Beer in the new era

i guess it could have been a bad keg, but it wasn't that it was too bitter/not sweet enough. it was that... it tasted like bile? not sure how else to describe it. there was none of the dry/crisp/tart flavors i associate with a good kriek or other more-sour sours

tho tbf my palette was probably destroyed by that coconut-curry hefeweizen

haha, that indeed sounds atrocious.

i was very pleasantly surprised by hebrew's "death of a contract brewer" black ipa - i've had a lot of bad examples of that style, but i thought it was really well balanced overall

i like that westbrook ipa mentioned upthread a whole lot too, and i'm stoked to see sculpin in cans finally - ian, do you work at e4stern distr1ct by any chance?

There are people on my facebook feed already planning to line up at noon on Thanksgiving for the Black Friday Goose Island BCBS release. I mean, c'mon.

I hope it's really, really cold. I plan on going out that black Friday morning, that's crazy enough.

Unfortunately I'll be traveling that day so I'll just miss out on it this year.

i had my first Speedway Stout last night, that was serious business.

i like that westbrook ipa mentioned upthread a whole lot too, and i'm stoked to see sculpin in cans finally - ian, do you work at e4stern distr1ct by any chance?

― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Tuesday, November 19, 2013 8:24 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes i do!

crazy, i live like a block away! i buy beer there pretty regularly; i'll say hi sometime

you should say hi! i love meeting ILXors. especially when it involves beer.
i don't live in greenpoint, but i also work at the record grouch on wednesdays now!

http://studygroupcomics.com/main/eat-eat-eat-part-3-by-tom-van-deusen/

i'm going to try to go to this:
http://www.phillytapfinder.com/event/capones/

amazing tap list. i wonder if they'll do growler fills, bc there's way more that i want to drink than i can + safely drive home

Be sure to try the Firestone Walker Parabola. If I had to pick the single best beer I've ever had, that would be it (2011 version).

sick list

Don't skip the Black Albert!

That's a really good list, a few of my faves are on there.

seems like there's too much to try everything + they're not doing growler fills. i'll have to draw up a plan of attack before going.

I would ask about growler fills if you are there late (like closing) but yeah, doing a growler fill when many of these beers are pretty hard to get on the east coast is probably not going to win you many friends (also would probably cost a fortune for a few of these).

i won't be there around closing - i can only get there earlier in the day. maybe they'll do flights? or i'm going w/ ppl, so maybe we'll share glasses

yeah, I'd be shocked if you could get growlers of many of those.

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/430aa5afe46c93352a8f689bd4e274d0034b2e82_m.gif

Although just had a friend in DC and said a place was doing 32oz bourbon county growler fills. I don't remember the price, but it was an outrageous amount.

anyone who can drink a 32oz growler of bourbon county before it goes flat.. has my respect.
or they just like to share w friends.

Yeah, I drank a 750ml of Three Philosophers (9.7% ABV) the other night and I was SICK the next day. 32 oz of a thick 15% beer like that would be disgusting honestly. I'd almost rather just take a bunch of shots of tequila.

It took me like an hour to drink a snifter of bourbon county this summer and I was kind of trashed afterwards. A growler would be a fatal amount.

Don't skip the Black Albert!

― Jeff, Wednesday, November 20, 2013 2:08 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pro tip

i'd kill a 32 of BCS. just saying

believe it when i see it.

Had a growler keep beer from going flat for a week once (i was ill).

xp idk i finished off a 12oz regular and a coffee in one sitting and i would have been down for a cherry rye on top of that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jj2R69qRxU

i had lunch at the harvest moon brewpub today (rutgers area) - beers were okay, nothing particularly memorable. it's always nice drinking ime though drinking at these tiny brewpubs. they had the big tanks in the front right when you walk in and the food was pretty okay. the porter i tried was better than the ipa (which was barely an ipa) - it had been brewed w/ coffee from a local roaster; another thing that never really blows away my tastebuds but that always makes me feel happy about drinking.

I've been there a lot of times, and have played shows there, although I haven't been there in many years. I never thought the beers were amazing even back then when I had tried so few craft beers. I remember I used to always order Flying Fish beers there though, which I thought were pretty good.

Not a bad place as far as atmosphere. I have fuzzy memories of it.

trying the Ommegang Rare Vos -- not one of my favorite of their offerings. The flavors in it (orange peel and coriander) are done subtly enough that they're not obnoxious, but I think they'd work better with a little higher alcohol.

Drinking all the Surley cans. Welcome back.

My wife wants to know where you got it

heading back home to upstate ny for vacation/thanksgiving tomorrow, and it suddenly dawned on me that they get bell's there now. stoked.

They had a bunch of surly in cans at the Lakeview binnys yesterday. Bought some furious.

see if u can score any of the 4 stouts bell's has out atm - cherry, expedition stout, special double cream, and java. xp

bell's only started distributing to syracuse a month or two ago, so i have no idea what's out there. i'd be happy just to drink two-hearted all week, honestly; it's one of the things i miss most about living in dc.

if i can grab a case of expedition, i may as well throw it in the cellar, aka my parents' actual cellar - i've got plenty of other stuff i could never fit in a nyc apartment stored down there for the long term

Matilda lambicus is fucking garbage bye unless you want beer that tastes like froot loops.

On the positive note, local beer store just went all in on the "soon to be out of season" indeed sweet yamma jamma, so I will be buying a couple of cases tomorrow for tiny dollars. My pumpkin root veggie pick of the season bar none.

Dan, I got mine at Printer's Row Wineshop. They are starting to appear everywhere.

Matilda lambicus isn't very good.

They had furious, bender, overrated, and cynic. Was hoping for some coffee bender.

CynicAle that is.

was just watching Do The Right Thing last night and was surprised to spot Brooklyn Lager at the corner store. I didn't even know the brewery was that old, although apparently it was only founded two years before the film. Was also surprised to see a "micro" in a Bed-Stuy convenience store in 1989.

jeff have you had the coffee bender? by far my least favorite of the stock surly beers

New Goose Island Bourbon County Stouts out Friday. 1) It's nice that the original BCBS will be better distributed around the country. 2) It's nice that the Coffee Stout will be sold in 4-packs as well as bombers. 3) It's gross that someone decided coconut would be a good one-off flavor to try out.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/Bleader/archives/2013/11/25/brace-yourselves-here-come-goose-islands-2013-bourbon-county-variants