The Beer Thread

I think it's every Saturday while supplies last from most recent batch last.

I must admit I was disappointed with the PieTasters Choice Dopplebock. Once you've had the Ayinger and Andescher dopplebocks (Heil Germany!), maybe anything else is lacking in comparison.

Anybody know where I can get the Penn Quarter Porter or El Hefe in cans, other than the brewery? Are they going to have those out on a regular basis?

stevewizzle wrote:

BrettnotBritt wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:
how's distribution of canning going for them? what is it again, $18?

i really need to make it down there next time, i fucking love that stuff.

It's during their growler hours on Saturday. And yes, $18 for a sixer. Only available at the brewery right now. It's pretty cool that they are getting some national acclaim for it. Also, Taster's Choice was excellent. Still have an oaked Penn Quarter Porter that I need to crack open soon.

wait - every Saturday, or only select weekends?

stevewizzle wrote:

BrettnotBritt wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:
how's distribution of canning going for them? what is it again, $18?

i really need to make it down there next time, i fucking love that stuff.

It's during their growler hours on Saturday. And yes, $18 for a sixer. Only available at the brewery right now. It's pretty cool that they are getting some national acclaim for it. Also, Taster's Choice was excellent. Still have an oaked Penn Quarter Porter that I need to crack open soon.

wait - every Saturday, or only select weekends?

It's only canned every few months, I'm guessing there isn't any left from the last canning weekend (May 11th).

Yada wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:

BrettnotBritt wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:
how's distribution of canning going for them? what is it again, $18?

i really need to make it down there next time, i fucking love that stuff.

It's during their growler hours on Saturday. And yes, $18 for a sixer. Only available at the brewery right now. It's pretty cool that they are getting some national acclaim for it. Also, Taster's Choice was excellent. Still have an oaked Penn Quarter Porter that I need to crack open soon.

wait - every Saturday, or only select weekends?

It's only canned every few months, I'm guessing there isn't any left from the last canning weekend (May 11th).

They still had OTWOA cans last Saturday, I was surprised. I'm going to wait for the next fresh batch to buy some, should probably be another month or so.

fatskippy wrote:

Yada wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:

BrettnotBritt wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:
how's distribution of canning going for them? what is it again, $18?

i really need to make it down there next time, i fucking love that stuff.

It's during their growler hours on Saturday. And yes, $18 for a sixer. Only available at the brewery right now. It's pretty cool that they are getting some national acclaim for it. Also, Taster's Choice was excellent. Still have an oaked Penn Quarter Porter that I need to crack open soon.

wait - every Saturday, or only select weekends?

It's only canned every few months, I'm guessing there isn't any left from the last canning weekend (May 11th).

They still had OTWOA cans last Saturday, I was surprised. I'm going to wait for the next fresh batch to buy some, should probably be another month or so.

Wow, that's surprising. I guess the demand died down pretty quickly. I actually just had my last can over the weekend from the May 11th canning and it was still delicious.

DC people getting sick of the bitter hops and moving back to lagers, obviously.

Yada wrote:

fatskippy wrote:

Yada wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:

BrettnotBritt wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:
how's distribution of canning going for them? what is it again, $18?

i really need to make it down there next time, i fucking love that stuff.

It's during their growler hours on Saturday. And yes, $18 for a sixer. Only available at the brewery right now. It's pretty cool that they are getting some national acclaim for it. Also, Taster's Choice was excellent. Still have an oaked Penn Quarter Porter that I need to crack open soon.

wait - every Saturday, or only select weekends?

It's only canned every few months, I'm guessing there isn't any left from the last canning weekend (May 11th).

They still had OTWOA cans last Saturday, I was surprised. I'm going to wait for the next fresh batch to buy some, should probably be another month or so.

Wow, that's surprising. I guess the demand died down pretty quickly. I actually just had my last can over the weekend from the May 11th canning and it was still delicious.

James wrote:
DC people getting sick of the bitter hops and moving back to lagers, obviously.

Yada wrote:

fatskippy wrote:

Yada wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:

BrettnotBritt wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:
how's distribution of canning going for them? what is it again, $18?

i really need to make it down there next time, i fucking love that stuff.

It's during their growler hours on Saturday. And yes, $18 for a sixer. Only available at the brewery right now. It's pretty cool that they are getting some national acclaim for it. Also, Taster's Choice was excellent. Still have an oaked Penn Quarter Porter that I need to crack open soon.

wait - every Saturday, or only select weekends?

It's only canned every few months, I'm guessing there isn't any left from the last canning weekend (May 11th).

They still had OTWOA cans last Saturday, I was surprised. I'm going to wait for the next fresh batch to buy some, should probably be another month or so.

Wow, that's surprising. I guess the demand died down pretty quickly. I actually just had my last can over the weekend from the May 11th canning and it was still delicious.

Ha, more for me!

On an unrelated, but related note.  I dry hopped a Black IPA that I created this weekend, brewed soley with Falconers Flight hops, as I liked the OTWOA hop profile so much when I first had it.

Three more weeks and we'll see if I'm on to anything, ha.

imbecile wrote:
On an unrelated, but related note.  I dry hopped a Black IPA that I created this weekend, brewed soley with Falconers Flight hops, as I liked the OTWOA hop profile so much when I first had it.

Three more weeks and we'll see if I'm on to anything, ha.

nice, let us know how it turns out.  popular opinion on FF is overwhelmingly positive, probably the most popular mixed hop pellet out there.

i used to be ambivalent about hop blends but have warmed up to the idea.  i have a pound of zythos, another hop blend, that i haven't properly checked out yet.  i've used it once for bittering only so i don't know what the falvor/aroma profile is like.  i really should brew something with just that hop but *SQUIRREL*

edit: meant to ask - that three weeks wait you mentioned includes bottling/carbonation time, right?  hopefully you're not dry-hopping for 3 weeks!

sweetcell wrote:

imbecile wrote:
On an unrelated, but related note.  I dry hopped a Black IPA that I created this weekend, brewed soley with Falconers Flight hops, as I liked the OTWOA hop profile so much when I first had it.

Three more weeks and we'll see if I'm on to anything, ha.

nice, let us know how it turns out.  popular opinion on FF is overwhelmingly positive, probably the most popular mixed hop pellet out there.

i used to be ambivalent about hop blends but have warmed up to the idea.  i have a pound of zythos, another hop blend, that i haven't properly checked out yet.  i've used it once for bittering only so i don't know what the falvor/aroma profile is like.  i really should brew something with just that hop but *SQUIRREL*

edit: meant to ask - that three weeks wait you mentioned includes bottling/carbonation time, right?  hopefully you're not dry-hopping for 3 weeks!

Yes, you got it.  Dry hop for a week, am bottling this weekend and then carbing for two.  Someday I'll get to kegging, which sounds glorious compared to bottling, ugh.

I was on the fence about blends as well until I tried OTWOA; just didnt' know much about them and they're all proprietary, so hard to find ratios of what's in there to figure out how it'll react with other stuff.  Meh, it just intimidated me, ha.  A few times a year I'll brew using a single hop to try and get a good feel for them, usually making a simple amber/IPA/pale ale (realized I really like chinook hops in like a session strength ipa that way), but these blends are a whole new animal for me. 

A lawnmower black IPA probably wasn't the best vehicle for this foray to really assess the hops, but I was clearing out a bunch of leftover ingredients and that's what I ended up with.

Let me know how the Zythos turns out if/when you give it a full evaluation.

i've used falconers flight a couple times (notably in an imperial red), and yeah, great hop.

surely you won't be disappointed, and if you are, feel free to send your unwanted beers my way.

imbecile wrote:
Someday I'll get to kegging, which sounds glorious compared to bottling, ugh.

kegging would be nice but it's so damn expensive to get into.  i'm pretty zen about bottling… i almost enjoy the process.  it's also something that i do with the missus, so it's a brewing related activity that we can do together.  well, she helps if i don't start at midnight like i did last night.  not a recommended school-night activity.  that gawddam belgian imperial stout better turn out good. 

uh, i think i just lost my zen.

James wrote:
I think it's every Saturday while supplies last from most recent batch last.

I must admit I was disappointed with the PieTasters Choice Dopplebock. Once you've had the Ayinger and Andescher dopplebocks (Heil Germany!), maybe anything else is lacking in comparison.

Anybody know where I can get the Penn Quarter Porter or El Hefe in cans, other than the brewery? Are they going to have those out on a regular basis?

I've seen Penn Quarter at Rodman's in DC and Connecticut Avenue Wine in Dupont Circle.

James wrote:
Of course you didn't know. You're far more interested in sharing your vast knowledge of beer than you are of reading the ravings of the fringe beer drinkers of the world.

atomicfront wrote:
  Like I knew you were a bunch of lunatics who travel to Vermont to pick up a couple of cases of beer.  

I dont' read your opinions on beer because they are not your own.  If I wanted to know your opinions I could just read beer advocates average ratings. 

James wrote:
Go on vacation in Germany and Belgium with a four year old, and fuck yeah it's going to be about the beer. It aint gonna be about museums or long hikes in the Alps, because that shit doesn't happen with a four year old in tow. (And it aint gonna be about the food when you're vegetarian.)

atomicfront wrote:


And the sad thing is you probably visited Germany for the beer.  Which I am clearly not doing.

YOu are a vegetarian?  Isn't 55 too old to have a 4 year old?  Sounds like fun though taking a 4 year old to the beer gardens.  I will be visiting the art museums, hiking in the alps, visiting relatives, touring castles.  Sucks to be you.

I'm 46, vegetarian for about 15 of those. One kid who is turning six this month.

Actually, it was quite fun taking our daughter to beer gardens. The Hirschgarten had a petting zoo, multiple playgrounds, plenty of space to run around and be free, and plenty of German kids to play with.

We also went to Legoland for a day, did some light hiking (five miles and less), drove through the Black Forest, roamed the streets of Munich, Freiburg, Bruges, Ghent and Amsterdam (wife inhaled, I didn't), drank good beer in Germany and Holland, great beer in Belgium. We did go to the Van Gogh museum, though my daughter seems to prefer modern art over than post-Impressionism. The weather was perfect, just one rainstorm in two weeks, and that was in the midst of a drive.

All in all, best family vacation ever. Both wife and daughter agree. We'll leave the castle tours to the tourists, hike the Alps when she's a little older, and thankfully never have to waste time in a European vacation visiting any of our boring relatives.

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
Go on vacation in Germany and Belgium with a four year old, and fuck yeah it's going to be about the beer. It aint gonna be about museums or long hikes in the Alps, because that shit doesn't happen with a four year old in tow. (And it aint gonna be about the food when you're vegetarian.)

atomicfront wrote:


And the sad thing is you probably visited Germany for the beer.  Which I am clearly not doing.

YOu are a vegetarian?  Isn't 55 too old to have a 4 year old?  Sounds like fun though taking a 4 year old to the beer gardens.  I will be visiting the art museums, hiking in the alps, visiting relatives, touring castles.  Sucks to be you.

James wrote:

We'll leave the castle tours to the tourists,

and thankfully never have to waste time in a European vacation visiting any of our boring relatives.

Hello!! You were a tourist!

Sorry your relatives are so boring.

A flip-flop on the flip-top

"What changed is the quality of the can lining,? explained Koch of his about-face. ?Beer used to pick up a solvent-like character from the solvent-based linings. Now they use water-based linings.?

What?s more, ?the new linings are more flexible,? he contends, less likely to tear and allow the beer to come into contact with metal. ?They?ve proven out, but I wanted to make sure. They crossed a threshold two years ago.?

We went to Hofbrau Haus, you can't get more touristy than that. But we went in an ironic, mocking way. And drank their mediocre beer while laughing at the singers in lederhosen.

IMO, castles are better in pictures than in person.

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:

We'll leave the castle tours to the tourists,

and thankfully never have to waste time in a European vacation visiting any of our boring relatives.

Hello!! You were a tourist!

Sorry your relatives are so boring.

glad we're continuing where we left on Monday with you two.  i was concerned yesterday with all that actual beer talk.

brennser rules.

all hail king henry brennser