Random Beer Thoughts

[litheum94]

Cellar covers?

 

[boogercrack]

Cellar covers?

is that a C(o)CK Sock?

 

[Ziggy]

is that a C(o)CK Sock?

It's a skeet sheet

 

[furley]

It's a skeet sheet

pro-tip: safe search = ON when googling "skeet sheet"

 

[Farnsworth]

pro-tip: safe search = ON when googling "skeet sheet"

I think you mistake my intentions...

 

[Ziggy]

pro-tip: safe search = ON when googling "skeet sheet"

Thats pretty amazing tho

 

[beerindex]

My reasoning. Not going to venture into the Tree House Trading Thunderdome, and try to trade with a Master or a Blaster. Think it was $5 a tin including USPS shipping, so it got here in two days no problem. And no haggling, shipping bottles, waiting a week +.

Still feel dirty.

Seriously, after factoring in tax and deposit, that is maybe 25 cents more than what the undeservedly locally hyped and mostly nationally ignored hazy crap like M-43 goes for. I'd have zero compunction about paying $5 a can to have Treehouse (or even Trillium) shipped.

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

Cellar covers?

What quantities to they ship in? I'm gonna need more than one.

 

[WhalezB4Rarez]

$5 per can shipped is cheap considering the roughly $10 a can you see for 16 oz IPAs on eBay. (I still don't know how these are allowed)

 

[2plums4one]

Anybody else feel like this is where the beer world is headed?

 

[RyanG1]

Reporting from the ground in Portland, a record number of high end apartments, condos and so forth are being built all over the city.

Huge cranes line the sky. I count at least 15 as I cross the bridge from the west end of town heading back toward our shop on the east side.

In my three and a half decades here, I've never seen anything like it. Neither has anyone else. Not for at least a generation.

I hear similar stories of a building craze across the country. From Auburn Alabama to Manhattan.

I'm reminded of the "Roaring Twenties", which brought with it one of America's greatest real estate booms of the 20th century.

The irrational exuberance was so great that, by the end, many of the world's wealthiest companies were fighting over who could build the tallest building. Because, why not?

There was so much money floating around and virtually everyone thought it would last forever.

But what follows a generational boom? A monumental bust, of course.

In this case, The Great Depression, ushered in with the opening of 40 Wall Street (now the Trump Building), then the Chrysler Building in 1930 and of course the Empire State Building in 1931.

Just like then, today's irrational exuberance will come crashing back to earth. Jobs will be lost. Wealth will seemingly evaporate. And, as Warren Buffet said, only when the tide goes out will we see who's been swimming naked.

Someday too the craft beer bubble will pop.

But for now, we are living in the glory days. Showered with an almost never ending lineup of new beers to sample. With no end in sight.

The gods bless us with a bevy of alcoholic beverages, the likes of which the world has never seen.

IPAs made with juicy wet fresh hops right from the farm.

Wild ales soured to perfection with just the right blend of yeast, fruit and barrel aging.

And dark luscious beers hot with alcohol and as rich and delicious as any plate of dessert.

We have all of the above, and much much more, in the store right now.

Featured is five brand new beers from FACTION, a tiny brewery whose beers you won't find in hardly any store outside the state of California.

Located on the Alameda Naval Base and housed in a decommissioned Marine Corps helicopter hangar, Faction is one of the coolest brewery locations you'll ever visit... if you get the chance.

Until then, you can experience the best part about Faction Brewing. Not the perfect weather or the incredible sweeping views of San Francisco skyline... but, in fact, their beer.

You'll hardly see these 5 brand new beers from Faction anywhere else outside of California, but they're just one of small, hard to find breweries we continually stock the shelves of our cellar with.

I hope you'll take a few minutes to look through them all and let us deliver your favorites directly to your front door.

Cheers,
Matthew

 

[arren]

Reporting from the ground in Portland, a record number of high end apartments, condos and so forth are being built all over the city.

Huge cranes line the sky. I count at least 15 as I cross the bridge from the west end of town heading back toward our shop on the east side.

In my three and a half decades here, I've never seen anything like it. Neither has anyone else. Not for at least a generation.

I hear similar stories of a building craze across the country. From Auburn Alabama to Manhattan.

I'm reminded of the "Roaring Twenties", which brought with it one of America's greatest real estate booms of the 20th century.

The irrational exuberance was so great that, by the end, many of the world's wealthiest companies were fighting over who could build the tallest building. Because, why not?

There was so much money floating around and virtually everyone thought it would last forever.

But what follows a generational boom? A monumental bust, of course.

In this case, The Great Depression, ushered in with the opening of 40 Wall Street (now the Trump Building), then the Chrysler Building in 1930 and of course the Empire State Building in 1931.

Just like then, today's irrational exuberance will come crashing back to earth. Jobs will be lost. Wealth will seemingly evaporate. And, as Warren Buffet said, only when the tide goes out will we see who's been swimming naked.

Someday too the craft beer bubble will pop.

But for now, we are living in the glory days. Showered with an almost never ending lineup of new beers to sample. With no end in sight.

The gods bless us with a bevy of alcoholic beverages, the likes of which the world has never seen.

IPAs made with juicy wet fresh hops right from the farm.

Wild ales soured to perfection with just the right blend of yeast, fruit and barrel aging.

And dark luscious beers hot with alcohol and as rich and delicious as any plate of dessert.

We have all of the above, and much much more, in the store right now.

Featured is five brand new beers from FACTION, a tiny brewery whose beers you won't find in hardly any store outside the state of California.

Located on the Alameda Naval Base and housed in a decommissioned Marine Corps helicopter hangar, Faction is one of the coolest brewery locations you'll ever visit... if you get the chance.

Until then, you can experience the best part about Faction Brewing. Not the perfect weather or the incredible sweeping views of San Francisco skyline... but, in fact, their beer.

You'll hardly see these 5 brand new beers from Faction anywhere else outside of California, but they're just one of small, hard to find breweries we continually stock the shelves of our cellar with.

I hope you'll take a few minutes to look through them all and let us deliver your favorites directly to your front door.

Cheers,
Matthew

****, I came here to post this too. You forgot the choice subject line: The craft beer boom will end

 

[2plums4one]

haha, I thought that was just something you wrote until I checked the link. A+

 

[Ziggy]

Reporting from the ground in Portland, a record number of high end apartments, condos and so forth are being built all over the city.

Huge cranes line the sky. I count at least 15 as I cross the bridge from the west end of town heading back toward our shop on the east side.

In my three and a half decades here, I've never seen anything like it. Neither has anyone else. Not for at least a generation.

I hear similar stories of a building craze across the country. From Auburn Alabama to Manhattan.

I'm reminded of the "Roaring Twenties", which brought with it one of America's greatest real estate booms of the 20th century.

The irrational exuberance was so great that, by the end, many of the world's wealthiest companies were fighting over who could build the tallest building. Because, why not?

There was so much money floating around and virtually everyone thought it would last forever.

But what follows a generational boom? A monumental bust, of course.

In this case, The Great Depression, ushered in with the opening of 40 Wall Street (now the Trump Building), then the Chrysler Building in 1930 and of course the Empire State Building in 1931.

Just like then, today's irrational exuberance will come crashing back to earth. Jobs will be lost. Wealth will seemingly evaporate. And, as Warren Buffet said, only when the tide goes out will we see who's been swimming naked.

Someday too the craft beer bubble will pop.

But for now, we are living in the glory days. Showered with an almost never ending lineup of new beers to sample. With no end in sight.

The gods bless us with a bevy of alcoholic beverages, the likes of which the world has never seen.

IPAs made with juicy wet fresh hops right from the farm.

Wild ales soured to perfection with just the right blend of yeast, fruit and barrel aging.

And dark luscious beers hot with alcohol and as rich and delicious as any plate of dessert.

We have all of the above, and much much more, in the store right now.

Featured is five brand new beers from FACTION, a tiny brewery whose beers you won't find in hardly any store outside the state of California.

Located on the Alameda Naval Base and housed in a decommissioned Marine Corps helicopter hangar, Faction is one of the coolest brewery locations you'll ever visit... if you get the chance.

Until then, you can experience the best part about Faction Brewing. Not the perfect weather or the incredible sweeping views of San Francisco skyline... but, in fact, their beer.

You'll hardly see these 5 brand new beers from Faction anywhere else outside of California, but they're just one of small, hard to find breweries we continually stock the shelves of our cellar with.

I hope you'll take a few minutes to look through them all and let us deliver your favorites directly to your front door.

Cheers,
Matthew

https://pics.me.me/icant-*******-read-i-cant-read-lol-16584963.png

 

[JulianB1]

I got half-way through that thinking "what in the **** is Ryan_G on about?" until the light bulb went off and I was all "oooohhh, a Bring On The Beer email!".

 

[Kasher]

We do this to ourselves. Somehow, we deserve this.

The beer is called Soup du Jour. There's an Amarillo, a Citra and a Galaxy version.

 

[Flunky]

At this point I'm just happy when "hazy" doesn't mean yeast trub slurry

 

[BadJustin]

For ***** sake. A local place keeps calling their beer a "Belgium Quad". Stop it you ******* morons. cc keef

 

[MooseLang]

For ***** sake. A local place keeps calling their beer a "Belgium Quad". Stop it you ******* morons. cc keef

They can call there beers whatever they want. They are Americas after all.

 

[liquiddegenerate]

They can call there beers whatever they want. They are Americas after all.

*their

 

[JulianB1]

For ***** sake. A local place keeps calling their beer a "Belgium Quad". Stop it you ******* morons. cc keef

The ****** local place around here has a beer they call "Belgium pale ale". Their inaugural brew of it was a few years ago, and at the time it was easily the worst beer I've ever tasted (and arguably still is). Band-aids soaked in formaldehyde is the best description of the flavor. It took 6 of us to drink a 4oz pour. One guy who showed up mid-way through was handed the sampler, brought it up to his face, and instantly recoiled from the smell. It was the first time in my life I've seen someone scared to taste a beer.

 

[MooseLang]

*their

 

[liquiddegenerate]

 

[stakem1]

I tell ya what, I really ****** up 7-8 years ago when I had the desire to open a brewery but was too much of a pussy to take the risk and dive in.

Just to think of where I could be today. Brewing beer and packaging it in a special sock puppet for an extra $10. Fermenting welch's grape juice and calling it a nonstylistically defined ale. Taking starch water after boiling potatos and bottling it as-is with a little sprinkling of oats calling it a middle atlantic style not ipa.

******* a.... we coulda went places

 

[tikk]

Saw this on Groupon today, is this correct ant880?

Please advise

 

[TommyShitt]

For ***** sake. A local place keeps calling their beer a "Belgium Quad". Stop it you ******* morons. cc keef

lol like you don't enjoy a nice night in with the wife and some delivery China food.

 

[beerindex]

At this point I'm just happy when "hazy" doesn't mean yeast trub slurry

I'm happy when I see an IPA that doesn't describe itself as hazy, juicy, or New England style. West Coast IPAs or **** off.

 

[litheum94]

Anybody else feel like this is where the beer world is headed?

For this year's Pro/Am, they've teamed with homebrewer Dan Schlegel to do a grape IPA called Grape Lotion. The name is a shoutout to the online beer geeks who heatedly debate the brewery on the Beer Advocate forums: "Gonna name my new brewery Grape Lotion," wrote a beer nerd angry that Great Notion existed, and that drinkers loved their beer. "InstaHypeWalezBroBombz. Will sell the Lotion in baskets."

Full article here

 

[arren]

I tell ya what, I really ****** up 7-8 years ago when I had the desire to open a brewery but was too much of a pussy to take the risk and dive in.

Just to think of where I could be today. Brewing beer and packaging it in a special sock puppet for an extra $10. Fermenting welch's grape juice and calling it a nonstylistically defined ale. Taking starch water after boiling potatos and bottling it as-is with a little sprinkling of oats calling it a middle atlantic style not ipa.

******* a.... we coulda went places

I'm actually kind of surprised nobody has thought to use potatoes as an adjunct yet. You could use Summit hops and smoke it to make a legit baked potato beer.

 

[stakem1]

I'm actually kind of surprised nobody has thought to use potatoes as an adjunct yet. You could use Summit hops and smoke it to make a legit baked potato beer.

Spoiler alert, there has been at least 1 potato beer that im aware of. And it was a berliner of all things!
Bayerischer Bahnhof did an entire series with different grains, hops and the potatoes

Your onion hop comment made me lol though