state your beer, drinkers

[Happy Hooligan]

Box from ren

that bootleggers may not look it, but I think it's hands down the best most delightful IPA to drink... the notes it has is amazing... I absolutely love it.

[soonami]

To anybody interested-- I'm taking a trip up to VT for a few days in early May and I'll be making stops to pick up Lawson's Finest, The Alchemist, and Hill Farmstead beers. If anybody wants me to proxy anything, pm me.

I have not had any LFL or Alchemist so I would definitely be interesting in trying whatever they had. I can trade you home brew. XD

[thomas_collins]

Had the 2nd best burger of my life today, Rustic Canyon in Santa Monica. Suggested beer pairing was quite nice.

[shufon]

^Nice, Rochefort is great beer. Try the 8 and 10 if you get a chance.

@soonami-- pm me

[mmg]

so jealous looking at all this

i'm a beer rookie, but learning...been hearing about roggenbier and i want to try one, anyone got a recommendation? i'm all about rye right now

[shufon]

^Never had a roggenbier before, sounds interesting though. If you're in Cali and looking for rye beers, I dig Hop Rod Rye from Bear Republic. Rugbrod from The Bruery is pretty good too.

Anyway, just downed this thing, always enjoy this beer:

[M.O.A]

so jealous looking at all this

i'm a beer rookie, but learning...been hearing about roggenbier and i want to try one, anyone got a recommendation? i'm all about rye right now

I wanna see pictures of the beer you picked up last week.

Need to post in this and the foodz thread more often...

[renski]

Alpine Nelson rye has to be my favorite IPA.

[youkinorn2]

Jester King Wytchmaker rye ipa.

Pretty damn good. Pours a gorgeous amber with a nice fluffy head that has some pretty good staying power.

Taste is a nice balance of various hop flavors...citrusy, but also some nice piney and spicy notes to round it out. Best aspect is that the rye maltiness really starts to come out as the beer warms up a bit. Great balance, and the rye is forward enough in the flavor to make it a nice something a little different.

Looking forward to trying the Black Metal stout...and the guy at the store said they should be getting some of the Commercial Suicide in soon. Good to see some more good beer coming out of Texas.

Real Ale (also from outside austin) also makes a nice rye pale ale. Maybe it's going to be Austin's style of choice, ha.

[shufon]

Are they getting regular Commercial Suicide or the whiskey barrel version? Either way, grab me a bottle if you're down there long enough to get it

[youkinorn2]

I imagine just the regular (which is still barrel aged).

I don't think they bottle the whiskey aged.

And yeah, got you a couple bottles of Black Metal and will get the Commercial Suicide if I can. Will also grab you some other texas beers, if you'd like.

Their "table farmhouse beer" sounds really nice, too. Like that they are doing some session-style stuff.

[shufon]

Cool, I'll hook it up with some stuff in return, I have 6-ish trades in the work right now plus my trip for VT so I'll have plenty of stuff to spare

[soonami]

I had Black Metal a couple weeks ago, it was very good. It had good coffee, caramel and chocolate flavors and hid the alcohol very well.

[thomas_collins]

Bell's Two Hearted tonight, per shuf's suggestion. Reallllllly enjoying it.

[renski]

drinking a black diamond rampage DIPA waiting to get tattooed. fuck this going to be fun.

beer taste great also for a random pickup.

[shufon]

What are you having done ren?

[renski]

filling in chest piece. beer and tattoos go hand in hand. ha

[concealed]

Uncle is coming to visit from MI, bringing me a few bottles of Bell's and other locals not available here in MA

[mmg]

tried these last night (i've had redemption before)

the avery had a sort of ginger layer and felt a bit thick, not my favorite but what do i know

[concealed]

first time having two hearted - playing dominos with the fam

he also brought me 2 mixed sixes of all the other most common Bell's and a bottle of Jolly Pumpkin, i forget which that we polished off earlier

grabbed a mixed six as well

[B-Dawg]

Here's the latest beerscapades.. Sorry about the pic quality, mmg

Russian River bottles, a History:

SF 2011 Craft Brewer's Conference Oyster Stout

Flemish red barrel tasting at work

2011 Hunahpu's Imperial Stout (aged on ancho and pasilla peppers, vanilla beans, cacao nibs, and cinnamon) by Cigar City Brewing

Imperial stout brewed with raisins and spices by CCB and Mikkeller

Having had a good variety of CCB's stouts, I can say with confidence that they are unrivaled in their ability to make chewy, rich imperial stouts. Amazing.

This is what greeted everyone who entered Toronado last Sunday for the Belgian Beer Dinner

[shufon]

^Last pic looks awesome B-Dawg. What'd you think of the 2011 Hunaphu? I drank a 2010 last month and didn't care for it, I think the peppers came through way too strong with some age on it..

[B-Dawg]

I preferred the 2010 I had last July to this one, but loved both. The spicing was way more apparent to me in the 2011. I remember the 2010 being a subtle blend of all of them where nothing stood out, and the body.. OH THE BODY! This one all of the stuff stood out in a mexican chocolate kind of way.

[mmg]

haha b, you know i'm just loving it and wanting more.

also, thank you everyone for your rye input

[renski]

been wanting to try jolly pumpkin beers lately. I need more sour beers or just need more variety.

[shufon]

Does Jolly Pumpkin not distribute anything in CA ren?

[B-Dawg]

The Night of a Meter of Liters...

Four (Pliny)

Three (Batch 004 Consecration)

Two (Redemption)

One (3 day old Blind Pig)

[frankie123]

I'm doneski wit one beer lol so i get drunk cheap! plus i dont drink much since i'm training and i have a really low BF% which doesnt absorb alki and it hits me righta way lol

afterall, heineken or carlsberg

[Stylish Pilot]

Haven't been on here in awhile. What up guys

Looks like I'll be in Napa Valley this week for work. Russian River will be top of my list. Any other brewerys I should check out?

[soonami]

Might as well hit up Lagunitas if you'll be at RR. Apparently they made a gueze, although idk if it's still available.