Beer in the new era

sixpoint is my standard grocery store buy, mostly resin and some of the seasonal varieties

http://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/drink/beer/ct-bourbon-county-beer-lineup-2017-goose-island-20170609-story.html

Bourbon County Brand Stout
Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout
Bourbon County Brand Barleywine
Bourbon County Brand Northwoods Stout (flavors of blueberry and almond)
Proprietor’s Bourbon County Brand Stout (flavors evoking bananas Foster)
Bourbon County Reserve Brand Barleywine (aged two years)
Bourbon County Reserve Brand Stout (aged in 11-year-old Knob Creek bourbon barrels)

Wow okay then

I had some of Singlecut's Weird & Gilly this weekend. It was incredibly good, almost worth the price even.

Lol northwoods almonds

Never heard of the beer or the brewery but I would totally buy a beer named Weird & Gilly without a second thought.

Tried two news ones tonight, Anderson valley briney melon gose and revolution rosa. The gose was very tart and right up my alley. Rosa was rather bland.
Been trying to figure out how to explain sours to non-beer drinkers and maybe it's like a cider but sour instead of sweet.
I would upload pics of the cans but shit, I can't be bothered with image uploading. Wish we had that on ilx.

Rosa is totally boring.

I've been loving exploring new beers lately -- I moved to the Twin Cities a few weeks ago. Insight is probably my favorite new-to-me one of the locals thus far, and it's cool to have access to stuff like Toppling Goliath and Prairie that you can't get in Chicago.

The unfiltered Stone "sell by 7/4/17" is the fucking bomb

dan, check out Forager (down in Rochester) and soon-to-be-opening Barrel Theory in St. Paul!

...also Pulpit Rock (also in Decorah, started by ex-TG guys).

Tried two news ones tonight, Anderson valley briney melon gose

Tried their G&T gose today and liked it, but I can't perceive any difference from their Holy Gose. The name led me to believe it would be a kind of gin & tonic style but I don't taste any juniper. I like the Holy Gose and this one, though at $11.50 per 6-pack it'll be an occasional buy.

I like the briney melon too.

Ranking AV Goses: Blood orange > regular > G&T > briney melon

Dan, you can get TG and Prairie in Chicago. Well with TG, you can get Pseudo Sue, that's all that has hit the market I believe.

Celebrated the solstice with Jester King's Dichotomous sour, replete with lavender, kumquats, spearmint...actually a really lovely, fresh sour, quite understated but perfect for a warm summer dusk. Will certainly check out other beers by them

Or at least, whatever makes it here

kind of surprised toppling goliath isn't around chicago much yet. since they started contracting out some brewing, I've seen at least one variety in cans at costco

i'm definitely in TG central, though

It is, we get pseudo sue. It is the contract brewed though.

Need some Assassin though, send asap.

I don't think I ever saw Prairie that wasn't brought by people who had traveled out of state, and I'm sure I never saw Pseudo Sue, which is weird because of its association with the Field Museum. Then again, for the last three years I basically only went to two stores.

wheat beers have gotten way better in the states, either that or i just started seeking more of them out

I think PseudoSue and Dorothy's are the only two they've really ramped up on, but I've seen a few others in the grocery store.

The contract brewed TG cans from Florida are garbage imho compared to the the Decorah bombers.

so damn hot lately been enjoying the random sour. had a mraz (sacramento area) 3 berry sour other day that kicked ass. beautiful color, sort of like having a sour smoothie it was so fruit forward. last night had a modern times tropical sour that was really nice (def. got some passionfruit, thought maybe there was guava and mango in the mix too?) but didn't blow me away like the 3 berry one did
also had a sierra nevada BFD (beer for drinking), a 7% dry hopped golden ale that was lovely. the dry hop really made it noteworthy

The problem with Prairie around here is the $$$. Single bottle often $10+. But still, Bomb, Birthday Bomb, and Pe-Kan are all fantastic.

praire makes such good beer but yea they are pricey

Lol I just remembered, one store I checked out here in Mpls is selling 2013 Backwoods Bastard for $3.99 a bottle. Who knows how well it has been kept but that seems like a worthwhile gamble.

(That said I haven't bought one.)

Sierra Nevada's new Beer Camp box is out, it's a colab with 12 different brewers like they've done before. $24 at Whole Foods and $25 at Bevmo (for shame!).

it's fun as always, idk why the price comes up every year for something that's intended to be a treat.

Tried a couple of new beers this evening which were both good: Fortunate Islands by Modern Times (a hoppy wheat beer) and Gratitude by Kent Falls (a hoppy lager).

KCBC marble of doom
Sour and red

The contract brewed TG cans from Florida are garbage imho compared to the the Decorah bombers.

Coincidentally my new local shop just stocked Double Dry Hop Pseudo Sue, bought the bomber and it rules. Very very good.

Evil twin mission gose. Yes

Evil twin James beer. Better than mission.

Way beer graviola has stuff floating in the bottom of the bottle.

I guess it's cool to try a Brazilian spin on sour but I prefer the American stuff

tfw you know the beer at your local better than the bartenders

Yesterday we had a cookout and I think Narragansett tall boys are going to be my new go-to Saturday beer

At least while it's hot

Okay so has anyone tried this SUB Krups mini-keg system? I guess there is a local outfit who sells local brewery "minis" which work with it. It looks kind of neat.

To OL Got Starstruck - not as sour as i expected. Like a blue moon brewed with some funk. Gose flavor mixed with a pale dry wheat beer.

To OL Sur Galaxy - "sour mashed black IPA" yuck

For me the only To Ol really worth it is the shock series. Nothing else quite lives up to the promise.

To Ol's Sky Mountain Sour (a Buxton collaboration) is one of the best beers I've had all year fyi

Owner of this place with all these awesome brews seems to be a millennial douche. Fuck

what's wrong with that

My fave To Ol has been the Sur Mosaic; delicious. Mr Pink was good too.
My go-to summer sour is Newburgh's Checkpoint Charlie -- perfect tartness level and 3% means i can chug a couple after work and be functional.

got the AV G&T gose, it's delicious. would love to try the blood orange variant.

I'm mh'ing it this week and crushing tall boys of the dad stuff

bought a 12-pack pbr the other day after doing a bunch of yard work and draining a garden pond

for me these days it's all:

1) light sours and saisons
2) wheat ales
3) domestic swill

lol I betrayed the cause and drank negronis the past week, but uh forgot the sweet vermouth

I've been due for a break from IPAs for a while, but lost my taste for sours right around the time they became cool again.

I guess most years I get my fill of cheap sweet lagers on work travel, especially conferences. Maybe I should go out on my porch and do a lightning talk? Or a panel with the potted plants.

http://draftmag.com/50-best-ipas-america/

Interesting list. Haven't heard of most of them, they don't get distributed here.