The Beer Thread

stone beers i am still a fanboy of:
- most, but not all, of the Enjoy By series
- RIS
- wootstout
- Epic series (12.12.12, 11.11.11, etc.) if you can find them in good shape
- xocoveza
- ruinTen (including the variants)

stone beers that while not exciting are damn fine:
- IPA
- ruination
- vanilla bean porter
- enjoy after (i've only had one so far, the first one, so while i really liked it i'm not going to put a beer i've had one example of in my fanboy category)

stone made the decision to go big, so not everything they produce can be a palette crushing extreme beer.  but pretty much everything they make is at least good, with many examples of great to excellent.

</FANBOY>

sweetcell wrote:
stone beers i am still a fanboy of:
- most, but not all, of the Enjoy By series
- RIS
- wootstout
- Epic series (12.12.12, 11.11.11, etc.) if you can find them in good shape
- xocoveza
- ruinTen (including the variants)

stone beers that while not exciting are damn fine:
- IPA
- ruination
- vanilla bean porter
- enjoy after (i&#039;ve only had one so far, the first one, so while i really liked it i&#039;m not going to put a beer i&#039;ve had one example of in my fanboy category)

stone made the decision to go big, so not everything they produce can be a palette crushing extreme beer.&nbsp; but pretty much everything they make is at least good, with many examples of great to excellent.

&lt;/FANBOY&gt;

Have an Enjoy After I haven't crack yet, but +1 on everything else he said.

Space wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
stone beers i am still a fanboy of:
- most, but not all, of the Enjoy By series
- RIS
- wootstout
- Epic series (12.12.12, 11.11.11, etc.) if you can find them in good shape
- xocoveza
- ruinTen (including the variants)

stone beers that while not exciting are damn fine:
- IPA
- ruination
- vanilla bean porter
- enjoy after (i&#039;ve only had one so far, the first one, so while i really liked it i&#039;m not going to put a beer i&#039;ve had one example of in my fanboy category)

stone made the decision to go big, so not everything they produce can be a palette crushing extreme beer.&nbsp; but pretty much everything they make is at least good, with many examples of great to excellent.

&lt;/FANBOY&gt;

Have an Enjoy After I haven&#039;t crack yet, but +1 on everything else he said.

I can say with confidence if I saw any of the beers listed above on the shelf, I wouldn't buy them. Maybe the xocoveza, but I'm sure that beer doesn't meet the ounce/cost space ratio factor.

Space wrote:
Will this beer the largest clusterfuck in Richmond beer history?


Saturday February 11th will be our second Tasting Room Remix. This time we are honored to host our good friends TRILLIUM!!!

Starting at 12pm when we open doors, we will be pouring 9 beers on draft from Trillium and some very special beers from us. We will announce the draft list from both breweries as we get closer. The Trillium team will be around hanging out all day too, so make sure you say sup.

For this special occasion, we decided to bring back the boiz from Maine at The High Roller Lobster Co to murder us with their inventive and classic lobster/seafood creations. They are bringing twice as much Lobster as last time, so don&#039;t freak out.

Like last Tasting Room Remix, we will have DJ sets all day from BillyCrystalfingers, Chenchilla, DJ El Capone, DJ Ant Boogz, and DJ Mom(Baxter from High Roller). We will also be hosting our first ever live music performance. Our friend and local hip-hop artist Chance Fischer will be turning things up to finish out the night.

It&#039;s going to be straight lit! So come through and try some rad beers from Trillium on draft and some cool limited beers from us Veilians.

Open 12pm-12am for this day. No cover. No tickets. Just awesome beer, food, and jamz all dang day!

Based on the social medias and some first hand accounts, sounds like it was somewhat disastrous and a giant cluster.

Assuming they switch things up for the one year anniversary party and offer guaranteed beers/sessions, I hope to turn in one of my haul passes to get down to Richmond for 24 hours.

Yada wrote:
Maybe the xocoveza, but I&#039;m sure that beer doesn&#039;t meet the ounce/cost space ratio factor.

it's in 6 packs now.

and even before the sixers, a bomber of xocoveza was very reasonably priced.

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
stone beers i am still a fanboy of:
- most, but not all, of the Enjoy By series
- RIS
- wootstout
- Epic series (12.12.12, 11.11.11, etc.) if you can find them in good shape
- xocoveza
- ruinTen (including the variants)

stone beers that while not exciting are damn fine:
- IPA
- ruination
- vanilla bean porter
- enjoy after (i&#039;ve only had one so far, the first one, so while i really liked it i&#039;m not going to put a beer i&#039;ve had one example of in my fanboy category)

stone made the decision to go big, so not everything they produce can be a palette crushing extreme beer.&nbsp; but pretty much everything they make is at least good, with many examples of great to excellent.

&lt;/FANBOY&gt;

Have an Enjoy After I haven&#039;t crack yet, but +1 on everything else he said.

I can say with confidence if I saw any of the beers listed above on the shelf, I wouldn&#039;t buy them. Maybe the xocoveza, but I&#039;m sure that beer doesn&#039;t meet the ounce/cost space ratio factor.

Xocoveza actually is a bargain. I bought a six pack of  this year (mispriced at $11.99, correct price was $15.99 or so, still a bargain imo), and three singles.

Compare that to what Westbrook charges for Mexican Cake, Perennial charges for Abraxas, and what Lickinghole charges for Heir Apparent…and it's a bargain.

Space wrote:

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
stone beers i am still a fanboy of:
- most, but not all, of the Enjoy By series
- RIS
- wootstout
- Epic series (12.12.12, 11.11.11, etc.) if you can find them in good shape
- xocoveza
- ruinTen (including the variants)

stone beers that while not exciting are damn fine:
- IPA
- ruination
- vanilla bean porter
- enjoy after (i&#039;ve only had one so far, the first one, so while i really liked it i&#039;m not going to put a beer i&#039;ve had one example of in my fanboy category)

stone made the decision to go big, so not everything they produce can be a palette crushing extreme beer.&nbsp; but pretty much everything they make is at least good, with many examples of great to excellent.

&lt;/FANBOY&gt;

Have an Enjoy After I haven&#039;t crack yet, but +1 on everything else he said.

I can say with confidence if I saw any of the beers listed above on the shelf, I wouldn&#039;t buy them. Maybe the xocoveza, but I&#039;m sure that beer doesn&#039;t meet the ounce/cost space ratio factor.

Xocoveza actually is a bargain. I bought a six pack of&nbsp; this year (mispriced at $11.99, correct price was $15.99 or so, still a bargain imo), and three singles.

Compare that to what Westbrook charges for Mexican Cake, Perennial charges for Abraxas, and what Lickinghole charges for Heir Apparent…and it&#039;s a bargain.

How bout dah.

The Stones rock… I just wish I hadn't had such a bad experience when I saw them on Bridges to Babylon Tour at Jack Kent Cooke.. it was so awful.. Early appearance of Sidehatch's horrible ticket kungfu….I didn't see them again til 2006 in Baltimore which was absolutely amazing (smallest arena they played.. first time in baltimore since part of Yayas in 69!)… I got so loaded that night but what great fun…

Good thing they have that beer business to fall back on on case their music venture ever falls apart.

Anybody else hit up Pizza Paradiso last night for $4 (!!!) pours or Rodenbach Alexander and Wicked Weed Oblivion? If I lived closer, I'd be there for every happy hour until those two beer are gone.

Space wrote:
Anybody else hit up Pizza Paradiso last night for $4 (!!!) pours or Rodenbach Alexander and Wicked Weed Oblivion? If I lived closer, I&#039;d be there for every happy hour until those two beer are gone.

Don't go tomorrow - They'll be closed.

http://dcist.com/2017/02/area_restaurants_grapple_with_thurs.php

ggw wrote:

Space wrote:
Anybody else hit up Pizza Paradiso last night for $4 (!!!) pours or Rodenbach Alexander and Wicked Weed Oblivion? If I lived closer, I&#039;d be there for every happy hour until those two beer are gone.

Don&#039;t go tomorrow - They&#039;ll be closed.

http://dcist.com/2017/02/area_restaurants_grapple_with_thurs.php

They also don't do happy hour on Thursday

AmericanCarnage wrote:

ggw wrote:

Space wrote:
Anybody else hit up Pizza Paradiso last night for $4 (!!!) pours or Rodenbach Alexander and Wicked Weed Oblivion? If I lived closer, I&#039;d be there for every happy hour until those two beer are gone.

Don&#039;t go tomorrow - They&#039;ll be closed.

http://dcist.com/2017/02/area_restaurants_grapple_with_thurs.php

They also don&#039;t do happy hour on Thursday

They actually do Happy Hour Mon-Thurs at Old Town and Georgetown locations. Dupont is Tues and Wed only.

On Thurs, Old Town and Georgetown will be closed, Dupont will be open with Ruth Gresser herself working in the kitchen…

Brewers against Pruitt

https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/media-uploads/brewers_letter_opposing_pruitt_for_epa_-_feb_2017.pdf?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6277

Space wrote:

AmericanCarnage wrote:

ggw wrote:

Space wrote:
Anybody else hit up Pizza Paradiso last night for $4 (!!!) pours or Rodenbach Alexander and Wicked Weed Oblivion? If I lived closer, I&#039;d be there for every happy hour until those two beer are gone.

Don&#039;t go tomorrow - They&#039;ll be closed.

http://dcist.com/2017/02/area_restaurants_grapple_with_thurs.php

They also don&#039;t do happy hour on Thursday

They actually do Happy Hour Mon-Thurs at Old Town and Georgetown locations. Dupont is Tues and Wed only.

On Thurs, Old Town and Georgetown will be closed, Dupont will be open with Ruth Gresser herself working in the kitchen…

Who is making the pizza?

Downtown Crown Wine and Beer Video Feature of the Week: https://www.facebook.com/DowntownCrown/videos/635488289970940/

This Friday February 17th, starting at 5pm, we'll be hosting a Unibroue tap takeover and snowboard raffle! With every purchase of a Unibroue draft, growler/crowler fill, or package product, and you'll receive a raffle ticket for a chance to win an amazing Gilson/Unibroue snowboard! Retail value of $599! Must be present to win, drawing will be held that night at 7:30pm. Unibroue knows how to throw a proper party, with swag and giveaways, plus sneak peak samples of brand new Unibroue beers which have yet to hit the market! You don't want to miss this one.. See you Friday!

rar is doing a special release there Saturday the 25th

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They actually do Happy Hour Mon-Thurs at Old Town and Georgetown locations. Dupont is Tues and Wed only.

Didn't know that, but I'm right by dupont
always thought it was lame they didn't to it Thursdays (only because that's always a good night for work sponsored happy hours and when I get a vote… we end up there)
Keep meaning to hit the Gtown one as it's right off the bike trail

Also…was weird downtown today. 
1/3 of the restaurants were closed, strangely enough District Taco was open and packed (and delicious)

When Psudeo Sue infiltrates Costco?

looking forward to visiting penn druid this weekend
we rented a house very close for the weekend with another family

Is that a family friendly brewery?

Also some good recommendations on Hikes or fun outdoors things to do in that area