state your beer, drinkers

[shufon]

Yeah their distribution is extremely limited. I'm lucky enough though to have renski hook me up on a regular basis

Edited September 18, 2012 by shufon

[B-Dawg]

That HF lineup is bananas, nicely done.

I was lucky enough to get invited to some crazy ass tastings these past few months.

Papier Brandy, Rye, and Bourbon

1999 3F Oude Geuze

Those are the only pics I have from that tasting, but there were other delights like 1996 Cantillon Gueuze, 2012 BA Dark Lord lineup, NB Bottleworks X, 1991 De Neve Gueuze, DDG, Jean Chris Nomad, 3L EC18 Eclipse and 3L Rye Old Conundrum, 2007/2011/2012 Blabaer, and a ton of stuff I'm forgetting.

Then some individuals and a lineup from a going away wale harpooning:

Wooden Hell. If it's actually dropping off it must have been ridic before. One of the best, no doubt.

Cantillon kills it with their fruit lambic. Wish this wasn't so impossible to track down. More of a ripe juicy grape character than, say, Veritas 007/Malvasia Rosso/St. Lam.

2003 CdT. Delicious. Low carbonation, not everyone was into it, but I think it's worlds beyond what that beer has turned into.

Delicious side by side. Adam can really go the distance. Less sweet, heavy on tobacco and leather with so much age. And AftW is nicely complimented by the barrel character, though significantly sweeter by comparison.

Slowly but surely trying every vintage! This is 2000. Less funky and intense than 2001 or 1999. Still good but very mellow.

Another delicious HF beer. Awesome mouthfeel.

A wale because of the last batch and the small release, but it's just a really good framboise. It's super jammy, just bursting with raspberries. Given the price of admission, I'd say fresh LP Framboise is on par and a way better deal.

[B-Dawg]

And the lineup:

Armand somethingorother, Don Quijote, Pappy DL, Crianza, AftW, Sinner's 08, CBC Sour Brown, 3F 2000, Anna, Adam batch 6, Damon, Framboos, MS URANUS

FfaC batch 1, Veritas 007, CdT 2003, Wild One, 50n4e, Falling Rock La Folie blend, Eszett Gueuze, Wooden Hell

[shufon]

^Never fail to impress. Awesome stuff.

[minderaser]

I need to try more beers.

I tend to stick to Founders since I'm so close to the brewery

[shufon]

Not a bad thing to stick to. Opened this last weekend:

Was a little light on the body but other than that it was damn tasty. Very lemony and juicy.. didn't think it was all that funky at first but it came out quite a bit when it warmed up.

Edited September 26, 2012 by shufon

[jaac]

im trying to find some australian beers in the U.S. for some mates to try some stuff from home. anyone know any webstores or anyway i could get some?

[stayhandsome]

Band practice brought me to Chicago and we played in Detroit. During the drive we stopped at Greenbush, Dark Horse and Three Floyds which were fucking amazing breweries. Missed Bells but definitely had some Oberon at Handlebar.

At Bar Deville in Chicago I had a 2 Brothers beer with roasted coconut - too fucking good!

In Detroit I had an Atwater draft which uses the original Stroh's recipe.

After living in SoCal for the past two years, it's safe to say I've been missing out on some great beer!

[shufon]

Seems as though NYC got quite a bit of Bourbon County this year. Gonna go buy a few more when I get a chance.. much happier with the BCBS situation this year than last year

[Layne]

^ Route a few of those bad boys to TX.

[julius]

Peroni !

[shufon]

This year's BCBS is so damn good. By far the least hot it's ever been fresh, more dark fruit and less chocolate/fudge taste. Huge cherry taste before it warmed up. Less roast than 2011 which is good. Need to go cop more asap.

[youkinorn2]

save me one. I haven't mailed your freetail stuff yet, but I will next week haha.

Went to dieu du ciel while in Montreal over the weekend. Nice place Drank a good english style mild. Trip is mostly a blur of jameson shots and big bottles of gross tremblay, though.

[dranoelsy]

any1 hitting up gabf?

[Layne]

I haven't mailed your freetail stuff yet, but I will next week haha.

Did you just get some from the brewpub? Or did they start distributing?

[shufon]

@youkinorn Dieu du Ciel! is a fun place and the beer is great. Was Peche Mortel on tap when you were there?

[linkejeuk]

what I pretty much have most of the time, lots of sixpacks of la trappe dubbel and quads, lots of chimay. already finished my daily amount of chouffe and witte la trappe. and ofcourse dutch sausage buns. pretty much what I get with my daily groceries.

[dranoelsy]

TRAPPISTHOLICS

REAL

TRAPPIST

SHIIIIIITTT

[youkinorn2]

Did you just get some from the brewpub? Or did they start distributing?

Nah, still no distribution. Went down to the Fortuna Roja release. Probably going to try to make it to the La Muerta release, too. It was a good time and a really, really badass bottle share. Lots of stuff I wasn't expecting to see.

@youkinorn Dieu du Ciel! is a fun place and the beer is great. Was Peche Mortel on tap when you were there?

It was, but I didn't drink it even though I knew I should have haha. Really liked the mild they had on tap and ended up just getting two glasses of that. Friend had an imperial pilsner that was interesting, too.

Edited October 15, 2012 by youkinorn2

[nether]

Opening up one of these to enjoy with dinner

Duvel is wonderful. Just tried it yesterday.

[leatherscarf]

I went to San Diego this summer and had some IPAs(?) with my uncle. It's from some microbrewery and it tasted godly after all those finnish lagers I've been drinking back home. I really liked the taste, the best beer I've ever drank!

Here in Finland we have very few beers and most of them are popular huge brands like Carlsberg, Fosters etc. and finnish lagers like Lapin Kulta, Karhu etc. so I don't really even drink beer in here.

I also came up to this "Dancing Monkey" in a pub in Hua Hin, Thailand. It had very very weird taste but it was magically good even the little weird bit was disturbing me during all these 5... 15, Dancing Monkeys.. Never heard about it before that, probably some local beer.

And that reminded me of Singha of Thailand, oh god I love it. Is it popular in other countries?

[dranoelsy]

SOME1 PROXY ME BCBS PLES I'LL B UR BT MULE d:3-Z-<

[Layne]

Found out this afternoon that Cascade ships to Texas. How have I not known this???

[mikeboi]

anyone have experience with clown shoes beer?

[Layne]

anyone have experience with clown shoes beer?

Their imperial stouts are pretty good, nothing world class but worth trying. I think I enjoyed Vampire Slayer the most. The belgian IPA (tramp stamp) was decent as well. I wasn't a fan of any of their other IPAs. The pecan porter was gross... shit tasted like synthetic pecans.

[shufon]

I've had a few of their beers and didn't think much of them. They're pretty middle of the road in my opinion, usually just overlook them when I see them in stores.

[Layne]

Middle of the road is a perfect description.

[shufon]

Not about that middle of the road beer life. Need beer jawnz with rare tastes.

Had one of these tonight:

Very good beer. It's like a less sweet Black Tuesday.

Edited October 22, 2012 by shufon

[Layne]

Got a couple extra bottles of 2012 St. Arnold Pumpkinator. Holla if you wanna trade for something decent I can't get in TX.

[shufon]

Thanks Layne