Beer in the new era

https://twitter.com/brouwervanklomp/status/311447343859896320

lol

asshole, but lol

amazing twitter feed btw

i was all excited to try 120 minute ipa but it's really syrupy and offensively sweet -> did i just crack a bad bottle or is this beer terrible? (or is my palate not sophisticated enough to enjoy it?)

there's a bunch of similar negative reviews on ba but even more positive reviews so idk

I haven't had in a while, but I seem to recall liking it a lot. Have a couple of bottles in my closet, I'll have to pull one out and try it again soon.

it is really sweet iirc

people hate both 120 min and world wide stout but apparently they make a killer 50/50 mix

interesting bc i have a world wide stout i have yet to open and another bottle of 120 min i no longer want to drink

http://hoptopia.tumblr.com/post/7897548445/beer-remix-dogfish-head-heaven-hell-120-minute-ipa

i wouldn't sweat the world wide stout, i had one that was 5 years old last month and the edge was still not gone.

Ha, 29 ppl have had heaven & hell on untappd. I have a weekend plan now.

i can't remember now if there was an untappd discussion upthread; i'm new on there and looking for friends. username s3anbr4ud1s (fix the numbers)

i can't find u :(

i think i just found you?

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This post is pretty much just for the Chicagoans itt but I went to Beer Temple tonight and it is quite impressive, lots of local/regional big bottles plus a much wider variety of imports than I expected. You can kind of tell that the tastes they're catering to lean a certain way; there's a lot of dark beers, big stouts/porters, and really a lot of specialty stuff there as the focus. Smoked beers, different kinds of barrel aged and series beers, that kind of thing. Nothing you'd have too much trouble tracking down on a dedicated trip to Binny's or Foremost, but in a location that doesn't have anything really like those stores. A much more neighborhoodly feel overall.

I picked up a Pipeworks saison flavored with Szechuan peppercorns and some Green Flash pale ale. They had a shelf of singles of all different kinds, too, plus a surprising amount of cider, wine, and even some liquor. And one unrefrigerated 12 pack of Miller Lite stuck at the bottom of a shelf in a corner.

Las Vegas is a fucking awful beer town. Somebody prove me wrong, I've got another two days here.

The Freakin Frog usually has a lot of the better SoCal stuff (Stone, Port, Lost Abbey, Green Flash, Ballast Point) available.

Also MGM carries the new Robuchon/Yebisu collab brew at their higher end spots.

Am I crazy or should Brooklyn Lager be renamed an ale?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/opinion/sunday/how-beer-gave-us-civilization.html

I have been consistently finding Dogfish Beers too syrupy and sweet. I think I'm pretty much done with the brewery after my last couple experiences.

lol I just was browsing this thread wondering "hey are these dudes on Untapp'd" and presto

i really loved the 90 minute dogfish - really hoppy and delicious, not syrupy at all. that's why i bought (2) bottles of the 120. i figured if 90 minutes was that good imagine what an additional 30 minutes does... turns out the additional 30 minutes just makes it gross. i am going to make that world wide stout / 120 minute cocktail tnite tho.

i haven't had a Dogfish beer since they stopped distributing here. i'm over it, there's so much amazing beer here, we don't need. it.

#shotsfired

daerest dogfish, I will drink all of the sam adams in my fridge, and then probably resort to making some kind of ghetto vodka concoction with my left over svedka, before I drink the last midas touch in my fridge.

hah

I've only had one 4-pack of midas touch, but I remember liking it. Send it to me!

How have I been stupid enough never to have tried great divide oak aged yeti until now?! Good god man, this is is amazing.

i can hang with dogfish's 60 minute and the indian brown ale. the rest, agreed, too syrupy. the 'raisin d'etre' has grown on me a bit, but the 90, 120, aprihop, burton baton and midas touch... all rough going imo.

indian brown is really their best beer by quite a bit

Had a bomber of Great Divide Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti (aged for about a year) about a month ago and thoroughly enjoyed every last drop of it. Bought a sixer of Brooklyn Dry Irish Stout to try two weeks ago, pretty respectable. Imbibed a Terrapin Wake-n-Bake tonight... excellent beer.

i had an espresso oak aged yeti recently, for a beer that sits on shelves it's really good.

I'm in Wisconsin and just picked up a 4pk of Central Waters Peruvian Morning plus some New Glarus singles. I kind of love beer stores with great selection in towns without an overwhelming population of nerds who buy up the interesting stuff immediately.

Liked but did not love Peruvian Morning, which I tried for the first time a few days ago.

Really liked the Ska Vinifica Stout I picked up last night: brewed with Malbec grapes and oak-aged.

Sorry, Vinifera, not Vinifica.

Tons of Peruvian morning and CW barleywine in LP Binny's yesterday.

I'm bummed I didn't get a Firestone Walker Abacus this year. They went quick.

they really did. i was caught off-guard because last year's sat for months.

Going to Publican tonight. Quick, what should I order!?

Not sure what they have these days.

I heard something crazy that a 120 Minute IPA and World Wide Stout make a deadly delicious Black & Tan. I may have to try this.

― Jeff, Thursday, December 24, 2009 11:00 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ok, just did this. Not the best, but drinkable.

they told me at the beer store that 120 minute IPA needs to age for a long time before it becomes drinkable

Four sips in it's better.

today's [exceptional imo] haul

http://i45.tinypic.com/kur94.jpg

nice!

a brewery just opened about 5 minutes from the office i work out of sometimes: http://www.trilliumbrewing.com/

i think i'm going to check it out today despite the shitty prospect of lugging a 2l growler back on the train.

I found a place nearby that has a great build-your-own-sixer selection, so I've been trying a bunch of stuff lately. Nice not to have to commit to six bottles of the same thing, or to a single bomber that might set me back for nearly as much.