The Beer Thread

Yada wrote:
The Veil - Master Shredder

Have enjoyed a few cans of this over past couple of weeks. What a delicious beverage.

Light, tropical, lil' juicy… and only 5.5%. I also hope to get to this brewery by 2019.

Dude, it's in Richmond. That's an easy day trip. Take the family to Lewis Ginter, and stop at the Veil afterwards.

This went extremely well with my creamy salmon pasta last night. Of course, it was the 2015 bottle for us.

Space wrote:

Yada wrote:
The Veil - Master Shredder

Have enjoyed a few cans of this over past couple of weeks. What a delicious beverage.

Light, tropical, lil' juicy… and only 5.5%. I also hope to get to this brewery by 2019.

Dude, it's in Richmond. That's an easy day trip. Take the family to Lewis Ginter, and stop at the Veil afterwards.

We typically don't plan our activities around brewery visits, but I will keep this in my back pocket!

sweetcell wrote:
WoB, mellow mushroom, downtown crown… has craft beer become so mainstream that even rockville is developing a scene?!?  all welcome new for me!

ja,ded wrote:
I was wondering the same about Mellow Mushroom, opening yesterday in Rockville.

MM strikes me as the Mickey-D's of craft beer: bright colors, all plastic, chintzy, very family friendly, loud.  i look forward to taking my little tykes there some day for 'za and a brew (for me), but doesn't strike me as a place that i would hang out at on my own or with buddies - unless maybe they had something amazing on tap, but MM never posts their draft list online which is a big minus for me.  sounds like they had a few issues on opening day.  i'll give the place a try but expectations are low.

Bagley wrote:
Finally -

As per Downtown crown wine and beer in Ghettosburg, MD—-

Big News!! Mark the date!!

Founders Brewing Company is finally coming to Maryland!

We're kicking things off in a HUGE WAY!

Friday May 27th, 5-8pm..

The official Montgomery County Launch Party & Tap Takeover!

so there.

(and LOL @ "Ghettosburg")

I *wish* we had a Mellow Mushroom around the corner from us. It was always our after-race place after running the Charlottesville Marathon, back in the day. Great prices on pitchers of craft beer (I remember Founders Centennial and Oskar Blues Gubna)…so nothing special but always many solid choices…and some interesting pizzas…

Instead, we have a Yards at the newly revamped mall (right next to Dave and Busters!), and a totally dismal Ledo's Pizza (that serves craft beer but it's so bleak that it's best to do takeout, when your kid is insisting on Ledo's.)

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:

Yada wrote:
The Veil - Master Shredder

Have enjoyed a few cans of this over past couple of weeks. What a delicious beverage.

Light, tropical, lil' juicy… and only 5.5%. I also hope to get to this brewery by 2019.

Dude, it's in Richmond. That's an easy day trip. Take the family to Lewis Ginter, and stop at the Veil afterwards.

We typically don't plan our activities around brewery visits, but I will keep this in my back pocket!

Well you're planning your visit around Lewis Ginter,  the VMFA, and Maymont. If you just happen to stumble across a great brewery, you kind of have to sto, don't you?  ;)

Yada wrote:
The Veil - Master Shredder

Have enjoyed a few cans of this over past couple of weeks. What a delicious beverage.

Light, tropical, lil' juicy… and only 5.5%. I also hope to get to this brewery by 2019.

Broz Day Off their session IPA (4.8%) may be the best session IPA i have ever tasted

Won't try to copy and paste the whole list here, but lots of Savor related events starting to roll in. See page two of this thread.

http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/savor-dc-2016.379973/page-2#post-4772480

Still say the side events are better than the main event, though admittedly I've never been to the main event.

brennser wrote:

Yada wrote:
The Veil - Master Shredder

Have enjoyed a few cans of this over past couple of weeks. What a delicious beverage.

Light, tropical, lil' juicy… and only 5.5%. I also hope to get to this brewery by 2019.

Broz Day Off their session IPA (4.8%) may be the best session IPA i have ever tasted

Can a 5.7% IPA beer considered a session IPA? If so, my vote for favorite session IPA is Aslin's Orange Starfish…my favorite Aslin beer so far.

Space wrote:

brennser wrote:

Yada wrote:
The Veil - Master Shredder

Have enjoyed a few cans of this over past couple of weeks. What a delicious beverage.

Light, tropical, lil' juicy… and only 5.5%. I also hope to get to this brewery by 2019.

Broz Day Off their session IPA (4.8%) may be the best session IPA i have ever tasted

Can a 5.7% IPA beer considered a session IPA? If so, my vote for favorite session IPA is Aslin's Orange Starfish…my favorite Aslin beer so far.

Technically…. no.

In other news.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/5583420-181/russian-river-brewing-co-near?artslide=0

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:

Yada wrote:
Broz Day Off their session IPA (4.8%) may be the best session IPA i have ever tasted

Can a 5.7% IPA beer considered a session IPA?

Technically…. no.

yeah, by most sources 5.7% is no longer a session beer.  the highest limit i've seen is 5%, some want session beers to start even lower 4.5 or even 4).

also, per the BJCP, american IPAs start at 5.5%, so 5.7% is comfortably within the limits of a normal IPA. 

admittedly if you're used to drinking 8+% monsters, 5.7% will seem session-like ;D

My wife was in a Manhattan bar Monday night drinking beers by Hill Farmstead, Almanac, and Modern Times, while I was at home with my Waldo in my hand.

Ballast Point opening brewery near Roanoke.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/botetourt_county/ballast-point-brewing-announces-plans-for-brewery-in-botetourt-s/article_ef293877-cdb3-5572-813c-e57b3022bdce.html

i'm getting amped up for my annual beercation known as HomebrewCon, AKA the National Homebrewers Conference, which will be in Baltimore in 2 weeks time.  3 days of seminars, shwag from vendors, catching up with friends, and beer beer beer.  they've just announced the pro breweries and clubs that will be pouring throughout the event (yes, beer for breakfast if you want it).  a lot of smaller local breweries that i haven't had a chance to try yet will be pouring so looking forward to that.  it's always a blast… last year in san diego, the hippies from Lagunitas were vaporizing hops and handing out baggies filled with hop smoke.  the experience of taking a huff and then drinking a non-hoppy beer was amazing (drinking a hoppy beer was a bit much…). 

"The name of the game here is beer.  There's more of it, in greater variety, than you'll find anywhere in the world.  That's a bold statement, but I challenge anyone out there to prove me wrong."

medeski7 wrote:
Ballast Point opening brewery near Roanoke.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/botetourt_county/ballast-point-brewing-announces-plans-for-brewery-in-botetourt-s/article_ef293877-cdb3-5572-813c-e57b3022bdce.html

So VA (Green Flash, Stone, Deschutes, Ballast Point) is beating NC (Sierra Nevada, Oskar Blues, New Belgium) for second brewery locations. Though if you count Stone's brewery in Germany, Richmond will be their third location.

Did Founders stop producing their Double Trouble?

Space wrote:
My wife was in Manhattan (…)  while I was at home with my Waldo in my hand.

you call yours waldo, huh?

sweetcell wrote:

Space wrote:
My wife was in Manhattan (…)  while I was at home with my Waldo in my hand.

you call yours waldo, huh?

big, bold, and tasty

Bagley wrote:
Did Founders stop producing their Double Trouble?

it's not being made this year, at least: http://foundersbrewing.com/availability-calendar/

maybe next year?

sweetcell wrote:

Bagley wrote:
Did Founders stop producing their Double Trouble?

it's not being made this year, at least: http://foundersbrewing.com/availability-calendar/

maybe next year?

I actually saw the 2015 version on the floor at Whole Foods Fair Lakes until a couple months ago. I was wondering if they should have been marketing it as a barleywine at that point.

sweetcell wrote:

Bagley wrote:
Did Founders stop producing their Double Trouble?

it's not being made this year, at least: http://foundersbrewing.com/availability-calendar/

maybe next year?

That's disappointing.  Don't see an equivalent on that list…….