The Beer Thread

god im going to get so flamed and jumped and pounded for this one, but is there a winery/wine scene that so long ruled the world, that now fucking hates the fact that beer is taking over.  its so serious now.  hosting concert series, dinners at restaurants tucked away into awesomeness, moving in on the scene . . . the wine scene.  now beer, once the poor mans drink, the thing that common folk partook in while the elite drank wine (damn you), is  the new new, whatever "new" is anymore.  i think so.  i think people are moving away from wine and trying beer.  like trying gay in college, but sticking with it.  i like competition, i like anger towards the other to make one better.  i like not knowing what im talking about sometimes.

sweetcell wrote:

Yada wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
really?  that sucks, they supposedly had ZD last night.  bummer.

i'll be at the 930 tonight.  hopefully they have some interesting offerings.

edit: some well-rated choices that i'll be checking out: Daisy Cutter, CoCoNut Porter, Anti-Hero IPA
http://flyingdogbrewery.com/landing-pages/festival-de-cans/

They have it at the Gtown location, I'm hoping there's a hidden keg of it there. :)

suggestion: get there early.  my brew-buddy was at the CK event last night and just wrote to me:

So last night I head down to Churchkey, arriving 45 minutes after they open. Stand in line for 20-30 minutes. Get in and they are COMPLETELY sold out of Zombie Dust and for that matter all 6 or so of the Three Floyds beers they advertised. That is freaking insanity!! I knew I should have been there when they opened the door…sigh!

yup it was crazy - I went - left work early and got there at 3.30 - my buddy was a few minutes before me so we were 10th in line and chatting to some very nice north carolinians while we waited for 4pm. byt the time 4 rolled around there were at least 150 people in line

we got great bar seats and mainly did 4oz pours which really seemed like a great value as my tab was only $30

tried fiscal cliff, zombie dust, dreadnaught, artic panzer, redeemer, i cannot tell a rye, anti hero, toxic sludge, sexual chocolate and cask event horizon - yum

my damage at PP Dupont last night. Another evening of fantastic beer!

last night's event at the 930 was a ton of fun musically, but a bit of a disappointment in the beer sense.

escort kicked ass.  it's nu-disco, they have great energy, the singer is hawt and can move… it works for me.  crowd could have been better… the industry types trickled out throughout the show so by the end the floor was less than half full.

on the beer side of things, this event was all about the industry trying to hype an emerging format: the can.  it wasn't about tasting amazing beers.  for the most part breweries don't put their best stuff in cans, they can their best-selling stuff.  dale's is an exception to this since they can everything, including their Ten Fidy which sadly was not on offer last night.  they only had their pale ale.  i had the coconut porter which was nice, and daisy cutter was a delightfully bitter american pale ale, but after those two i couldn't find anything else i was really interested in.  they had raging bitch in a can, so you could change it up from the 930's regular offering of raging bitch in a bottle.  for a while the entire upstairs was VIP only. the missus had to sneak up there to get a cupcake before the show.  luckily they took down the velvet rope after the crowd started to thin.  if they hadn't i wouldn't have tasted the daisy cutter - they were offering different beer at each bar.  the event organizers should provide a map if you're going to do that crap so folks who are there for the beer know where to find it.

it was a fun night listening to a great band and the enhanced beer selection was a nice plus - but not one that would have got me to attend had that been the only attraction.

walkonby wrote:
is there a winery/wine scene that so long ruled the world, that now fucking hates the fact that beer is taking over.  its so serious now. 

is this a question, or a statement?

personally i don't see the resentment, but i don't feel i have a finger on this.  i would think that wine aficionados wouldn't care if beer is emerging… more wine for them, less plebes crashing their refined events.

are you seeing something different?

brennser wrote:

sweetcell wrote:

Yada wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
really?  that sucks, they supposedly had ZD last night.  bummer.

i'll be at the 930 tonight.  hopefully they have some interesting offerings.

edit: some well-rated choices that i'll be checking out: Daisy Cutter, CoCoNut Porter, Anti-Hero IPA
http://flyingdogbrewery.com/landing-pages/festival-de-cans/

They have it at the Gtown location, I'm hoping there's a hidden keg of it there. :)

suggestion: get there early.  my brew-buddy was at the CK event last night and just wrote to me:

So last night I head down to Churchkey, arriving 45 minutes after they open. Stand in line for 20-30 minutes. Get in and they are COMPLETELY sold out of Zombie Dust and for that matter all 6 or so of the Three Floyds beers they advertised. That is freaking insanity!! I knew I should have been there when they opened the door…sigh!

yup it was crazy - I went - left work early and got there at 3.30 - my buddy was a few minutes before me so we were 10th in line and chatting to some very nice north carolinians while we waited for 4pm. byt the time 4 rolled around there were at least 150 people in line

we got great bar seats and mainly did 4oz pours which really seemed like a great value as my tab was only $30

tried fiscal cliff, zombie dust, dreadnaught, artic panzer, redeemer, i cannot tell a rye, anti hero, toxic sludge, sexual chocolate and cask event horizon - yum

I walked by on 14th street… the line was huge

Churchkey last night was fairly packed as usual. Tried a few beers like Avery Brewing's Immitis which I really really liked. and New Belgium's Ooh La La! which is a Raspberry fruit beer. That one was ok but way too sweet I think. I had some other beer from Nebraska of all places and it was fairly good.

Black Cat Pig Destroyer concert was up next and I got to try Three Floyds Permanent Funeral Pale Ale. Now that is one fine beer! at 10.5% it was quite the party starter haha.

capped the week off with jack rose epic takeover and meridian pint local night.

epic's elder brett was delicious and some absolutely wonderful beers at meridian, including:
lost rhino facebreaker ipa
dc brau otwoa
beggers & thieves anti-imperial rye lager

I'll have to add that to my August roadtrip that already includes Troegs, Ommegang, Dieu de Ciel, Hill Farmstead, the Alchemist and last and probably least, the Olde Saratoga Brewery.

Speaking of Saratoga, have you been to either Druthers or Henry Street Taproom? Both appear to have opened since the last time I was up there.

BrettnotBritt wrote:
Wow, so Shmaltz Brewing (He'Brew/Coney Island) is opening up their own brewery and tasting room in Upstate New York, and it's a stone's throw from my parent's house! Scheduled to open in July.

http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/shmaltz-brewing-company-opens-50-barrel-brewery-with-20-000-barrels-of-capacity-in-upstate-new-york.77515/

It seems that Total Wine got KBS today. With a one 12 oz bottle ($6) limit per customer, it hardly seems worth the drive.

What happened to Founders announcement that they were going to make four times as much of the stuff and it was going to be $11 a four pack or something to that effect?

The Lager I made actually turned out pretty well.  I think I might go into making lager's exclusively. 

I was going to be so upset if this was an April Fools joke.  I stopped by on my way home and got one!  Thanks for the heads up.

James wrote:
It seems that Total Wine got KBS today. With a one 12 oz bottle ($6) limit per customer, it hardly seems worth the drive.

What happened to Founders announcement that they were going to make four times as much of the stuff and it was going to be $11 a four pack or something to that effect?

Yeah, that would have been harsh. I had one on draft at Churckkey last night, was outstanding. When I drink one, kind of makes me think that almost any other stout is a waste of calories.

I know of another place in NOVA-Fairfax County that is tapping a keg Thursday, not sure if i can make it though.

moeszslak wrote:
I was going to be so upset if this was an April Fools joke.  I stopped by on my way home and got one!  Thanks for the heads up.

James wrote:
It seems that Total Wine got KBS today. With a one 12 oz bottle ($6) limit per customer, it hardly seems worth the drive.

What happened to Founders announcement that they were going to make four times as much of the stuff and it was going to be $11 a four pack or something to that effect?

James wrote:
Yeah, that would have been harsh. I had one on draft at Churckkey last night, was outstanding. When I drink one, kind of makes me think that almost any other stout is a waste of calories.

I know of another place in NOVA-Fairfax County that is tapping a keg Thursday, not sure if i can make it though.

moeszslak wrote:
I was going to be so upset if this was an April Fools joke.  I stopped by on my way home and got one!  Thanks for the heads up.

James wrote:
It seems that Total Wine got KBS today. With a one 12 oz bottle ($6) limit per customer, it hardly seems worth the drive.

What happened to Founders announcement that they were going to make four times as much of the stuff and it was going to be $11 a four pack or something to that effect?

I way overpaid for a four pack at Rodmans. Two bottle limit, but had a co-worker with me.

James wrote:
What happened to Founders announcement that they were going to make four times as much of the stuff and it was going to be $11 a four pack or something to that effect?

maybe the stores are still charging high prices because they know they can get away with it?  or, more likely, that capacity isn't online yet… dammit.

edit: a quick google search indicated that the new capacity has been dedicated to Imperial Stout, Curmudgeon Old Ale and Backwoods Bastard - not BS/KBS.  i remember that "cheaper KBS" news story too, but maybe they've changed their minds.  insert walkies' rant here:

Yada wrote:
I way overpaid for a four pack at Rodmans. Two bottle limit, but had a co-worker with me.

yikes… how bad?

and since we're talking about Founders: here is their release schedule for 2013: http://www.examiner.com/article/founders-brewing-company-releases-2013-schedule (or http://foundersbrewing.com/latest-news/2013/doom-is-our-next-backstage-series-release/).  gonna hafta track down some Doom.

im still on a list to obtain two four packs.  we shall see if my rants are in order.

sweetcell wrote:

James wrote:
What happened to Founders announcement that they were going to make four times as much of the stuff and it was going to be $11 a four pack or something to that effect?

maybe the stores are still charging high prices because they know they can get away with it?  or, more likely, that capacity isn't online yet… dammit.

edit: a quick google search indicated that the new capacity has been dedicated to Imperial Stout, Curmudgeon Old Ale and Backwoods Bastard - not BS/KBS.  i remember that "cheaper KBS" news story too, but maybe they've changed their minds.  insert walkies' rant here:

Yada wrote:
I way overpaid for a four pack at Rodmans. Two bottle limit, but had a co-worker with me.

yikes… how bad?

and since we're talking about Founders: here is their release schedule for 2013: http://www.examiner.com/article/founders-brewing-company-releases-2013-schedule (or http://foundersbrewing.com/latest-news/2013/doom-is-our-next-backstage-series-release/).  gonna hafta track down some Doom.

$7.99 a bottle.

How many ounces are in that bottle?

Keep in mind, to my knowledge, I'm still in a Founders Free Zone.  ::)

KBS is only sold in 12 oz bottles… so, regular/small bottles (not bombers).

My beer connect says only two cases were given to Rodmans and one case given to MacGruders, who knows though?

Also, two cases of Heady Topper are still being served at Smoke and Barrel. $10 a can.