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I had heard of Smuttynose, and thought it had a really funny name. I joked with my friends that if they ever found a Smuttynose, I'd share a beer with them. I was never much of into beer, and I didn't know it was available in my area. One of my friends found a 6 pack of Smutty's Finestkind IPA, and I tried one. I thought the taste was absolutely spectacular, and I found my love in beer with IPAs. Previously, I had mostly only tried your standard BMC, with some Blue Moon, and Sam Adams thrown in occasionally. I now don't think Finestkind is anything too special, although I'm very glad I tried it, and loved it, because it led me to where I am today! I now think that I could enjoy any beer style, although I tend to not enjoy sweeter beers.
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I started drinking craft beer by buying mixed 6 packs with a 6 pack of Sam Adam's Cherry Wheat every Friday and exploring craft beer. This was also before Cherry Wheat was overly sweet and full of this artificial tasting cherry flavor back when it was part of the Brewmasters collection.
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TenaciousTomato posted:What got ya'll into craft beer? For me it was my family offering me a La Fin du Monde last Christmas which is still one of my favorites to this day. My father was always a Yuengling guy, so that was my first beer. When we moved out of the distribution area of Yuengling in the mid-90's, we gravitated towards Sam Adams Boston Lager. Then, Long Trail. We still brought home cases of Yeungling whenever we found it, out of state, of course - but now we had found what we considered real beers. And then I had my first palate-destroying, earth-shattering beer that made me into the Now, we're all pounding crazy DIPAs and barleywines and stuff every day - but when I brought that one home, there was really nothing else out there that I had seen or tasted that came close to it. I don't have a clue how that stupid little backwater gas station got a hold of it. FreelanceSocialist fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Apr 9, 2012 |
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I'm drinking a Dogfish Head Red and White and am rather impressed on how balanced this hybrid Belgian beer is. The wine qualities of this beer don't distract from the style, rather they accent them pretty well. The sip starts off with a malty candied sugar sweetness which quickly yields to a pepper, oak, and pinot noir middle, and finishes semi-dry with cloves, banana, and a wine-like dryness. The pepper and pinot noir stay on the tongue a bit after the sip. Also, am I the only one who gets banana from Belgian yeasts? Every time I drink a beer that uses Belgian yeasts it reminds me of cloves and bananas.
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When I was in high school and my early years of college I only drank super lovely beer and lovely liquor, generally gravitating towards liquor since it was easier to get a hold of and mixing it could mask the taste. Once I turned 21 in college I decided to start trying different beers, but the way the beer store that was 1 block from my apartment was set up the American section and the import section were on opposite sides of the store. Since the first beer I went to get was Red Stripe I totally missed the American section for quite a while. So the first non-poo poo beers I tried were Red Stripe, Newcastle, and Hobgoblin. Hobgoblin was definitely an eye opener, and it was my favorite beer for a while. Just after I turned 21 I also joined the band I'm currently in, and started touring. I lived in SC at the time which had terrible laws, mainly a 6% ABV cap. The band I joined lived in Georgia and we toured to other states frequently and that's what really opened my eyes to craft beer. One of the first out of state tours we went on was to Florida, and all the dudes in the band were into good beer. We ended up at a World of Beer in Tampa, which has a huge mixed six pack section. They told me some things to buy and I bought a few things on my own. The two standouts of the mixed six were the Sierra Nevada Celebration and the Flying Dog Scottish Porter. I thought the Celebration was garbage and the Scottish Porter was amazing. This is what opened my eyes to how different beer could be and I started trying new beers weekly. After that I started reading about beer online and trying different beers, and I found the American section of the beer store I frequented. It was still slow going for quite a while, I remember reading about IPAs online and deciding I should go try one and the only two selections I could get because of the ABV limit was Harpoon's IPA and Red Hook's Longhammer IPA. Luckily when I was 22 the ABV limit got raised and SC got a huge influx of good craft beers. Now that I think about it the Harpoon IPA may have been the only one I could get before the law got changed, I think the Longhammer IPA was the first one to come in after the ABV cap was raised. The guitar player for the band I joined also homebrewed, and he got me started doing that. So the combo of new breweries coming into the state all the time and me making my own beer just completely snowballed into the obsession I have today. It's funny going back and revisiting the beers that got you into it now. Hobgoblin is really just an ok beer at best. I love Celebration now (although this year was kind of toned down hop-wise) and the last time I had the Flying Dog Scottish Porter I thought it was pretty bland. Josh Wow fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Apr 9, 2012 |
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I was a sucker for imports and Boulevard for long years, but it was La Fin and Trois Pistoles that made me really start paying attention to beer. Also the Beer Wars documentary. I grabbed a St Bernardus sampler for the free glass. So far I've had their Christmas ale and the Abt 12 - those monks love their sweet beer. The Christmas ale tasted like straight up fruitcake and the Abt 12 has a really potent oatmeal cookie flavor. Big, big beers. I've got a 3F/Mikkeler Boogoop in the fridge as we speak. We never get 3F stuff this far south, so I'm looking forward to it.
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Julio Cesar Fatass posted:I've got a 3F/Mikkeler Boogoop in the fridge as we speak. We never get 3F stuff this far south, so I'm looking forward to it. I've got one of these too, but for some reason I'm not excited. I honestly only picked it up because it's the only 3F beer New Jersey has gotten and I wanted to try a beer from them.
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TenaciousTomato posted:What got ya'll into craft beer? For me it was my family offering me a La Fin du Monde last Christmas which is still one of my favorites to this day. Long story short, I was a little picky with beer for years, but what really pushed my beer habits into ludicrous speed was a combination of bottle cap collecting and a nearby store with a mix-six policy. It's actually slightly frustrating because I've realized recently that I'll never get to try everything that's out there. Been mostly buying mixed six packs and variety 12 packs over the past two years and I've barely even made a scratch in what's out there.
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FreelanceSocialist posted:They might as well have aged it in coffins on the far side of the moon and then buried it at sea for a decade and then filtered it through a nuclear reactor Don't give Brewdog any ideas. TenaciousTomato posted:What got ya'll into craft beer? For me it was my family offering me a La Fin du Monde last Christmas which is still one of my favorites to this day. My dad started me on Newcastle Brown and Guinness, which is a better start than most people get. After a few years of subsisting on Leinie's Red in college, my best friend and I started checking out some of the other beers in the fridge at the local liquor shop. One of my formative experiences was drinking a Unibroue La Terrible at his neighbor's place one fateful night, which hooked me on dark beers and Belgians. A Rogue Shakespeare Stout a few weeks later locked me into my stout fixation. After college I began my descent into beer in earnest, starting with a Dogfish Head Raison D'Etre with some friends at a bar in Chicago. I started collecting bottle caps, which prompted me to buy more and more unusual beers to fill gaps in the collection, which furthered my education along with simply being interested in drinking more. Then that same friend and his girlfriend got into homebrewing, got me into the hobby, and it's been a steady roll from there into brewing professionally. I probably owe the guy for my current career path more than anybody else. Short answer: Unibroue La Terrible and Rogue Shakespeare Stout are most directly responsible for getting me into beer, but there's a whole slew of beers I could name that have been critically important along the way.
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Tonight's Beer: Avery Mephistopheles, Batch 6 ('10) and Batch 7 ('11) Appearance: Black ink, mahogany foam. Actual, visible legs in the lacing. Both are nearly identical, with the '10 having slightly thicker consistency and better retention. Aroma: Molasses, espresso beans, dark rum, raisins. Alcohol. The '11 has some kind of spiciness to it - cinnamon or clove, almost. The '10 is packing more intense dried, dark fruits. Taste: Everything from the nose is packed into the flavor profile with a nice sweetness and a great finish. The '10 is far smoother in the transition to the aftertaste. Probably just due to aging. The '11 is a little sharper, same reason, I bet. Overall: 9/10 would drunk again. Probably not two bottles in one sitting next time. Remarkably consistent between the two batches, however. Excellent, monster beer. edit: Good lord - this poo poo fucks you up. FreelanceSocialist fucked around with this message at 05:18 on Apr 9, 2012 |
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Drinking the last of a Jester King Black Metal I split with family after Easter dinner tonight. It's pretty tasty - very much on the dark fruit/molasses side of imperial stout, and a bit cloying on the tongue, but still delicious.
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I got to try Southern Tier Gemini tonight, which is a 50/50 blend of Hoppe/Unearthly. I thought it was actually really good, although it didn't have very much of a hop profile for being called a blended IPA. I also guess that's because neither of the beers it was blended with have much hoppiness to them. The beer seemed to be pretty complex, and I loved every sip of it. I haven't had many blended beers, but I would probably have to say this is my favorite of the ones I have had.
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I got into craft beer through friends and having local options. Minnesota had lots of good rural options and I've slowly worked my way up through the different styles. Originally, I didn't like most styles. My strategy was to try lots of different styles in order to appreciate them. I worked my way through IPAs, Stouts, Tripels, etc. in order to appreciate them. Not everything was good, but I learned things along the way.
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I definitely think I learned the most from drinking mediocre or bad craft beers and paying attention to the flaws. This helped me a lot when I got in to home-brewing and needed to research what went wrong with my own disasters. Different types of contamination, improper heating post-fermentation (diacetyls, etc), esters, oxidation and light-struck hop oils, etc. This helped me figure out why I hate Corona, in short order - that stuff skunks before it even hits the store shelves, I bet.
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Ubik posted:Jester King Black Metal  is something I feel needs to be posted whenever someone mentions a beer from God's own cockroach-ridden blast furnace and it isn't Shiner. (or Lone Star)Anyway I worked in San Francisco during the first dot-com era and as a result I chiefly went to fancy-pants parties and drank Jack 'n Cokes like a man. Then I moved to Houston where I lived within walking distance of The Richmond Arms Pub, the only British/Irish pub in the city where actual British/Irish expatriates hang around and watch the footy and drink Queen's imperial pints of Bombardier. There I got introduced to real German lagers, and then Saint Arnold; and then around this time other breweries in TX started to open up and it just sort of snowballed from there. I still like going to the Richmond even though there are now several much hipper places in Houston to find a drink. It fills up to beyond fire-code limits whenever Man U or Liverpool is playing.
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FreelanceSocialist posted:I walk in to grab a six of cans for our group and there was this huge, snarling, egotistically-labelled bottle on the shelf that stared right at me and declared, "You Are Not Worthy". I love how many good stories there are about Arrogant Bastard. I'd seen it on the shelf in my PBR-swilling days but not had it yet. One day my (pretty awesome and hilarious) French boss came in from a weekend of drinking. While recounting some story, he said "Oh man, I was at this bar, and they had the PERFECT beer for me!" "Was it called Arrogant Bastard?", I asked. ".......... yes, now get the gently caress out of my office."  Midorka posted:Also, am I the only one who gets banana from Belgian yeasts? Every time I drink a beer that uses Belgian yeasts it reminds me of cloves and bananas. I entered a Belgian tripel in a homebrew competition and got dinged for strong banana flavor (and they were right). I'm not experienced enough to know if I should have fermented warmer or cooler, or pitched more or less yeast, or used more or less oxygen etc, but it's a possible Belgian yeast flavor for sure. FWIW it was the Westmalle yeast, Wyeast 3787.
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I usually just write the date on it with a silver marker. Works great to keeping it organized when it doesn't have a date on it, or when I want to know what day I bought it.
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TenaciousTomato posted:What got ya'll into craft beer? For me it was my family offering me a La Fin du Monde last Christmas which is still one of my favorites to this day. Didn't drink much of anything (for no particular reason) while in college, and so on a post-graduation trip in London on a bar crawl, my friend got me into ciders. When I got back to the states I was hooked, and luckily there was a beer bar in town that served that particular brand. From ciders it went to Blue Moon, then to Oberon, and then one day that same beer bar was having a Hopslam release with promises of freebies and prizes. I actually went for the freebies, but walked away with a new favorite beer. That was two years ago.... 
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TenaciousTomato posted:What got ya'll into craft beer? For me it was my family offering me a La Fin du Monde last Christmas which is still one of my favorites to this day. I didn't like beer that much back when I lived in the suburbs and I can't remember what made me keep trying it. Of course, I was mostly exposed to the watery domestics, so why would I like it? To give an idea of how backwards I was, I distinctly remember trying Sam Adams once and thinking it was "too much". My head would have exploded if I drank a Sierra Nevada. The first time beer made sense to me was when, driving home from work one Friday, I stopped in at a liquor store off the highway. I was looking for something to drink, but not something that would wreck me, so I look at their beer selection, which was more substantial than what I was used to in grocery stores. I had been reading about beers online and darker beers sounded like the right fit for me, so I picked up a couple bottles of Samuel Smith's Taddy Porter. It turned out to be the right choice for someone whose palate couldn't appreciate much; it was so fun, bready and mild that it made me rethink beer altogether. I worked my way through all the standards, slowly getting my beer legs. Eventually, I moved to Chicago and checked out the Goose Island brewpub on Clybourn, which is still to this day my hangout. First beer I had there was a Hex Nut Brown Ale, which I loved, and I was hooked from then on. Goose Island introduced me to lots of styles, which made me braver to hit up places like Binny's and try beers I had never heard of, nor seen in most stores. Finally, the last nail in the coffin came in 2010, when I went to the first Kegs For Kids here in Chicago; it's a local charity where brewers from all over come together to help raise money for the local schools while promoting their beers. I tried so much STUFF that night and was really impressed with how much passion the brewers, who were on site personally pouring their beers in most cases, had for their products. Also met some guys there who taught me I'm not so much a beer snob as I am an enthusiastic amateur, haha.
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TenaciousTomato posted:What got ya'll into craft beer? For me it was my family offering me a La Fin du Monde last Christmas which is still one of my favorites to this day. I was a Corona drinker for a long time. Then I discovered the joys of Jack Daniels... had many a bad night with Mr Daniels.... quit drinking for awhile as, well, I wasnt really having fun...and everything always tasted the same. My sister started dating a guy who "knew this awesome beer bar" in the middle of nowhere, PA. Took me up there one night, and I proceeded to have the worst hangover the next morning of my entire life. Tried Frambroise for the first time. Tried Chimay Grande Reserve for the first time. Tried Hopping Frog IPA, and sipped some Mephistopheles... and had a few others .... amazing stuff. Then I became hooked on Belgians for a long time. Chimay, Westmalle, Bernardus... the normal offenders... Then I discovered Victory. And Troegs. And Dogfish Head... and then I became a drun... er hobbyist 
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FreelanceSocialist posted:I definitely think I learned the most from drinking mediocre or bad craft beers and paying attention to the flaws. This helped me a lot when I got in to home-brewing and needed to research what went wrong with my own disasters. Different types of contamination, improper heating post-fermentation (diacetyls, etc), esters, oxidation and light-struck hop oils, etc. This helped me figure out why I hate Corona, in short order - that stuff skunks before it even hits the store shelves, I bet. If Charlie Papazian is to be believed, Corona intentionally skunks the beer. He goes on to say now that they can it, they expose all the beer to a nice dose of UV light right before canning. For the What got me into craft beer thing. My sophomore year in college a friend got me a bomber of SN PA, it was so unlike any other beer I had. Out of budgetary concerns I stayed with liquor and natty through the rest of the year. That summer though I studied in Russia, and all beer was sold by the bottle. I don't know how familiar anyone is with Baltika, but with their caps they number it 0-9 (even though they didn't have a '1' beer, assholes) and I figured I'd collect the whole set, then I saw other Russian beers with caps I collected. I came back to the US and developed the compulsion to collect new unique beer bottle caps (THAT I HAD TO DRINK MYSELF, NONE OF THIS TAKING OTHER PEOPLES' CAPS CRAP). 500 unique caps later I've been able to slow down and just figure out the ones I like the best. By the way most Russian beer is terrible and the worst beer I ever had was I believe a Nevskoye beer pronounced in russian "Chai-na Taown" with tea in it. Guys in my group iced each other with it before icing existed.
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Getting in to craft beer was as much a part of my childhood as it was my adult life. I live right up the road from Pizza Port Solana Beach, which was the epicenter of San Diego craft beer. I remember going there a lot as a kid and smelling the brew process, and sometimes sneakily trying beers here and there. I may not remember the specific beers, but the smell and taste of the whole place is very much burned into my memory. Also, my dad always drank SN Pale and Stone IPA as long as I can remember. He loved Swami's IPA when it came out and was a really early Stone Brewing lover in the late '90s. He also home brewed, And I still have his Papazian book plastered and bookmarked with his recipes all through it. Its really funny to look through them and look at what he considered extreme.
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Some great posts in here guys, fun to read everyone's perspective. Belgian beer is definitely why I got hooked. Before my first La Fin, the carbonation/yeast of Hoegaarden, (Blue Moon before I knew better..) made me realize there is so much more to beer than Heineken or Bud. I think tonight I'm going for a bomber of La Fin and a tough choice between; Rogue Oatmeal, Sam Smith Oatmeal, Cadillac Mountain Stout, Old Viscosity, or The Abyss. drat I have a lot of stouts to try.
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TenaciousTomato posted:What got ya'll into craft beer? For me it was my family offering me a La Fin du Monde last Christmas which is still one of my favorites to this day. I was never really a beer fan until I had a Newcastle brown ale. Even though by my standards today Newcastle is trash, it was the first beer I ever bought and drank mainly for taste. Then I discovered Sierra Nevada's porter and it was all over for me after that.
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Chill_Bebop posted:Getting in to craft beer was as much a part of my childhood as it was my adult life. I live right up the road from Pizza Port Solana Beach, which was the epicenter of San Diego craft beer.  for Pizza Port - my mom lives down the road from the Carlsbad one, and my dad lives right by the Solana Beach one. And of course I didn't realize it was any good until I had moved to New Jersey.  Next time I go back home to visit, I will definitely be stopping there.Incidentally, I may have mentioned this already but if anyone in the NJ/PA area is not already planning on going to the Washington Crossing Brewfest this year, you really should. They have a great list of breweries showing up this year - check it out here and here.
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What got me into craft beer was... discovering better beer. When I was underage, I drank whatever I could get (of course), but once I turned 21, I almost immediately shifted from crap like MGD and Rolling Rock to things like Guinness and Sam Adams, and then Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Started hitting up brewpubs in the Ann Arbor area, starting with Grizzly Peak (which sucked), and then Arbor Brewing Co. I'm pretty sad about what happened to ABC, actually, since they used to be pretty darn good both food and beer-wise back in 1998-2000, when I was actually going there pretty regularly. Red Snapper and Faricy Fest were both fantastic on tap. But I witnessed the slow, steady decline into mediocrity over the next few years, usually each drop after a change in ownership. And it finally got to where it is now, utterly forgettable beers, and in some cases even bad. During that timeframe we pretty much moved our drinking from ABC to Ashley's, something that I will never, ever regret. Since then, it's been a slow process of determining which styles I really like and trying things from all over. And now I live in a veritable craft beer micro-mecca, and life is pretty drat good.
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TenaciousTomato posted:Some great posts in here guys, fun to read everyone's perspective. Belgian beer is definitely why I got hooked. Before my first La Fin, the carbonation/yeast of Hoegaarden, (Blue Moon before I knew better..) made me realize there is so much more to beer than Heineken or Bud. I'm pretty anti-Rogue lately after hearing a lot of bad poo poo about how they run their business in combination to a few really mediocre brews by them. I can guarantee that Sam Smith's Oatmeal Stout is better than Rogue's without even trying it. Sam Smith's, in my opinion, is the standard to what every oatmeal stout should be compared to. Also, I don't think Old Viscosity is a stout, it's kind of a hybrid in a way, but I suppose it's similar to a coffee stout in a way.
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Mikkeler I Beat U is potent stuff. Grapefruit, honey, witch hazel. I think I like it! But at $6/bottle, I think this is not going to be a regular in the rotation. Guys who know IIPAs: How does Mikkeler IBU compare to the pantheon? (Stone Ruination, Pliny, etc.)
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Heading down to the new Troegs location tomorrow Looks to be a decent drive, but nothing too crazy, and they have some new stuff on tap from their Scratch series as well. I was at their old Harrisburg location and really liked it, cant' wait to see what they did down in Hershey
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Vertigo posted:Heading down to the new Troegs location tomorrow It is like Beersheypark. You'll love it, especially compared to the '60s public school building they usedta be in.
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SUPER HASSLER posted:It is like Beersheypark. You'll love it, especially compared to the '60s public school building they usedta be in. Awesome can't wait. They have their new Scratch Series on tap which is an Imperial Stout... everyone is saying it's awesome .
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Drinking a Great Divide Colette and picking up a strong peanut taste. Never tasted that in this beer before...
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Midorka posted:I'm pretty anti-Rogue lately after hearing a lot of bad poo poo about how they run their business in combination to a few really mediocre brews by them. I can't think of a single Rouge beer that I've ever been impressed by, but I hadn't heard about any lovely business stuff.
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Had a Trader Joe's Boatswain HLV (actually made by Minhas Craft Brewery). Decent hoppy, dark ale. Great deal at $2.29/bomber at Trader Joe's. It's not great or anything, but it's kinda like a poor mans' Arrogant Bastard: decent amount of hops and dark malts just barely balanced, good enough to be on the tasty side of decent.
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Arnold of Soissons posted:I can't think of a single Rouge beer that I've ever been impressed by, but I hadn't heard about any lovely business stuff. Same here, though Dead Guy is decent. I also haven't heard about any shady business practices...care to enlighten, Midorka?
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Tony Magee on Twitter posted:Back in Feb, I thought about all the truck loads of brew leaving eastward. Thought about all the freight. Added it up. It was enough to cover the financing for a whole new brewery. A whole new brewery. A WHOLE 'nother brewery. So I jumped a plane n flew back to Chicago found a perfect space on a movie soundstage complex so I rented it. Called ROLEC and they'll have a 250bbl brewhouse ready next July. 1st mash-in will b Q4 2013.Freakin cool, this.Lots and lotsa work ahead.Google it- 18th&Rockwell, Chicago.Fresher beer w/ less diesel in it. Lagunitas is expanding to Chicago!
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20ozMonkey posted:Lagunitas is expanding to Chicago! The prospect of seeing Lagunitas on shelves here in Indiana is loving awesome. Now if we could just get Russian River, Deschutes, and Firestone Walker to expand eastward...
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