The Beer Thread

Union Craft makes a Berliner weisse. 

Yeah, but the ABV is 2.7%, so what's the point?

;D

atomicfront wrote:


Union Craft makes a Berliner weisse. 

on wednesday night i'll be at this: http://phillytapfinder.com/event/brewing-networks-bna8/

looking forward to drinking Founder's Bolt Cutter & Doom, Moonlight Russian Imperial Braggot, Stone's Reason Be Damned, Weyerbacher Aquila & Insanity… at least i hope to taste all of these, we'll see how far i make it down that list.  supposedly there will also be some special meads from Moonlight Meadery.  

i really like insanity. i have 3 bottles aging now.

will be in DC for the founders event Wednesday night at big hunt. hoping for a bolt cutter surprise cameo!

Kentucky Breakfast Stout
Pale Ale
Double Trouble
All Day IPA
And more(!?)

hoping for some good brews at AHA pro-brewer night on thursday. 

James wrote:
Yeah, but the ABV is 2.7%, so what's the point?

;D

atomicfront wrote:


Union Craft makes a Berliner weisse. 

Anyway the stupidity behind your mainstream comment is that Max's had five firkin's of Union Craft brew at their rare brews fest.

im learning about geography, in this here thread.

And yet you didn't find anything on that list you wanted to drink?

By "I didn't find anything on the list that I wanted to drink" did you really mean "I didn't see anything that I had hear of?"

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
Yeah, but the ABV is 2.7%, so what's the point?

;D

atomicfront wrote:


Union Craft makes a Berliner weisse. 

Anyway the stupidity behind your mainstream comment is that Max's had five firkin's of Union Craft brew at their rare brews fest.

de Strusse night at Churchkey > Founders night at Big Hunt (on same night). Not even close for me.

stevewizzle wrote:
i really like insanity. i have 3 bottles aging now.

will be in DC for the founders event Wednesday night at big hunt. hoping for a bolt cutter surprise cameo!

Kentucky Breakfast Stout
Pale Ale
Double Trouble
All Day IPA
And more(!?)

hoping for some good brews at AHA pro-brewer night on thursday. 

James wrote:
And yet you didn't find anything on that list you wanted to drink?

By "I didn't find anything on the list that I wanted to drink" did you really mean "I didn't see anything that I had hear of?"

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
Yeah, but the ABV is 2.7%, so what's the point?

;D

atomicfront wrote:


Union Craft makes a Berliner weisse. 

Anyway the stupidity behind your mainstream comment is that Max's had five firkin's of Union Craft brew at their rare brews fest.

No I looked at the descriptions of the beers and nothing was anything I would want to drink.  The Union Craft was all their Pale Ale with different types of tea added. I did not enjoy their pale ale so why would I drink it.  It was gimic beers.  And there weren't that many available.  Maybe 30.  5 of which were the Union Craft brews. 

It sounds like maybe you have a very limited palate, like my 72 year old mom.

Sure, she'll drink a lager or a wheat beer or three, but give her a stout (too roasty), an IPA (too bitter), a quad (too strong) or a sour (too sour), and she aint having none of that.

Of course give her one of those after she's had three Blue Moons, and WTF, she'll drink it.


I didn't see the beer descriptions, but based on which breweries were represented, I could have easily been curious enough to try a dozen of them. And if I saw the descriptions…watch out, probably twice that!

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
And yet you didn't find anything on that list you wanted to drink?

By "I didn't find anything on the list that I wanted to drink" did you really mean "I didn't see anything that I had hear of?"

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
Yeah, but the ABV is 2.7%, so what's the point?

;D

atomicfront wrote:


Union Craft makes a Berliner weisse. 

Anyway the stupidity behind your mainstream comment is that Max's had five firkin's of Union Craft brew at their rare brews fest.

No I looked at the descriptions of the beers and nothing was anything I would want to drink.  The Union Craft was all their Pale Ale with different types of tea added. I did not enjoy their pale ale so why would I drink it.  It was gimic beers.  And there weren't that many available.  Maybe 30.  5 of which were the Union Craft brews. 

James wrote:
It sounds like maybe you have a very limited palate, like my 72 year old mom.

Sure, she'll drink a lager or a wheat beer or three, but give her a stout (too roasty), an IPA (too bitter), a quad (too strong) or a sour (too sour), and she aint having none of that.

Of course give her one of those after she's had three Blue Moons, and WTF, she'll drink it.


I didn't see the beer descriptions, but based on which breweries were represented, I could have easily been curious enough to try a dozen of them. And if I saw the descriptions…watch out, probably twice that!

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
And yet you didn't find anything on that list you wanted to drink?

By "I didn't find anything on the list that I wanted to drink" did you really mean "I didn't see anything that I had hear of?"

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
Yeah, but the ABV is 2.7%, so what's the point?

;D

atomicfront wrote:


Union Craft makes a Berliner weisse. 

Anyway the stupidity behind your mainstream comment is that Max's had five firkin's of Union Craft brew at their rare brews fest.

No I looked at the descriptions of the beers and nothing was anything I would want to drink.  The Union Craft was all their Pale Ale with different types of tea added. I did not enjoy their pale ale so why would I drink it.  It was gimic beers.  And there weren't that many available.  Maybe 30.  5 of which were the Union Craft brews. 

Maybe you  have a limited palate.  Maybe that is why you have to read beer advocate to figure out what beer to like.  You really have issues. 

Wow, a tad defensive?

I'm willing to try just about any beer. How does that translate to my having a limited palate?

And sure, if there are 30 beers I haven't tried at an obscure beer fest, and I can't try every one of them, of course I'm going to read what people on beer advocate had to say about them. That would probably give me additional information beyond the descriptions provided by Max's. Why would I not want to know what other people had thought about them?  Their additional descriptions might help me narrow the list down to a drinkable number.

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
It sounds like maybe you have a very limited palate, like my 72 year old mom.

Sure, she'll drink a lager or a wheat beer or three, but give her a stout (too roasty), an IPA (too bitter), a quad (too strong) or a sour (too sour), and she aint having none of that.

Of course give her one of those after she's had three Blue Moons, and WTF, she'll drink it.


I didn't see the beer descriptions, but based on which breweries were represented, I could have easily been curious enough to try a dozen of them. And if I saw the descriptions…watch out, probably twice that!

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
And yet you didn't find anything on that list you wanted to drink?

By "I didn't find anything on the list that I wanted to drink" did you really mean "I didn't see anything that I had hear of?"

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
Yeah, but the ABV is 2.7%, so what's the point?

;D

atomicfront wrote:


Union Craft makes a Berliner weisse. 

Anyway the stupidity behind your mainstream comment is that Max's had five firkin's of Union Craft brew at their rare brews fest.

No I looked at the descriptions of the beers and nothing was anything I would want to drink.  The Union Craft was all their Pale Ale with different types of tea added. I did not enjoy their pale ale so why would I drink it.  It was gimic beers.  And there weren't that many available.  Maybe 30.  5 of which were the Union Craft brews. 

Maybe you  have a limited palate.  Maybe that is why you have to read beer advocate to figure out what beer to like.  You really have issues. 

James wrote:
Wow, a tad defensive?

I'm willing to try just about any beer. How does that translate to my having a limited palate?

And sure, if there are 30 beers I haven't tried at an obscure beer fest, and I can't try every one of them, of course I'm going to read what people on beer advocate had to say about them. That would probably give me additional information beyond the descriptions provided by Max's. Why would I not want to know what other people had thought about them?  Their additional descriptions might help me narrow the list down to a drinkable number.

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
It sounds like maybe you have a very limited palate, like my 72 year old mom.

Sure, she'll drink a lager or a wheat beer or three, but give her a stout (too roasty), an IPA (too bitter), a quad (too strong) or a sour (too sour), and she aint having none of that.

Of course give her one of those after she's had three Blue Moons, and WTF, she'll drink it.


I didn't see the beer descriptions, but based on which breweries were represented, I could have easily been curious enough to try a dozen of them. And if I saw the descriptions…watch out, probably twice that!

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
And yet you didn't find anything on that list you wanted to drink?

By "I didn't find anything on the list that I wanted to drink" did you really mean "I didn't see anything that I had hear of?"

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
Yeah, but the ABV is 2.7%, so what's the point?

;D

atomicfront wrote:


Union Craft makes a Berliner weisse. 

Anyway the stupidity behind your mainstream comment is that Max's had five firkin's of Union Craft brew at their rare brews fest.

No I looked at the descriptions of the beers and nothing was anything I would want to drink.  The Union Craft was all their Pale Ale with different types of tea added. I did not enjoy their pale ale so why would I drink it.  It was gimic beers.  And there weren't that many available.  Maybe 30.  5 of which were the Union Craft brews. 

Maybe you  have a limited palate.  Maybe that is why you have to read beer advocate to figure out what beer to like.  You really have issues. 

Maybe all of them have limited palates.

Maybe they do. But I'd trust a random stranger who only likes hoppy beers who has tried 50 different IPA's opinion about a certain IPA more than I would my mom's.

Of course I'd trust my own opinion most, but I'm operating under the assumption that there are too many beers for me to try.

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
Wow, a tad defensive?

I'm willing to try just about any beer. How does that translate to my having a limited palate?

And sure, if there are 30 beers I haven't tried at an obscure beer fest, and I can't try every one of them, of course I'm going to read what people on beer advocate had to say about them. That would probably give me additional information beyond the descriptions provided by Max's. Why would I not want to know what other people had thought about them?  Their additional descriptions might help me narrow the list down to a drinkable number.

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
It sounds like maybe you have a very limited palate, like my 72 year old mom.

Sure, she'll drink a lager or a wheat beer or three, but give her a stout (too roasty), an IPA (too bitter), a quad (too strong) or a sour (too sour), and she aint having none of that.

Of course give her one of those after she's had three Blue Moons, and WTF, she'll drink it.


I didn't see the beer descriptions, but based on which breweries were represented, I could have easily been curious enough to try a dozen of them. And if I saw the descriptions…watch out, probably twice that!

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
And yet you didn't find anything on that list you wanted to drink?

By "I didn't find anything on the list that I wanted to drink" did you really mean "I didn't see anything that I had hear of?"

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
Yeah, but the ABV is 2.7%, so what's the point?

;D

atomicfront wrote:


Union Craft makes a Berliner weisse. 

Anyway the stupidity behind your mainstream comment is that Max's had five firkin's of Union Craft brew at their rare brews fest.

No I looked at the descriptions of the beers and nothing was anything I would want to drink.  The Union Craft was all their Pale Ale with different types of tea added. I did not enjoy their pale ale so why would I drink it.  It was gimic beers.  And there weren't that many available.  Maybe 30.  5 of which were the Union Craft brews. 

Maybe you  have a limited palate.  Maybe that is why you have to read beer advocate to figure out what beer to like.  You really have issues. 

Maybe all of them have limited palates.

wow, thats quite a back and forth

went to Max's - was old and wore horn rimmed glasses - good time - not too crowded (it was after 11pm) - some decent beers Stone Ruinten, Boulevard Saison Brett, BFM, Barrel Aged Narwhal

Also went to "Of Love and Regret" last night - again very solid - good food, great selection of stillwater and other beers

atomicfront wrote:
Maybe all of them have limited palates.

"if you think everyone else is the problem, perhaps the problem is you."

sweetcell wrote:

atomicfront wrote:
Maybe all of them have limited palates.

"if you think everyone else is the problem, perhaps the problem is you."

Well than the answer is we should all drink Bud Light? 

For those into bigass double IPA's, this is a big week. Coming to VA this week:

Stone RuinTen
Founders Devil Dancer
Alewerks Bitter Valentine

so in my normal founders double trouble buying frenzy, god i love that beer and would drink it all year long if i could, but ive already said that once, i came upon this here



cant remember if i had it or not before.  those crazy people over at atomicfronts antichrist beer publication rated it nicely.

walkonby wrote:
so in my normal founders double trouble buying frenzy, god i love that beer and would drink it all year long if i could, but ive already said that once, i came upon this here



cant remember if i had it or not before.  those crazy people over at atomicfronts antichrist beer publication rated it nicely.

it's actually a terrible beer.