Beer in the new era

I honestly like parabola better (and bourbon county even more), but I have to comfort myself in some way.

I've been abstaining from beer for a couple weeks, not really Lent related but just to take a little break.

I may be going to Duluth next week though, in which case I will certainly go to Fitger's as I always do, and the streak will end.

i remember really liking some of the dfh large formats (like red & white) but man that was a million years ago in terms of my palate and what i'm interested in.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea otm, funny i always notice DFH since they're ubiquitous but i never feel inclined to buy their beer anymore. that said i had an indian brown ale recently that was left over from someone else and that's a good beer. i used to buy it a lot. that one and raisin d'etre were both interesting and well-crafted takes on brown ale.

nowadays i feel like everything they brew is "such and such brewed with grape/peach/apricot nectar fused with honey and spices" and just doesn't appeal at all

http://beergraphs.com/bb/385-but-i-want-it/

appropriate to our recent discussions.

Bought a 6-pack recently and one of the bottles was completely flat. Looking closely I noticed a bit of white residue around the top where the cap had been apparently not sealed well. I guess this kind of glitch must happen occasionally.

Scored huge today, I'll spare a picture because nobody even acknowledged my last one, but trust me... HUGE. Got lucky with some #rareshit.

in purchases very much in character i scored a bottle of enjoy by 4-20 :D i plan to drink it and then reuse the bottle forever

also on treeship's urging i grabbed a bottle of 61 minutes. it better be good or i'm coming for u bro

Surprised there's not some stupid beer name called #rareshit. Beer names are getting worse than '90s ska bands.

Scored huge today, I'll spare a picture because nobody even acknowledged my last one, but trust me... HUGE. Got lucky with some #rareshit.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, March 20, 2014 5:24 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yr last score was dece, not a bad score, hope you upped your score game this time

http://beergraphs.com/bb/385-but-i-want-it/

appropriate to our recent discussions.

― Jeff, Thursday, March 20, 2014 2:57 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there are some points to be made about this but this article is not making them, i mean to step up and defend cigar city against entitled consumers after the shit i read about hunahpu's day 2014 is like o_0

^ what is this hunahpu's day business?

i mean, what did you hear about it that isn't in the article

well i'm of the mind that if you can't run an event, you shouldn't try. when there are like 3500 tickets and more than double that get in that's the organizer's fault.

also don't make an arbitrary decision to sell one of your sought-after beers by the case (yes, 12 750ml bottles) to people who were randomly standing in the right place. the regular stuff had a limit of 3 and tons of people missed it, while the double-barrel variant was sold by the case to a bunch of people for no discernible reason.

weird, that seems crazy. they clearly do not know how to handle an event like that

i guess initially tickets were tied were tied to IDs and then ppl complained so they changed it. then their scanners weren't working so they said fuck it and just let people in.

I've been abstaining from beer for a couple weeks, not really Lent related but just to take a little break.

I may be going to Duluth next week though, in which case I will certainly go to Fitger's as I always do, and the streak will end.

If you haven't already, drive over to Superior and hit up Thirsty Pagan, no slight to Fitgers but the TP stuff was maybe the best brewpub stuff I've ever had. No really.

Mentioned a bit upthread, but any recommendations for St. Louis? I'll be down there this weekend.

Schflay, since you can't get it around here (yet, probably coming soon). Perennial, which you can get here, but maybe find some one off bombers down there. Side Project, which I'm not sure how you obtain, but it's one of the brewers from Perennial gypsy brewing barrel aged, barrel fermented beers. Highly rated. You can probably get them at the Perennial tasting room.

yea schflay is a good place to go

there are some points to be made about this but this article is not making them, i mean to step up and defend cigar city against entitled consumers after the shit i read about hunahpu's day 2014 is like o_0

True, looks like they botched it pretty bad. It's hard to pull off these one day things. Really they should just do like Founders with KBS. Sell tickets to get your allotment and spread it out over a week. No festival, just pick up your beer.

Re: Duluth -- I can't vouch for the greatness of this place because I haven't been but it's run by a former bandmate of mine, and people I know have spoken highly of his stuff.

http://borealisfermentery.com/

Also Thirsty Pagan otm

Keep seeing Bells Amber everywhere all of a sudden

Should start seeing Oberon soon.

I've been to Thirsty Pagan a couple times. I love their physical space, but oddly can't remember anything specific about their beers. Certainly worth a revisit.

And thanks for the tip on Borealis, will def look into that one.

Jeff, just sent you a PM.

had a pretty excellent orkney brewery skull splitter scotch ale today with lunch. I've only seen it mentioned by CAD iirc on here. it was good. I can't drink much beer anymore. I feel like my beer knowledge has faded away. Lots of sours and wheat beers and blonde ales and others don't sit well with me as age tightens it cold vise ever more tightly on me with each passing year. Fortunately I'm cool with scotch ales, which do sit ok with me.

j/v/c, did you see this? http://t.co/OgqGmJnO05

so it turns out i'm perfectly located to hit up breweries here in sd. i went to green flash (literally across the street from my hotel) on Sunday, and Alesmith last night. gonna try to hit up Societe tnite and Pizza Port tmmrw. so much brewery goodness here!

I did Jeff, trying for those most definitely. Thanks!

Talked to a guy at W@rehouse today and he confirmed the rumors, that Firestone Walker halved all of the deliveries of this year's special releases (they only got 6 bottles of Parabola and Sucaba, instead of the usual case).

Er, spoke with him yesterday I mean, not today.

I managed to find a Sucaba but my guy at HP Binny's just shrugged when I asked about Parabola.

I had the day off Friday and happened to catch a store out in Lincolnwood update their Beermenus at 11:45 with Parabola. Called at 11:58 and he said all six bottles were gone already.

damn, and it's not even like that stuff is cheap. i regularly see the parabola + sucaba's priced around philly for like ~$30!

Not that I actually ever saw any in person, but the stores around here seemed to have it priced between $16.99 and $19.99 on their beer menus page.

Yeah the Sucaba I got was $18.

Usually by the time it's posted on beermenus, it's too late.

Oh, I know. Hence the phone call first.

Found a cafe that currently has Sculpin on draft for $3 during their 4-hour happy hour, it's literally cheaper than buying a 6-pack, pretty stoked.

got a couple Stone Enjoy by 04-20-14. stoked because lol (_̅_̲̲̲̲̲̅̅̅̅̅̅̅(̅_̅_̲̅м̲̅a̲̅я̲̅l̲̅j̲u̲̅an̲̅a̲̅̅_̅_̅_̅()~~

otm

did you enjoy any local greenery while in socal ?

not yet...

Anyone think that Enjoy By 4.20.14 tastes a little off or did I get a bad bottle?

I had this kind of flat/sludgy/Elmer's Glue note to mine that didn't go away even after a few sips. I did have some smoky ribs not long before tho...

Also Parabola should be priced around $18. I remember when it was $12 T__T

very very excited about this beer list - http://www.saraveza.com/site/comments/2nd_annual_portland_farmhouse_wild_ale_festival/. if it's anything like last year, the pours will be enormoussss

Mikkeller vs. Evil Twin!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/magazine/a-fight-is-brewing.html

that article explained a whole lot about the quality of their beers.

Stone enjoy by 420 tastes like bubblegum -- the weed.

Evil twin just showed up in mn, so I grabbed some Molotov cocktail and hipster, only had the Molotov so far and it's def good, but it's nowhere near what I've gotten out of mikkeller.