Beer in the new era

hell you could just use refilled bottles! Sheaf Stout in BCBS bottles or some such

It's like a weird combo of obsessive Phish tape traders combined with some sort of shitty wall street bro "fuck you I got mine" mentality.

whoa whoa, let's not get crazy. as a former Phish tape trader, I can say that scene was much more about sharing than these assholes.

yea but they were stingy with their weed and sharing rides imo

lol

So speaking of future shitshows, CBS is coming back in draft?

haha, fair. they were totally obnoxious folks in other ways, sure.

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I want to start a youtube video series where I use super rare beers to boil bratwurst or make beer cheese soup or micheladas just to see people's heads explode.

I really liked this one, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT1nS8LKRak&feature=youtu.be

Ha I missed that but yeah I dig it.

yep this is all pretty shitty behavior but for w/e reason it does not shock or surprise me at all. reminds me a lot of the vinyl bootlegging scene, just blatantly trying to squeeze money out of a small group of enthusiasts at the expense of the artist/label (and of course said enthusiasts).

i'm not saying that this behavior is excusable in any way, but some record dudes are guilty of far more insidious behavior, trust seems to be exploited to a much larger extent when dudes are competing with eachother for gigs or w/e. it's disgusting and has definitely contributed to me valuing just how many people out there do not succumb to this shit and trade/share beer in a trusting and relatively altruistic fashion

just curious tho - bcbs didn't make it to costco or walgreens before ab-inbev bought goose island, right?

I don't think so, but I don't know for certain. All I do know, you guys all must have much more awesome Costcos than my local one, the NEVER get any good beer. They never even carried that Beer Camp thing from this summer.

I don't think so, no. My biggest problem with it is less it being available and more the staff there having no idea what they have, in terms of setting buying limits and whatnot. But speaking of inbev, it does seem they reward top sellers of their regular shit with more of the special shit, which often leads to further shenanigans.

I am NOT a member of Costco, but I have heard of at least a few of them around here getting special beer releases, Firestone Walker, things like that.it's just a matter of these two are having a good beer guy.

cosctos in OR and WA have decent bombers of firestone, stone, deschutes, a few other local things. i also remember getting a 750 ml of rodenbach for $7.50

the feverish compulsive beer chasing of the mules and description of that NH guy are giving me visions of the dwarves from LOTR or something, mobs of stout bearded dudes monomaniacally accumulating and hoarding their treasure

p much otm, met one of those guys over Thanksgiving.

scandal! https://www.facebook.com/TGBREWS/posts/10152677687314735

xxp actual lol

nh dude has an easy to find blog if you want to stare into the abyss.

Anyone had Avery Tweak? Just picked one up. Only 17.81% abv.

beer liqueur!

saw that dogfish head world wide stout on tap somewhere recently too, kinda curious about what 18% abv tastes like

soy sauce

undrinkable imho

I thought 120 minute IPA was pretty drinkable considering it's also 18%

I couldn't even make it through a bottle of the 90-minute, and I like beers up to 10-11% if they're done right (see Ninkasi/Elysian's Hop Squash that's on draft in the PNW right now, 10.3%)

feel like dogfish is not even on my radar anymore, wonder if they are worth revisiting

not in my opinion

I enjoyed beer thousand.

Anyone had Avery Tweak? Just picked one up. Only 17.81% abv.

― Jeff, Wednesday, December 10, 2014 10:42 AM (1 hour ago)

I had it before the Bourbon Barrel variant about a month ago before they changed the name, it was fantastic.

The base beer (Mephistopheles) is ridiculously potent as well.

whoops, disregard the "it before" in the start of that post!

haven't enjoyed anything from dogfish head recently tbh, the flavors either seem to be too sweet (red & white, many of their boozier offerings) or just kinda off-the-mark (punk'n, that apricot one)

10 Barrel/AbInBev backlash begins, at least in the media (and in my wallet):

http://registerguard.com/rg/business/32539723-63/brewery-backlash.html.csp

Seattle goons, there is a new spot opening up on Eastlake next week called "Mammoth" run by the Bitterroot folks from Ballard. Looks pretty great, like a Chuck's Hop Shop with a full food menu.

After drinking a ton of skunked/ancient beers in NJ, I'm taking a break for a while.

So, evil twin has been pretty hit and miss, but at the risk of sounding hyperbolic, the Molotov Lite is the best IIPA I've had in years. It's perfect.

i really enjoyed the molotov lite, but i wouldn't call it one of the best i've had in years. i do prefer it to the other evil twin IPAs i've had tho. some ppl love Falco but Falco didn't bite hard enuff.

other IPAs i have been enjoying lately:
singlecut bon bon TNT 2xIPA (super delicious double IPA with NZ/Aussie hops. -- good on draft, but it's their first bottled effort and it is SO. GOOD.)
assorted Other Half IPAs such as Green Diamonds, "classic" IPA and Hop Showers
two roads "road to ruin" double IPA. very drinkable!!
schlafly "T" IPA (enjoy this a lot more than last year for some reason, can't explain why.)

also i could care less about getting rare beer; i don't have enough money to hoard beer. i drink it. i have a BCB barley wine from last year in the fridge still. i'll drink that some night and probably regret it instantly. those beers are just tooooo much for me, most of the time.

It takes years of practice, but everyone keep at it and you'll be downing high ABV bombers like its nothing.

i drank a bottle of last year's BCB barley wine just a couple of days ago and it was fucking phenomenal btw. not as overbearing as you might think.

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I was able to find two loosies of Firestone Walker Velvet Mocha Merlin stout brewed with Intelligentsia coffee today, it is supposedly only available bundled in a 4 pack of FW shelf stuff.

sixpoint bengali is a boring as shit IPA. probably the longest a six-pack was hanging out in my fridge, finally drank the last one tonight

I was at a 99 Cents Only store a few days ago and I was surprised to see they had some Mikkellers on the shelf. Ended up buying 4 bottles at 79 cents each, wondering why it was there. Had one last night, it's single-hop Pale Ale, this particular bottling with Palisades hops. Not especially good, but not dump-in-the-sink level either. I didn't see a date on it, maybe too old, maybe just a misfire from the start.

Also bought a couple Laotian beers in half-liter cans, haven't tried those yet.

sixpoint beers kinda blow

Huh I would sell a finger to get mikkeller for .79 cents a bottle, past date or no. What were the other 3?

sixpoint is pretty consistently disappointing to me. their imperial IPA is fine but there is no reason to buy it when there are just much better beers available.

what kind of 99 cent stores sell beer? insane.

Oh, the Mikkellers were all the same kind, but the text on the bottle indicated that have done this single hop thing with other hops. The store only had the Palisades.

One of the pasadena 99s sells beer and wine ($2.99/bottle for wine, the 99c isn't that strict any more). I bought a Rex Goliath white wine there too, never had it before but I've seen RG reds elsewhere for about $10.

Last time I was home visiting my parents the hippie co-op has a bunch of cheap Mikkeller ales but man they looked ollllld.

Bruery Smoking Wood Bourbon Barrel Aged: said a "hint" of smoke on the description but it was smoker than I hoped. Would have loved it w/o smoke.

Also I finally tired Dino S'mores, which was a hell of a lot better than I expected, got a lot of molasses flavor and only hints of the rest. Would totally have gotten two if I had not been driving.

*smokier xp