Beer in the new era

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.

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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

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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

i'll do the occasional skull splitter or traquair house but it's not the friendliest style

McEwans was my first scotch ale, and I've liked the style ever since. Had a couple He'Brew Bittersweet Lennys (tagged a rye DIPA but scotch ale-y to me) tonight, still one of my favorites.

Any of y'all catch that the Lincoln Park Binny's is expanding to 50,000 square feet? They better have an IKEA style kids playland.

You heard it right via Shanken News Daily, we’re expanding and boy is it going to be big!
Starting this July, Binny’s Beverage Depot in Lincoln Park (1720 N. Marcey St.) will start its expansion from a measly 33,000 square feet to 50,000 square feet, making it one of the largest beverage superstores in the world. Needles to say, we’re pretty excited about it!

In addition, the Lincoln Park location will also incorporate the notable Lincoln Park Pumping Station including a wine and craft beer bar.

At Binny’s we’re always looking for ways to bring more product to you and to give you a different kind of experience. But of course, it wouldn’t be possible without your committed business, so thank you!

We believe the expansion will be completed by October of this year. *Crosses fingers* But don’t worry, we’ll still be open for you during the construction.

Keep your eyes out for a grand re-opening this fall!

Probably the best stocked binnys I've been to. Adam, their beer guy is awesome. Especially his cellar sales.

Also conveniently close to Goose Clybourne.

I think I'm pretty much done with IPAs for a while. Might try to delve into this sour thing a bit more.

:(

heavily hopped beers actually seem to affect me badly -- I get tired, sometimes headaches, and have worse hangovers

the tired thing sort of makes sense, since you can make tea using hops that acts as a sleep aid? i don't know how much of those hop oils make it into the beer, if any.

it would be nice to think that i want to go to sleep after one strong beer not because i'm getting old, but because i love my double/imperial IPAs.

lagunitas 'undercover investigation' six pack.. this is okay, i dunno if needed to get a whole six but it was cheap for a 9.6% beer... billed as 'incredibly bitter' but i don't think it really is. a little too sweet, but not as cloying as 90min ipa. decent beer.

yeah, i don't think i will get this again :\

i picked up a lagunitas lucky 13 today

and one of these: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/700/84045

I enjoyed undercover a lot. I think I read one review that compared it more to a barleywine rather than a strong ale, in regards to the sweetness/mouthfeel. I tend to agree.

yeah, i feel that. if it had been labeled barleywine i prob would not have bought it, but i went in thinking "9.6% alcohol, extra bitter.. so i guess this is an imperial IPA?" but it's not, really.

Yeah, Undercover didn't do much for me, either.

bell's barleywine is the only one i've had that i've liked. generally they're way too sweet. (also those double ipas can have that sickly sweet alcoholic flavor too; esp barrel aged)

http://cdn-storage-www.cellarhq.com/brewery/goose-island-beer-company/beer/king-henry-5ba09-493x600.jpg

Also very excited for this to drop this fall:

http://beerpulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Goose-Island-Bourbon-County-Brand-Barleywine.jpg

i'm interested but only bc i love bcbs - otherwise barleywine aged in bourbon barrels sounds way too sweet

the central waters bbbw was really, really good.

Forgot about that one! I concur.

best barleywine i've had not named king henry

decided to scale back from the heavy stuff and got some sixpoint crisp, one of my favorite beers. Unfortunately Trader Joe's like a lot of places doesn't keep their beers refrigerated and the sixpoint guys say their beers should be kept refrigerated because they use fresh hops. IDK if it really matters, but it does seem like this tastes a little less fresh.

does it have a date on the can?