Beer in the new era

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.

Not that I'm going to have much control over where I go next week, but does anyone recommend anywhere to drink in Nashville? Other than the Flying Saucer, which I'm familiar with from the Houston edition.

I found the Almanac pluot farmer's reserve Albert recommended, will try it soon. Also bought a six-pack of Anderson Valley Gose ("the Kimmie, the Yink, and the Holy Gose Ale" <sigh>). It's pretty damn good, and at $10 for the 6 very well priced. I haven't seen this one anywhere else, so I hope the store continues to stock it. Oh yeah, 4.2% abv, one of their Highway 128 Session Series beers (never heard of that before either).

Jeff, check out a place called 3 Crow in East Nashville

Apex Predator by Off Color is a fantastic summer beer. Many thanks to dan m. for turning me on to this one.

It is really good! I'm glad I sent some around. I've had a few more myself over the course of the summer.

It's been the best off color brew.

i should try that one, off color has been super hit and miss (well honestly, more miss and really really miss) for me

i went to this awesome party yesterday, a really good friend who works at maybe the best liquor store in town is moving to california and he had his fridge stocked with all this good weird shit to fully celebrate at his goodbye party. italian sours, a bunch of bourbon-barrel-aged stouts, heady topper, it was amazing. the sours were the highlight honestly, heady topper was fine but i do feel like that beer's rarity makes it sound like so much more than just a really good double IPA

what store

downtown spirits in davis sq

anyone else been enjoying the Brew Bus Last Stop IPA?
Nice & bitter, not too malty. Good imo.

also enjoying a troeg's 'hop knife' atm. yum.

reviews inspired by this thread:

Steigl Radler: jfc if I wanted to pay $3 for grapefruit soda I'd buy an Izze. Can't taste beer at all, too sweet, thumbs down

McKenzie Brewing Twisted Meniscus IPA: decent, but too much on the malty/barleywine end of the spectrum for me

I have a Ft George/Block 15/Boneyard 3-Way IPA in the fridge for this evening, will report back.

I'll be the first to admit I lack beer tasting finesse, but I just had an Allagash Saison, and I can barely taste how it differs from an Allagash White. What should I be looking/tasting for?

i dunno, but i want to give a shout out to oakham ales in peterborough for supplying a very affordable citra hops ale to waitrose and thereby allowing me to drink it in large quantities

Pro tip to saps like me that live in non-westbrook distro areas - guess who contract brewed the Evil Twin Nomader Weisse?

It is slightly different but 100% just as awesome. Like perfect awesome if you want sour sour gose/berliner weisse.

jjusten i've been meaning to well you we have not had any westbrook gose for like 2 mos. now or more :( very sad. but i've been able to have the anderson valley gose and it is also super delicious.

i think i like allagash white more than the saison? i almost always prefer saisons when i'm looking for a refreshing warm weather beer, but the allagash wasn't my favorite. think i prefer the murky cloudy yeasty saisons to the clear and crisp ones

jjusten i've been meaning to well you we have not had any westbrook gose for like 2 mos. now or more :( very sad. but i've been able to have the anderson valley gose and it is also super delicious.

― ian, Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:18 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I found the Westbrook Gose really a rough experience.

Gose—I think this is the thing, right? Sour beer?—is the only beer I've poured down the sink (other than ones someone has put a cigarette into by accident, or that I've been too shitfaced to drink so have left on the table overnight). It tasted like white wine vinegar, predominately, but with a stale sort of flavour, like when it's raining out and a heavy-smoking alcoholic sits down next to you on the bus.

But nice to see saisons getting some appreciation on this thread.

Gose is a light sour (think Berlinerweisse) generally brewed with salt and coriander as adjuncts. Westbrook/Stillwater Gose Gone Wild is one of the best examples of the style. Almanac's Golden Gate Gose is really solid as well. The Anderson Valley one was pretty awful, at least to my palette. You nailed that weird acrid taste that hits right after the salty/sourness.

Oh yeah the salty, I think I PTSD-blocked that part. Beer should not be salty.

Wha?????

Gose is awesome.