Beer in the new era

gives you a reason to go back though

yeah one of many!

also i just noticed that the best beer store in mn BOOZE MART is about to start bringing in the Brooklyn Brewery stuff. Which seems to be waning according to this thread but fuck it, any new beer is good beer imo.

i still fuck with brooklyn stuff if only cuz the little place by my house usually has them it at a good

price

If ever looking for something to do on a Saturday afternoon in Westchester, NY Captain Lawrence Brewing Company has free tasting from 12-6 and basically there is no limit to the amount of refills you can get.

i have heard that half acre brewery in the lincoln square area of chicago is quite fantastic. t/f?

two nights ago here in l.a. i had a Speakeasy Ritual Coffee Porter and a new Stone beer, Highway 78 Scotch Ale. A+

It's pretty good. They don't have a lot of releases but the quality is consistent.

Kona beers have started to show up here, but only sporadically and not many varieties. I see their coconut porter pretty regularly but haven't tried one yet.

coconut porter

color me intrigued

yeah i had that in maui and it was really good! and i normally hate fruit/coffee/tin foil/guano whatevers jammed in my beer but it was very impressive

actually wait the coconut porter i had was from the Maui Brewing Company (came in a can, v tasty) does kona make one as well?

http://www.mauibrewingco.com/mbc/MBCCannedBeer.html

Town Hall did a coconut porter recently. It was awesome, and yeah fruit/sweet beers are generally not my thing.

i suck for neglecting town hall so much, they really do a great job most of the time.

tbf spending half my latter undergrad years boozing it up there in between afternoon and evening classes prob is partly to blame for my lack of excitement

Yeah, that might do it. I'm there a couple times a month for sure; it's close to work and their IPA is like crack to me.

My mistake, it's the Maui that makes the coconut one, and they're the ones I started seeing only recently. Kona beers have been around here for a long time and I know I've had a couple but it's been a while.

There are a shitload of Hawaiians around here which might have something to do with it.

why do i keep buying the magic hat seasonal samplers when i almost never like most of their beers? this Demo IPA tastes like fucking bongwater.

on the plus side Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee is selling 4 pack samplers of their 22 oz beers and i had the first one and it was FANTASTIC. Bridge Burner special reserve ale. damn its good, hits like a pale ale, middle is sorta tasty portery and finishes/aftertastes like a really good stout. also, super drinkable while still being 8% ABV! srsly buy immediately if you see it.

I've never had a magic hat beer that I like. And that #9 beer is vile.

magic hat is awful...again, i've never liked any of their beers either.

I concur with both of you. Who likes their stuff? Or is their entire business model predicated on one-time suckers?

ha! i was just thinking the same thing

same people who probably consider "petes wicked" a micro-brew.

or good.

Pete's Wicked Ales's brand owner, The Gambrinus Company, has sent letters to their distributors saying that as of March 1st, 2011 the Pete's Wicked Ale brand will be discontinued, citing "rapidly declining sales volumes"

dream come true.

There was a time years ago when pete’s was considered a micro brew around where i was

BUT THIS IS THE NEW ERA

aero, same here. in fact it was one of about three at the time.

and to be honest, it was my first foray into craft beer.

Wow, Pete's going under is kinda O_o (or would be, until I considered how I never see it in bars anywhere anymore, and how it's been usurped by so many better (or at least more ubiquitous) beers.)

end of an era

lol xxxp

these are the same people who praise Blue Moon.

lotta competition in the craft brew new era. i've heard some people out here in colorado speak of the "craft brew bubble"...

yeah these days there are far too many (in a good way) to choose from when i hit the packie.

Did the Unibroue 4-pack again and think I may actually like Don de Dieu better than Fin du Monde. I guess I'm a sucker for wheat beers.

i just tried this new one (the brewery is right down the street from me, dunno how far and wide it's distributed). pretty solid, though!
http://s3.amazonaws.com/user-beer-photos/beer_photos/18173/left-hand-stranger-pale-ale.png

lotta competition in the craft brew new era. i've heard some people out here in colorado speak of the "craft brew bubble"...

― tylerw, Friday, March 18, 2011 4:47 PM Bookmark

totally. I find the selection these days overwhelming. When it's available, I try to drink local (my recent dislike of Brooklyn Brewery notwithstanding). That not only limits the selection and seems "greener" but also tends to provide beer that's more likely to be fresh. This is especially nice at a bar since more places offer Six Point now.

that logo reminds me of:

1. the stranger 478 up, 74 down

To lay on one's arm so as to deny the passage of blood and ultimately loose feeling in the limb, followed by the act of mastrubation with said limb.

I gave myself the stranger last night.

hmm

(guess i see what u mean)

hi, i like magic hat fine, my girlfriend really likes the #9

hi, i like magic hat fine, my girlfriend really likes the #9

Has his been posted? http://draftmag.com/features/american-beer-overkill/

My take is I don't mind the pretension because the product that is being produced is so good. But I HATE the crowds at events, and trying to get tickets for some of them. Annoying.

Speaking of events, Dark Lord Day tickets go on sale tomorrow. Better get them early.

I want to go to Eccentric Day at Bell's.

i think his fear that cheaper options are being pushed out in favor of 750 ML bottles of artisan beers is one that would be lessened by a trip to most grocery stores with a wide beer selection in any city in this country. anyway i don't think we live in a beer era where it's sommeliers and pairings vs buffalo wings and blue moon. speaking in a biased manner, the best city for beer i've been in is chicago (possibly because of location, it seems to get more beers from everywhere, definitely moreso than l.a. or s.f. or s.d.) and most places with a really supreme selection are pretty casual and low-key joints without any pretense.

it really is p. great, some good new brewpubs opening here recently too

i went in to a sports bar downtown called jake melnick's which kinda looks like your average sports bar with buffalo wings and burgers (the food being a slight cut above), but their beer selection is really, really outstanding and surprising.

It is, I've been to a few meetups there.

yeah! it's been cool to see bars/restaurants that have previously had totally boring selections starting to offer a pretty wide range of beers.