What are you drinking now?

No, I haven't han any of them but I'll look for them. I think the Pliny wil be easier to find. I'll do some searching for all if them though. If I find some I'll send you some along with some homebrew.

Just opened the Red Rocket Ale and this is good stuff. A bit more hoppy than I expected which is ok with me! nice amber-ish/red-ish color. 6.8% ABV so it's not too big. I may be starting to lean toward Bear Republic as my current favorite brewery. Emphasis on current which means this will probably change next weekend.

Red Rocket?

Right now I'm drinking:
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My Oktoberfest which I dub Oliviafest after my daughter. Good stuff...I'll definitely do it again (and I'll probably make this beer again, too...it's tasty!).

Right now...Weizen!

Ok, I've moved onto the Bear Republic Black Stout. Chocolatey flavor and very smooth. Not a big fan a stouts but I like this one. Red Rocket Ale is better but this one is fine. 8.1% ABV. After 2 bombers of BR brew, I should be feelin' good!

Yeah, Big Bear Stout is just okay. Love the Red Rocket and Racer 5 though.

MMMMM....never had a pumpkin ale I liked...UNTIL NOW.

Weyerbacher Imperial Pumpkin = great.

Perfect balance. If I could do a beer like this I'd shoot sparks outta my ass.

Dude said:

If I could do a beer like this I'd shoot sparks outta my ass.

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Well, there are lots of chili beer recipes, if that's what you're after...

Entire Butt English Porter.

Got it because I liked the name.

Ok, and I like English Porters.

It's ok, not as heavy as a I like, but it's ok.

It's no Fullers tho.... :rockin:


Ize

Yeah, the more I drank the Black Bear Stout, the more I realized it was very sweet. Not as sweet as Gold Shower but still pretty sweet. Red Rocket was really good. I like that better than Racer 5 and the XP pale ale. I would like to do a side by side sample with Hop Rod Rye to see just how good it is. Let me see.....Do I have any Hop Rod Rye?

todd_k said:

Yeah, the more I drank the Black Bear Stout, the more I realized it was very sweet. Not as sweet as Gold Shower but still pretty sweet. Red Rocket was really good. I like that better than Racer 5 and the XP pale ale. I would like to do a side by side sample with Hop Rod Rye to see just how good it is. Let me see.....Do I have any Hop Rod Rye?

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Nope...you don't...next question.

Are you sure? I seem to remember a wine box with a few bottles of Hop Rod Rye around here somewhere....... Oh well. Gots to go to work tomorrow. Better stay away from that crack!

Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout. One of my favorite stouts and the abv% is helpng me get through re-doing all of my Promash recipes.

I'm choking down a bottle of Miller Lite.

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I'm choking down a bottle of Miller Lite.

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Why?

I have one more hour until I'm cracking open a Stone 10th anniversary.

Capital Brewery Autumnal Fire. Found out why it one a gold metal at the GABF, in the strong bock catagory.

I think I mentioned this before but SWMBO hosted a Party-Lite (candles) party for a friend and she bought 3 six packs of beer and no one had any. The other 2 were Blue Moon Pumkin ale (gross) and Magic Hat #9 (which I also don't like). I also didn't have any homebrew that was cold.

#9 used to be one of my faves, haven't had any since I started homebrewing though (my palatte is COMPLETELY different now).

And no, I don't recommend it. Been trying IPAs and thought to try one from MI. Very high alcohol and is pretty un-balanced with hops... very un-balanced actually. Goose was much better.

Did I tell you guys I actually stoped by here about a month ago as I was in the area. I saw a bar filled with your stereotypical biker fella singing drunk as a skunk at about 1 in the afternoon. I was not impressed.

Last night I was drinking from about 5 different kegs of HB on BOSTON's deck! The quality of beer you guys put out on a consistent basis impresses the hell out of me.

Wish I could have gotten comfortably numb last night, but duty called.

Baron von BeeGee said:

Last night I was drinking from about 5 different kegs of HB on BOSTON's deck! The quality of beer you guys put out on a consistent basis impresses the hell out of me.

Wish I could have gotten comfortably numb last night, but duty called.

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Yeah, that was pretty cool. There was more damn beer than we could have possibly finished, but I can honestly say that I enjoyed all the ones I sampled. Can't wait for the spring beer fest.

Belhaven Wee Heavy It's malty, but there are more hops in there than I expected. Very nice.

Hobgoblin. i remember liking it much more than this

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Belhaven Wee Heavy

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Same here. I love the malty goodness.

I have an Anhueser Busch Jack's Pumpkin Spiced Ale.

It isn't disgusting, but it isn't in my top 50. very weird aftertaste, then a pumpkin after-after taste. Of course crystal clear and what I'd expect from a pumpkin beer.

The Weyerbacher one kicked this one's ass.

My Thunderstruck Pumpkin Ale. Spicy, not so weird on the aftertaste. A friend tried it tonight (his first homebrew), and said he'd pay for it if it was for sale.

First I had St. Peter's English Ale (skunky in a funky green bottle). Really nice skunk aroma. Then Fuller's 1845, one of my all time favs. Now a Dogfish Head 90 minute IPA. I didn't think I'd like it, but I do.

2006 Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale!

Oh yeah, worth the wait.

It is lighter than last year, and a bit more harsh at first. Still a really smooth beer and really freaking good. Oh yeah. :rockin:

Alewerks Pale Ale. Good stuff.

Oregon Trails Organic Brown, followed by a Bent Rod Rye. Triple dry-hopping, YAH!

Dude said:

2006 Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale!

Oh yeah, worth the wait.

It is lighter than last year, and a bit more harsh at first. Still a really smooth beer and really freaking good. Oh yeah. :rockin:

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2006 or 2007?

They release in late October and date it for the actual year, not like a car company or microsoft.

Pete's Wicked Wanderlust Cream Ale.... not to bad

La Fin Du Monde

Not as much as I thought it would be.

Goes down smooth, not a major amount of finish. Good tho, not too heavy, but not what I thought it would be.

Tasty tho.

Ize

My Fat Tire clone that has been in the bottle for just shy of two weeks and is not quite ready yet so right now I'm enjoying a few Red Hook IPA's. Love that hoppiness.

Ize said:

La Fin Du Monde

Not as much as I thought it would be.

Goes down smooth, not a major amount of finish. Good tho, not too heavy, but not what I thought it would be.

Tasty tho.

Ize

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I like that better warm. They don't call it La Fin Du Monde for nothing. That baby is around 9% IIRC. Not only the end of the world, but the end of the night if you have already been drinking.

Sprecher Barley Wine. Bought three one for now, one for a year from now, and one for five years. We will see how this ages.

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I like that better warm. They don't call it La Fin Du Monde for nothing. That baby is around 9% IIRC. Not only the end of the world, but the end of the night if you have already been drinking.

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LOL, it's funny you say that. It did me in on Friday night. That was the last beer of the evening. Slept in more than I should have Saturday morning.

Ize

Lagunitas Undercover Investigation Shut Down Ale

First the beer:

Pours amber honey colored with a tight, creamy head. Aroma is not huge, but of earthy hops, not spicy or citriusy. Flavor hits you with hops that gives way to a nice caramely maltiness, with a good amount of bitterness following. It's an Imperial IPA, but like a English take on it. Think an ESB on steroids.

What's maybe more interesting is the name and how it came about. First the label:

Undercover Investigation Shutdown Ale
"We brewed this especially bitter ale in rememberance of the 2005 St. Patrick's Day Massacre and in celebration of our 20 day suspension back in January of this year!"
Whatever.
We're Still Here

Alc. 9.9% by vol.
O.G. Unforgiven
I.B.U. Unrepentant

"Shhhh... Be vewry, vewry kwiet. We're sneakin' awound wookin' for gwown-up taxpaywers dowin' tings we don't appwoove of... Be vewry kwiet.. Dare awound here somewhere... Shhhh... Be vewry, vewry kwiet..."

"From the first day of the first congress at the moment of the passage of he first law, we became weaker. The extra-large B. Fraklin said it well that you can tell the strength of a society by the paucity of the pages in it's book of laws. Today we are all surrounded by laws- Tax law, civil law, criminal law, Statutes and Bills. Laws that make large and small criminals of us all. And sometimes just doin' something that you like to do that hurts no one is also criminal, or at least strongly discouraged. Seems we can't be trusted to live well and safely on our own On our own we would all probably descend quickly into mayhem, cannibalism, and ulimately shoplifting and jaywalking. If only we all could be trusted. It's good to have such wise fathers looking out for us... isn't it? Whatever. 707.769.4495 Cheers!"

The Lagunitas Brewing Co. Petaluma, Calif.

The background story:
Lagunitas had used "420" on some of their advertising for Thursday night tasting sessions to attract a certain counter-culture customer base. The alcohol control board got all freaked out and did an 8-week undercover investigation including infiltrating the tasting sessions with agents. The agents asked repeatedly if they could buy some pot off anyone. They were offered some free from some people, but never sold any. Not having any luck they later busted 3 people on posession of marijuana and the brewery later received a 20 day suspension of their license. All charges were later dropped.

Good luck finding any. I bought this bottle a few months ago and haven't seen it since. It's been in my fridge and I almost forgot about it. I figured it was a good time to have it.