Beer in the new era

Whoa, sorry. Actual size!

The Lagunitas oat pale ale, Equinox, is pretty good.

i kind of want to hate lagunitas based on their loathsome design but their beers are really really good

I don't know if I've ever had an oatmeal pale ale. I gotta get on that.

― Modern French Music from Failure to Boulez (askance johnson), Tuesday, June 30, 2015 7:34 AM (4 hours ago)

Surly Abrasive is fantastic.

al i was thinking of you the other day because we just got a drop of knee deep stuff here. picked up a simtra for me and another to share with a friend who should love it. anything else you recommend from their lineup?

I officially approve of the Lagunitas blood orange pale ale. It's tasty and easy drinkin' for 7.9. That's a hair stronger than Sucks.

re: knee deep: their citra extra pale and breaking bud are good. i thought hoptologist and batch 138 were ok to good. lupulin river is really excellent (it used to be called deep river and was a collaboration with kern river brewing)!

citrusinesis is far better than i expected it to be.

awesome! thanks for the tips

Yep, Lupulin River is the next best to Simtra imho.

i think i might like lupulin river better than simtra, but simtra is great too. just seek out any of their hoppy beers.

paging ian--ran into capts daughter at whole foods today. ilxmail me and we can work on the logistics?

:D mailed u

i always disregard knee deep for some reason, i should rectify this

a few local, non-bottled pales that I have enjoyed are Other Half's Motueka Pale Ale and Greenpoint's Smash Street

i enjoyed motueka, and will check out the greenpoint one if i see it. in terms of local stuff i've had some tasty pales from barrier as well, i dig what they do

i'm not the hugest barrier fan for some reason... maybe i just have not tried the right beers.
i like some of the stuff singlecut does; their sour cherry lager is delicious. and i've liked some of their dbl IPAs.

had a hoppy saison with simcoe and sorachi ace yesterday. the sorachi ace definitely gave a lemon pledge aroma/flavor and had an aftertaste of dill. nasty.

I recently went on a trip and brought along a Lou Pepe Kriek from Cantillon as it is my wife's favorite beer.

Unbeknownst to me, my parents met up with us and they are not big beer drinkers... actually they don't drink much alcohol at all.

After dinner one night we all came back to our room and my wife asked me to open up the LPK which I did and then poured 4 glasses.

I was curious to what my parents would think of this prized world class lambic, a prestigious beer steeped in much Belgian history but relatively unknown in the US outside of obsessive beer nerds.

My mom: "Well, this tastes just like sour cherry pie." She asked for a second pour when finished.
My dad: "Tastes like the cherry fluoride from the dentist office, no thanks." He passed the glass back to us.

LPK is the last cantillion I have left from my trip a couple of years ago. Will be a happy/sad day when I finally drink it.

noob reaction to lambic/geuze is the best

Drinking in Duluth, MN this weekend: Bent Paddle is new since the last time I was here and has raised the bar locally. Fitger's is still solid, they had a Mosaic-only pale ale that was super good and a blueberry/strawberry wheat that I didn't hate, which is saying something. Hoping to hit Thirsty Pagan tonight.

Also New Glarus is selling Berlinner Weisse right now. Since we're actually staying in Superior, WI I'm going to pick some of that up tomorrow. That and some Castle Danger.

dan m, NG is closed tomorrow! But would it be possible to see if they have any "R&D" or Experimental bottles for sale on Sunday?

ISO!

I was planning on just hitting up a beer store, we're about 5 hrs from the actual town of New Glarus. I'll see what I can find, though!

ah nm then...that's brewery only stuff.

Feel like I need to let u guys know that Shute's Bar in Calumet, MI has KBS on draft for $7 per PINT

danger!

xp imaging random locals thinking "christ this tastes like shit, and at seven bucks a glass"

I said the same thing

http://news.firestonebeer.com/

Huh. Don't see why a company should be forced to grow and grow until it can't handle it anymore and must seek outside help. Sometimes I think New Glarus had the right idea. Was it someone here that posted that awesome Paste piece on NG, basically about the company's decision to stick local and aim for quality over quantity?

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/11/new-glarus-brewery-is-hell-bent-on-not-taking-over.html

so who owns Duvel? "family-operated" seems a bit evasive

I think they are their own thing? Anyway, now they own Firestone Walker, Boulevard, Ommegang ... is that it for American craft?

no one's forcing firestone to grow

so who owns Duvel? "family-operated" seems a bit evasive

― sleeve, Thursday, July 16, 2015 9:37 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the moortgat family

Agree/Disagree? A lot of Vermont.

http://www3.forbes.com/lifestyle/the-13-best-craft-beers-in-america/2/

that's an....odd list

like let's throw some really tough to get vt beers at the bottom, put an american-made ubiquitous quad at #3, and then finish back in vt, but with a gose

I guess it's just the favorite beers of some guy from Vermont?

prob

Some guy named Karla.

the idea of anyone making a definitive "best beers in america" or "best beers in the world" type of list is becoming more and more ridiculous

no one's forcing firestone to grow

I just meant the tone of that message. Very "we've been trying to keep up with demand and growth, but we just can't handle it." As if it is not in Firestone's power to control, limit and direct growth. Obviously they can do whatever they want to get as big as they want, whenever they want to.

if this deal gets Firestone Walker in CT then I am all for it

Huh, I had no idea they hadn't attained full shelf saturation yet. Expand away, Firestone!

yeah they've clearly wanted to have national distro for a while now

that "best beer in america" list is fucking weird. i have no doubt those are all good beers but... 10 of the best 13 beers in america are from vermont or maine? one beer from california? gose at number one when the rest of the list is dominated by IPAs?? "highly subjective list of my favorite beers" morelikely. forbes???

oh i came to this thread to thank CALL ALL DESTROYER for the beers! of course i could not hold out and drank one of the captain's daughter this evening. Really nice beer. more bitter than I was expecting, but certainly not too bitter. I've heard a lot about Treehouse so I'm excited to try those too! Might check out the lower ABV one with some dinner.

hey no prob! glad you liked captain's daughter, people are still moaning about batch variation but the one i sent you seems to be solid.

that low-abv treehouse is probably the best beer i've tried this year, like everyone trying to do a <5% "hoppy ale" or "session ipa" would kill to make a beer like it. they've got it again this week and i'm going to make the trip.

hey gang,

i'll shut up abt trading after this but if anyone is interested in a 4-pack of heady topper (aka beer advocate's #1 beer at the moment) in exchange for, like, a 6-pack of your favorite most delicious local pale ale/ipa, let me know, i have a couple extras.

love,

cad

― call all destroyer, Thursday, March 28, 2013 11:20 PM (2 years ago)

CAD, how does one ship heady topper? i visited friends recently and felt bad for drinking too much of theirs, and want to send some back. it's unpasteurized, so doesn't it need to stay cold?

Getting an urge to send someone some beer.

I've been in Chicago for the past couple days and man did it impress / depress me. So much good beer - like most of the standard west coast stuff I take for granted, plus tons of east coast and midwest stuff I never encounter. It's like the ultimate beer nexus.

hey kev, all beers will survive a trip up to room temperature and back, i've stored heady at cellar temp or higher for ~4 weeks or so with minimal ill effect. hop flavors do fade within that timeframe, but imo it happens within tolerable limits for all but advanced-level tasting nerds. the good thing about heady is you know how fresh it is when you buy it (since all retail outlets sell out weekly afaik), so a quick turnaround via fedex means your friends will get their cans within 10-14 days of production and the beer is still going to be reasonably fresh. i'm not like a super-advanced shipper dude but i've sent and received hoppy beers to/from the midwest and west coast and never felt like anything was overly faded (and have never gotten feedback to that effect).