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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 1/19/2016 6:06:13 AM   
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Critical mass? Far from it! Small boutique breweries are popping up almost every day, not to mention the enormous number of home brewer enthusiasts. Beer is much easier to be made at home than wine, after all. :p


Carter, I guess it sounded like I was describing the brewers blowing themselves up. We are on the same page, so to speak - I see a confluence of brewers, brewing culture, public enthusiasm, and distribution that is coming together well, and to me it seems a relatively recent thing. There have been "microbreweries" around for a long time, but just in the past few years I've really been blown away by quite a few products from CA, OR, WA, CO and as you mentioned, Canada. Add in MI, TX, NY, and a strong streak across the midwest - WI, IL, OH, PA and some outliers I've had from UT and AK, and it feels like this whole realm has really become prominent and exalted of late.

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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 1/19/2016 10:02:53 AM   
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I bought a 4 pack a few months ago, and stashed it in the beer fridge in the garage. Drank one then but wasn't that impressed.
Then last week, pulled one out after some hard work outside to drink while watching a little football. It was so good and smooth. Utterly refreshing compared to the thicker winter barley wines and bourbon aged stuff I had been sampling through the holidays.

Well, I picked up a couple more four packs when I was at Total Wine. After watching Carolina spank the Seahawks in the first half last Sunday, I left the second half to the DVR and retired to the shop to make some sawdust and brought another Matilda with me. She helped make me feel better.

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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 1/23/2016 2:04:26 PM   
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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 1/24/2016 9:24:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		Interesting all the comments re. Goose Island - the IPA is widely available here and I tried a few bottles, and I have to say I don't care for it at all! Different strokes etc. etc.

Currently I'm drinking Orval April 2015 bottling..brett in a glass, doesn't sound like it but fantastic stuff! I remember a thread a year or two back comparing Orval with Duvel, very unfair, you might as well compare Michelle Pfeiffer to Penelope Cruz (excuse the totally non-PC comparison if found to be offensive).

I'm beginning to think that most of the really interestimg beer stuff resides in Belgium....maybe one day I'll take to lambics...on the other hand, probably not....

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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 1/24/2016 10:06:45 AM   
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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 1/24/2016 1:18:28 PM   
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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 1/24/2016 2:21:47 PM   
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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 4/15/2016 8:26:24 AM   
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Wow! Page 8!

Anyway, last night at our fav Thai Resturant, a new addition to beer offerings.



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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 4/15/2016 4:53:17 PM   
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Attended a huge beer tasting 2 weeks ago and found some nice brews from locals places that are doing a top notch job at it. Still have a few stouts and porters from the fall/winter but now have a mixed case or two of white ales, pale ales, IPA's and summer golden ales to hold the fort down until the fall.

If anyone has a chance check out Revolution brewing from Chicago. Some nice stuff from there.

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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 5/1/2016 9:47:03 AM   
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P.S. If you like stout, try their Oilman Stout, out now. I buy it at our local Whole Foods. Heavenly...

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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 5/1/2016 6:43:02 PM   
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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 5/14/2016 11:08:20 AM   
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This is bland as crap. Very disappointing.

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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 5/17/2016 1:30:37 PM   
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Foundation Brewery

http://foundationbrew.com/welcome/

Bissell Brothers

http://www.bissellbrothers.com/


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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 5/17/2016 10:19:19 PM   
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Yes, I visited Santa Rosa.

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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 5/20/2016 10:01:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		I made 4 1 L reusable glass bottles of ginger beer with champagne yeast. I'm really impressed how easy it was to make and how it's mellowed over the past 2 months. I actually like it better than Goslings no ABV Ginger Beer plus it's ABV is about 9%.

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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 5/26/2016 5:09:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		Last week was Beer Week here in Seattle. We did major tasting. The highlight was Goose Island Bourbon Barrel Aged Coffee Stout on draught. Absolutely stunning mouthful of flavors. Going back this weekend to see if it still exists. YUM !!! Cheers, Ed

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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 8/2/2016 5:16:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wild Trail Pale Ale. 9.8. Nearly perfect, and I say "nearly" because it runs along the ragged edge of several vectors, skirting so close that I cannot tell which way it should go, and the entire sensory process is enough that in the end the question is moot.

Said it before but the American craft-brewing movement is putting out some friggin' dynamite stuff these days. On tap at a steakhouse in the butt end of Charleston, West Virginia, this IPA presents as a medium dark Amber, not much on the nose but with agitation you can smell the bitterness. There is a true perceived structure as you taste it, a massive floor of rolling, layered hoppy bitterness, then an ethereal lifting with aromatic, coniferous resins and citrus notes, buttery aftertastes, and a perceived microfine carbonation - you wonder if it's really there. Delightful.

Look, if you don't like bitter hops, and pine tree taste mixed with grapefruit, you shouldn't be drinking India Pale Ales in the first place.

And, even when you do, some of you will not totally agree with me, but dayum, this is one fine one.


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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 8/2/2016 6:29:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Doug, let me know if you're going to pass through here. You'd appreciate the Lexington craft beer scene.

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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 9/13/2016 5:28:57 PM   
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Tilquin Gueuze 2012. WOW.


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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 9/15/2016 12:49:00 PM   
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Love how this thread came back alive. My below post back in May is STILL my two favorite places to go. They are just killing it...

I keep tasting others and I KEEP going back. If your ever in Maine check them out you will not be disappointed, that good.



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I was in Portland Maine and had multiple great beers from two brewery's

Foundation Brewery

http://foundationbrew.com/welcome/

Bissell Brothers

http://www.bissellbrothers.com/




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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 9/27/2016 7:12:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		Shawn, my mom lives in Maine, will check them out.


Lately:

Guinness Nitro IPA (right now). Had high hopes - the packaging makes it look like it should be, uh, something special. Yeah, maybe I should have learned that lesson a few decades ago. 7.0 Not "bad" but nothing to do again; tastes like a middle-of-the-road IPA mixed with Pilsner mixed with Guinness. Unmistakable dry coffee-cocoa-chalk aspect (that would be the Guinness part).

Lagunitas IPA. Have had it before, didn't think it was quite top-rank, but a couple weeks ago, on tap in a bar on the north side of Albany, NY, just glorious. Had to think hard to find any flaw at all. 9.7 Just a bit too sweet/caramel/molasses - and just a hint of that, but in an IPA does not take much of that to throw things off, IMO. Overall, awesome.

Goose Island IPA. Last Sunday, on tap at a Primanti Brothers (famous for their enormous, one-of-a-kind sandwiches in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area). The Goose is a steady performer, always near the top o' me lists... And a second one, these are the big, 22 ounce glasses. 9.6 always so good. Yes, I put it 96% of the way to the top of the beer spectrum.

Was not going to stray from the Goose, but saw "Big Timber Double Bit IPA" from Big Timber Brewing in Elkins, West Virginia. Well, I'd never had it before, and so ordered one, though I caught myself thinking, "Those hillbillies can't match the Goose...."

Well. Huh. I was wrong, and I don't think I've ever given a perfect score to a beer, but this was a 10.0. A rolling, variegated, infinite plain of herbal hop goodness, with elegant, floral, bright and bouncing citrus tastes and just the right amount of piney/coniferous aspects, which to me means fairly well restrained, rising to the heavens and on the way going to the top of your mouth and your olfactory centers, a miracle of whimsical, scintillating, spiral architecture. Man, I was one with the universe.


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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 10/25/2016 9:24:07 AM   
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Mini-tasting of two Köisch beers while in Cologne...where else?

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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 10/25/2016 2:11:42 PM   
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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 10/25/2016 11:19:06 PM   
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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 10/26/2016 8:35:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		Rapscallion Honey American Pale Ale. 8.8 points.

On tap in the bar in the Comfort Inn & Suites, Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and brewed right in that same tiny town. Took me by surprise; never had anything like it. "Honey" is involved in the making, but the brewing microbes turn that sugar into alcohol, and the resultant brew is not sweet. Only 4.5% alcohol, exceedingly smooth, lightly malty, and with a back-end bitterness that I found unusual. I know that "APAs" are supposed to be different from "IPAs" but wow this deal was like nothing I ever had before. I'm used to IPAs, some of which clobber you with bitter hoppiness, and it's always when you first taste it, followed by the pine, citrus, etc., making themselves apparent. Rapscallion Honey is thus very underwhelming at first, but there are subtle things, perhaps a little spiciness, hints of fruit, that may be pleasing to the patient, focused imbiber. A little finishing bite of bitterness set it all off quite nicely, in my opinion. Massively easy to drink.

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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 10/26/2016 11:36:30 AM   
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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 10/26/2016 3:16:04 PM   
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Goose Island - Green Line - APA
Two Brothers - Atom Smasher Oktoberfest
Boon - Framboise(raspberry lambic)
Two Brothers - Wobble IPA
New Belgium - 1554

All very solid - repeat purchases.

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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 10/30/2016 10:37:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Peroni draft in an Italian restaurant, Peabody, Massachusetts. Peroni is a popular Italian mass-market beer favored by some members of the Italian family into which I married - I've had many a bottle. Always liked it all right, but thought it a little skunky a la Heineken. On tap it was better, quite a bit better, darn good, nice lager, malt and hops in the background. 9.0

Food and Wine magazine has a list of the "Best IPAs in America," state by state. I clicked through them all, and good grief - I have had none of them, and only have heard of 2 or 3, including California's Pliny the Elder. You just can't keep up with it all....

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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 10/30/2016 4:48:45 PM   
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Peroni draft in an Italian restaurant, Peabody, Massachusetts. Peroni is a popular Italian mass-market beer favored by some members of the Italian family into which I married - I've had many a bottle. Always liked it all right, but thought it a little skunky a la Heineken. On tap it was better, quite a bit better, darn good, nice lager, malt and hops in the background. 9.0

Food and Wine magazine has a list of the "Best IPAs in America," state by state. I clicked through them all, and good grief - I have had none of them, and only have heard of 2 or 3, including California's Pliny the Elder. You just can't keep up with it all....


These days we could have our very own IPA thread and discuss the best IPA's and still leave some out.

My favorites: Dogfish Head 60 minutes, Ale Asylum Ballistic & Hopalicious, Zombie Dust. Lately i've tried some great Double IPA's

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RE: What BEER are you drinking? - 10/31/2016 7:52:56 AM   
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