The Beer Thread

atomicfront wrote:
  I am guessing you are real fun at parties. 

I'm guessing you are not….

Beer

In case any of y'all are into the hoppy beer fad…

MAX?S HOPFEST

AUGUST 16-18, 2013

11am-2am each day

No entrance fee

We will have over 70 Hoppy Draft and over 70 hoppy Bottles

CASKS:

Terrapin Golden Ale w/ Motueka

Terrapin Golden Ale w/ Galaxy

Terrapin Golden Ale w/ Strisselspalt

Terrapin Golden Ale w/ Golding

Terrapin Golden Ale w/ Nelson Sauvin

Flying Dog Double Dog

Flying Dog Imperial Sorachi Ace

Plus a few other Casks????????????????????.

ON DRAFT-90%DONE

21st Amendment Hop Crisis

Agullons Pura pale

Aztec Sacrifice Red IPA

Aztec Chipotle IPA

Baird Suruga Bay Imperial IPA

Ballast Point Dorado

Ballast Point Habanero Sculpin

Bear Republic Racer 5000

Bear Republic Black Racer

Bear Republic Crazy Ivan

Bear Republic Grand Am

Burley Oak Bulletproof Tiger

Burley Oak Aboriginal Gangster

Buxton Imperial Black IPA

Crown Valley Wooden Nickel IPA

Crown Valley Gunslinger Imperial IPA

Dieu Du Ciel Penombre

Dog/Baying Hound Scratch N Sniff White IPA

Dogfish Head 120 Minute

Dugges High Five

Elysian Konishiki

Evolution Incubator

Flying Dog Double Dog (Nitro)

Flying Dog Doggie Style (Nitro)

Flying Dog Raging Bitch(Nitro)

Flying Dog Snake Dog (Nitro)

Flying The Truth

Great Divide Rumble

Green Flash Hop Odyssey Citra Session

Green Flash Imperial IPA

Green Flash West Coast IPA

Haandbryggeriet Belgisk Pale

Heavy Seas Big DIPA

Kerkom Hop Verdomme

Lancaster Boss Hog

Lervig Rye IPA

Maine Mo

Marina Costa Brava

Marina Devils IPA

Marina pale Ale

Mikkeller/Lervig Big Eye

Mikkeller 20

Midifyns Double IPA

Oxbow Farmhouse Pale

Schlalfy Hoppy Wheat

Sierra Nevada West Coast IPA

Sierra Nevada Hoptimum

Sierra Nevada Belgian Black IPA

Smuttynose/Stone Cluster Last Stand

Smuttynose Dirty

Stone Coconut IPA

Stone 17th Anniversary

Stone Ruination tropical heat

Struise Hopverdomme

Struise Motuecha

Terrapin Monks Revenge

Troegs Scratch 97

Trou Du Diable Morsure

Toccalmatto B Space Invader

Toccalamtto Re Hop

Toccalmatto Skizoid

Toccalmatto Zona

Toccalmatto Grooving hop

To Ol Dangerously Close to Stoopid

Union Farmhouse Double IPA

Yards Cape of Good Hope

The Flying Dog Snake Dog (Nitro) sounds interesting. 

Any reports from BeerWeekDC?

Probably one of the worst and least interesting choices on that list to me. What about it sounds interesting to you?

atomicfront wrote:
The Flying Dog Snake Dog (Nitro) sounds interesting.   

James wrote:
Probably one of the worst and least interesting choices on that list

atomicfront wrote:
The Flying Dog Snake Dog (Nitro) sounds interesting.   

You are the worst and least interesting person in this thread.  I am sure you never had it before so once again you are talking about something you know nothing about.

Sidehatch wrote:
Any reports from BeerWeekDC?

just in general? i've managed to catch a few events.

meridian pint sour takeover was fantastic on monday. it was a zoo.

glen's market had local rarities… it was okay.  good bratwurst.  it was a zoo.

last night hit up churchkey for bell's black note, bourbon cherry stout, and batch 9000.  all beers were delicious.  black note… that beer rules.  it was a zoo.

also went to smoke and barrel last night.  nothing blew me away. it was a zoo.

fun week of events and great beer!

I've had many an ipa including Flying Dog Snake Dog, and it's below average to me, as far IPA's go. Nothing else they make that I've tried (probably eight to ten of their regular and special release beers) have ever been anything better than "good". And most are prettty "meh".

There are a number of breweries/IPA's they are pouring that I think more highly of that I would opt for in terms of trying something "new" or going with an old favorite.

Hence Snake Dog would be way, way down on my list.

Is it the "nitro" part that you find interesting?

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
Probably one of the worst and least interesting choices on that list

atomicfront wrote:
The Flying Dog Snake Dog (Nitro) sounds interesting.   

You are the worst and least interesting person in this thread.  I am sure you never had it before so once again you are talking about something you know nothing about.

James wrote:
I've had many an ipa including Flying Dog Snake Dog, and it's below average to me, as far IPA's go. Nothing else they make that I've tried (probably eight to ten of their regular and special release beers) have ever been anything better than "good". And most are prettty "meh".

There are a number of breweries/IPA's they are pouring that I think more highly of that I would opt for in terms of trying something "new" or going with an old favorite.

Hence Snake Dog would be way, way down on my list.

Is it the "nitro" part that you find interesting?

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
Probably one of the worst and least interesting choices on that list

atomicfront wrote:
The Flying Dog Snake Dog (Nitro) sounds interesting.   

You are the worst and least interesting person in this thread.  I am sure you never had it before so once again you are talking about something you know nothing about.

Yes the Nitro.  I have had Snake Dog in bottle, draft, cask.  The interesting part is how Nitro compares to the over versions.  I really like the cask version not crazy about the other versions of it.

stevewizzle wrote:

Sidehatch wrote:
Any reports from BeerWeekDC?

just in general? i've managed to catch a few events.

meridian pint sour takeover was fantastic on monday. it was a zoo.

glen's market had local rarities… it was okay.  good bratwurst.  it was a zoo.

last night hit up churchkey for bell's black note, bourbon cherry stout, and batch 9000.  all beers were delicious.  black note… that beer rules.  it was a zoo.

also went to smoke and barrel last night.  nothing blew me away. it was a zoo.

fun week of events and great beer!

I think they should do beer week like the do NoisePop in SF or like SXSW (I think) where you can buy a badge and they limit the amount of people at the bar and always make sure there room for badge holders. Probably wouldn't work and the bars would gripe due to lost revenue.   But I think you could sell badges for $100 and people would line up to buy them.
It really makes it no fun when it's just insanely packed.  I've tried to invite mild beer fans to these events and the get to the door and they are like 'there is no way I'm going into that bar'  
I don't know why some of these bars don't just do two nights of the same event?  Obviously they are bringing in cash hand over fist on a weeknight

Ok, I understand. Not a priority of mine, but I can certainly see where you're coming from.

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
I've had many an ipa including Flying Dog Snake Dog, and it's below average to me, as far IPA's go. Nothing else they make that I've tried (probably eight to ten of their regular and special release beers) have ever been anything better than "good". And most are prettty "meh".

There are a number of breweries/IPA's they are pouring that I think more highly of that I would opt for in terms of trying something "new" or going with an old favorite.

Hence Snake Dog would be way, way down on my list.

Is it the "nitro" part that you find interesting?

atomicfront wrote:

James wrote:
Probably one of the worst and least interesting choices on that list

atomicfront wrote:
The Flying Dog Snake Dog (Nitro) sounds interesting.   

You are the worst and least interesting person in this thread.  I am sure you never had it before so once again you are talking about something you know nothing about.

Yes the Nitro.  I have had Snake Dog in bottle, draft, cask.  The interesting part is how Nitro compares to the over versions.  I really like the cask version not crazy about the other versions of it.

I hope Churchkey sells tickets for Zwanze Day this year. It's just not worth going to if its going to be as big of a clusterfuck as last year.

stevewizzle wrote:

Sidehatch wrote:
Any reports from BeerWeekDC?

just in general? i've managed to catch a few events.

meridian pint sour takeover was fantastic on monday. it was a zoo.

glen's market had local rarities… it was okay.  good bratwurst.  it was a zoo.

last night hit up churchkey for bell's black note, bourbon cherry stout, and batch 9000.  all beers were delicious.  black note… that beer rules.  it was a zoo.

also went to smoke and barrel last night.  nothing blew me away. it was a zoo.

fun week of events and great beer!

It seems you should have just gone to the zoo.

grateful wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:

Sidehatch wrote:
Any reports from BeerWeekDC?

just in general? i've managed to catch a few events.

meridian pint sour takeover was fantastic on monday. it was a zoo.

glen's market had local rarities… it was okay.  good bratwurst.  it was a zoo.

last night hit up churchkey for bell's black note, bourbon cherry stout, and batch 9000.  all beers were delicious.  black note… that beer rules.  it was a zoo.

also went to smoke and barrel last night.  nothing blew me away. it was a zoo.

fun week of events and great beer!

It seems you should have just gone to the zoo.

Brew at the Zoo?  I always say I am going to go to that but never end up making it.

Sidehatch wrote:

stevewizzle wrote:

Sidehatch wrote:
Any reports from BeerWeekDC?

just in general? i've managed to catch a few events.

meridian pint sour takeover was fantastic on monday. it was a zoo.

glen's market had local rarities… it was okay.  good bratwurst.  it was a zoo.

last night hit up churchkey for bell's black note, bourbon cherry stout, and batch 9000.  all beers were delicious.  black note… that beer rules.  it was a zoo.

also went to smoke and barrel last night.  nothing blew me away. it was a zoo.

fun week of events and great beer!

I think they should do beer week like the do NoisePop in SF or like SXSW (I think) where you can buy a badge and they limit the amount of people at the bar and always make sure there room for badge holders. Probably wouldn't work and the bars would gripe due to lost revenue.   But I think you could sell badges for $100 and people would line up to buy them.
It really makes it no fun when it's just insanely packed.  I've tried to invite mild beer fans to these events and the get to the door and they are like 'there is no way I'm going into that bar'  
I don't know why some of these bars don't just do two nights of the same event?  Obviously they are bringing in cash hand over fist on a weeknight

i would be down for this. i'd also probably get fired because of it.

as my buddy proclaimed immediately when i finally found him at the bar at churchkey, "it's fucking amateur hour in here!".  lots of mild beer fans, crowding in to the city's best beer bar because it's an easy excuse to go out.  but hey, fuck it, if that means more people are interested in craft beer, and more beer bars open, and the city keeps getting better beer because of it, i'm all for it.

if you go to zoos, or support zoos . . . then i should be able to take your family and children from you, put them in cages, and stare at them for my amusement.  fuck zoos.

walkonby wrote:
if you go to zoos, or support zoos . . . then i should be able to take your family and children from you, put them in cages, and stare at them for my amusement.  fuck zoos.

yes Zoos do depress me too, kinda like the same way I feel at strip clubs

but sadly the only way we are going to save lots of species as we're destroying their habitat as fast as we possibly can

walkonby wrote:
if you go to zoos, or support zoos . . . then i should be able to take your family and children from you, put them in cages, and stare at them for my amusement.  fuck zoos.

I loathe zoos.

Yada wrote:

walkonby wrote:
if you go to zoos, or support zoos . . . then i should be able to take your family and children from you, put them in cages, and stare at them for my amusement.  fuck zoos.

I loathe zoos.

Zoos are cool..it is the slaughterhouses which are bad.  I find it funny that we have a bacon thread on here and no one has a problem with that but  zoos are wrong.

I had allagash dubbel and fat tire pumperkick tonight.  Both were ok.