The Beer Thread

brennser wrote:

SideBurner wrote:
but I am going to swing by tonight to pick up a growler
you all have been loving Ocelot ….opinions on their Lost Angel IPA

As Space said Aslin is sort of blowing Ocelot out of the water lately, albeit with a radically different style of IPA. That being said I found Lost Angel to be one of their least impressive offerings

That's good news to me..as time to start biking the WO&D and they are about 1/2 mile off it
Ocelot is pretty inconvenient for me to get to, so was happy they had it for growler fills locally

…made it to Aslin today
Had the Stellar Parallax DIPA…perfection
yes these guys are doing it right, such a small operation
Mile marker 18.5 …the trip home was surely a little slower

Love the crowler, next time I'm brining one home

tried this, yes just because of the labeling.  not bad, not awesome; the labeling is better.  should have been used on an epic beer that snobs steal from their mother to get.

I was able to get a few bottles of KBS.  Most places were limiting customers to one or two bottles.  I ended up drinking a 2015 KBS I had cellared for the year, but haven't cracked one from this year yet.  Anyone tried it?  What do you think?  This was my first time trying it.  I thought it was very good, but overall, I think I prefer BCBS. 

another one bites the dust to the big boys
Anheuser-Busch to Acquire Devils Backbone[/URL}

SideBurner wrote:
another one bites the dust to the big boys
Anheuser-Busch to Acquire Devils Backbone[/URL}

Was just going to post this.

Guess i won't be buying their nice Adventure pack anymore. Wonder if there will be an Adventure pack anymore, as collaborating with Devils Backbone will now mean collaborating with AB-InBev.

not much . . . of a loss.

walk,on,by wrote:
not much . . . of a loss.

From a quality perspective, I agree. From a business perspective, well I guess we would need stevewizzle hear to break it down.

Space wrote:

walk,on,by wrote:
not much . . . of a loss.

From a quality perspective, I agree. From a business perspective, well I guess we would need stevewizzle hear to break it down.

I miss the Wizz….can someone tell that fart sound to come back

and yeah…can't think of a 'to die for' DB brew.  But I've only had a few

SideBurner wrote:

Space wrote:

walk,on,by wrote:
not much . . . of a loss.

From a quality perspective, I agree. From a business perspective, well I guess we would need stevewizzle hear to break it down.

I miss the Wizz….can someone tell that fart sound to come back

and yeah…can't think of a 'to die for' DB brew.  But I've only had a few

I don't blame the Wizz for moving on. He's a Seattle dweller now.

If someone got both my wife and I jobs in Seattle that both paid in the six figures, I'd move there and never post on this forum again.

what does salary and location have to do with posting on this forum??
heck a large percentage of people don't even see shows at the 930 club on this board

Space wrote:

walk,on,by wrote:
not much . . . of a loss.

From a quality perspective, I agree.

DB makes amazing, by-the-book beers.  if vienna lagers were "in", we'd all be singing the praises of DB.  unfortunately they don't specialize in over-the-top IPAs, or bourbon barrel aged anything, or sours, etc…

DB wins tons of awards for making perfect examples of german and english styles.  unfortunately they aren't very exciting styles per the market.

sweetcell wrote:

Space wrote:

walk,on,by wrote:
not much . . . of a loss.

From a quality perspective, I agree.

DB makes amazing, by-the-book beers.  if vienna lagers were "in", we'd all be singing the praises of DB.  unfortunately they don't specialize in over-the-top IPAs, or bourbon barrel aged anything, or sours, etc…

DB wins tons of awards for making perfect examples of german and english styles.  unfortunately they aren't very exciting styles per the market.

Oh puh-leeze. Their IPA isn't even in the top 100 among IPA's I've tried.

Quick! Name a brewery who has been "doing it for years" that doesn't have a shit ton of medals. This is the most every kid wins a medal industry in America.

What's so special about "brewing to style"? This is America, not Germany. If every brewer brewed to style, all beers in a style would taste the same. If all pizzas were made "to style" all pizzas would the same. If all dark chocolates were brewed "to style", all dark chocolates would be the same. If all art was done "to style", art would be pretty fuicking boring.

Where is creativity in making something that meets some preconceived notion of what it should be?

curious…has anyone had Beltway Brewing's Berliner Weisse?

also this wing place is somewhat serious about good beer!

that thing when a Washington Post reporter quotes Space's BA posts on his twitter account!! LOLZ.

Yada wrote:
that thing when a Washington Post reporter quotes Space's BA posts on his twitter account!! LOLZ.

No idea what you're talking about, but before ggw comes to life and calls me out on it, i will confess i stole this line from someone else:

Quick! Name a brewery who has been "doing it for years" that doesn't have a shit ton of medals. This is the most every kid wins a medal industry in America.

Space wrote:

Yada wrote:
that thing when a Washington Post reporter quotes Space's BA posts on his twitter account!! LOLZ.

No idea what you're talking about, but before ggw comes to life and calls me out on it, i will confess i stole this line from someone else:

Quick! Name a brewery who has been "doing it for years" that doesn't have a shit ton of medals. This is the most every kid wins a medal industry in America.

Unfortunately it's too painful now to post back and forth on here (once again, Julian wins, but if you respond I'll likely respond back tomorrow), but Fritz Hahn was posting some quotes from the BA forum today on twitter and they sounded very space like… sure enough, pull up the thread on BA and there is old space being quoted!

SideBurner wrote:

and yeah…can't think of a 'to die for' DB brew.  But I've only had a few

ok…this one I'm interested in trying …

SideBurner wrote:

SideBurner wrote:

and yeah…can't think of a 'to die for' DB brew.  But I've only had a few

ok…this one I'm interested in trying …

I still have one left, i can bring it to the Forum bottle share you're hosting.

Most of the beers in that Adventure pack were good to very good. That was one of the best. Actually, I thought the imperial brown ale they made with Surly was excellent and best of the box. But I'll give Surly the credit for that.  ;)

Space wrote:
Oh puh-leeze. Their IPA isn't even in the top 100 among IPA's I've tried.

congrats, you're someone who doesn't like their style of IPA.  you like "modern", west-coast style IPAs - which DB doesn't make.  saying that it's not in your top 100 is meaningless to anyone except you.

Space wrote:
Quick! Name a brewery who has been "doing it for years" that doesn't have a shit ton of medals. This is the most every kid wins a medal industry in America.

i'm only talking GABF medals, which actually count for something (true blind evaluation, by industry peers, etc).  they've only been in operation since 2008 and they've won a disproportionate number of GABF medals since they opened. 

Space wrote:
What's so special about "brewing to style"?

it's one of many approaches to brewing.  clearly it doesn't impress you (again, congrats!).  those styles developed for a reason - they taste good, reflected a consensus on taste, etc.  the precision and control of process is impressive, for some (again, clearly not you). 

all this noise reminds me of someone who doesn't like modern art, goes to a modern art showing, and then complains that the art was terrible and he/she can't understand why anyone would go there.  how insightful.  says nothing about the art, only tells us about the complainer's opinions.