Beer in the new era

The 3 sours that Lost Abbey puts out that I always try to get my hands on a few bottles:
Cable Car
Duck Duck Geuze
Cuvee de Tomme (this was their very first sour that they did at Pizza Port, pre-Lost Abbey, fond memories)

i think the cuvee de tomme was the other bottle i got there. as i understand it the duck duck geuze is super whale status at this point

the new lighter session one "dead pony club" is really really good and serves a good purpose for when you're not keen to get wasted.

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 22:54 (1 year ago)

not hugely fond of this

takeaways from pdx farmhouse fest: logsdon peche n brett is worth the hype, probably the best fruity saison i've ever had (tried it 3-4 times now and it's super consistent); the block 15 caves anniversary saison was also excellent; i've still yet to have anything from ale apothecary or propolis or trinity that wasn't impressive but damn they are $pricey$; hennepin tastes way better on tap; bruery sour in the rye is an amazing beer

Just got a bottle of the peche n brett, good to hear as it wasn't cheap out here, I'm sure it's much more reasonable in OR.

yeah, i think it's pricey ($30 or so?) and rare out here too but i've lucked into finding it on tap all those times. probably helps that the owner of the beer bar closest to my house distributes for logsdon tho.

i highly recommend the seizoen bretta too, and that's usually around $10 for a 750 ml bottle

I was pretty let down by my bottle of 4-20, but after hustling so hard for Parabola it was nice to get a limited beer that was neither hard to find nor pushing $20.

This opinion may bother some people but I would rate Surly Abrasive equal to Heady Topper and above HopSlam. A truly great double IPA.

It's up there for me. I can't compare it very well to HopSlam, they are too different.

I was pretty let down by my bottle of 4-20, but after hustling so hard for Parabola it was nice to get a limited beer that was neither hard to find nor pushing $20.

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Sweetwater 420???

enjoy by

my local beer bar managed to somehow to get a keg of KBS. on the list for the private session. can't wait i've never had it before

I got a bottle the other day, and on the way out of the store some guy behind me was also carrying a single bottle. He lowers his voice: "So ... have you ever had this before?" Then we sneaked our separate ways, likely never to cross paths again.

Local growler/fancy beer joint sent out an email saying they got a shipment of KBS in, called about four hours later to see if any was left and they said they sold out... four hours ago.

Meanwhile stop by the grocery store on the way home and notice a tiny sign "KBS SOLD HERE," go inside and the manager is doling them out by hand from his little office, so I grab two bottles, go figure.

^^ this sort of thing happens to me with this weird grocery store near my house. they STILL have bourbon county coffee. on sale even, at $25/four.

Founders Centennial comes in 12 packs of cans now? I might never be seen again.

My dad called today to say he got me two 4 packs of KBS.

whoa, wtg dad

i had a few shots at it here, but between being sick this week and not wanting to go through great lengths for 1-2 12 oz. bottles i passed on them all.

My folks live in middle of nowhere Michigan but the store with the best beer selection in the area got 6 cases of the shit. Half the price it was selling for in Chicago.

yeah i don't think any stores here got more than a case

btw dan i'm drinking the first of those hopslams you sent--super intense, not really high on drinkability, but the flavor is outstanding

Went to one of my favorite local stores to enter a lottery to buy a bottle. They were only selling 20, and about 50 to 60 ppl showed up. Didn't get one but had tons of tastings. 2 years of KBS, 3 years of backwoods bastard, Great Lakes Barrel aged blackout stout, Westy XII, bolt cutter and a few more. Great little event, wish more stores would drop the first come first serve or buddy system and do it this way. Everyone leaves happy and I bet they sell a ton of beer.

how was bolt cutter??

It was very sweet! I didn't get a huge taste, but I don't think I could have taken much. I never had it when it 1st came out, so I can't compare. Didn't taste much barrel at all. So not great, but interesting.

got one bottle of KBS today, and a very nice customer brought us two cans of heady topper....!

I know this is the beer drinking and not the beer brewing thread but we just opened a saison we made and holy crap and had an earnest discussion abt starting a brewery. So not (prob) going to happen, but 2 dudes with lucrative jobs that they hate plus some dumb dude who owns a guitar store, stranger things have happened.

sounds like the descriptions of the majority of dudes who have started breweries around here in the past three years

Brought it to my beer nerd local store and dudes flipped out over it. Which I would assume was just politeness if I hadn't brought 40 other homebrews over the years that they verbally didn't give 2 shits about, including the other 3 I brought by at the same time. Plus they are generally saison haters.

:D

YSI?

Some local dudes out here trying to get their brewery/bar off the ground want to focus on session beers and other low ABV beers, complaining of alcohol creep in craft beer that makes it hard to hang out and drink more than one or two of these knock you on your butt beers. I sort of get their point, but on the other hand, a craft beer bar that specializes only in weak beer ...

http://www.notchbrewing.com/

what's up w/ brewery tasting rooms closing so early? i don't expect them to have bar hours, but so many close at like 5 or 6 PM!

Just don't leave. Stand your ground Mordy.

Having the Stone Stochasticity Project Grapefruit Slam IPA tonight--decided between that and the 4.20, both at Plum Market. (I don't follow beer super-closely but wanted to get something tonight and have liked Stone a lot.) IPA made with grapefruit peel and tasty and interesting, not to face-scrunchingly grapefruit.

drinking a Hop Valley Citrus Slam right now, same deal (made w/grapefruit peel), delicious

oops that's Citrus Mistress, not Slam

#GrapefruitBros

went to a bottle share tnite armed w/ a bottle of spencer trapist beer + framinghammer vanilla from jack's abby. thx to cad for the contributions bc drinking tnite was excellent. highlights were petit mutant and focal banger from alchemist, feral one by firestone (so danky), melange no. 1 from the bruery, upland's strawberry lambic (this was really out of this world delicious)... can i just say unironically while i'm still drunk that i love beer + it is all so good. bless.

Hoppy beers and problems...as I approach forty anytime I drink anything relatively hoppy i end up with a massive headache after two. THIS IS NOT IDEAL.

I wonder why that would be? Is it the hops, type of hops, ABV? Dehydration?

I have no idea, its killing my beer drinking. I would assume its dehydration since I drink nothing but caffeine and beer. Haha.

http://www.cvs.com/shop/product-detail/CVS-Stress-Formula-Tablets-With-Zinc?skuId=217208

Friend of mine swears by these things esp in relation to 40-ish drinking.

hmm, thats worth a shot.

You know, I like those things too, in general. I get mine from Whole Foods, and at the very least they turn your urine the brightest, richest (in both senses) orange/yellow.

Caffeine/beer could do it, though in the case of coffee its diuretic properties are I think strictly in the make-you-pee sense, no worse than a lot of water. But alcohol will accelerate dehydration.

i do notice if i take my old man multi-vitamin the headaches aren't as bad.

got a photo of last night's tasting:

https://scontent-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/10172796_10152009120750036_2043793757_n.jpg

Hoppy beers and problems...as I approach forty anytime I drink anything relatively hoppy i end up with a massive headache after two. THIS IS NOT IDEAL.

i'm approaching my thirties and this basically killed my craft/"good" beer drinking hobby.. i drink ridiculous amounts of water all day but as soon as a get a taste of something hoppy, i feel dehydrated.

because of this, i tend to prefer your cheap beer variety: old style/schlitz/hamms/pbr because they are clear, light, and refreshing. can anyone in thread recommend maybe some upgraded beers of this variety?

I've taken to watching the occasional ep. of one of the many youtube beer review shows, this one where the dudes blind taste brews so as not to be swayed by hype. The results are pretty fun, though the best rated beers tend to be, you know, rated the best. But I think that attests to the generally high level of brewing going on right now, anyway. I like it when one of the guys absolutely nails a guess at the ABV or some other superhero skill that is eons beyond me.