Beer in the new era

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.

I wandered over to Jake Melnick's one night last fall when I had some time to kill, but the ambiance sort of put me off, so I went to Clark St. Ale House instead.

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.

My office's traditional happy hour locale is a place called Monk's, which serves basic bar food and puts shelled peanuts on the table. Until a few months ago, the most exciting beer you could get there was a Sierra Nevada, but now they've got a whole menu of craft selections.

i'm feelin that article

this is from the site of one of the brewers he talks to (stillwater artisinal)

of Love & Regret
For the first edition of the Stillwater Import Series I traveled to the village of Beerzel, located in the Antwerp province of Belgium. Here I teamed up with brewmaster Jef Goetelen to craft an authentic Belgian version of my liquid interpretation of the Spring season. A recipe originally contrived a few years prior as a collaboration brew with my good friend Paul Kretzer. The base is German barley & wheat, with a touch of Belgian aromatic; accented with grassy hops and an array of spring botanicals (heather, chamomile, lavender, & dandelion). Like a fresh meadow in spring.

i mean, for chrissakes

They can blah blah blah about brewing all they want. If I get it and it's delicious, MAKE MORE.

Yeah I love it all for the most part. I really started to get into beer when I moved to Washington and got a burger at super small bar/grill in a town of like 100 people in the middle of nowhere and they had six beers I'd never heard of on tap next to the Bud / Miller / Coors usuals. No pretense, they were just offered up like any other options.

There do seem to be a lot more expensive one-off experimental 22oz / 750ml beers around recently, but I love bringing one of those over to friends houses (or having friends show up at my place with one) where we all get to try something completely different before we go back to our usual $1.50 bottles of the regular day-to-day beers that are still great and interesting. And even the most crazy expensive 750s that I see are never more than $12 or so, which isn't bad at all compared to wine.

There's only as much pretense and expense as you want to deal with and it's not hard to avoid it.

Hit the North with Mark E Smith

Sierra Nevada's Hoptimum is out of this world good.

Like, forreals.

Tried Peak Spring Ale -- perfectly good but tastes like a million other bright, hoppy beers out there imo.