The Beer Thread

walkonby wrote:
is westy "better", because it is so hard to get?  I see st bernardus everywhere, so I know in America, we get bored of things too easy to find.

I think I paid about 9 Euros for an 11.2 oz Westy in a specialty beer shop in Bruges. I think I paid about 1.5 Euros for an 11.2 oz bottle of St Bernardus 12 in a grocery store in Bruges. If I lived in Belgium, I know what I'd spend my 9 Euros on, 100% of the time. The six pack of St Bernardus singles.

So to answer your question, for me the answer to your question is a qualified "yes".

Space wrote:

walkonby wrote:
is westy "better", because it is so hard to get?  I see st bernardus everywhere, so I know in America, we get bored of things too easy to find.

I think I paid about 9 Euros for an 11.2 oz Westy in a specialty beer shop in Bruges. \

Space's most expensive per ounce beer purchase in history?

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:

walkonby wrote:
is westy "better", because it is so hard to get?  I see st bernardus everywhere, so I know in America, we get bored of things too easy to find.

I think I paid about 9 Euros for an 11.2 oz Westy in a specialty beer shop in Bruges. \

Space's most expensive per ounce beer purchase in history?

At a bar or a bottle shop? If just the latter, maybe, given the strength of the Euro relative to the Dollar in 2012. I've also paid a pretty penny for some Russian River, Lost Abbey, Allagash, Oxbow, and Almanac beers that either i or a friend brought back home for me, so i don't really know…

How about you?

Space wrote:

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:

walkonby wrote:
is westy "better", because it is so hard to get?  I see st bernardus everywhere, so I know in America, we get bored of things too easy to find.

I think I paid about 9 Euros for an 11.2 oz Westy in a specialty beer shop in Bruges. \

Space's most expensive per ounce beer purchase in history?

At a bar or a bottle shop? If just the latter, maybe, given the strength of the Euro relative to the Dollar in 2012. I've also paid a pretty penny for some Russian River, Lost Abbey, Allagash, Oxbow, and Almanac beers that either i or a friend brought back home for me, so i don't really know…

How about you?

I'd probably say Cascade, Almanac, or Eclipse.

I some how was picked to be a judge for a home brew contest this weekend… Looks like there's 40 entries thus far. I don't know shit about judgin' but I'll do my best!

i've paid in the low 20's - FW Anniversary, Vanberg & DeWulf Lambickx, Rodenback Caractere Rouge (brought back from Belgium), etc.  the only bottle that i've ever paid more than $25 for was 3 Fonteinen Golden Blend 2011 (375 ml) but that price includes shipping.  still sitting on that one.   i also have two bottle of Eclipse that were close to $30 each but they were both gifts.

I've been to some great (and not so great) craft beer breweries and bars all over North America and Europe. In doing so, i've picked up my fair share of cool beer related t-shirts, often with cool graphics.

But I've got one beer related t-shirt (a gift from my mom) that gets more "Cool t-shirt, bro" comments than all my other beer t-shirts combined:



It's still a BMC world.

Woah, check out this SAvor related event….


The events are all getting posted by dc beer now. Been waiting for the official announcement of that Fremont/Founders event on Thurs @ Meridian… (JUNE 4 I'm assuming?)

Other than awesome beer, what do Michigan-based Founders and Washington State-based Fremont have in common?

Well, it turns out that Founders market manager Jonathan McIntire and Fremont brewmaster Matt Lincoln started brewing together 15 years ago in Traverse City, Michigan and the livers have never been the same.

To commemorate this fortuitous meeting, we're pulling out a stellar line-up from each brewery!

Highlights will include:

Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout (CBS) - A highly coveted imperial stout brewed with coffee and chocolate aged in maple syrup bourbon barrels
Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout (KBS) - Imperial stout brewed with coffee and chocolate and cave-aged in bourbon barrels
Founders Mosaic Promise - Pale ale brewed with one malt (Golden Promise) and one hop (Mosaic)

Fremont Bourbon BA Dark Star - Imperial oatmeal stout aged in 15 year-old Kentucky bourbon barrels
Fremont Bourbon BA Dark Star w/Coffee
Fremont Bourbon Abominable (B-BOMB) - Winter warmer aged in oak bourbon barrels

Full beer list:

Founders CBS
Founders KBS
Founders Backwoods Bastard
Founders Big Lushious
Founders Blushing Monk
Founders Imperial Stout
Founders Curmudgeon Old Ale
Founders Bliss Blast All Day IPA
Founders All Day IPA
Founders Mosaic Promise
Founders Rubaeus (Nitro)

Fremont Interurban IPA
Fremont Universale Pale Ale
Fremont The Sister Imperial IPA
Fremont Summer Ale
Fremont Spring Elixir
Fremont Kolsch
Fremont Bourbon Abominable
Fremont Bourbon BA Dark Star
Fremont Bourbon BA Dark Star Coffee
Fremont 1st Nail

and here's your Fremont cheat-sheet:

b-bomb > 1st nail > Coffee KDS > spring elixir > KDS > summer > interurban > sister

i imagine a good way to spend $50 would be to order CBS, KBS, b-bomb, KDS, and coffee KDS in a row.

Carlos wrote:
i imagine a good way to spend $50 would be to order CBS, KBS, b-bomb, KDS, and coffee KDS in a row.

that's what i would do, but swapping out the KBS in favor of 1st nail.

sweetcell wrote:

Carlos wrote:
i imagine a good way to spend $50 would be to order CBS, KBS, b-bomb, KDS, and coffee KDS in a row.

that's what i would do, but swapping out the KBS in favor of 1st nail.

a worthy swap out, but it's a different beast than the rest of the stouts. i liken it to abraxas.

it's also presumably a few dollars cheaper.

my thinking is that we can get KBS here (it's rare, but it comes around) as opposed to Freemont which isn't available at all.

also, as i've mentioned here before, i'm sorta over KBS.  it's a very nice stout but not worth the price and the trouble, IMO.

sweetcell wrote:
my thinking is that we can get KBS here (it's rare, but it comes around) as opposed to Freemont which isn't available at all.

also, as i've mentioned here before, i'm sorta over KBS.  it's a very nice stout but not worth the price and the trouble, IMO.

I paid about 50 cents an ounce for KBS in a bottle, and about 75 cents an ounce for Parabola in a bottle. I might give Parabola a slight edge in a head to head tasting, but if KBS isn't worth the price, then neither is Parabola, to me.  ;D

That said, I think they're both worth the price I paid, purchased in small annual amounts.

Backwoods, bastard, or, fuck, off.

walkonby wrote:
Backwoods, bastard, or, fuck, off.

Got about six or eight of BB sitting in the cellar. I only have one Fremont beer. (Abominable). So Fremont it would be, if i were there.

Space wrote:
I paid about 50 cents an ounce for KBS in a bottle, and about 75 cents an ounce for Parabola in a bottle. I might give Parabola a slight edge in a head to head tasting, but if KBS isn't worth the price, then neither is Parabola, to me.  ;D

you paid $6 for KBS?  it was a dime under $10 at WF in DC, so 82 cents an ounce.  Parabola worked out to 95 cents - not much of a difference.  i definitely prefer it to KBS and it was easier to find.  winner: parabola.

and it's not just the price, it's price + effort.  i don't care if they're giving away KBS if i have to run around the city and stand in long lines to get it.  so going on price alone doesn't paint the right picture.

wait, what the hell just happened to me… since when do i price my beer by the ounce?!?  damn you, charlie.

sweetcell wrote:

Space wrote:
I paid about 50 cents an ounce for KBS in a bottle, and about 75 cents an ounce for Parabola in a bottle. I might give Parabola a slight edge in a head to head tasting, but if KBS isn't worth the price, then neither is Parabola, to me.  ;D

you paid $6 for KBS?  it was a dime under $10 at WF in DC, so 82 cents an ounce.  Parabola worked out to 95 cents - not much of a difference.  i definitely prefer it to KBS and it was easier to find.  winner: parabola.

and it's not just the price, it's price + effort.  i don't care if they're giving away KBS if i have to run around the city and stand in long lines to get it.  so going on price alone doesn't paint the right picture.

wait, what the hell just happened to me… since when do i price my beer by the ounce?!?  damn you, charlie.

This year's haul:

KBS:
one four pack @ $21.99
three singles @$5.99 each
was easy to get since i was on vacation

Parabola:
one bottle @$14.99
easy to get since my wife works on FW delivery day at Whole Foods a mile away

I'm generally pretty underwhelmed by the breweries in NoVA, but I went to Ocelot on Sterling over the weekend, and they're pretty damn impressive for only having been open two months. Best brewery in NoVA already, maybe (?) the entire DMV.

sweetcell wrote:
i'm somewhat obsessive about my hobbies.  for the past few years, brewing has been my only hobby.  i read a lot and listen to a lot of podcasts…

avery raspberry sour: really solid beer.  good amount of pucker-power, raspberries are evident.  not sure i'd pay $16 + tax for another bottle, but if it was $10 like they seem to be going for out west i'd get a case.  i would drink it now, vs. aging it.

also tried the victory kirsche gose last night - what a great summer beer.  just a hint of tartness to make it refreshing.  i can see myself crushing several of those on a hot day.  the missus, who hates sour beer, really liked it - in fact she walked off with my glass, i had to pour myself another one. unprecedented.  

and i was never solely a cream ale drinker… just so happened my fav beer for a long time was a cream ale (Sleeman cream ale).  off to do finish the second half of that raspberry sour ;D

I had a glass of the Raspberry Sour from Avery. Two thumbs up on that one. And then took home a 32 oz growler of it for $11. Wish I had gotten two growlers of it for that price.