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What kind of beer is everyone drinking tonight? (2 Viewers)

Loaded up for the weekend:

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Summer of 78

I missed out on Special Sauce #4 which probably sold out around noon. 

Then stopped off at Hailstorm for a growler of Cumulus, their NE style IPA, and a 4 pack of Nimbus which is their NE style pale ale. Like Cumulus much more. 

Going to miss the hoppy stuff available in Chicago. 

 
Horny Goat Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter.  Actually, not drinking it so much as using it with ice cream for a beer float.  Pretty fantastic dessert.

 
ditka311 said:
Got back to IL last night. Plan is to be out there to close on our house in mid-July. Heist is alledgedly canning Citraquential so will be all over that if it's around. 

I have a Birdsong in the fridge now. Will keep an eye out for the other 2 when I move. 
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I was at Heist for Fathers Day and they didn't even have it on tap. Not many IPAs on tap. So maybe they're saving it for cans.

 
Sycamore's beers are decent to above average. Lots of different styles so you find something for anyone who likes beer. Nothing that is excellent, IMO, but good enough and a great spot with lots of mid-late 20s ladies. Good place.

ETA: The type of place the wives don't like to go because we're so distracted, so try to go with the guys when we can. :D

 
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ConstruxBoy said:
I was at Heist for Fathers Day and they didn't even have it on tap. Not many IPAs on tap. So maybe they're saving it for cans.
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I called them yesterday to see if they have citraquential on tap, they said maybe in a couple of weeks.  They will post on Facebook when they have it.

 
Community Beer Works Frank (in a can for the first time!!)

Lindemans Framboise + Great Lakes Alberta Clipper blend (wife wanted to open the Framboise)

 
moleculo said:
Why?
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I just love every beer they make.  Every single one.  The owners are kind of funky and so is the beer.  I lean away from super hoppy, and their selection fits my style.  The hospitali-tea is just unbelievable.  An amber flavored with black tea leaves and honey.  

 
Steve Tasker said:
Community Beer Works Frank (in a can for the first time!!)

Lindemans Framboise + Great Lakes Alberta Clipper blend (wife wanted to open the Framboise)
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Does Community have any ties to Pizza Port? They had an IPA called Frank way back long time agos that has become somewhat of a legend beer. 

 
ConstruxBoy said:
Sycamore's beers are decent to above average. Lots of different styles so you find something for anyone who likes beer. Nothing that is excellent, IMO, but good enough and a great spot with lots of mid-late 20s ladies. Good place.
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I think that is a spot on review of Sycamore, decent but far from great.

IMO Heist is making the best beers in Charlotte right now.  Once they get their new equipment up and running they should be able to keep up with the demand better.

 
Perrin 2016 No Rules...damn, for a 15% porter, this shiz is smooth as can be. Tons of coconut, vanilla, and bourbon barrels. Delicious and dangerously drinkable.

 
Went to Port City Brewing in Alexandria,VA tonight... had a Downright Pils & a Derecho California Common. Got a growler of the pils...its hot & humid here & the pils is refreshing.

 
Trillium has ditched the 750ml bottles and switched to 16oz can 4 packs for all of their hop forward beers from here on out. First run (today) is Congress Street IPA at $17/4 pack. They were $10/ per 750ml, so the cost per ounce goes from about $.40/oz to roughly $.26/oz. Hellllls yeah! And itll be cheaper to ship too.

 
Wingnut said:
Trillium has ditched the 750ml bottles and switched to 16oz can 4 packs for all of their hop forward beers from here on out. First run (today) is Congress Street IPA at $17/4 pack. They were $10/ per 750ml, so the cost per ounce goes from about $.40/oz to roughly $.26/oz. Hellllls yeah! And itll be cheaper to ship too.
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Nice!  My wife goes to Boston about 6 times a year and she is now including a stop at Trillium to bring me beer.  This will make things even easier.

Also was in Florida recently and enjoyed the Reef Donkey and always solid Jai Alai. 

 
Trillium Raspberry Soak, an American sour wheat ale aged in oak barrels on raspberries...it's excellent. Super tart and jammy raspy berries. Yum. 

 
So I really liked that Oud Bruin which is a Wild Ale. It was sour but balanced with sweet. Anyone have recommendations on good sours (that aren't super sour) that are pretty widely available?

 
Ilov80s said:
So I really liked that Oud Bruin which is a Wild Ale. It was sour but balanced with sweet. Anyone have recommendations on good sours (that aren't super sour) that are pretty widely available?
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Bullfrog's Jong Bruin is pretty good, I think.  They are in Central PA.  I think they distribute to VA, not sure about MI.

I guess not, if this is accurate: http://www.seekabrew.com/distro/index.html

Pretty cool site either way.

 
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Jolly Pumpkin La Vida Improvisacion is amazing. Sour, funky, super citrus and a little hops

 
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Soootch said:
Sierra Nevada Otra Vez is decent and available everywhere, although technically a Gose I guess.  Anderson Valley and Stillwater have some that I've seen around here (although Stillwater does more Farmhouse/Saison style I guess, but I think they have some Sours).  Shorts had Ocho de Mayo out but seasonal, not sure if still on shelves

Deshtil WILD series are good, don't recall if I've seen them yet this year, come only in cans as far as I know

I guess Bells Oarsman and New Belgium La Folie count as well

yeah since you're local anything by them would be my first suggestion
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I'm open to wilds/sours/goses

I used to drink a lot of JP, but started disliking it a few years ago. I'm coming back around big time. Crooked Stave set me straight. 

 
http://www.beercraft.com/  they just opened in my town, the goal will be to have a pint of each before they are rotated out :crazy:  

  • Cellarmaker Mo' Galaxy IPA
  • Modern Times Bourbon Barrel Monsters' Park Vanilla
  • Port Brewing 10th Anniversary Ale
  • 101 North Indigo Pale Ale
  • High Water Cucumber Kolsch
  • Track 7 Bee Line Blonde
  • Stillwater Gose Gone Wild - Phuket
  • Stone Mocha IPA
  • Modern Times Fruitlands - Passion Fruit & Guava
  • Societe The Butcher Imperial Stout
  • Epic Big Bad Baptist
  • Belching Beaver PB Milk Stout
  • (nitro) Bottle Logic German Chocolate Cake
  • Hangar 24 Betty
 
CGRdrJoe said:
http://www.beercraft.com/  they just opened in my town, the goal will be to have a pint of each before they are rotated out :crazy:  

  • Cellarmaker Mo' Galaxy IPA
  • Modern Times Bourbon Barrel Monsters' Park Vanilla
  • Port Brewing 10th Anniversary Ale
  • 101 North Indigo Pale Ale
  • High Water Cucumber Kolsch
  • Track 7 Bee Line Blonde
  • Stillwater Gose Gone Wild - Phuket
  • Stone Mocha IPA
  • Modern Times Fruitlands - Passion Fruit & Guava
  • Societe The Butcher Imperial Stout
  • Epic Big Bad Baptist
  • Belching Beaver PB Milk Stout
  • (nitro) Bottle Logic German Chocolate Cake
  • Hangar 24 Betty
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me want to go to there

 
Wingnut said:
The Alchemists new brewery opening today in Stowe, VT. Focal Banger, Heady Topper, and Crusher available, $12.50/4 pack, 1 mixed case limit starting tomorrw...today, Focal only, 8 can limit.

http://alchemistbeer.com/blog/
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Will have to check it out next time I'm out that way.  Northern VT is pretty much my favorite place in the world.  I wear it as a badge of pride that I made to the original Alchemist brewpub just weeks before Hurricane Irene hit.  Wish my glass didn't break though, I loved that glass.

 
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Splurged on a Heady Topper last night before the Phish show. Well worth the $10 for only my second ever HT. Drinking Loose Cannon Heavy Seas tonight which is very good, too.

 
Ilov80s said:
So I really liked that Oud Bruin which is a Wild Ale. It was sour but balanced with sweet. Anyone have recommendations on good sours (that aren't super sour) that are pretty widely available?
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La Folie from New Belgium is widely available and reasonable sour brown ale similar to the Oud Bruin from New Glarus. I love that one. One other good one that is very common is the Monk's Cafe sour ale from Philadelphia. You can probably get stuff from Jolly Pumpkin anywhere in Michigan I expect. They have a wide variety of funky stuff so I would expect they have a sour brown ale in the rotation.

 
Ilov80s said:
So I really liked that Oud Bruin which is a Wild Ale. It was sour but balanced with sweet. Anyone have recommendations on good sours (that aren't super sour) that are pretty widely available?
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Rodenbach Grand Cru is spectacular, affordable, and easy to find.  Prairie makes a ton of great sour wild ales / saisons if they distro in your area.

 
Today while I'm smoking a bunch of pork steaks:

Four Fathers Crystal Gravy, 18th Street Temporal Purgatory, 18th Street Candy Crushable, and Bell's Hopsolution thus far.

Probably crack a Devil Dancer at the end of the night when it's time to pass out.

 
Cigar City's newest canned beer, Guyabera, a pretty good Citra Pale Ale. At $10 for a 6 pack 12oz cans, it's a no brainer.

 
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