Beer in the new era

yea definitely. same goes for alchemist, which is a great fucking IPA but not miles better than some other widely available ones

heady topper that is

Pliny the Younger is the harder to find one. I had a glass of each last year and neither blew me away, but maybe drinking them more often, in different contexts, would make one appreciate their qualities better.

imo real hard to be blown away by an IPA. Would certainly love it if my local bar was Toronado or Prohibition Pig and I could get one of these regularly, but not really worth seeking out so much as just real good drinkin' beer.

also I chuckled at

do they not have a selection a of great IPAs in Cali?

― virtuoso thigh slapper (Jordan), Friday, January 9, 2015 12:38 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

speaking of West Coast IPA, I bought a 6-pack of the Anderson Valley Hop Ottin' earlier this week. Probably around ten years ago this was my go-to beer. Now it seems really heavy and malty to me, more like Dead Guy and less like the kind of lighter, crisper IPAs that have won me over in recent years (Hop Valley, 10 Barrel (RIP)). I dunno if the recipe changed, or my tastes. More likely the latter.

my neighbor was nice enough to share a bottle of Pliny the Elder last night, my first. it was...fine? like, a really nice & balanced IPA, nothing crazy. i guess i don't understand the hype, do they not have a selection a of great IPAs in Cali?

― virtuoso thigh slapper (Jordan), Friday, January 9, 2015 9:38 AM (7 hours ago)

Hahaha, awesome. That new brew on the block Pliny sure don't taste anything like those good old west coast double IPAs our grandfathers enjoyed.

lol yeah there is some history and context that should be appreciated here.

Does anyone in PDX know if Upright's Fantasia has sold out yet?

I was being facetious dudes, but for real, there are so many great IPAs available now that it seems silly to go to great lengths for one.

And, they're back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JR3TQ0_d70

Getting pretty high concept here.

http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/are-you-beer-snob-1743

I have had a beer in 8 days! If any era.

Of any era.

rip Jeff

Ovalde Farms The Auroch's Horn: Boozy hazy golden sweet bomb.

I hate all the ovalde stuff. It makes me sad, and I've tried hard but yeah just not in any way a beer for me.

My BIL got me 3 bottles for Xmas, this was the first. Ode to a Russian and Brynnldgyryryr's Gift are next.

why isn't narragansett a cultish hipster beer like pabst blue ribbon? it's cheap, it tastes better than pabst, and the can design is more attractive.

I didn't hate the horn but if not in gift form I'd regret spending what I'm guessing it cost. Xp

maybe "hi neighbor!" is too cutesy to have been appropriated, even ironically, back when people were still doing that. xp to my own post/continued monologue

http://www.porchdrinking.com/2015-craft-beer-release-calendars/

Update, haven't had a beer in 10 days. Will it ever stop????

jeff, this is an unexpected development. Who would've thought it would come to this?

Will it ever start? Is this change in habit for a reason? Winter cleanse?

Damn it, where's the Central Waters release list?

I had the Pipeworks Lebowski beer last night. Weird.

For the first time ever, as far as I can tell, the central waters Bourbon Barrel stout was a behind the counter deal at Binny's, rather than just sitting on the shelf for weeks.

That's wild. I could have bought at least two cases of it when I was in MN just before Christmas.

Just taking some time off to get out of the 2 beers a night to relax habit. Will drink again on Friday for this: http://localoptionbier.com/2015/01/09/catalina-wine-mixer-part-1-beer-event-012315-3pm/

Good luck! It's honestly hard for me to determine how much drinking could be a problem, even potentially. I don't drink that much, and it's not in my blood, and I didn't grow up drinking a lot, but I do wonder: one a night? Two a night? Two glasses of wine a night? A beer and then a sip of bourbon several hours later? Other times I wonder, can a beer a night be a problem? Isn't that better than a couple of cookies a night, or at least on par? The fact that you run regularly should more than ameliorate any problems, but then, just because one works to counter bad habits, does that make a habit any less bad? I dunno.

My kids have been trained enough by society that when they see me drinking a beer they sometimes complain that I'm always drinking a beer, without making the distinction that more often than not I'm drinking a beer, over the course of a long time.

CDC says 2 a day max

For men, heavy drinking is typically defined as consuming 15 drinks or more per week.

i have no problem with a beer a night 5-6 nights a week, and then maybe on a weekend having a couple more in a night

Yeah, I don't think I had a huge problem, but there were negatives. 2 beers would be a light buzz (unless it was 2 bourbon county's or 2 whole bombers), so it's not like I'm getting wasted every night. But it does make me feel sloth like, especially when I'm not running as much because of this foot injury I have now. I don't need those calories either or the questionable food choices that the 2 beers would lead to. It does save some money too.

Certainly NOT eliminating it all together, I enjoy beer too much.

I think I have more than 15 drinks a week most weeks. Been drinking more whiskey than beer lately though.

I should pull my data to see exactly how much I was drinking.

OK, since December 2010, I've averaged 13.57 beers a week. If I just look at the last year, 18.3 per week. Last year it was 13.6 a week.

I meant:

2014 - 18.3 a week
2013 - 13.6 a week

there are four drinks in a bottle of whiskey, right

two pints, so four drinks in two bottles.

approx

thanks omar, I am not good with calculations

I was curious about consumption as I do a 1-2 mid/large-sized beer shares a week and last night I tracked how much I consumed (my taster glass had fl oz hashes). The total was 54 fluid ounces of weighted average 6.2% ABV. So that was just shy of a 6 pack of something like Lagunitas IPA or equivalent. It was spread across 9 different beers.

2 a week! I mostly drink alone or with my friends on TV programs.

Shows how good my math is the morning after a share and pre-coffee: 54 fl oz. = 4.5 x 12 oz beers or 75% of a 6-pack.

One interesting phenomenon I've noticed on beernerd social media is people taking immaculately composed pictures of a single beer* with proper glassware (*sometimes those high-teen ABV bombers/750s of adjunct stouts). If anything makes it onto social media in my circles it's like some blurry potato pic of the remnants of a bottle share: http://i.imgur.com/UN2oACF.jpg

I've talked to my doctor about drinking and he seems fine with a beer a day, maybe two on weekends, and I usually stick to that but sometimes it flexes. I don't think it's ever less than a drink a day. He's also of the opinion that having a cigarette once in a while isn't a big deal and is probably better for you than living in a place with shitty air pollution.

I've got a lot of alcoholics and addicts in my family and hearing them talk about drinking makes me feel like I've got absolutely nothing to worry about. I can have a beer, or three, and realize that I've had enough and will feel bad if I have another so I don't. My three-years-sober, regular AA meeting relative just looks at me like I'm crazy when I talk about this as it's something he simply never experienced at all - like why, if you were not unconscious, would you stop drinking unless you ran of out alcohol and were unable to get any more?

Yeah, I'm usually a two-and-done sort of guy, even on weekends. Never more than three drinks when we're grilling with friends or somthing.

apparently we get Ballast Point in WI now, cool.

(in my house it's one beer pretty much every night, two on weekends)

It's mostly a nutrition thing for me rather than thinking I'm going to be come an alcoholic. 18 beers a week at roughly 250 calories each is 4500 calories a week I'm getting from beer. That's like two days of eating worth of calories from beer that I probably don't need, especially when you look at my weight trend.

Yeah, I'm usually a two-and-done sort of guy, even on weekends. Never more than three drinks when we're grilling with friends or somthing.

― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, January 22, 2015 11:00 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea this is me, too.

on new year's eve this year we had some friends over, it was the first "party" we had in a while and there were a bunch of toddlers running around. i went a little crazy and drank FOUR or mayyyybe FIVE beers and after all the friends left at 8pm and i was putting my kid to bed i started getting super nauseous in the rocking chair. as soon as my kid was asleep i immediately threw up in the toilet.

Yeeah, on new year's eve I realized I had had like five beers and a glass of champagne and that is way more than I ever drink. This was over the course of like 7 hours though.

and I am also way more worried about calories/$$$ wrt to beer consumption than I am about becoming an alcoholic or anything