The Beer Thread

Washington Express readers sure don't know their beer lists. The voted ChurchKey, RFD (yuck) and Bar Pilar the three best beer lists in DC. Are they kidding? Here's the Bar Pilar list:

Drafts
Dogfish head 60 min ipa $6
Magic Hat #9 ALE, Vermont $6
Lagunitas Czech Style PILSNER, California $6
New Holland Ichabod Pumpkin Ale $8
Allagash WHITE ALE, Maine $6
Batch 19 pre prohibition lager $6

Bottles
Anderson Valley Boont AMBER ALE, California $6
Unibroue La Fin du Monde BELGIAN STRONG ALE, Quebec (750mL) $26
Viking LAGER, Iceland $5
Yuengling LAGER, Pennsylvania $5
Abita LIGHT ALE, Louisiana $5
Tecate LAGER ?The Clifford?(24oz Can) $8
Lindeman?s FRAMBOISE LAMBIC, Belgium $12
Victory Prima PILSNER, Pennsylvania $5
Woodchuck Dark & Dry CIDER, Vermont $6

James wrote:
Washington Express readers sure don't know their beer lists. The voted ChurchKey, RFD (yuck) and Bar Pilar the three best beer lists in DC. Are they kidding? Here's the Bar Pilar list:

Drafts
Dogfish head 60 min ipa $6
Magic Hat #9 ALE, Vermont $6
Lagunitas Czech Style PILSNER, California $6
New Holland Ichabod Pumpkin Ale $8
Allagash WHITE ALE, Maine $6
Batch 19 pre prohibition lager $6

Bottles
Anderson Valley Boont AMBER ALE, California $6
Unibroue La Fin du Monde BELGIAN STRONG ALE, Quebec (750mL) $26
Viking LAGER, Iceland $5
Yuengling LAGER, Pennsylvania $5
Abita LIGHT ALE, Louisiana $5
Tecate LAGER ?The Clifford?(24oz Can) $8
Lindeman?s FRAMBOISE LAMBIC, Belgium $12
Victory Prima PILSNER, Pennsylvania $5
Woodchuck Dark & Dry CIDER, Vermont $6

i believe that those beers listed on bar pilar's website are only their standard offerings, they have additional seasonals, specialties and one-offs.  they just don't have a webmaster to update the website every time they swap out a non-standard keg for another.

and while the atmosphere at RFD's isn't great, you can't deny they have one of the biggest selections of beer in the city (if not the biggest, since the demise of the Brickskeller).

funny collection of beer/drinking quotes:
http://www.powerhourvx.com/content_powerhourvx_drinking_game_beer_quotes_alcohol_quotes.htm

Doesn't the Bier Baron more or less have the same beer list as the Brickskellar did?

And long bottle lists do nothing for me. If I want to drink beer from a bottle, I've probably got 75 different bottles at home I can choose from. For me, it's ALL about the draft list. And RFD's draft list is usually relatively lame compared to ChurchKey or any of the Paradiso's. Sure, they've got some good ones, but they also have crap like Miller Lite, Magic Hat, and Sam Adams lager, and pedestrian stuff like Leffe Blonde, Hoegarden, and Fat Tire. Stuff ChurchKey and Paradiso would never waste a draft line on. Yes, I know that sounds super snobby.

sweetcell wrote:

James wrote:
and while the atmosphere at RFD's isn't great, you can't deny they have one of the biggest selections of beer in the city (if not the biggest, since the demise of the Brickskeller).

great article

HoyaSaxa03 wrote:
Washington City Paper - D.C.'s Economies of Ale: Why Is Craft Beer So Expensive in Washington?

Fall Stock

what . . . do you just stay drunk all the time?  ;D

anybody heard of, or tried, this?

5 cases = 120 beers.  at a modest 1 beer a day, that's a 4 month's supply - AKA the fall season.  if he is sharing with, say, his wife, we're down to two months.  invite a few friends over for a game or two, and you're down to a month's supply.

Yada: the above calculations prove that you're living on the edge here.  only solution is to stock up on more beer ;D

sweetcell wrote:
5 cases = 120 beers.  at a modest 1 beer a day, that's a 4 month's supply - AKA the fall season.  if he is sharing with, say, his wife, we're down to two months.  invite a few friends over for a game or two, and you're down to a month's supply.

Yada: the above calculations prove that you're living on the edge here.  only solution is to stock up on more beer ;D

Hahahha!!! Very true…

What's great about that stash of beer is that it only cost $123 in PA. If that was purchased in DC, I would've been pushing over $200 for that beer.

Sidenote, that 30 pack of I.C. Light will be floating around my fridge until next summer.

The #1 ipa in the world according to beeradvocate.com (Ballast Point Sculpin), now on tap at Pizza Paradiso, Dupont

http://beeradvocate.com/lists/style/116

Weekend beers split with my wife:

Friday: Ommegang Rare Vos: Belgian Amber Ale that almost worked with my baked ziti i paired it with. Ommegang always delivers!

Friday/Saturday: Founders CBS: Like a perfect one night (two nights in this case) stand that you'd never consider dating on a regular basis.

Saturday: Three Floyds' Alpha King Pale Ale. Sorry, Dale this is the best pale all out there. Nearly three months old, so it had lost some of its hops, but still went very well with my wife's homemade pizza.

Sunday (lunch): Dogfish Burton Baton. It's a hybrid of an imperial ipa and an english style old ale, and at a year old actually might taste better than when consumed fresh. Went very well with cambozola (sp?) cheese and a fresh Whole Foods baguette.

Sunday dinner: 21st Ammendment Hop Crisis- 21st Ammendment is a hit or miss brewery for me, but their double ipa is a hit. Especially with the Indian food I made and served.

when beer, the first ammendment, and texas collide:

Jester King Craft Brewery Sues Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission Over Beer and Consumer Freedom
http://jesterkingbrewery.com/jester-king-craft-brewery-sues-texas-alcoholic-beverage-commission-over-beer-and-consumer-freedom

My wife went to Belgium without me  :'(

She brought back some stuff - all awesome but most of it I'd already had…except Mort Subite.  She explained the history behind it and how the locals were fairly divided on it.  I thought it was pretty good.  Just a hint of sweet.  Probably the lightest Belgian beer I've ever had (4.5%).

did she bring back cheese . . . it's all about the cheese over there.

Nope.  And she's all about cheese, so go figure.

Hard to scold her when she brought back beer and a handful of Cuban cigars.  Might have to insist on accompanying her next time around.

got to try some of this at the weekend - very very good

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/4/58839

Troeg's Craft Brewery Tasting Dinner - November 3rd

Please join us for a five course dinner served and/or prepared expertly with Troeg's Craft Brewery beer from Harrisburg, PA.

Thursday, November 3, 2011 from 6:30 PM to 10:00 PM (ET)
- 6:30 PM Cocktail Reception
- 7:00 PM Dinner

Beacon Bar and Grill (1615 Rhode Island Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036)

Menu: https://images.magnetmail.net/images/clients/Beacon/attach/TroegBeerDinnerMenu.pdf
Reserve: http://troegsdinner.eventbrite.com/
$42

Has anybody been to the new Mellow Mushroom in Adams Morgan and if so any reports on the pint and pitcher beer prices? Looks like their draft list is small but solid. The pizza prices listed online appear to be about 30% higher than the same pizzas in Charlottesville.

I may have had something this weekend rarer than a Founders CBS - partook of several glasses from a bottle of 1944 Sandemans vintage port - not sure what my expectations were but it was very good

a little off topic I know but seemed a bit much to start a Port Thread  ;)