The Beer Thread

i had a sip of Ten Fidy last night… amazing.  renewed my faith in imperial stouts.

also had small pours of over a dozen homebrews at the monthly DC homebrewer's club meeting.  some of the stuff was mediocre but none of it bad.  some were downright amazing: my highlights were a sparkling mead, belgian pale ale with gooseberries, a nelson sauvin IPA, a thin mint stout, and a three-year-old straight lambic.

Love Ten Fidy.  So delicious.

forget that boring ol' basketball bracket, fill in a beer bracket instead:

DRAFT is hosting a Beer Bracket Competition: See if your favorite beer can go all the way! Each person who fills out a bracket will be entered into a contest to win a Kegerator.com kegerator. Plus, the top beer will get mulah for their charity of choice: The winner gets $1,000!
Enter here: http://draftmag.com/mm/6673

free to enter.  if you win the kegerator and don't want it, i'll be happy to take it off your hands ;D

Jaguar wrote:

K8teebug wrote:
Am I the only beer drinker who is totally over insanely hopped beers and IPAs?

And then there are those of us who hated them all along.

I'll take a good ol' stout any day. Love those things. Sure, better in the colder months but I still love a good stout in the thick of summer as well.

Finally had a Murphy's Stout yesterday, back to back with a Guinness. In my opinion, the Guinness was way better. Then again, not at all a fair comparison since the Guinness was a draft and the Murphy's in a can. I know that I can't stand Guinness bottled or can. Totally different experience. Won't touch the stuff unless I'm using it to cook with which is good. Someday when I run across it, I'll have to try Murphy's on tap.

I have drunk a ton of different stouts but none of them is as good as a Guinness. 

speaking of beer brackets, WaPo is doing a local-only version:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/beer-madness-2013-going-local/2013/03/18/e79bbb04-8c29-11e2-9838-d62f083ba93f_story.html

voting closed on that one, tho.

sweetcell wrote:
speaking of beer brackets, WaPo is doing a local-only version:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/beer-madness-2013-going-local/2013/03/18/e79bbb04-8c29-11e2-9838-d62f083ba93f_story.html

voting closed on that one, tho.

it seems pretty unfair to put Raison D'Etre against Resurection in the first round.  Those are both #1 seeds imho.

atomicfront wrote:

Jaguar wrote:

K8teebug wrote:
Am I the only beer drinker who is totally over insanely hopped beers and IPAs?

And then there are those of us who hated them all along.

I'll take a good ol' stout any day. Love those things. Sure, better in the colder months but I still love a good stout in the thick of summer as well.

Finally had a Murphy's Stout yesterday, back to back with a Guinness. In my opinion, the Guinness was way better. Then again, not at all a fair comparison since the Guinness was a draft and the Murphy's in a can. I know that I can't stand Guinness bottled or can. Totally different experience. Won't touch the stuff unless I'm using it to cook with which is good. Someday when I run across it, I'll have to try Murphy's on tap.

I have drunk a ton of different stouts but none of them is as good as a Guinness. 

now i get it.  now i get you.  im in love with you.

Let me guess. Bass makes your favorite pale ale, Widmer makes your favorite hefeweizen, and either SAm Adams, Harpoon, or Dogfish (60, not 75, 90, or 120) makes your favorite IPA.

atomicfront wrote:

Jaguar wrote:

K8teebug wrote:
Am I the only beer drinker who is totally over insanely hopped beers and IPAs?

And then there are those of us who hated them all along.

I'll take a good ol' stout any day. Love those things. Sure, better in the colder months but I still love a good stout in the thick of summer as well.

Finally had a Murphy's Stout yesterday, back to back with a Guinness. In my opinion, the Guinness was way better. Then again, not at all a fair comparison since the Guinness was a draft and the Murphy's in a can. I know that I can't stand Guinness bottled or can. Totally different experience. Won't touch the stuff unless I'm using it to cook with which is good. Someday when I run across it, I'll have to try Murphy's on tap.

I have drunk a ton of different stouts but none of them is as good as a Guinness. 

James wrote:
Let me guess. Bass makes your favorite pale ale, Widmer makes your favorite hefeweizen, and either SAm Adams, Harpoon, or Dogfish (60, not 75, 90, or 120) makes your favorite IPA.

atomicfront wrote:

Jaguar wrote:

K8teebug wrote:
Am I the only beer drinker who is totally over insanely hopped beers and IPAs?

And then there are those of us who hated them all along.

I'll take a good ol' stout any day. Love those things. Sure, better in the colder months but I still love a good stout in the thick of summer as well.

Finally had a Murphy's Stout yesterday, back to back with a Guinness. In my opinion, the Guinness was way better. Then again, not at all a fair comparison since the Guinness was a draft and the Murphy's in a can. I know that I can't stand Guinness bottled or can. Totally different experience. Won't touch the stuff unless I'm using it to cook with which is good. Someday when I run across it, I'll have to try Murphy's on tap.

I have drunk a ton of different stouts but none of them is as good as a Guinness. 

atomicfront's response: If a lot of people like it, it must be good!

and coors makes the best pilsner.

Yada wrote:

BrettnotBritt wrote:
Just came across a sixer of Hopslam. Second batch, bottled 1/23/13. Hopefully it's better than the first batch (which I didn't bother buying, heard a lot of mixed reviews).

I drank two over the weekend and they were both pretty tasty.

That's the Hopslam batch that I've been drinking as well……same as it ever was-delicious. Finally checked out the ever abundant Lagunitas Sucks and i gotta say it's quite good.  A lighter, crisper, lower alcohol version of the Slam.

Coming soon:

http://www.eatyourpizza.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/3floyds-elysian-georgetown.png

Three Floyds/Elysian takeover at the Georgetown location the same night. Guess you have to check their website to see which beers are where.

Yada wrote:
This beer week in DC is turning out to be outrageous…

http://www.eatyourpizza.com/three-floyds-surly-assume-command-of-all-beer-taps-at-dupont-circle-on-328/

Had them both side by side at a Trader Joe's tasting on Saturday.

Both were completely mediocre, but Guinness was better.

Jaguar wrote:

K8teebug wrote:
Am I the only beer drinker who is totally over insanely hopped beers and IPAs?

And then there are those of us who hated them all along.

I'll take a good ol' stout any day. Love those things. Sure, better in the colder months but I still love a good stout in the thick of summer as well.

Finally had a Murphy's Stout yesterday, back to back with a Guinness. In my opinion, the Guinness was way better. Then again, not at all a fair comparison since the Guinness was a draft and the Murphy's in a can. I know that I can't stand Guinness bottled or can. Totally different experience. Won't touch the stuff unless I'm using it to cook with which is good. Someday when I run across it, I'll have to try Murphy's on tap.

sweetcell wrote:
also had small pours of over a dozen homebrews at the monthly DC homebrewer's club meeting.  some of the stuff was mediocre but none of it bad.  some were downright amazing: my highlights were a sparkling mead, belgian pale ale with gooseberries, a nelson sauvin IPA, a thin mint stout, and a three-year-old straight lambic.

that bud light was downright amazing.

stevewizzle wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
also had small pours of over a dozen homebrews at the monthly DC homebrewer's club meeting.  some of the stuff was mediocre but none of it bad.  some were downright amazing: my highlights were a sparkling mead, belgian pale ale with gooseberries, a nelson sauvin IPA, a thin mint stout, and a three-year-old straight lambic.

that bud light was downright amazing.

ha!  that was an interesting experiment - in the middle of all these flavorful (and several over-the-top) beers, someone broke out a bud light.  my palette was pretty beat up at this point but i literally could not taste the BL.  i could feel the carbonation… that's about it.

i was at the 930 last night, a few new offerings on tap (new to me at least):

- Victory Golden Monkey (downstairs, not my favorite tripel it but satisfied my urge for belgian esters)
- Stateside Saison (upstairs, very decent interpretation of the style)
- Palm Belgian Pale Ale (not gonna tell you where.  in case you're ever tempted by the "belgian" designation - don't. avoid. trust me.)

i considered having a DFH Indian Brown Ale but held myself to two drinks.  the 60 minute seemed to be the only other hoppy offering i saw

So where is everyone boozing this week?

http://www.dcbeer.com/cbc2013

I'm afraid these will all be mob scenes.

im staying home and not drinking much . . . so jesus can arise in peace.

i started last night at the Pizza Paradiso in Dupont.  tried:

- Evil Twin Femme Fatale Brett: almost no aroma but huge citrus taste.  barely bitter yet it was labeled an IPA…
- Oxbow/Stillwater B.A. Liquid Swords: good amount of sharpness and sourness from the brett, liked it
- t?Gaverhpke Singing Blonde: decent amount of brett sourness, not much else in the way of taste
- Tilquin Gueuze: just the right amount of sour, very tasty and refreshing
- Ballast Point Big Eye IPA on cask: meh.

i sat beside a beer distributor from MN.  among the many things we talked about was the AB takeover of Goose Island.  he thought it was a good thing.  apparently AB is investing a ton of money in GI, they recently bought a warehouse across the street from the brewery and have filled it with barrels.  he said it was sad that several brewers left right after the buy-out but that the folks who stayed are all really good, and this is their big chance to prove themselves so they're working really hard.  he claimed that AB was taking a hands-off approach to managing GI.

moved on over to the Big Hunt where i had a Founders Black Note and a 3 Stars barrel-aged Pandemic Porter.  they were both superb.  best beers of the night.  i might have preferred the Pandemic a tad more, stevewizzle was all about the Black Note.  chatted with the 3 Stars crew who were sitting right next to me at the bar.