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NEVERENDING ♾️ The NEVERENDING Beer Thread

HEADLINE: Seasonal beers are brewing
http://www.courier-journal.com/arti...rch+of+Good+Food+|+Seasonal+beers+are+brewing

HIGHLIGHT:
To simplify matters, we tasted in regional flights: Germany, Mid-Atlantic North America, Heartland North America and Western North America. Then we tasted our top five examples against one another, and in the end came up with three that all of us liked.

Left Hand Brewing Oktoberfest, Brooklyn Oktoberfest and Upland Oktoberfest
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Has anyone taste/like these ?
 
Cascade brewing "The Vine" out of somewhere in oregon. OMG - amazing beer. a blend of a sour triple and a belgian golden, refermented with white grapes and aged in oak barrels. Incredible beer.
 
imaplanner said:
Cascade brewing "The Vine" out of somewhere in oregon. OMG - amazing beer. a blend of a sour triple and a belgian golden, refermented with white grapes and aged in oak barrels. Incredible beer.
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Must find....enjoying a Harpoon Oktoberfest for the time being.
 
ARRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!

I got a six pack of Firestone Union Jack India Pale Ale........I opened one and it smelled like a skunk after a territorial fight!:-c+o:)':)glum:
 
The One said:
I got a six pack of Firestone Union Jack India Pale Ale........I opened one and it smelled like a skunk after a territorial fight!:-c+o:)':)glum:
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I guess when you turn a tire factory into a brewery you might have that problem like that.
 
My public service announcement for the day...steer clear of Atwater D Light Kölsch-Style Beer. There are much better examples of the style to be found (I personally recommend New Hollands 'Lucid'. Earns its solid B rating from Beer advocate IMO). I found it to be slightly over-carbonated, waayy too light, and had an odd, chalky aftertaste.
 
Anyone here into sour beers? I'm currently at the bar at cascade brew barrel house www.cascadebrewingbarrelhouse.com

18 of their beers on tap, 14 of them are sour beers

I had already tried their "the vine" whih is a soured tripel blended with soured blondes and golden ales then refermented with white wine grapes. It's amazing

so tonight I have tried the "bourbonic plague" which is a sour strong porter (12%) aged in oak and bourbon barrels then aged an additional 14 months on top of dates and vanilla beans

I've tried the sang nior, which is a sour imperial red aged over a year in Pinot and whiskey barrels then blended win cherries

then the Vladimir the Imp-aler, which is a bond of sour triples, quads and blondes aged in bourbon and oak barrels.

All I can say is wow. Such complex, mouth puckering yet delicous ales.
 
Seen at Wegmans. So wrong, yet so right.

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I had my first ever Genessee Cream Ale tonight. While stopping at our corner liquor store to get some good Octoberfest beer, in the corner on the shelf in the back, I saw a 6-pack of Genny Cream. I'd never seen it sold anywhere down here before, and since Dan spoke of it often when he was down here (including texting me tonight after I sent him a picture of it on the shelf), I bought it. It wasn't bad. It tasted like an ale, only without the customary ale aftertaste. Will I buy it again? Most likely. Especially if I wind up at UB for grad school.
 
I;'m not a fan of copy-and-paste posts, but this has to be the best beer review ever.

Regarding Beer 30 ...

First off I must state that I have been a beer drinker for a long time. I enjoy it. I’ve had everything from the most obscure trappist ales from Belgium to kegs of cheap light beer at college parties. That being said, understand that I knew EXACTLY what I was getting into when I bought this beer...or so I thought. I was up north with a few buddies for an ice fishing weekend in Northern Michigan last month. With an extremely thin budget, we knew it was a matter of quantity over quality when it came time to buy provisions for the weekend. When we saw this cheap beer for $11.99 a 30 pack, we bought 2 of them figuring it would be something like Natty Light or Milwaukee’s Beast. That was our first mistake as you’ll see... Appearance: Like I said, we weren’t expecting a $12 bottle of Chimay Ale when we bought this stuff, so I won’t hold the rediculous logo against it. SMELL: Here’s where I felt the first wave of nausea surge thru my body. It was like a cross between exhaust fumes, burnt corn, and that formaldehyde smell you got back in high school discecting frogs. I knew it wasn’t going to smell like roses, but this was worse than the last beer floating in the cooler water after 2 days of camping. TASTE: Now here is where I REALLY started to realize the error of my ways. This stuff made the last 6th of a warm keg of Old Style Light, After a football tailgate, with the ice far far gone, sitting in the sun all day on a 90 degree Summer day in the back of a pickup truck, taste like a $10 bottle of Orval at Morton’s Stakehouse in Chicago. The previous reviewer who described it as being "rancid" just did an injustice to rotting roadkill everywhere and the scavengers who eat it. This stuff would need 3 promotions to get to the status of mosquito-eggy water which has been sitting in a plastic bucket for a year and a half behind someone’s garage. It was soooo bad we started to laugh (in retrospect crying would have been more appropriate). We gave one to the two 60 year old ice fisherman in the shanty next to us. After one sip this old guy spit it out onto the ice and loudly proclaimed "Where did you get this s%$^!" or something to that effect. I mean seriously. How bad must a beer be for an ice fisherman to dump it out !?! Have you ever seen these guys?? They can whack down a 12 pack of Black Label like its nothing. They bait hooks all day and eat chips without even cleaning their hands, but this is what did them in. Now keep in mind this was while it was ICE COLD (we were on a frozen lake on a 5 degree day after all, how much colder can you make it?) They should make Survivor contestants drink this...they would WISH the next challenge involved cockroaches and worms. MOUTHFEEL: The trick is to open up your esophagus as if you were swallowing a pill and bypass the taste buds entirely. You don’t want to let it linger on your palate any longer than biologically necessary to ingest it. This isn’t exactly a bottle of ’64 Rothschild. Drinkability: Perhaps that Bear Grillys guy from Man Vs. Wild can legitimately claim to have had worse, but as for me? I’d have to put this at the bottom of the totem pole. It ranks somewhere slightly above toxic waste but below rubbing alcohol. I have a feeling that the makers of Natural Light, Milwaukee’s Best, and Pabst Blue Ribbon were behind the creation of this beer, in order to bolster their own sales in the college frat market. If you’re jonesin’ that bad for a buzz, stick to the Natty Light or the Gennessee. Learn from our mistake. This stuff should be banned.
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Remember that the American Revolution was plotted and planned over tankards of ale at local taverns.

:b:

Mike
 
Had to visit the Big City today for a meeting and gave myself an extra 30 minutes to stop by the store with specialty beers - a much bigger variety than I can obtain in my neck of the woods. Ended up buying myself the following:

Kirin Light - a light rice beer from Japan (more for my wife's palate)
Fuller's London Pride - one of my classic favorites which can not be bought locally
Sweetwater Brewery's (Atlanta, GA) Motor Boat - one of their seaonsal brews in the ESB style
Dogfish Head's (Delaware) My Antonio - one of their limited specialty brews, this one in a pilsner style

The first two I've had before. The Sweetwater intrigued me as they usually have very good brews. I've always tried Dogfish Head's specialty ales when I can They are excellent brewers. I can't wait to get home and start sampling - CHEERS!!!
 
Many in the old fart crowd here in Buffalo reminisce about Simon Pure, a local brewery that closed in 1971. They remember Simon Pure both as the nectar of the gods, and the laxative of the gods.

Well, today, at an estate sale, I saw a bottle of Simon Pure Ale for sale. Not just a bottle, but an unopened bottle, filled with 40+ year old beer. $4. I was so tempted to buy it, put it in the fridge for a few days, and write a review, but the chunks floating in it were a bit of a turn-off.

Anyhow, the bottle itself seemed quite heavy compared to a modern 12 oz/355 ml bottle. Sure, I know some say in the old days, things were built to last, but a non-returnable beer bottle?

Right now, instead of some Simon Pure that would probably clean me out and do even more damage, I'm sipping a Troegenator Doublebock. I'll take any modern American craft beer over a beer from the twilight era of local macrobrews anyday.
 
Dan said:
Well, today, at an estate sale, I saw a bottle of Simon Pure Ale for sale. Not just a bottle, but an unopened bottle, filled with 40+ year old beer. $4. I was so tempted to buy it, put it in the fridge for a few days, and write a review, but the chunks floating in it were a bit of a turn-off.
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I am doing research on brews from breweries of Buffalo's past and it seems like the recipe for Simon Pure Ale has been lost to history. I would love to have an original unopened bottle. There might be a chance of recovering some info from this sample (ie. yeast strain, hops utilized, etc.).

Do you know if this bottle is still available? Could you please pm me with info on this estate sale. Thanks.

Mark
 
These are the dead soldiers from the Holiday break...



Dogfish Head Ales - Palo Santo Marron, Burton Baton, My Antonia, Red&White: All very good and if you can find 'em, you won't regret it.
Schneider Weiss - Hefeweissen: One of Mrs. P's favorites and a very good Hefe.
Olde Hickory Brewery - Christmas Ale: Local brewery and this one was tasty and not over the top with spices.
Delirium Nocturnum: a long time favorite.
J. W. Lees - Harvest Ale 2000: Not going to bother with this brewery again. Second time I've been dissappointed. It was very heavy almost chewy.
Sam Adams - Infinium (that was our New Years toast drink): This was outstanding and on par with the DFH ales mentioned above.
 
We should start a Cyburbia local beer exchange. While I am not advocating lying to the fine employees at the Post Office about what is in a particular package, I would be willing to mail out a six-pack of assorted Michigan or Detroit area beers to somebody in say California or Oregon or Colorado, etc. for a six-pack of their local favorites. Any takers?
 
Try Bear Republic 'Red Rocket Ale' Its is by a micro brew in Sonoma, Ca and for me it is the best beer I have ever had..........cannot go without. It is sort of a mix, flavorwise, between a scottish ale and a IPA............tasty. Their Porter is also great.

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WSU MUP Student said:
We should start a Cyburbia local beer exchange. While I am not advocating lying to the fine employees at the Post Office about what is in a particular package, I would be willing to mail out a six-pack of assorted Michigan or Detroit area beers to somebody in say California or Oregon or Colorado, etc. for a six-pack of their local favorites. Any takers?
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I'd do it, but I can generally get Bells (yes I know there are others). The best NC beers that I've found are local breweries who are just barely getting into bottling. DuckRabbit on the NC Coast has very good dark beers in bottles.
 
WSU MUP Student said:
We should start a Cyburbia local beer exchange. While I am not advocating lying to the fine employees at the Post Office about what is in a particular package, I would be willing to mail out a six-pack of assorted Michigan or Detroit area beers to somebody in say California or Oregon or Colorado, etc. for a six-pack of their local favorites. Any takers?
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I'd take part in that. And if someone sent a 6 pack of something that I didn't like, there's always my Hubby! He'll try any beer once.
 
Planit said:
I'd do it, but I can generally get Bells (yes I know there are others). The best NC beers that I've found are local breweries who are just barely getting into bottling. DuckRabbit on the NC Coast has very good dark beers in bottles.
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Salmissra said:
I'd take part in that. And if someone sent a 6 pack of something that I didn't like, there's always my Hubby! He'll try any beer once.
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If either of you are still interested in this prospect, I will be near a good Detroit brewery tomorrow that doesn't distribute too far outside of the area (yes, there is no need to send Bell's, unless perchance you cannot get their Two Hearted Ale near you which is probably my favorite from them) and I can pick up something to send out.

Any takers?
 
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I'm posting this photo with no other intent but to make Maister drool.
 
Since the image is blocked, I'll have to wait until I get home to see what it is that would make me drool. I'm gonna guess it's a bottle of rauchbier, though.:)
 
WSU MUP Student said:
If either of you are still interested in this prospect, I will be near a good Detroit brewery tomorrow that doesn't distribute too far outside of the area (yes, there is no need to send Bell's, unless perchance you cannot get their Two Hearted Ale near you which is probably my favorite from them) and I can pick up something to send out.

Any takers?
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If you can get the Postal Employees to ship it, I'll take it. I like beer!! But hopefully not too dark - ie Guiness is too thick for me.

In exchange, would you like a selection of St. Arnolds (microbrewery out of Houston) and Shiner, or another Texas brewery?

If you're still open to the exchange, we can exchange addresses in PMs.
 
Sign me up for a beer swap!

My experience living in the Great Lakes region taught me that there's a dividing line in the beer scene somewhere around Erie or so. In Buffalo, the bulk of regions on the shelves are from the Northeast and New England, with few Midwestern beers. In Cleveland, the beer scene points west; Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin. Sure, you can get Southern Tier in Cleveland, Great Lakes in Buffalo, and the usual Colorado and Pacific Northwest brews in both places. However, you can't find Three Floyds, Bells or Founders in Buffalo, or the likes of Ithaca, Troegs, and Middle Ages in Cleveland.

FWIW, I've got a special treat for those living east of Illinois that is "illegal" around these parts. I'll just say it's by a company whose name begins with "New" and ends with "elgium". :D
 
PM sent Salmissra. The Saint Andrew's stuff looks interesting (at least on their website).


Dan said:
Sign me up for a beer swap!

FWIW, I've got a special treat for those living east of Illinois that is "illegal" around these parts. I'll just say it's by a company whose name begins with "New" and ends with "elgium". :D
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Ahh yes! The locally coveted atFay ireTay. You can find that in your parts?

How much alcohol content do you like in your beers? There's a locally brewed Belgian Trippel at 8.5% that some folks really seem to like.
 
Dan said:
Sign me up for a beer swap!

:D
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Do we need to start some sort of list of persons interested in the exchange? Who would organize? How often do members ship/receive? Any specific requests?

Just a couple thoughts off the top of my head. I've been in digital billboard ordinance meetings most of the day - brain is fried!
 
Beer Swap???

I want in!!! Maui Brewing Company makes a tough coconut porter that I am willing to bet many Cyburbians would enjoy!
 
I think we're on to something with this beer swapping. We get EwNay ElgiumBay here as well as a couple of other local breweries worthy of some sampling (Santa Fe Brewing and Ska Brewery in Durango which makes Modus Hoperandi among others). The best local brewery is Marble (just 6 blocks from my house!) which has a wide variety. I am partial to the IPAs (single double and triple), but they have a nice blonde, amber, wheat and red ale. Very well crafted.
 
Hooray for Beer

This song just came on. Love this group!!

Hooray for Beer, sung by Bowling for Soup

I was lost and down
Before you turned my life around
I never knew a love like this could happen
And they said I was too young
But when I turned 21
You gave me hope that's everlasting

Now everything is going my way
The sun's shining all around me
Bells are ringing and the birds are singing now
I wanna tell the whole world

Hooray For Beer!
I'm really glad you're here
Let's make this moment last
You feel so right
Wanna be with you all night
Shout it out
Hooray For Beer!

And sometimes when I wake
You seem like a mistake
My stomach's turning circles, my head is pounding
But at 5 o'clock
You say it's time to rock
And I can't resist, I gotta be around you

Now everything is hunky dory
The stars are shining all around me
There's a happy ending to my story now
I wanna tell the whole world

Hooray For Beer!
I'm really glad you're here
Let's make this moment last
You feel so right
Wanna be with you all night
Shout it out
Hooray For Beer!

I could hold you in my hands forever
Or at least until you're gone
And then I'll order another one

Now everything is going my way
The sun's shining all around me
Bells are ringing and the birds are singing now
I wanna tell the whole world

Hooray For Beer!
I'm really glad you're here
Let's make this moment last
You feel so right
Wanna be with you all night
Shout it out
Hooray!
Hip hip hooray!
Hooray For Beer!
 
Discovery Channel show - How Beer Saved the World

Did you know that Beer was critical to the birth of civilization? That's right - Beer. Scientists and historians line up to tell the amazing, untold story of how beer helped create maths, poetry, Pyramids, modern medicine, labor laws and America.
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I don't understand all the boosters and homers that say Buffalo is a great beer town. There's only two brewpubs in the area, Pearl Street and Buffalo Brewpub, and neither bottle their suds. The only area microbrewery, the struggling Flying Bison, has a virtually nonexistent distribution network; six packs in a few stores, on tap in maybe 20 restaurants and bars in the Elmwood Village neighborhood, and that's it. (The homers go gaga over Flying Bison Rusty Chain because OMG BIKES! AUTHENTICITY!, despite mediocre reviews.) Buffalo Brewing, a microbrewery whose beers you didn't have to seek out like the Holy Frigging Grail, failed about 10 years ago.

In every city I've lived in, I could find tons of local micros in the local grocery store. In Buffalo, there's no locally brewed beer on the shelves. The closest I find are products from Ellicottville Brewing and Southern Tier (Jamestown), both widely available beyond the region. Southern Tier seems to be emerging as Upstate New York's answer to New Belgium.

Maybe Buffalo was a great beer town in 1955. Now? Meh. The beer scene is pathetic for a city its size. There's retail establishments with a great selection of beer, without a doubt, but not much fermentation is taking place in the region.

The store shelves in Ithaca are much like those in Buffalo. Plenty of Northeastern and New England micros, plenty from the Rocky Mountain region and West Coast, but almost nothing from flyover country except Goose Island and Great Lakes, and zip, zilch, nada from the South. At least unlike Buffalo, there's a thriving brewing scene in town.

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btrage said:
I hope everyone is stocked up for the Groundhog Day Dump!!
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You'll need a good cold weather brew when you're snowed in. So far my favorite this year has been the Founder's Breakfast Stout. It's like the best chocolate oatmeal cookie ever made was magically turned to beer.
 
biscuit said:
You'll need a good cold weather brew when you're snowed in. So far my favorite this year has been the Founder's Breakfast Stout. It's like the best chocolate oatmeal cookie ever made was magically turned to beer.
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Nice. Plus- it's made for drinking at breakfast. Yay!
 
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