Yeah, I'm usually a two-and-done sort of guy, even on weekends. Never more than three drinks when we're grilling with friends or somthing.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, January 22, 2015 11:00 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yea this is me, too.
on new year's eve this year we had some friends over, it was the first "party" we had in a while and there were a bunch of toddlers running around. i went a little crazy and drank FOUR or mayyyybe FIVE beers and after all the friends left at 8pm and i was putting my kid to bed i started getting super nauseous in the rocking chair. as soon as my kid was asleep i immediately threw up in the toilet.
― marcos, Thursday, 22 January 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
Yeeah, on new year's eve I realized I had had like five beers and a glass of champagne and that is way more than I ever drink. This was over the course of like 7 hours though.
― Modern French Music from Failure to Boulez (askance johnson), Thursday, 22 January 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
and I am also way more worried about calories/$$$ wrt to beer consumption than I am about becoming an alcoholic or anything
― Modern French Music from Failure to Boulez (askance johnson), Thursday, 22 January 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
I've only been hung over twice, maybe three times, ever. Jeff, one time was actually after I met you guys at WF (long story). Barfed once, in college. Sangria.
I found a Sucaba just sitting on the grocery store shelf today! Felt good.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
Whew boy, I've been hungover in my life. But I'm probably down to maybe 5 to 10 times a year. I should track it.
― Jeff, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
Hungover, with kids, is the worst anything ever.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
xp - apparently sucaba doesn't have as much of a following as their other limited stuff? i see it on shelves all the time, the guy at the brewery was saying that it's one of the least popular. it's delicious, i feel like people might just not comprehend that abacus and sucaba are the same thing?
wish i had the chance to head to their barrelworks facility in buellton, but was able to try a good amount of firestone stuff in paso when i was in the area last week. surprised how much i liked stickee monkee actually, probably my favorite quad in a while (though it is prob technically an old ale). agrestic and double dba were pretty good also, but i was not impressed with the velvet merkin (i think they only have this at the brewery? was boozier and more intense than the merlin) nor the velvet mocha merlin. too roasty and bitter for my tastes, still haven't tried parabola but sorta thinking i wouldn't shell out $25 or w/e for something with a similar grain profile
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:44 (nine years ago) link
I've only been hung over twice, maybe three times, ever.
I was once like you
― dan m, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
this is relevant, i had no idea how many calories were in a high ABV craft beer (and it's actually less than i thought/feared):
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/12/31/374187472/if-youre-toasting-for-health-beer-may-be-a-good-bet
― virtuoso thigh slapper (Jordan), Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:13 (nine years ago) link
psychgawsple: Parabola is way better than Velvet Merkin, different base beer. Definitely worth tracking down in March or I could ship you a 2014. Actually, I'm going to be in your fair city this weekend. I could mule one to you in exchange for more of that delicious Apricot Bu.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link
Also, a polite thank you for moving this thread away from that fascinating "homebodies gone wild" subplot.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:23 (nine years ago) link
I think FW is discontinuing DDBA. That was the one I saw hanging around the most. Sucaba maybe second. The others - Parabola, Anniversary, Velvet Merkin, etc. - they go pretty quickly.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:44 (nine years ago) link
2x on DDBA hanging around. Is it Sucaba season?
― dan m, Thursday, 22 January 2015 19:55 (nine years ago) link
Surprised to see that the Old Stock Cellar Reserve Ale does not seem to be flying off the shelves.this year is back in bourbon barrels, & I have heard great things. At least of previous iterations.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 January 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link
Sucaba is one of my favorite beers! And FW vintage beers are a non-entity in my town, sadly. Sitting on a 2014, some day I'll decide is special enough to warrant opening it...
― franklin, Thursday, 22 January 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link
can anyone say why clarity in beer is a desirable feature? most of the beers i've been enjoying lately are murky and hazy, and some styles are by their nature pretty cloudy too so i can't quite understand why there is so much talk about clarity being such a good thing in beer
― marcos, Friday, 23 January 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
because some people just have a bunch of shit floating in their beer`
― mh, Friday, 23 January 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
has anybody tried this. gonna grab some on tap after work todayhttp://brewtallyinsane.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/DSC_0642-e1391277967934.jpg
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 23 January 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
haven't tried it, no, that's the same combination of ingredients in the stone xocoveza stout iirc
― marcos, Friday, 23 January 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
It's "The Bomb".
― Jeff, Friday, 23 January 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
Don't take that on a plane.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 January 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
Bomb is fantastic. More of a chile/coffee punch than Xocoveza had.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Friday, 23 January 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
yea xocoveza was very heavy on the vanilla, i wasn't a fan
― marcos, Friday, 23 January 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
Very encouraged by finding Dino S'mores in Whole Foods today, the first I have seen it in the wild.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
I've looked down on He'Brew beers before, but I had Death of a Contract Brewer black IPA tonight without knowing it was their beer, and man it's delicious.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Monday, 26 January 2015 03:24 (nine years ago) link
Josh, did you end up going to uppers downers?
― Jeff, Monday, 26 January 2015 03:29 (nine years ago) link
Did we talk about paradox brewing yet? Because holy fuck it's the best us sour thing happening right now imo.
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Monday, 26 January 2015 03:45 (nine years ago) link
xpost No, though I totally should have shot you a line. Even though it was sold out, my man on the inside offered to let me buy a pair of tix, but he told me so last minute that I really flubbed tracking down anyone free, willing to go, equally into beer and coffee, and willing to shell out $55.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 January 2015 04:03 (nine years ago) link
From pics, looked like a cool event. Much bigger than I thought it would be. Usually GBH's things are a smaller scale.
I have to say that the CBS on Friday was a little disappointing. Probably set myself up for disappointment though. Was at the bar 3 hours before it was tapped, so had backyard rye, FSW 18, and great divide American sour, so I was pretty drunk already. And it came out really cold, but I was too busy drinking everything to let it warm up. Drinking got in the way of me enjoying beer.
― Jeff, Monday, 26 January 2015 04:45 (nine years ago) link
CBS is just an on-tap whackamole, right? I think they had it at Hopleaf last night.
Man, I can't get a grip on Pipeworks. So they basically flood the shelves with all sorts of one-offs and experiments and regulars, and we're supposed to ... drink them all and find the gems in the mountain? Eh. Anyway, I bought a bottle of the BA Revival, of which I have heard good things, though tbh I'm not sure I know what a "wheat wine" is.
Heard the Uppers & Downers thing was just OK. Not a lot of exclusives, for whatever that's worth, though Goose Island apparently had plenty of BCS coffee on offer.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
Supposedly there were 20 sixtels of CBS that hit the Chicago area. The tappings have been pretty much staggered over the next couple of months.
Pipeworks Guide: Any thing they put in a barrel is pretty good to phenomenal. The IPA's can be very good, especially Square Grouper and its variants. Fresh Ninja vs. Unicorn is fantastic. The single hop ninja beers vary in quality, but I particularly like the Amarillo and the Mosaic. Some people really like the Abduction series, but I've had some meh ones so I typically don't try new ones. Everything else, buyer beware.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
Re: the faked beer trade BA thread from a while back http://m.soundcloud.com/strangebrews/58-the-case-of-the-counterfeit-beer
Also Arcadia Shipwreck BBA porter: super boozy smelling but sort of mild in flavor comparatively IMO. Good, though.
― #defecategate (dan m), Sunday, 1 February 2015 02:11 (nine years ago) link
My forecast for the new era 4.0: beechwood aged golden suds made the hard way.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 2 February 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link
Beer nerds mad about the Bud commercial.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
However, there is something appealing about beer brewed for drinking.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
i understand the positioning but it was soooo on the nose, it was just painful
― call all destroyer, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/02/valuable-lessons-i-learned-from-budweisers-hypocri.html
Only losers drink pumpkin peach ale. Everyone knows this. Except, wait, what’s that? Elysian Brewing, the Seattle brewery that Anheuser just purchased last week, makes a … yes … pumpkin peach ale. It’s called “Gourdia on My Mind .”
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link
Can't make me feel bad about my dissecting, bud.
― Jeff, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
Bud paid $2m to talk about craft beer
― dan m, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link
They should have had a quick cut to the line at Binny's on Black Friday.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 2 February 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
― dan m, Monday, February 2, 2015 11:35 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
$9 million apparently
― marcos, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
if that paste magazine article was right, could've just been rhetorical
― marcos, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
no that sounds right i believe it was $4.5M for 30 seconds
― call all destroyer, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
bud ad was just reactionary garbage, same as rich politicians bashing effete "latte liberals" in front of working-class audiences
― marcos, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
xps even better
― dan m, Monday, 2 February 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
And the Elysian thing is full of lols.
makes me feel bad about dissecting bcbs!
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Monday, 2 February 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/joshbnoel/status/562300101259845632
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 February 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/f5CZvcW.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 2 February 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
O_O
― Mordy, Monday, 2 February 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link