The Beer Thread • Page 146

Was the same thing when I lived in Nova Scotia. Stupid lol

 

Fulton Market means no parking, bad traffic, and nowhere I can eat afterwords that won't cost me less than $20 for an entree and a 2 hour wait without reservations lol. As you alluded, there's a ton of other great brewpubs in the city and burbs.

 

It's so ridiculous too. I'm at work right now, I ordered a single bottle of beer, and it was delivered to me in like... 15 minutes and all I had to do was show my ID

 

I know you can amazon prime beer here, someone did it while we were at the pool the other day.

 

Hahaha. I just went through the other night and looked at beers I gave a 5 to and woooooofff. Some of those are awful beers.

I'd agree on Three Floyds, and I'd even put Zombie Dust in the 'eh' category. I've had it super fresh and it's just alright. I understand how amazing it was when Citra was a brand new hop but it's so prevalent now. I've heard nothing but great things about Side Project and would love to try their beers.

Re: Toppling Goliath that some friends brought back from Wisconsin, and granted it's been like 15 months since i've had them, the three bombers I had I thought were all very good. But, my tastes have changed a bit since then, so I'd like to have them again at some point to see if I still like that as much as I remember liking them.

1) I read "step up your god damn game, NJ" like POS raps on "Drumroll" (Step up your fucking game, we're all thirsty!) for some reason.

2) I love hearing about weird ass laws in other states. We're so lucky here in Michigan that we have incredibly beer friendly laws. We have a pizza truck parked outside of our brewery all the time, but putting in a kitchen would not be a problem. Licensing is super easy. Only quirk I can think of would be defining your brewery; if you get listed as a brewpub, you cannot distribute beer made in that facility in any manner. You'd have to build and off-premise site for distro. So stuff that Bells has in their taproom in downtown Kalamazoo cannot be distributed at all, unless it's made at their production facility like 25 minutes away from downtown K'zoo.

 

Happens to the best of us, myself included. I stopped rating beers so long ago. I'm not really sure why I use it anymore to be honest.

 

1) This is the highest compliment I have ever received.

2) NJ's laws in regards to breweries are so dumb because our liquor laws in general are maybe the dumbest in the country. Each town only has a certain number of liquor licenses, so if a new restaurant or bar wanted to open, they would need to buy a license from another place that just closed/is closing. Because of this, the costs for these licenses have gone through the roof. Breweries don't have to deal with this nonsense, so to make it "fair", they're not allowed to sell food, have TVs, and other things that would compete with bars.

 

I was drunk and rated PBR a 5 on untappd and I will never change it

 

Some of my ratings from like 6 years ago are questionable to say the least.

 

If you're drunk enough, everything is a 5!

 

WHERES THE LIE

 

Was able to snag some of the Trillium/Other Half collab DIPA today so I'm pretty excited to crack into one of those tonight.

 

Finally made it to Hopleaf yesterday. Had a gueuze style for the first time.

 

I had a sour from Almanac yesterday, and I'm really starting to get into the style.

 

Cascade sours are really expensive, but if you can find someone to go in on a bottle with you or you find it on draft, I've never been let down. Sour, tart, small funk, but big time jam-like qualities from their fruited sours.

 

Windows Up IPA by Alpine Beer Company is very good. Not sure where you can get it, my sister from San Diego brought it for me. Lately I have been big into Saisons. I find them easy to drink with lunch/dinner as opposed to, let's say a Double IPA which feels like dinner in and of itself.

 

I'm heading up to Victoria & Vancouver in B.C., Canada on Wendesday, so if anyone has beer/brewery recs up there, let me know!

 

Having a Tired Hands Helles Other People tonight and I'm really impressed at how good this is. I went to school right by the brewery and have had a ton of their IPAs, pale ales, and saisons but they really know how to brew clean lagers too. Solid stuff.

 

I love Cigar City Hotter than Helles. Haven't had it in a whilleee.

 

The brewery I work at turns one on Saturday and I swung by the brewery as they were taking the Quad out of bourbon barrels today and good lord there is no better beer smell than pulling something from a barrel.

 

If I recall, this thread isn't big into pumpkin beers but did anyone try the New Belgium Voodoo Ranger Atomic Pumpkin? Such a weird beverage. Taste like I'm drinking Red Hots.

 

It was on tap at the place I went to tonight. Didn't get it because it kind of sounded like a mess.

 

Hate that Pumpkin beer season is here. Also, as part of my job in talking to retailers, they asked what the next seasonal beer will be from the brewery I work at and I tell them it'll be our pumpkin beer in September, and each retailer just goes "fuckin hate pumpkin beers." They all sit on shelves at the stores around here, no one likes selling them, who are they for?!

 

The only pumpkin beer I enjoyed last year was the Southern Tier Warlock. That one was solid, basically a pumpkin pie stout.

Ill have a couple others, but nothing that I truly love.

 

Haha, I personally love them. They're huge where I live. I try probably between 20-25 pumpkin beers every Fall, at least.