Beer in the new era

My current favourite pint is the beer that's brewed closest to my house: Redemption Pale Ale (est. Tottenham 2010). Extraordinary levels of flavour for a 3.8% beer.

A few interesting microbreweries springing up in London in the last few years: Sambrook's, Brodie's, Redemption.

Tracer, just try them all.

I've been on a bit of a beer hiatus since my drinking victory. Itching to get back.

Extraordinary levels of flavour for a 3.8% beer.

^3.8%. Wow. And you guys say that we brew weak beer.

you know what kills me, is people who drink that low carb shit. Seriously.

3.8 is like the perfect ABV imo

^^ agreed

and pretty common in the uk

4.2-5% for me generally, although there are certainly bonus round exceptions

session beers

last christmas i had some norwegian christmas beer. ROTTEN.

5% seems a bit high for a session beer - that's what stella is!

5% is just about perfect.

I need a little kick, even in a "session beer". 3.8 seems milquetoast.

6+ preferred.

I don't really session drink though. Usually I'm 3 or 4 drinks and I'm done.

I'd much rather have one or two 7% plus beers than a bunch of weak ones.

don't really notice the diff....i get drunker quicker or drunker slower. i like that redemption but like lots of v strong ales too.

i like the 8-10% range in snifters OR uk stouts and ales in the 4% range, generally speaking.

man I had some collaborative joint by Half Acre and 3 Floyds last night that was incredibly badass, lager style, color etc but huge belgiany/hoppy flavors, can't remember the name for shit

dudes, this looks pretty dope

http://www.motherearthbrewing.com/page/silent-night

xp oh shit, it wasn't half acre, it was dogfish head (+3 floyds)

beer's called "PoppaSkull"

A deep, golden ale spiced with cardamom and fermented using a robust Belgian yeast strain. One third of the volume was then aged for 6 months in oak brandy barrels. Spice, esters, and sweet brandy dominate the aroma. A robust 10% abv is rounded by caramel and vanilla notes from the wood with a slight spiciness coming from the yeast.

i cant find the dogfish head stuff anywhere in the TC and its bringing me down man

PoppaSkull is the shhhhiiiit

Looks like they don't have any distribution in MN, have to make a run to WI?

yeah PoppaSkull was really good, if it hadn't been $8 I would have ordered another :/

on tap @ the hop leaf in chitown, but that's a longer haul.

i can find alternatives, ive just really wanted to try dudes stuff ever since i watched that beer wars doc - he seems like a pretty fascinating beer-lovin brewer, not always to his own benefit

guys no one sells dogfish anywhere in minnesota :(

i asked the beer store guy about it and he said that dogfish head had some beef with their MN distributor (since gone out of business) and has basically refused to do business with anyone in the state ever since

what the hell

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bummer

too bad you don't live in Duluth, you could just pop across the Bong to Superior and pick some up

oh shit wait i could drive to hudson

only thing i can tell you from a quick search is that casanova liquors in hudson wi is loaded w/dogfish head

well there you go

this is their blog

http://www.beergeekheaven.com/

u r a king among men

u kno who's stupid? i am. i was IN HUDSON last weekend and totally forgot to go to a beer store, any beer store, and get at the very least a case of new glarus

awwwww new glarus is awesome - it was the centerpiece for a full on punk rock irishy wake i went to a few years ago in new richmond so i have a total soft spot for it.

tryna get my brother to send me some bottles of founders kentucky breakfast stout. i kinda want to take a road trip back to the midwest and just load up the car w/750 ml bottles of some good shit i can't get here but i'm running out of room in the beer closet and anyway, it's a long drive.

you have a beer closet????

btw i had surly smoke last night

well it's more like a single shelf in the pantry, but the door closes in a closetlike manner

oh, what's the smoke like? i need some more wet (brought some surly back from mpls a few weeks ago).

so i've been hanging out with the lupulin maximux from o'so, it is intense. there's a hop cone floating in every bottle!

maximus rather. it sounds like a harry potter spell.

they seem to be out of the wet everywhere i go so uh oh maybe on that one.

i would also like to know about the smoke - bottle looks cool, but i am 50/50 on surly stuff in general.

it's....smokey. i liked it! wasn't totally sensational, and probably not worth the $15 i spent on it, but is good.

also, the wet is v good, too, but again: not worth $16 for a four pack. it's just furious++ imo, save your money and spend the difference on a bomber of something else.

cuz, like, if i'm gonna spend wine money on a bottle of beer, it'd better be something as memorable as duchesse de bourgogne or w/e

my gf is from MN, she brought back a 4 pack of some kind of Surly and a 12er of Primo after t-giving

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yeah PoppaSkull was really good, if it hadn't been $8 I would have ordered another :/

I got a big one of these from Binny's last night, will probably crack it open tonight. Also got some Grand Teton beers that I've read are pretty good: Lost Continent Double IPA and Trout Hop Black IPA.

Drank a San Diego County Session Ale last night and it was pretty good. It's one of those wacky collaborations, this one from Ballast Point/Kelsey McNair/Stone.

Six Point has an amazing seasonal beer now called Mad Scientist, and they have it on tap at Mission Dolores on 4th Ave in Brooklyn.

Sixpoint Mad Scientist Release. Batch 1 is a Spelt Wine at 9.4% ABV. Some free glassware. Righteous Rye also on tap.

The Spelt Wine is a twist on the more traditional barleywine beer style and features 51% spelt malt - an ancient cereal grain rarely found in the brewing process.

"Evolutionarily speaking," explains brewmaster Shane Welch, "spelt is an old cousin to wheat, similar in its composition and flavor profile, but less hybridized. The extra-large grain bill coupled with an abbey yeast allowed this beer to ferment very dry, further emphasizing the tart and spicy notes of the brew. It was seasoned with two different types of noble hops."

Thing is I didn't realize it was 9.4% when I had a few last night, and I think I almost fell onto the subway tracks afterward.

sam adams chocolate bock...fucking awesome.

Man, Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale -- it's like drinking Christmas.

Cannot big up Stone's Levitation Ale enough. I've never had this much flavor and body in a 4.4% abv beer. REALLY good.