The Beer Thread

Any bars in DC serving hard ciders?

ChurchKey currently has that Clutch beer. $6.50 for a 13 oz pour.

Jaguar wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions you two. Will try to keep those in mind as I'd like to try them.

Had a London Stout once and kind of liked it but still think the Irish do it better. Then again, it was bottled which might be an unfair comparison to a Guinness on draft.

All of those sound good. Generally, it's not the alcohol content that seems to bother me. Something else within the brews of most beers. I don't like containers over 16 ozs either. By the time I get that low in the drink, it all gets too flat, warm and nasty.

The Trader Joe's and Wegmans thing is a big tease for me. Neither of those stores anywhere around here and, due to effed up Maryland liquor laws, I can't buy them when I'm in town visiting family. Of course, I do go to both those stores to stock up on food and other products they offer. Better selections and prices.

Have to go off to work and hope to see a few more suggestions when I get back.

There was some German beer that I really liked a whole lot that I had at the House Of Europe (or whatever it's called) in Tenly Town (I think) on Wisconsin Ave.. Think it started with a B. Biersomethingorother maybe. It was a very nice creamy lighter ale.

Cheers.

If you like a stout on the sweet side try a milk stout.
Regionally Duck+Rabbit Milk Stout would be my pick. Not too hard to find.
Also Williamsburg AleWerks Coffeehouse Stout is tasty.

currently enjoying an Odell's IPA here in boulder, CO (http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/267/35626).  i'm a noted non-fan of IPAs but this one is damn tasty - prolly because it doesn't really taste like a typical IPA.  there are some fun spice flavors in there. 

any other beers or (preferably) breweries i need to check out while i'm here?

sweetcell wrote:
currently enjoying an Odell's IPA here in boulder, CO (http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/267/35626).  i'm a noted non-fan of IPAs but this one is damn tasty - prolly because it doesn't really taste like a typical IPA.  there are some fun spice flavors in there. 

any other beers or (preferably) breweries i need to check out while i'm here?

Avery and Great Divide.

Those are the two I'd name as well.

Still kicking myself for jogging by the Great Divide tasting room twice and not stopping in. Though I was less into beer then.

Oskar Blues is another Colorado favorite as well.

And check oiut the Cheeky Monk in Denver. Great Belgian beer bar. Though I hot food poisoning from the out of season mussels I had there.

Yada wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
currently enjoying an Odell's IPA here in boulder, CO (http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/267/35626).  i'm a noted non-fan of IPAs but this one is damn tasty - prolly because it doesn't really taste like a typical IPA.  there are some fun spice flavors in there. 

any other beers or (preferably) breweries i need to check out while i'm here?

Avery and Great Divide.

James wrote:
Those are the two I'd name as well.

Still kicking myself for jogging by the Great Divide tasting room twice and not stopping in. Though I was less into beer then.

Oskar Blues is another Colorado favorite as well.

And check oiut the Cheeky Monk in Denver. Great Belgian beer bar. Though I hot food poisoning from the out of season mussels I had there.

Yada wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
currently enjoying an Odell's IPA here in boulder, CO (http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/267/35626).  i'm a noted non-fan of IPAs but this one is damn tasty - prolly because it doesn't really taste like a typical IPA.  there are some fun spice flavors in there. 

any other beers or (preferably) breweries i need to check out while i'm here?

Avery and Great Divide.

Mussels + Middle America don't mix.

had Great Divide's Hades (a belgian ale). goddam tastiest thing i've had in a while.

Before Kyuss Lives! I hit up the Church key and was impressed. It was nice to have Clutch on tap. Thanks for the heads up James Ford.

My absolute favorite IPA comes from Colorado - Breckenridge Small Batch 471 DIPA.  YUM!

sweetcell wrote:
had Great Divide's Hades (a belgian ale). goddam tastiest thing i've had in a while.

other locals that i had: Boulder Beer's "Hazed and Infused" (pretty tasty, very complex, lovely smell, http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/130) and Avery's "Ellie's Brown Ale" (good but pretty average IMO, a brown ale aficionado assured me it was awesome, http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/30/2894).

never made it to a brewery/tasting room because of group dynamics.  grrrr.  i happened to walk in front of the local brewers association which was unfortunately closed.  would have loved to buy some of their t-shirts, like "make beer not war" and "this is my beer.  MAKE YOUR OWN."   overall i really liked boulder.  beautiful setting, strong beer culture and a fit population.  i'd have to step up my game if i moved there ;D 

i like to give it up to grocery stores that try.  out in here in the country, we have country stores, convenience stores, corner markets, drug stores, small grocery stores, and a walmart . . . that sell beer.  it is a lot.  rednecks love beer.  but out of all of those choices, only one tries.  lost in a world of miller, bud, coors, michelob and anything four dollars a twelve pack, is a grocery store that totally altered the makeup of their store so they could have a better wine and beer selection, with a walk in cooler to boot.  plus single beers and everything overpriced.  but i didn't care and got one of each of these to try

1. chimay ale grande reserve (tall)

six pack of singles contained

sierra nevada torpedo (somehow i remeber hating this before, but now i like ipas)
heineken dark
heavy seas peg leg imperial stout
widmer brothers  rotator ipa
lancaster brewing  hop hog  ipa
spaten oktoberfest

(somehow i also feel that most of these, beside the chimay and spaten, of course, and maybe the heineken . . . are horrible beers and i'll hate them.)

walkonby wrote:

heavy seas peg leg imperial stout

Har har, matey. Let me know what this one is like.  ;)

it's kind of average as far as imperial stouts go

but it is dirt cheap as far as imperial stouts go

but I'd definitely take it over anything with the name "heineken" on it

Heavy Seas Loose Cannon IPA is top notch (but Jag wouldn't like it) as far as Heavy Seas beer go

Jaguar wrote:

walkonby wrote:

heavy seas peg leg imperial stout

Har har, matey. Let me know what this one is like.  ;)

"what kinda beer you like"

"heineken"

"heineken?! . . . fuck that shit.  pabst blue ribbon"

^ That just goes from bad to worse!

LOVE that movie though and that part still cracks me up.

James wrote:
Heavy Seas Loose Cannon IPA is top notch (but Jag wouldn't like it) as far as Heavy Seas beer go

Thanks for the mini review.

I'll avoid this one or I'd probably be tossing my cookies overboard. Probably best that I stick with the ginger beer on this one.

Btw, would I like Flat Tire? There's a place here with a nice respectable seafaring name that advertises that they serve it at their bar. Thought that I might pop in one day and try one.

i think fat tire products are a ruse put on by some big name piss beer company to move product.  it tastes horrible and the campaign push of this beer reaks of lots of money involved.  stay away i say.  but that is just me.  i don't mind heineken.

had a Starr Hill Boxcar Pumpkin Porter and a 90m IPA tonight … really liked the starr hill, a lot more subtle than a lot of pumpkin beers

James wrote:
ChurchKey currently has that Clutch beer. $6.50 for a 13 oz pour.

Clutch is $6.99 for 22 oz. bottle at Teeter in NoMa

NoMa?