The Beer Thread • Page 99

I just made the Trader Joe's beer bread this past weekend. Used a bottle of Old Rasputin and it came out pretty damn tasty.

 

I've been spending way too much money on beer this week. I've bought the BA Shipwreck Porter, Perrin Unfinished Business, Speedway Stout, and today I finally found a bottle of Evil Twin Even More Jesus.

 

Ooh, let me know how the Unfinished Business is. I didn't know it was coming out so my store ran out before I even heard it was available.

 

I will! It's been sitting on the shelves on the east side of the state. Perrin has been doing so great lately.

 

About to break into some Tree House!

 

Which Tree House?

 

My cousin just got a shipment today. We've drank Julius, Green, Haze, and All That Is and All That Ever Will Be. Still have Alter Ego to go. These things are so good.

 

My buddy said that there is some left at his work, so I'll probably ask him to set one aside. I've been purchasing too much beer and running out of room in the fridge recently, so I kind of want to curb my spending a bit.

 

After being lazy and letting it ferment for like 3 months then sit on fruit for another month, I finally got around to tasting that pineapple gose I made last night and I'm really happy with how it turned out.

 

for 750's, yeah. but those were 375's. Sorry for the late reply; been dealing with hurricane stuff.

 

I was actually a little let down by Unfinished Business. Maybe I was expecting too much after No Rules and Big Griz, but it tasted kind of empty for a 13% stout.

 

Stay safe down there!!!! Hope all is well with ya

 

Stay safe, man!

Yeah, I heard it was solid. For the price, I'm torn on buying it.

 

Final tally on the week:

-Tree House Julius
-Tree House Green
-Tree House Haze
-Tree House Alter Ego
-Tree House All That Is and All That Ever Will Be
-BCBS 2008
-BCBS 2009
-BCBS 2010
-BCBS 2011
-BCBS 2012
-BCBS 2013
-BCBS 2014
-BCBS 2015
-Bourbon County Proprietors 2014
-Bourbon County Rare 2015
-Bourbon County Regal Rye 2015
-Bourbon County Coffee 2015
-Bourbon County Barleywine 2016
-Cigar City Marshal Zhukov 2013
-Cigar City Marshal Zhukov 2015
-Cigar City Marshal Zhukov 2016
-Cigar City Sherry Barrel Aged Marshal Zhukov
-Cigar City Dioscorides
-Cigar City Good Nightmare Mekong
-Cigar City Guayabera Citra Pale Ale
-Cigar City Lue Gim Gong
-Cigar City White Oak Jai Alai
-Cigar City Cubano Espresso
-Cigar City Oktoberfest
-Bells Black Note Stout 2012
-Bells Black Note Stout 2014
-Bells Black Note Stout 2016
-Bells Bourbon Barrel Aged Expedition Stout
-Dark Horse Bourbon Barrel Plead the 5th
-Dark Horse Toonilla
-Dark Horse Bourbon Barrel Aged Coffee Vanilla Toonilla
-Dark Horse Crooked Tree
-Griffin Claw Flying Buffalo 2014
-Griffin Claw Flying Buffalo 2015
-Griffin Claw MooLah Milk Stout
-Hoof Hearted Side Pipipin'
-Hoof Hearted I'll Have What She's Having
-Cycle Crank
-Cycle Equinox
-Hill Farmstead Anna
-Perrin No Rules
-Perennial Abraxas
-Olde Hickory Lindley Park
-Wolf's Ridge Bourbon Barrel Canis Mexicanus Dire Wolf
-Alesmith IPA
-Founders Pale Joe
-Yazoo Hop Perfect
-Green Bench Sunshine City IPA
-Atwater Bloktoberfest
-Boulevard The Calling
-Modern Times Fruitlands Passion Fruit and Guava

We drank to celebrate my grandma's 100th birthday, and it was quite a selection. We ran out of time, because frankly we had another 2-3 nights worth of stuff that we just never made it to. I'm done with stouts for a while, but No Rules was the best of the collection. The Tree House IPAs were undoubtedly the best of the bunch if you're asking me. They've borderline ruined beer for me, because I compare every IPA to them now, and nothing really compares for me. I left the Blocktoberfest on the list for @bigmike but pretty much everything else was top notch. One of the better weeks of my life (not just for the beer, but it contributed).

 

Holy shit dude

 

We started planning this trip a year ago or so, so my dad and my two cousins started planning then. If you make it to 100 years you deserve to have a group of people toasting to you every night!

 

just got a pack of blue ribbon award winning beer shipped in from Milwaukee, can't wait to try it out

 

Such an absurd list. But you're leaving too early! Bell's Roll Out The Barrel event is tomorrow in Kalamazoo. It'll be killer!

 

Had some great stuff at The Bruery today, these were some of my favorites

Love Twist - Sour Blonde w/ Cherries, Orange/Lemon Zest
Mash & Vanilla - BBA Barleywine w/ Vanilla
White Oak Sap with Cherries & Vanilla (Nitro) - BBA Wheat-wine w/Cherries & Vanilla
White Mocha - BBA Wheatwine w/ Cacao and Coffee


among other favorites like Poterie and Or Xata

 

Bells Roll Out the Barrel day was fantastic. So many good beers I can't even list which ones I liked the most.

 

Anyone going to Extreme Beer Fest this year?

 

Picked up Stone Xocoveza yesterday. One of my favorite seasonal releases. Backwoods Bastard is coming out soon too, and I can't wait to pick up a four pack of it.

 

fuckin love Xocoveza, gonna drink so much this year haha. I want to try Backwoods for sure, hopefully we get some out here this year

 

Got an Old Raspy waiting for me this weekend

 

Dayum! Thoughts on the BCBS variants? 2014 prop was great. And Treehouse and Other Half ruined other IPAs for me. Thankfully OH is relatively easy to get.

You mean next year? In Boston? I went this year and had a great time. Will likely go again.