FIB War Room

[middlebrow]

Anyone going to Boohaha this weekend?

team brow and transient will be pourin, if thats worth anythin. they're usually fun parties and it finishes at 7, in time to go in and avoid the sexy angels and frat boy zombies parading all over town.

 

[Dunt1]

team brow and transient will be pourin, if thats worth anythin. they're usually fun parties and it finishes at 7, in time to go in and avoid the sexy angels and frat boy zombies parading all over town.

What are you guys pouring?

 

[middlebrow]

What are you guys pouring?

good question, outside of some summer odds n ends (citrus saison, apricot wit) maybe I'll grab the new grisette we made. the salted scotch I dont think will be ready by then, still too boozy, but I'll see friday. I got a green saison in my closet made with spirulina algae & green tea that I think is too weird for public consumption (or the public that aint professional yogi's or yuppies on smoothie diets)

 

[YellowBird1]

good question, outside of some summer odds n ends (citrus saison, apricot wit) maybe I'll grab the new grisette we made. the salted scotch I dont think will be ready by then, still too boozy, but I'll see friday. I got a green saison in my closet made with spirulina algae & green tea that I think is too weird for public consumption (or the public that aint professional yogi's or yuppies on smoothie diets)

I'll take a 12oz sample bottle of the green saison please.

 

[Alum]

Green Saison sounds neate.

 

[Tooch4321]

You'd sell thousands of gallons of that green saison in Portland and San Francisco...lousy long hairs

 

[mjohnson171]

good question, outside of some summer odds n ends (citrus saison, apricot wit) maybe I'll grab the new grisette we made. the salted scotch I dont think will be ready by then, still too boozy, but I'll see friday. I got a green saison in my closet made with spirulina algae & green tea that I think is too weird for public consumption (or the public that aint professional yogi's or yuppies on smoothie diets)

Release it as a TB exclusive?

 

[middlebrow]

it was an attempt to make an ecto cooler saison (which tired hands just did in the meantime much to my chagrin). got the nectarine & coriander to make a nice taste but trying to get the color of fantome's magic ghost without using green dye woodruff syrup. powdered green tea & wheatgrass wouldnt suspend. spirulina was the only thing that really worked but its algae and has this weird taste. I think I'm spiking with some lacto/brett combo to kill that mild fishy taste with some age.

 

[trickytunadicky]

it was an attempt to make an ecto cooler saison (which tired hands just did in the meantime much to my chagrin). got the nectarine & coriander to make a nice taste but trying to get the color of fantome's magic ghost without using green dye woodruff syrup. powdered green tea & wheatgrass wouldnt suspend. spirulina was the only thing that really worked but its algae and has this weird taste. I think I'm spiking with some lacto/brett combo to kill that mild fishy taste with some age.

Just serve it in Wrigleyville bars on St. Patrick's day. No one will notice.

 

[Dunt1]

it was an attempt to make an ecto cooler saison (which tired hands just did in the meantime much to my chagrin). got the nectarine & coriander to make a nice taste but trying to get the color of fantome's magic ghost without using green dye woodruff syrup. powdered green tea & wheatgrass wouldnt suspend. spirulina was the only thing that really worked but its algae and has this weird taste. I think I'm spiking with some lacto/brett combo to kill that mild fishy taste with some age.

I will drink it.

 

[disapowzment]

I'm a professional yogi

 

[beeraficionado]

Anyone stopping by the simultaneous middlebrow tastings going on early this evening at Vas Foremost and West Lakeview?

 

[middlebrow]

Anyone stopping by the simultaneous middlebrow tastings going on early this evening at Vas Foremost and West Lakeview?

go to west lakeview, I'm bringing a raw/young growler of our FOBAB offering, blueberry brux farmhouse.

 

[disapowzment]

Anyone stopping by the simultaneous middlebrow tastings going on early this evening at Vas Foremost and West Lakeview?

What's a middlebrow ?????

 

[Beerlistman]

What's a middlebrow ?????

I always thought it was that tuft of hair in between normal people's eyebrows. Can't have a unibroue without it! Get it?!? Hahahhaah...

 

[middlebrow]

I always thought it was that tuft of hair in between normal people's eyebrows. Can't have a unibroue without it! Get it?!? Hahahhaah...

 

[Scalzo]

I always thought it was that tuft of hair in between normal people's eyebrows. Can't have a unibroue without it! Get it?!? Hahahhaah...

middlelip is bad

 

[Shakedwnst]

it was an attempt to make an ecto cooler saison (which tired hands just did in the meantime much to my chagrin)

If you mean the necto cooler, I think it was a Berliner base. Wasn't green though which it sounds like you may have accomplished.

 

[Treebs]

Double Daisy Cutter back this Friday. Still no cans

DETAILS

• 8% ABV
• release date: 11/06/15 at noon
• 22oz bottle: $9.99 (limit 4 per person)
• 64oz growler refill: $20 (limit 64oz per person)
• 32oz howler refill: $11 (limit 64oz per person)
• 16oz pour: $6

 

[lb304854]

Double Daisy Cutter back this Friday. Still no cans

DETAILS

• 8% ABV
• release date: 11/06/15 at noon
• 22oz bottle: $9.99 (limit 4 per person)
• 64oz growler refill: $20 (limit 64oz per person)
• 32oz howler refill: $11 (limit 64oz per person)
• 16oz pour: $6

Can't wait to stroll in at 5 and pick some up!































































Oh....

 

[mjohnson171]

Double Daisy Cutter back this Friday. Still no cans

DETAILS

• 8% ABV
• release date: 11/06/15 at noon
• 22oz bottle: $9.99 (limit 4 per person)
• 64oz growler refill: $20 (limit 64oz per person)
• 32oz howler refill: $11 (limit 64oz per person)
• 16oz pour: $6

Are you going? I want to go for the beer, but have a very strong aversion to spending anything more than 5 minutes in any sort of line. Maybe I'll just go straight to the taproom...

 

[Treebs]

Are you going? I want to go for the beer, but have a very strong aversion to spending anything more than 5 minutes in any sort of line. Maybe I'll just go straight to the taproom...

Absolutely not.

Would never wait in line for a $10, 8% pale ale/IPA. Tap room and a howler to go.

 

[JulianB1]

Double Daisy Cutter back this Friday. Still no cans

DETAILS

• 8% ABV
• release date: 11/06/15 at noon
• 22oz bottle: $9.99 (limit 4 per person)
• 64oz growler refill: $20 (limit 64oz per person)
• 32oz howler refill: $11 (limit 64oz per person)
• 16oz pour: $6

The next chapter in "How many Chicago beer bros can take a weekday afternoon off work to line up for beer".

 

[user 306237]

Black Friday details have been released:

In Goose Island Clybourn tradition, we've put together something special for Black Friday! Akin to prior years, this year's ticketed event will feature Goose Island brewers leading you through a tasting of this year's BCBS releases:

- Bourbon County Brand Stout '15
- Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout '15
- Bourbon County Brand Barleywine '15
- Bourbon County Brand Regal Rye Stout '15
- Proprietor's Bourbon County Brand Stout '15
- Rare Bourbon County Brand Stout

Please note: We will not have bottles for sale at the pub.

Sessions are at 10am, 12pm, 2pm, 4pm, and 6pm.

Tickets are $75 plus tax and fees, and include a take home bottle of Proprietor's and a 2015 BCBS snifter!

Tickets available at blackfriday2015.brownpapertickets.com

Tickets will be going on sale for MBA members at 11am on Monday, November 9th, and we will be sending the password at 10am that same day. General public tickets will go live at noon.

 

[lb304854]

The next chapter in "How many Chicago beer bros can take a weekday afternoon off work to line up for beer".

Tons of beer geeks counting their allowance quarters making sure they have enough for Broubon Country.

 

[SSTroller]

The next chapter in "How many Chicago beer bros can take a weekday afternoon off work to line up for beer".

Just wait till Friday Nov. 13th when 18th Street is releasing BA Hunter bottles.......at 9am.
But I think most people take Friday the 13th off as a holiday anyway, right?

 

[danbanana]

Just wait till Friday Nov. 13th when 18th Street is releasing BA Hunter bottles.......at 9am.
But I think most people take Friday the 13th off as a holiday anyway, right?

How will people with tickets for the Rare release get BA Hunter then!?!

#newmoneyproblems

(I totally put in for Rare tix, by the way. Because I'm a hypocrite and a bad person.)

 

[Lansman]

Black Friday details have been released:

In Goose Island Clybourn tradition, we've put together something special for Black Friday! Akin to prior years, this year's ticketed event will feature Goose Island brewers leading you through a tasting of this year's BCBS releases:

- Bourbon County Brand Stout '15
- Bourbon County Brand Coffee Stout '15
- Bourbon County Brand Barleywine '15
- Bourbon County Brand Regal Rye Stout '15
- Proprietor's Bourbon County Brand Stout '15
- Rare Bourbon County Brand Stout

Tickets are $75 plus tax and fees, and include a take home bottle of Proprietor's and a 2015 BCBS snifter!

Let's go down the rabbit hole here, because on its face, this actually might be actually be a "good" deal in the 2015 beer world.

Assumptions:
- BCBS is $10/bottle, BCBCS and BCBB is $15/bottle, Regal Rye and Prop is $30/bottle, and Rare is $60/bottle.
- You get 2 oz. of each
- Snifter is $15

You are getting, at MSRP, $18.93 of beer ($1.18+$1.78+$1.78+$3.55+$3.55+$7.10, all without tax added). So let's assume it is likely about double that when you buy it in a bar, let's round that up to about $35 for the 12 oz.

Add in the snifter ($15) and the bottle of Prop ($30), you're right at the $80 mark.

Not going to the event, don't plan on trying to get tickets, but there is the justification right there for the 10% of folks out there not planning on flipping that bottle of Prop for ZOMGMEGAWHALEZBRO.

 

[Gonzoillini1]

Let's go down the rabbit hole here, because on its face, this actually might be actually be a "good" deal in the 2015 beer world.

Assumptions:
- BCBS is $10/bottle, BCBCS and BCBB is $15/bottle, Regal Rye and Prop is $30/bottle, and Rare is $60/bottle.
- You get 2 oz. of each
- Snifter is $15

You are getting, at MSRP, $18.93 of beer ($1.18+$1.78+$1.78+$3.55+$3.55+$7.10, all without tax added). So let's assume it is likely about double that when you buy it in a bar, let's round that up to about $35 for the 12 oz.

Add in the snifter ($15) and the bottle of Prop ($30), you're right at the $80 mark.

Not going to the event, don't plan on trying to get tickets, but there is the justification right there for the 10% of folks out there not planning on flipping that bottle of Prop for ZOMGMEGAWHALEZBRO.

Plus don't discount the good pairing's they provide with the beers, and the ability to ask questions of the brewers / marketing folks.

I've been every year they do it and I have a good time (especially if you are down at LP Binnys for BCS anyways).

 

[stxSS07]

Are you going? I want to go for the beer, but have a very strong aversion to spending anything more than 5 minutes in any sort of line. Maybe I'll just go straight to the taproom...

Absolutely not.

Would never wait in line for a $10, 8% pale ale/IPA. Tap room and a howler to go.

Letz m33t up.


Also someone buy an extra Black Friday tasting tixet for me pls. Will exchange cash and OTPHJ's.