Beer in the new era

If you're ever bored, read the Beer advocate forum threads about bourbon county and you can find people arguing about supply/demand/yield of barrels/etc. It's quite funny. Especially now that there is going to be a Bourbon County Barleywine.

at my beer shop they say there's a lot of talk about bourbon county going annual-release

or not annual - all-year

Lots of arguing about that too.. http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/goose-island-bourbon-county-stout-to-be-available-year-round.12465/

Just curious, Jeff, where did you find it? I noted this year, in addition to the much greater local supply, they staggered the distro pretty well, so that shipments of this and that would pop up all over the place.

Diversey Liquors, right beside the Diversey Brown line

I picked up three four-packs of the regular BCBS, but haven't been able to come across the coffee or anything else. Also not running into any Hopslam anywhere. Last night I decided to pick up a couple of the New Belgium Lips of Faith series, the Fresh Hop and the Imperial Coffee Chocolate Stout. Also grabbed a six-pack of an old-standby, Founder's All Day IPA, an Apocalypse Cow, and Rye Da Tiger.

Good haul

http://beerpulse.com/2013/01/bells-mallett-on-hopslam-smells-like-your-cat-ate-your-weed-and-then-pissed-in-the-christmas-tree/

“I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.”

lol

Jeff - let me know if you haven't had any of those.

has anyone seen the wake-and-bake terrapin yet?

J/v/c, I've had all of them but the imperial chocolate stout.

Okay, just curious.

has anyone seen the wake-and-bake terrapin yet?

― Mordy, Thursday, January 24, 2013 11:27 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I saw it last night at my local bar. I didnt order it though. It's around.

The Cloverleaf ?

In West Caldwell? I dont live up there anymore. This was in a Taco Mac location, which is a sports bar chain in Atlanta whose calling card is a very large beer menu.

yeah thought you were still around these parts

I used to work in Roseland, so I used to frequent Cloverleaf. Great place!

I'm still in shock that I found that cherry rye in the cooler of a corner liquor store. Maybe it was a dream.

I would like to praise the dopplebock. Praise dopplebock.

troegs make a great dopplebock.

lagunitas sucks = one of the best beers i've ever drank

I've started looking for that Lagunitas based on all the comments here but still haven't seen it. This isn't the one that has a Censored "sticker" on it, is it?

Anyway, what style is it?

it's an imperial ipa i guess - really sweet + fruity, refreshing and sour/tart as hell. smells amazing.

i think i'll grab 6 more (or whatever my store has left tmmrw)

probably also going to fill up a growler of the southern tier creme brulee

it's an imperial ipa i guess - really sweet + fruity, refreshing and sour/tart as hell. smells amazing.

― Mordy, Thursday, January 24, 2013 10:50 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i think it's categorized as a double but don't let that scare you, alcohol in the 7s and it's very easy to drink.

probably also going to fill up a growler of the southern tier creme brulee
― Mordy, Friday, 25 January 2013 03:53 (11 hours ago) Permalink

This seems questionable to me, I struggled to finish an 8oz pour of this, couldn't imagine tackling a growler. Hope you've got some company that likes oppressively sweet things.

yeah, i found out later that it has lactose sugar which means it's not kosher enough for the bris crowd i wanted to bring it to. so that idea is out the window. maybe i'll just taste it when i'm in the shop.

Worth a taste, not much more than that though, imo. Although I do know some people go bonkers for it, so ymmv

http://beerstreetjournal.com/images/Sierra-Nevada-Barrel-Aged-Narwhal.jpg

Availability: Draft only, as of 1/25/13

was in Chico last weekend and forgot to hit up the brewery dammit

it's gonna be at extreme beer festival in boston in a couple weeks, i'm psyched

creme brulee smells great but tastes unimpressive. grabbed another six-pack of sucks instead

Had a Haven (local brewpub) Russian Imperial Stout today at lunch that was very nice. 14% abv and at $7 for what I'm guessing was 8 oz, a good deal. They do growlers, so I may return.

Just cracked open a barrel-aged Bigfoot barley wine from Sierra Nevada... much smoother than the last time I had a Bigfoot tbqh.

Caveat: might be too strong and not sweet enough for you guys who are into this whole fruity & flavored beer trend in the midwest.

That's a trend???

i wasn't really even going to dignify that but yeah what trend.

also v. interested in trying this un-sweet barelywine you seem to have!

I've been looking for it but any new BA'ed release will get swiped off the shelves quickly

last night got super drunk off a growler of amazingly tasty Ramstein Winter Wheat, so-so Rogue Double Chocolate Stout, some founders porter, founders pale ale, troegs troegenator double boch, and more but this breckenridge vanilla porter was still too disgusting for me to even finish one glass of it

Fruity beers are totally a thing. At the least it's related to lambics. But also I think because the midwest produces a lot of stone fruit, which lends itself to beer (esp. cherries). But I'd say it's more of a parallel trend to hearty brews (stouts in particular) with vanilla/chocolate/coffee.

So, flavored? I guess it's splitting hairs a tad, but given the selling point of many of these beers is its non-beer flavor - fruit, chocolate, coffee, et al. - then I can see why someone could consider flavored beers a trend, even if technically they're not flavored, just brewed with those ingredients.

Local (suburban) beer place has several bottles left of the BA Rasputin.

Caveat: might be too strong and not sweet enough for you guys who are into this whole fruity & flavored beer trend in the midwest.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, January 26, 2013 12:14 AM (15 hours ago)

i will cut you

currently mourning the end of the sierra nevada celebration season, got a 6 pack of the 2013 SN ruthless rye and blah

I tried a fruit-flavored beer once, and it tasted absolutely nothing like beer. It was like drinking a loaf of wine coolers.

lol this reminds me that the first beer I ever ordered in a bar in the U.S. after turning 21 was Sam Adams Cherry Wheat.

ruthless rye is *ok* i guess i just don't think rye beers are that exciting

ive had some rye pas that i have been down with, i think this beer just kinda sucks. it was def better last year.

i need to give it another try, drank most of the ones i had during a slightly blurry nfl sunday

I really like a lot of rye beers but the Ruthless is not particularly exciting