Beer in the new era

is it good? i've only had one chocolate stout that i've really liked, at triumph brewery.

Leaving for Brussels tomorrow. I've been saving my 1000th unique checkin on untappd for when I get there.

jealous!

Went to Cantillon, Moeder Lambic, and A La Becasse. Exhausted.

Jealous!

I'm so tired for being up like 30 hours that I don't even feel like I've been drinking.

Amazed at the cheapness of cantillon. I paid $40 for 5 big bottles. On the rare chance they would show up at a Chicago bar, they would be $40 each.

A local boring fish/steak/iceberg lettuce salad type restaurant with a great view of Lake Superior wiped the slate a couple years ago and now serve really good food and have a pretty ridiculous beer list. Last night I had a flight of interesting beers and a cardamom apricot mead, and my wife had a ginger kombucha beer that was really surprisingly good as I can't stand kombucha.

I also finally had a bourbon county stout and kind of get the hype. I didn't want to spend for the 22oz coffee one so I only had the standard in a 12oz. I had no idea it would be 15% abv or that it would be so great with raspberry pie.

how much were the BBC beers?

tri-state area heads be on the lookout for Carton brewery. i think they've only been around for like a year but they are turning out some of the most exciting stuff in NJ right now.

cosign - carton of milk is one of the best milk stouts i've ever had

http://beerlabelsinmotion.tumblr.com

Kind of neat: http://beerlabelsinmotion.tumblr.com/

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Do you guys ever experiment with blends?

Not so much over the counter stuff like Three Philosophers but like things you've experimented with at home or at your local.

My local turned me onto a summertime quencher they deemed a "rojo"/"rohoe":

4-5 parts Hoegaarden topped off with whichever framboise lambic they are pouring.

After a long day in the sun it tastes pretty epic but struck me as kind of unique for a craft beer place to serve, although it's not on the menu.

there is this bar in providence called the duck and bunny that has a drink that combines guiness with other stuff, including soda and another kind of beer. it's the best.

this is what i'm talking about:

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Magners hard cider, floated by Guinness, refloated with Lindemans Lambic Framboise. Looks trippy. Tastes amazing.

xxp very rarely, only with black and tans featuring various combinations of dark beer and light beer, none of which have ever really surpassed classic b & t combinations, e.g. guiness and bass, etc.

i think i tried a combination of sierra nevada and some russian imperial stout, it wasn't very good and it hid the better qualities of both beers

oh shit, totally brain farted on black and tans, yikes.

Why I feel these could be interesting, I would worry too much about how I'm going to log it on untappd.

^^^shows you the last time I ordered one.

yea i haven't had a black and tan in years

apart from bottled ones like this: http://www.berkshirebrewingcompany.com/graphics/beer_labels_lg/shabadooNEW.jpg which is really good imo

I did mix that 120 min ipa and world wide stout that time.

whoa what was that like, even drinkable?

i've heard about that combo before. i've got a bottle of each aging and waiting to be mixed together

Don't know where else to mention this, but I saw the new Joe Swanberg movie Drinking Buddies last night (on Amazon Instant, though it'll be in theaters next month). It's a mostly improvised relationship drama about two couples (Olivia Wilde and Ron Livingston; Anna Kendrick and Jake Johnson), with lots of inter-couple sexual tension. Pretty good, I thought, though I'm generally keen on that kind of thing. (And I haven't seen any of Swanberg's previous work.)

Anyway, mentioning here because Wilde and Johnson's characters work at Chicago's Revolution Brewing (she plans events, he brews the beer), and it's filmed on location at the actual facility. They drink plenty throughout the movie; I spotted bottles of Founders and Half Acre in various scenes, and Jason Sudeikis (who plays another brewery employee) mentions Three Floyds at one point. As someone who gets excited when Walter White drinks Fat Tire rather than Budweiser or fake TV beer, I was interested to see how this backdrop was handled, and it seemed pretty well-informed. I guess Swanberg is friends with some local brewers, who consulted on the film.

Do you guys ever experiment with blends?

One of many things I miss about living in the Pacific NW is the McMenamin's chain, where I often ordered a Rubinator: half Terminator Stout, half Ruby raspberry pale ale. These are delicious.

Amazing how different the vibes are between the two moeder lambics.

I don't know if I have enough liver left for drinking in London.

Just kidding, drink with me in London.

had a Dark Horse Double Crooked Tree and omg. warning, at 12%, not a good session beer (altho it tastes dangerously unboozy).

kicked it at the russian river brewpub this afternoon. fun place, v. chill

Jeff! When d'you get toLondon?

I found a Goose Island Bourbon County in a pub in Camberwell today. It was delicious and grievously expensive (that was ok because it was Stet's round and I thought of it as ILx buying me a beer...)

I get in Wednesday evening.

How much did you pay for the BCBS?

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/28/new-beer-lawsuit-could-spell-trouble-for-keystone-xl-pipeline/

get 'em, Larry

now that I think about it this might explain some of their expansion to the U.P.

interesting post about sour beer: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/07/sour-beer-cantillon-a-brief-history.html

including a visit to jeff's recent stomping grounds.

cool! thx, i would've missed that. i love reading about beer

Started packaging up all my beer this morning to drag to London. Everything I know about carefully packaging beer I learned from Call All Destroyer. My beer's fate is in his hands.

The guy who gave the tour at Cantillon was funny. He kept going on and on about how everyone's palate has been destroyed by sugar. He said that's why people hate his beer and it will never be popular.

has anyone had the Sculpin Habanero IPA? local bar i like just posted on FB that they have it. kinda wanna go over for a taste.

My problem with Cantillon is the ridiculous price tag in the USA when you can easily find similar to better beers at a fraction of the cost.

I havent been to Philly in a long time, but I always go to Monks when i do.

Central Waters Bourbon Barrel Scotch Ale is as good as you'd think it would be.

godspeed, jeff. how much did you end up buying in belgium?

Six Cantillon bottles and three Westy's. Could have gotten so much more but my bag is pretty much full.

If I had room I would have gotten some Drie Fonteinen and De Cam.

With all the Belgians I've been drinking, my palate kind of misses something like a Zombie Dust or a Daisy Cutter.