Beer in the new era

I've recently hit 500 unique beers on my untappd, so I thought I'd see what style I drink the most of from that data. Since December 2010, my top 15:

American IPA - 63
American Imperial / Double IPA - 49
American Imperial / Double Stout - 42
American Pale Ale - 34
Rye Beer - 15
Russian Imperial Stout - 14
Witbier - 12
American Amber / Red Ale - 10
Belgian Strong Pale Ale - 9
American Barleywine - 9
American Porter - 9
American Strong Ale - 9
Saison / Farmhouse Ale - 8
Sour Ale - 8
Scotch Ale / Wee Heavy - 8

Congrats, Jeff. How was the Hyperion?

#IPADay

Is it? I don't think I'm drinking tonight. I'll consider the Great Lakes Lake Erie Monster I had last night to be my contribution to the cause.

http://ipaday.org/announcing-ipa-day/

I had a Sixpoint Resin last night, it was tasty but I think the can design was better than the beer overall.

Which is not to say it was a bad beer, but it was $.

Bengali Tiger > Resin, IMO.

every time i visit the US, including in the past week, i return home only to be further disappointed by how rare it is to find IPA in Montreal bars :/ or anywhere for that matter

Weyerbacher Blanche - not bad! A refreshing Belgian-style white ale - perfect for summer.

went to the churchkey bluejacket release thing last night (bluejacket is their gypsy brewery - collabs with cigar city, bruery, etc). considering how po-faced churchkey can be, the beers - a porter that tasted exactly like a reese's peanut butter cup and a quad with strong caramel apple flavors - were surprisingly wacky and over the top. the rose de gambrinus on draft more than made up for it though.

place on the UWS supposedly has cans of HT

Will be back in DC in 3 weeks. May just move into the Churchkey.

Wait, when exactly? Are you going to just follow me and Kr around wherever we vacation?

by the way can i just say goddamn, heady topper is an amazing beer??

you can say it as many times as you want

Whole Foods is doing a 20% off thing for IPA day today, which puts their high prices below many discount stores' prices. Got some Sierra Nevada Torpedo (16 oz cans) for $6.39/4-pack.

Which is not to say it was a bad beer, but it was $.

― DX Dx DX (dan m), Thursday, 2 August 2012 14:43 (7 hours ago) Permalink

I think the can design is kind of deceptive actually, because they look small next to the normal sixpoint cans, but they're 12 oz (standard is 16), so you're still getting a 4-pack of normal sized beers that, I might add, are 9.1% ABV. So it's really not badly priced at $10-12 a fourpack as far as I'm concerned.

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Had an epic night of boozing on Saturday while watching the men's 10K finals. Dark Lord (2011 and 2012), Firestone Walker Parabola(2011), Firestone Walker Sucaba, Three Floyds Boogoop, Founders Frangelic Brown. Should drink like that more often.

I had some of that Parabola 2011 (and the 2012 & Sucuba) a couple weeks ago, great stuff. Bought two bottles of their Double DBA, which I don't remember the details of but it's also barrel aged.

I googled the details.

http://www.firestonebeer.com/beers/products/double-dba

Yeah I wanted some of that, but those releases sell out so quickly here. I've never had a bad Firestone walker beer, all so good.

Ha, just picked up 2 DDBA's. Surprised to find them.

how do you all feel about german beers? just spent 10 days in hamburg and berlin, not generally a massive fan of the typical german stuff but i did get into augustiner helles quite a bit, at least in the sense of it being a lot nicer than mass-produced lagers. some good pils aswell along the way.

Beer in the old era: I have drunk several beers over the past few days that have been maturing in my drinks cabinet for 10+ years and HOO MAMA.

I think there are some really good German beers - mainly lagers and hefeweizens though some pilsners too. IMO, the best tend to come from Munich. When I went to Berlin though, it was surprisingly hard to find good Munich beer there. Seems like each German city has a few big regional breweries that tend to dominate what gets served in restaurants, etc. Not sure about Hamburg, but Berlin doesn't seem to be the best place to explore German beer.

xp

http://blog.theater-nachtgedanken.de/__oneclick_uploads/2011/06/augustiner_hell.jpg

this one is everywhere in berlin and hamburg, it's good tho.

this microbrewery was cool, by chance very near my friend's apartment. they had a sort of germanic take on amber ale that was really good, and a round of 12 beers over a few hours between 3 of us cost 27 euro.

http://www.hopsandbarley-berlin.de/

So report from the field - the surly Syx is a lot like getting punched in the face with like 40 flavors and a shitton of alcohol

Finally got around to doing this: http://www.cellarhq.com/cellar/jeff

I have a bad record of actually being able to save beer for any amount of time. Usually I just get it and drink it up within minutes. Totally jealous of people that can always pull out a bottle of good stuff for special occasions.

yeah i tried to start a collection recently, then i was broke for a few weeks and drank it all.

Does beer keep very well though? I was under the impression it's best when fresh.

Depends on the style and the ABV. Higher ABV keeps longer. I like barrel-aged stouts/barleywines/old ales to age. Most IPA's, PA's and the such should be consumed relatively quickly.

if you find this buy this and drink this

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ooh that looks excellent

I've been wavering on getting that. Should probably just pick it up.

it was nice but would not re-buy at the price i paid. brett influence is not huge.

I've been spending way too much money on beer recently. It's been hard, because I've been stumbling upon some great stuff.

Had some Deliverance by The Lost Abby. It's a blend of Brandy Barrel Angel's Share and Bourbon Barrel Serpent's Stout. I'd had Angel Share before, which I loved. This was awesome.

Spike & Jérôme’s Cuvée Délirante. Maybe one of the most sour beers I've ever had. If I did a blind taste test on this, I'm not even sure I could recognize it as a beer. Got better though, the more I drank. Of course that may be true with all beer.

Evil Twin Auld Yin. ET is all over the place, but this one was a winner. Double stout, barrel aged in whiskey barrels. Chocolatey and good.

Since they are entering the Chicago market, there are a billion Oskar Blues events this week. Will probably try and hit one. What's good from them?

dale's is a good straight-up pale ale, i've had the scotch ale, deviant dale's, pils, and stout too and they are all at least credible.

Boulevard Wheat after golf yesterday. A very good post-round beer.

I had a couple of Founders All Day IPA at the soccerball on Saturday, and I truly think I could have drank them all day... but it kind of left me wanting more, as in wanting a *real* IPA instead of a 4.7% one.

yesterday was all abt radeberger & green flash IPA.
this evening i think i'm gonna check out this place with 40+ taps in my 'hood that i've somehow never been to before -- any suggestions on less-common brews?
http://www.brooklyntaphouse.com/ordereze/default.aspx

(i do not like belgian beer, sorry.)

I like all day too, but I never buy it for home. I so rarely get a 6 pack those days. It's bombers and a 4 pack at most.

From that list I would drink first:

Sam Adams Utopias 2011 25oz. Bottle 27.0 $350.00

I hate Utopias last year at a barrel aged beer fest. It's hardly a beer.

I have a couple questions about what you just said.

god, thanks but no thanks!

from that list i'd drink some sculpin, fresh jever, or those innis & gunn brews

I actually would not pay that much for a beer in a bar. If I bought a beer like that it would have to be in a store and I could then stash it away for awhile.

from that list, Founders Centennial would be my shit