Random Beer Thoughts

[jbeezification1]

I'm going to start posting dick bulge beer pics on instagram. Should be fun.

 

[reverseapachemaster1]

I'm going to start posting dick bulge beer pics on instagram. Should be fun.

I'm surprised that's not already a thing.

 

[Arbitrator]

The weather is gorgeous and I'm drinking Alvarado cans in the yard. Life is good.

 

[Stubs]

The weather is gorgeous and I'm drinking Alvarado cans in the yard. Life is good.

I was drinking odd13 outside. Glorious.

 

[reverseapachemaster1]

I discovered in the past month I really like micheladas.

Yesterday I made an incredible michelada with a homebrew Belgian pale ale and homemade hot sauce (and some other stuff). Micheladas with blonde beers are out. Only pale ales from now on.

 

[tikk]

I discovered in the past month I really like micheladas.

Yesterday I made an incredible michelada with a homebrew Belgian pale ale and homemade hot sauce (and some other stuff). Micheladas with blonde beers are out. Only pale ales from now on.

Any recipe suggestions? I do need to up my day drinking on my days off.

Edit: pretty sure last one of these I had was High Life, v8 and hot sauce.

 

[reverseapachemaster1]

Any recipe suggestions? I do need to up my day drinking on my days off.

Edit: pretty sure last one of these I had was High Life, v8 and hot sauce.

6-7 oz beer
6-7 oz tomato juice

Pickle
Green olive (IMO preferably blue cheese-stuffed)
2-3 dashes of Worcestershire sauce
A squirt of lemon or lime juice
As much hot sauce as you like
2-3 grinds of fresh black pepper

It's pretty open to suggestion and whatever hot sauces you have on hand. I really like a habanero hot sauce like Valentina but Tabasco, Frank's, etc. also work. Right now at home I have Valentina and add about 1/3 tsp of a spicy chipotle/ancho/habanero/thai bird's eye/jalapeno fermented salsa I made at home. Depending on your tolerance for chile heat IMO like anything spicy you should add something that brings at least as much flavor as heat. There are so many interesting hot sauces on the market these days it would be easy to create interesting flavor combinations. I had a great michelada at a Thai restaurant a couple weeks ago with a restaurant-made sriracha with Thai chiles and (I think) red serranos.

I picked up some Tabasco brand spicy pickles with garlic that taste great in the michelada. I like these but regular ass pickles are good too. I use generic tomato juice but if I had access to enough heirloom tomatoes I bet they would make an incredibly vibrant michelada.

The traditional beer choice is a blonde ale or light lager but I'm really enjoying pale ale in it. Nothing too crazy. SNPA would be a great pick. NE pale ales might be interesting but you'd really have to think about hot sauce that compliments the fruity hops. A little citrus and grassiness in something like SNPA fits nicely with a citrusy pepper like habanero. A chinook or other piney pale ale would be a good fit with tabasco or a hot sauce made with an earthier chile like Thai/African/Indian/etc. peppers.

Basically, explore and have fun. No wrong answers.

 

[JulianB1]

New leader in the clubhouse for "most overpriced vintage on-site bottle":

Apparently this is at Superstition this weekend.

 

[drgarage1]

New leader in the clubhouse for "most overpriced vintage on-site bottle":

Apparently this is at Superstition this weekend.

Hey, it comes in a glass bottle, so.

 

[AndresR]

New leader in the clubhouse for "most overpriced vintage on-site bottle":

Apparently this is at Superstition this weekend.

Speaking from experience...it's a pretty ******* good Mead. But, that's straight up **** You money at that price. Gotta be a mistake.

 

[jdd419]

6-7 oz beer
6-7 oz tomato juice

Pickle
Green olive (IMO preferably blue cheese-stuffed)
2-3 dashes of Worcestershire sauce
A squirt of lemon or lime juice
As much hot sauce as you like
2-3 grinds of fresh black pepper

It's pretty open to suggestion and whatever hot sauces you have on hand. I really like a habanero hot sauce like Valentina but Tabasco, Frank's, etc. also work. Right now at home I have Valentina and add about 1/3 tsp of a spicy chipotle/ancho/habanero/thai bird's eye/jalapeno fermented salsa I made at home. Depending on your tolerance for chile heat IMO like anything spicy you should add something that brings at least as much flavor as heat. There are so many interesting hot sauces on the market these days it would be easy to create interesting flavor combinations. I had a great michelada at a Thai restaurant a couple weeks ago with a restaurant-made sriracha with Thai chiles and (I think) red serranos.

I picked up some Tabasco brand spicy pickles with garlic that taste great in the michelada. I like these but regular ass pickles are good too. I use generic tomato juice but if I had access to enough heirloom tomatoes I bet they would make an incredibly vibrant michelada.

The traditional beer choice is a blonde ale or light lager but I'm really enjoying pale ale in it. Nothing too crazy. SNPA would be a great pick. NE pale ales might be interesting but you'd really have to think about hot sauce that compliments the fruity hops. A little citrus and grassiness in something like SNPA fits nicely with a citrusy pepper like habanero. A chinook or other piney pale ale would be a good fit with tabasco or a hot sauce made with an earthier chile like Thai/African/Indian/etc. peppers.

Basically, explore and have fun. No wrong answers.

I got on a mechelada kick a few years ago. I would usually just use the Tabasco bloody mary mix and add stuff. A Mexican restaurant here makes awesome ones and they use a mix of hot sauces.

For beer I've used gose before and that was good IMO. Little different with the sour but the salt really goes together.

I will make of your recipe soon and report back.

 

[NRCards]

 

[regularjohn]

Tired Hands makes awesome saisons and other stuff like that. I honestly like them....but I don't understand why they make beers like this.


Beer in 2017 =

 

[NRCards]

Tired Hands makes awesome saisons and other stuff like that. I honestly like them....but I don't understand why they make beers like this.


Beer in 2017 =

Oh yeah me too, ive had lots of great beers from them but dear god this sounds like the most vile beverage of all time.

 

[Shakedwnst]

Tired Hands makes awesome saisons and other stuff like that. I honestly like them....but I don't understand why they make beers like this.


Beer in 2017 =

Because people stand in line for hours to buy it and mail it all over the country?

 

[JulianB1]

For the rare positive topic in this thread, inspired by something I was drinking earlier (Base Weight from "Shared" aka the Side Project...err, side project):

What are your favorite examples of beers that would fit the "robust porter" style?

This is one of my favorite styles of beer, almost single-handedly due to HF Everett. I love a roasty porter with a good body to it, which is usually how I think about the style. Something in the 7-8% ABV range that's got a bit more heft and oomph (in terms of roast/hoppy character and body) than a standard porter (which is something else I really enjoy: think Black Butte, Edmund Fitzgerald, etc. for what I mean by "standard 5-6% porter").

 

[Kasher]

What are your favorite examples of beers that would fit the "robust porter" style?

Founder's Porter.

Next question.

 

[brentsdodgers]

What are your favorite examples of beers that would fit the "robust porter" style?

Chavez from Sante is damn good. Everybody loves Vanilla Joe but the basic Porter was my first love.

 

[regularjohn]

Because people stand in line for hours to buy it and mail it all over the country?

What are you talking about man no one waits in line at Tired Hands. This is what their releases usually look like.

 

[Fahmie25]

New leader in the clubhouse for "most overpriced vintage on-site bottle":

Apparently this is at Superstition this weekend.

this makes me sad/confused. I've met Jeff from superstition a handful of times and him and his wife have always been awesome. Super surprised to see them move to this kinda pricing. Even the b2 bottles were available on shelves throughout Arizona for a long time last year...$250 is silly for those

 

[JBP]

For the rare positive topic in this thread, inspired by something I was drinking earlier (Base Weight from "Shared" aka the Side Project...err, side project):

What are your favorite examples of beers that would fit the "robust porter" style?

This is one of my favorite styles of beer, almost single-handedly due to HF Everett. I love a roasty porter with a good body to it, which is usually how I think about the style. Something in the 7-8% ABV range that's got a bit more heft and oomph (in terms of roast/hoppy character and body) than a standard porter (which is something else I really enjoy: think Black Butte, Edmund Fitzgerald, etc. for what I mean by "standard 5-6% porter").

Deciduous Renascence. World-class.

 

[JulianB1]

Deciduous Renascence. World-class.

I'll definitely need to be on the lookout for this as I've loved pretty much everything I've had from Deciduous.

 

[JulianB1]

this makes me sad/confused. I've met Jeff from superstition a handful of times and him and his wife have always been awesome. Super surprised to see them move to this kinda pricing. Even the b2 bottles were available on shelves throughout Arizona for a long time last year...$250 is silly for those

The b2s at $250 are expensive/overpriced, but not by an enormous amount if one just takes retail and does something along the lines of "bar markup" based off of the retail price. I still wouldn't buy them personally, but maybe at something lower if I had a lot of money to burn and hadn't had them multiple times before. The b1 Blueberry for $1750 is absurd even based on something dumb like secondary market pricing.

 

[sacrelicio]

Some guy from our local FB beer group posted this today. Un-*******-real. What a bunch of *********s.

 

[Fahmie25]

Some guy from our local FB beer group posted this today. Un-*******-real. What a bunch of *********s.

even more than this, these guys had already spent a fuckton of money on other bottles as well. wasn't just the one bottle. TG collected like ~$1600 or something on 4 bottles and are still going after them for more money because of their own ******

 

[sacrelicio]

even more than this, these guys had already spent a fuckton of money on other bottles as well. wasn't just the one bottle. TG collected like ~$1600 or something on 4 bottles and are still going after them for more money because of their own ******

Are you in our group?

 

[Fahmie25]

Are you in our group?

Haha I am not, but the pictures have begun circulating. I actually got the one i posted (and yours) sent to me about 5 minutes before your post

 

[sacrelicio]

Haha I am not, but the pictures have begun circulating. I actually got the one i posted (and yours) sent to me about 5 minutes before your post

Someone just posted this, good joke:

 

[JulianB1]

Some guy from our local FB beer group posted this today. Un-*******-real. What a bunch of *********s.

even more than this, these guys had already spent a fuckton of money on other bottles as well. wasn't just the one bottle. TG collected like ~$1600 or something on 4 bottles and are still going after them for more money because of their own ******

I'm stealing both of these, holy ****. I mean wow, just wow.

 

[Fahmie25]

Someone just posted this, good joke:

it really is next level ********* to go after someone when you only charge them $300 instead of $500 for a 3 year old 12 oz coffee stout.