Beer in the new era

Dogfish is in Delaware? I'm picturing this brewery in between of a bunch of fake nominal bank offices.

is it hard to find dogfish in places that arent near delaware

― eman cipation s1ocklamation (max), Wednesday, December 24, 2008 4:10 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no its all over

I finally had a chance to try Leinie's Fireside Nut Brown the other night at a party, and I am not feeling it. Way too sweet for my taste. I think Leinie's is doing this with all their "boutique" beers, though, upping the HFCS content and making them almost an alcopop to increase sales among the masses. Original is still unfadeable, though, imo.

I had a Boulder Brewing Co. "Hazed and Infused" dry-hopped ale at the same party, and it was pretty good. Horrible hippy-dippy tie-dyed label design, though.

dogfishhead is some srsly ghastly shit and epitomize everything thats wrong w/the world pretty much

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

u r so rong, jho, i am questioning our relationship

dogfishhead is some srsly ghastly shit and epitomize everything thats wrong w/the world pretty much

― ice cr?m, Sunday, December 28, 2008 1:49 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

botched trolling attempts #34

microbrews generally and in particular this dogfishhead poop are on some no style bro culture bullshit completely - yah just throw some more ingredients in there bra good idea - the new yorker article on this fool made me puke over n over

srsly xp

challop-y

this is like the time you said you would never step in the smoke joint because they had a dish called "brooklyn wings"

look @ how fucking hideous their packaging is http://www.jaygaulard.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/dogfish-head-chicory-stout.jpg

fuk these no taste fools

no style bro culture bullshit

beer marketing 101

the smoke joint and dogfishhed inhabit exactly the same 0% artistry 100% bad ideas niche

ya, thats why i said its like that time

have u ever considered that.... u mad?

i am totally mad at things like this yes

I'd venture that 95% of microbrew packaging is horribly ugly, you gotta get over that or you'll never drink anything. Though the Boulder Brewing Co. stuff is like the worst of the worst - I can get over stupid weed references or tie-dyed shit but not both at once.

also 95% of the beer inside tastes bad

WTF is "Wet hop"? Some new rap subgenre?

http://www.sierranevada.com/beers/harvest.html

i don't mind the dogfishhead IPAs, but i'd rather drink stone. the raisin d'etre beer by dfh is AWFUL and turned me away from trying any of their other whacky brews.

my fave ipa - http://www.accent-art.com/RACER5B.gif

jho just curious what beers do you like?

ice cr?m, your distaste for their packaging is awesome, especially after this quote from that article:

He designs many of Dogfish’s labels and cites Andy Warhol and Coco Chanel as inspirations—“that fusion of commercialism and art."

I have printed that article out to read on a ten hour flight. I am now worried it will throw me into a fit of rage and that I should chuck it out.

hey caek--the articles does follow the dogfish guy cause hes the lol wackiest brewmaster but it does provide other opinions such as that of the guy from brooklyn breweries and honestly even tho theyre very hit and miss in the opinion of many including this poster when dogfish is on theyre on and all in all its quite well written article imo and probably will not throw you into a fit of rage unless you have very strong opinions about which beer companies deserve to be written about in the new yorker which is obviously a ridiculous thing to have an opinion about.

its funny i pretty much agreed w/the brooklyn guys pov except his beer sux and displays too the bad qualities he criticizes dogfishguy for

i dont know about annoying philosophical positions behind these beers i just know when i buy the 90 min. it tastes good + i get a buzz pretty quick

jhoice cr?m just curious what beers do you like?

― ┃♜ฺ│♞ฺ│♝ฺ│♛ฺ│♚ฺ│♝ฺ│♞ฺ│♜ฺ┃ (dan m), Sunday, December 28, 2008 3:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

mostly imports bro - tho obv theres some mircobrews that dont conform to the classically american aspiration more is more

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c72/tong1/paulanerhefeweizen1.jpg

check out this wholesome celebration happening on the paulaner hefeweizen label - some days i like to gaze deeply and imagine myself there - one of my fav beers btw

http://i42.tinypic.com/dqk5jk.gif

this pinkus pils is slammin!

http://i43.tinypic.com/33c44dh.jpg

i like this microbrew called hennepin - its creamy and delicious

pffft
midas touch, punkin ale, pangaea and the palo santo marron are all pretty excellent beers imo (black and blue, raison detre bleccchhhh though)
brooklyn brewery is generally more so-so, nothing to write home about. Their lager recipe needs a re-tooling I think

the best beer I drank over christmas was this
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/30/43903
and we found some Cooper's Vintage at a new DC bottle-o and had it fedexed to TN
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/491/3624/
also very delicious

some other really excellent beers I had over the holidays was a tecate that had been in the fridge for who knows how long, a gennessee cream ale because nobody had seen that stuff in like years, some fordham beers and of course grolsch in the stopper bottles and tetleys in the widget cans.
I need to track down this "grolsch weizen."

had some of bosco's stone beer in nashville - the steinweizen was HORRID, the regular stone ale was acceptable though, steak sandwich and garlic fries mostly made up for it. blackstone's in nashville has the better beers I think, bosco's has better food.
also got to try a couple of other schlenkerla biers - the rauch weizen (bleah) and the helles (boring)

i like midas touch but it doesnt really taste/seem like a beer, plus its $$$

btw pumpkin drinker the restaurant downstairs from me has gennessee cream on tap

Paulaner Hefe was one of my first beer loves <3 <3 <3

oh and rodenbach flemish sour ale, the regular and the grand cru, both definitely in the does not taste/seem like a beer category

the rodenbach definitely reserved for late evening drinking
also just remembered I got some of this other weirdness
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/697/37837
which is just weird basically - I would not recommend

http://beeradvocate.com/news/1610704
^^^ Leinenkugel 1888 Bock story

this is available in the 7-11 by my office now
it's okay. BA posters gave it a B- which I think is probably about right.
I suppose I should be drinking it out of a glass like a civilized person

I bet it would be better if it were 1988 Bock though

i just had one raderberger tonight at the end of the workday.

I bet it would be better if it were 1988 Bock though

^^^^^^this

Is it sweet?

Bell's Best Brown is available on tap here for so cheap! 2.25 a glass.

it's not sweet like the fireside, no. I think I'm really getting a thing for these vintagey browns this winter. It's definitely best in a glass and left to sit and air for a while, big fluffy head.

I just had to wonder, since they used to just sell "Bock" in the winter w/ little to no fanfare. Then it became "BIG BUTT DOPPLEBOCK" and now this.

I am very much in favour of East End Black Strap Stout

http://www.eastendbrewing.com/?q=node/18

so i just cracked open one of these:

http://www.brewbasement.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/dogfish_head_red_and_white.jpg

^^^love their Brown Ale

guinness all week.