RTTP CRAFT BEER THREAD[views:30923][posts:152]___________________________________ [Jan 13,2014 10:25pm - TimRiley ""] I'm a huge craft beer alcoholic, as my gut would suggest. Post your favorites here. While not a favorite, tonight I am having a 4-pack of Dogfish Head Olde School Barleywine. 15% abv- brewed with some figs and dates and shit. Not a huge Dogfish fan aside from the seasonal Punkin' and the 60 Minute IPA, but this release is solid. Perennial Favorites are Stone Double Bastard, Avery Hog Heaven Barleywine, Sierra Nevada Celebration, Goose Island Lolita, Saint Louis Gueuze, Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti, Berkshire Brewing Raspberry Barleywine Style Ale, and Unibroue La Fin Du Monde. What do you sorry bastards drink? |
| ________________________________ [Jan 14,2014 1:21am - KTHRSS ""] Any Allagash product, pretty much any Blue Hills Brewery product, Uinta's Dubhe Black IPA, Boulevard's Tank 7. I'll also drink any good hefeweizen that crosses my path. Since you like La Fin du Monde, you should look for Éphémère. Try visiting Dieu du Ciel if you\'re ever in Montréal. |
| __________________________________________________ [Jan 14,2014 9:23am - SUPPORT JESUS GET DRUNK ""] Spencer Abbey is supposedly selling their Trappist beer this week...keep yer eyes peeled. |
| ____________________________________ [Jan 14,2014 10:03am - shitcunt ""] TimRiley said: Dogfish Head Olde School Barleywine. Perennial Favorites are Stone Double Bastard, Avery Hog Heaven Barleywine, Sierra Nevada Celebration, Goose Island Lolita, Saint Louis Gueuze, Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti, Berkshire Brewing Raspberry Barleywine Style Ale, and Unibroue La Fin Du Monde. What do you sorry bastards drink? I'm not a sour beer guy, so I don't do gueuze. I've never had that BBC Raspberry Barleywine, but it sounds incredible. Every other beer you listed here is awesome, especially Olde School Barleywine. I love Dogfish Head. A few years back, they were one of my favorite breweries. But now, for every good experiment, they release 2 bad ones. Sahti was awful, Pangaea was mediocre, that stupid Grateful Dead beer with granola in the mash. Awful. My all times favorite is Avery's Mephistopheles. Best imperial stout EVER! You can sip a 12 oz bottle for an hour. Dogfish Head's World Wide Stout is a close second. I also love Dogfish Head's Raison D'etre, Chicory Stout, 90 Minute I.P.A. and 120 Minute I.P.A. Avery's Reverend, Salvation, and Hog Heaven. Pretty much every beer ever released by Southern Tier (especially the Backwater Stout Series) For stuff on the lighter side, you can't go wrong with Narragansett Cream Ale, Sam Adams Boston Lager, Porkslap Pale Ale, and Sapporo Reserve. Honestly, I'm an uber beer geek. I could babble about it nonstop. I brew my own. Best batch I ever made was a Belgian-style Quadrupel. When me and my girl go on vacation in a few weeks, we're going to make three different beers. A chocolate stout, A strawberry red ale and a vanilla pale ale so we can have "neapolitan six packs". We're also trying to find a flavor/extract that will make a beer taste like biscuits (english cookies, not dinner rolls) so we can make a "tea n' biscuits english ale" |
| ____________________________________ [Jan 14,2014 10:06am - shitcunt ""] Oh, and that new Narragansett/Autocrat coffee stout is about 20 times better than I expected it to be |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 14,2014 10:19am - TimRiley ""] the BBC raspberry should be out in about 2 weeks i'd say. it's a February annual limited release for valentines day or whatever. I was never a huge fruit beer fan, but this one is just unbelievable. it tastes so fresh- like you picked up a handful of wild raspberries and munched on them. not that sweet either, which is good. Looking forward to trying Spencers trappist stuff, that will be fun. ....about your tea biscuit ale... vanilla extract is the obvious as you know, but i guess the hard part is finding how to get that buttery note to it. hmmmm. Avery's Mephisto is great. Just had my most recent one a couple weeks ago. Did NOT like the Samael's oak aged. It tasted a bit off- like a homebrew that succumbed to a bacterial infection. Maybe it was just the way they aged it on the oak. yuck. if you like dark brews, which it seems you do indeed, i highly suggest THIS if you haven't had it- [img] |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 14,2014 10:22am - TimRiley ""] Still wondering if it would be worth it for me to make the quest to Three Floyds this year for Dark Lord Day. I've never even had any Three Floyds stuff and it bums me out that they don't distribute to MA. Been wanting to try Gumballhead for a long time. Plus, I missed out on the Ragnarok which was the "Amon Amarth" influenced beer. Not a huge Amon Amarth fan by any means, but I still wanted to try it. |
| _______________________________ [Jan 14,2014 10:53am - Yeti ""] next time be sure to bold the section where you make us aware that you don't listen to a band. it is very important that we know. |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 14,2014 11:06am - TimRiley ""] i'm sure |
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| ___________________________________ [Jan 14,2014 12:38pm - TimRiley ""] Aaron- have you had the Southern Tier oatmeal stout? it's fucking great. Pairs well with an old John Wayne flick |
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| ___________________________________ [Jan 14,2014 12:40pm - TimRiley ""] We have a craft beer mecca where I live... called Trubeer. you can find a lot of crazy shit there. he even got in some stuff that wasn't brought to MA and gave me some on my birthday. Brooklyn Black Ops, a certain Founders special edition bourbon county breakfast stout or something (not the usual one) etc- great place to visit |
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| ___________________________________ [Jan 14,2014 12:42pm - TimRiley ""] the canadian solstice barleywine you posted a photo of is fantastic. |