The Beer Thread

Yada wrote:
Just got a four pack of this from a radical co worker…

I now have in possession.

Heady Topper, Zombie Dust, Pliney the Elder, Surly Abrasive… If I can hold out until Hopslam is distributed, it's going to be a hop of a time at Casa de Yada

hopslam's only a week away ;D

Had the 21st Amendment Sneak Attack this weekend.  It was delicious.  A farmhouse saison with a hint of cardamom.

Really really good.

Rumors of hopslam starting to creep around the burbs of Va.

yeah . . . i can't wait until pot becomes legal.  fuck all this brewery controlled bullshit.

yeah, because pot tastes as good as craft beer.

walkonby wrote:
yeah . . . i can't wait until pot becomes legal.  fuck all this brewery controlled bullshit.

James wrote:
yeah, because pot tastes as good as craft beer.

walkonby wrote:
yeah . . . i can't wait until pot becomes legal.  fuck all this brewery controlled bullshit.

yeah, because people do drugs for the taste.

Maybe I'm just restating the obvious, I guess my point was i drink beer for the taste, not the high.

fatskippy wrote:

James wrote:
yeah, because pot tastes as good as craft beer.

walkonby wrote:
yeah . . . i can't wait until pot becomes legal.  fuck all this brewery controlled bullshit.

yeah, because people do drugs for the taste.

i said that in a snit, because i am getting tired of these breweries that have us as sheep controlled by the special beers that only come out once a year.  yawn.  over it.  put them out more often.  "oh it ruins the experience."  f u.  it ruins my experience of not being able to get it.  if founders backwoods bastard came out all year, i would drink it all year and buy it al year and make more money for the brewery all year.  i don't get it. i don't understand.  i think it is the hipster beer move for breweries.  i'm sure once pot becomes legal and starts eating into beer's profits . . . all of sudden everything isn't so special anymore.  just like how budweiser is offering a super alcoholic beer during the superbowl, to try and compete with what people are now drinking.

Norm's Beer and Wine updated their FB page today at 10:30, "Goose Island Bourbon County Cherry Rye is here. Limit one per customer." An hour later they updated, "Just sold out".

Twitter page said they had it at 7:32 and sold out at 7:51. Who's buying beer at 7:30am?
$22/bottle. Got mine for $12. haha.

Sieve-Fisted wrote:
Norm's Beer and Wine updated their FB page today at 10:30, "Goose Island Bourbon County Cherry Rye is here. Limit one per customer." An hour later they updated, "Just sold out".

walkonby wrote:
i said that in a snit, because i am getting tired of these breweries that have us as sheep controlled by the special beers that only come out once a year.  yawn.  over it.  put them out more often.  "oh it ruins the experience."  f u.  it ruins my experience of not being able to get it.  if founders backwoods bastard came out all year, i would drink it all year and buy it al year and make more money for the brewery all year.  i don't get it. i don't understand.  i think it is the hipster beer move for breweries.  i'm sure once pot becomes legal and starts eating into beer's profits . . . all of sudden everything isn't so special anymore.  just like how budweiser is offering a super alcoholic beer during the superbowl, to try and compete with what people are now drinking.

i think very few people are concerned with special brews that only come out a certain time of year. I have never have any trouble getting what I want.  You probably live in some area where you have people that are concerned with drinking rare beers.  there are more than enough beers to keep me busy just coming out of maryland and deleware.  I can't be concerned with every little breweries seasonal offerings.  I think most breweries should just stick with a couple of beers. Most of their seasonal stuff isn't very good.  For example, Magic Hat #9 good.  Most of their other brews, pretty bad. 

James wrote:
Belga Cafe over on Capitol Hill has a bunch of events on the horizon to celebrate their 5th Anniversary, but one thing you shouldn?t let slip through all their festivities is their newest regular offering: Happy Hour!

From 4-6PM Monday through Friday, Belga will be offering half priced draft beers! That?s right tasty Belgian beers for half the price that you will normally pay for them. There will be some Belgian stadanrds of course, but there will also be a few gems from time to time. Last time we checked they had Stella Artois (3.50), Hoegaarden (3.25), Rodenbach ($3.75), Leffe Brown, Grimbergen Dubbel, Belga Pils, Belga White to choose from.

Check it out and look here for some previews of their other events later this week!

belga cafe is still chuggin' along.  dunno if they still do half price drafts, but they do have:

?Drink your beer, steal your glass?
January 24 ? 31 A New Year and new glassware to steal! Come enjoy Belgian beers and steal the glass for your collection. For a limited time, you have our blessing to take home a Belgian novelty.

February events:
DC Restaurant Week: February 4 ? 11
Monthly Beer Dinner: February 26 featuring Chimay Vintage Big Bottles!

http://www.belgacafe.com/pages/events.asp

I do wish I knew about Wedding Alt before my wedding. It is pretty tasty. 

walkonby wrote:
i said that in a snit, because i am getting tired of these breweries that have us as sheep controlled by the special beers that only come out once a year.  yawn.  over it.  put them out more often.  "oh it ruins the experience."  f u.  it ruins my experience of not being able to get it.  if founders backwoods bastard came out all year, i would drink it all year and buy it al year and make more money for the brewery all year.  i don't get it. i don't understand.  i think it is the hipster beer move for breweries.  i'm sure once pot becomes legal and starts eating into beer's profits . . . all of sudden everything isn't so special anymore.  just like how budweiser is offering a super alcoholic beer during the superbowl, to try and compete with what people are now drinking.

i was going to write a long reply about the economics of brewing, the need for cash flow, demand elasticity… then i realized that it really was all about you, walkies.  they're doing it solely to piss you off.

Spoken like a true genius. Good lord.

atomicfront wrote:


i think very few people are concerned with special brews that only come out a certain time of year. I have never have any trouble getting what I want.  You probably live in some area where you have people that are concerned with drinking rare beers.  there are more than enough beers to keep me busy just coming out of maryland and deleware.  I can't be concerned with every little breweries seasonal offerings.  I think most breweries should just stick with a couple of beers. Most of their seasonal stuff isn't very good.  For example, Magic Hat #9 good.  Most of their other brews, pretty bad. 

atomicfront's taste in beer appears to be in keeping with his taste in music.

Dear God, please don't let the one decent thread on this message board get atomicfront'd

sweetcell wrote:
atomicfront's taste in beer appears to be in keeping with his taste in music.

I drink mostly dogfish head, flying dog, and german beers.  Though I drink stuff like smithwicks, guiness, duvel, goose island, magic hat, weyerbacher as well.  I just am not insane about it.   Having to get stuff that is in such high demand that you can't find it and you are upset about it?  THat is just nuts.  And whenver you guys are saying you couldn't get something I always see it at my local store.   No matter how many beers you drink you will never be able to taste everything out there.  

I wonder why you think you have better taste in music than me.  People actually like the music I like.  Yet no one likes the stuff you listen to.  Yet but somehow you think you  have better taste in music than me.  Did you ever think that the reason no one likes the bands you listen to is because they are awful?  That the reason people like the music I listen to is because they are great bands with tons of talent?  

I think his point was some people like to reach beyond starter beers like Magic Hat #9 and starter bands like Mumford and Sons.

atomicfront wrote:

sweetcell wrote:
atomicfront's taste in beer appears to be in keeping with his taste in music.

I drink mostly dogfish head, flying dog, and german beers.  Though I drink stuff like smithwicks, guiness, duvel, goose island, magic hat, weyerbacher as well.  I just am not insane about it.   Having to get stuff that is in such high demand that you can't find it and you are upset about it?  THat is just nuts.  And whenver you guys are saying you couldn't get something I always see it at my local store.   No matter how many beers you drink you will never be able to taste everything out there.  

I wonder why you think you have better taste in music than me.  People actually like the music I like.  Yet no one likes the stuff you listen to.  Yet but somehow you think you  have better taste in music than me.  Did you ever think that the reason no one likes the bands you listen to is because they are awful?  That the reason people like the music I listen to is because they are great bands with tons of talent?  

atomicfront wrote:
Having to get stuff that is in such high demand that you can't find it and you are upset about it?  THat is just nuts. 

i agree, it's just nuts.  i don't get upset about it.  more often than not there is a good reason why these beers are hard to find: small production and high demand, the latter being a product of quality (not always, but often).

atomicfront wrote:
I wonder why you think you have better taste in music than me.   

i never said that.  but the possibility of such a judgement seems to touch a nerve with you.  are you that insecure about your musical tastes?

atomicfront wrote:
Yet no one likes the stuff you listen to. 

really?  what stuff do i listen to?  i haven't posted much on the subject recently, i don't thing you know what i listen too.  and by the way, i don't care what others think of the music i listen to.  i like it.  that's all that matters.  you should try it sometimes.

atomicfront wrote:
Yet but somehow you think you  have better taste in music than me. 

again, i never said that my taste is "better" than yours, because the idea of having "better" taste in music is absurd. 

so it's not that i have better taste than yours, it's that your taste in music is objectively bad ;D

atomicfront wrote:
Did you ever think that the reason no one likes the bands you listen to is because they are awful?  That the reason people like the music I listen to is because they are great bands with tons of talent? 

i'm just going to quote that line and let it be, for posterity.  it stands on its own quite nicely.

we've been atomicfront'ed!!!