Beer in the new era

i miss binny's

had sierra nevada's pale ale and porter and really enjoyed them both. think the pale ale was the first american pale ale i'd tried, though i've tried plenty american influenced pale ales. perhaps a bit too hoppy but more or less just what i'm looking for. not really the weather for porter, but as it's my favourite style of beer i thought i'd give it a try. something about the nose that i'm not quite happy with, but nice and deep taste and nice mouthfeel.

anyone try the sierra nevada summer?

summertime for me is all about sam adams summer ale, wachusett summer...basically any summer ale. give me some reco's on some others to try...oh and i also love miller high life after mowing the lawn.

i've had it--it's nice but won't blow you away. it's no sam which is the gold standard for the genre.

i've been drinking some goose island 312 recently which isn't specifically summer but feels seasonal to me

anyone had the super fancy goose islands? like pere jacques and matilda (I think)? (apologies if they've come up itt before.) always been curious but kind of irritated at how expensive they are from a local brewery

Yeah, they're pretty good. Sofie is the other fancy Belgian one they do. I don't go out of my way for them, though. By "local brewery" do you mean you live in Chicago?

I do...as you're probably reading in the feminist blog thread right now! :)

Ah! Yes, well, you should post in the Chicago thread sometime. We're generally kind to newcomers.

Generally

Jeff likes the wrong cupcakes >:[

im generally a wheat beer freak...there is a new pub/bar in town Armsby Abbey...which blows me away. I do like a La Fin Du Monde

<3 fin du monde! definitely my favorite unibroue, though I'm not sure i've tried them all

zee bar i was mentioning...http://armsbyabbey.com

Dulle Teve (Mad Bitch)....fucking amazing.

have you had Ballast Point Bourbon Barrel Black Marlin Porter?

that i have yet to try....not a porter guy.

but my wife loved when i ordered the mad bitch in her honor.

it's not exactly a summer beer either, but that name is kind of irresistible.

interested in this - Dogfish Head Theobrama. im huge fan of dogfish head

This beer is based on chemical analysis of pottery fragments found in Honduras which revealed the earliest known alcoholic chocolate drink used by early civilizations to toast special occasions. The discovery of this beverage pushed back the earliest use of cocoa for human consumption more than 500 years to 1200 BC. As per the analysis, Dogfish Head’s Theobroma (translated into 'food of the gods') is brewed with Aztec cocoa powder and cocoa nibs (from our friends at Askinosie Chocolate), honey, chilies, and annatto (fragrant tree seeds). It's light in color - not what you expect with your typical chocolate beer. Not that you'd be surpised that we'd do something unexpected with this beer!

sounds pretty nuts!

sounds like it would give me the shits.

Sounds great.

60 and 90 minute ipa gets my dick like a nail.

The super fancy goose islands are the only ones I ever see out here, and only in 22s.

I brought a bunch of Bells Two Hearted back from my trip to Michigan and an 18 pack of Old Milwaukee which is on of my favorite summer beers but for whatever reason it doesn't make it to WA.

I cut the top and bottom off a diet pepsi can the other day so I can slip it over an old mil can and have a beer while walking the dog.

Drank far too many sam summers last night and then popped a trazodone to sleep....i feel like something that fell out of a tall cows ass.

i broke my no complicated beers rule last night and drank a great divide rye lager, a .5 liter of paulaner pils, an allagsh white, and a clown shoes brown angel. all great but i felt pretty gnar.

60 and 90 minute ipa gets my dick like a nail.

yo what does this mean?!

also, i am going to boston in mid-september i think from the insulated beer-land of quebec, what do i need to try? where do i need to drink it? where can i get bottles to bring home?

best place to go is still the publick house/american craft in brookline

60 and 90 minute ipa gets my dick like a nail.
yeah was gonna say ... is this good or bad?
and yeah, i agree, publick house is fab -- i used to live within walking distance. i consider moving back to Boston just for the publick house.

its good.

finally tried the Oskar Blues Gubna Imperial IPA ... it was good, but I think that 10% alcohol might just be too much alcohol for me?

I'm really enjoying Trader Joe's Dunkelweizen lately - or what I guess is actually Josephs Brau Dunkelweizen. It's nice to take a break from hoppier beers.

speaking of 10% alcohol, red hook 8-4-1 expedition @ 9.5%. "oak aged ale brewed with honey" (and brown sugar and smoked malt). nice, though unsurprisingly cloying after a the first few sips. they try to offset the sweetness with massive hops, but it winds up more aggressive than balanced. still pretty tasty. one of a billion short run big beers produced every month by the nameless numberless american craft/micro/indie brewery hordes. wtf at the name though. like it's a sleeping bag or a bike seat.

anyway yeah, dogfish 90, all the way. i have often remarked that it gets my dick like a nail.

TMIPA

i was just thinking baout great lakes and i skimmed this thread and i'm shocked that people like grassroots! it's the only great lakes beer i've hated. it tastes like it's made from actual grass.

i also think harpoon ufo is really good so maybe i just have bad taste

http://www.2beerguys.com/images/forblog/weyerbacher_verboten.jpg

if you see this, buy it. absolutely incredible, starts as a straight belgian and finishes as a sharp pale ale, a total knockout imo

really wanna try stone ruination but i'm... scared

in the mean-time new glarus moon man is working for me, satisfying my hop-tooth

went to local fancy pants organic deli/cafe/grocery and got a 'mix a six'

all 12oz

saranac imperial ipa
fire island red wagon ipa (only one of these i've had, and only on tap)
river horse hop hazard (not sure why i got a third ipa)
lake placid ubu ale (red/brown ale?)
weyerbacher blithering idiot barleywine
river horse tripel horse (inna belgian-stylee)

i will report my findings.
if the saranac is good, it's some nice bang for yer buck as at the cheapest one ($2.15 lol new york) and also like 8.5%

new to these parts is the sierra nevada fall seasonal--it's a very nice brown ale.

Ruination is really good, haven't had one in a while - it's hoppy but I remember it being pretty well balanced and interesting instead of just straight up bitter. But my concept of such might be damaged after four years of PNW IPA excesses.

new glarus moon man tastes kinda like grass, but in a good way

have never liked a single beer produced by stone people. they taste burly and that is all. do not want my beer to taste like sweaty woodman compost.

yeah i had levitation a couple weeks ago and i thought it was "good" but probably wouldn't get it again, and also like 4.5% or something

have really gone off anything over 5% these days... why? i think it's because i like to drink beer. and i have to drink less of it if it's like Yeasty Buck Hammer Strength Hop Town Pot Bangle, 9.2% ABV

yup

Same with "scrumpy" ciders tbh - rough as guts, most of them, bleugh.

Picked up few of the Dogfish Head/Stone/Victory collaboration beer, Saison du BUFF. Not really my cup of beer. I'm not a fan of the Saison style to begin with. Add the contents of my spice drawer and this one was hard to get down at times.

ian, how was that weyerbacher ?