Beer Thread

[NoCalMike]

I hope my local beer shop still has this in stock by the time i get paid next week!

 

[Red Baron]

I had Pigs Ass Porter last night, and it pretty good. I'm not a huge Porter beer fan in the first place, but I did like the caramel taste and it was very smooth to drink.

 

[King Kamala]

Harkening back to the winter beer discussion, this is my go to if I'm not completely broke (and will drink whatever)

Just a really solid, dependable winter stout.

I was drinking the Geary's Winter a lot for some time but the maple syrup flavor gets a bit overbearing after a while.

 

[Smartly Pretty]

I had the displeasure of drinking this garbage at a show last night. This is the most watery, thin, flavorless, Millier Liteiest stout I've ever had, and it's in the running for grossest thing I've ever consumed. This beer tastes like someone filled a mason jar with the collective testicle sweat of the George Washington Middle School basketball team and mixed it with NesQuick. Would not recommend to anyone, for any reason, ever.

 

[King Kamala]

I like it! More than Guinness in terms of the big stouts.

I did a show last night at Rising Tide Brewery in town last night. Woah mama! They had this beer, Ursa Minor, which is a weizen stout which was real, real nice.

 

[SFH]

Pretty much done with IPAs at this point. I had a mostly lukewarm affair with Jockamo IPA by Abita brewing company here in LA for a few years. But even with that it had to be ice cold and the second it got above "frosty" I lost my taste for it.

This 6 pack from a Texas brewing company (Pedernale) my aunt-in-law got me for Christmas took me until 2 days ago to get through 5 of them. The 6th bottle is staying in storage until my beer tasting party I'm throwing late spring.

 

[claydude14]

I've been killing Natty Daddys lately. Good bang for your buck.

 

[Krankor]

I plan on hitting up quite a few breweries this summer during my travels.

I went to Evil Czech Brewery recently. It's some what local so I'll go back sometime and try out a bunch more that I didn't this time. They have a couple of stouts that I want to try that they were out of.

The beers I did try were:

"Voodoo" Vanilla Rye Porter
"Bobblehead" American Wheat
"Rooster" American Brown
"Dracula's Bite" Habanero Black IPA

They had some apple beer I had but I forgot the name because I was already drunk by that point. The Voodoo was pretty good. I had several of those and would so again. Bobblehead was nothing to get excited about. Rooster was drinkable and reminded me of drinking New Castle. The Dracula's Bite was nasty as fuck. I had a feeling it was going to be interesting but holy shit it was undrinkable. It tasted like a mixture of burnt hair, smoldering plastic, and bile. It took about 10 minutes to get rid of the after taste. Apparently it's an 'acquired' taste. All and all some pretty good brews and pretty good eats.

 

[Star Ocean 2]

IPAs are quite the fad now. The beer aisles that used to have a bunch of different varieties are now just various IPAs.

 

[AA484]

Yeah, the market is oversaturated with IPA's now. Are they easy to make or something? Or are they just trendy? My girlfriend is somewhat hipsterish but hates IPA.

 

[Incandenza]

Man, I was lovin' IPAs before they became trendy. Fuck all y'all

 

[Edwin]

I wouldn't call it a fad so much as a thriving market. On top of the general proliferation of craft beer, IPA is one of the styles that's been socialized to the general for a long time; Sierra Nevada's been a national brand you can buy at 7/11 or any grocery store for forever. Craft outfits with regional brand loyalty like Harpoon, Bell's, and New Belgium have also been feeding IPA to their home states for a while. It's also a much shorter jump from Bud Light to IPA than it is to, say, porters, or sours.

There's also significant set of ravenous hopheads who hunt down the biggest, strongest IPAs they can find, so a lot of brewers are willing to accommodate them as easy money.

 

[NoCalMike]

Yeah, I just recently had Sierra Nevada's white IPA....so good.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Yo I bet you could maybe connect the rise in popularity of high ABV beers like IPAs to the stress and malaise that have come to characterize life in 2010s America.

 

[Incandenza]

There's also the issue of individual states relaxing their blue laws. It was until something like 2005/2006 until beer could be sold in Georgia with abv in excess of 8%.

 

[Precious Roy]

Yeah, I just recently had Sierra Nevada's white IPA....so good.

I picked up this 12 pack

$14 and change + deposit

had the Nooner and was about to try the White. Sierra is a good reliable reasonably priced (and widely available) brewery. Their beers rarely blow me away (I do quite like the Torpedo IPA in this 12 pk, first time with the other 3) but they rarely disappoint

 

[Incandenza]

Their rye IPA is decent. I can usually get a sixer at Publix for $8, so a drinkable beer for the value.

 

[Gert]

Got a growler of this on Saturday...god damn this is a great beer. Hard to believe it is an 11% ABV beer. Great taste and it was 12 dollars for a growler. Southern Tier makes some great beers.

 

[NoCalMike]

Ruthless Rye is excellent.

 

[Edwin]

Gert's post reminded me that I have a Southern Tier Creme Brûlée stout in the back of the fridge. Good work, Gert!

 

[SFH]

Had 7 people split a gifted beer the other day, a 11 ounce "Skull Splitter."




I figured if I didn't like it I'd be able to share it and if I did like it, I could just get more later. 6 of 7 of us did not like it. It reminded a few of us of bubbly soy sauce. The 1 that liked it was a really proper 74 year old lady who loved it. "I really like it!" with a voice inflection every other word. "If I didn't have to drive I'd drink all of it!"

 

[Edwin]

I haven't had Skullsplitter in years! Like, maybe a decade. It was one of my craft beer gateways. Scotch ales are good, albeit harsh.

 

[Alfie]

Skullsplitter was one of my go-to getting unreasonably smashed drinks once my crew matured out of getting fucked up on Budweiser with a detached sense of self-deprecation. Love it.

 

[NoCalMike]

I picked up a bottle of this on a whim, mostly out of curiosity. Will be drinking it tonight after dinner, will let ya'll know what I think.

 

[NoCalMike]

 

[Precious Roy]

I picked up a bottle of this on a whim, mostly out of curiosity. Will be drinking it tonight after dinner, will let ya'll know what I think.

How was this? I've never seen a "high end" specialty blue moon

 

[Precious Roy]

picked up some of these for the weekend

p good. 7.3% abv and super drinkable and refreshing, like a strong session IPA. First Uinta beer I've had I think. I was intrigued by a brewery based in Utah.

 

[Edwin]

They make one of my favorite black lagers, the Baba. And it has a sheep on it!

 

[BlackFlagg]

http://www.space.com/26441-bells-brewery-beer-planets-series.html

 

[Gert]

Uranus: Black Double IPA.

Should be fun to try all of those. I did the brewery tour at Bell's. It was pretty cool and the brewpub that they have attached to it is awesome.