Beer in the new era

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.

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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

Going to be back home in Philly area, been a while. What should I be drinking?

Tired Hands

^^^

First time I've seen "beermosa," and now my world is a larger and brighter place, Tombot.

The World of Beer in my neighborhood (now "Crafthouse") used to make an Ace Joker cider / orange juice mimosa that was a nice breakfast beer.

er, beverage.

should I care about this nytimes article about shandys?

New Glarus Spotted Cow: still good!

New Glarus Bubbler: effervescent, and with a lighter aftertaste than others in the hefeweiss style I've had. Not bad!

So. Many. Beers. Been diving in to Noon Whistle, 18th Street, deeper into Pipeworks, tried some Maplewood, want to give Mikerphone a shot.... so many beers.

I'm going on vacation to Portland ME starting Thursday. Live blogging okay? No requests though.

aw portland is such a cool spot

i'm sure you have some spots lined up but lmk if you want any recs

We're staying in staggering distance of the Oxbow tasting room. Barrage me with suggestions, though!

nice.

novare res would be a really good bar even if it didn't specialize in beer, it's just a chill grungy place with no bullshit and a killer draft list.

it's a drive but allagash is worth it, absolutely the best brewery tour i've been on as far as information, atmosphere, and knowledge from the staff. huge respect to those guys. right across the street you can visit foundation, austin st., and maybe another place (things change a lot over there).

i don't really keep up on the current situation at bissell bros. but lots of people like going there.

as far as non-beer recs, visit portland hunt and alpine club for a cocktail or two and have dinner at vinland for a hilarious but charming take on locavore cuisine.

And here I was thinking you guys were talking about Oregon

Josh, I made it out to Noon Whistle this past weekend, had the Giggle Gummy and Gummy Vortex. Both were good, but all these NE IPA's are starting to run together for me. I'm not sure I could distinguish them in a blind tasting. Had their Hop Prism Turquoise With Grapefruit too, which was fantastic, it tasted like a Fresca.

Although it is always depressing to drink in a strip mall. All breweries in the burbs should move to the city.

Yeah, I forget why they're there. Iirc Oak Park was making it too hard to open here. Anyway, they seem to get on tap here and there, and their modest distro gets cans around. I agree the NEIPAs are hard to tell apart, though I know them when I see them!

I do like (for once) that Noon Whistle focuses largely on lower alcohol beers.

A friend brought me a couple of cans of Lawson's Sip of Sunshine (https://www.lawsonsfinest.com/beers/sip-sunshine/) from his visit to his Vermontian in-laws and it is kind of like remembering a dream I might have had about a perfect double IPA on a summer day where I worked hard and earned it and also it was 67F and clear outside.

Obviously both cans are in the recycling now, and the contents of the second one will shortly be part of my gut soup.

Great beer imho