state your beer, drinkers

[B-Dawg]

Luckily this vintage is not a wit base! Anybody else hitting up the Russian River release?

[renski]

Bdawg...If I was still in nor cal I would but I might ride up there for the framboise release. I can bring alpine goodies. Still have an extra bourbon token too.

[B-Dawg]

Sounds good Ren. Not sure if/when they'll announce the framboise release, but I'd like to think I'll be there. I have already had the Bourbon Token, but any fresh Duet/Pure/Nelson you bring up would be awesome. Could just pay you back or bring some beer in.

[eat skull]

[broneck]

No other thread on the entirety of the forum nears this one for pure fucking nerdery. You guys are nuts. I love it.

[shufon]

Hit up a small Kuhnhenn event this afternoon, six taps going. Nothing crazy but still some good brews.. American Barleywine, Mayhem (strong Belgian dark ale), Lunar Eclipse (black IPA), Solar Eclipse (18% RIS), Stollen Christmas Ale (tasted like German stollen cake? was weird) and Penetration Porter.

Picked up growlers of Solar Eclipse, Penetration Porter, and the barleywine

Here's the Solar Eclipse. This thing is sticky as shit, definitely one of the stickiest beers I've had. Nice balanced bittersweet taste and a surprisingly low alcohol presence. It burns my tongue just slightly but if I didn't know better I would assume this beer was 10-12%.

[youkinorn2]

It Is Zwanze Day

[mr fluffernutter]

ahnyone have the brooklyn brewery 'Concoction'?

[shufon]

Yeah I've had it a couple of times.. it's not bad, wasn't crazy about it though.

[renski]

had a few nice packages show up, i think i need to stop trading for a while or just don't accept any new traders... also met JackCrank last night and had a beer at neighborhood.

[Layne]

I went to Spec's on Smith Street for the second time today.

This place is massive to me... I'm originally from Mississippi and anything over 6% abw is illegal. Needless to say, I have trouble picking new stuff out. After roaming around on my own and consulting with the staff, here's what I came away with.

This place also has a ton of sausages, various meats, and cheeses. I grabbed these two for an evening snack.

[shufon]

Zwanze day was fucking awesome. Drank 3 vintages of Zwanze (08/10/11), 3 other Cantillons, Surly 5, Tilquin, Avery sours, etc etc. youkinorn has the pics, I just drank

[milosz]

Anyone in New York want to proxy 8-12 bottles of Innis & Gunn to me? Can't ship beer to Texas and I drank a girl's last bottle of her favorite beer.

Will make it worth your while, etc.

[FranklinCosgrove]

President Obama has started brewing his own Honey Ale at the White House:

http://gizmodo.com/5841468/the-white-house-brews-its-own-beer

[youkinorn2]

Here are some pictures from Zwanze Day 2011 at Spuyten Duyvil with Shufon. It was an awesome afternoon of beer:

Cantillon Kirek and Rosé de Gambrinus

Allagash/New Belgium Vrienden and Hassens Oude Kriek on gravity cask

Zwanze 2010

Cantillon Vigneronne

Gueuze Tilquin and De La Senne Taras Boulba

First pour of Zwanze 2011

...and a lot more pours of Zwanze 2011

...and MY pour of Zwanze 2011

Also had Avery Brabant, Avery Dépuceleuse, and Two Brothers Askew but didn't get good pictures of them.

Then went to a tasting to drink even more sours (haven't gone through/didn't take many pictures):

Beersel Oude Kriek

Ommegang Aphrodite

Hanssens Lambic Experimental Raspberry

Russian River Consecration

Cascade Kriek

Weyerbacher Riserva

Upland Cherry Lambic

Rodenbach 2007 Vintage

Jolly Pumpkin Oro del Calabaza

Avery Anniversary Ale Eighteen (rye saison)

[shufon]

Was disappointed with the Upland, we lost like half the bottle when I opened it

[broneck]

Is Upland not worth it? they just got a run in at Volo but they're extremely expensive, so I've been somewhat hesitant ...

[shufon]

You can get the lambics at Volo? I've heard their regular lineup of beers is meh but the lambics are supposedly good. The small pour I got of the cherry was tasty but it was too small for me to really make an opinion.

[renski]

might depend on which ones you get too. I thought the peach was ok waiting to drink a kiwi or persimmon but scared for gushers.

[mpcec]

So fucking jealous of that tasting lineup... drank some Calabaza Blanca last night, was decent but nothing special IMO.

[soonami]

Upland Lambics are pretty good. They are fruit forward Lambics that taste like very fresh, the blueberry especially tasted like here were leaves and stems in it. The acidity is usually pretty restrained with a moderate level of funk. It would be interesting to try a straight Lambic or the base beers in a Gueuze to compare

[shufon]

Drank Dark Intrigue among quite a few others tonight. Holding a hand bottled 2011 Zwanze in this pic.

[islandboi8204]

How's that dark intrigue? I had sexual chocolate last night and I was a bit underwhelmed. Not as much chocolate as I was hoping for but still nice. I'm hoping the BA version has more.

[shufon]

It was ok but definitely nothing worth seeking out. Oak came through slightly, bourbon was there even less.. the nose definitely had a little bourbon in it but I couldn't really taste it. None of the overly hoppy flavor of Storm King though which was nice (in my opinion, although I know some people are into it).

[Farhad]

WTF!!! why haven't I seen this thread before!!!

errrr huge beer fan here.

My favorite styles are Lambics, barrel aged imperial stouts, farm house ales, and crisp-clean ipas

some examples

Saison Dupont

Foret

Thiriez Extra

bam and Luciérnaga from Jolly Pumpkin

anything cantillon makes and sours in general

bells expedition

burbon county

Sculpin

anything from Russian river including blind pig, Pliny the elder ( have had the younger many times before the hype hit and think the elder is better) sanctification,beatification, supplication, temptation........

Nelson and duet ipas

man the list goes on and on

Will be posting some pics soon and geeking out with you guys.

[Brienneoftarth]

cutthroat porter from odell brewing co.

[shufon]

^About to drink a Myrcenary from Odell. Anybody else read that Goose Island is bottling BCS aged in rye barrels with blackberries and raspberries? Think I'm more stoked to get ahold of this than I am CBS.

[soonami]

Going to Weyerbacher Rapture release today. American Wild Red ale aged 18 months in a Pinot Noir barrel. 300 cases total

http://weyerbacher.com/blog/2011/09/weyerbacher-update-september-8-2011/

[renski]

will trade for bal token

[shufon]

If you can mule some, bring me a bottle later this month soonami.

edit: please