Random Beer Thoughts

[JCastle1]

I'd argue that Monkish is making some of the low-key best AWAs in California. .

Which ones have you had? The grisette was fine but nothing crazy, I haven't had the chance to try anything else.

 

[Padraig]

I'd like brewdog to explain to me the times Wall Street has gambled with my money. Whatever the **** that means.

They are literally gambling with your money. So they say **** Wall Street for gambling with my money, and then offer to gamble my money, at the expense of getting discounts on their ****** beer, and saying oh well, your money is ours now if you lose

I can't even.

******s.

 

[kzeon]

https://www.brewdog.com/lowdown/blog/brewdogs-big-bet

lol WTF is going on with Brewdogs?

 

[Sam Fu]

I can't get over the Tired Hands chair thing. Still blows my mind that people would do one of the following

1. Place a chair in line, leave for work, come back expecting their chair placeholder to count as them being in line

Or

2. Place a chair in line, go to the Fermentaria to drink, rationalizing that racking up a large tab in the Fermentaria entitled them to get back in line where their chair was 4+ hours later


I think waiting that long in line for beer is stupid, but regardless if I did wait Id be livid if I missed out on an allotment since inanimate objects seem to count as people in line





**** it

#ChairLivesMatter

 

[lb304854]

The chair thing has happened without much for Great Taste of the Midwest tickets for a long long time. Put your chair in line outside the bar, go inside and close the place down, come back out and nearly freeze to death.

 

[boogercrack]

I can't get over the Tired Hands chair thing. Still blows my mind that people would do one of the following

1. Place a chair in line, leave for work, come back expecting their chair placeholder to count as them being in line

Or

2. Place a chair in line, go to the Fermentaria to drink, rationalizing that racking up a large tab in the Fermentaria entitled them to get back in line where their chair was 4+ hours later


I think waiting that long in line for beer is stupid, but regardless if I did wait Id be livid if I missed out on an allotment since inanimate objects seem to count as people in line





**** it

#ChairLivesMatter

It's a thing in philly in the winter that if you dig out your car from the snow and leave to put a chair in the spot. this holds your spot you dug out. and it's ******* sacred. moving someone's chair to park in their spot is grounds for an ass whoopin. I can see how this moved to beer lines organically. weird, but understandable. not sure if other places are like that or just a philly thing.

 

[Gonzoillini1]

The chair thing has happened without much for Great Taste of the Midwest tickets for a long long time. Put your chair in line outside the bar, go inside and close the place down, come back out and nearly freeze to death.

True, but that was really only for Vintage Brewing Company as most of the other places (I guess with the exception of Capital as Tyranena is no longer doing it) aren't bars / breweries.

So glad I'm not doing the overnight thing for Great Taste tickets anymore as that was my breaking point for when this hobby no longer became enjoyable. Although watching the hammered guy the next morning get denied tickets after drinking all evening was entertainment for days.

 

[user 305778]

It's a thing in philly in the winter that if you dig out your car from the snow and leave to put a chair in the spot. this holds your spot you dug out. and it's ******* sacred. moving someone's chair to park in their spot is grounds for an ass whoopin. I can see how this moved to beer lines organically. weird, but understandable. not sure if other places are like that or just a philly thing.

This annoys me so damn much. If you want a guaranteed parking spot, move to the suburbs.

edit: Note that I've lived in Philly for 12 years now, but didn't grow up here which is probably why I hate this.

 

[Hookemhops13]

Someone should really go by the line an hr before the release and throw all the chairs into a big pile just to see the chaos that regions afterwards. Be ready to run if anyone sees you though.

 

[lb304854]

It's a thing in philly in the winter that if you dig out your car from the snow and leave to put a chair in the spot. this holds your spot you dug out. and it's ******* sacred. moving someone's chair to park in their spot is grounds for an ass whoopin. I can see how this moved to beer lines organically. weird, but understandable. not sure if other places are like that or just a philly thing.

Same thing in Chicago. They will slash your tires.

True, but that was really only for Vintage Brewing Company as most of the other places (I guess with the exception of Capital as Tyranena is no longer doing it) aren't bars / breweries.

So glad I'm not doing the overnight thing for Great Taste tickets anymore as that was my breaking point for when this hobby no longer became enjoyable. Although watching the hammered guy the next morning get denied tickets after drinking all evening was entertainment for days.

Remember the drunk dude who drew on the passed out girl's face with a sharpie? I thought she was going to literally kill him. Not figuratively, no hyperbole; actually kill him.

"I HAVE TO WORK TONIGHT YOU MOTHER ******"

 

[JulianB1]

Someone should really go by the line an hr before the release and throw all the chairs into a big pile just to see the chaos that regions afterwards. Be ready to run if anyone sees you though.

Even better would be to go through the line and start randomly moving chairs around, but in a neat, orderly way. The confusion when everyone comes back out would be pretty funny.

 

[arren]

Which ones have you had? The grisette was fine but nothing crazy, I haven't had the chance to try anything else.

Haiku de Saison, Vellichor, & Soul Foudre are stellar, on par with anything Casey puts out, their fruited stuff is fantastically jammy, and their more interesting beers are great.

One of my favorites from them is Little Story, a 3.9% table beer that's dry hopped with Citra. I could drink gallons of that stuff.

 

[Gonzoillini1]

So my father just completed his 2nd beer trade that had nothing to do with my involvement. It was a thank you box to the folks at Copper and Kings for the hospitality they showed us during The Festival. He must have learned from the tosh school of beer trading as he ended up sending 6 crowlers, 2 bombers, matching glassware and a shitload of schwag.

LT sends better boxes than I do these days.

 

[JCastle1]

Haiku de Saison, Vellichor, & Soul Foudre are stellar, on par with anything Casey puts out, their fruited stuff is fantastically jammy, and their more interesting beers are great.

One of my favorites from them is Little Story, a 3.9% table beer that's dry hopped with Citra. I could drink gallons of that stuff.

Oh I did have Haiku as well, pretty good. I'll have to try their other stuff someday.

 

[arren]

Oh I did have Haiku as well, pretty good. I'll have to try their other stuff someday.

They have this Belgian tripel on tap all the time too with pistachios and coffee that's tremendous.

 

[arren]

Randomly spotted this at a bottle shop and had to buy it. Only red batch I know is 1; can't possibly be that old, right?

 

[GuzzleMcBrew]

Randomly spotted this at a bottle shop and had to buy it. Only red batch I know is 1; can't possibly be that old, right?

I think it must be new. The label details appear to be different. The old (red) batch had a solid blue circle behind the ABV on the lower right, and this one has the newer blue/white.

 

[arren]

I think it must be new. The label details appear to be different. The old (red) batch had a solid blue circle behind the ABV on the lower right, and this one has the newer blue/white.

Doubt it, I can def see some rusty stuff peeking out under the wax.

 

[GuzzleMcBrew]

Doubt it, I can def see some rusty stuff peeking out under the wax.

Take my finding with a grain of salt, maybe b1 had two labels.
All I did was a cursory look on google images (down moment at work). I found 4 pictures with full blue circles behind the abv from "B1 bomb", then noticed later batches seem to have the white and blue circle behind them. All took about 45 seconds.

So maybe b1 was labeled both ways or something. All the pics I saw in my one minute were labeled differently than the one in the pic.
Edit: :Looks like it is probably at least fairly old, Here is an old (2014) pic of that has the same colors on the circle as the bottle you found:

http://www.thebeercircle.com/better-barrel-prairie-pirate-bomb/

 

[arren]

Take my finding with a grain of salt, maybe b1 had two labels.
All I did was a cursory look on google images (down moment at work). I found 4 pictures with full blue circles behind the abv from B1 bomb, then noticed later batches seem to have the white and blue circle behind them. All took about 45 seconds.

So maybe b1 was labeled both ways. All the pics I saw in my one minute were labeled differently than the one in the pic.

B1 was gold wax I guess; I got mixed up because I never saw Bomb here until B2, which this apparently is.

 

[austinbridges]

B1 was gold wax I guess; I got mixed up because I never saw Bomb here until B2, which this apparently is.

Yeah, B1 was oklahoma only. Those are still holding up very well.

 

[lambandtunaphish]

B1 was gold wax I guess; I got mixed up because I never saw Bomb here until B2, which this apparently is.

Yeah I think that's a B2. Here's my DDT post from Feb where I got a few comments basically saying "yup that batch is great."

http://www.talkbeer.com/community/threads/ddt-2-4-16-alice-coopers-birthday.31055/page-2#post-915047

#MakePrairieBombGreatAgain

 

[Stubs]

Yeah I think that's a B2. Here's my DDT post from Feb where I got a few comments basically saying "yup that batch is great."

http://www.talkbeer.com/community/threads/ddt-2-4-16-alice-coopers-birthday.31055/page-2#post-915047

#MakePrairieBombGreatAgain

Dude, you're are an incredibly resourceful MFer.

 

[lambandtunaphish]

Dude, you're are an incredibly resourceful MFer.

The search function is an incredibly resourceful MFer (sometimes).

 

[arren]

Yeah I think that's a B2. Here's my DDT post from Feb where I got a few comments basically saying "yup that batch is great."

http://www.talkbeer.com/community/threads/ddt-2-4-16-alice-coopers-birthday.31055/page-2#post-915047

#MakePrairieBombGreatAgain

Yeah, I believe this one and the next one (the blue wax) were the last truly spectacular batches of Prairie Bomb. Excited to crack this one open soon!

 

[arren]

As long as we're talking about old stouts - remember the days when BA Yeti was a truly coveted beer?

 

[steimie]

Big Bad Baptist has made me forget all other BA Stouts. $12 for a bomber and sits on the shelves.

 

[Previously]

As long as we're talking about old stouts - remember the days when BA Yeti was a truly coveted beer?

No, never. Wasn't it both often infected and incredibly expensive?

 

[jivex5k1]

No, never. Wasn't it both often infected and incredible expensive?

I had it once at a festival, it was great. They released it a year later, was like 30 ******* bucks and was god damn terrible.

 

[arren]

No, never. Wasn't it both often infected and incredible expensive?

That's kind of why it crashed and burned. I remember the first couple batches being great, and remember having to hunt down the bottles when the Pizza Port Bottle Shop got a case in, but then the quality took a steep nosedive.

Honestly not sure how it's faring now, but it's amusing seeing so much of it around here again.