Random Beer Thoughts

[quirk6]

Well $350 is worth about 2 treehouse cans on mbc, so u are way off. Plus I had to drive 2 hours to get there and waited in line to get them. So no deal

Don't forget the free for all brawl you have to fight your way through.

 

[disapowzment]

I haven't looked at this thread for a while. Amish you guyz.

 

[beerindex]

I don't think the guys at Buxton have a very good understanding of the meaning of the word "fresh." I just opened up a bottle of their Red Raspberry Rye, which we only saw in Michigan some time in the last three months. It was bottled in June 2015. It says to "Drink Fresh," but it also says that the best by date is in June 2017, two years after bottling.

 

[domdomdomdom]

A voice comes over the GPS telling me to exit right from the Expressway.

I continue through an industrial parking lot and end at a large warehouse with virtually no signage.

This is it?

This is the place that just won all those gold medals?

 

[tosh1]

A voice comes over the GPS telling me to exit right from the Expressway.

I continue through an industrial parking lot and end at a large warehouse with virtually no signage.

This is it?

This is the place that just won all those gold medals?

I gave up when I saw

"Yo Rob"

 

[arren]

A voice comes over the GPS telling me to exit right from the Expressway.

I continue through an industrial parking lot and end at a large warehouse with virtually no signage.

This is it?

This is the place that just won all those gold medals?

 

[Snarf1]

ENOUGH WITH THE ******* CUCUMBER BEERS ALREADY!

 

[Sam Fu]

ENOUGH WITH THE ******* CUCUMBER BEERS ALREADY!

Fair, however I will take a thousand cucumber beers over a single pumpkin beer any day

 

[BadJustin]

Fair, however I will take a thousand cucumber beers over a single pumpkin beer any day

Southern Tier Pumpking Release party is the 29th of this month, not even kidding.

Meanwhile there are still bottles of last years on shelves in some stores.

 

[lazerviking]

Southern Tier Pumpking

I really don't mind pumpkin beers, but this beer is and always has been one of the worst beers produced. Such garbage.

 

[FTowne1]

I really don't mind pumpkin beers, but this beer is and always has been one of the worst beers produced. Such garbage.

I usually go through 2 six packs of Schlafly every fall and then I'm good for another year. I have been kicking around the idea of brewing a batch though, just to make something different.

 

[BadJustin]

It's decorative gourd beer season, motherfuckers.

 

[lazerviking]

It's decorative gourd beer season, motherfuckers.

Is McSweeney's still a thing? This is my second favorite only to the "Billy Joel Has an Internal Monologue on the Way to a Holiday Party with a Piano"

Edit: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles...ty-where-i-knew-there-was-going-to-be-a-piano

 

[BadJustin]

Is McSweeney's still a thing? This is my second favorite only to the "Billy Joel Has an Internal Monologue on the Way to a Holiday Party with a Piano"

I ritualistically post it once a year. Too good not to. I'm going to have to go check out that Billy Joel thing, slow day at the office.

 

[boogercrack]

I usually go through 2 six packs of Schlafly every fall and then I'm good for another year. I have been kicking around the idea of brewing a batch though, just to make something different.

Just do a small one. 2.5G or so max. I brewed a 5G Christmas ale one year and ended up dumping like half of it because I was SO ******* OVER it after only like 10 pints.




Side note: I haven't drank a Christmas Spiced Beer in 6 years now since I dumped that keg.

 

[Snarf1]

Fair, however I will take a thousand cucumber beers over a single pumpkin beer any day

Nope. La Parcela is the one good pumpkin beer and all cucumber beers are gross.

 

[FTowne1]

Just do a small one. 2.5G or so max. I brewed a 5G Christmas ale one year and ended up dumping like half of it because I was SO ******* OVER it after only like 10 pints.




Side note: I haven't drank a Christmas Spiced Beer in 6 years now since I dumped that keg.

For sure. I don't know enough people who like pumpkin beer to help me kill 5 gallons of it.

 

[boogercrack]

For sure. I don't know enough people who like pumpkin beer to help me kill 5 gallons of it.

Another Pro-Tip:

Don't get cute and try and put roasted real pumpkin chunks in the mash for sugar extraction.

I got real intimate with my manifold trying to clean it after that. So many stuck mashes too.

 

[ficklenicholas]

ENOUGH WITH THE ******* CUCUMBER BEERS ALREADY!

Yes, but I dig a cucumber cocktail.

 

[JulianB1]

I love a well-done cucumber beer. I also really like my homebrew cucumber gose. Which is probably not a well-done cucumber beer.

Pumpkin beers, with a few exceptions, can die a horrible death. Friends beg me to brew one every fall; nope, not happening.

 

[JCastle1]

I love a well-done cucumber beer. I also really like my homebrew cucumber gose. Which is probably not a well-done cucumber beer.

Recipe pls. I've been playing with the idea of making a "Hendrick's G&T berliner" with juniper and cucumber peel but no clue how to actually do it.

 

[JulianB1]

Recipe pls. I've been playing with the idea of making a "Hendrick's G&T berliner" with juniper and cucumber peel but no clue how to actually do it.

Berliner base (whatever you brew) with salt in the boil. I use about 1oz for 5 gallons; that makes it fairly salty to my palate, but I find it works well with the cucumber. Maybe dial it back to 0.75oz/gal. Then about 5lbs of peeled, chopped cucumbers in secondary for a couple of weeks. Peeling the cucumbers is essential! First time I made this I didn't do that and it ended up being way too green and astringent. You don't want to use the peel even if that's the "flavor" of the cocktail inspiring the beer.

I'd added lime zest/juice and that's a nice accent. I'm sure juniper would work well but have no experience using it.

 

[RedCoffee]

I love a well-done cucumber beer. I also really like my homebrew cucumber gose. Which is probably not a well-done cucumber beer.

Pumpkin beers, with a few exceptions, can die a horrible death. Friends beg me to brew one every fall; nope, not happening.

Well duh! Fall is way too late for pumpkin beers!

 

[JCastle1]

Berliner base (whatever you brew) with salt in the boil. I use about 1oz for 5 gallons; that makes it fairly salty to my palate, but I find it works well with the cucumber. Maybe dial it back to 0.75oz/gal. Then about 5lbs of peeled, chopped cucumbers in secondary for a couple of weeks. Peeling the cucumbers is essential! First time I made this I didn't do that and it ended up being way too green and astringent. You don't want to use the peel even if that's the "flavor" of the cocktail inspiring the beer.

I'd added lime zest/juice and that's a nice accent. I'm sure juniper would work well but have no experience using it.

Good to know about the peels, I'll skip them. I was also thinking it may work better with a saison base instead. This is just a wild idea I had, probably never gonna even make it haha.

 

[Lutter]

Tallgrass is now available in Austin. Never had em. Worth picking up?

 

[JulianB1]

MillerCoors has acquired a majority stake in Terrapin.

This is one I don't really care about as Terrapin's beers have been getting worse and worse for a few years now. In fact it doesn't surprise me at all this has happened and it feels like their more recent direction has been in anticipation of a move like this.

 

[BadJustin]

Is McSweeney's still a thing? This is my second favorite only to the "Billy Joel Has an Internal Monologue on the Way to a Holiday Party with a Piano"

Edit: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles...ty-where-i-knew-there-was-going-to-be-a-piano

"I’m Billicio Del Joelio. I play pianolo." I LOL'd for real at my desk. ******* awesome, all of it.

 

[JCastle1]

Tallgrass is now available in Austin. Never had em. Worth picking up?

Never had them either but I've made the official Halcyon and Buffalo Sweat clones and they're pretty tasty

 

[lazerviking]

"I’m Billicio Del Joelio. I play pianolo." I LOL'd for real at my desk. ******* awesome, all of it.

"Amherst sucks at football"

 

[JulianB1]

Tallgrass is now available in Austin. Never had em. Worth picking up?

I like their hoppy beer tallboys, 8-Bit and Ethos (and there may be some others). Good beers when fresh.