Beer in the new era

Surly's regular line up is about 1000x better than NG's.

Yeah, honestly, I think everything from NG tastes sort of the same. I only picked it as an example of another beer that taunts IL from the other side of the border.

How is the Surly coffee?

we have much better breweries that don't distribute to Chicago (at least i don't think?). :) O'So, Ale Asylum, Central Waters, etc.

We get Central Waters. Thankfully. Anything they put in a barrel has been fantastic.

Drinking a Hill Farmsted

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Drinking Hill Farmstead Madness & Civilization tonight. Amazing beer.

How is the Surly coffee?

Haven't had it recently, but I have v fond memories of drinking one on draft several years ago, before it was pulled from Chicago.

We get Central Waters. Thankfully. Anything they put in a barrel has been fantastic.

We get O'So, too! Although I thought the O'So Night Train was kind of gross and haven't been too excited to try their other stuff.

Drinking Hill Farmstead Madness & Civilization tonight. Amazing beer.

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nice! have not tried mine yet, bigger bottle so i'll probably save it for a group.

Mmmmmmiller High Life

all goes well i'm drinking pliny elder + Allagash PNC Broken Elevator tnite at monk's

there is a flavor in every o'so beer i have had that is such a perfect example of some sort of malt character that i hate that ive been tempted to write them an email so i can avoid it in my own homebrews

central waters brewhouse coffee stout is def by far the best coffee stout ive ever had out of a $5 bomber, i love that stuff. central waters however is another brewery that is cursed with the terrible generic looking label disease

keep meaning to make a special trip to VT for hill farmstead/heady topper but i am lazy and also have no time for this

I need to have ppl over for bottle sharing. Took a recent inventory and I'm up to 74 bottles. So hard to justify cracking a nice 750 ml bottle for myself.

xp yeah it's basically a full day even from where you are

our landlord just decided to have the cellar professionally cleaned for some reason so there are currently 7 boxes of beer in my kitchen.

it's a bad hobby.

I can't wait until Carl really starts drinking again, we're going to blow through the 4 Cantillons I have left, for sure.

tell that babby to hurry up and turn 21

CW recently changed their labels and i think they look more generic now: http://centralwaters.com/beers/img/Satin-Solitude.jpg

man, O'So Night Train is one of my stand-bys. but lupulin maximus is the one that's really insane.

yeah that looks like three different designs mashed together

Around here three Floyd's and pipeworks do the worst labels. Everyone is pretty much used to it though.

We ended up taking this to a BYOB restaurant, it was pretty great:
http://distilleryimage1.ak.instagram.com/fafcffa65e2311e3b9670ed18cdf8007_8.jpg

nice sierra nevada growler

Interesting. What type of barrels?

"Torpedo double IPA aged 2 years in bourbon barrels."

TBQH I wasn't huge fan on first taste but it's definitely more enjoyable now that I've had it a few times. We took it to a Pakistanian restaurant which made a good pairing!

2 years? wow. any hops left?

55 IBU = pretty smooth.

central waters brewhouse coffee stout

Correct. If I recall, my comment was it tasted just like Peruvian morning, without the barrel.

I've been eying the Founders Boltcutter in my closet. I never had it fresh, it was so divisive when it came out, I just sort of pushed it to the back. Anyone had it recently?

i'm in the same boat. i think my plan is to let it age for 3 years or so.

got a growler of brooklyn's smoked porter tonight/ mmmm. toasty.

how does o'so not make a beer called "krispie" anyway

(note: questions like this are probably why i'd be a bad choice to run your brewery)

this should be a i'm drunk post, but really i am but i wanted to share the good tidings that i drank delicious pints of pliny elder, blind pig, allagash broken elevator and Brouwerij 3 Fonteinen oude geueze at monk's cafe tnite which is really such a nice place to get loaded

I remember fondly all the times I've been drunk at monks.

Me too! It's a great place, although I could say that about most of the Philly bars I've been to. Not that shitbag fake old west one across from eastern state that I got stuck at. But most of the other ones.

Very odd, could have sworn last year Binny's in the South Loop had literally piles of (standard) BCBS left over, even on sale for a few dollars off. Wonder if they over-ordered last year, or if Goose Island going bigger ate away at some of the local allocation. Oh well. I did notice the return of Three Floyds' Gumballhead, which was MIA for a bit.

For those near Pasadena, CA, I just saw that Firestone-Walker is bringing some Parabola to the Whole Foods (Arroyo Parkway) bar tomorrow.

got a growler of brooklyn's smoked porter tonight

I read this too quickly as smoked salmon porter (which I guess, given Taco Hands and Beard Beer, is not impossible, but...)

on that note I have most of a fifth of this at home if anyone is feeling thirsty

http://media3.s-nbcnews.com/j/ap/salmon%20vodka-1640097240_v2.grid-4x2.jpg

That had been a running joke between friends and I. You could serve it with this for maximum baaaaaarf:

https://beamglobal.s3.amazonaws.com/sites/505757e5851916549a000002/content_entry5059fc39851916762400029f/5241cb888519162844000575/files/KC_maple.jpg

And of course:

http://www.chicagobeergeeks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/porterhouse-oyster-stout.jpg

The Oyster Stout I had - Flying Dog? - was pretty good! I want to say the shell imparts a lot of calcium, not fishy flavor, so it ends up close to a milk stout.

AGGGGGHHH that salmon vodka almost killed us all at former ilxor FB's bachelor party

it srsly gives me ptsd gag reflex just looking at it.

DJP was to blame, fyi

hm that must've been about the same time he came sniffin' around the chicago thread asking about malort

I got my precious precious bottle as a gag gift a couple christmases ago from a friend who lives in anchorage, I've made a couple bloody marys with it.

(but only a couple)