Beer in the new era

Pretty much the only time I drink beer from a can is daisy cutter.

I think I read somewhere that founders is going to can their all day ipa. Would buy lots of that.

hell, sierra nevada pale ale is in cans now and it's a whole hell of a lot better than whale's tale

sierra nevada is rlly good for how easy it is to find. i have a growler of this right now: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/16352/39415 it's okay. really drinkable, kind of on the citrusy end of ipas but not very acidic somehow.

Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA is also in cans, and is probably better than a few of those. I'll admit most are untried by me.

I just tried a bottle of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, spotted it in my local Tesco. Never really tried much American beer and gotta say that is A+.

It gets better.

i like the torpedo ipa a lot more than reg sierra nevada, it's v widely distributed in the uk now.

i've started to see ska stuff around london a bit now, that's better than a lot of the us stuff that gets over here imo.

My new springtime beer is Mother Earth's Endless River kolsch

That's brewed in the city I was born in. A very unremarkable town. I've had their beers though, not bad.

Just got Sierra Nevada Hoptimum last night. O.M.G.!

http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/sierra-nevada-hoptimum/117825/

I fucking love hops

And also, ipas whose names are cheesy portmanteaus involving the word "hops"

i kind of want to poll those

And all of the humorous descriptors on bottles/cartons.

i kind of want to poll those

too many to ever catalog

Had an Anderson Valley barrel aged stout last night (Wild Turkey 101 barrels). Wasn't bad, but not that impressive compared to the ones I've tried before (I think Anchor's and especially Firestone Walker's 2011 Parabola ruined me for anyone else's). The bourbon flavor wasn't very pronounced, not sure I detected any at all, in fact. Had some pleasant chocolate notes, fairly low alcohol (6.9%), kind of a BAS for people that don't like beer, maybe.

i had a Left Hand Good Juju last night. pretty light but not bad, i've always wanted a ginger beer that was also beer.

I actually ordered that Anderson Valley stout the other day, but the bar had run out. The low ABV is what caught my eye.

$10 for a bomber at BevMo, so I didn't feel ripped off, just expected more.

had an aged deschutes/hair of the dog collab named conflence #1 last night - smelled like an amazing sour, tasted like garbage

My local Whole Foods is having a sour beer tasting the 23rd, will try to go. Whatever you say about WF, the one near my work has a beer/wine bar upstairs and most Thursdays they have a beer tasting at a fairly low price. This is where I tried the Parabola. How common are bars in WFs elsewhere?

none in mn

The taproom at the WF in Santa Rosa, CA (Sonoma County) is world class:
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The WF deathstar in Lincoln Park, Chicago has an extensive beer bar. Craft bottles are $2.50 across the board there, or at least they used to be.

It's a great happy hour bar. If you can stand the people who have happy hour at WF.

Yeah, and you can buy prepared food and bring it to the bar area. Fish and chips with Cuvee de Jacobins sour!

xpost there should be a best relatively unobscure IPA poll, that just includes fairly well known ones like dogfish head 90 min, sierra nevada hoptimum, Stone IPA, goose island maybe idk what the other really well known ones are

bell's two hearted for sure

surly, summit

btw speaking of cuvee, i have some pretty good inside info that says that it is going out of stock for 5 months some time soon, and then going on much stricter allocation, so stock up maybe

haha Surly cannot be considered well-known if you live outside of MN! i wish.

there are a ton that are ubiquitous in WI (ale asylum hopalicious for ex.) but don't distribute out of the state.

I just had the Ale Asylum Bedlam Belgian IPA last weekend. That's worth driving to Hudson for imo.

Smuttynose

All those terrapins have hop names; hopzilla, hopsecutioner...

cambridge brewing co. makes "the audacity of hops"

at the fairly small liquor store near my dad's place in RI, I was pleased to find this, which i cannot remember seeing in NY

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/28980/81049

nice mild IPA, not inna super hoppy style. more in line with something like the bklyn IPA or the firestone pale... nice brew.

Hoptimum is a wonderful beer. Had two this eve and am feeling no pain.

lol

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oberon + founders - could be worse!

FKNL I could kill a keg of Oberon right now.

"the audacity of hops"

hahaha, that's awesome!

i really like Anchor Steam Beer. i had two with lunch today. the beer advocate posters make no mention of the hoppiness of it but i think it is nicely hopped, tastefully even.

I haven't had Anchor Steam in ages. Their Liberty Ale is one of my alltime favorites for being hoppy yet well-balanced.

ooh, i never had that. i've only had the normal anchor steam because they have it at the diner i go to multiple times a week. need to check it out.

mini oberon keg is awes

that'll get you through a lot of lawn games

picked up a bottle of stone's russian imperial stout espresso. my store limited it to one a person so i was worried it would be really pricey but it only ended up costing $10!

idg why they're limiting that beer (it was limited at stores here too), i didn't hear about anyone kicking down doors for it

I was going to say, I've seen it in plenty of places and haven't ever really been specifically seeking it out. I did grab one though.

so limited apparently they weren't letting employees buy them