could get Rouge or DFH up here.....I could settle for some Victory as well....

Today was a low beer day for me. Not often do I show up to beer store with just change and stand for 10 mintutes seeing what's the most I could buy for $5.65.   

I only take my drivers license with me to work (there's been theft around the place so I don't take my wallet) and I had 5.65 in change in my backpack and on way back wanted beer bad. Was a hot one outside and in at work.  So got 2 Lowenbrau. Not really a fan them but man after being dehydrated they went down quick and smooth.

So my wife got me a new beer yesterday:
 

 
It was awesome.Highly recommended if anyone here likes Hobgoblin.

Had a very nice Oktoberfest micro from a local brewpub named RAM.

Actually.... apologies about the pic size.

Oh man, this thread makes me feel like a total newb drinking Sam Adams.

Had young's double chocolate on nitro tap the other night at a local bar.....quite awesome.

Sierra Nevada Harvest
Samuel Adams Boston Ale
Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout
Criminally Bad Elf Barley Wine
Chimay Blue Label

That Kinggoblin is lovely, as is hobgoblin.  So glad my local pub has hobgoblin on all the time, plus guest ales.  They also have Pedigree as a house ale but can't stand the smell.  It's like dog breath, no joke.

Cool new TV show about beer coming to Discovery Channel on November 21st! It stars Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head!
http://www.dogfish.com/co...airing-in-november.htm

'Brew Masters' TV Show To Begin Airing In November  

Tue, 10/05/2010 - 2:56pm — mariah
 
So our friends at the Discovery channel just sent over this release about the TV show we've been working on with them... here's the latest from them:
 
EXPERIENCING THE WORLD ONE PINT AT A TIME DISCOVERY CHANNEL RAISES A GLASS FOR BREW MASTERS
 
- Premiering Sunday, November 21 at 10 PM E/P on Discovery Channel -


(Silver Spring, Md.) - Its cold, its comforting, its beer....but for Sam Calagione, founder of one of America's leading craft brewers Dogfish Head Brewery, beer is a passion, a business and a personal quest for best, most imaginative brews. Premiering Sunday, November 21 at 10 PM E/P on Discovery Channel, BREW MASTERS follows Sam and his partners in suds as they travel the country and the world sourcing exotic ingredients and discovering ancient techniques to produce beers of astounding originality.
 
From chocolate to oysters to tomatoes, Sam is constantly pushing his team and himself to innovate and celebrate the amazing world of beer and beer making. The imagination of the Dogfish Head team is matched only by the fun they inject into every facet of their jobs. Beer tasting meetings in the conference room with co-workers, a bocce ball league in the parking lot, filming original rap videos in the brewery plant, its all in a days work for BREW MASTERS.
 
BREW MASTERS taps more than just kegs and barrels, it unlocks a fascinating history of beer making, showcasing the ingenuity and passion behind our love affair with those alluring suds and how it played a role in building civilizations, said Clark Bunting, President and General Manager of Discovery Channel.
 
Running a successful business also requires inspiration, so BREW MASTERS hits the road for the ultimate beer tasting road trip. Sam sets out to recreate ancient ales that have been discovered at sites around the world from Egypt to Peru. He travels to Rome to research old world Italian beers as inspiration for a new site in New York with Mario Batali. A visit to New Zealand introduces the idea of making the first tomato based beer. And back home, Sam is tasked to come up with a commemorative beer called Bitches Brew to celebrate the 40th anniversary release of Miles Davis famous recording.
 
Beer has always been my passion. It is so much more than what you see in the glass. Im excited to share the diligence, daring and creativity that we pour into our work, said Calagione.
 
BREW MASTERS is produced for Discovery Channel by Zero Point Zero Productions. Chris Collins and Lydia Tenaglia are executive producers. Tim Pastore is executive producer for Discovery Channel.

My next door neighbor works for Discovery Channel and I asked him about that show the other day and he had never heard of it.  I mentioned seeing an article similar to the above a few months ago but hadn't seen anything since.  Hopefully it's real (looks legit from the above post) and it doesn't suck.
 
 
and a recent pickup beer-wise for me was Stone's Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale, and it was awesome!

Enjoying victory's prima pils tonight while watching Ghost Rider.

my favorites today are:
 
palm
jupiler
hertog jan
guinness
 

I recently moved to a suburb of Cincinnati and there is this awesome little wine and beer shop a couple towns over, I can't wait to get there and get a couple of the unique brews they carry.

We're having another NEPA beer club party tomorrow and here's the list of beers that should be there:
 
on tap:
1. Paulaner Hefe Wiezen
2. Chimay Tripel
3. Green Flash Double Stout
4. Dogfish Head Word Wide Stout
5. Kasteel Rouge
6. Gulden Draak Vintage
 
Bottles:
1. Bourbon Barrel Aged Fayston Maple Imperial Stout
2. Knockout Blonde
3. Stone Vertical Epic 040404
4. Stone Vertical Epic 050505
5. Stone Vertical Epic 060606
6. Stone Vertical Epic 070707
7. Stone Vertical Epic 080808
8. Stone Vertical Epic 090909
9. Stone Vertical Epic 101010
10. Pozharnik Expresso Russian Imperial Stout
11. Floreffe Prima Melior
12. Vermeer Traditional Dutch Ale
13. Sam Adams Stony Brook Red
14. Sam Adams American Kriek
15. Sam Adams New World Triple
16 White Birch Hookset
17. White Birch Winter Warmer
18. White Birch Cherry Quad
19. Ithaca 13th Anniversary
20. Lawson's Maple Nipple
21. Hill Farmstead Art
22. Hill Farmstead Anna
23. Captain Lawrence Barrel Select
24. Brewery De Ranke, Bitter XX (2005)
25. Weyerbacher, Riserva (2009)
26. Dodici 25
27. Sierra Nevada Estate
 
Based on past experience there will most likely be a bunch of additional beers show up as well!

^^ How does one organize something like this? I would love to start something similar in my area.
 
On another note: Had dinner at a local brewpub on Wednesday (RAM for any Chicago folks) and had their latest seasonal; a dark Irish red that was absolutely fabulous.

DTD - I believe our group was started by a few friends who then spread the word and got others to join them. I found out about them a couple years ago when I happened to be sitting in a local good beer bar and struck up a conversation with a guy who happened to be in the group. We do beer case splits every few months and have a few gatherings throughout the year.
 
A good resource besides word of mouth would be beeradvocate.com. They have regional forums such as US - Great Lakes where you can post about your group or even see if someone else already has a group that you may want to join.