Beer in the new era

the wheat ipa is pretty solid, and apocalypse is one of several decent nw ipas that you can find pretty easily. agree that their marketing is weird and that it's a weird choice for acquisition tho

really wish fremont distributed down here

Beer chasing and bourbon chasing finally tipped over to the full time extreme. Not even looking for the hard to get stuff this year, it's too hard to get.

don't forget BEER #2 xxp (it's actually a fairly good CDA)

^ oh yeah! i need to try that one before those a-b bigwigs get their grubby money hands all over it

i'm sitting out on this big second-floor porch outside this old charleston house i'm staying in and drinking that westbrook gose psychgawsple, it's perfect

it's like a nice 70 degrees outside

haha also i love how on the can it says "SOUR SALTY DELICIOUS" almost just as a warning sign. i read it as something like "LET'S BE CLEAR HERE THIS IS A SOUR AND SALTY BEER SO DON'T FUCK WITH THIS IF THAT DOESN'T SOUND GOOD TO YOU"

sounds like a p "charleston" thing to do, crazy that the weather is still so nice. enjoy!

i have both a can of that gose and a can of the av blood orange gose in the fridge, there is no comparison imo. kinda think the av blood orange gose is grose tbh

Again, for those that dig the westbrook gose, evil twin has that beer that westbrook brews that I mentioned upthread that is very similar

Speaking locally here but a brewery opened two blocks from me and I've been loving it -- Barley Forge:

http://barleyforge.com

Good selection overall -- fantastic lager, one of the best I've had in a long while, and currently have growlers of the IPA and the coconut-rye stour in the fridge.

See I thought the blood orange and the regular tasted very similar, though it didn't have them side by side

I like the Cascade Gose best out of the American offerings, but it's 3x the price per oz. compared to Anderson Valley and Westbrook so that really doesn't happen very often.

soooo many imperial stouts and barleywines at apex in portland tonight. got to try a deschutes abyss from 2011 and 2012, midnight sun berserker, firestone xv, 2010 old stock, boneyard suge knite, imperial doughnut break, barrel-aged old rasputin, fuuuuck

three- to four-year old barleywine tastes exactly as good as i had always hoped

i am in charleston, SC right now for a conference and last night i had this local sour called westbrook gose, it is that salty-style sour and fuck it was really really good. had the westbrook pale ale too and it was amazing

― marcos, Thursday, November 6, 2014 10:14 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought the gose tasted like battery acid

I tried the AVB blood orange gose, idgi

Anyone in LA this weekend?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B12quYqCUAA6NKC.jpg

^ damn. would be amazing to try fou'foune

xp - not sure if this is true but it reeeeeeally tastes like fruit syrup was added, falls more on the leinenkugels end of the spectrum than the de garde/aged-on-fruit end of the spectrum for me

I'm in LA every weekend, but that's on the wrong side of town for me.

Lots of Backwoods Bastard at the south loop Binnys, Chicagoans! Only 80-some bucks a case.

Am I weird for hating Scotch Ales?

I'm always amused when I read reviews of barrel aged beers, and folks exclaim "this is great, but only if you like bourbon!" or "man, this beer is so hot, the bourbon is overpowering!", each declarations that scan as if the reviewers have never had a sip of bourbon in their life. Even BCBS is about 13-15%abv, which is nothing compared to even weak whiskey.

they've got all these craft beers now. have you seen this? i was in the 7/11 the other day and they had all these "craft beers". wanna know what i think about carft beers?

just my $0.02

i'm not a big scotch ale fan

yeah scotch ales are very rarely my thing either

sometimes I enjoy them, been a while since I had one though. Bad ones are gross and can taste syrupy

don't talk to me about scotch whisky! one time i drank so much scotch whisky, i threw up everywhere!

just my $0.02

Yeah I'm see Backwoods everywhere this year. People I talk to said they got a LOT more than last year. Still I expect it will be gone in a couple of weeks, except for those charging like 18 a 4 pack.

A - poured thick and almost oily. Murky amber with no head even though I poured hard. Thick (like cankle thick) legs...
S - Bourbon. Sweet, syrupy malt behind, but bourbon all up in front
T - Holy... F($*&@^... Crap.... Just yes. Yes to every boozy vibrant bourbony note that sings over the top of a fantastic deep caramel malt backbone like Mark Knopfler's '61 strat over John Illsley's baseline. In just under 6 minutes time I will be putting this on repeat.
M - Thick, rich, just f#*(@($ awesome. Like feltching god

Bourbon County Stout prices:

4-pack BCBS: $26.99
Prop: $26.99
Vanilla Rye: $26.99
Coffee (single bottles) $6.99
Barleywine (single bottles): $6.99

$7 or so for the reg. bottles seems in line, but $27 a bomber? That's pricey.

Yeah those bomber prices are bullshit

Enjoyed the 2xRye from Southern Tier. I'm becoming a big fan of rye in beer. Not nearly as heavy or cloying as one might expect given the high ABV.

xp Gouging getting pretty obv now.

Dunno, if I actually get those prices it seems reasonable. Problem will be the corner stores charging 50, 75, and beyond for the bombers. 30-40 for regular.

I'm going to be in Ohio when it is released, I'm not expecting to get any anyway.

*rural-ass Ohio, that is

I think BCBCS is the real winner here imho

1-month-old Sierra Nevada Celebration ON SALE for $9 per six at my grocery store? Hell yes.

ohh yeah was just looking for that the other day

also why do all the Plaid Pantries in Portland have Ballast Point 6-packs for under $10?

Green Flash acquires Alpine

Wow apparently my local beer store treats me right, celebration 6 packs are $8 and 12s are $12 all day every day.

Chicago sucks that way,

Green Flash acquires Alpine

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that ba thread is very lol

ba in general is pretty lol except when it's so annoying

though i will say i kind of appreciate the reference pages on the site that talk about specific beer styles http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/style/

celebration ale is out!

hey anyone try allagash confluence? it's pretty pricy and i don't like spending a lot of money but i'm headed home to cleveland for the holidays and want to share some interesting stuff w/ my brother. we've both been on a funky/sour kick recently and i don't know if confluence is a sour but i hear it is very funky and delicious

No, but I did have their Coolship Resurgam and it was a fantastic geuze. Would love to see how it performs in a blind taste test with the Belgians.

yeah i haven't had confluence either, but it's probably excellent. 750ml is just a tough format sometimes. anything allagash puts in a corked 375ml should be purchased without questioning.

this is kind of interesting: http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2014/11/14/state-investigating-pay-play-allegations-massachusetts-beer-industry/o4m3VbNmSVw8CdGzVXFoyJ/story.html