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Post by Warfish on May 31, 2015 18:49:49 GMT -5
So at the end of a long hard day, nothing slakes one palate more than a good craft beer. And many of us are blessed today with a myriad assortment of fine craft beer brewers right in our own backyards. Proverbially speaking and otherwise. So perhaps a thread is in order, a toast if you will, to the great craft beers, ales, IPA, portrs stouts and everything in between, we've been enjoying of late. As a new visitor here, I am pleased to lead us off... This weekend, I enjoyed: So craft-y, there isn't even an image of it online best as I can tell. The Cask, named for the Poe short story The Cask of Amontillado. A dark, smooth, sweet, full-bodied & robust beer that warms the insides from its 8% alcohol. Serve in a snifter glass. Bricked in Double Bock. Malts: 2-row Pale, Dark Munich, Vienna, Crystal, Blackprinz Hops: Hallertau, Hersbrucker ABV: 8% IBU: 28 Brewed by the Baltimore-Washington Beer Works (BWBW) . Baltimore Maryland With a dark beer as our first and flagship brand, Black Butte defined Deschutes as a radical player. A slight hop bitterness up front enhances the distinctive chocolate and roasted finish. It’s prized for its creamy mouthfeel and intense complex flavors. Malt: Pale, Carapils, Chocolate, Crystal, Wheat Hops: Cascade, Bravo, Tettnang Deschutes Brewery, Portland Oregon Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Stout® Carefully crafted by Alltech’s master brewers, Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Stout® builds on the success of its barrel-aged brother, the beloved Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale®. Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Stout is brewed and aged with Alltech® Café Citadelle Haitian coffee and aged in world-famous Kentucky bourbon barrels. The result is a complex stout with dark-roasted malts, hints of caramel and vanilla and a lightly roasted coffee finish. Lexington Brewing and Distilling Company , Lexington, KY
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Post by Big L on May 31, 2015 19:29:11 GMT -5
Damn hipsters and their IPAs.
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Post by RobR on May 31, 2015 21:44:17 GMT -5
Damn hipsters and their IPAs. Keep drinking your vile mass produced swill. I'm enjoying my La Cumbre Elevated IPA only available here in NM and maybe parts of Colorado and I am far from a hipster. Maybe one day you will see the light. It's been probably close to a decade since I downed a Bud or Miller piece of shit and I'm not going back. Good thread Op.
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Post by Touchable on May 31, 2015 22:02:12 GMT -5
Damn hipsters and their IPAs. Keep drinking your vile mass produced swill. I'm enjoying my La Cumbre Elevated IPA only available here in NM and maybe parts of Colorado and I am far from a hipster. Maybe one day you will see the light. It's been probably close to a decade since I downed a Bud or Miller piece of shit and I'm not going back. Good thread Op. If you're loaded or only drink 3-4 beers in a sitting, then that's fine. But I'm not paying $25-30 for a 12 pack when I want to drink the entire 12 pack...about 3 times a week. I've personally never drank ANY alcohol for the taste. If I want something that tastes good and quenches my thirst, I'll reach for some iced tea, soda or water. If I want to get smashed? I'd rather spend $10-12 on a 12 pack of Yuengling, Bud, Rolling Rock, etc.
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Post by Big L on May 31, 2015 22:05:30 GMT -5
Damn hipsters and their IPAs. Keep drinking your vile mass produced swill. I'm enjoying my La Cumbre Elevated IPA only available here in NM and maybe parts of Colorado and I am far from a hipster. Maybe one day you will see the light. It's been probably close to a decade since I downed a Bud or Miller piece of shit and I'm not going back. Good thread Op. There's a lot more to beers than IPAs.
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Post by RobR on May 31, 2015 22:48:55 GMT -5
Keep drinking your vile mass produced swill. I'm enjoying my La Cumbre Elevated IPA only available here in NM and maybe parts of Colorado and I am far from a hipster. Maybe one day you will see the light. It's been probably close to a decade since I downed a Bud or Miller piece of shit and I'm not going back. Good thread Op. If you're loaded or only drink 3-4 beers in a sitting, then that's fine. But I'm not paying $25-30 for a 12 pack when I want to drink the entire 12 pack...about 3 times a week. I've personally never drank ANY alcohol for the taste. If I want something that tastes good and quenches my thirst, I'll reach for some iced tea, soda or water. If I want to get smashed? I'd rather spend $10-12 on a 12 pack of Yuengling, Bud, Rolling Rock, etc. It's $10 to fill up a growler at the brewery or you could pay $7-$8 for a 4 pack of tallboys at the local Total Wine. Stop drinking the mass produced swill and you will see the light.....you can even can get something other than a hipster IPA. Truth is I loved IPA's back in the late 80's ...early 90's and now all the flamesters give them a bad name. A good IPA is something that should be appreciated. Not that shit that is brewed by the bazillion gallons.
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Post by RobR on May 31, 2015 22:51:08 GMT -5
Keep drinking your vile mass produced swill. I'm enjoying my La Cumbre Elevated IPA only available here in NM and maybe parts of Colorado and I am far from a hipster. Maybe one day you will see the light. It's been probably close to a decade since I downed a Bud or Miller piece of shit and I'm not going back. Good thread Op. There's a lot more to beers than IPAs. Absolutely!! As long as they don't have Coors, Bud, or Miller in the first name you are headed in the right direction. And BTW Happy Bday you Isles loving bastard.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jun 1, 2015 2:51:58 GMT -5
Keep drinking your vile mass produced swill. I'm enjoying my La Cumbre Elevated IPA only available here in NM and maybe parts of Colorado and I am far from a hipster. Maybe one day you will see the light. It's been probably close to a decade since I downed a Bud or Miller piece of shit and I'm not going back. Good thread Op. If you're loaded or only drink 3-4 beers in a sitting, then that's fine. But I'm not paying $25-30 for a 12 pack when I want to drink the entire 12 pack...about 3 times a week. I've personally never drank ANY alcohol for the taste. If I want something that tastes good and quenches my thirst, I'll reach for some iced tea, soda or water. If I want to get smashed? I'd rather spend $10-12 on a 12 pack of Yuengling, Bud, Rolling Rock, etc. cdn.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/ahh-jeez-not-this-shit-again-837eb.png
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Post by Fishooked on Jun 1, 2015 4:37:45 GMT -5
Damn hipsters and their IPAs. Fucking everything is a goddamn IPA these days.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jun 1, 2015 4:39:17 GMT -5
Damn hipsters and their IPAs. Fucking everything is a goddamn IPA these days. In the US. You guys are addicted to those. There ARE other beers out there.
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Post by Fishooked on Jun 1, 2015 5:01:40 GMT -5
Fucking everything is a goddamn IPA these days. In the US. You guys are addicted to those. There ARE other beers out there. Absolutely, it gets frustrating when it seems that every 2 out of 3 new beers are freakin IPAs. Damn then and their hoppiness. Frankly though I drink a lot more ciders more than anything else these days. An apple a day and what not.
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Post by Lithfan on Jun 1, 2015 5:44:11 GMT -5
Here are a couple I enjoyed up in Wisconisn this weekend. Went up with my daughter fora game at Miller Park where she enjoyed her first Cider, but I had a Louie's Demise Amber Ale at the game from the Milwaukee Brewing Co. When I am in Wisconsin, i always try to make it back with something from New Glarus Brewing -- readily available throughout the State, but you cant find it anywhere else. Their Pale Ale is my favorite.
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Post by Lithfan on Jun 1, 2015 6:30:02 GMT -5
If you're loaded or only drink 3-4 beers in a sitting, then that's fine. But I'm not paying $25-30 for a 12 pack when I want to drink the entire 12 pack...about 3 times a week. I've personally never drank ANY alcohol for the taste. If I want something that tastes good and quenches my thirst, I'll reach for some iced tea, soda or water. If I want to get smashed? I'd rather spend $10-12 on a 12 pack of Yuengling, Bud, Rolling Rock, etc When I was younger and went out just to get drunk I used to have the first two craft beers/better quality stuff and then when it became more about the buzz than about the beer, I would switch to the cheap mass produced swill for the rest of the night. Now, it is just about the beer for me -- I am not drinking to get drunk -- so I stick almost exclusively to the microbrews.
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Post by Fishooked on Jun 1, 2015 7:37:26 GMT -5
Keep drinking your vile mass produced swill. I'm enjoying my La Cumbre Elevated IPA only available here in NM and maybe parts of Colorado and I am far from a hipster. Maybe one day you will see the light. It's been probably close to a decade since I downed a Bud or Miller piece of shit and I'm not going back. Good thread Op. If you're loaded or only drink 3-4 beers in a sitting, then that's fine. But I'm not paying $25-30 for a 12 pack when I want to drink the entire 12 pack...about 3 times a week. I've personally never drank ANY alcohol for the taste. If I want something that tastes good and quenches my thirst, I'll reach for some iced tea, soda or water. If I want to get smashed? I'd rather spend $10-12 on a 12 pack of Yuengling, Bud, Rolling Rock, etc. 3 12 packs 3x a week? To each his own, but damn
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Post by Jets Things on Jun 1, 2015 7:44:27 GMT -5
I go through phases. Yesterday it was stouts, today it's IPA's (and I'm the furthest thing from a hipster), tomorrow who knows. What I do know is that I won't be a dick like my old man who likes some beer, but hates hops (?!) so he'll ask for a fucking gay-ass blueberry wheat beer or some shit like that.
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