Beer in the new era

tell me more about the goose island bourbon county stout; i haven't had that one, and don't think i've even seen it around here.

dark and heavy (13%), chocolate, smoke, vanilla, caramel, a real hard hitter and vv tasty imo. pretty much what i need right now///

wow @ 13%; does it come in the 22oz bottles? that would be too much for me i fear. a splitter.

otherwise sounds great obv.

yeah 22 oz...check this (2009 but still, maybe will have some overlap)

http://www.beermenus.com/beers/goose-island-bourbon-country-stout-2008

<3 beer menus. maybe have to check it out at the fourth avenue pub. was down in that area last night, ended up drinking at O'Connors, one of Park Slope's premier dives.

does lancaster brewing company get any distribution outside of philadelphia / south jersey? their milk stout is pretty durn good.

I am in Colorado and this is dangerous. Went to a brewpub in Colorado Springs and it turns out that they have ridiculous guest taps. Stone, Russian River... Need I say more?

I'm in San Francisco, someone tell me where the beer is.

t0dd it seems everyone who goes there has that experience! enjoy yrself.

I had good beers in San Francisco at Toronado last spring:http://www.toronado.com/draft.htm

Had my first Red Oval lager, someone mentioned it on one of these threads, and it was surpisingly good for the price ($2.99 6-pack at Trader Joe's). It's my new lawnmower beer!

I'm quite enjoying Radeberger lately. A crisp, slightly fizzy, bitter pilsner.

don de dieu

iirc

Had my first Red Oval lager, someone mentioned it on one of these threads, and it was surpisingly good for the price ($2.99 6-pack at Trader Joe's). It's my new lawnmower beer!
--nickn

yeah it's way better than simple times

call all destroyer, you figured me out. Not like it was hard or anything.

The Stone Cali-Belgique IPA I had yesterday was a revelation... American IPA made with Belgian yeast.

I am at a Belgian beer bar in Denver now, St. Bernardus Christmas Ale was tasty, now drinking the Scaldis Prestige de Nuits is very, very good.

Yeah, I have a spending to much on beer problem.

ok, so this is currently only available in MN and WI, but supposedly coming soon to philly and then points elsewhere - but the Furthermore Knot Stock is incredible, basically a really good pale ale with a super strong cracked black pepper component. if you can find it, try it, you will not be disappointed. or if you are, there is something terribly wrong with you.

i had some at grumpys! delicious

yeah i was kind of amazed! one of those things where you order it wondering if you will be happy drinking a pint of it, and then its so good that you have several, and then maybe lie down for a bit

I ended up going to a place called Monk's Kettle. Great beer bar. I had a Blind Pig IPA. Good, hoppy IPA that tastes a littly citrusy.

Delighted to find out that they had a Monk's Sour Ale. I drank so much of it in Monks in Philly and have had it very few times since then. It's so refreshing, I could probably drink 10 of them.

I finished up with a Rodenbach Grand Cru, which is one of my favorite beers ever. I could have just sit there and smelled it for an hour.

My wife had a St Bernardus Wit, which was also fantastic. It was the type of beer that you could almost chew, with almost a sawdust texture.

Great beer evening and a huge tab. But somehow we got the regulars discount.

Monk's (Red?) Sour Ale is one of my favorite beers in the world

in fact im really glad you mentioned it because i keep forgetting to cajole my local beer source heaven (the awesome and awesomely named BOOZE MART) to get some in for me, the dude who owns it is willing to stock anything you ask for, a super cool guy. he keeps three cases of utility beer fave black label (yeah i know, but srsly its the best dumb cheap beer in the world imo) in the cooler at all times just for me.

http://www.boozemartsp.com/

nice site. do you go to boozemart or boozemart 2?

both!

good answer

Racer 5 IPA on tap. Enjoying with a ton of oysters.

I had the Full Sail "Session" lager and dark lager and they were definitely very drinkable beers but sort of nondescript, nothing special. That, considering the price and the fact that they were both in smallish 11oz stubby bottles = probably not buying again.

Back at The Monks Kettle. Drinking Monks Blood. A Belgian strong dark. Sweet, fruity, and smooth.

I like Session better in theory than in practice, they are good outside summer beers though. The stubbies are the best part actually, though they're twist-offs so you can't bottle with them.

Speaking of which my second batch of homebrew kind of sucks and nobody really wants to drink it.

I like the idea of homebrew, but I have no interest in doing it myself. It's just one of those things I would always rather leave to the professionals.

beers tonight at Falling Rock in Denver

Russian River Damnation
Alaskan Amber
Deschutes Jubel
Stone IPA
Russian River Blind Pig IPA

Please forgive my grammatical errors in my previous post.

Side note: I love beers.

Falling Rock is a wonderful place -- I need to go there more often. I work right around there, maybe I can start leaving early.

tylerw, i may be back there again today... just sayin'

(after i go record shopping, of course)

This is what I brought home with me in my suitcase. Priorities....

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs238.snc3/22550_979456404370_1904869_54604012_6764929_n.jpg

also, you can tell the quality of the beer in the city by what they have in their airport bars. I went to two bars at Denver International and had the Stone IPA, Arrogant Bastard and then the Boulder Mojo IPA and Never Summer ale.

Chicago airports are forever stuck with Goose Island 312. It is an ok beer, but c'mon!

Never fly into Newark then, man.

The heavier handed ipa from two brothers is really tasty. recommended if you can locate it still.

hmmm random beer selections this evening:

Harbin lager (china) - totally acceptable, nothing i am going to rave about
Morland "Hen's Tooth" (britisher) - digging this, a nice surprise given it was a cheap big bottle - just started it so we'll see how it plays out, but a zippy carbonation loaded bottle conditioned ale. pretty fucking good!

god bless the aforementioned boozemart

tonight, fire island red wagon IPA. totally drinkable, fine beer. maybe a tad sweet.

(this was on draft @ mother's in brooklyn)

Kasteel bier

so having just seen how much 6 packs of Knot Stock are ($10) i am just going to go ahead and drink the $3 pints of it i get at my local probably going to go out of business fancy beer bar.

gbx i need to bring you to the cherokee grill before they take a dirtnap. walking distance from my house, insane good beer pricing to urge people to eat their (pretty good!) food

ok!

when is the dirtnap

it's good to patronize small businesses, as i'm sure you know as a small-business owner! is $10 expensive for a six pack of craft beer in the midwest? xpxpxp

insane good = generally cheaper than buying stuff in a liquor store - this is the place that was doing $6 241's on the goose island big bottles (which are $7.50 per at the cheapest in liquor stores AFAIK)

xpost - no, its just that this place is so earnestly trying to make it that they are selling "let me pour that for you sir" for less than i can get most of this at the "bring it home and serve yerself jerk" stores