The Beer Thread

Penn Druid / The Veil are making their NOVA debuts at this fest

And Novemberfest 2016 is happening at Rustico Alexandria on Saturday, November 5 to the tune of  70 local, delicious beers and ciders (see full list below) - brewed by a burgeoning bevy of Virginia craft brewers.

Our rollicking outdoor block party celebrates the season in style with a lineup of craft beers spanning an array of flavors and styles, with 30 of the finest Virginia producers bringing their very best for this occasion. Expect strong stouts and potent porters, pumpkin ales and session brews, fresh-hop harvest ales, IPAs, sours and barrel-aged beauties. And for the second consecutive year, our man Greg Engert is procuring beers from a dozen brewers rarely found in Northern Virginia, a few of which–like Pen Druid, The Veil, and Commonwealth–will be making their Northern Virginia debuts at Novemberfest 2016


AleWerks Fresh Hop VA (Fresh Hop IPA)
AleWerks Rapadou (Oak BA Imperial Porter)
Apocalypse Raspberry Cenful Blonde (Belgian Blond Ale w/ Raspberries)
Apocalypse Winter Snack (Sweet Stout w/ Cocoa Nibs & Oats)
Ardent Wild Saison (Bourbon BA Saison; NOVA DEBUT!)
Ardent New England IPA (American IPA; NOVA DEBUT!)
Blue Mountain Kolsch 151 (Kölsch)
Blue Mountain Hop Duster (Imperial IPA)
Brothers Twilight Years (Black IPA)
Brothers Foreign Waters (American IPA)
Caboose Barrel-Aged Boxcar (Bourbon BA American Brown Ale w/ Maple Syrup; NOVA DEBUT!)
Caboose Vanilla Hobo (Imperial Stout w/ Vanilla)
Champion Megalodon (Imperial Porter w/ Coffee)
Champion Tart Berliner Weiss (Berliner Weiss)
Commonwealth Big Papi (Imperial IPA; NOVA DEBUT!)
Commonwealth Fernweh (White Wine BA Saison; NOVA DEBUT!)
Fair Winds Quayside Kolsch (Kölsch)
Fair Winds Siren?s Lure (Dry-Hopped Saison)
Hardywood Park Trickery (Apple Brandy BA Imperial Stout)
Hardywood Park VIPA (American IPA)
Hardywood Park RVA IPA (American IPA)
Hardywood Park Farmhouse Pumpkin (Pumpkin Saison)
Lickinghole Creek Enlightened Despot (Bourbon BA Imperial Stout)
Lickinghole Creek Bourbon Barrel & Ginger Three Chopt Tripel (Bourbon BA Tripel w/ Ginger)
Lickinghole Creek Coconut Delight (Coconut Rum BA Quadrupel)
Lickinghole Creek Great Commander (Rum BA Imperial Stout w/ Vanilla, Cinnamon & Chilies)
Lost Rhino Face Plant (American IPA)
Lost Rhino Exesus Sanctum (Oak BA Sour Blond Ale w/ Peaches)
Lost Rhino Dark Hours (Imperial Stout)
Lost Rhino Bretty McBrettface (Brett IPA)
Mad Fox Oak Aged Wee Heavy (Rye Whiskey BA Scotch Ale)
Mad Fox Kellerbier Kölsch (Kölsch)
Mustang Sally Irish Red (Irish Red Ale)
Mustang Sally Dortmunder (Pale Lager)
Ocelot Sunnyside Dweller (Pilsner)
Ocelot Watch Me Disappear (American IPA)
Ocelot Feel The Break (Dry-Hopped Wheat Ale)
Ocelot Barrel-Aged Gravity Always Wins (Bourbon BA Scotch Ale)
Old Busthead Sumatra Gold Cup Russian Imperial Stout 2015 (Bourbon BA Imperial Stout w/ Coffee)
Old Bust Head Virginia Hop Harvest 2016 (Fresh Hop IPA)
Old Ox Hoppy Place (American IPA)
Old Ox Funky Face: White Wine (Sour Blond Ale; NOVA DEBUT!)
Old Ox Big Tasty 2015 (Imperial Stout)
Old Ox BrewBocka (Dunkles Bock w/ Coffee; NOVA DEBUT!)
Pale Fire 1, 2, 3, 4! (Fresh Hop Pale Ale; NOVA DEBUT!)
Pale Fire Naïve Melody (Dry-Hopped Saison; NOVA DEBUT!)
Pen Druid Amplified Species (Sour Brown Ale; NOVA DEBUT!)
Pen Druid Earth (Oak BA Saison; NOVA DEBUT!)
Port City COLOSSAL FOUR (Quadrupel)
Port City COLOSSAL FIVE (English Strong Ale)
Port City Long Black Veil (Black IPA)
Smartmouth TBD
Smartmouth TBD
South Street Hop Gothic (Imperial IPA w/ Wheat)
South Street Anastasia?s Chocolate Fantasy (Imperial Stout w/ Oats & Cocoa Nibs)
Starr Hill Helles Bock (Maibock)
Starr Hill Debut Barleywine (English Barleywine)
Strangeways Wake Me Up Before You Gose (Red Wine BA Gose w/ Hibiscus; NOVA DEBUT!)
Strangeways Virginia Stingo (Red Wine BA English Strong Ale; NOVA DEBUT!)
The Answer Enta Da Stage (Bourbon BA Imperial Stout; NOVA DEBUT!)
The Answer Broken Bird (Imperial Stout w/ Toasted Coconut; NOVA DEBUT!)
The Answer Hard Hug (Imperial IPA; NOVA DEBUT!)
The Answer Extra Credit (Imperial IPA; NOVA DEBUT!)
The Veil Dull Fangs (American IPA w/ Grapefruit; NOVA DEBUT!)
The Veil IreallydontwanttoBu (Imperial IPA; NOVA DEBUT!)
The Veil We Dead Mon (Imperial IPA; NOVA DEBUT!)
The Veil White Farrari (Imperial IPA; NOVA DEBUT!)
Three Notch?d Apple Crumb Donut (Märzen w/ Apple Cider, Cinnamon & Vanilla)
Three Notch?d Zombie Killin (Imperial IPA w/ Rye)
Triple Crossing Coagulation (Imperial IPA; NOVA DEBUT!)
Triple Crossing Night Lands (Imperial Stout; NOVA DEBUT!)

sweetcell wrote:

Yada wrote:
Yay MoCo!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/going-out-guide/wp/2016/10/11/the-beer-list-at-owens-ordinary-in-north-bethesda-is-good-enough-to-be-the-envy-of-any-d-c-bar/?postshare=6211476727957337&tid=ss_tw

this is like a dream come true.  i have a tear in my eye right now.

Trips to Buy Buy Baby and Target just got a lot more fun… Made a quick detour to Owen's Ordinary yesterday and had a few pours. Think Church Key of the north with crappier service, but all in all, great spot. I look to return for a full afternoon of eating and drinking.

Yada wrote:

sweetcell wrote:

Yada wrote:
Yay MoCo!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/going-out-guide/wp/2016/10/11/the-beer-list-at-owens-ordinary-in-north-bethesda-is-good-enough-to-be-the-envy-of-any-d-c-bar/?postshare=6211476727957337&tid=ss_tw

this is like a dream come true.  i have a tear in my eye right now.

Trips to Buy Buy Baby and Target just got a lot more fun… Made a quick detour to Owen's Ordinary yesterday and had a few pours. Think Church Key of the north with crappier service, but all in all, great spot. I look to return for a full afternoon of eating and drinking.

What was your BMI again?

Bad wrote:

Yada wrote:

sweetcell wrote:

Yada wrote:
Yay MoCo!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/going-out-guide/wp/2016/10/11/the-beer-list-at-owens-ordinary-in-north-bethesda-is-good-enough-to-be-the-envy-of-any-d-c-bar/?postshare=6211476727957337&tid=ss_tw

this is like a dream come true.  i have a tear in my eye right now.

I can't recall, but it's posted somewhere on this board. I think it's 27ish.

Trips to Buy Buy Baby and Target just got a lot more fun… Made a quick detour to Owen's Ordinary yesterday and had a few pours. Think Church Key of the north with crappier service, but all in all, great spot. I look to return for a full afternoon of eating and drinking.

What was your BMI again?

I can't recall, but it's posted somewhere on this board. I think it's 27ish.

ok yeah.. you're slowly killing yourself man…..halfway to obesity….


ok hold on a sec.. I need to get another bag of chips…

MOON UNIT
← Miracle Old Pro →
Moon Unit - An Intergalactic Collaborative IPA from the space cadets at UNION & Burley Oak

This is great

Moon Unit
An Intergalactic Collaborative IPA from the space cadets at UNION & Burley Oak
Clusters of Galaxy hops form constellations of passionfruit and citrus suspended in the deep milkyway haze of this unfiltered intergalactic IPA.

ALCOHOL BY VOLUME: 6.7%
BITTERNESS (IBU): 80
COLOR: Pale
MALT: Pale, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat
HOPS: Idaho 7, Galaxy, 682, Bravo
YEAST: London Ale

does it taste like a frickin' grapefruit??? that is what i need to know… they need a new index for IPAs called the "grapefruit level" or some such..

Bagley wrote:
MOON UNIT
← Miracle Old Pro →
Moon Unit - An Intergalactic Collaborative IPA from the space cadets at UNION & Burley Oak

This is great

Moon Unit
An Intergalactic Collaborative IPA from the space cadets at UNION & Burley Oak
Clusters of Galaxy hops form constellations of passionfruit and citrus suspended in the deep milkyway haze of this unfiltered intergalactic IPA.

ALCOHOL BY VOLUME: 6.7%
BITTERNESS (IBU): 80
COLOR: Pale
MALT: Pale, Flaked Oats, Flaked Wheat
HOPS: Idaho 7, Galaxy, 682, Bravo
YEAST: London Ale

I love when a beer like this gets announced. 

Then hate when I find out it's tap only a ways away from DC or MoCo.

I cannot drink like I used to, for a while, which I am fine with.  I can consume one beer, now and again, and I am really starting to appreciate excellent beers for what they are . . . excellent in taste, and not so much only caring about getting fuckered up.

so with that in mind, I found the following from my local beer shoppee, and I purchased them

one four pack of founders harvest ale to share with a friend, who has never had it.
four, four packs of founders backwoods bastard, to store, for what I hope will be three to five years
one, bottle of wicked weed permeo, to also store for one to two years

thank you, for reading

why store beer? does it age well or something?


I'm drinking a PBR…

yes, certain beers store and age well, increasing the flavor of them ten fold.  I am told that backwoods, if you can make it 5 years, will destroy you.

walkie,talkie wrote:
yes, certain beers store and age well, increasing the flavor of them ten fold.  I am told that backwoods, if you can make it 5 years, will destroy you.

ooooh that sounds like fun…gotta get me some of that…i'm not very good at keeping beer around for years… maybe i shoudl buy some and dig a hole in the backyard and put it in?

So the anniversary weekend will be spent on the eastern shore.  Looking forward to visiting RAR and maybe ESBC in St. Michaels while hitting the oyster fest.  Any other suggestions?

Nuke wrote:
So the anniversary weekend will be spent on the eastern shore.  Looking forward to visiting RAR and maybe ESBC in St. Michaels while hitting the oyster fest.  Any other suggestions?

don't forget GPKJ!

Bad wrote:

Nuke wrote:
So the anniversary weekend will be spent on the eastern shore.  Looking forward to visiting RAR and maybe ESBC in St. Michaels while hitting the oyster fest.  Any other suggestions?

don't forget GPKJ!

Burley Oak in Berlin, MD

walkie,talkie wrote:
one, bottle of wicked weed permeo, to also store for one to two years

you will develop some (how much TBD) additional funk and/or sourness, however you will lose out on the lychees.  that's the problem with fruit sours: the fruit will drop out.  your call!

ok.  how long can I let it sit, do you think, to have it still taste good?  month, tops?  less?

walkie,talkie wrote:
ok.  how long can I let it sit, do you think, to have it still taste good?  month, tops?  less?

Drink that now.

Cool.  I will throw down a card game with my friends, and share it with everyone.

walkie,talkie wrote:
yes, certain beers store and age well, increasing the flavor of them ten fold.  I am told that backwoods, if you can make it 5 years, will destroy you.

I have Backwoods, Vulver, and CEntral WAters Bourbon Scotch Ale. Three of the highest rated (bourbon aged) scotch ales. I want to do a side by side but am waiting for a friend(s) to invite themselves to sample with us, as I don't think my wife and I can handle them alone.