adrock
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Ok, maybe I overstated the thread title a bit, but I was just at my favorite beer-buying joint (Party Source in KY) contemplating what brews to get. I'm having some friends that are new Cincinnati transplants over tomorrow for some pork chops, corn on the cob, apple pie, beer, etc.........so I thought I should get two different styles in case someone doesn't like pale ales (losers), or whatever I happened to pick.
So I decided to get a Stone Breweries beer because I had their pale ale a few weeks ago and decided it might be the most awesomest traditional pale ale I've ever tasted. They had 4 choices that I saw: Arrogant Bastard Ale, Oaked Arrogant Bastard Ale, Pale Ale, and Ruination IPA. I actually wanted to get either the oaked ale or the IPA, but I wasn't quite willing to spend $16 for a six pack of beer, so I wussed out and got the traditional pale ale again. If anybody cares, the other beer I got was Christian Moerlein's Original Golden Helles.
I just got home and I was gonna crack open one of the pale ales, when what do I find? Somebody had slipped a single Oaked Arrogant Bastard Ale into the six pack! I've never had this beer before, but it was near the top of my "wanted" list. I want to wait 'til SWMBO gets home from work to drink it because I'm sure she'd like to taste it, but my question is this: How excited should I be to drink this beer? On a scale of 1 to 10, how is it?
So I decided to get a Stone Breweries beer because I had their pale ale a few weeks ago and decided it might be the most awesomest traditional pale ale I've ever tasted. They had 4 choices that I saw: Arrogant Bastard Ale, Oaked Arrogant Bastard Ale, Pale Ale, and Ruination IPA. I actually wanted to get either the oaked ale or the IPA, but I wasn't quite willing to spend $16 for a six pack of beer, so I wussed out and got the traditional pale ale again. If anybody cares, the other beer I got was Christian Moerlein's Original Golden Helles.
I just got home and I was gonna crack open one of the pale ales, when what do I find? Somebody had slipped a single Oaked Arrogant Bastard Ale into the six pack! I've never had this beer before, but it was near the top of my "wanted" list. I want to wait 'til SWMBO gets home from work to drink it because I'm sure she'd like to taste it, but my question is this: How excited should I be to drink this beer? On a scale of 1 to 10, how is it?