Surprised to see that the Old Stock Cellar Reserve Ale does not seem to be flying off the shelves.this year is back in bourbon barrels, & I have heard great things. At least of previous iterations.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 January 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link
xp - apparently sucaba doesn't have as much of a following as their other limited stuff? i see it on shelves all the time, the guy at the brewery was saying that it's one of the least popular. it's delicious, i feel like people might just not comprehend that abacus and sucaba are the same thing?
Sucaba is one of my favorite beers! And FW vintage beers are a non-entity in my town, sadly. Sitting on a 2014, some day I'll decide is special enough to warrant opening it...
― franklin, Thursday, 22 January 2015 20:40 (nine years ago) link
can anyone say why clarity in beer is a desirable feature? most of the beers i've been enjoying lately are murky and hazy, and some styles are by their nature pretty cloudy too so i can't quite understand why there is so much talk about clarity being such a good thing in beer
― marcos, Friday, 23 January 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
because some people just have a bunch of shit floating in their beer`
― mh, Friday, 23 January 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
has anybody tried this. gonna grab some on tap after work todayhttp://brewtallyinsane.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/DSC_0642-e1391277967934.jpg
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 23 January 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
haven't tried it, no, that's the same combination of ingredients in the stone xocoveza stout iirc
― marcos, Friday, 23 January 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
It's "The Bomb".
― Jeff, Friday, 23 January 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
Don't take that on a plane.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 January 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
Bomb is fantastic. More of a chile/coffee punch than Xocoveza had.
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Friday, 23 January 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
yea xocoveza was very heavy on the vanilla, i wasn't a fan
― marcos, Friday, 23 January 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
Very encouraged by finding Dino S'mores in Whole Foods today, the first I have seen it in the wild.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:30 (nine years ago) link
I've looked down on He'Brew beers before, but I had Death of a Contract Brewer black IPA tonight without knowing it was their beer, and man it's delicious.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Monday, 26 January 2015 03:24 (nine years ago) link
Josh, did you end up going to uppers downers?
― Jeff, Monday, 26 January 2015 03:29 (nine years ago) link
Did we talk about paradox brewing yet? Because holy fuck it's the best us sour thing happening right now imo.
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Monday, 26 January 2015 03:45 (nine years ago) link
xpost No, though I totally should have shot you a line. Even though it was sold out, my man on the inside offered to let me buy a pair of tix, but he told me so last minute that I really flubbed tracking down anyone free, willing to go, equally into beer and coffee, and willing to shell out $55.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 26 January 2015 04:03 (nine years ago) link
From pics, looked like a cool event. Much bigger than I thought it would be. Usually GBH's things are a smaller scale.
I have to say that the CBS on Friday was a little disappointing. Probably set myself up for disappointment though. Was at the bar 3 hours before it was tapped, so had backyard rye, FSW 18, and great divide American sour, so I was pretty drunk already. And it came out really cold, but I was too busy drinking everything to let it warm up. Drinking got in the way of me enjoying beer.
― Jeff, Monday, 26 January 2015 04:45 (nine years ago) link
CBS is just an on-tap whackamole, right? I think they had it at Hopleaf last night.
Man, I can't get a grip on Pipeworks. So they basically flood the shelves with all sorts of one-offs and experiments and regulars, and we're supposed to ... drink them all and find the gems in the mountain? Eh. Anyway, I bought a bottle of the BA Revival, of which I have heard good things, though tbh I'm not sure I know what a "wheat wine" is.
Heard the Uppers & Downers thing was just OK. Not a lot of exclusives, for whatever that's worth, though Goose Island apparently had plenty of BCS coffee on offer.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 14:24 (nine years ago) link
Supposedly there were 20 sixtels of CBS that hit the Chicago area. The tappings have been pretty much staggered over the next couple of months.
Pipeworks Guide: Any thing they put in a barrel is pretty good to phenomenal. The IPA's can be very good, especially Square Grouper and its variants. Fresh Ninja vs. Unicorn is fantastic. The single hop ninja beers vary in quality, but I particularly like the Amarillo and the Mosaic. Some people really like the Abduction series, but I've had some meh ones so I typically don't try new ones. Everything else, buyer beware.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 16:09 (nine years ago) link
Re: the faked beer trade BA thread from a while back http://m.soundcloud.com/strangebrews/58-the-case-of-the-counterfeit-beer
Also Arcadia Shipwreck BBA porter: super boozy smelling but sort of mild in flavor comparatively IMO. Good, though.
― #defecategate (dan m), Sunday, 1 February 2015 02:11 (nine years ago) link
My forecast for the new era 4.0: beechwood aged golden suds made the hard way.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 2 February 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link
Beer nerds mad about the Bud commercial.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
However, there is something appealing about beer brewed for drinking.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
i understand the positioning but it was soooo on the nose, it was just painful
― call all destroyer, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/02/valuable-lessons-i-learned-from-budweisers-hypocri.html
Only losers drink pumpkin peach ale. Everyone knows this. Except, wait, what’s that? Elysian Brewing, the Seattle brewery that Anheuser just purchased last week, makes a … yes … pumpkin peach ale. It’s called “Gourdia on My Mind .”
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link
Can't make me feel bad about my dissecting, bud.
― Jeff, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
Bud paid $2m to talk about craft beer
― dan m, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link
They should have had a quick cut to the line at Binny's on Black Friday.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 2 February 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
― dan m, Monday, February 2, 2015 11:35 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
$9 million apparently
― marcos, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:53 (nine years ago) link
if that paste magazine article was right, could've just been rhetorical
― marcos, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
no that sounds right i believe it was $4.5M for 30 seconds
― call all destroyer, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:55 (nine years ago) link
bud ad was just reactionary garbage, same as rich politicians bashing effete "latte liberals" in front of working-class audiences
― marcos, Monday, 2 February 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
xps even better
― dan m, Monday, 2 February 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
And the Elysian thing is full of lols.
makes me feel bad about dissecting bcbs!
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Monday, 2 February 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/joshbnoel/status/562300101259845632
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 February 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/f5CZvcW.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 2 February 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
O_O
― Mordy, Monday, 2 February 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
Would buy and try.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 February 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
lmao
― call all destroyer, Monday, 2 February 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
ugh elysian owner fishing for sympathy is pretty fucking rich
― hug niceman (psychgawsple), Monday, 2 February 2015 18:11 (nine years ago) link
thats a cute shop but the reality is so much more hilarious:
http://jacksonville.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/premium_415_wide_scale/photos/blogs/117/Gourdgia.jpg
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Monday, 2 February 2015 18:28 (nine years ago) link
The gossip is that Dick Cantwells investors made the deal from under him and he was pretty sour on the whole AB/Inbev thing.
The Budweiser commercial was stupid, and I was more offended by the ho-hum "WE'RE TOUGH, THOSE GUYS ARE FRUITS" vibe of it than anything else. Not to mention the hypocritical BEECHWOOD AGED!! boostering when the whole commercial was a hit piece on putting effort into your product.
Which raises a question; why are craft beer guys so quick to jump to the defense of macro brews? Any time someone says anything sour on High Life, Budweiser, etc there's fifty dweebs hollering "But Sean from Hill Farmstead loves Budweiser!!"
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Monday, 2 February 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
I was more offended by the ho-hum "WE'RE TOUGH, THOSE GUYS ARE FRUITS" vibe of it than anything else.
oh yea definitely, typical "marketing of masculinity" bullshit
― marcos, Monday, 2 February 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
― Tomás Piñon (Ryan), Monday, February 2, 2015 1:35 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
at least as far as brewers go i think they appreciate the batch consistency and quality control.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 2 February 2015 18:44 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, seriously, fuck these craft beer fruits, we are macho men who drink beer that tastes like beer!
Psst...
http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/stltoday.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/3/4a/34ac8d01-7652-5a3a-9017-9b20db2021fe/522fbfa8d5a2c.preview-620.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 February 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqCGw1vzLak
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 February 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link
imo it's a win-win, they sell more budweiser, the people who were going to drink craft beer will do it anyway no matter what budweiser says, and the people who go out to buy craft beer w/fruit to spite budweiser are going to buy other inbev products not realizing they're supporting the same company
― mh, Monday, 2 February 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link
the end goal isn't to get people to stop buying beer that's not bud, it's to get people to buy more beer in total, of which they own a lot of breweries
― mh, Monday, 2 February 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
Bunch wrong or weirdly missing from this:
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/02/23-of-the-best-barrel-aged-imperial-stouts-ranked.html?a=1
For example, the year of each expression tested is MIA. Then why include some admittedly shitty beers at the expense of some great beers? They say they're not inclusive, which is fine, but if they're going to include such (relatively) hard to get beers as BCS or KBS or whatever, then you have no excuse not to include Parabola or some other A+ BA beer. Or the at best surely misleading claims some of these bottles make to having been aged in Pappy Van Winkle barrels. And then there is my personal beef, when someone compares drinking a BA stout to drinking straight bourbon, which is so fucking inaccurate it's ridiculous.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 2 February 2015 22:40 (nine years ago) link
and here I thought Paste was just boring music articles for white people in their 30s/40s
― mh, Monday, 2 February 2015 23:06 (nine years ago) link