The Beer Thread

…all about beer

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:

Yada wrote:

StoneTheCrow wrote:
Yeah DTC’s tap list is really good now. Never seen the patio empty tho.

Picked up a 4 pack(?) of St. Bernardus last week. Was a welcome change from DIPAs I’d been immersed in. Sadly the price point makes Other Half beers look like a bargain.

I do need to pick up some Bourbon County this weekend.

The Weller variant may be the best Bourbon County I've had in years… absolutely delicious. And speaking of Bourbon County, drank a 2014 on Thanksgiving with a big ole' piece of pumpkin pie, it was bliss.

We had a 2016 with pecan pie and vanilla ice cream. Might make that a Thanksgiving tradition, just like i always have a Parabola with German chocolate cake and vanilla ice cream on my birthday.

Who knew we were so similar space? My go to cake every year is German chocolate as well. Hopefully your family doesn't bitch and complain that none of them like it.

#10,001..about cake. Replied to this but seems it didn't post.

How could anyone bitch and complain about gcc? Geez. My wife and daughter bake the cake, so if they bitched and complained, they'd only have themselves to blame. My daughter basically loves anything with sugar it it, except beer and dark chocolate.

The pecan pie was chocolate pecan pie. Perfect with BCBS. Time for a diet.

Beer is still integers’ handmaiden.

Space wrote:

How could anyone bitch and complain about gcc? Geez. 

Young kids that don't like coconut I guess.

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:

How could anyone bitch and complain about gcc? Geez. 

Young kids that don't like coconut I guess.

Bringing it back to beer, coconut is the one adjunct that I found can make a pastry stout too sweet for me. I once tried to add coconut to a homebrew porter and the whole thing was a drain pour..though maybe it wasn't the coconut.

Cinnamon, on the other hand, is always a plus in a stout for me.

Coconut, if done right, should be awesome in a stout. Unfortunately, I’ve never had one that I’d call awesome.

personally, I think this is an outstanding beer

Coconut

WTf is wrong with you man?

Space wrote:
Bringing it back to beer, coconut is the one adjunct that I found can make a pastry stout too sweet for me. I once tried to add coconut to a homebrew porter and the whole thing was a drain pour..though maybe it wasn't the coconut.

StoneTheCrow wrote:
Coconut, if done right, should be awesome in a stout. Unfortunately, I’ve never had one that I’d call awesome.

coconut is indeed awesome in a stout, but it's a touch ingredient to pull off.  best commercial version i've ever tried is boulevard's imperial stout X with coconut. apparently firestone walker make both merlin and parabola with coconut but i've never tried them.

i tried once to add coconut to half a batch of homebrew, and didn't get it right… ended up dumping half the batch after i got tired of trying to choke it down.  coconut has a lot of lipids (oils and fats) which you generally don't want in you beer.  i suspect my attempt at dry-coconutting a beer failed because the oils went rancid: between the aging on coconut and then bottle-conditioning it was warm for at least a month.  might even have been two months.  a real shame because the beer (an imperial chocolate stout) was excellent, so i ruined half of a perfectly good batch trying to add that flavor.  should have left well enough alone.

StoneTheCrow wrote:
Coconut, if done right, should be awesome in a stout. Unfortunately, I’ve never had one that I’d call awesome.

Dreams by Aslin is a pretty delicious coconut stout that is fairly easily accessible… They've released a few others that are good as well, but can't recall their names. Also, they're typicaly $8 a can which isn't very friendly.

Now that you mention it I think I've had one of those from Aslin. Was pretty good.

Not so good that I actually remembered it, apparently.

Yada wrote:

StoneTheCrow wrote:
Coconut, if done right, should be awesome in a stout. Unfortunately, I’ve never had one that I’d call awesome.

Dreams by Aslin is a pretty delicious coconut stout that is fairly easily accessible… They've released a few others that are good as well, but can't recall their names. Also, they're typicaly $8 a can which isn't very friendly.

That's friendlier than the $16-$20 for a non-barrel aged 500ml Other Half pastry stout bottle. That said, the couple or three that I've tried from Other Half were all better than Aslin.

StoneTheCrow wrote:
Coconut, if done right, should be awesome in a stout.

right on cue, Sapwood released a coconut stout this past weekend: https://sapwoodcellars.com/that-vanilla-life/

sweetcell wrote:

StoneTheCrow wrote:
Coconut, if done right, should be awesome in a stout.

right on cue, Sapwood released a coconut stout this past weekend: https://sapwoodcellars.com/that-vanilla-life/

4.48 on untapped so far, not too shabby. Am I correct that they don't ship to any retail establishments in the DMV?

Space wrote:

sweetcell wrote:

StoneTheCrow wrote:
Coconut, if done right, should be awesome in a stout.

right on cue, Sapwood released a coconut stout this past weekend: https://sapwoodcellars.com/that-vanilla-life/

4.48 on untapped so far, not too shabby. Am I correct that they don't ship to any retail establishments in the DMV?

back in the day they had very little distribution and most of it (if not all) was kegs sent to bars/restaurants.  they have since acquired a canning line but i haven't seen them mention anything about distribution.  i suspect they still don't distribute.

you'll have to ping them to confirm. 

Sapwood doesn't send cans down here.

Another local coconut… I may grab this tomorrow, will report back.

https://www.silverbranchbrewing.com/product/endless-joy/

Yada wrote:
Sapwood doesn't send cans down here.

Another local coconut… I may grab this tomorrow, will report back.

https://www.silverbranchbrewing.com/product/endless-joy/

I visited Jailbreak's taproom a couple of years ago and the beer was meh, but they appear to have developed a good fruited sour game recently. Also, this coconut stout is raking in good reviews. DTC has four packs…if i could get a single can I'd give it a try.

https://untappd.com/b/jailbreak-brewing-company-oats-and-samoas-and-stuff/4069672

I'm surprised space stats is giving so much credit to beers that have been rated less than 100 times.

Jailbreak has a couple good beers. A lot of it is so-so.

I’m definitely interested in Sapwood’s beer. Their heavy stouts are usually outstanding.

StoneTheCrow wrote:
Jailbreak has a couple good beers. A lot of it is so-so.

I’m definitely interested in Sapwood’s beer. Their heavy stouts are usually outstanding.

I remember getting excited about Jailbreak's Big Pun in probably 2012 or so. Not sure I've had a beer of theirs since.