The Beer Thread • Page 124

Vermont Ale Yeast? What was your ratios for the grain bill? Hop schedule?

Gigantic Brewing. My buddy lived in Portland for 5 years and another one of my friends moved back this year from there and he still gets boxes from his friends and every beer from Gigantic brewing has been a legit 4.25 out of 5 for me. Fantastic beers.

 

I've got a ton of suggestions for Portland, but nothing in Bend

 

Lay em on me. I'll be in Portland for much of Thursday.

 

godspeed


Breweries
Cascade Brewing - Best sours you will ever have, well unless you go to maybe Cantillon or the likes, well worth it.
Scout - brand new little brewery that really pushes the bounderies of what a beer can be (check out their beer list online)
Great Notion - a bit outside the city bounds, but a really cool spot if near there
Baerlic - east side of the river, walking distance from a few other local food & drink spots
Culmination - a bit out of the way, but really great spot.

Beer bars
Loyal Leigon - really fantastic tap list with a TON of taps
Bailey's Taproom - A+ beer bar downtown
Beer Belly - Insane prices for amazing beer (I had a full pour of BCBS for $3 on Hoppy Hour)

 

Drink some DeGarde if they got it.

 

Gonna drive up? If so, def stop by on your way!

 

Flying in to Boston actually and going up from there.



My brother was at Cantillon today and was kind enough to buy me some bottles. Very grateful.

 

My coworker hooked it up when he was in VT over the weekend and got me some beer at The Alchemist. Some Focal Banger and Pappy's Porter. I've only had Heady from them so I'm excited to finally try something new, especially to see how they handle a porter.

 

lawson's expanding into Mass!!!!!!

 

So sick. Sip of Sunshine is a Trillium caliber beer, and cheaper than most of theirs, too.

 

yeah, I've had that, double sunshine, and super session #2. Might try and stop by craft beer cellar to see if they got any

 

I heard a bunch of cbc's got them, Marty's in newton, and total wine in everett, and tons more places should by tomorrow. Sadly double sunshine won't be coming here (everything but SoS and Super Sesh are only sold at like 4 stores in VT) but imo those two are not far off from the more hyped small batch stuff.

 

I saw that last night and excited I hopefully won't have to wait long periods between VT trips to get SOS. I'm hoping they make it to a few places on the south shore/the cape.

 

Inoculum "Dreamcatcher" is coming to bottles later this month! Very excited for this. It's an absinthe-inspired sour, and will be Inoculum's first bottle release. Details, if you're in the Orlando area.

 

Hah, the green color is nuts

 

Thats ecto-cooler dawg

 

If you didn't tell us I would have thought this was J. Wakefield Troll So Hard:

 

Founders is bringing back Doom as part of their barrel-aged series. Releasing May/June.

 

haha yeah, J Wakefield is def some good stuff. But Inoculum, Nick is a mad scientist in the best way.

 

Inoculum is the place that does shipping to other states, right?

 

Picked up a bottle of Deschutes Abyss and Brandy Abyss today. Was shocked to find a place that still had them. Almost bought the scotch variant too but that would've been way too much money to throw down

 

Apparently Topping Goliath recently started distributing to Illinois recently. Gonna try to track down a 4-pack of Pseudo Sue on my way home from work today...

 

Today's haul

 

So jealous

 

Yeah, I missed out on the Abyss haul this year. Made out really well last year with a bottle of each variant they sent to Michigan, but just forgot about it this year.