I haven't had Anchor Steam in ages. Their Liberty Ale is one of my alltime favorites for being hoppy yet well-balanced.
― New Authentic Everybootsy Collins (Dan Peterson), Friday, 17 May 2013 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
ooh, i never had that. i've only had the normal anchor steam because they have it at the diner i go to multiple times a week. need to check it out.
― Treeship, Friday, 17 May 2013 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
mini oberon keg is awes
― call all destroyer, Friday, 17 May 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
that'll get you through a lot of lawn games
― call all destroyer, Friday, 17 May 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
picked up a bottle of stone's russian imperial stout espresso. my store limited it to one a person so i was worried it would be really pricey but it only ended up costing $10!
― Mordy , Friday, 17 May 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
idg why they're limiting that beer (it was limited at stores here too), i didn't hear about anyone kicking down doors for it
― call all destroyer, Friday, 17 May 2013 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
I was going to say, I've seen it in plenty of places and haven't ever really been specifically seeking it out. I did grab one though.
― i kant believe it's not buffon (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 17 May 2013 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
so limited apparently they weren't letting employees buy them
― Mordy , Friday, 17 May 2013 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
Bell's market a few different beers in the 5 liter keg, I've seen (bought) Oberon, Two Hearted, and Best Brown.
― a monolithic testament to shiftlessness and lost productivity (dan m), Friday, 17 May 2013 23:28 (eleven years ago) link
Maybemidwest only idk
― a monolithic testament to shiftlessness and lost productivity (dan m), Friday, 17 May 2013 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
bought a growler of "Live", and american pale ale from the southern tier brewing company. it's really good... very flavorful yet light, crisp and floral, i could drink buckets of this stuff
― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Saturday, 18 May 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
*an
I almost bought a 6 of the live today, sounds like I will be going back and giving it a shot
― AMERICA IS ABOUT RIESLING (jjjusten), Saturday, 18 May 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
Drank too much over the last three days. I'll have t review he data to remember what I liked.
― Jeff, Saturday, 18 May 2013 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
Kind of neat: http://beerlabelsinmotion.tumblr.com/
― Jeff, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
So I'm drinking my first Israeli microbrew at the moment -- I have been told that the microbrew movement is pretty much nascent here, but there's a brewery called Alexander, and I decided to try their "green" which is an IPA very much in the American style. Solid but not excellent and not something that would be worth importing to the states, but great for people here who want a fresh local beer that hasn't been screwed up by long distance travel I guess. Beer here is otherwise pretty shitty -- the most popular imports for some reason seem to be Tuborg and Carlsberg, which I find horrendous. Also there's the sort of national beer, Gold Star, a reasonably drinkable dark lager. You can get decent German beers pretty easily like Weihenstephan, but I haven't seen a lot of other good stuff around, although I'm sure Tel Aviv has a few beer connoisseur bars that I haven't checked out. The climate probably doesn't lend itself to heavy, high-alcohol brews. Makes me thankful for having real winters.
― THIS IS NOT A BENGHAZI T-SHIRT (Hurting 2), Friday, 24 May 2013 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
Hit up some local breweries in New Mexico recently: Marble (Albuquerque), Second Street (Santa Fe), Santa Fe Brewing Co., and Taos Mesa. Unfortunately, none seemed particularly interesting, beer-wise; they all had decent examples of various basic styles, but little stood out as creative or adventurous or unusual. I'd say Marble's offerings were probably best.
Taos Mesa had, by far, the best atmosphere, though. It's basically in the middle of nowhere and looks like this: http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/fb/35/92/taos-mesa-brewing.jpg
From inside, looking out at the mountains:http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/03/de/cf/9e/taos-mesa-brewing.jpg
― i, norbit (jaymc), Friday, 24 May 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
ugh Gold Star. worst beer ever. do let me know if you find anything worth importing tho, my local beer shop wants to bring in some Israeli beers and i told them to stay far away from the gold star. xp
― Mordy , Friday, 24 May 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
xp Also, 15 minutes after we got there, a scraggly bearded dude with a guitar sat down. I was like "oh no" and then he played these awesome Fahey-like mellow instrumental pieces.
― i, norbit (jaymc), Friday, 24 May 2013 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
Some of the best stuff I had during Chicago Craft Beer Week:
Central Waters 14th and 15th AnniversaryA couple of lambics from Destihl Greenbush Barrel Aged DystopiaAbbaye de Saint Bon-Chien (2006) Haymarket Acrimonious Barrel Aged Imperial StoutRolling Meadow Vampire Hunter Blood Orange HefeweizenA lot of other good beers from downstate Illinois that I've never had.
― Jeff, Friday, 24 May 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
Unfortunately, none seemed particularly interesting, beer-wise;
Actually, let me revise this slightly. Second Street had a hefeweizen made with Citra hops that I was into. But I only had a sample of it right before I left.
― i, norbit (jaymc), Friday, 24 May 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
Oh I also drank some Bourbon County Bramble Rye and Cherry Rye, even though I've had them before.
― Jeff, Friday, 24 May 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
What the hell, I was at Binny's today and there was some end cap saying to talk to an employee if you're interested in some $200 bottle of Sam Adams? Don't get this trend of pumping up beer ABV until it's something no longer beer.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 May 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
ah, utopias
― call all destroyer, Friday, 24 May 2013 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
Utopias barely taste like beer. Not that great.
― Jeff, Friday, 24 May 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
― Mordy , Friday, May 24, 2013 4:22 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I mean, Alexander is good enough to import in the sense that if you specifically want Israeli beer for the sake of Israeli beer, it's a hell of a lot better than Gold Star. I just thought it tasted like a lot of other middle-of-the-pack IPAs. I was hoping to get something with some sort of local character and I didn't think it had much. But there's certainly a market of people who will drink Israeli beers just because. Then again, I always thought it was funny that people order "thai beer" in thai restaurants that's just like ordinary lager.
― THIS IS NOT A BENGHAZI T-SHIRT (Hurting 2), Friday, 24 May 2013 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
what would be local character beer? brewed w/ olives maybe. or figs? speaking of, i got a bottle of pomegranate beer today - this one i think which now looking at the reviews i am not particularly enthusiastic about
― Mordy , Friday, 24 May 2013 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
I guess I just like it when brewing in a region reaches a stage that goes beyond just imitating a style from somewhere else and into experimenting and creating. I think the Alexander brewery at least is just not quite at that stage, so I wouldn't really be that interested in drinking their beers anywhere other than here when I could just drink any number of similar brews by American brewers.
― THIS IS NOT A BENGHAZI T-SHIRT (Hurting 2), Friday, 24 May 2013 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
from the folks behind fangraphs:http://www.beergraphs.com/bg/5-welcome-to-beergraphs/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 7 June 2013 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
are these guys for real
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 June 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
i mean i'm for whatever might burn beeradvocate to the ground but sometimes it's like, can moderately intelligent white guys just stop it
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 June 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
I picked up a bottle of this today:http://articles.philly.com/2013-06-02/news/39692982_1_philly-beer-week-next-door-brew-vitational
― Mordy , Friday, 7 June 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
also exciting news- manayunk brewpub has started canning their stuff. i've only so far seen monk from the yunk canned (which is too sweet imo) but if it leads them to can their biere de garde and some of their other good stuff it'll be great news.
― Mordy , Friday, 7 June 2013 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
The Beergraphs site lost me with this: "...but let's not poo-poo the rest of the platter."
― nickn, Friday, 7 June 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
cool map
http://www.newyorker.com/sandbox/business/beer.html
― Just Elevate... And Decide In The Air -- Above the Rim (dan m), Friday, 7 June 2013 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
So a new gourmet store opened by me that happens to have an excellent single bottle beer selection. Tried my first sour tonight, Geuze Mariage Parfait (2009), and it's quite nice -- oak aged lambic ale with a lot of apple and citrus flavors but little sweetness.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Saturday, 8 June 2013 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that's a nice mild qeuze.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 8 June 2013 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
ha, I guess it is mild. The guy was trying to sell me on another sour first but then when I said I had ever had a sour he was like "Oh, well you should try this, it's more of a starter sour." I guess he was serious.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Saturday, 8 June 2013 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
soon theyre gonna be all you want to drink.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 8 June 2013 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
next find some tilquin
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 8 June 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
he was initially trying to sell me something from The Bruery, but I can't figure out what it was now.
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Saturday, 8 June 2013 01:02 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know how many sour beers they do but if it was sour in the rye go back and buy it
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 8 June 2013 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
what else looks good on this listhttp://www.beermenus.com/places/9011-mr-vino-cucina
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Saturday, 8 June 2013 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
hmm they do have sour in the rye on the list so maybe that was it
Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA Founders Centennial IPALagunitas Sucks Holiday AleLagunitas Sucks Holiday AleLagunitas Sucks Holiday AleOmmegang Three PhilosophersRodenbach Grand CruSamuel Smith's Organic Chocolate Stout (most chocolate tasting beer i've ever drank)Troegs Troegenator (best doppelbock)Sixpoint 3Beans
― Mordy , Saturday, 8 June 2013 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
buy it and save it for when you get a little deeper into sours. it's fantastic imo.
other stuff i dig from that list:
3beanspeeper (check the bottling date)cpt. lawrence ipaespresso oak yetijeversucks (although most likely not fresh at this point)old crafty henbaby tree
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 8 June 2013 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
oh and my favorite dfh ipa is 75 min. which is sort of a weird opinion but
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 8 June 2013 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
i would totes drink non-fresh sucks right now.
other stuff i got this week in addition to the beerweek beverage:
Laughing Panda Green Tea (Two Brothers Brewing)SideKick Extra Pale Ale (Two Brothers Brewing) [can]Aloha Series: Wailua Ale Brewed with Passion Fruit (Kona Brewing)Dogfish Head Sixty-OneDogfish Head Festina Peche
― Mordy , Saturday, 8 June 2013 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
peeper is good however i find all the maine stuff pricey
― Mordy , Saturday, 8 June 2013 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
yeah mbc pricing is appalling but most of their beers are worth trying once
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 8 June 2013 01:14 (eleven years ago) link