Beer in the new era

Look, seriously, I just opened a Coors tallboy that cost like $1.75 and my day is being made right now as I drink it.

Its noble pils time.

drinking through the great divide sampler - Denver Pale Ale and Titan IPA are fantastic, Hoss Rye Lager is mediocre, Belgica does nothing for me (to be clear, ive really lost my taste for belgian anythings, i know, dont hit me).

i will be following up this round with black label in the can tho and it will be awesome, so Laurel u r among friends here.

yes john that titan ipa is fuckin good.

and shortly i will be drinking gansett talls.

i really don't fuck with belgians.
tonight i drank some fuckin sam adams and i will drink a brooklyn when my dinner arrives.
laurel, please don't pay more than $1.49 for a can of coors. i like coors.

gansett!!

Ian ur from ri correct?

The only place to get it out here is the Walgreen's. At least within walking distance, although with my bike up today I'll have more options. Still, this is an Orthodox neighborhood on shabbos, my choices are limited.

And when I say "tallboy" I mean the 24 oz size, so I don't think the price is outrageous.

i am from RI, yes.
laurel-- i know what a tallboy is.

Are u still pounding the talks laurel? Haha

4.99 for a sixer of gansett talls (16 Oz) here in mass

See?? Sometimes it's only 16 oz. I'm not crazy, I swear.

Chris, I'm only on my second of the day, so it's more "sipping," really.

What??? U no fun. Haha

in mn tallboy means 16 oz, ie pbr tallboy

I know, I don't know if the 24oz size has a name, really? For some reason, regular Coors only seems to come in this size, everything else is "Light" only.

i shall call them "fatboys" and i recommend you all do the same

kinda burned out on belgians myself. i think the closest i get these days are some of the more belgiany offerings from allagash. i'm on a mad scotch ale kick, though if i'm being honest lately i've been drinking mostly red wine since my beer partner got knocked up.

tonight

tallboy Half Acre Over Ale
snifter Dogfish Head Aprihop
pint 3 Floyds Alpha King
bottle Goose Island IPA
bottle High Life

I expected more from Aprihop I think? Also for some reason I was under the impression it was an Apricot-flavored beer. It isn't.

q: is "gluten free" beer any good? my bro's fiancee recently discovered she shouldn't be having gluten and he's been thinking of brewing a gluten free beer for her.

24 Oz around here are called GQ's

Gluten free is arse

John tallboys are 16 Oz here

http://beernews.org/2011/03/anheuser-busch-to-buy-goose-island-for-38-8-million/

i like coors.

^its very thirst quenching, i love it. Coors Light is piss though.

dont get me wrong i love a good cheapie every once in a while.

Didn't A-B already own a significant slice of Goose Island?

http://beernews.org/tag/gnomegang/

as good as you should know to expect

real good

oh shit i just saw that and forgot to go pick some up!

that sounds like a fantastic collab

So I mentioned Beer Geek Brunch: Weasel by Mikkeller somewhere but I didn't go into it. This beer is a oatmeal coffee stout, and the coffee is brewed from beans that have been eaten by a southeast asian weasel called the Civet. Civets are very picky and only select the best coffee beans. After it passes through their system the beans are collected and sold. It is probably the most expensive coffee in the world, but also considered to be the best. They use this very coffee to brew this beer! I think it is awesome- I'm definitely not grossed out about it. The beer is extremely dark and syrupy looking, not bitter at all. So good.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nWZPk3RGKTw/S3l4k9eNeoI/AAAAAAAAAB0/_kHo08TWILA/s320/Mikkeller+Beer+Geek+Brunch+Weasel+091120.jpg

Oh and

q: is gluten-free beer any good

I spotted someone drinking this last night:

http://cavedirectresources.com/mongozo-gluten-free-pils/

and I asked her what she thought of it, she was all "it's really, really nice and I come back to this bar many a time because it's here and it means I can drink beer..."

That "and" was following on from a post where I agreed that Beer Geek Brunch was good but opined that their Beer Geek Breakfast was even better, smoother and richer.

Oh you don't like the weasel as much as the other? They both are fantastic.

Re 24 oz. "tallboys": we're talking about cans, right? Because a 22-24 oz. bottle is a bomber.

Yeah, cans.

Evan, as I think about it, I've only had their *other* weasel coffee beer (it was called something like Fr. Henriksen, solos to any Mikkeller specialists for my failure to remember) - it was more bitter and less smooth than the Breakfast. Still delicious though!

Wait, another weasel coffee beer? Or just the other Mikkeller with regular coffee? Weasel is called brunch, but the other is called breakfast.

Oh yeah and you mentioned that distinction.

So forget the second question.

Yeah there was another weasel beer: it had an almost-entirely black label with the name (which I just can't remember, aaargh) and their cute little weasel logo.

I have recently become very fond of Meantime Chocolate from the Meantime Brewing Co. in Greenwich.

www.meantimebrewing.com

There is a Belgian beer which I have just found, Maredsous Brune which is every bit as good as the Leffe Brun, maybe slightly better.

http://www.maredsousbieres.be

From Frederick, MA, we have Flying Dog Snake Dog IPA, more flavoursome than most of the bottled IPAs I've had from over here.

http://www.flyingdogales.com/Beer-Snake-Dog.aspx

All of these were purchased here, which is well worth a visit if you live in, or are ever visiting Oxford:

http://www.classicwineandbeer.co.uk

They recently underwent something of a revamp, which included introducing 'The Deli' into their official name, as they have been known for years as 'The Dodgy Deli'.

Incidentally, all of these beers have very nice designs on the bottle caps -- I have an (ironically, teetotal) friend who collects the caps and makes works of art out of them, so the more new beers I try, the more caps he has for his artwork; a nice arrangement.

finally drank my bottle of Kernel Citra IPA - that is a seriously lovely beer.

having a modus hoperandi right now. great stuff. bottle sure is ugly though.

^^^only ever see this stuff in cans in Chicago, I like their ESB too

yeah the "ska brewing co" (who make modus) always makes me cringe w/ name and artwork, but they have some great beers.

drinking the 2 brothers atom smasher and it is unpleasantly barleywineish. wondering if it is just not a beer that ages well.