state your beer, drinkers

[Happy Hooligan]

Had Lucky Bastard on tap in the city a couple weekends ago, was good. Quite a bit hoppier than the other beers in the Arrogant Bastard series.

hoppy like in full of citrus or hoppy like makes you quince?

[shufon]

What does quince mean?

And it's not extremely full of citrus style hoppy, just had a much more upfront hop characteristic than the other ones. It was a tasting of like 8 different kinds of Arrogant Bastard and I remember thinking the hops were more present in the Lucky Bastard than any of the other ones. It was good enough that I picked up a few bottles to age when I saw it in the store in Ithaca.

[Happy Hooligan]

What does quince mean?

And it's not extremely full of citrus style hoppy, just had a much more upfront hop characteristic than the other ones. It was a tasting of like 8 different kinds of Arrogant Bastard and I remember thinking the hops were more present in the Lucky Bastard than any of the other ones. It was good enough that I picked up a few bottles to age when I saw it in the store in Ithaca.

I actually meant wince, but my fingers were not behaving.

good to know. There are 8 types? I've had double, oaked, and plain... what are the others?

[shufon]

I can't remember all of them exactly but I know we had Arrogant, Double, Oaked, Lucky, Boubon Barrel Aged, and a few other random aged types of Arrogant and Double.

I think some of them were one offs for the bar I was in because they were having "Stone Arrogant Bastard Week" apparently.

[renski]

if you guys ever go the Stone brewery they definitely have variations of the bastards which are not released on bottle and only available at the bar. sometime soon they will be doing their "stone winter storm" which also consist of their variations of their beers..

[shufon]

Plane got delayed from Philly to Ithaca earlier, so I made a stop at the bar

Long Trail Hibernator

Long Trail Mocha Porter

The Hibertnator is listed as a Scottish Ale on beeradvocate, but it tasted really German to me, more like a Bock. Went down easy but I wasn't fond of the taste. The Mocha Porter was quite nice, actually something I'd seek out. I like it a lot better than the Roosterifsh Cocoa Porter that I was drinking last week.

[Happy Hooligan]

just picked up 3 bottles of Lucky Bastard! Not sure if i"ll open one tonight or wait till tomorrow.

[Stylish Pilot]

Goooooooodddd. Nice and hoppy

[shufon]

Crooked Stave Brewery

Should be something to watch for, this is the guy from the Brettanomyces Project. I'm expecting him to put out some interesting beers now that he has a fully operation brewery going.

[shufon]

Went to get a burger at a brewpub here tonight and they had just tapped a keg of Barrel Aged Superfriends. Superfriends was an incredible sour ipa that used all brett fermentation.. 5 brewers took part in it earlier this year. The barrel aged just came out yetserday at restaurants/bars, brewery will start filling growlers next week, pretty pumped about this

[shufon]

Fuuuck The Bruery Melange #3 bottled was incredible. I had it on draft from one of the first kegs they made and it was completely different having it bottled. It's been 21 months since when I had it on tap. Drinking it from the bottle tonight tasted like a chocolate with orange cream inside.. literally, the orange flavor was reallly INTENSE. The orange flavor subsided considerably as the beer warmed up and the chocolate flavor started to show itself much more...to say the least, this was one of the most extreme beers I've had in a long time, and one of the most enjoyable. Was really happy to be able to try it again.

Aside from this one, I drank RR Damnation, Ommegang Belgian Pale Ale (pictured), Sly Fox Sorachi Pale Ale, and some other free ones tonight

Cheers to my semester being over (for the most part), haha.

Also, apologies for the super shitty pics tonight, taking pics with a 3mp cell phone camera in a dimly light bar doesn't result in good pics.

Ommegang Belgian Pale Ale

The Bruery Melange #3

[eat skull]

Double IPA

[Tyro1]

still trying local small brewery beers (not really craft beers). This was pretty good actually. Good flavour, similar to a little creatures pale, little fruity, but overall really clean flavour.

[renski]

http://beernews.org/2010/12/introducing-three-heads-brewing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=introducing-three-heads-brewing;

looking forward to these guys... NY sufu beer geeks will need to trade me!

[shufon]

That's not far from where I am right now ren.. whenever I see it around I'll let you know.

[renski]

shufon: sorry ive been flakey with the reply on your list, i hit the guy up a few days ago and he said he'd get back to me when he could. i'll give him a call back tomorrow to see if he has something for me.

if not i can source most of that list piece by piece from a few stores.

[shufon]

Ahh it's cool man, I'm keeping myself plenty entertained with beers over on this side of the country

As of next Wednesday I'll actually be traveling for about 6 weeks, so take your time.. even if you do get a price list it'll be a while before I try to get anything from you.

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Weihenstephan Hefe-Weiss

Swamphead Midnight Oil - Oatmeal Coffee Stout .. Swamphead is Gainesville's local brewery. I'm loving this stout -- perfect for the cold weather.

[nattomoto]

Nøgne Ø Red Horizon

Brewed with Sake Yeast No. 7

17% ABV

[Happy Hooligan]

Nøgne Ø Red Horizon

Brewed with Sake Yeast No. 7

17% ABV

damn... 17%!

[nattomoto]

damn... 17%!

Yeah, pretty unbelievable for beer. And she was pretty damn unique. Kinda like a 'light' barleywine, which makes little sense considering how much more alcohol it has than barleywines. But it was light and sweet with lots of body.

[twistedtrees]

Shit, I knew I had been slacking with the posts, but I didn't realize I hadn't posted anything in like 6 months.

Here's some of what I've been drinking.

Goose Island Fleur, excellent Belgian ale

Half Acre Thunder and Son Brown Ale

Half Acre Big Hugs Coffee Stout

And the ridiculously overpriced (and I'm an idiot for buying it) Goose Island Bourbon County Stout Rare.

[renski]

i just got one of those as a gift the other day... not really a stout person but since it was free im going to try it.

[ktothe]

Yeah, pretty unbelievable for beer. And she was pretty damn unique. Kinda like a 'light' barleywine, which makes little sense considering how much more alcohol it has than barleywines. But it was light and sweet with lots of body.

Was it aged at all?

[nattomoto]

Was it aged at all?

I don't believe so. The bottle notes said that the sake brewery that provided the yeast recommended a low temperature fermentation, and thus the fermentation happened over an extended period of time.

[Stylish Pilot]

[Stylish Pilot]

^^^ That sucked. by the by

Pretty good. Only aged it like a a month and a half

[Mogli]

Weihenstephan Hefe-Weiss

Love this stuff

[concealed]

TJ's Stockyard Oatmeal Stout

Sierra Nevada Celebration

Berkshire Brewing Company Coffeehouse Porter (excellent)

Sierra Nevada 2010 Bigfoot

Brooklyn BCS for watching Pats v. Bears in the blizzard

[shufon]

^ How's the Brooklyn BCS? I have a 4pack I'm aging right now.