Beer in the new era

btw mean to say i'm likin these boston fap plans

yea that'd be pretty cool. i'm in western MA now but will be there in the fall.

actually i've been reading up on the publick house lately and it sounds like, yea, a pretty awesome beer bar. how are the prices? (most beer bars aren't cheap but just wondering)

Bath Ales' barnstormer = also v v v good

xpost - Yeah, it's not that cheap but I think there's a good range price wise. We did notice they had a $45 beer on the menu. Now that had better be one amazing beer.

Boston FAP will happen. Ian def keep us posted and we'll work around when you'll be around.

publick house prices are probably best described as fair. a lot of their domestic drafts are solidly in the $4-5 range. belgian drafts more like $7-9. bottles all over the place. but if you're on a budget you're definitely not shut out from getting something good.

while there is a hint of attitude on the part of their staff and in their general presentation, all in all it is a great place.

i've been into the cans with widgets in them recently. in order of tastiness i've had:
1. Murhpy's
2. Guinness
3. Old Speckled Hen
4. Tetley's

What others are there? I know there's Boddington's.

xpost - also omgthefrites.

beamish maybe? tho i heard it might be discontinued. xp

yeah it is worth mentioning that the food is really good too!

on nitro cans--i'm a huge boddingtons fan but i am the only one i've ever met. also old speckled hen. as for others, beamish stout i've occasionally seen, i belive young's stout is a nitro as well?

according to wiki
Beamish and Crawford
Murphy's
Boddingtons (Pub Ale) (Called "Boddingtons Draught")
Old Speckled Hen
Belhaven
John Smith's (Extra Smooth)
Timmothy N. Throops extra Dark Draught
Kilkenny Draught Irish Beer
Kronenbourg 1664
Young's Double Chocolate Stout
Tetley's English Ale
Worthington Creamflow
Carling Premier
Tennents Velvet
Foster's Lager (In-Can Scuba)
Caffrey's

but Kronenbourg???

that makes no sense yo

btw with my burrito for lunch i am drinking a trougenator doublebock.

how's that working out? i have not found a beer that really complements a burrito.

xp nice. i like having a beer w/ lunch but i work 2pm-10pm so it makes the day kind of drag if i basically start it off w/ a beer. so i pretty much never do it

xp whuutt? i think i have a soft spot for cheap mexican lagers

they do it nicely

any barleywine recommendations? i'm still dreaming about the barleywine from the magnolia in san francisco i had back in february : /

i like mexican lagers just fine but they add nothing to the burrito eating experience imo. they are not a bad match but that's as far as i'll go.

how about american pale ales? probably a little better of a match, tho i'd take either

Bohemia

hmmm american pale ale should be my next burrito's beverage.

Wolaver's stout, and a Stone brew I haven't tried before--"Cali-Beligique IPA." It's good!

It's got a kinda yeasty, floral flavor that is more crisp than to be expected.

i'm a huge boddingtons fan but i am the only one i've ever met.

i like boddington's on draft. it's pretty good in the nitro can too. real smooth, almost creamy. not too flavorful, but nice.

The Dogfish Head Olde School Barleywine is really nice, if you can find it.

I have always been tempted by the Three Floyd's Behemoth, but I have never tried it.

The North Coast Barleywine (I think it is called "Old Stock") is good, but not as good as the DFH.

That being said, Barleywine is not one of my favorite styles.

there are some pretty great american barleywines. victory's 'old horizontal' is pretty outstanding. rogue's 'old crustacean' i remember being pretty good, and stone's old guardian too. pretty sure brooklyn does one, great divide maybe too?

i'm not sure if north coast's old ale is actually a barleywine - 'old ale' might actually be its own separate style? in any case i wasn't too big a fan of it. i think i mentioned it upthread wrt aging beers - it was way too hot drinking it fresh. too boozy. on the bottle itself they even recommend setting it down for a while to mellow out the flavors.

also omar if you like barleywine's you might like scotch ales too. both big, malty upfront, strong ales. oskar blues (the guys who do dale's pale ale and all the canned stuff) do a pretty nice 'scottish-style ale' that's basically a scotch ale that you might be able to find.

If any of you beerophiles find yourself in Denmark, or see it imported, I can't recommend this highly enough, in particular the Hvede brew:
http://www.herslevbryghus.dk/dk/

Floral and hoppy, somewhere between an IPA and a sweet-ish Belgian beer, absolutely fantastic.

that widgeted kronenberg is pretty good!

what's the deal with that? what does it taste like? my best recollection of kronenbourg in bottles is something like heineken but more sugary.

on the barleywine tip, earlier this week i was drinking the UINTA XV Anniversary Barleywine (comes in regular bottles for ease of purchase) and i enjoyed it a lot.

And now for some really shitty beer:

I decided that I needed to see if Mickey's Big Mouths were as foul as I remembered. Spoiler warning: oh, fuck, my head.

http://www.beermenus.com/washington-commons

^^ new bar around the corner from me. Checked it out last night & mentioned it on the brooklyn bars thread. yesterday I had an old speckled hen & a barleyine (sly fox) that is not on the menu linked above. Any suggestions? There are a bunch of things I haven't had here. Tried a sip of a friend's Righteous Rye Ale, and thought it was pretty good but didn't get much of a real impression beyond that. kinda boozy, as was the barleywine.

KWAK

Went to the Two Brothers brewery on Saturday. Nothing I drank matched my love for Cane and Ebel, but the Ebel's Weiss was surprisingly good (I know I've had it in bottles before, maybe on tap made a difference) and the Northwind Imperial Stout was decent, too.

that green flash is pretty good, ian. never had it on tap

xp Also, apparently they have won a bunch of awards for their Dog Days Dortmunder Lager, but I found it pretty unremarkable.

A friend and I made beer last weekend - he had equipment and hadn't done it in years, I'd never done it before. Last night we siphoned it out of the carboy into a plastic bucket for dry-hopping purposes and damn if it doesn't actually taste pretty good.

Mr Q: I like the green flash, IIRC the outdoor bar near franklin has it.

Was thinking of trying the Kwak, but I am not the hugest fan of beglian beers.

think i will try the arcadia london porter.

jaymc: cane and ebel is their best beer in my opinion, but I like their bare tree weiss wine too, which is supposedly some sort of hybrid barleywine / weiss beer. All of (both, i guess) their lagers are very unimpressive, but I really don't care because I like ales much more in general.

i really liked the o'haras tonight at franklin park. better than the six point ipa i had. liked the porter @ washington park a lot. drinking hen's tooth at home now. ugh, beer.

washington COMMONS, franklin PARK. bars around here need to get more creative with their names.
i was talking to the woman opening ANOTHER bar on washington yesterday, and i suggested she name her bar "jazz cigarettes."

had the Ondineke Oilsjtersen Tripel in a bottle tonight. Man, what a good effin' tripel.

Have a growler of this:
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/10607/23453

I've really been enjoying the Rogue Brutal Bitter recently. Very pleasant and refreshing. Also, Delirium Tremens is nice for a fruity, spicy strong Belgian ale.

i'm going to this on saturday:

http://www.lacabal.org/

yea tremens is pretty amazing. sooo expensive though, tho i guess not too bad compared to bottle of wine. i should get it more often. has anyone brought that up here at all? like how even pretty expensive beers are a good value for the quality of product ur getting compared w/ a similarly priced wine?

my friend and i bottled the homebrew i mentioned way upthread - sampled a little before bottling and it's awesome! (tho it was pre-carbonation - will be even better in 2 weeks)

i brought over a few different beers to drink w/ him while we were bottling. went 0-3 though, all misses:

1. dogfish head midas touch - did not dig at all. just kind of tasted like a crappy gold lager mixed w/ crappy white wine.

2. DFH aprihop - LOVED this on draft, kind of terrible in a bottle. i don't know if i've ever had a beer that varied that much between draft and bottle. maybe the keg was fresher? tho i also heard last year's batch was far better. but anyways the bottle was gross. wayyy too heavy upfront for whatever fruity character was supposed to brought by the apricots. not good guys

3. sierra nevada wheat - should say first that i'm pretty much a fan of any beer SN puts out. the pale ale imo is basically the standard for me wrt american pale ales, it's pretty much perfect, and everything else i've tried from them - stout, extra IPA, porter, summer, celebration, etc. has always been excellent. but this was just bad. totally lacked the smoothness of a classic wheat like say, franziskaner or hoegaarden or whatever, almost tangy. i was wondering if it was skunked or something b/c we could barely finish these.

hey just in case anyone gets the urge to try the new belgium tripple "belgian style ale", dont do it. this might be the worst garbage ive had in years - tastes like a chemical dump.