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Blitzo
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Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 4, 2009 - 03:27pm PT
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Reilly, "Maredsous 8" ?
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pissed
Trad climber
Lake Placid NY and Scranton PA
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Speaking of beers to let sit a year (or more):
Dogfish Fort
Dogfish Red and White
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Blitzo
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Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 4, 2009 - 05:49pm PT
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Dogfish Head may be the best brewery in the USA!
Happy 4th of July!!!
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TGT
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So Cal
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As far as aged beers, I've got a bottle of 6/6/06, 7/7/07 and 8/8/08 Vertical Limit aging till 10/10/10 in the fridge. Wish I had the whole series from the 1/1/01.
You guys are being a bit limited in your beerosity here though.
It's what's for desert.
If you want to impress the ladies make ice cream floats with this lambic. (use the best french vanilla you can find)
If you want something really different and good do it with this.
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Blitzo
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Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 4, 2009 - 06:12pm PT
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I prefer the Kriek and Peche to the Framboise, although I do enjoy all of them.
The Stone Smoked porter is okay, I drink it often. Not one of their best beers from that brewery and for a rauchbrau, very low on the scale.
Try the Alaskan Smoked Porter, on tap!
But making floats with them is ridiculous!
Don't FUK up BEER!
Give her a "Creamy Bush", but that doesn't fall under the beer category and should be discussed under another thread.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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The Alaskan porter is pretty good.
It does have a bit of a fishy nose when you first pour it. (they do the smoking in the same smokehouse in Juneau that they smoke the salmon in). Changes all the way thru the glass and is a very interesting porter.
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hossjulia
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Eastside
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My new fav is from Deschutes, who imho does not make a bad beer.
Green Lakes Organic Ale.
I think I'll have one now! Isn't that what you are supposed to do on the 4th when you work on your car?
Mammoth Brewing Co Epic IPA is another fav.
(TPR has 45 different varieties to choose from!)
Lynne, I had my debit card taken over at a bar in Mammoth for the Ski Patrol Parka Party. Seems I bought about 10 pitchers that night. But after about my 5th pint of Guinness, I really don't remember. :)
When I went to retrieve my card after work, there was about 6 pints on credit for me on the board there. (Clocktower)
So the guys took some pity on me, just a little. :)
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Blitzo
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Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 4, 2009 - 06:47pm PT
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I have never found a beer that claims to be organic to be that good!
Mammoth Brewing is excellent! The epic IPA is great!
Double Nut Brown is my favorite.
Photos by Blitzo.
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Blitzo
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Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 4, 2009 - 06:56pm PT
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I love snakes!
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Except that one gives me a headache.
One thing I've noticed,
Almost all domestic craft beers change significantly in taste from the nose to the bottom.
European beers are typically exactly the same from start to finish.
Not that either approach is wrong, just different and probably due to the fact that most of the best European brews have been made in the same place for at least two hundred years or more.
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Blitzo
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Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 4, 2009 - 07:30pm PT
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I tried Green Flash Barley-Wine.
They say:
Barleywine Style Ale
Our American-style Barleywine undergoes a three hour boil to intensify the caramel malts and the enormous Pacific Northwest hop charge. The result is a rich, estery brew with toffee notes and citrus hop flavors layered throughout. Enjoy this brew fresh today or lay it down for aging to see how the flavors of each vintage evolve.
I say:
Nail polish with glue notes and a metallic/plastic finish!
I may have gotten a bad bottle! I'll try again next year.
Kiper Bock from Poland. NICE!!!
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apogee
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Got a Green Flash IPA in my frosty pint glass right now...
It's all riiiigggghhhhtttt!
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adatesman
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philadelphia, pa
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@Blitzo- If you're only aging your barleywine a year or two you're missing out! I had a Thomas Hardy's 1987 vintage a while back and it was just sublime. Tons of sherry notes, hits of oak, lots of caramel... Delightful.
Then again, a lot of people rave about Dogfishhead 120 minute and it actually doesn't age that well in my experience. Not so good fresh, excellent after 6 months and then quickly downhill from there. After a year I found it to be bordering on undrinkable. My neighbor still has bottles from that case 2 years later and they've not gotten any better. Rather unfortunate given it was a $150 case of beer... :-(
@TGT- Ugh. Lindeman's Framboise? Nasty. Little known fact is that the brewery intentionally dumbs that beer down for the American market by way of extra sweetening (which is why it is basically raspberry soda). Their Kriek, Cassis and Gueze aren't _bad_, but also not terribly interesting or true to the style. If you want good Lambic try something from Boon, Cantillon or possibly Kasteel... They're much more sour, have good oak and likely more than a hint of Brettanomyces (and probably a couple other bugs). Yum!
@everyone- Any interest in starting up a beer exchange thing? This came up on RC a couple days ago and there's some interest among the homebrewers over there... We haven't worked out any details yet, but the idea I floated was basically how some of the online brewing clubs work with pretty much everyone sending a bottle or two of what they made to everyone else for enjoyment/comments. Seems to be quite a few beer geeks here, so thought I'd mention it....
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hossjulia
Trad climber
Eastside
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Before we got the Green Lakes in, I tend to reach for a Double Nut, especially if I'm hungry!
The Green Lakes has lost its luster with me, just had one and while it's really good, I'm ready for something else.
Lets see, enne meene minee mo, which beer should go down my gullet next?
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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You missed where I was going with the Frambose, I wouldn't do anything with it other than make a desert to impress the wimminz.
it's to sicky sweet to drink.
the Stone porter on the other hand is good in its own right and makes an excellent desert.
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 4, 2009 - 10:05pm PT
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Khanom, Nope, when I was 20, it was all good!
Meanwhile, I just tried a new Sierra Nevada Product.
Kellerweis Hefweizen. It was okay for wheat beer, but I'm not really into wheat beers!
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Blitzo
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 4, 2009 - 11:01pm PT
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adatesman, A beer exchange would be so cool. There are so many beers that I want to try that i just can't find. Thomas Hardy, Kasteel, Dark Lord, The Smokestack series, Third Eye, Gouden Carolus, Old Woody, Woodmaster, Bells, Many Dogfish Head, Surly Darkness and many more. A trade exchange would be so cool!
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F10
Trad climber
e350
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Blitzo, any recommendations from the local Circle K around the corner?
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 4, 2009 - 11:34pm PT
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Toothless girls who want to..........
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