Random Beer Thoughts

[JBP]

"with hints of" - can't tell if those are actual ingredients, or just a really pretentious description of the beer.

Either option is believable coming from Evil Twin.

Label does say "brewed with coffee and natural flavors added." And we are talking about a guy who made a glazed donut beer, so not that far fetched that it would be real. But yeah I don't know. It wasn't great.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Found an email in my spambox. Hanson Brothers Farmhose Ale coming soon to bottles...in Oklahoma.

 

[jivex5k1]

That's 6 different adjuncts. Anyone know what the record is, at least for a bottled beer?

Black Butte Anniversary?

 

[tosh1]

This message is private, for our e-mail subscribers only, and it's regarding the brewery built inside a 100-year-old barn. Please don't share.

BoTB says we can't share the latest email, so I won't.

 

[MooseLang]

BoTB says we can't share the latest email, so I won't.

 

[austinbridges]

BoTB says we can't share the latest email, so I won't.

Spoiler alert: there's a Wolves and People Pilsner can for $5. 1 per person. It's maybe the best beer to come out of the PNW.

Such ******** that BoTB has Wolves and People before the people that paid for the membership two years ago.

 

[jivex5k1]

This message is private, for our e-mail subscribers only, and it's regarding the brewery built inside a 100-year-old barn. Please don't share.

********,

A couple weeks ago, we brought you the first ever bottle release from one of the coolest breweries to hit the Pacific Northwest in years.

The beer was from The Commons Brewery -- brewed in collaboration with Wolves & People.

Well, today, we're incredibly pumped to have our first bottle ever from Wolves & People directly.

If you've been following them, you already know people having been waiting for this to happen for almost two years now.

It's hard to put my finger on what exactly makes Wolves & People so special.

But they're one of the few new breweries that have the potential to rival an Ale Apothecary and a De Garde with their mixed fermentations and nod to old world brewing techniques.

W&P is stationed in a 100-year-old barn sitting on a Hazelnut farm that's still in operation. The facility is both rustic and beautiful at the same time.

A true authentic farmhouse brewery in the heart of Oregon's Willamette Valley.

And it is this farmhouse atmosphere that provides the perfect environment to create maturations of beer using a variety of yeast cultures -- both "pure" and wild -- harvested from the ambient micro-flora of the Northern Willamette Valley.

Only a small handful of people across the country will have the opportunity to get their hands on Wolves and People's early releases.

Today, you can be a member of that elite group.

I have lined up two brand new beers from Wolves & People -- one in a 750 ml bottle and one 16 oz can.

No other beer store has these beers.

You'll be the first, and perhaps only one among your friends, to get your hands on them.

Get two of the first releases ever from Wolves & People right now by clicking here.

Available in very limited quantities.

The above page will close as soon as these beers are sold out.

Again, I'm sending this offer to you since you're an email subscriber, it is not a public offer.

We do not have enough bottles from Wolves & People for everyone, so please don't share
this private page with anyone else.

If you do, we may remove your access to private beers in the future.

- Matthew Bale

Here's the link they don't want shared:

http://bringonthebeer.com/specials/wolves-and-people-first-bottle-release

 

[arren]

Here's the link they don't want shared:

http://bringonthebeer.com/specials/wolves-and-people-first-bottle-release

Coupled with a long email stating "you are elite, do not share, no one else has them" blah blah blah.

Don't forget:

If you do, we may remove your access to private beers in the future.

 

[lambandtunaphish]

Here's the link they don't want shared:

http://bringonthebeer.com/specials/wolves-and-people-first-bottle-release

Coupled with a long email stating "you are elite, do not share, no one else has them" blah blah blah.

$5 pilsner cans are exactly what us craft beer fans have been clamoring for.

 

[jivex5k1]

Ninja edited that ****. The copy and paste function was ******* up for some reason, I suspect there were some invisible characters ******* it up for forum posting. I had to mess with it to get it to paste.

 

[brentsdodgers]

Have any of you guys actually bought anything from BOTB? If not, why are you still receiving these emails. With all mocking of it, it just seems like a waste of time to even open and read them.

 

[austinbridges]

Have any of you guys actually bought anything from BOTB? If not, why are you still receiving these emails. With all mocking of it, it just seems like a waste of time to even open and read them.

They're fun, suspensful, and exclusive.

 

[purephase]

$5 pilsner cans are exactly what us craft beer fans have been clamoring for.

Os

 

[jivex5k1]

Have any of you guys actually bought anything from BOTB? If not, why are you still receiving these emails. With all mocking of it, it just seems like a waste of time to even open and read them.

I get ale apothecary stuff from them when it's around.

 

[beerindex]

Here's the link they don't want shared:

http://bringonthebeer.com/specials/wolves-and-people-first-bottle-release

Zero ***** given about the can, but that bottled saison is tempting.

 

[jivex5k1]

Zero ***** given about the can, but that bottled saison is tempting.

Yes, those heirloom rhubarbs and douglas fir needles from the brewery's farm brewed with a mixed culture.

It's so ******* rustic man. Just so ******* rustic...

 

[blackgnome1]

I said I was going to cut back on trading, then I discovered BIFs. Now I have 4 boxes inbound, I don't know how I got in so deep so fast.

 

[brentsdodgers]

They're fun, suspensful, and exclusive.

Yeah I've tried to get through some of the that get posted here and they read like the worst book report. The kind that some kid would have to read in class and the first page was about his favorite movie instead and you were just like get to the fu%&ing point!

 

[jivex5k1]

Yeah I've tried to get through some of the that get posted here and they read like the worst book report. The kind that some kid would have to read in class and the first page was about his favorite movie instead and you were just like get to the fu%&ing point!

He's building up suspense because he knows when he reveals it's another Cascade bottle you will stop reading.

 

[Josh2]

A small brewery from where I moved from recently changed their name.....
to Local Craft Beer.

That's just about the most gimmicky and ridiculous rebranding I've ever seen.

 

[austinbridges]

A small brewery from where I moved from recently changed their name.....
to Local Craft Beer.

That's just about the most gimmicky and ridiculous rebranding I've ever seen.

drink Local.

 

[NAD1983]

 

[Dooley]

The lowest ABV beer on the current BA top 16 is Heady Topper. The first one with an ABV below 6 is at number 42. This troubles me, for some reason. I'm not saying it's a good reason or a logical reason, though.

 

[Dooley]

No other 8 ABV+ IPA has a better flavor profile than heady. All the treehouse beers are overrated. They are good, but compared to Heady they are ****. Julius is a dumb ******* gimmick that other brewers are already beating.

 

[Dooley]

Toppling Goliath absolutely does not have the ability to make great beers at a large scale. I know them. I have had multiple pint pours of Mornin' Delight and a two separate bottles of Brunch. Both were excellent. But the company lacks the ability to go scale. When they go scale, they suffer. Pseudo is your average, overpriced, citrusy IPA now. Organizational ability should be taken into consideration when thinking about a brewery's acumen.

 

[Dooley]

King Julius was only okay. 99% of you could not tell a blind taste test between 2016 Dark Lord and Manbearpig, because neither are very good.

 

[NAD1983]

The lowest ABV beer on the current BA top 16 is Heady Topper. The first one with an ABV below 6 is at number 42. This troubles me, for some reason. I'm not saying it's a good reason or a logical reason, though.

No other 8 ABV+ IPA has a better flavor profile than heady. All the treehouse beers are overrated. They are good, but compared to Heady they are ****. Julius is a dumb ******* gimmick that other brewers are already beating.

Toppling Goliath absolutely does not have the ability to make great beers at a large scale. I know them. I have had multiple pint pours of Mornin' Delight and a two separate bottles of Brunch. Both were excellent. But the company lacks the ability to go scale. When they go scale, they suffer. Pseudo is your average, overpriced, citrusy IPA now. Organizational ability should be taken into consideration when thinking about a brewery's acumen.

King Julius was only okay. 99% of you could not tell a blind taste test between 2016 Dark Lord and Manbearpig, because neither are very good.

 

[reverseapachemaster1]

King Julius was only okay. 99% of you could not tell a blind taste test between 2016 Dark Lord and Manbearpig, because neither are very good.

So FT: infected BCBS ISO MBP is a fair trade?

 

[arren]

Yes, those heirloom rhubarbs and douglas fir needles from the brewery's farm brewed with a mixed culture.

It's so ******* rustic man. Just so ******* rustic...

Sometimes when I read beer labels these days I feel like the brewer just watched a ******* episode of Survivorman or some **** and got inspired.

Coming Soon: a saison aged on snakeskins, hickory shavings, and bark beetle grubs

A small brewery from where I moved from recently changed their name.....
to Local Craft Beer.

That's just about the most gimmicky and ridiculous rebranding I've ever seen.

Yeah, it's almost as bad as The Bruery

HNNNNNNNNNGH

 

[masterovkhaos]

Toppling Goliath absolutely does not have the ability to make great beers at a large scale. I know them. I have had multiple pint pours of Mornin' Delight and a two separate bottles of Brunch. Both were excellent. But the company lacks the ability to go scale. When they go scale, they suffer. Pseudo is your average, overpriced, citrusy IPA now. Organizational ability should be taken into consideration when thinking about a brewery's acumen.

I had fresh Pseudo at the source (brewhub in Lakeland, I would never go to ******* Iowa) and it was a really good 4.25 on untappd.