The Beer Thread

are you really gonna make me post pics of my beer AND my hikes just to prove that my trip was the best EVAH???!!!!  :P :P

James wrote:
Was atomic celebrating the birth of atomic jr.?

You know, his fictional child from his fictional wife who has been pregnant for about 16 months now?


I'm ok with being #3, but without a doubt my family did the best, most scenic hikes on vacation!

stevewizzle wrote:
boardie beer vacations, ranked:
1. bressner goes to NE (an absurd haul)
2. sweetcell goes to belgium
3. james ford goes to denver
4. atomic's trip to max's in baltimore

brennser wrote:
are you really gonna make me post pics of my beer AND my hikes just to prove that my trip was the best EVAH???!!!!  :P :P

I am friends with with half the group on FB, and the photos of Belgium vs the image your car on the rack is going to be tough to overcome.

vansmack wrote:

brennser wrote:
are you really gonna make me post pics of my beer AND my hikes just to prove that my trip was the best EVAH???!!!!  :P :P

I am friends with with half the group on FB, and the photos of Belgium vs the image your car on the rack is going to be tough to overcome.

ha ha - busted

stevewizzle wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
did you get to meet smackie, and did you get him to drink beer?

not this time. going to try and connect during my next trip in two weeks. and unless i'm at toronado, i'd rather grab a glass of wine in SF.

This.  And it's on.

Although I did once drink some beers in Toronado with Sweetcell and have had a couple bottles of wine with him in SF.

smackie drank beer in dc last month. and not high life either!

An Atomic sighting???

I was in the beer section of P Street Whole Foods Friday night and this old guy asked the beer guy "Don't you guys have any Schneider Weisse? It's the king of beers." The worker told him no, and Atomic, I mean the old guy, continued to mumble aloud "You don't have any German bottles here at all. What the hell kind of store is this, anyway?"

What the hell kind of country is this? How could Germany let this happen?
Can we bring back Atomic for some comments?








Stone to Open Production Brewery and Destination Restaurant in Berlin
By Ben Keene

On the eve of their 18th anniversary, Stone Brewing Company revealed plans today to open a production brewery and a destination restaurant in Berlin, Germany. The news comes nearly five years after the brewery published a formal Request for Proposal. With the announcement, Stone, the 17th largest brewery in the United States, took its first step toward becoming the first American craft brewer to independently own and operate a brewery in Europe.

?It?s daunting, humbling, and exciting,? says CEO and co-founder Greg Koch. ?After years of searching and negotiating we?re opening in a beautiful historic property. And it?s in the amazing city of Berlin.?

Serving as an international hub for the growing company, the location includes three main buildings on more than two acres of land in Mariendorf, roughly six miles south of the city?s Brandenburg Gate. Anchoring the site is a distinctive red brick main hall built in 1901 by the Imperial Continental Gas Association, a British company that introduced gas lighting to Berlin in 1826. Encompassing more than 43,000 square feet of interior space, the main hall will house a farm to table restaurant, a retail store and a custom-built brewhouse when complete in late 2015 or early 2016. The two other buildings on Stone?s new gasworks property will be used for special events and to produce and package beers for distribution and consumption on site. The company expects to spend more than $25 million on renovation, construction and landscaping.

?This will be a definite boost to the local craft beer community,? Koch insists. ?We made friends with pretty much everybody and there is real interest in American craft beer here. They?ve been extremely supportive.?

And for his part, Koch sees the expansion project as a chance to extend the reach of craft beer in general. Along with a selection of their own aggressive, hop-forward beers, Koch says that Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens Berlin will offer draft and bottled beer from breweries in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. But, he adds, Stone currently has no plans to brew any traditional German styles. Instead, some of the first products to emerge from the new brewery will be part of a limited release series collectively referred to as Stone Groundbreaking Collaborations.

Sold in commemorative 1.5-liter bottles for $50 each, the collaboration beers will be available exclusively through a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, which the company also announced today. Proceeds will go toward expediting construction in Berlin and the company?s other expansion project East of the Mississippi.

?We?re selling futures,? explains Koch. ?Each one of the crowdfunding beers is going to be over and beyond. And once they sell out, that?s it.?

The series will launch with three products: Imperial Royal Imperial Saison du BUFF, a beer Koch describes as ?an uber version? of the Saison that Stone first released in 2010 with Victory and Dogfish Head, SPECIAL bashah, a second take on the Black Double Belgian IPA brewed once before with Scotland?s BrewDog in 2009, and Super Duper Arrogant, a Strong Ale that revisits an earlier collaboration between Stone and Birrificio Le Baladin of Italy.

For more information, visit: http://www.stonebrewing.com/berlin and http://igg.me/at/stonebrewing

James wrote:
Can we bring back Atomic for some comments?

Get the hell off my messgaeboard.

How many have you had?

I've had 18 of 25, with a Westy 12 sitting in the basement that will be opened 5/17/15.

Yada wrote:
http://coolmaterial.com/feature/beer-bucket-list/2/

Sauf Haus Bier Hall in Dupont opens this Thursday, 7/24. http://dc.eater.com/archives/2014/07/21/sauf-haus-opens-thursday-in-dupont-circle.php

James wrote:
How many have you had?

I've had 18 of 25, with a Westy 12 sitting in the basement that will be opened 5/17/15.

Yada wrote:
http://coolmaterial.com/feature/beer-bucket-list/2/

13

Hoping they only serve Stone beers.

Sieve-Fisted wrote:
Sauf Haus Bier Hall in Dupont opens this Thursday, 7/24. http://dc.eater.com/archives/2014/07/21/sauf-haus-opens-thursday-in-dupont-circle.php

also at 18 of 25.

CBS is my holy grail, more so than Darklord or Pliny the Younger.

i could easily up my score.  i haven't had La Folie only because i haven't been that interested, though it's on shelves right now.  someday i might get a shot of Utopias at a bar.  i'm trying to set up a trade for Cable Car.  price has kept me away from Speedway Stout but i'm sure i'll break down at some point.  can't say i have much interest in Rogue Chipotle Ale.

You definitely NEED to have La Folie!

I want to say we had Speedway Stout at at least one bottle share (maybe Steve brought it, memory a little fuzzy….), so if you've been at every hour of every bottle share, you've tried that one…

sweetcell wrote:
also at 18 of 25.

CBS is my holy grail, more so than Darklord or Pliny the Younger.

i could easily up my score.  i haven't had La Folie only because i haven't been that interested, though it's on shelves right now.  someday i might get a shot of Utopias at a bar.  i'm trying to set up a trade for Cable Car.  price has kept me away from Speedway Stout but i'm sure i'll break down at some point.  can't say i have much interest in Rogue Chipotle Ale.

i've read that La Folie has been in decline in recent years.  i saw it last night at Rodmans.  it wasn't cheap ($15 a bottle?), at that price there were other beers i was going to buy.  but i do love me some oud bruin so i should just pull the trigger.

cool about the speedway stout - clock me in at 19, then!  my memory is swiss cheese.  i'll be in vermont in a few weeks, and a beer store/gas station there always has some.  i'll probably pick up a bottle just to be sure.

Not a brewery I generally seek out, but this one is a pretty tasty summer beer.

On a recommendation, I tried the Stiegel Grapefruit Radler yesterday, and found it quite delicious.

That one is a drink (is it even a beer?) of great contention in our household.

I like it (best after a run in hot weather), my wife does not.

Perhaps that corresponds with me being (an occasional) soda drinker and my wife not drinking soda.

Julian, wrote:
On a recommendation, I tried the Stiegel Grapefruit Radler yesterday, and found it quite delicious.

Does ginger beer count as beer?

I have to say I broke the great gin slump of 1998 a few weekends ago when I had this amazing cocktail.