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strangeday
Trad climber
Brea ca.
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Feb 24, 2012 - 12:48am PT
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Pretty good if your doing the gluten free thing...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 24, 2012 - 12:52am PT
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Had this the other night. Whoa! Intensity in a bottle! A little too
sour for more than a glass but it would go nicely with a good roast.
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Chugach
Trad climber
Vermont
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Feb 24, 2012 - 12:07pm PT
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Just tried the Alchemist's Heady Topper which is new, and in cans, and is one of the very few beers to earn a beer-rate 100 rating. F*ing awesome.
There's also a limited edition joint venture brew out between Stone and the Alchemist and a 3rd brewery that clearly stands apart from the crowd.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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Feb 24, 2012 - 12:17pm PT
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ReillyTried a new (to me) Belgian tonight - Saison Dupont- unfiltered farmhouse ale.
In a word, albeit overused and nigh unto trite, awesome!
Dupont would be my go-to hot weather beer if it were a little cheaper and available in UT. I love the stuff.
So much, in fact, that I tried to get the state DABC to special order some for me. They would have, except their minimum special orde size was a pallet. I would have ponied up for a couple cases, but a pallet was out of my reach.
Great to see Sierra Nevada in cans. Hope that makes its way here.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Feb 24, 2012 - 12:36pm PT
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A new brewery recently opened in the Washington town of Poulsbo, a small town just across Puget Sound from Seattle. Call themselves Sound Brewery, and pretty much from day one they offered a dozen beers -- five in 22 oz bottles, and all available on draft. I've sampled all the bottles, and maybe three or four of the others, and all of them are excellent -- including those in styles that don't particularly appeal to me.
Their website (www.soundbrewery.com) has a good list of both pubs where the beers are available on tap and stores carrying the bottles.
Quite a few of the beers are Belgian-inspired. Not just clones of popular Belgians, but original beers with a Belgian heritage.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 24, 2012 - 12:46pm PT
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All this talk of beer is making me thirsty.
My favorite beers.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Feb 24, 2012 - 01:05pm PT
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La Fin du Monde!!!11111
A truly international beverage: "Belgian" beer, brewed in Quebec, by a Japanese company.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 24, 2012 - 01:07pm PT
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Drinking La Fin Du Monde constantly reminds me that I need to visit the fjords of northern Labrador Province.
It also tastes great.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 24, 2012 - 01:13pm PT
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$7 for a big bottle here, what's it there?
Sometimes the greatest gifts don't come in small packages.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Feb 24, 2012 - 01:27pm PT
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a 4-pack cost about as much as a small car I think.
Hmmmm. I smell a commercial opportunity. I need a new car, and my tripel is as good as Fin du Monde. How about I sell you a 6-pack for the price of that car? It's win-win! Well except for the giant Japanese corp that loses one sale...
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 24, 2012 - 01:29pm PT
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I'll send you a matchbox car and ten bucks.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Feb 24, 2012 - 01:30pm PT
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In return for which you'll get 6 thimbles of beer
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 24, 2012 - 01:32pm PT
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Ha!
Fine, eleven bucks.
:)
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Mar 20, 2012 - 09:26pm PT
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Pliny the Younger @ Stone Brewing right now until 8:00. Supplication as well.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Mar 20, 2012 - 09:47pm PT
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Nope, you don't get to wriggle out with that feeble excuse. That's like saying you're a food snob because you prefer KFC and Arby's to MacDonalds, and then defending it with "Well, KFC is widely available."
There's plenty of good beer in virtually every town in California, so I think we'll have to put together a posse, chase you down, tie you up, and pour some real beer into you.
And aren't you the guy who says we should all buy American-made products instead of foreign? What do you think Heineken and Becks are? (And Budweiser, too, since it was bought by InBev). Expand your beer horizons and support a local craft brewer. It's good for you, good for the brewer, and patriotic too!
I'm still waitin' for Ghost to roll down with some choice hops....hehe...
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briham89
Trad climber
los gatos. ca
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Mar 20, 2012 - 10:30pm PT
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ok i love pliny but no one has it right now...except at stone in SD apparently, and I am jealous! But anyways....what is you favorite double IPA or IPA that you can actually find all the time in the San Jose area?
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Mar 20, 2012 - 10:39pm PT
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I really like Left Coast Hop Juice. Should be able to find it up there. The 7-11 down the street actually carries it, but they are beer nuts.
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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May 22, 2012 - 11:14pm PT
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has anyone had Deschutes Hop in the Dark? I'm on a strict two-beer limit this week and have spent the last few hours thinking how much I want a good beer
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