I think PseudoSue and Dorothy's are the only two they've really ramped up on, but I've seen a few others in the grocery store.
― mh, Thursday, 22 June 2017 13:50 (six years ago) link
The contract brewed TG cans from Florida are garbage imho compared to the the Decorah bombers.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 22 June 2017 13:58 (six years ago) link
so damn hot lately been enjoying the random sour. had a mraz (sacramento area) 3 berry sour other day that kicked ass. beautiful color, sort of like having a sour smoothie it was so fruit forward. last night had a modern times tropical sour that was really nice (def. got some passionfruit, thought maybe there was guava and mango in the mix too?) but didn't blow me away like the 3 berry one didalso had a sierra nevada BFD (beer for drinking), a 7% dry hopped golden ale that was lovely. the dry hop really made it noteworthy
― freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 22 June 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
The problem with Prairie around here is the $$$. Single bottle often $10+. But still, Bomb, Birthday Bomb, and Pe-Kan are all fantastic.
― Jeff, Thursday, 22 June 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link
praire makes such good beer but yea they are pricey
― marcos, Thursday, 22 June 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
Lol I just remembered, one store I checked out here in Mpls is selling 2013 Backwoods Bastard for $3.99 a bottle. Who knows how well it has been kept but that seems like a worthwhile gamble.
(That said I haven't bought one.)
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Thursday, 22 June 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
Sierra Nevada's new Beer Camp box is out, it's a colab with 12 different brewers like they've done before. $24 at Whole Foods and $25 at Bevmo (for shame!).
― nickn, Friday, 23 June 2017 01:38 (six years ago) link
it's fun as always, idk why the price comes up every year for something that's intended to be a treat.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 23 June 2017 01:41 (six years ago) link
Tried a couple of new beers this evening which were both good: Fortunate Islands by Modern Times (a hoppy wheat beer) and Gratitude by Kent Falls (a hoppy lager).
― o. nate, Friday, 23 June 2017 01:44 (six years ago) link
KCBC marble of doomSour and red
― calstars, Friday, 23 June 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
Coincidentally my new local shop just stocked Double Dry Hop Pseudo Sue, bought the bomber and it rules. Very very good.
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Friday, 23 June 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
Evil twin mission gose. Yes
― calstars, Friday, 23 June 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
Evil twin James beer. Better than mission.
Way beer graviola has stuff floating in the bottom of the bottle.
― calstars, Saturday, 24 June 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
I guess it's cool to try a Brazilian spin on sour but I prefer the American stuff
― calstars, Saturday, 24 June 2017 20:06 (six years ago) link
tfw you know the beer at your local better than the bartenders
― calstars, Saturday, 24 June 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
Yesterday we had a cookout and I think Narragansett tall boys are going to be my new go-to Saturday beer
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 25 June 2017 14:12 (six years ago) link
At least while it's hot
Okay so has anyone tried this SUB Krups mini-keg system? I guess there is a local outfit who sells local brewery "minis" which work with it. It looks kind of neat.
― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Sunday, 25 June 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
To OL Got Starstruck - not as sour as i expected. Like a blue moon brewed with some funk. Gose flavor mixed with a pale dry wheat beer.
To OL Sur Galaxy - "sour mashed black IPA" yuck
― calstars, Sunday, 25 June 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
For me the only To Ol really worth it is the shock series. Nothing else quite lives up to the promise.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Sunday, 25 June 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
To Ol's Sky Mountain Sour (a Buxton collaboration) is one of the best beers I've had all year fyi
― imago, Sunday, 25 June 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
Owner of this place with all these awesome brews seems to be a millennial douche. Fuck
― calstars, Sunday, 25 June 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
what's wrong with that
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 25 June 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link
My fave To Ol has been the Sur Mosaic; delicious. Mr Pink was good too.My go-to summer sour is Newburgh's Checkpoint Charlie -- perfect tartness level and 3% means i can chug a couple after work and be functional.
― ian, Sunday, 25 June 2017 23:17 (six years ago) link
got the AV G&T gose, it's delicious. would love to try the blood orange variant.
― calstars, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 00:56 (six years ago) link
I'm mh'ing it this week and crushing tall boys of the dad stuff
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:08 (six years ago) link
bought a 12-pack pbr the other day after doing a bunch of yard work and draining a garden pond
― marcos, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:45 (six years ago) link
for me these days it's all:
1) light sours and saisons2) wheat ales3) domestic swill
― marcos, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:47 (six years ago) link
lol I betrayed the cause and drank negronis the past week, but uh forgot the sweet vermouth
― mh, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 02:05 (six years ago) link
I've been due for a break from IPAs for a while, but lost my taste for sours right around the time they became cool again.
I guess most years I get my fill of cheap sweet lagers on work travel, especially conferences. Maybe I should go out on my porch and do a lightning talk? Or a panel with the potted plants.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 02:37 (six years ago) link
http://draftmag.com/50-best-ipas-america/
Interesting list. Haven't heard of most of them, they don't get distributed here.
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 June 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
From the selection criteria, it seems that most of the breweries self selected to participate, so the tasting was far from comprehensive.
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 June 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
I haven't heard of most either, and I think I've only drank one, the Golden Road Heal the Bay.
Also this may be be the first time I've seen onion/scallion as flavor descriptors.
― nickn, Thursday, 29 June 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
I bought Fulton 300 today based on this list.
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Thursday, 29 June 2017 23:51 (six years ago) link
Evil Twin A is for Apricot gets an A
― calstars, Friday, 30 June 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
Fulton 300 is solid, and I like it, but that's a weird placement. Also, we should grab a drink some time!
― jjjusten, Monday, 3 July 2017 02:47 (six years ago) link
do any of you know people who are stridently anti-shitbeer, as in if you're drinking something that's not busch or natural light, then fuck you, as an open attitude, like "i only drink shitbeer, fuck that craft shit"?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 3 July 2017 03:09 (six years ago) link
You mean stridently anti-craft beer?
I do know a guy that religiously orders PBR, and complains about hipsters, etc, but I'm not totally sure he'd look down on say, a craft lager.
― nickn, Monday, 3 July 2017 06:37 (six years ago) link
ya it's more an anti hipster thing not anti craft beer
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Monday, 3 July 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
Also, we should grab a drink some time!
I'm up for it! Dunno if I still have your number saved.
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Monday, 3 July 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
I've got a good friend who is not currently a big beer drinker, but when he does drink beer it is always exclusively shitty beer like Coors. I've got a couple of other friends who are always wary of drinking beer at my place because they are afraid I'm going to spring something scary on them with a really high ABV.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 July 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
Everyone I know who derides craft beer mainly does it because of price. Which is a fair point tbh.
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Monday, 3 July 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
if you just want to sit around and knock back beers, then craft beer's value proposition sucks -- the ones you can drink all day without getting wasted aren't very numerous because few places stock more than one or two that's below 5%
if you just want to have a tasty beer and don't mind you're getting all your alcohol in half the beers, if not fewer, they're not that expensive
― mh, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 01:45 (six years ago) link
More NE IPA craziness, went out to lunch and drank two beers .... a Van Hazen II and a Fade2Haze. Don't get me wrong, they were delicious, but then names...
― Jeff, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 09:38 (six years ago) link
azimut brasserie in bordeaux make some extremely mediocre IPAs but have somehow knocked it out of the park with their 7% "new england ipa". ridiculously good. new england might want to start working on an appellation system tho. it's not as if massachusetts vineyards get to make "champagne"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 10:41 (six years ago) link
I know certain breweries in Vermont have:
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/life/food/2017/03/17/flattery-foul-play-vermont-beer-pops-up-out-state/99252424/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 12:26 (six years ago) link
http://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/foodfocus/ct-hazy-ipa-craft-beer-food-0705-20170630-story.html
Local beer hype curmudgeon comes around on hazy IPA's.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
Been hearing a lot about Noon Whistle lately. Do they have cans available anywhere, or do you have to go to the brewery or get it on tap somewhere?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
They have cans, but typically only their milk stout/pale ale/sours (the face smack series). I don't think their gummy series is canned at this time, tap room only.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
I assume I can get it to go in a growler. Lombard isn't that far away from me.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link