new bar Fools Gold in NYC (E Houston St.) is having its grand opening tonight and has Pliny on tap:
https://twitter.com/FoolsGoldNYC/status/496767665919496192
― anonanon, Tuesday, 5 August 2014 22:34 (nine years ago) link
I am obsessed with Allagash Saison, so fukkin good
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
also cad I strongly recommend making a Kappy's run and grabbing a bottle of Viva Habanero before I go back and buy all of it because it was just great
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 5 August 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
lotsa love for allagash stuff, i'll keep an eye out for the saison.
there are SO MANY great breweries in the new angland area, i was very very impressed with a lot of the stuff that CAD sent my way, particularly treehouse and trillium but obv alchemist/heady topper too
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link
that hops article was fascinating, i am definitely going to keep an eye out for the sierra nevada release.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 00:48 (nine years ago) link
someone likes a saison finally. i was stsrting to think this thread was full of subpar
― fields of salmon, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 01:00 (nine years ago) link
hey now
― sleeve, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 01:00 (nine years ago) link
saison is the best
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 01:06 (nine years ago) link
I've always professed saison love.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 01:23 (nine years ago) link
I can't believe anybody could dislike the allagash saison, it's such an awesome beer
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 01:34 (nine years ago) link
I will look for it and try it! I do appreciate good beer of many types. although the belgian yeast is not my fave, I have had farmhouse styles that I really liked
all I want to drink these days is that Fort George oatmeal pale, love it
my wife is exclusively a NW IPA hophead, with the exception of some reds or pales when nothing w/a higher IBU is around
psychgawsple, have you tried Hop Valley's Citrus Mistress?
also w/r/t Hop Valley, I though this was an interesting look into the fucked up and archaic laws around distribution:
http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/31811264-75/bigfoot-hop-valley-beer-contract.html.csp
― sleeve, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 02:16 (nine years ago) link
I keep meaning to pick up one of those oatmeal pales but those words together always cause me some slight cognitive dissonance.
All of a sudden I'm starting to see Breakside around here; none of the sours yet but I've run into the IPA at a couple places.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 02:20 (nine years ago) link
breakside ipa is really good, i slept on it until recently but it's legit. the pilsner too actually! i think they're starting to can it too?
xps - jfc how the hell can distributors ask for more than a payout of 3.5x yearly profit when a brewery drops a contract? just seems over the top greedy, though i'm sure there is a lot i do not know about beer distribution.
i like citrus mistress a lot... i drank a ton of it earlier in the year, seldom let down by hop valley. i haven't really purchased more than one six pack of anything lately, save for maybe the av gose and four packs of 3-way, but i definitely went through a phase there
speaking of NW IPAs, i have been sampling quite a few lately b/c i was assigned to bring something in that style to a beer and cheese tasting thing. really enjoying barley brown's pallet jack - seems to be poised to be the next rpm? in that it's amazing and not hard to find and exclusively on tap. also stopped along the WA side of the gorge and was able to find a six pack of bale breaker topcutter, super fresh yakima hop goodness in a can - definitely try it if you find it (though i think it's only distributed in WA)
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 04:14 (nine years ago) link
yep Barley Brown is making inroads, I see it around now
also had a good pale from this Veneta (!) nano-brewery that grows all its own hops
http://ploughmonday.com/
― sleeve, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 14:43 (nine years ago) link
the barley browns armored fist is probably the best cda i've ever tasted. i guess it's an imperial cda actually? has a balance of subtle hop flavors that you find in a lot of the top-tier DIPAs, but with a sweet/smoky/high abv character you get from a nice imperial stout or old ale. really incredible stuff, maybe i'll take a trip all the way out to effing baker city someday
plough monday looks awesome... i can't believe how few breweries are growing their own hops.
also really really want to try some neomexicanus or american wild hops after reading that smithsonian article
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 17:01 (nine years ago) link
I see bale breaker a lot, in WA and in Idaho as well.
And of course I hit my beer store today and they're out of the oatmeal pale. But I did pick up a breakside passion fruit sour.
― joygoat, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 18:39 (nine years ago) link
really wanna try more bale breaker beers, i think they could work wonders with a stronger IPA
pasisonfruit sour definitely in the running for summer beer 2k14 for me, ymmv
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
I am in an airport bar in Seattle and they basically only have Alaskan Brewing beers. I guess that's what I get for going to the Alaskan pub.
― dan m, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
how long until we see a 'brown' ipa
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 19:38 (nine years ago) link
i suppose india brown ales are basically that
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 19:39 (nine years ago) link
oats do good in a big IPA, they round out the body a bit and make 'em viscous. Surly Abrasive has a decent amount of oats in the bill if i remember correctly.
also can't wait to drink gallons of Bell's Best Brown this fall
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 6 August 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
Fort George 3-Way is the beer of the summer for me. Just an unbelievably good IPA; like Boneyard RPM but less boozy and more fruity.
Balebreaker is alright but I'm a little miffed about how old the cans are I find are. Like, you're advertising your product as "FRESH OFF THE FARM" and it's often times a month+ old by the time it hits Seattle. I've had fresh kegs and it's far ahead of the canned offering.
― Ryan, Thursday, 7 August 2014 18:25 (nine years ago) link
oh man I gotta try that, I think psychgawsple was raving abt it upthread. I don't like their Vortex as much as other NWIPAs/
― sleeve, Thursday, 7 August 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
Apparently it's National IPA Day.
― first is the worst (askance johnson), Thursday, 7 August 2014 18:35 (nine years ago) link
Great Taste of the Midwest is this weekend, wish me luck.
http://greattaste.org/program/
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 7 August 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
glad to see more love for 3-way! i wouldn't say it's very much like vortex, i like vortex but it is definitely one of those headache-inducing IPAs that i have to be in the right mood/situation to enjoy. describing IPAs kinda sucks because nearly every single damn one - especially the good ones - can be described as citrusy or piney, but 3-way has a really bright and clean fruit/citrus character that reminds me of other nw ipas like rpm or laurelwood but with less malt/other flavors in the way. they have been canning it constantly throughout the summer, like once every 1-2 weeks, and the inventory seems to be turning over enough that you can usually find something that was canned within the last week or so
i will definitely be celebrating national ipa day btw, hopefully with some block 15 sticky hands after work :)
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Thursday, 7 August 2014 19:17 (nine years ago) link
I just had a saison finally and it's gross
― fields of salmon, Thursday, 7 August 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
Thank You [/Harvey Fierstein voice]
― nickn, Thursday, 7 August 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
O-O
― Jeff, Thursday, 7 August 2014 23:13 (nine years ago) link
StieglRadler
― DERE is no DERE DERE (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 8 August 2014 02:38 (nine years ago) link
*fuck**yes*
― Everyone is awful except you. Wait, no, you are also awful. (jjjusten), Friday, 8 August 2014 02:49 (nine years ago) link
Seriously, I love that beer
― Everyone is awful except you. Wait, no, you are also awful. (jjjusten), Friday, 8 August 2014 02:50 (nine years ago) link
me2
― Mordy, Friday, 8 August 2014 03:00 (nine years ago) link
my favorite radler is mixing half weinhenstephaner original and half sprite, that is good shit
― anonanon, Friday, 8 August 2014 03:01 (nine years ago) link
sleeve - i finally got around to getting a 4-pack of the ft george oatmeal pale ale and damn! probably my favorite easily-available pale at the moment, and i definitely like it better than the harder-to-find pales from barley browns and boneyard that i've tried recently
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Monday, 11 August 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
yumm
― sleeve, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 03:26 (nine years ago) link
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/12/meet-the-beer-bottle-dictator.html
― ian, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
i saw that the other day. super weird.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 23:56 (nine years ago) link
breweries put such stupid shit on their bottles, if the only real limitation is that labels can't be perceieved as misleading the consumer it's hard for me to think of the guy as a 'dictator'
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 16:38 (nine years ago) link
Founders Dissenterr: a double ipa made with lager yeast, afaict.
― dan m, Friday, 15 August 2014 00:56 (nine years ago) link
On extra r thurr
I guess I can detect the lighter body and crispness of a lager now that I think about it
― dan m, Friday, 15 August 2014 00:58 (nine years ago) link
Dude I know luggaged a bunch of cans of westbrook gose back from CA. So so good.
― Everyone is awful except you. Wait, no, you are also awful. (jjjusten), Friday, 15 August 2014 02:24 (nine years ago) link
any untappd fans here?
― ∞, Friday, 15 August 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
Victory Prima is good
― calstars, Friday, 15 August 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
Yeah a bunch of ppl are on untappd - I'm seandalai
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Friday, 15 August 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
probably easier just to post yr username and let everyone else add u
― Mordy, Friday, 15 August 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
im osamabindrinkin but I dont really use it properly hehe
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Saturday, 16 August 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
yeah my untapped is my gov't name but i don't mind adding ppl if i know yr name
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 16 August 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link
my untappd name is "jeff"
― Jeff, Saturday, 16 August 2014 01:15 (nine years ago) link