http://iwastesomuchtime.com/on/?i=71084
― Mordy, Tuesday, 9 April 2013 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone get any Founders KBS? I was able to luck into 4 bottles. This is actually only the second time I've had it. Last year I overpaid for a 4 year vertical at a bar. I don't think I was able to gain a real appreciate of the beer in that way. This year being able to savor a whole bottle, I like it much more. All the flavors are balanced so well.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 11:47 (eleven years ago) link
nope, getting it was awful this year. every store got one case or less, tweeted about it, and sold them all in the middle of the day.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 12:28 (eleven years ago) link
my store didn't get any
― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
i will console myself with my cellar full of bourbon county stout :(
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
Top 50 U.S. Craft Brewing Companies(Based on 2012 beer sales volume)
Rank - Brewing Company / City State1 - Boston Beer Co. Boston MA2 - Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Chico CA3 - New Belgium Brewing Co. Fort Collins CO4 - The Gambrinus Co. San Antonio TX5 - Deschutes Brewery Bend OR6 - Lagunitas Brewing Co. Petaluma CA7 - Bell's Brewery, Inc. Galesburg MI8 - Matt Brewing Co. Utica NY9 - Harpoon Brewery Boston MA10 - Stone Brewing Co. Escondido CA11 - Brooklyn Brewery Brooklyn NY12 - Boulevard Brewing Co. Kansas City MO13 - Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Milton DE14 - Abita Brewing Co. Abita Springs LA15 - Shipyard Brewing Co. Portland ME16 - Alaskan Brewing Co. Juneau AK17 - New Glarus Brewing Co. New Glarus WI18 - Long Trail Brewing Co. Bridgewater Corners VT19 - Great Lakes Brewing Co. Cleveland OH20 - Firestone Walker Brewing Co. Paso Robles CA21 - Anchor Brewing Co. San Francisco CA22 - Rogue Ales Newport OR23 - Summit Brewing Co. St. Paul MNt. 24 - Full Sail Brewing Co. Hood River ORt. 24 - SweetWater Brewing Co. Atlanta GA26 - Victory Brewing Co. Downingtown PA27 - Oskar Blues Brewery Longmont CO28 - Cold Spring Brewing Co./Third Street Brewhouse Cold Spring MN29 - Flying Dog Brewery Frederick MD30 - Founders Brewing Co. Grand Rapids MI31 - Ninkasi Brewing Co. Eugene OR32 - CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries, Inc. Chattanooga & Louisville TN/CO33 - Odell Brewing Co. Fort Collins CO34 - Bear Republic Brewing Co. Cloverdale CA35 - Stevens Point Brewery Stevens Point WI36 - Blue Point Brewing Co. Patchogue NY37 - Southern Tier Brewing Co. Lakewood NY38 - Lost Coast Brewery and Cafe Eureka CA39 - Karl Strauss Brewing Co. San Diego CA40 - BJ's Chicago Pizza & Brewery, Inc. Huntington Beach CA41 - Breckenridge Brewery Denver CO42 - North Coast Brewing Co. Fort Bragg CA43 - Left Hand Brewing Co. Longmont CO44 - St. Louis Brewery, Inc./Schlafly Beers St. Louis MO45 - Saint Arnold Brewing Co. Houston TX46 - Ballast Point Brewing Co. San Diego CA47 - Big Sky Brewing Co. Missoula MT48 - Allagash Brewing Co. Portland ME49 - Uinta Brewing Co. Salt Lake City UT50 - Tröegs Brewing Co. Hershey PA
― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
who the hell is the gambrinus company
― My Chemical Romance did 9/11 (jjjusten), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
also that list is really surprising in a lot of ways, did not expect to see deschutes, lagunitas and stone in the top ten, or new glarus to be bigger than summit. crazy
― My Chemical Romance did 9/11 (jjjusten), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
gambrinus is evidently the umbrella company for shiner bock and some other stuff?
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not surprised to see Lagunitas in the top 10 considering that multiple varieties are available in my semi-crappy corner liquor store (ditto Stone, Southern Tier, Left Hand)
― relentless technosexuality (DJP), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
Lagunitas is huge and only going to get bigger when they open their Chicago brewery. That facility along is planning to make 1.7 million barrels a year. By comparison, the Petaluma based brewery currently makes about 700k barrels a year and that covers their entire current distribution.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
Surprised to see BJ's on there; as far as I know they only sell it at their restaurants.
― nickn, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
i heard bad things about Evo Spring: Sprung but the one i drank today was really very good. maybe they finally got the recipe working in 2013?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 10 April 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
i'm really loving saisons atm. i had an incredible saison at manayunk brewpub (i grabbed a growler of it for a big lunch - it was very well received) - it was this one: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/695/79257 ; and right now i'm drinking a pretty delicious yards saison. any other recommendations? i wasn't super impressed w/ the starr hill saison, and the goose island sofie was good but not as good as the manayunk or york.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
get thee some fantome
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 17 April 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.freep.com/article/20130423/NEWS06/304230025
As a Bell's-loving native of Upper Michigan, this makes me very happy.
― a monolithic testament to shiftlessness and lost productivity (dan m), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
hmm, wonder if they'll expand their distro
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
finding lately that 6% alcohol is kind of a magic number for me -- most beers start to taste better in that range all other things being equal. Upper limit of magic range is probably somewhere in the mid 9's -- after that it seems a lot harder to overcome the booziness with flavor.
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 16:59 (eleven years ago) link
Stuck in a small village in France that only sells Kronenbourg (their very own's Bud) and going throught that list was a dagger to my heart.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
Unless I'm going session, I really want 8+. 6 would probably just piss me off.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:01 (eleven years ago) link
france's lack of good beer and good coffee is surprising
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
picon biere all the way when in france
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
The word on the street is that Alsace and Le Nord have good microbreweries, I'm checking how to get my hands on them. i'm going to a bigger city this weekend (Toulouse) and try to find anything respectable, at this point I'll settle for London Pride.
I also heard of a good corsican beer that uses chesnut called La Pietra.
Good coffee is now avaible in Paris, but parisians will tell you it's an indie-american-slim-jean-globalised vision of coffee. I miss Montreal.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
it is catching on in france and italy i think. a local wine shop sells a french pale ale, can't remember what it's called tho and they've been sold out anytime i've asked. saw somewhere talking about italian beers too recently. not sure if it'd just be weak imitations of better beers though.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 23 April 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
Saw this monstrosity in my beer aisle the other day:
http://www.clownshoesbeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Label_Tramp_450x315.jpg
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't locate many amazing bières d'Alsace when we were in Strasbourg recently, though we didn't drink any stinkers either. Generally speaking the French beer I've enjoyed most has been from Flanders, unsurprisingly.
Have had some v good Italian beer, Brew Fist springs to mind, I know there are more.
― Tim, Tuesday, 23 April 2013 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, April 23, 2013 1:13 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha, that sounds like such a french thing to say. Enjoy your authentically burnt garbage, parisians.
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 02:35 (eleven years ago) link
the sam adams I just opened says "International Award Winner / Denver Gold 1987" on the inside of the cap. Kind of disconcerting.
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
Lol France, take the TGV to Belgium...
cf: "Why is there no good Mexican food in Canada?"
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 24 April 2013 05:47 (eleven years ago) link
Ok for those of you who aren't untappd pals with me, the st feuillien saison in a can is crazy crazy fucking good
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 26 April 2013 01:45 (eleven years ago) link
i liked that too! i had another good saison today - the stillwater artisinal
― Mordy, Friday, 26 April 2013 02:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/entertainment/2010/08/how-jimmy-carter-saved-craft-beer/19195/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 26 April 2013 02:25 (eleven years ago) link
Mordy, the stateside saison? I just ordered that because of you. But them I see I've had it 343 days ago.
― Jeff, Friday, 26 April 2013 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
i think i mentioned this upthread but two other saisons i've really enjoyed are the manayunk biere de mars and the yards saison - both delicious.
did u like it when u drank it a year ago? :P
― Mordy, Friday, 26 April 2013 02:49 (eleven years ago) link
Hell if I remember! I was drunk.
― Jeff, Friday, 26 April 2013 02:55 (eleven years ago) link
Troegs tasting today and my fave beer shop!
― Mordy, Friday, 26 April 2013 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
hopefully they'll have some of their Scratch brews,the ones i have had were always pretty good. also always love the nugget nectar
― ω (carne asada), Friday, 26 April 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, hey I had (or rather my wife did, but I had sips of) a Stillwater Stateside Saison a few days ago.
― jaymc, Friday, 26 April 2013 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
Well, I think I may have had all my enthusiasm for craft beer crushed this weekend. Friend of a friend managed to somehow "lose" my ticket at Dark Lord Day on Saturday, so I didn't get to buy any, despite spending $30 on a ticket, $40 on a portion of van rental, and spending the entire day in Munster. Worst part is that the dude that lost it a) didn't have the balls to tell me in person, he sent his girlfriend's friend over to tell me and, b) two days on and he still hasn't apologized or made any attempt to contact me or make even a nominal effort to rectify things.
Been struggling through a lot of bitterness this weekend and tempting to just sell what I've got and give up the game of even trying anymore.
― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 29 April 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
the entire day in Munster. Worst part
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 April 2013 14:05 (eleven years ago) link
Did this friend have a ticket? They should at least give you a bottle if they got the full allotment.
― Jeff, Monday, 29 April 2013 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
He lost his as well. I'm still not sure how, like I said this guy hasn't even offered the tiniest excuse.
― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 29 April 2013 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe he "lost" it someone else for above face value.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 April 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe. Probably. I don't know. I do know, since he rode in the same van as us, that he didn't leave the grounds with any Dark Lord either. So either he legit lost both tickets or he made off with a lot of cash and didn't care about the beer. Anyway, ultimately it's my fault for letting my ticket out of my own hands, I'd just like even a lame apology attempt.
― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 29 April 2013 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
Why did you rent a van? Did you make it all the way to Munster before you found out there were no tickets, or were the tickets somehow lost *in* Munster? Dunno how it works.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 April 2013 15:05 (eleven years ago) link
You buy a ticket in advance just to get into the grounds. Once in the grounds, they break everyone into five "Groups" to actually line-up to purchase the Dark Lord. So we were already at the event grounds and about 20 minutes from lining up for our Group when the tickets were lost.
― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 29 April 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
Sounds like a shitty experience, Jon.
Have to admit that I kind of hate the whole concept of Dark Lord Day, tbh. (And other such clusterfucky events that prey on the demand of aficionados.)
― jaymc, Monday, 29 April 2013 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
the problem is if ppl want the beer enough there's no non-clusterfucky way to do it
― call all destroyer, Monday, 29 April 2013 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
DLD really just turns into a large bottle share party. Many don't even consider DL a phenomenal beer, but go for the sharing.
― Jeff, Monday, 29 April 2013 15:50 (eleven years ago) link
i've had some amazing DLs and some pretty mediocre ones
― call all destroyer, Monday, 29 April 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago) link