Beer in the new era

Can't take the soriachi hops. Too buttery.

that makes me want to try them, duly noted

i'm in bangalore this week and the amount of brewpubs here is crazy. pretty cool beer culture in the works.

a golden opportunity to get india pale ale from the source!

had a v. respectable citra ipa this evening

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2015/02/backlash_to_budweisers_super_b.html#incart_river

The ad seems to have spurred Congress to act more aggressively to provide excise tax relief for small brewers.

Probably not what AB InBev intended.

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.

― call all destroyer, Monday, February 2, 2015 6:44 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol i had some beardo beer guy hammer this point hard at a party i was at over the weekend.

Also the ability to make money selling beer at under a buck a bottle.

i don't agree with the politics of that ad but i thought it was hilarious

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m134/johnjusten/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-02/F1A6D8A8-972C-415B-944A-8C09A6090B98.jpg

Just want to make it clear that I won flight roulette tonight.

Well that wasn't the right picture at all

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Never mind. Fuck u photobucket

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There it is

Can't think of better music to listen to while drinking those.

Recently tasted Bourbon County Proprietor's Reserve is pretty amazing. No wonder that shit gets hoarded and held tight to the chest by traders.

This year's or last?

More prog rock pictures please.

I had Anchor's spring Saison last night. Pretty awful. Belgian yeast flavors do not mesh with the ginger/lemongrass adjuncts and give the whole thing a kind of soapy taste.

This year's or last?

― Jeff, Friday, February 13, 2015 8:38 AM (5 hours ago)

This year's. It was like liquid almond joy/Abuelitas stout.

I tried Anchor's IPA for the first time recently and was not impressed either.

Also had the Bourbon Barrel Aged Stone Arrogant Bastard from the 4-bomber box and liked it quite a bit. I don't recall ever seeing it for sale individually but I'll start looking.

Ha my parents are visiting my sister in San Jose right now and my dad specifically complained about the Anchor IPA that he tried out there. I told him to go get some Russian River products instead.

I killed Xgau with my big fucking adjunct lager:

http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/misc/beer-oui.php

Boulevard "pop up" ipa from kansas city MO is A+ underrated

Light crisp flavorful what i imagine zombie dust is like, but slightly hoppier

That xgau article is fascinating. Wonder what year it's from? A world that no longer exists.

Recently picked up a 6-pack of the Sierra Nevada "Nooner" pilsner-style beer. Actually pretty good for an American take on a pilsner. Very quaffable.

looks like it's from '75 xp.

and the sn pils is quite good, would have been shocked if it was anything else.

True, they rarely disappoint. Also had a Yard's Rye recently which was good. The rye wasn't too overpowering - just one element with a lot of piney hops. A bit more body than the Nooner, but not a heavy beer.

fuck washing a turntable

I don't go out of my way to get beers from Elysian as they usually don't do much for me but they're pretty ubiquitous around here. I saw a six pack of Loser yesterday and started wondering if and when they'll change the labels after the AB buyout:

https://beermenus.s3.amazonaws.com/beer_labels/4935/elysian-loser-pale-ale.png

I booked a trip to visit my sister in San Jose next month, gonna make a the drive to visit Russian River, pretty excited.

My sister sent me this, about her city's best pubs/beer selection:

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2015/feb/17/top-10-craft-beer-pubs-leeds-yorkshire

I find it fascinating what stuff floats overseas, like stuff from Flying Dog, or Ska or even Goose Island that just sort of hangs around here, keeping shelves from falling over.

It's just a question of distribution - most of the beers mentioned on this thread will never appear anywhere in the UK.

xpost I'm familiar with that feeling the other way around (e.g. hearing knowledgeable US beer people talk about Sam Smiths being decent). Just depends on what someone can be arced putting on a boat, I suppose.

That article may describe Leeds's best beer selection, if you like that sort of thing, but it doesn't list any of Leeds's best pubs, except in passing.

(Though I must admit to begin a big fan of Friends of Ham.)

Yeah, I guess I conflate best bars with best beer selection, though of course there is more to draw me into a bar than just beer. Like, um ... darts? Clean bathrooms?

Not knowing much/anything about the British beer scene, I get the impression it's big on ale. But the US has all the weird shit and crazy IPAs and barrel aged stuff. Like, eccentric diversity vs. tradtional quality.

There's a newish brewery in Berkshire called Siren Craft that is notable in the US for doing collaboration brews with Hill Farmstead, Cigar City, Prairie, as well as de Molen, Evil Twin, Mikkeller and To Ol.

Yeah it's not all CAMRA around here.

Saw this today, thought someone here might have opinions on it: http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2015/02/brewery_vivant_fat_pazcki.html

I'm drinking a Lagunitas Hop Stoopid. It's, uh, hoppy.

lol mission accomplished

I wouldn't really say it's like hop stoopid though. I feel like there's a threshold at which increased hoppiness is diminishing in effect. Whatever, four pack of bombers for 17.99 at Costco - this, the Imperial Stout, the Cappuccino Stout and IPA Maximus. Not bad.

Revolution Straightjacket is back in stores, picked up a bottle on Friday to share with a friend and we both agreed we should have gotten two. Shit's delicious.

It'll stick around. Just sits on shelves in many places.

bought some of the grapefruit sculpin the other day. i thought it was......terrible?

Oh man, that's not what I wanted to hear, that's on my next to buy list. I love Ballast Point, love citrusy IPAs, and love grapefruit, so it's hard to believe I'm going to find it terrible but...

i think i am just not in an ipa place right now, i keep getting disappointed by them. i've kind of realized what i am looking for in an ipa and many of the most widely available ipas don't deliver that, sculpin failed for me.

when i pour an ipa into a glass and it is that totally clear amber color i immediately know that it's probably not for me, and by contrast when it's a murky, hazy unfiltered hue like heady topper or green head ipa (a local MA beer) then i get excited. i don't quite know how clarity relates to flavor in ipas but the murkier ones tend to taste more complex and maybe have less of that acidic shriek of many ipas

okay not very surprising at all i don't quite know what i'm talking about re: how beer clarity or filtration relates to flavor, it is much more complex that i had any idea of https://byo.com/hops/item/190-tips-from-the-pros-beer-clarity