Yeah, they're local here. I usually try everything they put out but don't repeat buy very often. Their recent collab with cigar city was really good. El Bizarron, porter brewed with caramelized plantains.
― Jeff, Monday, 1 December 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
I've never been too impressed with anything of theirs I've tried, but that's limited to what's widely sold in stores and one pint at their taproom. I'm not super into fruit-flavored beers in general, and that seems to be all they make.
― dan m, Monday, 1 December 2014 15:42 (nine years ago) link
I'm convinced their grapefruit beer is just a single six pack that just makes the rounds. Someone gifts it to someone, they regift it, and it just keeps circulating, because no one really likes it.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 December 2014 15:48 (nine years ago) link
anyone know if Allagash farm to face is suitable for storing medium to long term? or is it more like an IPA, best consumed as soon as possible?
― anonanon, Monday, 1 December 2014 16:21 (nine years ago) link
porter brewed with caramelized plantains
I'll see you, and raise you milfoil and zebra mussels.
http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2014/11/24/milfoil-and-zebra-mussel-beer-sells-out-in-less.html
― Deliciously hard yet very accessible (Dan Peterson), Monday, 1 December 2014 16:31 (nine years ago) link
farm to face should be fine to store for a while
― call all destroyer, Monday, 1 December 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
Skipped the BCBS madness in lieu of the Bourbon Barrel Aged Abominable release at Fremont Brewing in Seattle. Absolutely wonderful beer. Though it's officially an "American Strong Ale" the barrel character makes this taste like a oaky Barleywine.
Heading back to New Jersey this weekend and will try and grab some Carton cans from down the shore to bring back to WA.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Monday, 1 December 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
xp thanks
― anonanon, Monday, 1 December 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
xp- i really want to try the fremont barrel aged beers, been hearing great things about the abominable variants and kentucky dark star
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Monday, 1 December 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/for/4782207586.html
lol
― Jeff, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link
lol until somebody buys it
― Modern French Music from Failure to Boulez (askance johnson), Monday, 1 December 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
what is the typical retail value of that
― marcos, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
the regionality of this stuff is weird, BCBS sits on the shelf for months and months in NYC
― anonanon, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
Thought I noticed a decline in quality in the Ommegangs this year. Probably won't buy again. Or maybe my taste has just changed.
Really enjoyed two Evil Twin imperial stouts I tried recently -- Christmas in a New York Hotel Room, and I Love You With All My Stout
― Kooki-Wan Tanooki (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 December 2014 21:13 (nine years ago) link
New craft brewery opened earlier this year in Glendale, Queens which is kind of an out-of-the-way neighborhood for something like this (although sort of a beer culture heritage I guess with german beer halls around). Curious to check it out.
http://www.finbackbrewery.com/home.html
― Kooki-Wan Tanooki (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 December 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
they're selling it for $20/four-pack at whole foods here in pdx, so about $120 total lol. pretty sure there is plenty to go around still, and no limits or anything either
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Monday, 1 December 2014 21:16 (nine years ago) link
lol.
i didn't bother trying to get any of the bombers this year, and stores around here still have the regular 4-packs (my gf grabbed one at 8:30pm on Friday).
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 1 December 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
Still haven't really warmed much to the BCBS, just feel gross when I drink it
― Kooki-Wan Tanooki (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 December 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
I'd sell every beer in my closet right now for 10 grand.
― Jeff, Monday, 1 December 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
Don't the BCS labels say up to 5 years on them? Could that be why the 2007 was a letdown? I also figure they've been getting better and better at this. Do you remember how much the ABVs varied?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, November 30, 2014 7:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It does say 5 years. 2007 was the worst, but 2006 and 2005 tasted much better. Not great, and a shell of its former self, but still drinkable. The ABV's did vary, and evidently, GI is better about putting the right ABV on the bottle now. That's why you see two different batches of the current BCS, 13.8% and 14.4%.
― Jeff, Monday, 1 December 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
still need to try it, but huge heavy stouts i can enjoy every once in a while, but really i am not as into them as i used to be. i had the anderson valley bourbon barrel-aged stout on draft the other night and it was awesome, only 6.9% and it felt nice to drink a barrel-aged stout that wasn't 12% or some shit.
― marcos, Monday, 1 December 2014 21:28 (nine years ago) link
agree w/ feeling gross sometimes with heavy alcoholic stouts. though i could definitely be into splitting a bottle w/ someone when it's -10 outside and i'm sitting by a fire.
― marcos, Monday, 1 December 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
The Evil Twin stouts are like 9 and 10%, I think. I find that to be about my limit of drinkable beers.
― Kooki-Wan Tanooki (Hurting 2), Monday, 1 December 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
also noticed when i smoke a little weed stouts are like the grossest fucking thing
― marcos, Monday, 1 December 2014 21:30 (nine years ago) link
Maybe balance it with a bowl of ice cream?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 1 December 2014 21:51 (nine years ago) link
wdyll when holding a 3l bottle of dragons milk
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3zYMBIIYAAHGlM.jpg
― dan m, Monday, 1 December 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
xps - i don't see any problem whatsoever with boozy beers in cold weather. in the middle of august - no thanks. but december when it's 34 degrees and raining? yes please, i need something warming.
i broke down and supported the AB-InDevil by buying a couple bcbs 4-packs over the weekend and i have to admit - it's tasting pretty delicious. i also had the 10 barrel rum-barrel aged pumpkin thing and it was damn near perfect for thxgiving dessert. to atone for my sins i made sure to buy a couple of bottles of the also-recently-released deschutes abyss, and a midnight sun berserker (not as much of a bourbon-bomb as bcbs of course, but red wine/chocolate/tobacco/dark fruits for days. my current favorite RIS)
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Monday, 1 December 2014 22:25 (nine years ago) link
and not to be a west coast cliche, but IPAs + w33d amirite?
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Monday, 1 December 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
hell yeah
― sleeve, Monday, 1 December 2014 22:38 (nine years ago) link
+1
― dan m, Monday, 1 December 2014 22:43 (nine years ago) link
yep
― marcos, Monday, 1 December 2014 23:59 (nine years ago) link
Also all you folks regifting the 5 rabbit grapefruit beer should send it my way because I bet I would love it
― marcos, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 00:01 (nine years ago) link
http://thebrewbuzz.com/5-bourbon-barrel-aged-stouts-better-than-bourbon-county-brand-stout/
saw lots of angry facebook frothing at the mouth about this one
― dan m, Thursday, 4 December 2014 03:03 (nine years ago) link
it's so dumb when people compare beers with national distro to beers that are available in like a small region of a single state.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 4 December 2014 03:04 (nine years ago) link
oh goodie http://buy.rogue.com/rogue-sriracha-hot-stout-beer/
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:47 (nine years ago) link
official brewery of baconism
― 18th Century Celebrity WS of Shame (Hurting 2), Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
got a couple bombers of my favorite beer from this year's Great Taste of the Midwest, 'Convenient Distraction' by O'So (imperial porter w/coffee & vanilla beans).
― festival culture (Jordan), Thursday, 4 December 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CBpF_i6iazkJ:www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/walgreensgate.234398/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Lol @ the drama that unfolds around these things. Evidently a Walgreens had that they would start selling at 12:00 noon, but someone talked a night manager into selling it a case at the time at midnight. Hilarity ensues. This is the response of one guy that bought some of the cases and his justification. Basically, "you guys would have done the same thing!!!"
― Jeff, Sunday, 7 December 2014 01:17 (nine years ago) link
incredible post.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 7 December 2014 06:27 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I saw that! Pretty silly, this stuff. There does seem to be a consensus that it was harder to find this year, but there are also strong rumors that GI is planning to up its BCS to year-round, with other limited releases scattered throughout. At the least the new barrel aging warehouse is supposedly Raiders of the Lost Ark huge.
Anyone local considering this:
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A Festival of Coffee Beers from Intelligentsia Coffee + Good Beer HuntingFor over a year, Intelligentsia Coffee + Good Beer Hunting have been working with some of the most creative brewers and roasters in the country to create and showcase innovative coffee beers. Through a series of educational and competitive events, the series has inspired some amazing creations, such as a coffee saison, coffee quad, and even a cascara cider among many others.
This event brings many of those concoctions together for the first time, as well as some of the best coffee beers on the market, a multi-roaster coffee bar, cocktails, home-brew competition winners, small bites from Dusek’s, and new-to-the-world beers from a series of one-off experiments with Goose Island and Solemn Oath breweries.
Each ticket offers up to 15 tastings. Passed small bites included.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 December 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link
I haven't found any bcbs at all this year, even at the sweet spot where I got all varieties last year. The booze guy there told me three different stories: first he said they'd be getting some of everything early last week, then that he didn't think they were getting anything and that the GI rep said they weren't making the bombers until January, and finally that they had only gotten the regular stuff. As far as I can tell, absolutely none of these stories have been true.
― dan m, Sunday, 7 December 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link
Almost every shop or store I've talked to said they were hosed. And those are the honest ones. Meanwhile, pictures proliferate of piles and piles of the stuff at Costco and Walgreens and whatnot, with no purchase limits. I dunno. It's good, but it's also only beer.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 7 December 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/i-think-i-got-duped-feedback-please.234718/
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
Just read that this morning. I would be annoyed.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 14:26 (nine years ago) link
Holy crap, I just watched every ep of Just Keep Tastin' for the first time. Any local dudes know these dudes? Anyway, in the off chance someone here hasn't seen this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIyV0J2IEGI
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link
I follow PK on twitter, he's pretty funny.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
These are pretty good too: http://dontdrinkbeer.com/
― Jeff, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
The should really chug a whole bottle of Utopias.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 14:55 (nine years ago) link
holy crap that BA thread, remind me to only trade with ppl itt
― dan m, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 15:51 (nine years ago) link
yeah even in the annals of trader insanity that thread is insane
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 9 December 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link