Beer in the new era

next find some tilquin

he was initially trying to sell me something from The Bruery, but I can't figure out what it was now.

i don't know how many sour beers they do but if it was sour in the rye go back and buy it

what else looks good on this list
http://www.beermenus.com/places/9011-mr-vino-cucina

hmm they do have sour in the rye on the list so maybe that was it

Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA
Founders Centennial IPA
Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Ale
Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Ale
Lagunitas Sucks Holiday Ale
Ommegang Three Philosophers
Rodenbach Grand Cru
Samuel Smith's Organic Chocolate Stout (most chocolate tasting beer i've ever drank)
Troegs Troegenator (best doppelbock)
Sixpoint 3Beans

buy it and save it for when you get a little deeper into sours. it's fantastic imo.

other stuff i dig from that list:

3beans
peeper (check the bottling date)
cpt. lawrence ipa
espresso oak yeti
jever
sucks (although most likely not fresh at this point)
old crafty hen
baby tree

oh and my favorite dfh ipa is 75 min. which is sort of a weird opinion but

i would totes drink non-fresh sucks right now.

other stuff i got this week in addition to the beerweek beverage:

Laughing Panda Green Tea (Two Brothers Brewing)
SideKick Extra Pale Ale (Two Brothers Brewing) [can]
Aloha Series: Wailua Ale Brewed with Passion Fruit (Kona Brewing)
Dogfish Head Sixty-One
Dogfish Head Festina Peche

peeper is good however i find all the maine stuff pricey

yeah mbc pricing is appalling but most of their beers are worth trying once

how did you like the sixty one, mordy?

i haven't drank it yet - just brought it home today

People starting to go sort of bonkers over Solemn Oath here.

prices at this store don't seem outrageous actually -- the singles that are normally sixpack beers seem to mostly be in the $2-$2.50 per bottle range, which is basically what my convenience store charges.

oh yeah the store pricing is fine, it's mbc that sucks

mordy i would dig a report on that green tea thing, i keep almost buying it. sadly, i think the 2 brothers sidekick is a terrible bore.

wrt sours, i stick with the idea that other than seeing how the surly pentagram cellars, my a#1 sour is still the cuvee des jacobins. heavy rumors about it's impending disappearance for 4-6 months followed by controlled distro allocation, so grab them while you can.

yes, the cuvee rouge is also my alltime #1

aw damn, thanks for the tip. i'll have to grab a couple next time i see them.

I still don't really get sours at all; maybe if I don't think of them as beers I could appreciate them but that taste isn't something I want when I want to drink a beer.

i get that, i was baffled by lambics forever for the same reason. i just think that theres not much of anything more refreshing than a good sour. its def an acquired taste though, and the world is littered these days with some pretty mediocre sours for sure.

i had a chance to sample the jacobins mother lambic (the stuff that they add flavors to to get either lambics or sours) and it was the craziest thing ever, just pure sour with almost no other flavor. i loved it, but they technically dont sell it, a bar in town doing a sour night got one 5 gallon keg for the brave by working some distro magic.

Some days they are my favorite beers.

i had a chance to sample the jacobins mother lambic (the stuff that they add flavors to to get either lambics or sours) and it was the craziest thing ever, just pure sour with almost no other flavor. i loved it, but they technically dont sell it, a bar in town doing a sour night got one 5 gallon keg for the brave by working some distro magic.

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Saturday, June 8, 2013 9:12 AM (1 hour ago)

Sounds like Bockor's gueuze to me?

Did a sour tasting night at my local with 2 friends on Thursday:

750ml 2009 Oude Gueuze Tilquin a l'Ancienne
750ml 2007 Gueuze Lambic Cuvee Rene
3 tulips Rodenbach Grand Cru
3 tulips Bockor Cuvee Des Jacobins Rouge
3L of Russian River Supplication (we put about 1/3 dent into this, and put it back on the shelf for keeping)

Came out to $50pp. mostly because of the Supplication that will take another session (+) to work through.

the two that have lost all their luster for me are the rodenbach grand cru and the monks one.

although credit due to monks in philly for starting me down the sour path several years ago with that beer. i swear it used to be much more sour back in the day.

currently drinking 32 american adjunct lagers in a blind tasting, bracket style.

I did that with 16 double IPAs for a friends birthday a couple years ago, it got real ugly by the end.

ha, I guess it is mild. The guy was trying to sell me on another sour first but then when I said I had ever had a sour he was like "Oh, well you should try this, it's more of a starter sour." I guess he was serious.

― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Friday, June 7, 2013 8:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i know i've repped it in this thread before, but seriously try peekskill simple sour if you get a chance - i've had it at habitat in greenpoint and i think it's been on at sunswick in astoria, and probably a few other places in the city as well. an absolute stunner, and very approachable if you're new to sours.

3L of Russian River Supplication (we put about 1/3 dent into this, and put it back on the shelf for keeping)

3L say wuuuuuut

and the winner is....schlitz 1960s formula

3L say wuuuuuut

― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, June 8, 2013 4:21 PM (1 hour ago)

Yeah mang, I normally don't post my pix online but here ya go:
https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/292509_531445400245892_269078269_n.jpg

hah nice

so I didn't make it all the way to the new beer/gourmet store tonight, but I did decide to pick up a couple singles at my corner store, and they had lagunitas sucks brown shugga substitute, as well as lagunitas lil sumpin sumpin, so I decided to try each. Drinking the sucks first. I like it a lot. I'm bad at describing tasting notes and I always feel psychologically suggestible, for example the first thing I thought was "I'm picking up some brown sugar." But it has an unusual sort of "profile" or "narrative" or whatever you call the way the flavors develop start to finish or front to back. It starts off very hoppy but then gets a bit sweeter and less bitter and it tastes a little honeyish but not cloyingly so.

I like hops but I like them in balance, I'm not a hop-maniac. I finished off some Sierra Nevada Torpedo the other night and while it's a good beer, I found it a little too heavy and bitter for my taste. This is a nicer balance.

on to the sumpin sumpin, but I think 7.5% alcohol has already dulled my tastebuds

Did I just drive to another state to buy a case of cuvée des jacobins because I panicked after seeing that my local was out of it? Yes. That appears to be a thing I would do.

This just in - a case of cuvée is really really not cheap

otm

http://www.newyorker.com/sandbox/business/beer.html

Sarnac white ipa = mild disappointment

i've never had an impressive saranac

can't really feel good abt something called a 'white ipa'

It really is just a bitter tasting belgian white beer. I thought it would be something else -- what, idk-- but it isn't.

Trying Founder's Dirty Bastard right now. I find it to be a little too low carbonation, which makes me wonder if I got a bad bottle. Doesn't taste "skunked" or anything otherwise.

Eh actually the descriptions say it's "lightly carbonated" so. Anyway, has kind of an interesting mouthfeel. I think it's a little too sweet and syrupy for me on the whole, and also maybe something I'd enjoy more in winter.

All i have had by founders is the "tavern ale" and i remember thinking it was too syrupy as well.

i haven't had dirty bastard in a minute but carbonation is prob appropriate for the style. like a lot of people, you prob just don't really like scotch ales.

Dirty bastard is great. Backwoods bastard is phenomenal.

yeah I think I don't like scotch ales. I forget what the other one I had was, but I didn't like it.

oh yeah, mcewans