so after sipping on different hangar 24 beers heres my opinion
*their sour and orange wit biers suck*they do stouts better*the old 2011 barrel pugachevs are not that great and i prefer the new 2016 one, which was a surprise to me
they have really really sweet tasting stouts (latte one and ...don't remember the other one), which is weird but they seem to do well
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 19 December 2016 19:16 (seven years ago) link
I'm burned out on sours, back to ipas I guess.
― calstars, Monday, 19 December 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
xpost: did you try the maple one?
I think the regular Puga from 2014 was 19+%ABV, glad I opened and shared it with a bunch of people.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, 19 December 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
is that the cobra one? no i didn't
is that one really sweet?
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 19 December 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
ya the latte one was like 18.9? and it was super sweet
wasnt my thing but i can see people digging it
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Monday, 19 December 2016 19:45 (seven years ago) link
Back to the gose. I'll never learn
― calstars, Monday, 19 December 2016 22:31 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/prfl2559/status/813553039806173184
― Jeff, Saturday, 31 December 2016 00:39 (seven years ago) link
Infected?
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Saturday, 31 December 2016 01:15 (seven years ago) link
Rare was never indicated being infected. But it has been popping up like this in Binnys/jewels/even target.
― Jeff, Saturday, 31 December 2016 01:22 (seven years ago) link
The NE IPA craze around here is kind of bananas. Seems like it's a new release every week that people are scrambling to get. Enough to hype to fuel a 43 page BA thread: https://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/chicagoland-ne-ipas-list.445769/
I've had many of them. Many are pretty good, but I'm not going to wait in line or go out of my way for them.
― Jeff, Thursday, 12 January 2017 12:03 (seven years ago) link
Never heard of NE IPA but it sounds right up my alley
― calstars, Thursday, 12 January 2017 13:01 (seven years ago) link
I hadn't either until like 6 months ago! Now it's showing up as it's own section in menus/tap lists.
― Jeff, Thursday, 12 January 2017 13:22 (seven years ago) link
greetings from ground zero.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 January 2017 13:55 (seven years ago) link
wld actually be curious how other parts of the country define neipa and what beers they're looking to as originators.
calstars you're in nyc right? you can just drink singlecut and other half locally.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 January 2017 14:18 (seven years ago) link
"ne ipa" is dumb, i thought new england breweries making these beers were trying to approximate west-coast style ipas to begin with? hazy cloudy IPAs have been around for a while everywhere and i dont see anything that warrants a regionally specific label
― marcos, Thursday, 12 January 2017 14:56 (seven years ago) link
the alchemist is often seen as the originator of this style and the brewmaster there has even called this (or "vermont-style ipa") a silly label for something that is not altogether different from what other IPA brewers have been doing elsewhere
― marcos, Thursday, 12 January 2017 15:02 (seven years ago) link
idk if west coast ipa has been an acceptable thing to say for years that neipa is probably just as acceptable. different hops, different yeast, different flavor profile.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 January 2017 15:10 (seven years ago) link
Destroyer yeah, I've seen other half and singlecut around but I think they make a variety of stuff don't they?
― calstars, Thursday, 12 January 2017 15:30 (seven years ago) link
so those Sierra Nevada Orange Pale Ale and Tropical IPA sound pretty bad huh
Well the Tropical IPA is apparently a tweaked version of one I liked from a Beer Camp pack but still. I guess this is what they need to do to keep up
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 12 January 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link
idk about other half but the singlecut we get here is like 85% ipas and 15% stouts.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 January 2017 15:35 (seven years ago) link
i love a citrus-y IPA, but there's a small brewery here who is selling their NE-style IPA for at least $15 per four pack, fuck that (especially for a 6% beer).
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 12 January 2017 15:51 (seven years ago) link
I have never heard this phrase before now, though I live in the NW. I've also had at least a few beers east of the Rockies that have been described as "west coast" but are way closer to regular pale ales than what I'm used to.
― joygoat, Thursday, 12 January 2017 18:44 (seven years ago) link
i live in the west coast and yes west coast style ipa is a thing but you hardly hear east coast or ne style because theyre not imported here
the popular one from vermont or whatever, i dont recall the name, cannot even be legally brought into california from what ive heard
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link
huh? what kind rule would stop someone from transporting a beer into a state?
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:44 (seven years ago) link
http://www.ncsl.org/research/financial-services-and-commerce/direct-shipment-of-alcohol-state-statutes.aspx
Eight states allow the direct shipment of beer and wine as specified: Delaware, Massachusetts, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont and Virginia. The remaining states only allow direct wine shipments.
it can legally be confiscated. it is rarely enforced so it kind of creates a vague environment where people trade/ship to particular states at their own risk
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 12 January 2017 19:56 (seven years ago) link
oh you're talking about shipping i get it
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 January 2017 21:11 (seven years ago) link
I'm in NE Iowa rn drinking crazy NE IPAs from LA, PDX, NE and Brooklyn.
Everybody's talkin' 'bout a workin' manNobody's talkin' 'bout Rolin' Dany
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 13 January 2017 08:21 (seven years ago) link
this looks gimmicky but i want to try it
http://www.hoofheartedbrewing.com/beers/konkey-dong.html
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link
At least it's not called Donkey Punch
― calstars, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 00:34 (seven years ago) link
Or Donkey Sauce.
― nickn, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 01:07 (seven years ago) link
Both actually good names for bad beers
― calstars, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 01:20 (seven years ago) link
The kind of name you expect from...Hoof Hearted = Who Farted
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 08:59 (seven years ago) link
Donkey Kumquat
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 17 January 2017 09:16 (seven years ago) link
lol i've heard rumors that they're one of the breweries that has used flour to try to make hazy beers
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 17 January 2017 13:52 (seven years ago) link
http://www.eater.com/2017/1/18/14312686/the-rise-of-the-beer-poptimist
i believe laurel was first to this position
― 龜, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 19:59 (seven years ago) link
Having a Peak Organic Pilsner rn and wow this is nice + refreshing.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Saturday, 21 January 2017 22:29 (seven years ago) link
Also, beer poptimism = madness, at least as far as mass-market US 'beer' is concerned.
― My Body's Made of Crushed Little Evening Stars (Sund4r), Saturday, 21 January 2017 22:31 (seven years ago) link
Pilsner definitely underrated in north america
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Saturday, 21 January 2017 22:36 (seven years ago) link
I don't about American mass-market brands in general, but for many types of food, especially spicier ones, a light-bodied, milder beer does pair well. I would definitely rather have a Modelo with Mexican food than an IPA.
― o. nate, Sunday, 22 January 2017 03:19 (seven years ago) link
I'm back into drak shit you guys!!! I had an Atlas Silent Neighbor tonight (http://www.atlasbrewworks.com/beer/pumpernickel-stout/) it was good.
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Sunday, 22 January 2017 03:22 (seven years ago) link
i'm having jackie o's coffee stout right now and it's pretty good
― marcos, Sunday, 22 January 2017 03:26 (seven years ago) link
the only seed of truth in that beer poptimism article is that a lot of craft beers a created w/out a thought for why they should exist or why anyone should drink them
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 22 January 2017 03:26 (seven years ago) link
jfc eater really is terrible
The underlying theoretical arguments of beer poptimism run largely in tandem with its musical counterpart. Much in the way that critic Maura Johnston explained that poptimism is about "understanding that the underlying musical complexities of Britney Spears's 'Toxic' can be as intricate as, say, those lurking within Jellyfish's 'New Mistake,'" a beer poptimist might posit, for instance, that the precise engineering that goes into every can of Coors Light is perhaps as artful as the tang of a prized lambic.
"might posit, for instance"
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Sunday, 22 January 2017 03:56 (seven years ago) link
ffs drink what you like and stfu about it
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Sunday, 22 January 2017 03:59 (seven years ago) link
says guy who has posted 700 times to the beer thread?
I think I know what you meant though
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Sunday, 22 January 2017 04:11 (seven years ago) link
i'm having jackie o's coffee stout right now and it's pretty good― marcos, Saturday, January 21, 2017 7:26 PM (one hour ago)
― marcos, Saturday, January 21, 2017 7:26 PM (one hour ago)
Jackie O's stouts (esp the bourbon barrel aged ones) are pretty low-key slept on.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 22 January 2017 05:08 (seven years ago) link
last jackie o's stout i had was infected :(
they make some great stuff tho
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 22 January 2017 12:42 (seven years ago) link
good lord that was the worst thing I've read about beer in forever
― Johnny Cage - 4'33" Fatality (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 22 January 2017 13:16 (seven years ago) link
Drinking Narragansett just because it's cheapAlso to alternate it with something with more character
― calstars, Sunday, 22 January 2017 19:12 (seven years ago) link
http://www.foodandwine.com/beer/craft-beer/25-most-important-american-craft-beers-ever-brewed
― Jeff, Thursday, 26 January 2017 21:54 (seven years ago) link