To delight your taste buds, try Milwaukee's Light, good stuff.

I'll pee in a bottle after drinking a good beer and give it to ya. Same thing.

I picked up a rack of this a couple of days ago. I am never disappointed with it. I thought it was great again this year. Definately a beer I look forward to every December.

I really enjoyed the Curieux. It started with a bourbon/smoky flavor but it seemed to lessen as I drank the rest of the bottle. I might have been buzzed by then.

Interested to hear more about the St. Bernardus beers. Local shop has the 4 packs of the 12, the 6, and the Witbeer in the four packs for around $10-12 bucks.

Beer Advocate Listings. As I said before, the Abt 12 is a sipping beer. I would make it the first beer of the evening. It has a really rich malt profile and has a very smooth finish. It's the fourth highest rated beer at BA, so it is definitely one that you should try. I haven't tried the 6 or the witbier. The witbuer is not my favorite style, but I will probably give it a whirl some time. The 6 should be a fairly easy drinker with the lower alcohol content.

I liked it a lot. The bourbon/smoky flavor you mention overpowers the beer a bit, but I like that taste. Barrel aging really pairs better with malty beers IMO, but doing it with a tripel provided a unique experience. However, at 13 dollars a bottle I don't think I will be revisiting this beer any time soon.

just bought a six of this yesterday

didn't love it as much as I thought I would.

more Xmas beer suggestions

Corsendonk Christmas
Scaldis Noel

I know its dorksor to quote your own posts, but I must reiterate:

This Mendocino Winter Ale is freaking fantastic. Id pick this over DFH 90 every time. Its so damn smooth its rediculous, and the only indication of the ABV is the buzz. If not for the buzz Id NEVER believe this was a 9% beer. Even as it warms the aocohol just refuses to show itself. An expertly crafted brew.

Im going to get a case of this stuff and let half of it age until next year.

Drinking my first 6'er of SN Celebration Ale.

This is quality stuff

Went to the pub today to watch the dogass Cowboys lose and had the following:

Pyramid Snowcap - Average. Not nearly hoppy enough for a seasonal brew. The beer was a whole lot darker than the flavor.

New Belgium Two Degrees Below - Pretty good. Hoppier than the first beer. It was also quite a bit lighter in color, which I found surprising. Still not much of a hop bomb, but it was more memorable than the Pyramid

Breckenridge IPA - Decent enough filler while I was trying to figure out what I wanted next.

Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale - This stuff is the ####.

Did anybody else have to pay 15 bucks for the Scaldis Noel? I hope its good...

But I suppose 25.4 oz at 13% is pretty much a wine....and I'd spend that much on a wine.

Also found a HeBrew Miraculous Jewbelation. Haven't seen this one before.

Had a bottle of Rogue Santa's Private Reserve last night. It was excellent!

Gotta find that one

It was really good. Tasted a bit like Celebration Ale. Not super spicy or anything. I can't remember the % though. 8.something?

It was at a Mellow Mushroom pizza place if any of you live near one.

Finally got my hands on some Russian River. They were out of the Pliny the Younger (Imperial IPA) which really is a shame. Its been a while.

But I did manage a few bottles of the following

Supplication - Brown ale aged in Pinot Noir wine barrels for one year with sour cherries, Brettanomyces yeast, and Lactobacillus & Pedicoccus bacteria

Damnation - Damnation is our brewmaster's interpretation of a Belgian style Strong Golden Ale. It has extraordinary aromas of banana and pear with mouth filling flavors of sweet malt and earthy hops.

Temptation - Blonde ale fermented with a special strain of yeast and aged in French oak Chardonnay barrels for one year. During this aging process, a secondary fermentation occurs using Brettanomyces yeast.

<slobbering like Homer Simpson>

Some good news and bad news on the beer front:

Bad News - Hoegarden to go out of production

More bad news - Hoegarden employees revolt.

Good News - Peter Celis may open a new brewery in/near Austin, TX.

Just tried the Avery 12th Anniversary Saison. Wow, one word came to mind... swill. Overpowering nutmeg aroma and flavor. Also soapy on the aroma. $6.50 for the 22 oz. bottle. I poured it out. I NEVER waste beer but I made an exception.

Such a disappointment.

Trying 4 new ones (to me) tonight.

Lancaster's Milk Stout. Not bad.

Lancaster's Amish Four Grain Pale Ale. Tastes like lemon juice. Something not quite right about this one.

Otter Creek Vermont Lager. Not bad.

Wild Goose Winter Ale. On the advice on WYB. On deck. Can't be worse than the Four Grain Ale.

Sampled Flying Dog's Snake Dog IPA this evening. Meh. It's decent, but I can think of at least six IPAs that I would rather drink.

I know the San Antonio Express-News reporter that wrote the article. He's fairly active in the BeerAdvocate.com Texas community. He's a lucky bastard to get to write about beer for a living.

Diving into a March 2005 Dogfish 120.

I'm about to polish off a sixpack of the 60, and either my tastes have changed, or there's something not right about this sixer.

I bought a 6 pack the other day and thought the same thing. 60min seems to be all over the map lately...sometimes super hoppy, sometimes malty and sweeter. Still good either way I guess, but I like the turbo-hoppiness version better. Maybe the guys are sampling batches a bit too much at the brewery and forgetting to dry hop?

Average IPA. Not enough hops, and Ive noticed a metallic taste in a few of them. Feels a bit watery sometimes, too.

The first drink of the first bottle .... the first thing I thought to myself was, "This tastes kind of watery." No joke.

You saved the day! I liked it.

There are other spicey belgian wits to take its place. That style is becoming a favorite of micros all over the country for its ease to brew and mass appeal.

Fear not.

Havn't tried anything that new lately...think I might take a trip to the store tomorrow...reading through this thread now for some ideas.

Hop on over to the real beer thread. Theres ALWAYS a few hanging out in there.


HOP on over. Get it? I slay me.

picked up some Sierra Nevada Summerfest today...havn't ever tried it before. Will report back.

Oh, and gimme a link to the other beer thread please.

http://forums.footballguys.com/forum/index...76&st=25500

not really liking the SN Summerfest too much so far

they make better beer that's for sure

Its Sierra's version of a Pilsner. Not meant to knock your socks off, just supposed to be a quaffable summer drink (lawnmower beer). I don't know if they have it where you are at, but a Victory Prima Pils is a much better lager.