FIB War Room

[Rockford Jerk]

Hey.

Pssst. Hey kid.

You want some slightly oxidized beer?

I can get you some slightly oxidized beer....

https://libationlawblog.com/2019/05...WQXtk5xKdKlOmN2J9Ez6au9Jr0eE0kcI6y8TBrCgCxsoc

 

[SAISON FUCK]

Absolutely stunned that there's no chatter on BA about the state of WLV. Guess they are all too worried about finding their Phase Three cans.

 

[DanH11]

Absolutely stunned that there's no chatter on BA about the state of WLV. Guess they are all too worried about finding their Phase Three cans.

Do you know where I can find Phase Three????

 

[SAISON FUCK]

Do you know where I can find Phase Three????

So you are one of them who is accusing some random store of "holding product back" and "lying to customers"? This is not a serious question.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Absolutely stunned that there's no chatter on BA about the state of WLV. Guess they are all too worried about finding their Phase Three cans.

They had their chatter back on Zwanze Day when the "Thanks for 20 years" sign was up. It is TB that is behind.

 

[middlebrow]

I believe I first met you at one of the WLV parties. Probably Zwanze, although all of the OG backyard parties run together in my mind due to the brain cells I killed on multiple pours of draft Double Black.

it was...my now wife recognized the neighborhood bad boy from posen she grew up with (pasta). and for some reason i remember two weirdos in Ohio University cheerleader outfits being ****** jags over a chair. and zwanze was poured by those young scamps running the first brewery kickstarter in chicago. and a double black blend with B1 blushing monk....those were the days

 

[mjohnson171]

Absolutely stunned that there's no chatter on BA about the state of WLV. Guess they are all too worried about finding their Phase Three cans.

That’s because most on BA are too young to remember WLV in its heyday and it’s importance to the Chicago beer scene. The old tymers over there reminisce about the “good old days” of RAM releases.

 

[Ferowcious]

Wasn't there someone from Loon at Quinn Temple a week or two ago? Hopefully they talked Zwanze.

Berto from Cantillon with the long pony tail was slugging malort at Beer Temple like three weeks ago.

 

[vav1]

That’s because most on BA are too young to remember WLV in its heyday and it’s importance to the Chicago beer scene. The old tymers over there reminisce about the “good old days” of RAM releases.

Don’t get me started about old timers. I found an old invoice copy of a hundred case Bigfoot buy I made in 2010, because Bigfoot season was a big deal.

cc: dontdrinkbeer beeraficionado

 

[Tooch4321]

Don’t get me started about old timers. I found an old invoice copy of a hundred case Bigfoot buy I made in 2010, because Bigfoot season was a big deal.

cc: dontdrinkbeer beeraficionado

Yo...not Bigfoot related, but will you be at The Publican on Sunday morning? If not, I will leave you all the beer.

 

[kodt]

https://www.chicagotribune.com/dini...ew-liquors-chicago-closed-20190603-story.html

 

[vav1]

Yo...not Bigfoot related, but will you be at The Publican on Sunday morning? If not, I will leave you all the beer.

Negative, I don’t work brunch or on Sundays.

 

[Tooch4321]

Negative, I don’t work brunch or on Sundays.

Yeah, I figured. Doing an extra early brunch on Sunday with the in-laws and some of their friends, so they can meet the tiny roommate. I will ask them to leave some specific bottles for you...

 

[rmalinowski4]

Yuzu Fierce drops tomorrow, It's finally summer

 

[ClCardinal84]

Yuzu Fierce drops tomorrow, It's finally summer

Now if only the temperatures would cooperate and rise about 10-12 degrees and stay there.

 

[LSMroz]

Visited GI Fulton for the first time last night with dasmusik in town. Am I wrong for thinking they are completely wrong to have a 9p closing time on the weekends? Like it's Chicago... And also their prices for their own Bourbon County stuff wasn't good at all. The hole in the wall place out in the burbs had the same lineup 6 months ago for $2 less on the 6oz pour. I know they will get their money regardless but I kinda never want to go back.

Left there (was kicked out) and went to Metropolitan. Wow. The location and the beer we're even better than I expected! Lagers are the future!

 

[BobCobb1]

Visited GI Fulton for the first time last night with dasmusik in town. Am I wrong for thinking they are completely wrong to have a 9p closing time on the weekends? Like it's Chicago... And also their prices for their own Bourbon County stuff wasn't good at all. The hole in the wall place out in the burbs had the same lineup 6 months ago for $2 less on the 6oz pour. I know they will get their money regardless but I kinda never want to go back.

Left there (was kicked out) and went to Metropolitan. Wow. The location and the beer we're even better than I expected! Lagers are the future!

Probably could hold a crowd later, but it isn’t the easiest to get to/from. I know there are a few other places nearby, but it feels isolated.

Their prices suck, though they have had a lot of great stuff on since CCBW. But you’re right, Monk’s just did the 18 lineup for $10/10oz on all, while GI has Vanilla at same price for 6oz. And $8 is the minimum now it seems for any BCS.

I did spend $100 on King Henry there last year.

 

[SAISON FUCK]

Visited GI Fulton for the first time last night with dasmusik in town. Am I wrong for thinking they are completely wrong to have a 9p closing time on the weekends? Like it's Chicago... And also their prices for their own Bourbon County stuff wasn't good at all. The hole in the wall place out in the burbs had the same lineup 6 months ago for $2 less on the 6oz pour. I know they will get their money regardless but I kinda never want to go back.

Left there (was kicked out) and went to Metropolitan. Wow. The location and the beer we're even better than I expected! Lagers are the future!

Not telling you how to live your life, but not really the best look to get kicked out of anywhere regardless of how you feel about pricing.

 

[LSMroz]

Not telling you how to live your life, but not really the best look to get kicked out of anywhere regardless of how you feel about pricing.

"Was kicked out" was referring to them closing at 9p and them telling everyone to leave.

 

[SAISON FUCK]

"Was kicked out" was referring to them closing at 9p and them telling everyone to leave.

Okie dokie. Well, that certainly went right over my head.

 

[danbanana]

One Lake Brewing opened pretty suddenly about a week ago and today I finally had time to take an extra long grocery store trip to try them out. I saw the tap list a couple days prior online and it didn't give me confidence. The beers themselves didn't change my mind.

I'm not looking for a hazy-pastry hype brewery but, at the very least, pretend the last 20 years of American beer happened. In 2019, you maybe should have something more adventurous than a dark mild, which was absolutely the most unique thing on the menu. It also had a tinge of diacetyl so there's that. The pale ale (cascade and centennial, straight out of 2004) was soapy. The schwartzbier was pretty bitter on the backend. The milk stout had no discernable milk stout characteristics- at that point I would have been happy to have discovered it to be pastry-like- and was just... bland. I know blonde ales appeal to a big portion of the populace but... is there any way to differentiate that from the place on the other side of town?

This is the 3rd brewery in the area that basically brews the same things, though at least Exit Strategy tries to be interesting (and is overall well crafted stuff). Is appealing to neighborhood people who don't particularly care about beer the basis for a long-term business plan? Because that's the only thing I can see keeping places like that afloat.

Not every place needs to be Off Color but at least be ******* Begyle.

They're walking distance from me and have a menu so I'll definitely hit it again, probably with the family for dinner or something. But if it wasn't as close as it was, I'd say stay away at least for a while and hope they're better in the long run.

ETA: I just thought of this: maybe there's a retro portion of the beer community that is like "I would like Chicago beer to be like it was before Three Floyds showed up."

 

[SAISON FUCK]

I just thought of this: maybe there's a retro portion of the beer community that is like "I would like Chicago beer to be like it was before Three Floyds showed up."

I mean, I have more nostalgia for OG Goose Clybourn than the normal person, but come on.

 

[Tooch4321]

Smooches, vav...

 

[Scalzo]

Visited GI Fulton for the first time last night with dasmusik in town. Am I wrong for thinking they are completely wrong to have a 9p closing time on the weekends? Like it's Chicago... And also their prices for their own Bourbon County stuff wasn't good at all. The hole in the wall place out in the burbs had the same lineup 6 months ago for $2 less on the 6oz pour. I know they will get their money regardless but I kinda never want to go back.

Left there (was kicked out) and went to Metropolitan. Wow. The location and the beer we're even better than I expected! Lagers are the future!

2020 will be the year of the lager

 

[vav1]

Smooches, vav...

:* :*

 

[middlebrow]

oh man...i'm glad we're making modern beer at middle brow...checks the tanks...a kolsch (not a kolsch), lager, session ipa, nitro session stout, a mild, a berliner weiss...

 

[Tooch4321]

oh man...i'm glad we're making modern beer at middle brow...checks the tanks...a kolsch (not a kolsch), lager, session ipa, nitro session stout, a mild, a berliner weiss...

Correction, you are out of the mild, I stopped by yesterday afternoon with the tiny roommate, she's become quite the lush int her first couple months on this planet...

 

[middlebrow]

Correction, you are out of the mild, I stopped by yesterday afternoon with the tiny roommate, she's become quite the lush int her first couple months on this planet...

haha...i was using it to make a point. I didn't mention a gluten-free brett beer, strawberry brut or dry-hopped kettle sour to nail the point. foeder #1 pale ale should be up at some point this week, which is both classic and modern, like an episode of bobs burgers.

 

[danbanana]

oh man...i'm glad we're making modern beer at middle brow...checks the tanks...a kolsch (not a kolsch), lager, session ipa, nitro session stout, a mild, a berliner weiss...

You wouldn't see half of those on most brewery taplists in 1998. A berliner? The world wasn't ready for those until 9 years ago. You're fine.

I don't think it's a matter of "classic" or "modern." It's a matter of separating yourself from a business plan out of the Woodstock '99 era (I made that reference just for you!). The list I saw on Saturday wasn't bad because it was too "classic;" It was bad because it was boring. And more importantly, the beers didn't separate themselves from that image by being, y'know, particularly good. I don't want milkshake IPAs but there are things that aren't milkshake IPAs that are also not another "blonde ale."

Again, I'm hoping they improve in quality and diversity because I very much want a good beer spot to walk to. They did have Spots and watermelon Le Tub and Kinslahger's pilsner as guest taps so I feel like they recognize that beer has moved forward, but that just makes me more confused about what they're doing.

 

[Tooch4321]

One Lake Brewing opened pretty suddenly about a week ago and today I finally had time to take an extra long grocery store trip to try them out. I saw the tap list a couple days prior online and it didn't give me confidence. The beers themselves didn't change my mind.

I'm not looking for a hazy-pastry hype brewery but, at the very least, pretend the last 20 years of American beer happened. In 2019, you maybe should have something more adventurous than a dark mild, which was absolutely the most unique thing on the menu. It also had a tinge of diacetyl so there's that. The pale ale (cascade and centennial, straight out of 2004) was soapy. The schwartzbier was pretty bitter on the backend. The milk stout had no discernable milk stout characteristics- at that point I would have been happy to have discovered it to be pastry-like- and was just... bland. I know blonde ales appeal to a big portion of the populace but... is there any way to differentiate that from the place on the other side of town?

This is the 3rd brewery in the area that basically brews the same things, though at least Exit Strategy tries to be interesting (and is overall well crafted stuff). Is appealing to neighborhood people who don't particularly care about beer the basis for a long-term business plan? Because that's the only thing I can see keeping places like that afloat.

Not every place needs to be Off Color but at least be ******* Begyle.

They're walking distance from me and have a menu so I'll definitely hit it again, probably with the family for dinner or something. But if it wasn't as close as it was, I'd say stay away at least for a while and hope they're better in the long run.

ETA: I just thought of this: maybe there's a retro portion of the beer community that is like "I would like Chicago beer to be like it was before Three Floyds showed up."

Kinslahger is the only good brewery in that town, we were going to stop there on Saturday post family obligations, but the sweet siren call of Susucaru being released led us to Red & White instead...