ohno like Dieu Du Ciel like down the street from me is bottling?
i searched for beer threads yesterday (b/c i am ahead of the curve obv) and decided on a nb one but pretty much the thing is that i've started not just drinking beer when out but buying it for home, entirely b/c i started working full-time and haven't figured out new yoga schedule and so beer seems like a necessary (and delicious) drug
i like zywiec too but only in poland
― rrrobyn, Friday, 19 October 2007 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
well, they bottle in st. jerome, but yeah, those dudes are bottling :)
― Will M., Friday, 19 October 2007 20:42 (sixteen years ago) link
My local has Stiegl 22oz drafts for $5, and I've been imbibing way too many of those of late...
― dan m, Friday, 19 October 2007 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Right now I am working on 12 of these things: http://boakandbailey.com/?p=228
― caek, Friday, 19 October 2007 20:48 (sixteen years ago) link
"these things" being Boheme 1795, which seems to be a Tesco-rebadged Budvar (but not _the_ Budvar).
― caek, Friday, 19 October 2007 20:49 (sixteen years ago) link
i liek the name.it would get drank
― carne asada, Friday, 19 October 2007 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/4765/photo42gc8.jpg
ONE BERE. GET DOWN MY MOUTH.
― caek, Friday, 19 October 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Label is cheap and nasty and knuckes are hairier than I remember them being.
http://www.thatsfit.com/2007/11/04/after-a-workout-beer-is-best-not-water/
― carne asada, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
lol i am ahead of my time!
― Jordan, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Just what America has been clamoring for (or is that clamatoing for?).
http://beeradvocate.com/im/c_beer_image.gif
Nothing goes with a beer like tomato and clam juice.
― nickn, Thursday, 22 November 2007 06:19 (sixteen years ago) link
or try this.
http://agencyb.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/08/15/bud_clam.jpg
― nickn, Thursday, 22 November 2007 06:21 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah micheladas are great. the way i learned doesn't use clam juice; just v8, a dash of salsa inglesa (worchestershire sauce) and black pepper.
― tremendoid, Thursday, 22 November 2007 07:38 (sixteen years ago) link
So essentially a Bloody Mary with beer instead of vodka? Seems like the result of got-no-vodka desperation.
― nickn, Thursday, 22 November 2007 18:42 (sixteen years ago) link
I think Sam Adams' Honey Porter is the first bad porter I've ever had. (I suppose Saranac Caramel Porter might be wanting as well.)
― Sundar, Thursday, 22 November 2007 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
xp personally, i can't stand vodka but you're probably right.
― tremendoid, Thursday, 22 November 2007 21:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Sam Adams is generally dud.
To Mark upthread, the Rogue Morimoto is quite fine, very similar to a black ale like New Belgium's 1554. I have a bro who drives forklift for them and he brings all kinds of Rogue goodness to this festival we do every summer.
Also on the airplane this monday I saw a TV thing with a BEERAMISU dessert made with Rogue Old Crustacean barley wine and tiramisu.
In the fridge now for turkey day is Starr Hill, a local Virginia brew, and some Yuengling Black & Tan. I get spoiled living in Oregon but these are both turning out to be pretty good.
― sleeve, Thursday, 22 November 2007 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link
labatt makes a porter that i randomly picked up on a cheap-beer night. i've not really had porters before, and i know that some garbage labatt stuff shouldn't turn me off a type of beer entirely, but CHRIST. IT WAS AWFUL. there are only about 5 beers i won't drink if they are put in front of me, and that is one of them.
― Will M., Thursday, 22 November 2007 22:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I just found this, which was interesting: http://appellationbeer.com/blog/the-best-selling-us-beers-circa-2007/
― jaymc, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
(I knew about the overall top 10, thanks to the ILE poll, but the list of just craft beers is interesting. I don't think I've ever heard of Deschutes or Alaskan Amber.)
― jaymc, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Sierra Nevada being #1 is no surprise, but the nice thing is that it's actually an excellent beer.
― Hurting 2, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
BEST SELLING CRAFT BEERS 1 Sierra Nevada Pale Ale 2 Samuel Adams Boston Lager 3 Blue Moon White 4 Samuel Adams Seasonal 5 New Belgium Fat Tire 6 Samuel Adams Light 7 Shiner Bock 8 Widmer Hefeweizen 9 Samuel Adams Brewmasters Collection 10 Redhook ESB 11 Pyramid Hefeweizen 12 Deschutes Mirror Pond Pale 13 Redhook IPA 14 Alaskan Amber 15 Deschutes Black Butte Porter
Kinda interesting, Sierra Nevada outsells Sam Adams Lager? Wow I never would've guessed that. Not surprised in general though that Sam Adams accounts for nearly a third of that list. It's weird, I don't even think of Sam Adams as a "craft brew" at all.
― Mark Clemente, Friday, 21 December 2007 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost- yea I really like Sierra Nevada, it's a perfect standby pale ale. I love how it's so widely available, too.
Blue Moon does not belong on that list. Also, WTF to #s 4 and 9, aren't those comprised of more than one variety?
Alaskan Amber is everywhere in, well, Alaska (and the greater Pacific NW IIRC).
― dan m, Friday, 21 December 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
those beers are like the major label beers of US craft beers.
― Mr. Que, Friday, 21 December 2007 16:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I've always thought of Sam Adams as the Sub Pop of beers.
― jaymc, Friday, 21 December 2007 16:07 (sixteen years ago) link
And yeah, Sierra Nevada is excellent. If I'm in a bar without much selection, SNPA is often my default.
yeah that works, sierra nevada is the touch and go or the matador
― Mr. Que, Friday, 21 December 2007 16:08 (sixteen years ago) link
wait now i am destroying my metaphor.
lol
― Mark Clemente, Friday, 21 December 2007 16:09 (sixteen years ago) link
they don't even have snpa in montreal :(
― Will M., Friday, 21 December 2007 16:22 (sixteen years ago) link
The Alaska Amber was pretty good for a while there. Haven't had any in probably 10 years or more. Hell, I remember when it was called Chinook Amber!
― Oilyrags, Friday, 21 December 2007 16:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I really hate Blue Moon.I love the Redhook stuff
― Bill Magill, Friday, 21 December 2007 16:50 (sixteen years ago) link
yea i'm not really a fan of blue moon
― Mark Clemente, Friday, 21 December 2007 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
surprised there's no rogue in that list.
btw, i finally got around to trying that morimoto soba black ale from rogue. it was good. i think i was hoping for it to be a bit thicker, but it was quite tasting. i find non-stout black beers to be pretty interesting, they're often very sweet tasting but not too heavy. i normally prefer stouts though.
― Mark Clemente, Friday, 21 December 2007 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
*tasty, not tasting.
i had that winter blue moon the other night, i think it's called Full Moon. not too bad
― carne asada, Friday, 21 December 2007 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i definitely second the interest in black non-stouts... i had that german one recently that says something like "black beer, blonde heart" or something on it. kostritzer?
― Will M., Friday, 21 December 2007 16:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I agree that Sierra Nevada is a fine beer - very hoppy, but with a complex, floral character that sets it above other hoppy American-style ales and lagers. It usually tastes fresh too. I don't always want something with such a strong bite to it, so I'll usually take an HB or Pilsner Urquell or even a Harp instead, if those are available - but I'd still rank it over Sam Adams Lager or Brooklyn Lager.
― o. nate, Friday, 21 December 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I never would've guessed that.
i wouldn't either, but perhaps Sam Adams seems more ubiquitous in the Northeast? or the West drinks a lot more beer?
― gabbneb, Friday, 21 December 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
that's possible. if someone's going to drink a craft brew on the west coast, i don't imagine them picking sam adams.
― Mark Clemente, Friday, 21 December 2007 19:11 (sixteen years ago) link
The Economist reports that a looming hops shortage threatens US craft brewers:
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10337782
Scary stuff.
― o. nate, Friday, 21 December 2007 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― Mark Clemente, Friday, 21 December 2007 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.economist.com/images/20071222/20071222issuecovUS160.jpg
not such a merry christmas
― Mark Clemente, Friday, 21 December 2007 19:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Alaskan and Deschutes (as well as Full Sail and Rogue) beers are just ubiquitous here in the NW - to the point that I kind of don't think of them as "craft" beers anymore, they're kind of just the default. Most of them are pretty good.
I tend to like a lot of the Rogues the best, but they don't seem to have one single beer that's always around and on tap at any regular hole-in-the-wall bar. Dead Guy is probably the closest, but is still less common than Mirror Pond, Black Butte, Big Sky Moose Drool, Alaskan Amber / Pale / IPA, Fat Tire, and any of the Widmers.
I have a 22 of Deschutes Hop Trip in the fridge that I think I'm going to enjoy tonight.
― joygoat, Friday, 21 December 2007 23:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Dead Guy seems to be the most common Rogue that you see on tap here in the Midwest. (I felt comfortable enough to include ROGUEDEADGUY in a crossword I made recently, clued as "'Morbid' beer made in Newport, Ore.")
― jaymc, Friday, 21 December 2007 23:05 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm alternating Bell's Two-Hearted and Expedition Stout. They don't sell the stuff in Chicago any more, so it's a nice treat.
― dan m, Sunday, 23 December 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Great Lakes Brewing News National IPA Championship
brackets: http://www.brewingnews.com/nipac/images/NIPAC-RoundONE.gif
I think I've had 8 of these.
― dan m, Friday, 22 February 2008 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
this makes me want to drink more sam adams... to show my support, or something, i guess
― max, Friday, 22 February 2008 19:16 (sixteen years ago) link
I had some magic hat number 9 last night, very nice a fruit beer that isn't sweet, very subtle tang of apricot.
― Ed, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link