Beer in the new era

I've always professed saison love.

I can't believe anybody could dislike the allagash saison, it's such an awesome beer

I will look for it and try it! I do appreciate good beer of many types. although the belgian yeast is not my fave, I have had farmhouse styles that I really liked

all I want to drink these days is that Fort George oatmeal pale, love it

my wife is exclusively a NW IPA hophead, with the exception of some reds or pales when nothing w/a higher IBU is around

psychgawsple, have you tried Hop Valley's Citrus Mistress?

also w/r/t Hop Valley, I though this was an interesting look into the fucked up and archaic laws around distribution:

http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/31811264-75/bigfoot-hop-valley-beer-contract.html.csp

I keep meaning to pick up one of those oatmeal pales but those words together always cause me some slight cognitive dissonance.

All of a sudden I'm starting to see Breakside around here; none of the sours yet but I've run into the IPA at a couple places.

breakside ipa is really good, i slept on it until recently but it's legit. the pilsner too actually! i think they're starting to can it too?

xps - jfc how the hell can distributors ask for more than a payout of 3.5x yearly profit when a brewery drops a contract? just seems over the top greedy, though i'm sure there is a lot i do not know about beer distribution.

i like citrus mistress a lot... i drank a ton of it earlier in the year, seldom let down by hop valley. i haven't really purchased more than one six pack of anything lately, save for maybe the av gose and four packs of 3-way, but i definitely went through a phase there

speaking of NW IPAs, i have been sampling quite a few lately b/c i was assigned to bring something in that style to a beer and cheese tasting thing. really enjoying barley brown's pallet jack - seems to be poised to be the next rpm? in that it's amazing and not hard to find and exclusively on tap. also stopped along the WA side of the gorge and was able to find a six pack of bale breaker topcutter, super fresh yakima hop goodness in a can - definitely try it if you find it (though i think it's only distributed in WA)

yep Barley Brown is making inroads, I see it around now

also had a good pale from this Veneta (!) nano-brewery that grows all its own hops

http://ploughmonday.com/

the barley browns armored fist is probably the best cda i've ever tasted. i guess it's an imperial cda actually? has a balance of subtle hop flavors that you find in a lot of the top-tier DIPAs, but with a sweet/smoky/high abv character you get from a nice imperial stout or old ale. really incredible stuff, maybe i'll take a trip all the way out to effing baker city someday

plough monday looks awesome... i can't believe how few breweries are growing their own hops.

also really really want to try some neomexicanus or american wild hops after reading that smithsonian article

I see bale breaker a lot, in WA and in Idaho as well.

And of course I hit my beer store today and they're out of the oatmeal pale. But I did pick up a breakside passion fruit sour.

really wanna try more bale breaker beers, i think they could work wonders with a stronger IPA

pasisonfruit sour definitely in the running for summer beer 2k14 for me, ymmv

I am in an airport bar in Seattle and they basically only have Alaskan Brewing beers. I guess that's what I get for going to the Alaskan pub.

how long until we see a 'brown' ipa

i suppose india brown ales are basically that

oats do good in a big IPA, they round out the body a bit and make 'em viscous. Surly Abrasive has a decent amount of oats in the bill if i remember correctly.

also can't wait to drink gallons of Bell's Best Brown this fall

Fort George 3-Way is the beer of the summer for me. Just an unbelievably good IPA; like Boneyard RPM but less boozy and more fruity.

Balebreaker is alright but I'm a little miffed about how old the cans are I find are. Like, you're advertising your product as "FRESH OFF THE FARM" and it's often times a month+ old by the time it hits Seattle. I've had fresh kegs and it's far ahead of the canned offering.

oh man I gotta try that, I think psychgawsple was raving abt it upthread. I don't like their Vortex as much as other NWIPAs/

Apparently it's National IPA Day.

Great Taste of the Midwest is this weekend, wish me luck.

http://greattaste.org/program/

glad to see more love for 3-way! i wouldn't say it's very much like vortex, i like vortex but it is definitely one of those headache-inducing IPAs that i have to be in the right mood/situation to enjoy. describing IPAs kinda sucks because nearly every single damn one - especially the good ones - can be described as citrusy or piney, but 3-way has a really bright and clean fruit/citrus character that reminds me of other nw ipas like rpm or laurelwood but with less malt/other flavors in the way. they have been canning it constantly throughout the summer, like once every 1-2 weeks, and the inventory seems to be turning over enough that you can usually find something that was canned within the last week or so

i will definitely be celebrating national ipa day btw, hopefully with some block 15 sticky hands after work :)

I just had a saison finally and it's gross

Thank You [/Harvey Fierstein voice]

O-O

Stiegl
Radler

*fuck*
*yes*

Seriously, I love that beer

me2

my favorite radler is mixing half weinhenstephaner original and half sprite, that is good shit

sleeve - i finally got around to getting a 4-pack of the ft george oatmeal pale ale and damn! probably my favorite easily-available pale at the moment, and i definitely like it better than the harder-to-find pales from barley browns and boneyard that i've tried recently

yumm

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/12/meet-the-beer-bottle-dictator.html

i saw that the other day. super weird.

breweries put such stupid shit on their bottles, if the only real limitation is that labels can't be perceieved as misleading the consumer it's hard for me to think of the guy as a 'dictator'

Founders Dissenterr: a double ipa made with lager yeast, afaict.

On extra r thurr

I guess I can detect the lighter body and crispness of a lager now that I think about it

Dude I know luggaged a bunch of cans of westbrook gose back from CA. So so good.

any untappd fans here?

Victory Prima is good

Yeah a bunch of ppl are on untappd - I'm seandalai

probably easier just to post yr username and let everyone else add u

im osamabindrinkin but I dont really use it properly hehe

yeah my untapped is my gov't name but i don't mind adding ppl if i know yr name

my untappd name is "jeff"

Wtf iz untappd

An app for logging every time you see a baby in a bar.

lol

oooooh zing

i pretty much drink a growler or two of beer from other half every weekend now.
i would be on un untappd, but i'm kinda scared of apps. the only app i ever downloaded was words with friends and i didn't really ever play it except with one or two people.

drinking the various variations of singlecut's 'kim' sour lager -- very very good. sour cherry & hibiscus both very good.

I am on untapped and I assume my name there is jjjusten but if that dude looks like he has shit taste it must be someone else

untappd is great, ian!

i am way into untappd. i go as psychgawsple, p sure there are no other psychgawsples

Here's a link for anyone that doesn't want to search for "jeff" https://untappd.com/user/jeff

Add me. I love friends. Friends love me.