The Beer Thread • Page 351

That’s a real good gose. Luckily enough I had some at Horrocks in feb I think.

 

checked in on the crew today. this west coast IPA with mosaic is absolutely delicious, they are nailing this.

 

I've been meaning to make another trip to Grimm. Maybe Monday or Tuesday.

Just picked up 4 packs of Whale Watching and Fields of Tall Grass (collab w/ Cerebral) from Finback this week

 

Nice.

 

lol, I was thinking it but didn't want to say

 

Damn how is it!! I haven’t had any of their ferndale stuff yet

 

the first of probably many tonight.

 

Smuttynose has $10 growlers so I had to get some. Got their Coffee Brown and Nice Dreams which is a creamsicle inspired pale ale. Cheers, friends! Hope you and your friends/family are healthy and safe.

 

My girlfriend and I dropped off some banana bread to one of our friends porches and they stashed two growlers from the brewery he works at on the porch in return and I just had a fruited sour that didn’t have pulp in it and actually tasted like a beer with fruit and I forgot that those still fucking existed. It was very good.

 

Carton’s batch of All Together is so good.

 

Anyone with a lot of hop knowledge know the deal wit this new wave of cryo beers? I ain’t complaining

 

Cryo fuckin rule. Basically (someone correct me if I have it wrong) and they’re held at a freezing temp and that coagulates all lupulin and what makes hops great and it can then be easily separated from the leaves/green matter. So my boss used it for the first time in December or January in our imperial ipa and it can be as expensive or more expensive than pellet hops but you need about half the amount. The added benefit is we yielded more beer because the less green matter in the beer, the less gets soaked up into stuff you’re throwing out. So we gained some extra kegs of beer, got way more aroma/hop flavor, for basically the same cost. But we profited more cause we got more barrels out of the batch.

caveat: it’s 1:40 am and I’ve had a few beers so someone correct me when I’m inevitably wrong lol

 

Not gonna post pics of beers I already posted.

Had El Gose and Bean & Barrel again, just popped open this bad boy. Cascade x Mikkeller.

 

This sounds like a huge game changer for the industry then no? Yes it costs significantly more, but less hops to yield a good brew?

 

Potentially. I don’t believe many varieties exist and there isn’t much of it made (to my knowledge at least) so it’s scarce.

 

As far as I'm aware, it's more of just an improvement to production methods that I'd imagine will become industry standard someday. I think the savings estimate is only around 5% when you factor in the difference between larger yield/higher cost. So significant enough to be popular and continue to grow, but not really like game-changing. I'd also imagine there is some serious equipment costs for the hop producers to invest in which may keep it from taking off super quickly.

 

It was excellent. I had an old ale from them too. Definitely recommended.

 

Drinking a strawberry shortcake shandy and it is delicious

 

My brothers new place had a built in wine fridge and now I'm thinking maybe I should own a wine fridge...hmm.

 

Also craving a nice thicc stout put a bourbon White Russian imperial chocolate milk stout in the fridge.

 

Finally did Stoneface curbside pickup and it was way easier than expected. Got an impossible burger to go along with the pils and they tossed in a sticker and koozie!

 

Got a 12.5% sour with strawberry and rhubarb in the fridge I’ll probably get into a little later.

 

Damn, that sounds delicious and dangerous at the same time.

 

pregaming for the Easter Bunny.

 

6 blue lights tonite. Thank u Canada