Beer Thread

[iLikeBeer]

yeah breakfast stout is pretty intense.  red rye reminds me of two hearted ale.  not really down with it, despite it's extremely high ratings on beeradvocate.com, do not understand 4packs.  6'ers should be the standard for everything.

4-packs are a microbreweries way of making their beer look less expensive than it is.  Instead of charging $20 per sixer like we see with Hopslam, many breweries will just put their 'special' beers in 4-packs and still charge $10-$12 for a 4-pack thus giving the impression that it really isn't that expensive.

Great Lakes does this with a lot of their seasonals including my favorite, Lake Erie Monster DIPA.  I usually steer clear of 4-packs but not LE Monster...

[iLikeBeer]

tonight on tap at sticky's crib:

Founders - Red Rye
Founders - Breakfast Stout

never had either.  fairly pumped for the breakfast stout.

The stout is MASSIVE. It's fantastic. It's a Thanksgiving Tradition for me to go for a long run, get home shower and start pounding these like there is no tomorrow all before 9AM.

How can you pound stouts?  That takes some skill...  :D

I'm generally not a big fan of stouts and especially not a fan of pounding them.   :P

Reminds me of one of my good friends in high school who had his choice of kegs for his high school grad party and he chose to get a keg of Guiness and, while it was freaking delicious, nobody could get drunk because we couldn't drink it fast enough...  ;D

[mjk73]

tonight on tap at sticky's crib:

Founders - Red Rye
Founders - Breakfast Stout

never had either.  fairly pumped for the breakfast stout.

The stout is MASSIVE. It's fantastic. It's a Thanksgiving Tradition for me to go for a long run, get home shower and start pounding these like there is no tomorrow all before 9AM.

How can you pound stouts?  That takes some skill...  :D

I'm generally not a big fan of stouts and especially not a fan of pounding them.   :P

Reminds me of one of my good friends in high school who had his choice of kegs for his high school grad party and he chose to get a keg of Guiness and, while it was freaking delicious, nobody could get drunk because we couldn't drink it fast enough...  ;D

When they are good like this breakfast stout, you can pound them. Granted with the high ABV of this one, you can't pound for long. 

[Sticky Icky Green Stuff]

I found the first breakfast stout the hardest to drink, then I ended up drinking the second one really fast.  it's good, just fucking intense, you got balls mjk if you can chug this shit in the a.m.

[jones]

I had a couple Breakfast Stouts yesterday, too.  I also picked up a growler of something I'd never even heard of:



I wouldn't call it outstanding, but I would definitely buy/drink more.

[ALady]

Lagunitas is opening a brewery here.   :D

[walterfredo]

Just came to post about that.

http://www.chicagonow.com/the-beeronaut/2012/04/breaking-lagunitas-to-build-new-brewery-in-chicago/

Not sure how I feel about this, and all these other microbreweries opening up new breweries like Sierra Nevada and New Belgian coming to the Carolinas, etc.  To me, I think these breweries should stay local to their areas, I think it dilutes and takes away from the coolness factor.  Of course money talks, and you can't blame a business for seeing a financial opportunity and taking it.  But I don't like it.

[ALady]

Yeah, despite my  :D, there's really not a whole lot of benefit for us boozers...we already get Lagunitas here, and it doesn't sound like we'll get any brewery exclusives, except maybe some more local collaborations.

[mjk73]

Yeah, despite my  :D, there's really not a whole lot of benefit for us boozers...we already get Lagunitas here, and it doesn't sound like we'll get any brewery exclusives, except maybe some more local collaborations.

I was wondering  how this was going to work as they are pretty readily avail.

No brewery exclusives =  ???

[Jaimoe]

I was in Cleveland over the weekend and brought back a mixer 12-pack of Great Lakes Brew. I tried around 8 of their beers on Saturday and like them all. I taught the tour guide a popular beer Canadiansim too when I told her I wanted to buy a "two-four" of Burning River IPA. I gotta admit though, the other brewery next door (the Brew House?)  is just as great.

[ALady]

Yeah, despite my  :D, there's really not a whole lot of benefit for us boozers...we already get Lagunitas here, and it doesn't sound like we'll get any brewery exclusives, except maybe some more local collaborations.

I was wondering  how this was going to work as they are pretty readily avail.

No brewery exclusives =  ???

I mean it doesn't sound like they will have a brewpub on premises or anything like that.  Though who knows how it will be set up, it's still a year or so away.

[jones]

Fun game:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/cheddar/beerlogos

I went 25/25 in a little over 2 minutes on the first go.

[Devil Ledbetter]

Three Mile Marker Hefeweizen (Midland Brewing Company).

[Ruckus]

Today is the next installment of the Beer Snobbery series at Casa Ruckus.  Here is a majority of the beers we tried from the last one in the fall.  Hope to try at least 40 beers again today.  It's really become a fun little event between my friends.  Everyone brings a minimum of 3 craft/preferably seasonal 24oz  beers.  We stand around the kitchen island passing around a new bottle for 2 oz pours.  It's gets belligerent around the midway point.

Blue Point RastafaRye
Br. Roman Adriaen Brouwer
St. Martin Pripel
Brooklyn Local 1 and Sorachi Ace
Bosteels Tripel Karmeliet
La Trappe Quadruple
Diamond Knot Industrial IPA
Dog Cellar Door
Dogfish Head Chateau Jiahu, My Antonia, Pangaea and Namaste
Firestone Double Jack
Franken Brau Moosbacher
Full Sail Wreck the Halls
Great Divid Grand Cru, Smoked Baltic Porter and Fresh Hop
Harpoon Rich and Dan's Rye IPA
Heavy Seas Mutiny Fleet Yule Tide, Great Pumpkin, Smoke on the Water and Hop Harvest Ale
Lagunitas Doppel Weizen
Laughing Dog Dogfather and Dogzilla
New Belgium Ranger
Nogne Pale Ale
North Coast Brother Thelonious
Rogue Chatoe Chit Pilsner
Samuel Smith Winter Welcome
Southern Tier Imperial Oat and Pumpking
Stone Ruination
Delirium Nocturnum
Troegs Mad Elf and Perpetual IPA
Widmer Bros Brrbon'11

[Jon T.]

Today is the next installment of the Beer Snobbery series at Casa Ruckus.  Here is a majority of the beers we tried from the last one in the fall.  Hope to try at least 40 beers again today.  It's really become a fun little event between my friends.  Everyone brings a minimum of 3 craft/preferably seasonal 24oz  beers.  We stand around the kitchen island passing around a new bottle for 2 oz pours.  It's gets belligerent around the midway point.

Blue Point RastafaRye
Br. Roman Adriaen Brouwer
St. Martin Pripel
Brooklyn Local 1 and Sorachi Ace
Bosteels Tripel Karmeliet
La Trappe Quadruple
Diamond Knot Industrial IPA
Dog Cellar Door
Dogfish Head Chateau Jiahu, My Antonia, Pangaea and Namaste
Firestone Double Jack
Franken Brau Moosbacher
Full Sail Wreck the Halls
Great Divid Grand Cru, Smoked Baltic Porter and Fresh Hop
Harpoon Rich and Dan's Rye IPA
Heavy Seas Mutiny Fleet Yule Tide, Great Pumpkin, Smoke on the Water and Hop Harvest Ale
Lagunitas Doppel Weizen
Laughing Dog Dogfather and Dogzilla
New Belgium Ranger
Nogne Pale Ale
North Coast Brother Thelonious
Rogue Chatoe Chit Pilsner
Samuel Smith Winter Welcome
Southern Tier Imperial Oat and Pumpking
Stone Ruination
Delirium Nocturnum
Troegs Mad Elf and Perpetual IPA
Widmer Bros Brrbon'11

Sounds like a blast.   

[lucylew]

Today is the next installment of the Beer Snobbery series at Casa Ruckus.  Here is a majority of the beers we tried from the last one in the fall.  Hope to try at least 40 beers again today.  It's really become a fun little event between my friends.  Everyone brings a minimum of 3 craft/preferably seasonal 24oz  beers.  We stand around the kitchen island passing around a new bottle for 2 oz pours.  It's gets belligerent around the midway point.

Blue Point RastafaRye
Br. Roman Adriaen Brouwer
St. Martin Pripel
Brooklyn Local 1 and Sorachi Ace
Bosteels Tripel Karmeliet
La Trappe Quadruple
Diamond Knot Industrial IPA
Dog Cellar Door
Dogfish Head Chateau Jiahu, My Antonia, Pangaea and Namaste
Firestone Double Jack
Franken Brau Moosbacher
Full Sail Wreck the Halls
Great Divid Grand Cru, Smoked Baltic Porter and Fresh Hop
Harpoon Rich and Dan's Rye IPA
Heavy Seas Mutiny Fleet Yule Tide, Great Pumpkin, Smoke on the Water and Hop Harvest Ale
Lagunitas Doppel Weizen
Laughing Dog Dogfather and Dogzilla
New Belgium Ranger
Nogne Pale Ale
North Coast Brother Thelonious
Rogue Chatoe Chit Pilsner
Samuel Smith Winter Welcome
Southern Tier Imperial Oat and Pumpking
Stone Ruination
Delirium Nocturnum
Troegs Mad Elf and Perpetual IPA
Widmer Bros Brrbon'11

I think you might be my hero.  That is a seriously outstanding idea!

[he.who.forgets]

Today is the next installment of the Beer Snobbery series at Casa Ruckus.  Here is a majority of the beers we tried from the last one in the fall.  Hope to try at least 40 beers again today.  It's really become a fun little event between my friends.  Everyone brings a minimum of 3 craft/preferably seasonal 24oz  beers.  We stand around the kitchen island passing around a new bottle for 2 oz pours.  It's gets belligerent around the midway point.

Blue Point RastafaRye
Br. Roman Adriaen Brouwer
St. Martin Pripel
Brooklyn Local 1 and Sorachi Ace
Bosteels Tripel Karmeliet
La Trappe Quadruple
Diamond Knot Industrial IPA
Dog Cellar Door
Dogfish Head Chateau Jiahu, My Antonia, Pangaea and Namaste
Firestone Double Jack
Franken Brau Moosbacher
Full Sail Wreck the Halls
Great Divid Grand Cru, Smoked Baltic Porter and Fresh Hop
Harpoon Rich and Dan's Rye IPA
Heavy Seas Mutiny Fleet Yule Tide, Great Pumpkin, Smoke on the Water and Hop Harvest Ale
Lagunitas Doppel Weizen
Laughing Dog Dogfather and Dogzilla
New Belgium Ranger
Nogne Pale Ale
North Coast Brother Thelonious
Rogue Chatoe Chit Pilsner
Samuel Smith Winter Welcome
Southern Tier Imperial Oat and Pumpking
Stone Ruination
Delirium Nocturnum
Troegs Mad Elf and Perpetual IPA
Widmer Bros Brrbon'11

A few buddies of mine did somethingi similar a few weeks ago in conjunction with the NCAA tourney.  We chose 32 craft beers and blind taste tested them all and gave each a rating of 1-10, bracket style.  It was fun.  To my utter shock and dismay, a rasberry flavored beer made the final four.  Our winner was Thomas Creek Up The Creek, weighing in at a whopping 12.5 ABV and a 111 IBU.

[Jellyfish]

Delicious ale! Has a fruity 1st taste with a lager taste after.

[mjk73]

You got some good stuff in their Rob

[Ruckus]

It was a great time per usual.  That's a great idea there HWF!  How did you do a blind testing?  Did you have someone run it who wasn't participating?  Did you do it all at once?  I think for the next one, I'm giving each participant a piece of paper for each beer to anonymously score between 1 and 10, collect them after each round and put together an average for each beer the next morning.

Jonesy - someone brought the Green Flash Imperial IPA.  I'd never had anything by them but I enjoyed it.

I'm not sure I've ever seen Theobroma before