Beer in the new era

Oh, you mean the bottles actually here? It varies. Stores get them at different days/times.

March 18th at Founders though.

Got my ticket. Nice that I won't have to hunt one down this year.

Picked up a bottle of Surly/3floyds/Real Ale BLAKKR. One of the better black IPAs I've had but I still don't particularly understand the style, I don't think.

I have one in the fridge. Black IPA is just a hoppy dark beer to me. That sometimes tastes a little roasty. Not a particularly exciting style, but there have been several I've liked a lot. Really liked the Begyle/Dry Hop collab Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts. Wooky Jack too.

Definitely hoping to taste the BLAKKR, there was a thing on the Decibel blog about that and it sounded pretty interesting.

out here we call them Cascadian Dark Ales, Oakshire makes one that is pretty good. My take was always "all the hop flavor along with nice dark notes, without the body of a stout or porter". When I've brewed this style, you use a little bit of very dark-roasted grains to give a disproportionately dark flavor w/o the full grain body.

Thanks to the poster who recommended the Otter Creek Citra Mantra. Awesome citrus-y hops taste in a light-bodied pilsner style. Very quaffable.

xps to j/v/c there were 2-3 cases of it on the floor at the Jefferson/Roosevelt Binny's on Saturday.

Yeah I see tons of "cascadian dark ales" around, haven't tried the Oakshire one yet but I'm not too huge into this style. I like porters and stouts that have a lot of body and not much hoppiness, so these never really sound great to me.

FWIW from Founders' website regarding non-GR KBS release: "KBS will still be released starting on April 1 in limited quantities throughout our distribution footprint."

for whatever reason the flavor of rye seems to make black ipas/cascadian dark ales pop a bit more, wooky jack is a fine example of this. the balance has to be like sleeve described, mostly hops but with a bit of grains to emphasize certain flavors. a lot of times brewers go overboard with the dark grains and it becomes super bitter

just learned about this site yesterday: http://www.barnivore.com/

i'm not vegan by any stretch, but i'm impressed at how extensive their database is!

BLAKKR seemed to be a good combo of hoppy and roasty. The initial flavor was almost all hops and the finish was almost all roast, like one of those flavor-changing gums/candies of yesteryear. I just don't know if shoving those two flavors together is a thing I like or not.

i was curious abt blakker right up to the point where i saw the almost $20 price for a 4 pack of it

Oh see here it was in 22oz bombers for like $10.

...not that that's any better really :P

I didn't realize GL Alchemy Hour is called Chillwave this year. Chillwave.

Yeah! Saw it at the store and lolled.

http://blog.centralwaters.com/?m=1

rip peruvian morning?

well, good for them for finally owning up i guess

Hope the fix it. Such a good beer when fresh.

Yeah, at least they're being transparent. Bummer. I'll be in Wisconsin this weekend and had that on my radar.

BBBW is still stellar.

That was in the fall, though, right?

Nah, this month. It's been hitting stores, but not sticking around very long.

Actually, last month:

http://centralwaters.com/beers/pdf/2013ProductionSchedule.pdf

just learned about this site yesterday: http://www.barnivore.com/

i'm not vegan by any stretch, but i'm impressed at how extensive their database is!

― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, March 3, 2014 12:45 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was vegan for 10 years (vegetarian now) and beer was one of those things that i just said, you know what, i'm not going to give a shit about this, it's so damn minor and i'm probably gonna make every potential vegan just shun veganism for life if i go on some spiel about isinglass. i just felt ridiculous pushing for it. i was definitely not alone among vegans i knew, even hardcore animal rights activist vegans i hung out with when i lived in DC were just like "drink the guinness and don't say a fucking word about it"

xpost I was thrown off by this window in December when the South Loop Binny's was just tossing hard to find stuff on shelves willy-nilly, a bottle here, a four-pack there...

xp are there even stats on who uses isinglass versus irish moss or some other type of coagulant?

Cool found some cw barleywine.

xposted to metal thread:
http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/dave-witte-and-tired-hands-collaborate-on-play-fast/

Arctic Panzer Wolf is in stores. Also I noticed that my local shop had Abrasive in the "build your own 6 pack" shelf, so I got myself a sixer of Abrasive for $9.99. :D

Way to work the system

Jeff have you had the Revolution barrel-aged stuff, specifically Bean Gene or Straight Jacket? Both are sitting on the shelves at my local but the price is a little steep for an impulse buy ($18ish). It really doesn't look like anyone's buying them, I keep hoping for a price cut. Are they worth trying?

What should I get in WI this weekend?

I always look for New Glarus stuff with red foil on the cap that isn't the Apple Beer. Or, get the Apple Beer if that's your thing, I didn't like it. It's very apple-y.

I like straight jacket a lot. It does tend to sit on shelves though, even on the northside. Bean gene is just ok to me.

Stopped at the bar, saw Chillwave on the list, lolled and then had to order it. Not bad!

What happened with New Belgium's packaging? They had the same labels for what felt like forever (since I first saw Fat Tire when I lived in Arizona in the late 90s), then re-did everything two or three years ago. A couple months ago I noticed that everything has been redesigned again. It just seems odd.

Guise I am inside Lagunitas' Chicago production facility and it is insane.

http://imgur.com/EHNN0OE

Fucking url http://imgur.com/EHNN0OE

The numbers for the amount of beer they are going to make there is insane.

Holy shit

That pic does not do it justice, there is about 6x as much space as you can see. Thousands of kegs.

that's amazing. i still don't have feelings much stronger than neutral about lagunitas but good for them i guess.

Lagunitas is huge and only going to get bigger when they open their Chicago brewery. That facility along is planning to make 1.7 million barrels a year. By comparison, the Petaluma based brewery currently makes about 700k barrels a year and that covers their entire current distribution.

― Jeff, Wednesday, April 10, 2013 2:18 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

other than sucks which is a seasonal is there like a universally loved lagunitas beer?

Hop stoopid is pretty great. And cheap!

Lil sumpin sumpin, despite the terrible name, is wonderul.