Beer in the new era

It's "The Bomb".

Don't take that on a plane.

Bomb is fantastic. More of a chile/coffee punch than Xocoveza had.

yea xocoveza was very heavy on the vanilla, i wasn't a fan

Very encouraged by finding Dino S'mores in Whole Foods today, the first I have seen it in the wild.

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.

Josh, did you end up going to uppers downers?

Did we talk about paradox brewing yet? Because holy fuck it's the best us sour thing happening right now imo.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My forecast for the new era 4.0: beechwood aged golden suds made the hard way.

Beer nerds mad about the Bud commercial.

However, there is something appealing about beer brewed for drinking.

i understand the positioning but it was soooo on the nose, it was just painful

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 .”

Can't make me feel bad about my dissecting, bud.

Bud paid $2m to talk about craft beer

They should have had a quick cut to the line at Binny's on Black Friday.

Bud paid $2m to talk about craft beer

― dan m, Monday, February 2, 2015 11:35 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

$9 million apparently

if that paste magazine article was right, could've just been rhetorical

no that sounds right i believe it was $4.5M for 30 seconds

bud ad was just reactionary garbage, same as rich politicians bashing effete "latte liberals" in front of working-class audiences

xps even better

And the Elysian thing is full of lols.

Can't make me feel bad about my dissecting, bud.

makes me feel bad about dissecting bcbs!

https://twitter.com/joshbnoel/status/562300101259845632

http://i.imgur.com/f5CZvcW.jpg

O_O

Would buy and try.

lmao

ugh elysian owner fishing for sympathy is pretty fucking rich

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

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!!"

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

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, 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.

I was more offended by the ho-hum "WE'RE TOUGH, THOSE GUYS ARE FRUITS" vibe of it than anything else.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqCGw1vzLak

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

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

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.

and here I thought Paste was just boring music articles for white people in their 30s/40s

btw all those craft beers the moustachioed hipsters are drinking in that bud ad look really good lol

i mean this looks really tasty
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/newsroom/img/mt/2015/02/Screen_Shot_2015_02_02_at_2.48.52_PM/lead.png

If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, drink it down.

So I'm no huge fan of Brooklyn Brewery, but Soriachi Ace showing up in 4 packs of 12 oz bottles is badass.

Can't take the soriachi hops. Too buttery.

that makes me want to try them, duly noted