Beer in the new era

oh cool, i've seen kent falls but haven't had any reason to pick them up yet.

Thought this label was sexy for the new Jester King/Stillwater collab:
http://jesterkingbrewery.com/images/1159.png

Kinda reminds me of:
http://www.sonoloco.com/rev/stockhausen/stockhausenpictures/91ax.jpg

that's cool. i got to visit jester king recently and thought that although their hit rate isn't 100% or anything i really liked their style. i need more weird farmhouse beers with really soft carbonation.

also beautiful location, lovely people, if you're anywhere near austin well worth a visit

Their house culture is fantastic, and their fruited wilds are worth tracking down.

I recently was blown away by this one:
http://jesterkingbrewery.com/introducing-jester-king-biere-de-blanc-du-bois

Only managed to get Provenance over in the UK to date, but loved both fruit versions I tried.

Tried my first Finish-style sahati, by Bare Beer. It was very nice and a welcome change from hoppy beers, but I felt that it could have been better and would like to try better versions of the style if anyone has any recs.

anyone in ny have intel on finback? oscillation 003 cans appeared up here this week and i'm impressed but know nothing about this brewery otherwise.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, February 25, 2016 8:47 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is p close to my hood but I haven't been yet. One of my beer-lovinest friends spoke highly of it.

Had a glass of this year's Pliny the Younger yesterday, quite nice.

Monday tasting:
Fort George black walnut stout, too sweet forme
Block 15 Sticky Hands Tropical Slam, the kind of NW 110 IBU beer ppl joke abt, delicious
Lagunitas Citrusenesis w/ blood orange, very nicely balanced

"for me"

Only sahtis I've ever had were Dogfish and a friend's homebrew.

Ha the plural of sahti is sahdit

Man Alive, did you mean the sahati by Off Color, Bare Bear? http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/31678/159966/

I picked up a six-pack of the Uinta Ready Set Gose last night. It is mostly disgusting.

do you like goses in general DJP?

I have been living for goses for the past 6 months or so; I'm a huge fan of Anderson Valley's regular and blood-orange gose, for example, and the Sierra Nevada Otra Vez.

Ready Set Gose tastes like a mildly sour but otherwise flavorless beer with a salty aftertaste that's drowning in bitter hops. There is absolutely nothing pleasant or enjoyable about the flavor and there sourness isn't strong enough to trigger any type of physical sensation that would make the experience of drinking it interesting.

they had this at my beer shop last week but i couldn't get over there

http://cdn.beeradvocate.com/im/c_beer_image.gif

i mean

http://www.beeroftheday.com/photos/anderson_valley_briney_melon_gose-1684_0.jpg

WANT

drooool

yup

Ready Set Gose tastes like a mildly sour but otherwise flavorless beer with a salty aftertaste that's drowning in bitter hops. There is absolutely nothing pleasant or enjoyable about the flavor and there sourness isn't strong enough to trigger any type of physical sensation that would make the experience of drinking it interesting.

― i like to trump and i am crazy (DJP), Tuesday, March 8, 2016 2:59 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok yea this sounds v bad

There is absolutely nothing pleasant or enjoyable about the flavor

I've had one of these in my fridge for a couple of weeks now and kind of can't wait to try it now. I really like the Anderson Valley ones but didn't really love Otra Vez that much.

grimm is consistently brewing the best goses and sour wild ales ive had recently, those folks are awesome

anyone tried any beers from Forbidden Root? went to a restaurant in Chicago over the summer and had some, it was vv enjoyable. they just opened a brewpub in Ukrainian Village as well.

http://forbiddenroot.com

I've long found their name problematic, given the prevelance of so many "hard" root beers these days.

Haven't had anything I've liked from them. I'm sure it's fine, but what their doing just doesn't hit my tastebuds right. I don't like beers that are overly flowery/spicy/herby, whatever botanicals they are adding.

I've been meaning to try that AV melon gose but the memory of a 21st Amendment watermelon beer has soured me (ha ha) on anything like that. I do like the AV goses so I'm sure I'll try it eventually.

The 21st amendment hell or high watermelon is possibly the worst beer I've ever had, so I wouldn't use it to judge anything really.

It took me years before I tried any of their other beers. Finally had the black lager (or black IPA?), which was OK.

enthusiasm itt sold me on it and i went over to the shop and picked up a six pack of the briney melon. will report back.

oooh

Ready Set Gose tastes like a mildly sour but otherwise flavorless beer with a salty aftertaste that's drowning in bitter hops.

This sounds like an Elysian sour I had on tap earlier this week (can't remember the name), similarly mild and bland.

Had a beer that blew my mind not too long ago:

Barrel-aged Hazelnut by Cycle Brewing (St. Petersburg, FL)

http://i.imgur.com/qMvY8dY.jpg

which is their Rare DOS imperial stout aged in bourbon barrels with hazelnuts, sea salt & cacao nibs.

Normally I'm not the biggest fan of adjunct stouts but this was extremely well crafted, it tasted like ferrero rocher soaked in a soft wheated bourbon.

drinking an Orval, this is the best beer pretty much. you americans and your lack of being near belgium! you're missing out!

We get Orval here, one of my favorite Belgians. I wonder what the price difference is re UK vs California.

bottle for like $7 (equivalent)

Think it's ~$5-6 here (store, not bar). I was wondering if the UK had any large tax on alcohol like Norway does. I remember seeing Norwegian beer here in LA for less than it cost at a market in Stavanger.

store for me too. think the uk (well, london esp) is just a little more expensive. norway is notoriously expensive.

I live like a block away from a Belgian beer hall that has about 250 different imports on hand. Totally spoiled. Most of the big name Belgians are easy to get here thankfully.

Just killed a 2013 Bourbon County. Jeeeeez.

it tasted like ferrero rocher soaked in a soft wheated bourbon.

damn that sounds sexy

have heard very good things about cycle, i guess i should seek that out

isn't euro orval different than us orval? it is very common here in bottles but i hear it's better on tap / closer to the source

i've only ever had it in bottles, but it is still supreme, like a gueuze fighting a porter and me winning

i think it's just rare to find it less than a year old in the states, which is still quite good

lots of chicago beer is now making it to nyc, which has been great. very impressed by pipeworks so far, close encounters is one of the best black ipas i've ever tried. also lizard king >>>>>>>>>>>>>> daisy cutter

Daisy cutter seems to have changed over the years. Used to be one of my go to's, but now just doesn't hit the spot.

one of the cool new things we're getting in boston is wicked weed from nc, i am really loving their stuff

Wicked Weed has a collaboration with AC/DCs Cliff Williams.

lol my local bodega 50 feet from my door has a vertical of Orval from the past 7 years for $6.99 per. Yes, us poor Americans who drink more Belgian beer than any other country in the world including Belgium.

isn't euro orval different than us orval?

there is an ABV drift in shipment (belgian candi sugar and brettanomyces added in secondary/bottle fermentation) and the monastery got in trouble with USA ABC for their label ABV. Euro Orval states 6.2% but US import states 6.9%.