Beer in the new era

i drank too much last night e_e

had to get up and water myself heavily at 5am.

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Had some Bear Republic Racer 5 IPA, followed by a DFH 90 Min. IPA

Two TOTALLY different, yet totally AWESOME beers.

Woo.

yeh racer 5 is one of my favorite ipas

racer 5 is great but bear republic labels are fucking terrible

http://www.accent-art.com/RACER5B.gif

ugh

I like both these beers.
Has anyone tried the Racer X that Bear Republic do? I haven't seen it around anywhere, but people on lolbeer blogs rave about it.

last night i had:
sixpoint righteous rye ale (great beer imo)
stone arrogant bastard (pretty good beer but i think i prefer their reg IPA)
and a green flash west coast IPA, which i was also drinking earlier this week, and is a good beer for sippin.

haven't tried the racer X. curious tho. i had the the bear republic end '08 last night tho, it was great. brown ale that looked really really dark but was pretty light-bodied, dry, refreshing even. really good.

stone AB is great but i haven't had the regular IPA in a long time. their levitation ale has impressed me the most, i think. it's a big deal to pull off that much flavor for a 4% ABV beer.

I dunno....I like Bear Republic's labels. They have sort of a hand painted sign at a fair or music festival type vibe to them.

the Racer X is pretty great, too.

I will be drinking beer tonight, and at a favorite local beer spot - Lucky Baldwin's in Pasadena. I will report back what I actually consume. Most likely an IPA.

Racer 5 is A+

yeah good ipa no doubt.

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been into a little Belgian territory lately. the clerk at the store i got this say it's the smallest producer that gets distribution in the US. it is some sublime du Belgique

also just quaffed Firestone-Walker Pale on hand pump @ toronado

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Good to know your beer is fresh: the label on the bottle I bought said "bottled June 2009." Really delicious, almost spicy, but also some pine and a sweet citrus. Got me tipsy on high ABV, but still easy to drink. Hoping to try their new anniversary ale on tap here, which they say has jasmine, peaches and honey.

oh man that looks good. nine point six!!!

admit it you just bought it for the crossed swords logo.

last night i drank bud (bottle) & newcastle at the bar. really unexciting but... satisfactory.
tonight i think i may end up at the same bar as on tuesday, but will try to avoid the higher ABV choices this time.

the new batch of maharaja is 10.24! i have an Ommegang Hennepin in the fridge, chillin'.

last night on tap:

allagash four
allagash victoria
allagash confluence

the four was pretty incredible, the victoria only slightly less so, but i thought the confluence was the best--slightly spicy and yeasty, strong but not overwhelmingly so.

drinking at work: great divide brewing co "titan ipa" and up next is green flash's "hop head red."

Hey if there are any Portlanders on this thread, don't forget to hit up the Organic Beer Festival this weekend in Overlook Park. My favorite outdoor beer festival of the year! A lot of good-looking stuff.
http://www.naobf.org/

Had a pint of this tonight, which was excellent:
http://www.sierranevada.com/beers/images/harvest-SOHEM_bottle.jpg

I was looking at a sixer of that earlier today... passed, though.

I drank tonight: Green Flash Hop Head Red, Stone Pale Ale, Green Flash IPA, Lagunitas Dog Town Ale (tastes like grapefruit--not bad, not great. Has the same problems as other Lagunitas blends.)

Just finishing a sixer of Sierra Nevada's new wheat beer, Kellerweis. This stuff is great, one the best hefeweizen's I've ever had. Easy drinkin but complex enough to keep things interesting. Apparently they use open fermentation or something. Also, apparently this and Torpedo are SN's first new year round beers in a decade!

classic brooklyn IPA's tonight.

rogue brutal bitter, one of the last sixers sold by the brooklyn beverage barn (r.i.p.)

you dudes had victory's hop wallop? yummy and good drinkin', but the only problem is it tastes so light and refreshing that i completely forgot that it was 8.5% and the next day i got walloped for sure! i was on my fifth beer and i suddenly realized that i was drunker than i'd been in a while.

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jeeze, five beers at 8.5% is about two too many fer me.

man, if I had six hop wallops, I think I'd be dead.

huh, i never thought "light and refreshing" would describe a beer called "hop wallop." will check out for sure.

it's a very easy drinkin' beer. TOO EASY. oughta have a big warning on the front. i don't even think i looked at how strong it was when i bought it. it looked cute.

bah, beers all gone. should i drink one of my roommates hefeweizen? i don't really like them, but it is alcohol.

got any liquor?

what kind of hefeweizen?

smuttynose. i'm drinking it. it's okay.
i doubt i'll want anything after this, but there's tequila & gin around.

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Have you NYCers seen any Russian River beers around? The guy at Bowery Whole Foods said they didn't have an East Coast distributor, but it turns out that they actually do...

I haven't, though I've heard great things about the Pliny The Elder IPA...

also, midway through the bottle this thing is starting to taste like budweiser.

i was not crazy abt the smuttynose hefe iirc.

it's far from my favorite style and i can't really think of an american one that's worth buying. the german ones can be pretty damn good if you're in the right mood tho.

I walked a couple miles to a bar in SF specifically to get a Pliny the Elder on tap. It was good, but didn't live up to my considerable expectations.

I realized recently that the Racer 5 IPA mentioned earlier has been at the local co-op forever and I kept passing it over because I thought the label looked really dumb, which was a mistake because it's actually really good. I like the Sierra Nevada Torpedo a lot too, which is like the first beer of theirs that I actually like. I haven't seen the Kellerweis yet.

i'm drinking a bomber of hop wallop right now and just want to report that our man scott was totally otm in his assessment.

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^^soo good. Other mongs onto this??!

hop thief is admittedly a terrible name for an ale tho

unggh

http://www.australianbeers.com/beers/james_squire_hopthief/htsmall.jpg

a six of racer 5 IPA in the fridge right now, that I picked up on the way home from my epic fried chicken lunch. i don't know if i'll even want to drink tonight--somehow got kinda smashed last night. that's what happens when you're at a bar when a thunderstorm begins, i guess. tried an Issaquah Frog Rye (draft @ Washington Commons) which was enjoyable, fruity and somewhat malty with a light hoppy rye flavor. not as strong a rye flavor as the sixpoint righteous rye, which i also enjoyed.

Just have to reiterate the love for the Green Flash Imperial IPA. Wonderful.

Having some Anderson Valley 20th Anniversary Imperial IPA - good, but I've had better. This brewery should have put more into this.

after searching high and low for it, i found the motherload of (limited release) hop thief up the road from where i live -- super stoked ^__^

Went to Wisconsin last week drank a bunch of Spotted Cow. Fruitier than I prefer, also couldn't taste any hops at all, nor could I detect the corn traces. Very drinkable though. Felt good about all the yeast particles floating around in the bottle, like I was drinking kombucha or something.