Beer in the new era

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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.

(CHILXors: It's Evolution, on Lincoln. I feel like at a lot of places, even at a well-curated store like Bottles & Cans, the build-your-own selection is kind of random and seems like overstock. Here, there are about a couple dozen breweries represented with several beers each, as orderly as you'd find them if if they were six-packs instead of individual bottles.)

Yeah, that used to be Armanetti's, which I used to go to all the time. Until they took away the Lincoln bus.

Hmm, I'll check that out, not sure if I've been there since it was Armanetti's...

I went there occasionally when it was Armanetti's; this was the first time I've stopped in since it changed over. And I only went because I got my hair cut across the street, but I'll make a point to return.

attn: jeff--big hugs was delicious. shared it as a dessert pour with my regular beer tasting pppl, really outstanding coffee in that beer.

Dark Matter Coffee, which I've never actually had but people say is awesome.

http://www.darkmattercoffee.com/

planning a big order off this shop at the moment:

http://www.bottle-shop.co.uk/beers/

any us beer fans got any tips? that's about as good a selection as i can get in the uk, but i'm not familiar with which of the american stuff is good on that list, or if any of it is worth trying in particular.

i will be ordering stuff i'm familiar with too but it's obviously quite a big list.

Dark Horse and Jolly Pumpkin are two of the best non-Bells/Founders beers from Michigan.

those cigar city dos costas oeste saisons are really cool, especially if you get the set and compare them.

would be cautious ordering anything hoppy unless you can confirm that it's fresh.

Yeah I think that's a big part of why US stuff is often disappointing here, not that the selection is radical either, but all my favourite beers are British.

Dark Matter Coffee, which I've never actually had but people say is awesome.

It is.

hey gang,

i'll shut up abt trading after this but if anyone is interested in a 4-pack of heady topper (aka beer advocate's #1 beer at the moment) in exchange for, like, a 6-pack of your favorite most delicious local pale ale/ipa, let me know, i have a couple extras.

love,

cad

ygm

I'd trade again, but I need to think about what to send.

mordy, you got ilxmail. jeff, if you agree in principle then that's cool, no rush. one beer i'm super interested in is zombie dust but i have no clue how common it is.

ZD does pop up every now and then, I'll keep an eye out.

That's really be the only worthy IPA/PA from the region I can think of. Maybe some Alchemy Hour if you haven't had that.