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krustster posted:La Folie is like $13 here but I have yet to buy any. Is it THAT good? New Belgium is weird for me, I like many of their year-round offerings but the idea of them making something really awesome is kind of hard for me to grasp. I think there is still some 2013 floating around here. Yeah one of the most reliable sours out there, consistently good. In my head I put it up with the RR sours
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danbanana posted:Just to play devil's advocate... is this that much different than reserve societies? For the $50 levels, you're paying in advance for a really big beer. That's not that much different than me handing CCB $150 in advance for 5 beers (of which I know only minimal details). The only difference is Stone is 1) using an already in-place infrastructure to handle the payment system and 2) telling you specifically where you're money is going. It's not, and that's where Stone hosed up. If they just did this as a pre-sale or any other format other than crowdfunding, they could get the same PR bump and cash infusion without the backlash of using crowdfunding in a way a lot of people disagree with. It's not like Stone doesn't have a system for taking payments available. But the self aggrandizing "Beer revolution" message plus the crowdfunding has just made them look awful. They're trying to pretend they're a scrappy upstart changing the beer world and not one of the biggest craft breweries in the US, and a lot of people are insulted by Stone treating them like they're stupid. Doesn't help that the beers they're pre-saling sound like hot rear end. cryme posted:We haven't even touched on the most egregious part of the Stone indiegogo campaign: all three of the proposed collaborations sound loving HORRIBLE. Yeah, $50 for an imperial Saison Du Buff? No thanks, I had the regular one. TenaciousTomato posted:Stone entering Rogue category... They're nowhere near the epic levels of douchebaggery that Rogue pulls but all of this "craft beer revolution" talk definitely feels straight out of the Rogue marketing playbook. The fact that it is even reminiscent of Rogue should be enough to tell them it's a bad loving idea. MunchE fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Jul 21, 2014 |
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krustster posted:I discovered it from the crappy ISO:FT facebook group, which I joined specifically because some people on beer advocate said it had the worst of the worst internet beer people and who can resist a train wreck?? Holy poo poo how bad is a website if the cesspool of the beer world is saying it's a train wreck. bartolimu posted:Awww yeah. Fresh cans of Joseph James Citra Rye IPA are on the shelves. I know what I'm drinking this summer. California folks, you should keep an eye out for this one; it's a legitimately great rye IPA. I haven't had much I liked from them, so I am skeptical sir
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Wamsutta posted:I don't think it's fair to put Abita in with Magic Hat. Abita isn't amazing, but I haven't had anything from them that's just plain bad. As someone who has made the mistake of trying Purple Haze more than once I disagree wholeheartedly.
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Wamsutta posted:I don't even get why you'd roll the dice there to begin with. Then again, I avoid fruit beers. I happily concede that Purple Haze must be terrible. When I was first getting into craft beer I had this idea that I wanted to try every single beer the Yard House served It had it's ups and downs
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Hauki posted:Welp, GABF tickets were sold out by 10:01 I guess? My girlfriend and I were each searching different sessions as the clock struck and they all turned up sold out. It seems like the time has come and gone that GABF needs to be split up. Maybe make it a few times a year regional or something. Docjowles posted:This sounds like typical "every beer is a whale or a drainpour" Beeradvocate crap. I'd say beer camp met expectations. Almost all of the beers were good to great. While I am happy to poo poo on beeradvocate, everything I had from the Beer camp 12 pack was ho-hum and they decided to not play to any of the brewer's strengths and got a weak result. That said I only had like 6 of them tho. TenaciousTomato posted:I've probably bought 4 or 5 6-packs of a Lil Sumthin Extra! over the last month. go to IPA thanks to this thread. In Lagunitas we trust! As someone who loves Lagunitas and also Stone but hates Rogue with a passion this post leaves me conflicted
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Sirotan posted:Did anyone else watch the first two episodes of Dark Horse Nation, the History channel 'reality' series about Dark Horse Brewing? Good lord were they tedious as hell. It also makes the guys at Dark Horse look like a bunch of rednecks living in the middle of rear end in a top hat, Michigan. I've never been that big of a fan but so far the show is making me want to buy their beer even less. I wasn't sure what I liked more, the one where they spent a whole episode inventing a big Randall (while one guy learned to SHOOT GUNS YEE HAW) or the one where they abandoned their broken down brewery to go fart around ice fishing because who really gives a poo poo if we can't package any product, amirite? Also, remember Brewmasters? Even though it wasn't that popular, Dogfish Head started flying off the shelves here (in CA) to the point where 60 minute was out of stock for weeks at a time. Considering Dark Horse is a much smaller footprint, I have a feeling that even if it's awful this show might make their beer a real pain to get.
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Docjowles posted:Stone's continuing to do a really great job marketing their Berlin expansion. I would imagine it's very possible for people of Europe to be bored of the beers that are popular in their area especially since many of them have been around for centuries. Considering I read that Budweiser is catching on in a lot of Europe since young people want to drink something different than their parents, I think there is a market in selling "European beer currently sucks, try our new thing" Isn't that pretty much exactly the message Brewdog sells except on a UK scale and not Europe? They seem to do pretty well for themselves.
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Angry Grimace posted:I'm sure that Full Pint event at Toro SD is totally not going to be a complete clusterfuck. I remember back when "beer people" didn't discourage me from attending events with Hill Farmstead kegs. I prefer to refer to them as "Beer Advocates"
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Angry Grimace posted:As I pointed out to a friend of mine, my personal cellar is big enough that I could have a much better time drinking rare beer at his house with no crowds, guaranteed pours and no worry about driving, paying exorbitant prices for pours, etc. I still go to events when I can but I'm much more particular about when and where I go. You can tell when something starts to get traction with the obnoxious hype chasers and it's best to avoid. That said I could have gotten the hookup to that Full Pint fest but I've got a friend's baby shower to go to. Doh. I'm with you though, I have a much better time just hanging at a friends house sharing beer with people I like.
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The brewery membership thing catching on really bums me out. It's the shittiest part of the wine world, every time I go wine tasting I've got to politely decline 20 sales pitches to join their wine clubs. Now more and more breweries are pulling the same poo poo it seems. Not a fan.
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a worthy uhh posted:Except beer nerds worldwide are tripping over their own feet to be first to hand fistfuls of cash to breweries for Reserve Society memberships. The bartender at CCB's Taproom isn't going to hit you with a Catador sales pitch when you're paying your tab. Sounds like those wineries are just trying to squeeze out some more cash, despite no/low demand for whatever they already produced, rather than the Brewery Society model. When it's just a handful of top tier places doing it, sure. But the more it catches on the more it's acceptable behavior and I could easily see it spreading. I also don't particularly like creating an expensive club that gets special treatment/exclusives/etc. I've witnessed The Bruery leave their taproom completely unbussed and a mess while they have a dedicated Reserve Society staffer farting around on his MacBook doing gently caress all. I get that it's a money maker and it's not going away but I also don't like the concept as a whole of having to pay a huge chunk of change per year just for the right to buy some beer. But like you said as long as you've got people falling over each other to hand breweries money it's going to keep growing.
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krustster posted:Sour cardamom and ginger... sounds like a delicious taste combination as long as you enjoy things that are awful. My condolences. Also sadly ironic that the guy who drank an "infected" thing a few posts back had a great experience. Yeah infection or not it's just a terrible beer. It tastes like a lovely holiday spiced ale with 2x the ABV. Blech.
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Furious Lobster posted:Not to keep posting festivals but I've been deliberately kept out of beer for a while so I'm not sure if this has been posted already. Shelton Bros. is apparently having a beer festival simply named "The Festival" that recently released a mini tentative list of what is going to be served there. I'm going with a group of friends not only in the LA but also from the SD area even though this falls directly in SDBW (just to underscore the crazy potential of this event) for the noon Saturday session. Tickets are available here. Me and my pals already have tickets and a hotel booked nearby for this one. Should be pretty awesome.
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Coco13 posted:Important and relevant: which MLB ballparks have the best craft beer lists? Being in SoCal I checked Angels vs. Dodgers and the "unrated" section of the Dodgers link is a list of pretty solid craft breweries that just don't count for them because the person compiling the article put "Drakes Brewing Company" and couldn't find a rating on it That said every time I see a newspaper list about stadium beer it's not based in reality. I remember the one posting the average price of beer in the parks around the country and every one I'd been to was $5 cheaper than the real price of beer.
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It's really funny because the vast majority of beer geeks I know are not at all into pumpkin beer, and yet they seem incredibly popular and there are more of them every year. Who's drinking the pumpkin beer?!?
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Eejit posted:
Where are my 6 pack berliners? The only one I can get with any regularity around here is the Bruery's Hottenroth, which is great but hard to session a beer for $7 a bottle
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Fenrir posted:Ok, so it's not Stone or Dogfish or Flower Power, but I had some Harpoon IPA tonight and it's good stuff for the price. It's a Boston beer and I don't know how far it gets out, so I'm not sure if it's available for everyone, but at 17 dollars for a 12 pack I had to give it a try. Definitely worth it. I had some on tap in Boston and I was impressed with it for a run of the mill available everywhere IPA. It seemed to be the default "local beer" at every bar in town
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krustster posted:
The whole trend of using popular branded bourbon barrels as a marketing point on the beer is funny but Pappy hype is so strong it carries over. poo poo you've got 50/50 who've made their entire brand off of selling the same mediocre stout in different barrels. There is a difference when the actual spirit is changed (ie: scotch barrel vs. rum barrel vs bourbon barrel) but I would be very surprised if someone was able to taste the same beer aged in two different bourbon barrels and really tell a difference.
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swickles posted:There is a chain in the US called The Yardhouse. I don't know about other states, but in Florida they serve half-yards (because a full yard falls into the 32-128 oz. illegal territory.) They usually have something decent on tap, and over 100 taps depending on the one you go to. They don't get rare or limited release stuff though oddly enough. They used to have full yards at all the ones around here but they tended to fall over and break too much so they just do half yards. In fact they only do them during daytime hours and not at night, also. I think they realized the Yard gimmick wasn't that important and people just wanted beer in a container that isn't like holding a giant glass dick
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Zam posted:I can't complain too much about Yardhouse because it works for what it is and their recent chalkboard series has at least brought some decent offerings to locations. Vegas Yardhouse is an oasis in a craft beer desert. Regular priced pints of good craft beer on the strip? Thanks, Vegas Yardhouse!
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bartolimu posted:
I was comped a $75 tab at the Pub at Monte Carlo in March. It covered 1 entree and 1 beer for me and my gf and their craft beer selection was...okay. Aces and Ales is amazing though, I want to live there. But it is a $30 cab ride from the Strip. Next time I should get a hotel next to Aces and Ales
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bartolimu posted:Pub isn't really that expensive, did you get the (non-existent) lobster? Or maybe you were at Public House instead? Weird. https://www.montecarlo.com/files/restaurants/The-Pub-Menu.pdf Appetizers $10-15, Burgers $15-20, Other stuff $20-30 and beers were like $10 https://www.montecarlo.com/files/restaurants/the-pub-beer-menu.pdf Beers were $8-10 a pint. So realistically I probably got 2 beers before my $75 comp ran out. But yeah really pricy for bar food. And the selection is only good when you compare it to the travesty that is the rest of the strip. Better off going to Total Wine and walking around with an open container like a boss. Or the aforementioned Yardhouse at Linq
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cryme posted:i feel you but thats a serious 'boo hoo' moment I am in SoCal, I went to a craft beer bar in Boston to try new stuff and they had a Lost Abbey takeover. Then I went to Vegas and they had a Pizza Port tap takeover. I left home to try new poo poo, god drat it!
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Vertigo posted:Random Question 2 : FFF/FW Ol' Leghorn : Is it worth picking any up? I've got 2 in my cart for an order I'm placing, but haven't had it. and reviews seem all over the place with it ... I think that beer is a good barleywine that is made better by the hop profile that came in from the 3F side. The longer it ages the longer the hop profile fades. It's still going to be a good barleywine but once the hop character fades it loses what made it special. ColHannibal posted:Just picked up 2 six packs of grapefruit sculpin IPA, and god drat if it is not the most refreshing thing ever. I like it, but it's not Sculpin. The grapefruit completely overwhelms and kills the hop profile rather than complementing it. Perfectly Cromulent posted:air-, I haven't seen 3 Way on the shelves here in a couple of weeks. As someone who muled a ton of Suicide Squeeze and 3 Way from WA to CA earlier this year, I back up that they are awesome.
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Ft. George's 2 seasonal collaboration beers this summer were incredibly good. Suicide Squeeze was my favorite session IPA ever and 3 Way was a world class IPA. They've always made good beers but they really stepped up their game this summer.
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toe knee hand posted:Okay, where do I drink in Seattle? I looked at the Wiki, doesn't seem too developed. I like Elysian and Fremont and Pyramid but I've only had what is available in BC which is not a lot of things. I'll only be there a couple of days and won't have a car. I'll be staying in Mt Baker near the Link station, so around there or downtown or near Safeco is preferable. I'd rather go to good pubs with a nice selection than to breweries, unless there's a real reason to go to the breweries. I just spent 2 weeks drinking in Seattle so I have strong opinions Uber or Lyft to wherever you want to go. Most everywhere in town you can get to for $10 or less except maybe West Seattle Over on the stadium side of town, you have Two Beers/Seattle Cider which was great at both beer and cider. Georgetown is over that way but they're open lame hours and their beer is on at damned near every bar you go to anyhow. Schooner Exact is solid beer, and Gastropod/EPIC Brewing is definitely worth going to if you want very weird challenging but good beers (my favorite was a Sour Beet Beer) Outside of that area, Pine Box in Capitol Hill is fantastic and became my second home when I was there. There is also an Elysian branch right down the street. Brouwers over near Fremont is pretty legendary, and they have some great sours and Hair of the Dog beers on their bottle list. Some honorable mentions from random parts of town were Chuck's Hop Shop, Uber Tavern and Burgundian. There is a Pyramid Alehouse right near the stadiums and it's pretty balls and not worth going. I also wouldn't go out of your way to visit Pike Brewing unless you specifically want to go to Pike Place anyhow. If you want to brewery hop you can go over to Fremont/Ballard and you've got like a dozen options. Also you can fill growlers almost everywhere which is pretty awesome. I know there are some places I am forgetting because it was a pretty boozy trip but it's a great beer town Edit: If you go to West Seattle, Beer Junction and Beveridge Place are both rad MunchE fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Sep 27, 2014 |
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Compusaurus posted:
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Fat Lou posted:I have had one floating around my apartment for 6 months. I have picked it up like 10 times to drink it and I just have not gotten around to it. I figure I should get around to drinking it. I don't have high expectations of BrewDog in general but I actually quite liked Tokio
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Loonytoad Quack posted:I've drunk a lot of Brewdog and a lot of (very expensive in comparison) American beer, and Brewdog's good stuff is easily up there with the best of the US stuff. I'm sure after it's sat on a boat for 12 weeks then takes another few months to make its way through the ludicrous distribution systems you guys have that it's well past its best, but it's totally unfair to say it's poo poo. BrewDog is on par with American craft breweries, the problem is when we get it here it's already old and also comes in at a higher price point due to being an import. Hardcore IPA is great but costs $3-4 more per bomber than something like Sculpin or West Coast IPA which are not only better but fresher. Also BrewDog's PR stunts (Sent a beer to Putin! Viagra beer! Deer head beer! highest ABV beer in the world inside a squirrel lol!) can get a bit dopey. Loonytoad Quack posted:e: I looked it up: 1) it was brewed in 2011 not last year, 2) it doesn't contain any Viagra (which is a prescription drug and would therefore be illegal) it's just a stupid joke: "According to the specially commissioned label, the Royal Virility Performance contains Viagra, chocolate, Horny Goat Weed and ‘a healthy dose of sarcasm’" I actually bought that beer, you know how awkward it is opening a "viagra" beer at a bottle share? Lots of tense moments fearful of errant boners. crazyfish posted:For me, it was the kickstarter that soured me on them. They do make some good beer at least. IRS is top-tier good, among others. I just don't really like successful companies looking for handouts with kickstarter. How is taking people's money and given them beer and merchandise a "handout"? Nobody donated money to Stone, people pre-ordered beers. People love Reserve Societies which is just a blind beer preorder half the time, but a 1 off beer pre-order is bad because it's hosted on IndieGoGo? 
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Shelton Bros. Fest released a semi-complete taplist, although most of the notable American brewers are "TBD": http://www.sheltonbrothers.com/the-festival-tap-list/ Looks good, man.
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danbanana posted:- Nebraska Sexy Betty. No barrel or brandy came through. Basically a standard RIS without anything of particular note. Not great, especially for the money. I've been one of the few people I know who thinks Nebraska's Black Betty is a bland mediocre Stout that people convince themselves is good because they paid $25 for a fancy looking 750ml. I tried Sexy Betty on draft after holding that stance for a year or so, and yep, confirmed. That beer is pure marketing and Emporer's New Clothes.
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Furious Lobster posted:I assume you're actually talking about TRB Field's Forever but the best strawberry beer I've had yet is a SARA beer: Cask Strawberry; it had a great nose and taste while never coming even near the band aids problem most strawberry beers have. Sitting on a couple of bottles of this currently, can confirm. I've never had a strawberry beer I liked but this one is incredible.
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Drunk Nerds posted:Oh, gosh, good point. I have them all in a google spreadsheet, so I'll just lit the ones I've tried in that price range. Some of these might be more centric to the LA area but I'm assuming since you listed a Noble beer you're near Stone Pasadena, if not some of these might not be available to you: El Segundo - They make a few IPAs with odd names and they're almost all awesome. Worth picking up any of the bunch if they're less than 3 months old. They're not local, but Ska Brewing's Modus Hoperandi has been one of my six pack jams and just recently came to CA. Hangar 24's Betty IPA just hit sixers and $4.50 bombers replacing their Columbus IPA and it's delicious Golden Road's IPA and IPL line are on point these days and usually around $10 4/pk Hess Habitus Firestone Double Jack Port Hop-15 if you like your IPAs dank (it just won a GABF medal, too) Kern Just Outstanding is floating around the nicer beer stores lately That's all that comes to mind immediately. I too have been enjoying the hell out of Swami and Saint Archer IPA lately. Senf posted:Considering some of the beers on that list are brewed outside of SoCal, I take it you want to try new stuff in your market. I don't see anything from Drake's on there, so maybe give them a go? It's a little late for Aroma Coma and Aroma Prieta unfortunately wasn't bottled, but you can probably find some of their other stuff floating around. I'm not in love with the regular IPA but 1500 is awesome. Most of their big bottle IPAs are out of season, I think Denogginizer is the freshest. They're around at the finer stores in SoCal.
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SUPER HASSLER posted:air- is like the Johnny Appleseed of 3-Way IPA, I love it. I brought like 10 of those to the greater LA area and we did it on my podcast. poo poo was delicious. crazyfish posted:Try anything from the Coolship series and you will change your mind. Coolship Red is up there with the best of the fruited lambics. That beer was dope wattershed posted:California, home of diversity: I've had 90% of that list and the Alpine and Bruery stuff is rated way more highly than it deserves. Not that it's bad, but they get overrated hard. That said none of those beers on the list aren't top tier. Furious Lobster posted:Only missing Victory at Sea Coffee Vanilla - hopefully I can get it at SDBW but I'm not that sad. Holy poo poo that beer was at every garbage fest for 2-3 years straight. It's good.
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LEGO Genetics posted:Lagunitas born yesterday just arrived And it was so damned good. bartolimu posted:BY was kegged like two days ago. That poo poo will be so far gone by now I'll be surprised if you can even stand to drink it. Turns into a literal pumpkin on 11/1
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danbanana posted:I just got in my practice for Black Friday line waiting thanks to the DMV. Illinois outside in November? I got this. Is there a beer event on Black Friday or are you just planning on waiting in line to save $10 on a COBY brand DVD player?
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HatfulOfHollow posted:I will not go overboard with BCBS this year. Remember when everyone was boycotting and swore they'd never buy Goose Island again? Those were funny days.
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ChickenArise posted:Anything I've ever tried like this ends up recommending me thing that I would almost definitely like, but the beers are outside of my distro or no longer made. That's the most massive problem with beer is that most anything decent is a varying degree of regional. So anything trying to automate recommendations falls on the wrong side of "That's not available there" danbanana posted:I don't mean to pile on but... who the gently caress designed this? It looks like a baby's room. Painful on the eyes, not nearly as easy to see things, and it's much slower. Good work, people. I can't speak to the usability of it because I don't use it but the site went from "looks bootleg and hacky" to "looks professional"
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