sucks is great, will always drink a sucks.this latest batch of Enjoy By didn't wow me but i'm gonna give it another chance, before the time runs out..
― ian, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 20:08 (ten years ago) link
Man, I was really surprised to see shelves full of Sucks at my local Jewel of all places. Haven't gotten any of this year's Hopslam yet.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link
what I usually buy for normal home 6-pack usage:
10 Barrel IPA ($10 for 6)Lagunitas ($9 or so)Full Sail (usually when it's on sale for $7.50)Ninkasi IPA ($10)
once Anderson Valley and Rogue hit $11 they became a lot less common in our fridge
― sleeve, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 20:31 (ten years ago) link
never had a 10 barrell or a ninkasi :( or an anderson valley for that matter.
― ian, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 20:40 (ten years ago) link
beer is way overpriced in NY i guess. even at delis most 6packs will cost you $12 or so, unless it's bud/miller type stuff. even brooklyn beers are usually around $10/six.
― ian, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
Typically the cheapest craft sixers I see around Chicago are Great Lakes stuff. Even Revolution has jumped the $10 barrier which is just insane, especially for their regular lineup.
― dan m, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 20:42 (ten years ago) link
ian I am gonna email you when I get home so I can send you a sampler, for reals
― sleeve, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
man, you dudes do get gouged on beer prices yikes.
imo, considering that dales pale is $16 a 12 pack and hopslam is $16 a six pack, i am not likely to buy hopslam ever again. shit, sculpin is $13 a six pack and ten times as good
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
10 barrel is really solid! i always forget... their 12-pack variety box is usually a good deal too
i've mentioned this before but hop valley has definitely secured a spot on my house's rotating roster of everyday-drinkin' beers. the festeroo, alphadelic, proxima and (most recently) citrus mistress are all pretty solid and less than $10/sixer
besides lagunitas, great divide might be my favorite brewery for affordable yet impressive beers. being able to get colette for $8-9/sixpack over the summer was a game-changer
anchor has some pretty solid stuff available in six-packs as well, especially when the seasonals are on sale
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 21:06 (ten years ago) link
Citrus Mistress is v good, as I think I mentioned the Eugene Hop Valley is a 10 minute walk from me. did not know you could get it in 6-packs, will look.
their Alpha Centauri DIPA is yummy too
― sleeve, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 21:13 (ten years ago) link
Hop Stoopid is my bargain DIPA.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
bombers for like $5.00 cant go wrong there
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 21:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah hop stupid is kind of shockingly cheap tbh
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 21:42 (ten years ago) link
My local place sells singles for exactly 1/6 of a six pack price so I tend to buy a bunch of those rather six of one particular bottle. My standard IPAs are usually around $1.80 apiece ($10.80 for a six), stuff like New Belgium or Full Sail is lower, others are slightly higher (Sculpin is like $2.60 or something for some reason). I'll often get four packs of Old Rasputin or No-Li imperial stouts for maybe $10 or so.
Anything more than this, or more than $5 for a 22, makes me question how much I really want this particular beer.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
yep! I will buy Ninkasi's Tricerahops for $5.50 but it is like 9.5%, other than that I stick to the cheaper ones
Pyramid is cheap but iirc they got bought out by a major?
― sleeve, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 21:44 (ten years ago) link
i like Southern Tier's 2XIPA for a normal priced (usually $9/6 pack here), weeknight IPA.
― festival culture (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 February 2014 21:54 (ten years ago) link
hopslam livin up to the hype tbh. despite the honey it's not too sweet at all; subtle flavor, great mouthfeel.
― ian, Wednesday, 12 February 2014 23:31 (ten years ago) link
a big display of Lagunitas Sucks just showed up at the local co-op, and no one seems to be buying it....should I?
― gbx, Thursday, 13 February 2014 01:40 (ten years ago) link
Sure! It tastes good.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 13 February 2014 01:43 (ten years ago) link
Or are you asking if you should buy the actual display?
Hell yes, but be generous (don't take it all). I've bought 4 6-packs by now this year, and never more than 2 at a time, leaving some for other beer nerds. If it sits there for many days, all bets are off, buy all you want.
― nickn, Thursday, 13 February 2014 01:44 (ten years ago) link
it's been there for at least 3-4 days
― gbx, Thursday, 13 February 2014 01:56 (ten years ago) link
sucks never has supply issues in my area
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 13 February 2014 01:57 (ten years ago) link
bought goose island "matilda" today on the salesperson's recommendation.
― Treeship, Thursday, 13 February 2014 02:15 (ten years ago) link
grabbed some Nugget Nectar just now. It's always good for a 6 pack a year, usually goes pretty fast around here.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 14 February 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link
i had sucks the other night, a friend brought some over. tbh it was good but i didn't think it was anything that special (like most lagunitas imo). i kind of hate the gimmicky backstory/packaging
― marcos, Friday, 14 February 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
oh man i totally disagree, i'd actually never had a full bottle before this year (had a taste at a bottle share long ago) and i was sort of on the same boat wrt the gimmick, but i absolutely love it.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 February 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
anyone had that Evil Twin Ying & Yang? i think you're supposed to mix them black & tan style? i'm trying to pick some up as v-day beer. :)
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 14 February 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
xp, ha, i guess i'm kind of jaded in my beer drinking right now. there are so many full-flavored complex double IPAs out there now so when another comes around i'm just kind of like, yea, pretty good, nothing to go crazy about. even the much-sought after vermont double IPA heady topper whi i hear about all the time in new england - yes, it's a really good beer, like lots of thers out there! the beer-hunting, collecting, buy-three-cases-at-a-time beer advocate nerds i think are kind of overestimating all these beers a little imo.
― marcos, Friday, 14 February 2014 19:31 (ten years ago) link
otm
― dan m, Friday, 14 February 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
not calling you a dorky beer advocate nerd, though, jon! sorry if that came across
― marcos, Friday, 14 February 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
with something like sucks, which is available at nearly any supermarket or beer store around these parts (and a large chunk of the country), i think the hyperbole is more about the quality to price-point ratio than anything else
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Friday, 14 February 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
^^^
― sleeve, Friday, 14 February 2014 20:00 (ten years ago) link
yeah, sucks is a great deal.today i went to a weird grocery store a 15-minute walk from my house and got these--4-pack bourbon county barleywine (lol how are these still there???)firestone double jackpretty things meadowlark.
i know meadowlark is a year round and maybe not that exciting to some ppl but i love it and there aren't a lot of places that carry it here on the reg.
― ian, Friday, 14 February 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link
had a "barleywine" night with friends a week ago. beer was amazing. will never do it again.
― tylerw, Friday, 14 February 2014 20:22 (ten years ago) link
xp to jordan -- i had the IPA, whichever one that is -- yin? i forget. i thought it was really nice. very drinkable for the ABV, didn't punch me inna head with the hops. a bit pricey though, for regular drinking.
― ian, Friday, 14 February 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link
lol. i'm not the hugest barleywine guy, a lot of the time they're just too boozy for me, but i wanted to try the bourbon co and there it was... splitting the four pack with my boss.
haha, no offense taken! i've been way too busy lately to have time to track anything down or hit up stores that aren't near my daily routine - so i loved having something as reasonably priced as Sucks available super close to me. i'm not claiming its the best beer ever, or even in my top ten, but as for something i picked up in a sixer from the grocery store half a mile away, its a fantastic buy.
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 14 February 2014 20:24 (ten years ago) link
northeast, midatlantic, florida and tx folks: you have probably slept on previously nondescript vermont craft brewery otter creek. sleep no more--their last three special releases have been tremendous. the one out now is called citra mantra, a lager that used all citra hops. you may also still be able to grab kind rye'd ipa.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 14 February 2014 20:53 (ten years ago) link
otm. had double dose recently and it was fantastic.
― Mordy , Friday, 14 February 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
good to know! had a couple otter creek beers maybe 4 or 5 five years ago and was totally unimpressed (stovepipe porter, i think), assumed they were another generic new england brewery a la shipyard or fishermans brew or something. i'll give the new ones a try
― marcos, Friday, 14 February 2014 20:58 (ten years ago) link
man, ballast point sculpin is a mighty fine brew.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, 14 February 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
yeah i'm gonna try to grab singles of their unconvincing-looking year-round offerings (copper ale, black ipa) because these new ones have been so good.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 14 February 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
i dunno if i've ever had an otter creek beer, but it's good to keep in mind -- it's tough for me to find stuff i am excited about when i go visit my family in RI. my usual go-to is Shed Pale Ale, also from vermont iirc. i used to be into the wachusett ipa but last time i was up it didn't work for me... seemed too malty/sweet.
― ian, Friday, 14 February 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
shed ipa is pretty good! like their brown ale too
― marcos, Friday, 14 February 2014 21:03 (ten years ago) link
yeah sculpin is way way up there for me as well. Also caved and had the Oskar Blues Ten Fidy and although $15 for a 4 pack of 12 oz cans is kinda O_O holy crap, it is a pretty killer stout. xposts
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Friday, 14 February 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
wachusett's larry is their double ipa, it's around in cans now and pretty good imo. don't really know about their other stuff.
sculpin fans--how much is a sixer in your area?
― call all destroyer, Friday, 14 February 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
This years sucaba is awesome.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 February 2014 21:06 (ten years ago) link
^$13.99
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, 14 February 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link
pricey