For me the only To Ol really worth it is the shock series. Nothing else quite lives up to the promise.
― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Sunday, 25 June 2017 19:44 (six years ago) link
To Ol's Sky Mountain Sour (a Buxton collaboration) is one of the best beers I've had all year fyi
― imago, Sunday, 25 June 2017 20:12 (six years ago) link
Owner of this place with all these awesome brews seems to be a millennial douche. Fuck
― calstars, Sunday, 25 June 2017 20:27 (six years ago) link
what's wrong with that
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 25 June 2017 21:50 (six years ago) link
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.
― ian, Sunday, 25 June 2017 23:17 (six years ago) link
got the AV G&T gose, it's delicious. would love to try the blood orange variant.
― calstars, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 00:56 (six years ago) link
I'm mh'ing it this week and crushing tall boys of the dad stuff
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:08 (six years ago) link
bought a 12-pack pbr the other day after doing a bunch of yard work and draining a garden pond
― marcos, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:45 (six years ago) link
for me these days it's all:
1) light sours and saisons2) wheat ales3) domestic swill
― marcos, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 01:47 (six years ago) link
lol I betrayed the cause and drank negronis the past week, but uh forgot the sweet vermouth
― mh, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 02:05 (six years ago) link
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.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 02:37 (six years ago) link
http://draftmag.com/50-best-ipas-america/
Interesting list. Haven't heard of most of them, they don't get distributed here.
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 June 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
From the selection criteria, it seems that most of the breweries self selected to participate, so the tasting was far from comprehensive.
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 June 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
I haven't heard of most either, and I think I've only drank one, the Golden Road Heal the Bay.
Also this may be be the first time I've seen onion/scallion as flavor descriptors.
― nickn, Thursday, 29 June 2017 21:23 (six years ago) link
I bought Fulton 300 today based on this list.
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Thursday, 29 June 2017 23:51 (six years ago) link
Evil Twin A is for Apricot gets an A
― calstars, Friday, 30 June 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
Fulton 300 is solid, and I like it, but that's a weird placement. Also, we should grab a drink some time!
― jjjusten, Monday, 3 July 2017 02:47 (six years ago) link
do any of you know people who are stridently anti-shitbeer, as in if you're drinking something that's not busch or natural light, then fuck you, as an open attitude, like "i only drink shitbeer, fuck that craft shit"?
― Karl Malone, Monday, 3 July 2017 03:09 (six years ago) link
You mean stridently anti-craft beer?
I do know a guy that religiously orders PBR, and complains about hipsters, etc, but I'm not totally sure he'd look down on say, a craft lager.
― nickn, Monday, 3 July 2017 06:37 (six years ago) link
ya it's more an anti hipster thing not anti craft beer
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Monday, 3 July 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
Also, we should grab a drink some time!
I'm up for it! Dunno if I still have your number saved.
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Monday, 3 July 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
I've got a good friend who is not currently a big beer drinker, but when he does drink beer it is always exclusively shitty beer like Coors. I've got a couple of other friends who are always wary of drinking beer at my place because they are afraid I'm going to spring something scary on them with a really high ABV.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 3 July 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
Everyone I know who derides craft beer mainly does it because of price. Which is a fair point tbh.
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Monday, 3 July 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
if you just want to sit around and knock back beers, then craft beer's value proposition sucks -- the ones you can drink all day without getting wasted aren't very numerous because few places stock more than one or two that's below 5%
if you just want to have a tasty beer and don't mind you're getting all your alcohol in half the beers, if not fewer, they're not that expensive
― mh, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 01:45 (six years ago) link
More NE IPA craziness, went out to lunch and drank two beers .... a Van Hazen II and a Fade2Haze. Don't get me wrong, they were delicious, but then names...
― Jeff, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 09:38 (six years ago) link
azimut brasserie in bordeaux make some extremely mediocre IPAs but have somehow knocked it out of the park with their 7% "new england ipa". ridiculously good. new england might want to start working on an appellation system tho. it's not as if massachusetts vineyards get to make "champagne"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 10:41 (six years ago) link
I know certain breweries in Vermont have:
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/life/food/2017/03/17/flattery-foul-play-vermont-beer-pops-up-out-state/99252424/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 12:26 (six years ago) link
http://www.chicagotribune.com/dining/foodfocus/ct-hazy-ipa-craft-beer-food-0705-20170630-story.html
Local beer hype curmudgeon comes around on hazy IPA's.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
Been hearing a lot about Noon Whistle lately. Do they have cans available anywhere, or do you have to go to the brewery or get it on tap somewhere?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:32 (six years ago) link
They have cans, but typically only their milk stout/pale ale/sours (the face smack series). I don't think their gummy series is canned at this time, tap room only.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link
I assume I can get it to go in a growler. Lombard isn't that far away from me.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 5 July 2017 18:41 (six years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/110627652322553/posts/1530351863683451
― Jeff, Friday, 7 July 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
that's... $170?
― Jeff, Friday, 7 July 2017 15:33 (six years ago) link
It's a benefit sale
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 July 2017 15:41 (six years ago) link
Yes, I read the link I posted.
― Jeff, Friday, 7 July 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
ok - so you want to know the conversion from euros to dollars? Sorry idgi
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 July 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
yes! I wasn't sure.
I'm certain they could charge more. $500 a bottle, I'm sure they will go quick.
― Jeff, Friday, 7 July 2017 15:55 (six years ago) link
buddy I'm drinking beer here, not the pope's piss. I'm not paying that many dollars for nearly anything
― mh, Friday, 7 July 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link
yes! I wasn't sure.I'm certain they could charge more. $500 a bottle, I'm sure they will go quick.― Jeff, Friday, July 7, 2017 8:55 AM (one hour ago)
― Jeff, Friday, July 7, 2017 8:55 AM (one hour ago)
Pinot d'Aunis sells for over $1000 on secondary.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 7 July 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
Happy to see one of my local liquor stores carries Noon Whistle, so picked up some pale ale (Cozmo) and ... a red sour? Swanky? They also had a Berliner Weisse (Face Smack?).
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 8 July 2017 12:11 (six years ago) link
bought these:
stillwater cellar doorwestbrook key lime pie goseevil twin nomad weisseavery el gosetwo roads persian lime gosetwo roads / evil twin geyser gosedogfish head sea quench ale
― calstars, Sunday, 9 July 2017 22:06 (six years ago) link
evil twin nomad weisse
found this near undrinkable/hope it's better for you
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Sunday, 9 July 2017 23:35 (six years ago) link
I've been drawn in by the sour beer fad lately. Best I've had is Blue Owl Little Boss sour session wheat. Blue Owl also has a sour cherry stout that sounds intriguing. Not sure if they are available anywhere outside of Austin. Thinking about checking out their brewery some time this summer.
― Moodles, Sunday, 9 July 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
Of that list, I love the Westbrook and the nomader weisse. I also loved the Keyser Gose, but it's really really not for everybody (also, that might be reaaaaaaaly old unless they did another batch).
― jjjusten, Sunday, 9 July 2017 23:56 (six years ago) link
Stillwater's Stateside Saison - in the 16oz cans - is becoming my go-to summer brew.
― o. nate, Monday, 10 July 2017 00:18 (six years ago) link
i want someone to make a cheap mediocre gose in 12 pks that's not otra vez... local brewery here in mpls started making cheap 4 pack tallboys of a sour, seems like a good start
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 10 July 2017 00:26 (six years ago) link
Sixpoint jammmmmmmers
― Treeship, Monday, 10 July 2017 00:28 (six years ago) link
I dont think they come in 12 packs though
― Treeship, Monday, 10 July 2017 00:29 (six years ago) link
we just got sixpoint, will check out
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 10 July 2017 00:38 (six years ago) link
sixpoint is great. i would also recommend sweet action, bengali tiger, and "the crisp"
― Treeship, Monday, 10 July 2017 00:42 (six years ago) link