Beer in the new era

will be in Denver for a week, anything cool coming out of CO at the moment?

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crooked stave best brewery on earth

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will be in Denver for a week, anything cool coming out of CO at the moment?

― List of people who are ready for woe and how we know this (seandalai), Thursday, May 28, 2015 11:28 AM (1 hour ago)

Crooked Stave is in Denver proper but do not overlook Avery (Boulder) nor Casey Brewing & Blending (Glenwood Springs).

trinity is p amazing, out of CO

just wanna take a moment to big up Elysian's "Dayglo" IPA, giving me very pliny vibes. but a bit mellower and more grapefruity.

tried the terry riley beer and it was great! lighter than i expected, more peach puree flavor than fresh peach but it worked

perennial hopfentea is a nice summery sour too, wish it was canned or cheaper. nice fruity herbal tea notes as-advertised, have yet to be disappointed by anything from this brewery

oh and i liked the kirsch gose too actually, tho it's almost on the level of lindemans framboise in terms of the sweet-sour balance. like a sessionable kriek i guess?

went to Crooked Stave on mordy's advice and had a good time - the Surette Reserva Cassis was kind of mind-blowing

cool location too right?

Pretty spot-on critique of Evil Twin's pricing, echoing my own upthread whinings:

http://thefullpint.com/beer-news/caution-brewing-employee-openly-critizies-evil-twin-brewings-pricing/

Sometimes it's more economical to drink their beer at bars (swanky even!) then to purchase it at retail from a liquor store!

will be in Denver for a week, anything cool coming out of CO at the moment?

almost too much to keep up with these days, but yeah crooked stave is great ... great divide is classic (though their beers are probably easier to come by in other parts of the world)... our mutual friend has some good stuff too.

falling rock taphouse in downtown is a pretty amazing beer bar.

If any of you CO dudes can get any of the Fruit Stand or The Cut beers from Casey in Glenwood Springs please please let me know!

Also, does Trinity distro their beer throughout the state? Looking specifically for 7 Day Sour and/or 365 Day Sour.

i don't see trinity too much, but i think it pops up occasionally in my local liquor store.
headed to glenwood springs later this month, doesn't look casey will be open then, though! never had any of their beers... good, i take it?

I've only had a few of their non-fruited saisons and they are fantastic. The Fruit Stand/The Cut brews are hard to track down.

Do they keep odd hours?

yeah website said they only had open hours on the first saturday of the month?
maybe you can get their stuff around town though, i don't know.

Weird, he must be brewing away to keep up with demand.

falling rock taphouse in downtown is a pretty amazing beer bar.

― tylerw, Wednesday, June 10, 2015 9:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes! I was there pretty much every night I was in Denver.

Plenty of Trinity seems to be getting out of CO, seeing it all over NYC and all of the good bottle shops in Portland had a decent selection. Pricing is always terrible though, might be the worst value per oz out there (besides those tiny JW Lees barley wines I suppose)

xp - i try not to go there too much, because i end up spending way too much $$$$

Being in the US is a once-a-year thing for me so I went a bit nuts. Pliny the Elder on tap! I don't even really like IPAs but felt I had to try it anyway. Drank a lot of the Anderson Valley Blood Orange Gose. Obviously local stuff too (Crooked Stave a standout, didn't manage to try any Trinity beers).

So apparently I should try Crooked Stave? I've seen it on shelves, but I've never pulled the trigger. Any particularly great beers that are fairly widely available?

I've only had two, the Surette Provision Saison and the Vieille Artisanal Saison. Both were fantastic.

Also, send me some askance. Otherwise I'm going to forget that you existed.

okay

This thread is long! Anyway, I recently went to this brewery which is like a 5-minute bike ride from my building and enjoyed the Mark II and King Mark:
http://www.forthillbrewery.com/

New England can be weird, but it does seem to have some good beer going on.

yeah the surettes are my favourites xp

Feels like every week Chicago gets both a new brewery and begins distributing some other out of state brewery.

What's new now??

Around the Bend is the latest one I've tried. Both beers were good. They are contract brewing out of the Ale Syndicate space.

Beer in the old era (8/28/2010):

http://web.archive.org/web/20100828090327/http://beeradvocate.com/lists/top

Arrogant Bastard rated higher than St. Lam hahaha.

#21 Masala Mama India Pale Ale
American IPA / 5.90% ABV
Minneapolis Town Hall Brewery A / 4.32 527

what the hell is this?

i'd love to see what the list looked like 10 years ago

Tasted a lot of stuff yesterday, but the best was Assassin by Topping Goliath. Wow! It was amazing.

the preponderance of session ipas now is boring and kind of annoying

like when i want a beer i do not think "yeaaa get me a session ipa!"

aw man I love those :(

all the hops, half the buzz
still haven't found anything to beat Lagunitas Daytime Ale "fractional IPA"

haha sorry sleeve

no problem, you have turned me on to gose so it's all good

also drinking a lot of Worthy's Kolsch

I've been seeing Logsdon Ales around Chicago which is a very welcome arrival. Had a Beer Hates Astronauts from Half Acre the other night, that stuff is as good or better than ZD.

Beer hates astronauts is awesome. Got a bottle of it left, need to drink it soon.

xpost to CAD a week ago: Masala Mama is the house IPA at Town Hall Brewery in Minneapolis. They don't bottle or can, so it's tap or growler only. And it's dang good stuff.

Firestone-Walker's Easy Jack is a pretty good session IPA. I'm getting where I don't like the buzz that comes with 2 or 3 8%-ers.

I love the rise of session IPAs and session beers in general. I only wish there were more of them and they had even lower ABVs. I bought a growler of a DIPA on friday and, while delicious, it was just too much for me.

Like that Smuttynose Hayseed is great, 3.8% and drinkable and flavorful.

hayseed is great

hayseed is a saison though, i think it is more just the lack of imagination that bothers me about session IPAs? maybe more that they are IPAs and not that they are "session" beers? maybe this is really yet again about the dominance of IPAs in the american craft scene, which i thought was waning but seems to have a resurgence now with session ipas

the low abv "session" beers i like are styles that are frequently low-alcohol by nature, e.g. gose or berlinner weisse, and i think it would be cool if more breweries explored styles like that or the "country table beer" like hayseed or mystic's "table saison" instead of creating another ipa. like sculpin for example, their line is like 1) ipa; 2) dipa; 3) grapefruit ipa; 4) session ipa and my reaction to that is like please make other styles, other styles are good!

by "sculpin" i mean ballast point obv

and okay BP does make other styles i see, i am on the east coast though and pretty much only see their 4 ipas

Ballast Point's amber has gotten some love on here iirc