Beer in the new era

Barf. Stop putting peppers in beer.

The best bourbon county variant I ever had was Ghost Pepper Bourbon county at the first FOBAB I went to. But in general, I agree with you.

opened my '15 barleywine tonight. awful. down the drain.

now having a 10/12/15 bcbs. not totally gone yet but the off flavors are starting to creep in.

a few weeks ago i drank one that was either from the 10/12 or 10/23 run and it was tasting good. drink 'em now if you have them.

What a disaster.

That blows. I have the last three years of regular and barleywine, was so stoked to complete the sixer this past fall.

I think I'll open my 10/23 this week. Friday is a special enough occasion if nothing else crops up.

Funny enough, GI just revealed that 2016 Prop adjuncts will be maple cacao chipotle... :-/

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, July 18, 2016 10:14 AM (2 days ago)

My bad... that was for Maple Rye. 2016 Prop will be reg BCBS aged in Scotch barrels.

Anyone on here live in PDX?

doing my first beer trade in september

kind of exciting

Had my one BCBS a few days ago, it was on the "bad" list but it tasted fine.

my in-laws came last night. i think i did pretty well tbph

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

I predict you'll love NvUnicorn best. 5 Lizard least.

i'm most excited for NvU and Zombie Dust. i've had neither in the past.

NvU cans almost look too pretty to drink

You should check out the art on this local beaut: http://www.halfacrebeer.com/vallejo-ipa/

Beats the usual bullshit for sure.

Zombie Dust is really good, too, but I think NvU gives more bang for the buck, and it's soon much easier to find. Not that ZD is hard to find, but takes at least a modicum of planning.

In other news, I got my rebate check from Goose Island, so good for them.

glad it was quick. i mailed my rebate form last week.

Still waiting for mine.....

been drinking a lot of omnipollo beers lately, a swedish brewery. favourite new beer in some time.

Went to a Trappist monastery today in Belgium, Orval, and bought a couple of cartons of their beer.

cool!

i quite like the 5lizard and all the other stuff i've had from them

summer for me has been mostly wheat beers, farmhouse ales, light sours. i tried a bunch of stuff from transmitter, they are making some very cool farmhouse ales. they are moderately pricy but i spent about a week in july packing all our stuff for a move so it was a nice reward to have a different transmitter bottle each night. W1 was possibly the best witbier i've ever had. the worst of them was a rye saison, i've never seen a saison that dark, maybe another time of the year it would be very good but on a 90 degree day after packing boxes all day it was pretty gross

i'm feeling like i am losing my taste for IPAs, i've been gradually moving away from them over the past couple years but lately i just don't really enjoy them

I find myself going for regular pale ales where I would have gone for IPAs in the past. Pilsners too.

im a stout and doppelbock guy

quite like wheat beers and dark beers too

so even tho i partake in the whole craft beer scene im the odd one out because everyone loves ipa/dipa

having said that i had pliny the elder for the first time last night and it was pleasant, bottled july 20th, so it tasted pretty fresh

i'll still enjoy an IPA every once in a while but i can't regularly drink them anymore

I tried several pilsners recently and they all tasted poisonous to me. (It's possible, though, that I had a bad selection; it was a variety pack from Oskar Blues)

Re: fresh beer -- it was great to sample the breadth of currently-available Upper Hand beers while visiting family last month, all of which were bottled within two weeks of opening.

I can't imagine IPA not being my favorite style. Followed closely by stout.

I'm no longer intrigued by every new IPA I see, but I still like the style. I do still check out every barrel-aged or sour beer I see (check out = look at the bottle to see if there's anything interesting there, not necessarily buy).

I like IPAs but it's probably something like my 9th fav style. My love of them has probably been hurt by their ubiquity.

still love a good IPA, but stouts have definitely surpassed them for variety & interest in my case.

Whenever I investigate a new brewery, I usually start with their ipa. If they have one.

there are better ipa breweries than there are malt-forward beer makers in the us imho

which is weird because the number one complaint of people who dont like beer is that its too bitter

i always suggest a low ibu or a malt-forward beer and theyre like 'oh this is actually p good!'

I'm in Portland, OR this weekend and this is beer heaven. Outside of Brussels, it's hard to imagine a better beer scene in the world.

I tried several pilsners recently and they all tasted poisonous to me. (It's possible, though, that I had a bad selection; it was a variety pack from Oskar Blues)

― Don't boo, vote (DJP), Friday, August 5, 2016 3:57 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait was this a variety pack of pilsners?

No, there was other stuff in there. None of it was particularly memorable beyond the pilsner, which I REALLY REALLY hated.

Flying Fish Farmhouse Summer Ale is quite nice. I never would have guessed it was 7% wheat without reading the label. Just tastes like a refreshing, balanced summer ale.

Even post refund Goose Island let you keep the bottles of hypothetically infected beer, so today I cracked one open, curious. I'd never had an infected beer before, so was unsure what to look for. It tasted like BCBS, but was I guess ... thinner? And after I looked it up what tastes to expect, yeah, maybe got some hints of cherry or even butter. But while it was a little extra fizzy it wasn't bad, per se. So for the sake of comparison I opened up a bottle that should have been good, and it was better, though not radically so. But it did give me a better base line to establish that the first bottle was indeed a little off. Maybe it was just on its way and not totally there yet?

Which one did you open?

And I still haven't got my refund check yet.....

Regular.

Tonight I'm saying fuckit and opening my remaining stock of BC beers: 2013-2015 of regular and barleywine. I'm going to drink them with some non-super-beer-nerdy friends -- how should I prepare for/explain the inevitable infected bottle(s)?

(Basically I just shoved these bottles in a dark corner of my closet and kept them there; they haven't been in a cellar/basement or fridge.)

BC = british columbia?

was super impressed w/the beers there & in seattle when I was there last month

like most, I totally burnt out on IPAs through 14/15. must be getting old because more often than not I reach for the humble session

Tonight I'm saying fuckit and opening my remaining stock of BC beers: 2013-2015 of regular and barleywine. I'm going to drink them with some non-super-beer-nerdy friends -- how should I prepare for/explain the inevitable infected bottle(s)?

(Basically I just shoved these bottles in a dark corner of my closet and kept them there; they haven't been in a cellar/basement or fridge.)

― I want to change my display name (dan m), Saturday, August 20, 2016 10:20 AM (23 minutes ago)

make sure you start with the 2013s or rather end with the 2015s!!!! Can't stress this enough. Also someone should be brave and test the 2015s before pouring out to the entire group.

Oh yeah, definitely going oldest-newest! Good call about trying the new ones first, although the idea of all of us sharing in the taste of infection simultaneously is funny.

BC = shorthand for "Bourbon County"

You should have someone video tape you tasting the 15s like those jelly belly "bean-boozled" gross or weird tasting challenges.

or malort face