Beer in the new era

:(

fwiw i tend not to believe that this isn't going to happen again.

They are pretty hard line, those monks.

I'm annoyed because I have a bottle of 12 at home which I'd been planning to drag over as a gift for a Chicago-based beer enthusiast for Xmas - this rather reduces the impact of that gift. :(

If you get the impression from that article that you have to go on some kind of quest to Westveleteren in order to buy this in the real world, don't believe it (it's available in eg Brussels thouhg it is expensive.)

it's usually available online through etre gourmet to anyone who is willing to pay the shopping.

I have a hard time justifying the price for a brick when it's a beer I've never even tasted. And it will probably be sold out in stores around here by this afternoon.

yeah, i mean having tasted it and knowing of no beer that would be worth $85 for a six pack, purchasing it is partially an act of charity and partially an act of novelty. it's a nice quad, that's all.

I'm not a big quad fan either. How does it compare to something like a St. Bernardus 12?

haven't had a st. b in quite a while but they're similar. westy ages pretty well. the one i had was very subtle and elegant, not a candy sugar bomb or anything.

the best thing about beer is that the more you drink the better it tastes.

i had some seriously great beers tonight. that mad elf is really really good, i had a la fin du monde which was pretty perfect, a cinnamon'y and chocolate he'brew reunion '12 and this magic hat stout 'heart of darkness' whose name i only remember but i chatted about conrad while drinking it. beer is pretty great. i love it.

i am still pretty inebriated so

List of stores carrying the Westy.

Westvleteren

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/drink/2012/12/nanobrewing_how_tiny_beer_making_operations_are_changing_the_industry.html

http://t.co/M1dnMcZy

This is nuts. Can't believe how much he is asking for some of those bottles.

nice gotta love SN
http://vimeo.com/53546831

Just received a bomber of Nøgne Winter Ale in my office secret Santa exchange!

This is nuts.

OTM. a: Why does he have $15 grand worth of beer, and b: why is he selling it all for half that?

dying at some of those prices

$50 for a one-year-old hill farmstead everett, a bottle which cost EIGHT BUCKS

I say let him try, there are obv beer dorks out there who don't mind paying (cf the convo here about Westy earlier this week).

OTM. a: Why does he have $15 grand worth of beer, and b: why is he selling it all for half that?

― Rocking Disco Santa (Dan Peterson), Friday, December 14, 2012 9:20 AM (56 minutes ago)

Well most of the beer on that list was made to be enjoyed fresh... unless it is corked and wrapped. Any cork that is exposed to the air, the contents of that bottle may see some deterioration in taste and flavor after ~6 months. Seems like he cherry-picked a lot of the signature brews from those breweries, and this is the "best of the rest".

whoa, hi steve shasta

sup. also, note the "OBO" and mention that list is changing. Seems like he's open to parting it out, I'd throw a lowball out there, esp if you're within driving distance. To ship that collection via skid would be $$$$, esp. with the insurance.

yeah if i were in the area i'd def consider trying to get the eclipse and dark lord out of him

yeah - some of these prices are obviously crazy, but tbqh $150 for an iced eclipse seems almost fair considering what you'd have to trade for it on the market

Reminds me of some dude I saw on Craigslist who was selling $18,000 worth of Legos, even going so far as to call it a good deal, $6000 under the collection's street value.

lol "street value" of legos

Hey, you know the drill: I paid "x" for a bottle of PVW15, but "y" is what others are paying for it ...

just images of the illicit back-alley lego trade is all

Lego takes stuff out of circulation all the time, actually. It's really annoying. There are some Harry Potter sets that go for what a bottle of Pappy goes for.

So my local place got some bottles of the stone vertical epic 12.12.12 in. Should I rush out today and grab one? I think it's limited...

it hasn't been super hard to find up here. prob worth trying.

Stone's 12.21.12 >>>> 12.12.12 imho.

http://www.stonebrewing.com/enjoyby/

The 12.21 was one of my top beers of the year.

oh man - had some big black voodoo daddy tonight and it is delicious! i'll have to pick up another bottle. also over the weekend i had some of the he'brew sweet sixteen (16 hops, 16 malt, 16% APV) and that is some serious serious beer.

I have trouble keeping up with all this beer. Just as we're in a golden age of whiskey, we're also in a golden age of beer, except there are so many more beers, and they don't keep as well, and they're ultimately worse for you than whiskey. I was in Binny's today and there were literally dozens of beers that caught my eye.

i started keeping a spreadsheet :/

I went to Binny's today and bought a selection of Chicago-area bomber bottles as a present for my brother in law to be. There's a 2 Brothers white rye, Revolution milk stout, Finch's Fascist Pig, and I'm tossing in one of the 3 Floyds/Gigantic pale word I got a while back.

Definitely a golden age because I could easily have blown more than a hundred bucks just on quality bombers of Lake Michigan regional beer.

it's easier to drink a lot if you drink w/ other ppl. that way you can taste a lot of different beers in an evening.

Ale autocorrecting to word there is next level. I'll blame the whiskey.

Local brewery Half Acre had their release of their imperial coffee stout, Big Hugs this past weekend. Beer releases in Chicago can be a giant clusterfuck, but this one was run really well. When I got there, the line was wrapped around the block, but once the doors opened, they split into a card vs cash only line, which moved things along. They had free coffee, donuts, and nachos in the brewery and pouring samples of many beers while you wait. Extremely well done.

That will be my last hurrah for a while. I've cut way back on my beer buying. Basically no more for the next few months. Don't worry about me though, I have plenty in the fridge and maybe enough for the economic collapse in my closet. I will continue to buy beers to drink in bars though, but only two per venue. Maybe I will be happier, fitter, wiser, more productive now.

that sounds like a well-run release

I went to Bevmo yesterday because of this thread, and ended up buying a single 12 oz Avery Mephistopheles Stout (16.2% abv), and bombers of the Stone Vertical 12-12-12 and Cali-Belgique that I remember liking. Also a 4-pack of Firestone Double Jack. Have not opened any yet.

this just came locally: http://www.dogfish.com/brews-spirits/the-brews/occasional-rarities/birra-etrusca-bronze.htm

looks very cool. has anyone here ever tried these ancient ale series beers?

i think i had a midas touch many years ago

I had a 4-pack of the Midas Touch a couple years ago, liked it but haven't bought it again. Also a Scottish one, Fraoch Heather Ale even before that. Also liked it.

Pretty much the only DFH I've liked is all their XXX-minute IPA's, Burton Baton, and World Wide Stout. Although I have a Bitches Brew I haven't tried yet.

so pissed that the DFH guy hates my state, which he srsly does, we were singled out in an interview by name as a place that thx to our idiot distro laws would never ever have his stuff

its a cold cruel world

at least you can get DFH in your COUNTRY

http://25.media.tumblr.com/104633909c9c4dddf13020688934815e/tumblr_mfaimidFIx1qz4cuyo1_500.jpg

guh

for some reason it seems to me like GoT dorks would prefer mead, then again I have never seen the show

mead is so gross though