FIB War Room

[Farnsworth]

Did anyone still want to meet up tomorrow? Where at? Beer Bistro Loop?

Sounds good to me. $6 Hop Stoopid pints would keep me there for awhile.
I usually don't get out of work til about 6:00 (I'll try earlier), so I might not be able to make it to Beer Bistro til about 6:20.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Sounds good to me. $6 Hop Stoopid pints would keep me there for awhile.
I usually don't get out of work til about 6:00 (I'll try earlier), so I might not be able to make it to Beer Bistro til about 6:20.

That sounds like good time for me to work on homework.

 

[Dunt1]

Any pre-thoughts on Hopewell? A lager-centric, but not exclusive brewery opening soon near the border of Logan Square and Avondale.

Im excited.

 

[mishuggah]

Im excited.

It's a mile from my house and I drive by it on my way home from work.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Sounds good to me. $6 Hop Stoopid pints would keep me there for awhile.
I usually don't get out of work til about 6:00 (I'll try earlier), so I might not be able to make it to Beer Bistro til about 6:20.

If it's just you and me, want to postpone a week or two? Looks like it's going to warm up a little.

 

[JulianB1]

Yes because when I think of the Scottish wee heavy style, the first thing that comes to mind is aggressive hopping with Australian varietals.

 

[lb304854]

Yes because when I think of the Scottish wee heavy style, the first thing that comes to mind is aggressive hopping with Australian varietals.

BRB, posting to DDB AMA ASAP

 

[daniel1]

Yes because when I think of the Scottish wee heavy style, the first thing that comes to mind is aggressive hopping with Australian varietals.

IT'S NOT NORMAL!

 

[Lansman]

Yes because when I think of the Scottish wee heavy style, the first thing that comes to mind is aggressive hopping with Australian varietals.

It's limited so it must be good.

Julian, please.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Yes because when I think of the Scottish wee heavy style, the first thing that comes to mind is aggressive hopping with Australian varietals.

I blame FFF. Neva Eva indeed.

 

[JulianB1]

It's limited so it must be good.

Julian, please.

And only $14 per bottle, what a steal for a wee heavy!

 

[ChicagoGuy]

Yes because when I think of the Scottish wee heavy style, the first thing that comes to mind is aggressive hopping with Australian varietals.

The way he's flipping off the camera is the very pinnacle of edginess and anti-establishmentarianism. Yeah! Screw you, The Man! Does this aggressively-hopped Scottish wee heavy blow your mind? Suck on that!

 

[Farnsworth]

If it's just you and me, want to postpone a week or two? Looks like it's going to warm up a little.

Yeah, that sounds good to me.
And maybe that will pull some more people out of their hibernation.

 

[Mugatu]

Yes because when I think of the Scottish wee heavy style, the first thing that comes to mind is aggressive hopping with Australian varietals.

 

[SSTroller]

Disappointed in the lack of FIBs signed up for this. Who else will be sending ****** vanilla adjunct stouts?
http://www.talkbeer.com/community/threads/nbo-talk-beer-super-bowl-squares-the-big-one.30755/

Get your aces in there and join.
I have all my Abduction and Hunter series bottles packed and ready to ship if I lose.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Disappointed in the lack of FIBs signed up for this. Who else will be sending ****** vanilla adjunct stouts?
http://www.talkbeer.com/community/threads/nbo-talk-beer-super-bowl-squares-the-big-one.30755/

Get your aces in there and join.
I have all my Abduction and Hunter series bottles packed and ready to ship if I lose.

I already have to ship too many boxes thanks to some meadery club. Ugh.

 

[Mugatu]

January 30th is coming up for you Solem Oath members...of the old order? Idk what you're calling it but I'm curious to hear the results.


I guess they announced the soon-to-be released beers for their members today (or at least I haven't heard discussion on here yet about it). Bottles to be released:

#1 The Old Order I
Farmhouse Ale aged in red wine barrels with apricot. 10% ABV

#2 The Old Order II
Farmhouse Ale aged in red wine barrels with raspberry. 10% ABV

Anyway... Good news is they are staying true to style and releasing beers with barely distinguishable labels (or maybe I'm just color blind)

Bottles will be made available to the public one week later (Feb 6th).

Thought this was a kind of funny note on the membership:

"Now for the beers. Sometimes with each of the quarterly-ish releases for The Old Order, the two bottles available will be the same beer, other times it will be one bottle each of two different beers. For this initial drop it is the latter."

Really you take 3 months in between membership releases and you may only give your members two bottles of the same beer?

 

[SSTroller]

#1 The Old Order I
Hoppy Farmhouse Pale Ale aged in red wine barrels with apricot. 10% ABV

#2 The Old Order II
Hoppy Farmhouse Pale Ale aged in red wine barrels with raspberry. 10% ABV

FTFThem

 

[ClCardinal84]

Rev Taproom Alert: Nitro Very Mad Cow with Dark Matter Espresso & Cocoa nibs being tapped today for all who are interested.

 

[RedCoffee]

Anyway... Good news is they are staying true to style and releasing beers with barely distinguishable labels (or maybe I'm just color blind)

FTFThem

The red wine barrels are themselves made of hops too, right?

 

[SSTroller]

The red wine barrels themselves made of hops too, right?

The red wine barrels were used to age the hops inside. They then used those RW BA hops in the beer, and put that beer inside the same hop-spent RW barrels.

 

[BobCobb1]

Rev Taproom Alert: Nitro Very Mad Cow with Dark Matter Espresso & Cocoa nibs being tapped today for all who are interested.

Intrigued but leery after nitro / coffee SJ underwhelmed.

I don't trust early untappd checkins so need some TB reports.

 

[middlebrow]

shorts coming to chicago....

 

[JRBecks]

shorts coming to chicago....

HHHHHHNNNNNNGGGGGGG

 

[Lansman]

shorts coming to chicago....

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

[trickytunadicky]

shorts coming to chicago....

We hosting the Craft Brewers Conference again?

 

[middlebrow]

We hosting the Craft Brewers Conference again?

remember that weird month

i mean its a bloated market and a ton of their stuff is kinda hit or miss but there's some gems in their catalog...mmmkay

 

[Lansman]

remember that weird month

i mean its a bloated market and a ton of their stuff is kinda hit or miss but there's some gems in their catalog...mmmkay

Goodnight Bodacious, BA Wizard (yes I know, good luck with bottles of this one), Hopstache, Superfluid, Freedom of '78...

 

[thewimperoo]

We hosting the Craft Brewers Conference again?

Weren't bottles of Huma and Soft Parade collecting dust for months after that? That was a long time ago with even less options. Can't imagine it'll be much better this time around.

 

[trickytunadicky]

They stopped throwing grahm crackers in their beer.