Beer in the new era

the svelte cans make me feel like it's healthy to drink them

yeah

Picked up some Noon Whistle (locally) and 18th Street (at their Hammond, IN brewery). I'd never been to the latter, looks like a great operation and they were super nice and helpful. Very apologetic that they could not sell me a blueberry gose to go because of some arcane Indiana law that prevents them from allowing a patron to carry out a beer not brewed on premises or something. Anyway, got their Temporal Purgatory APA, Dozer Pils, a bomber of their Spears of Death Russian Imperial, and ... something else. Or yeah, Rise of the Angles Double IPA. I'm excited, and best of all, for once I like the art, I think. As for Noon Whistle, I look forward to a trip to Lombard to see what I can see.

Man, so much good beer popping up and around locally. Even a top notch brewery down the street from me a bit, Kinslahger.

Back in Michigan, there is just SO MUCH BEER here it's insane. I went to a market the other day with just aisles and aisles of hundreds of beers from dozens of breweries I've never even heard of and kind of just got overwhelmed and kind of just shut down mentally, no joke. I felt like I just couldn't process it all.

The number of craft breweries in the US right now is dizzying compared to even five years ago.

xpost Yeah, we were in Michigan for the day, and while I briefly thought about beer hunting I realized the choices were probably overwhelming. 18th Street was an impulse on the way home, though it does look like their stuff is getting distributed in Chicago these days.

The westbrook key lime pie gose is quite funky, very sour and delicious

Saltwater notes

i just barfed up my key lime sour gose.. think the extra stomach fermentation might give it that unique tang i'm looking for

^^^Lots of quick-sour gose and berliners register very high on the butryic acid flavors for my tastes.

Butyric acid is present in, and is the main distinctive smell of, human vomit.[10]

My sister used to (may still) hate sourdough bread for that reason.

Certain people are more sensitive to it than others, but it's only present for me in some goses and berliners... I've never tasted it in lambic, flanders reds, tart saisons or any other sour beers.

avery el gose is pretty weak . could almost be a lager. nothing distinguishing

the nomad weisse felt like the base of some of the other, more adventurous evil twin stuff, like james beer and mission gose.

two roads persian lime 16 oz can is a little funky than the key lime gose, a little sweetness there instead.

* A LITTLE LESS FUNKY

I guess they made another batch of the geyser gose, mine was packaged last month

I wonder how they source the Icelandic moss and kelp

Destihl syncho is : )

Like aunt Sally on steroids

I'm not crazy about sixpoint overall but sweet action is fantastic.

Global tetrahedron, is the tallboy sour you're talking about the Fulton one?

went to a "founders tap take over" at a local spot. had all of the barrel aged series on tap + some lizard of koz. talked to the local founders guy, and it sounds like a wide release of Canadian Breakfast Stout may be coming. or he just meant that he'd get a keg out here at some point.

Been going through a pile of 18th Street and Noon Whistle lately, great stuff from both (all styles). Trends of note: guava, also tasty sessions beers from breweries perhaps better known for selling stronger stuff, the latter a newer development. Thinking Half Acre's Tuna, Pipeworks' Mango Guppy, Noon Whistle's stuff ...

Noon Whistle Gummy Banter made it cans/distro. First if their NEIPA's that has. It was good.

Yeah, it was good. I went to the brewery the other day hoping to get a crowler of Squishy Gummy, but they weren't making it available for carry out. Fortunately it seems to be on tap here and there, so here and there it shall be when I want to try it.

Global tetrahedron, is the tallboy sour you're talking about the Fulton one?
― jjjusten, Friday, July 21, 2017 12:04 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya, haven't had yet, any good? fulton has gotten a lot better lately, all their offerings used to be pretty mediocre

Sixpoint little raspy. Raspberry, sweet, tart. Draft only I think, never seen this one in a can.

Surly Inherent Weiss was one hell of a booze bomb. Not bad but not at all subtle.

from the alchemist. focal banger

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Discovering that I'm really digging Fruit Tart Ales. Not sure how much they differ from sours, but had New Glarus ones that are both raspberry and cherry and were basically like fruit juice that somehow wasn't too sweet or sugary, just intense. Also had an Artifact one in Cincinnati with kumquats (!). Really enjoying them, would love to try some old-world ones in this style as well.

Other favorite one while I'm here (not too much of a beer trainspotter) was on the road at Braxton Brewing, across the river from Cincinnati in Covington, KY: Dead Blow Tropical Stout with macerated dates.

New Glarus fruit beers aren't tart or sour (to me) at all. Old world styles are pretty tart and funky in comparison.

I serve then like I would serve a rose wine.

The raspberry / cherry ones aren't tart or sour to me, either -- more like pure intense juice. They were referenced in that Tart Fruit article above, so lumped them in together, but agree with you.

What's good in Vancouver/Seattle? I don't really know my PNW beers.

Vancouver's scene I thought was fair to middling although I did have Cantillon Iris on tap at an oyster bar.

Seattle breweries I'd recoommend: Fremont for their barrel-aged beers. Holy Mountain for pretty much everything.

Seattle bars I'd recommend: The Stumbling Monk, Brouwer's Cafe & The Toronado.

What's good in Vancouver/Seattle? I don't really know my PNW beers.

― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Thursday, July 27, 2017 3:01 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

vancouver had very little beer scene 5 years ago when i moved here. there were literally 3 or 4 breweries, this has mushroomed a lot in recent years - in big part due to by-law changes (vancouver has byzantine, expensive, and restrictive laws around liquor and bars - but the quality is very variable as i really find that a lot of this breweries are trend-following business ventures rather than labour of love.

the pre-eminent local brewery is probably (arguably) Driftwood from Victoria. They're widely available and I would consider their Fat Tug IPA the sort of default IPA here. 7% and citrusy and very hoppy standard sort of pnw IPA. i also like their bourbon aged imperial stout which is called singularity.

http://i.imgur.com/TUpDeED.jpg
latest haul from the shitty local place

this is not a sour despite the 'sea' and 'crisp' monikers

sure does look like a zwickelbier to me

Right now I'm drinking a "tall boy" of Budweiser out of a brown paper bag.

Hopefully you're outside

It's pretty gross. I'm in my apartment now, I just thought the paper bag would be fun.

What? Go outside and find a stoop or curb

I got a sixer of Miller High Life for $5.49 tonight. It seems like the right thing to be drinking at this point where I live.

Some of the best in BC:

Driftwood (Victoria) (as mentioned above)
Four Winds (Delta)
Dageraad (Burnaby)
Phillips (Victoria)
Field House (Abbotsford)
Steamworks (Burnaby/Vancouver)

Oh yeah dageraad is really good. Belgian style beers. I used to be close to the brewery on my commute home but never ended up going to the tasting room. Never in the area now. Doh.

Holy Mountain in Seattle makes some amazing stuff. Reuben's is excellent as well.

Beers of summer, y'all.

Harpoon Camp Wannamango - nice.

Fullsteam Southern Basil - okay but why.

Radlers & shandies are alleged to be having a moment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/this-beersoda-combo-youre-seeing-everywhere-is-the-perfect-summer-refresher/2017/07/20/bc7d47fc-6bff-11e7-96ab-5f38140b38cc_story.html?utm_term=.34d937c6168f

Personally the New Belgium Dayblazer is rocking my hizzy. Also I will never tire of a chelada made with Sol (or Corona is fine too), salt, lime, ice.

Thanks for BC recs! I’ll get investigating.

a coors banquet and orange juice beermosa is a great way to start your saturday