Beer in the new era

i will drink a skull splitter every so often by they don't usually have the types of flavors i'm interested in

was it the Lil B Imperial Porter you had, JJusten? Cuz I liked that one..

EVIL TWIN FOR ME:

LOVE:
Femme Fatale Yuzu/Femme Fatale Brett

LIKE JUST FINE:
Lil B Imp. Porter
YIN/YANG both good but too strong for regular drinking
CHRISTMAS EVEN IN A NEW YORK CITY HOTEL ROOM (stupidest name though.)

DID NOT LIKE AT ALL:
Bikini Beer

i've probably tried more of their beers that i'm just not remembering right now..

I don't think Evil Twin has Oregon distro? Portland folks would know.

i see evil twin around at a bunch of places. apex always has their imperial biscotti break on tap, i was fairly impressed by that one. they have tonssss of evil twin bottles at belmont station and john's marketplace and probably other places too, never for super cheap but yknow

the biscotti beers are the best

black people are cowards

if you read this far, i actually mean all humans are cowards.

man, gtfo

looool wrong thread, i'm sorry everybody

meant for ILH thread re: some shitty gawker piece on the sterling comment

Need to make a new thread & leave that as the last comment ;)

btw I picked up a grip of New Glarus (Barleywine, Dubbel, & Belgian Red) while in 'sconnie + one of those awes Central Waters Brewhouse Coffee Stouts in a bomber for $4

there is a lot of weird WI beer now that I wasn't ready to drop extra coin just to try -- O'so, Hinterland (knew about them but didn't know they bottled), MKE, Stone Arch, etc

Bought a couple bottles of Brewhouse Coffee today, plus a pack of the Dubbel. Best of all, I found a 4-pack of the Barrel Aged Cherry Stout, which I guess is more scarce than usual this year, even up in the WI.

Yeah, I didn't see that one. Lots of the Apple Beer, Spiced Ale, and Winter Warmer, all of which I say "thank you, no" to.

Enjoyed Dark Lord Day, though for various reasons why ended up just running over to pick up our allotment then headed back to Chicago for a BBQ and bottle share. The '14 Dark Lord is good, but didn't feel much different from '13 to me at all (biggest change is replacing the Intelligentsia coffee with Dark Matter - though the coffee is such a minor part that I'm not surprised it barely registered).

We also went through some of the Pipewoks Abduction variants - Coffee Break (which I already knew and loved), Mint Truffle(which I also loved, but I love mint a ton, and there's a lot of it in here so I can see why the more mint-averse may not like it) and the Cherry Truffle (more subtle than I expected after the mint, and really smooth).

honestly the MKE stuff is just straight up mediocre, and imo you dodged a bullet with the o'so stuff, ive hated every one i ever tried - super homebrew banana ester thing going on, same reason i hated the evil twin lil b

Stuck on a resort for work in Orlando this past week but did get to a liquor store to try some Cigar City. Only had the reg lineup though, so I just got sixers of Jai Alai, Florida Cracker, and Maduro. All good.

That's kind of what I figured. My wife and I were doing some fancy things (The American Club!) for our anniversary, and all the restaurants/bars there were mostly NG and CW with Ale Asylum and some other more national names thrown in, so I stuck to those. xp

Tasted Jai Alai at DLD too, thought it was pretty decent.

I was stuck in florida for a while recently and everyone recommended cigar city v highly.. didnt get to try much except jai alai maybe?

"Pretty decent." - jon /via/ chi 2.0

Lol, I guess that was a pretty pointless post. It was just a small taste in the midst of a whole lot of beer tasted that day - it tasted just fine, but didn't stand out as one of the day's highlights.

yeah jai alai is not really going to stand out in a day of tasting that includes dark lord

I was also super happy to pick up a couple bottles of the Blakkr, unfortunately they completely sold out of Zombie Dust about 3 hours into the day (was hoping to grab a case).

It was a really well handled event, for the most part, the lines for the actual Dark Lord were super smooth and efficient. Oddly enough the non-DL bottle sale lines were ridiculously long and slow moving.

What is the going rate/market price for a bottle of Westvleteren XVII in the USA?

Do any of the Belgian posters post on this thread?

you can buy a westy for 10 euros on etre gourmet, lol

throw in the shipping and risk of seizure and it's probably still only like 20 bucks tops

NG barley wine not bad for a 2 year old beer, hoppier than most barleywines than I've had but nicely mellow.

now drinking: maine beer co. 'MO' pale ale; this is very good but not as good as Lunch or Peeper imo. Bottle is abt two weeks old.

Only had it for the first time somewhat recently but Jai Lai is really good, can't think of many other "flagship" IPAs I like as much

I like it, but when I think flagship I think sculpin, green flash west coast, dales

i like jai alai more than all those, it's fantastic (just could easily get lost in a big tasting).

Yeah I definitely want to try it again when I can actually focus on it. I should have been able to walk away from DLD with two cans of it and Heady Topper, but the guy I knew who was going to give them to me was so trashed when I saw him that he couldn't even speak coherently. Ah well.

jai lai is pretty easy for me to get here, can ship if interested... email me!

i def like it better than green flash & dale's tho dale's is fantastic. about on par with sculpin for me.
honestly, two of my fave go-to IPA's remain Flower Power and Founder's Centennial..

the beer jai lai reminds me most of in terms of flavor profile is Lagunitas Sucks tbh.

there is a lot of weird WI beer now that I wasn't ready to drop extra coin just to try -- O'so, Hinterland (knew about them but didn't know they bottled), MKE, Stone Arch, etc

O'So is the best of these, i'd put them up against basically anything.

mostly for Lupulin Maximus and Night Train, both standards in my house.

the beer jai lai reminds me most of in terms of flavor profile is Lagunitas Sucks tbh.

that's good to hear, considering how much love i've got for Sucks.

Excited to try this:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlhQDpVCQAAc7gA.jpg:medium

Really liked the raspberry version of the porter, hope the PB version is just as good.

Ooh yeah, that does look good.

Btw Jeff, you've inspired me to start a spreadsheet too.

man, that does not sound good to me. what's with all these novelty flavors? Raspberry I can get behind, not so sure about PB.

Normally I wouldn't give it a second glance, but Spiteful is one of the frew breweries that seems to handle the novelty flavors well.

ah that makes more sense

spring house makes a good pb stout (big gruesome) and i haven't tried it yet, but they also make a lil gruesome that is pb + j stout (i have a bottle at home)

I'd try it, but this is getting dangerously close to Voodoo/Rogue territory imho

Yeah sometimes I want my beer to be a sweet, tasty dessert beer. It can be pulled off! Sometimes.

Went to Fischman today (FYI Chi folks) and they were kinda such dicks I don't think I'll ever go back. The guys at Dark Matter later were awesome, though, and told me lots of fun DLD stories.

I've never been there, but that's not the first time I've heard about them being really dickish. What happened?

That's the complete opposite of every visit I've had there.

I asked him a couple of questions and the guy behind the counter barely grunted one or two syllables in return, totally blew me off. And this was after they ignored me walking around the store for five minutes. Maybe they were distracted? This was in the store, btw, not the bar.

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I don't think PB is that much of a novelty either. Chocolate/coffee/vanilla flavors have been generally accepted for beers. PB doesn't seem like much of a stretch from those, and could be a good compliment. It's not like they are trying to make it taste like a doughnut, or smores or something. Anyway, will report back when I actually try it!