that article explained a whole lot about the quality of their beers.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 23:40 (ten years ago) link
Stone enjoy by 420 tastes like bubblegum -- the weed.
― dan m, Thursday, 27 March 2014 00:18 (ten years ago) link
Evil twin just showed up in mn, so I grabbed some Molotov cocktail and hipster, only had the Molotov so far and it's def good, but it's nowhere near what I've gotten out of mikkeller.
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:35 (ten years ago) link
Stone enjoy by 420 is pretty goddamn awesome imo. Might be my favorite yet.
― Corpsepaint Counterpaint (jjjusten), Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:37 (ten years ago) link
picked up a single of BCBS 2013, finally gonna try it just to see what the fuss is about. It sounds like something I won't like, but at the same time I've never not liked something rated that highly.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 March 2014 01:37 (ten years ago) link
this stuff is a little bit gross tbh
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 March 2014 04:57 (ten years ago) link
I mean it tastes like a fucking rum & coke. Kind of shocked that this is what the hype is about. Def have a decent buzz from my single though.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 March 2014 05:38 (ten years ago) link
o_O
― Jeff, Thursday, 27 March 2014 11:08 (ten years ago) link
Did you let it warm up sufficiently?
― Jeff, Thursday, 27 March 2014 11:09 (ten years ago) link
I think it can be gross if you drink it like a beer - cold, fast, even with a meal, let alone the wrong meal. The best comparison I've thought of is that it's a bit like drinking a cigar (I've never had a cigar): you have to make it last. It's definitely an intense beer and/or an acquired taste, imo. Even in that article I linked to above, the dude takes a swipe at Dark Lord and its ilk:
Jeppe’s affability notwithstanding, he was full of bravado when it came to discussing business. “I wanted to change the beer scene in New York,” he said. “I wanted to show New York how to do it.” I ordered an Evil Twin beer called Bikini, a mere 2.7 percent alcohol by volume, and when I expressed surprise at its abundant flavor, Jeppe took a shot at his brother’s tendencies. “For me, drinkability is the most important,” Jeppe said. “I’m not gonna make a Dark Lord” — the ultrarich Three Floyds stout. “It’s a fun beer to try, but it’s undrinkable. don’t want to sound like I put down my brother’s beer, but he’s in the line of Three Floyds a bit too much. He’s very fascinated with what they do. He makes this blueberry spontaneous” — a Belgian-inspired ale — “and I hate it. I think it’s disgusting. It tastes like Kool-Aid.”Laughing, Jeppe told me about Bozo, a high-alcohol stout that he designed expressly to “make fun of” the extreme flavor experiments in which craft brewers like Mikkeller often engage. “We added cocoa, chocolate, coconut, cinnamon, oak chips, chili, coffee, vanilla, hazelnut, chestnut, marshmallows,” Jeppe said. “It’s not a beer I’d drink, but it came out excellent, and it gets crazy high ratings.”
Laughing, Jeppe told me about Bozo, a high-alcohol stout that he designed expressly to “make fun of” the extreme flavor experiments in which craft brewers like Mikkeller often engage. “We added cocoa, chocolate, coconut, cinnamon, oak chips, chili, coffee, vanilla, hazelnut, chestnut, marshmallows,” Jeppe said. “It’s not a beer I’d drink, but it came out excellent, and it gets crazy high ratings.”
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 March 2014 12:29 (ten years ago) link
amazing quote from the guy who has realized multiple variants of imperial biscotti break
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 27 March 2014 13:03 (ten years ago) link
I was thinking the same thing.
― Jeff, Thursday, 27 March 2014 13:08 (ten years ago) link
Also, so many gross sounding one-off beers.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 March 2014 13:16 (ten years ago) link
Soft Dookie is pretty good.
― Jeff, Thursday, 27 March 2014 13:18 (ten years ago) link
I want to say Evil Twin is one of those brews that just seems to clog the shelves, like Pipeworks or Clown Shoes. Just so many different varieties.
Hey, has anyone, ever, anywhere, ever had one of those Fifty Fifty Eclipse beers? Talk about clogging the shelves, they just sit there. Aging.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 27 March 2014 13:24 (ten years ago) link
Right. Depends on the quality. Like all the Eclipse variants that just came out. At $30 you'll see them in shelves for months. I think they taste good but putting out like 6 variants and charging so much, seems like you could just dial in a couple of variants and it would be more worthwhile.― Jeff, Tuesday, December 17, 2013 4:54 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Jeff, Tuesday, December 17, 2013 4:54 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
And I have two at home, but honestly I'm not sure which variants they are because I can decipher the wax color. I think they are the Bernheim Wheat and Mellow Corn. But the wax color could go either way.
― Jeff, Thursday, 27 March 2014 13:42 (ten years ago) link
i've had one, they're good, they're not 30 dollars good though
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 27 March 2014 13:43 (ten years ago) link
I think it can be gross if you drink it like a beer - cold, fast, even with a meal, let alone the wrong meal. The best comparison I've thought of is that it's a bit like drinking a cigar (I've never had a cigar): you have to make it last. It's definitely an intense beer and/or an acquired taste, imo.
I dunno, I drank it very slowly. Maybe it was a bit too cold when I started it but it certainly warmed up in the glass. To me it tasted out of the realm of beer entirely, more like booze, and not very good booze, like a dessert wine gone bad or something. Very sweet, syrupy, the whiskey flavors seemed generic and lacked the nuances of an actually good whiskey, overpowering, too much going on. It was like a better version of some of the bad Dogfish offerings I've had. Gave me a very weird buzz fwiw, almost druggy.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 March 2014 14:05 (ten years ago) link
going by most of your post i see in this thread our taste in beer is miles apart most of the time.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 27 March 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
xpst Do you like other bourbon barrel aged stouts better? Or is the whole style not your thing.
― Jeff, Thursday, 27 March 2014 14:17 (ten years ago) link
Nah I think I just don't like the style.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 March 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
I think it can be gross if you drink it like a beer - cold, fast, even with a meal, let alone the wrong meal. The best comparison I've thought of is that it's a bit like drinking a cigar (I've never had a cigar): you have to make it last. It's definitely an intense beer and/or an acquired taste, imo.I dunno, I drank it very slowly. Maybe it was a bit too cold when I started it but it certainly warmed up in the glass. To me it tasted out of the realm of beer entirely, more like booze, and not very good booze, like a dessert wine gone bad or something. Very sweet, syrupy, the whiskey flavors seemed generic and lacked the nuances of an actually good whiskey, overpowering, too much going on. It was like a better version of some of the bad Dogfish offerings I've had. Gave me a very weird buzz fwiw, almost druggy.
i've never had BCBS before, and i enjoy various bourbon barrel-aged stouts, but i've numerous beers in that style that totally match this description.
― marcos, Thursday, 27 March 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
that palo santo marron beer from dogfish completely fit this vibe
― marcos, Thursday, 27 March 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
yeah i mean i don't find bcbs to be overly sweet, i'd call it more viscous than syrupy, but i can see how someone would make those criticisms. i don't really get the out of the realm of beer comment though.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 27 March 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
i don't like a lot of the barrel aged stuff (too sweet, esp with the high APV) but i think the BCBS is pretty exceptional
― Mordy , Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:00 (ten years ago) link
xp palo santo isn't a bourbon barrel beer, but it is barrel-aged in palo santo wood, and is similar in taste to other dark, rich, boozy imperial stouts. dogfish called it a "brown ale," yea right
― marcos, Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:01 (ten years ago) link
this is exactly how i felt about a Kentucky BBS (not positive on the brewery?) i had in a bar recently, especially in comparison to the Goose Island BCBS, which has a lot more going on imo.
xp
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:01 (ten years ago) link
yeah actually it did have aspects that reminded me of palo santo marron (which I also dont' really like) now that I think of it. I'm being a little harsh, it wasn't completely terrible, I just enjoyed it a lot less than I expected after all the hype. Maybe I'll wait a while and try it again. I have some Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout on deck, which I love.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:02 (ten years ago) link
i think the brooklyn black chocolate stout is one of the more successful strong stouts out there
― marcos, Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link
barrel-aged in palo santo wood
!!! really wanna try this, I like that stuff
― sleeve, Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:04 (ten years ago) link
viscous is definitely the word. i would agree that the closest i come to being drunk in my 30s is when i have one of these.
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link
Yeah maybe it was also because I drank the thing watching true detective alone in the dark, but I felt pretty fucked up for a dad afterwards.
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
Just realized that Mikkeler vs Evil Twin is a rip-off of the Adidas/Puma schism.
― dan m, Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
'pretty fucked up for a dad' is such a magnificent typo
― circa1916, Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:29 (ten years ago) link
hurting needs to confirm it was in fact a typo
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
yea i'm a dad and i didn't read it as a typo!!
― marcos, Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
betting on no typo here
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:43 (ten years ago) link
no typo!
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:46 (ten years ago) link
haha yeah i was going to say, i'm a dad and know that feeling
― an enormous bolus of flatulence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
like when your toddler suddenly cries out in the middle of the night and you stumble over to her room and your hand completely misses the doorknob
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 March 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
lol
― sleeve, Thursday, 27 March 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
more drunk dad stories please
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Thursday, 27 March 2014 16:13 (ten years ago) link
I have thankfully few! Having to change a poop diaper drunk (or hungover first thing in the morning) really cures a lot of the urge to get drunk!
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 March 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
I'm drinking most of the time while I'm parenting.
― Jeff, Thursday, 27 March 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
you guys are crazy for not digging bourbon barrel-aged stuff btw! i'm not sure imperial stouts are the best thing to put in a bourbon barrel tho - scotch ales, barleywines, belgian strong darks, etc are a much better fit. those styles are all pretty sweet to begin with, the bourbon taste adds a bit of sweetness but the other smokey/leathery flavors usually stand out way more ime
it's not like i want that much sugar in my beer all the time, but it's a nice treat in the winter or as dessert or w/e
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Thursday, 27 March 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/03/30/magazine/mag30-Glaser-beer-sidebar.html
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
Shiner is by far the best-looking bottle on that page
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link
yea. ommegang has always had a nice sense of design too. most of the others are terrible, though i like sixpoint and lefthand
― marcos, Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
dogfish is just awful though
― marcos, Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
yeah milt otm about that one, but I think he's also onto something about how standing out and not looking like a beer beer is more important than good design
― james franco tur(oll)ing test (Hurting 2), Thursday, 27 March 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link