The Beer Thread • Page 54

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

 

Picked up a half growler of Sierra Nevada 5 Hop Experimental IPA last night. Very light bodied, straw yellow in color. Not as hoppy as I would have expected but very drinkable overall. I'd give it a 3.25 out of 5.

 

in Tampa area for the weekend. Didn't drop by Cigar City for once, but I did sneak off away from family to head over to Angry Chair and got that Fionn bottle. What a hazelnut bomb, in a great way! Grabbed a growler of their Citrus IPA w/ blood oranges, too.

 

got a growler of a Pub Ale from a local brewery (Able's Propers). will be drinking it on Friday night with a friend who's a big fan of pub ales. we'll see how Minnesotans do on this step away from IPA's & Stouts. also curious to find out if this one is nitro or not, as the tap was when I got it, but not sure if that's standard for this one or not.

 

IT'S BOTTLING DAY!!!

I'm bottling my first home brew attempt today (A Double IPA). I'm hoping it doesn't get too messy, but I'm looking forward to it! The two week bottle conditioning is going to be torture, though.

 

If anyone is a fan of pale ales, Long Trail's Stand Out is the best I've had in a long time.

 

What do you think of Limbo?

After mowing I had a Clown Shoes Space Cake 2xIPA and then a Port Brewing Wipeout IPA. The Clown Shoes was great.

 

I saw Limbo last time I was at the store, I'll have to try it.

 

Thank you! We paid a local brewery that is only open until 10 every night to stay open until midnight and I had my parents, brother and sister, and a whole bunch of my friends come into town/come to the brewery and it was a killer time. So much fun and, despite drinking a lot, managed to not be hungover all day, so we spent my actual birthday (the 24th) on a spontaneous road trip. Great weekend.

I will consistently stump for Clown Shoes. They make great beers.

 

Was in imperial IPA heaven tonight going Bodhi => Molotov Lite => Hop Juju

 

So I had a busy past week involving my cellar and trading.

It all started with my girlfriend deciding that she is going to stop drinking for the duration of the 6-month-long yoga instructor training course she's beginning in late May. She has also made the decision to straight-up binge her way through the next few weeks up until that cut-off, which basically means she's picking bottles at-will from my cellar and downing them with zero fucks given. So as my bottle-count dwindled and I became more and more nervous that she was going to end up chugging something super-rare behind my back, we sat down and went through my collection bottle-by-bottle to decide what she wanted to drink now and what I could safely set aside.

Once that was done, however, I realized just how much beer I still actually had and that several of them were bottles I'd probably not get around to drinking; at least not before some of them started losing their adjuncts. So long story short... I made a few trade posts online last week and now have deals made to ship out some old bottles of mine for some pretty decent finds headed my way: Side Project Saison du Fermier, Side Project Balatron, Crooked Stave Petit Raspberry, Jester King Fen Tao, and a random smattering of Seattle beers from Fremont, Pyramid, Stoup, Hilliard, etc.

 

Also, Fonta Flora released Brun Brutus this weekend, a dark version of their Brutus dandelion saison. BB is probably one of the best dark saisons I've ever had, completely blown away by it. Grabbed 6 of the 750ml bottles from the brewery, going to trade a couple and then age the rest.

 

That Fonta Flora is good shit. Wish I could've spent more time there and actually grabbed some bottles.

 

That's fantastic. I think for my birthday next year I wanna do something like that - do something at brewery and do a get together with friends and family. I usually just do little things and it would be fun to actually do something bigger like that. Sounds like a blast.

 

Damn, that sounds badass.

 

I recommend it highly! The smaller the brewery, the more accommodating they will be. The place we were at closed their doors to the public at 9 and wouldn't let in anyone that wasn't invited and then we asked if they could play the Front Bottoms and they did. And they had a ping pong table so we had a bunch of games of that throughout the night. 10/10.

 

You have any idea how much that cost, roughly? @bigmike

 

It's a tiny brewery that was a shirt printing shop, then turned into a home brew shop and then they started doing spirits/wine and started brewing in October. I think we paid them $70 to stay open later for us. The rest was we just set up shop in their place but this is a tiny nano-brewery.

 

Kegged and now carb'ing new brew. New England style IPA. Did the artwork on the keggerator for now. Should be ready to drink in a few days.

 

Mind if I ask the recipe @williek311?

 

Thomas Fawcett Pale, Pils and white wheat malt. Hop shot for bittering. Simcoe, galaxy and amarillo additions at flameout and whirlpool. Plus for dry hopping. I'd have too look it all up for specifics but it's all on my brothers computer in a spreadsheet.It was just a three gallon batch.

 

Very nice. Thanks!

 

non-alcoholic, but my buddy brewed up some butterbeer & root beer for his kid's birthday last weekend. gave me a couple growlers of each yesterday, and it's delicious.

 

Late, but love that this is a thing.

Untappd name is Fronnyfron

Currently enjoying Flying Dog Bloodline (blood orange ale)

 

How is that? I'm not crazy on Flying Dog but I saw that and it sounded intriguing.