Random Beer Thoughts

[ggfunk]

We've got a Hedberg thread already, right?

We used to have one.

We still do, but we used to too.

 

[nathanmiller]

I love KBS. Haven't picked up this year's batch yet but I'm sure it'll still be around some place near me for a week or two, so I'm not panicking yet. I also love aged KBS. One to three years makes for a lovely chocolaty delight.

 

[Stewmeister91]

Not sure, I love aged KBS. Less coffee and more chocolatey.

I did a 7 year blind KBS vert recently and the newer bottles clearly won out.

Which was counter to ones we did for other ageable beers (Abacus, The Czar and a few others)

 

[BadJustin]

I did a 7 year blind KBS vert recently and the newer bottles clearly won out.

Which was counter to ones we did for other ageable beers (Abacus, The Czar and a few others)

Get an avatar, ya n00b

 

[2plums4one]

IMO KBS drops off pretty fast. I think the price is a lot to ask for a beer that goes from great to bland really quickly. (I say that knowing piles of breweries are selling hazy IPAs at close to the same price with even shorter life.) There are too many other similar beers on the market that hold up better than KBS. Coffee beers generally aren't meant to age but I've had a lot hold up infinitely better than KBS.

I guess this is not an issue if you drink all the beer you buy fresh.

I've had some years of KBS a year or so old and thought it was great, more misses than hits on aged KBS though overall. I agree with the less coffee more rounded chocolaty taste.

 

[abawol01]

They say that the recipe for Sprite is lemon and lime, but I tried to make it at home, there’s more to it than that.

‘Hey, you want some more homemade Sprite, man?’

‘Not until you figure out what the **** else is in it!’

 

[furley]

thanks for letting me know that Cigar City and KBS suck now. saves me buying any more in the near future. will have to wait until they're both scaled back to buy them again since that's when the flavor will come back.

 

[thatguy2014]

Gotta love Texas.

 

[Shakedwnst]

Gotta love flying oversees too!

 

[sherm10161]

Gotta love Texas.

This seems not worth the effort to me. You go through customs at your first port in the US, so TX residents who don't enter in TX wouldn't have to pay the tax. Additionally, I don't see how the state could tax alcohol that is merely passing through TX (i.e., non-residents who enter the US through TX).

 

[trickytunadicky]

This seems not worth the effort to me. You go through customs at your first port in the US, so TX residents who don't enter in TX wouldn't have to pay the tax. Additionally, I don't see how the state could tax alcohol that is merely passing through TX (i.e., non-residents who enter the US through TX).

Sounds like some Pennsylvania PS right there

 

[Lutter]

Gotta love Texas.

The TABC is the literal worst, lol.

That said I don't think they'll have much luck with this. Austin doesn't have a huge amount of international flights.... you'll usually land in Houston first then take another plane to Austin.

 

[sherm10161]

The TABC is the literal worst, lol.

That said I don't think they'll have much luck with this. Austin doesn't have a huge amount of international flights.... you'll usually land in Houston first then take another plane to Austin.

If they can figure out how to make it work at ABIA, presumably they'll port it to DFW and IAH. But again, I don't see how you can legally collect the tax from people not terminating in TX.

 

[Lutter]

If they can figure out how to make it work at ABIA, presumably they'll port it to DFW and IAH. But again, I don't see how you can legally collect the tax from people not terminating in TX.

I worry more about this part in the actual code (as well as the second part if you were someone that went out of the country a lot and brought beer back):

TABC Code Sec. 107.07. IMPORTATION FOR PERSONAL USE; IMPORTATION BY RAILROAD COMPANIES. (a) A person may import not more than 24 12-ounce bottles or an equivalent quantity of malt beverages, 3 gallons of wine, and 1 gallon of distilled spirits for the person's own personal use without being required to hold a permit. A person importing alcoholic beverages into the state under this subsection must pay the state tax on alcoholic beverages and an administrative fee of $3 and must affix the required tax stamps. No minor and no intoxicated person may import any alcoholic beverages into the state. A person importing alcoholic beverages under this subsection must personally accompany the alcoholic beverages as the alcoholic beverages enter the state. A person may not use the exemptions set forth in this subsection more than once every thirty days.

 

[Padraig]

Interboro x Sand City - Mad Fat Mofo

Just checked this in on Untappd and of the 6 friends who’ve had it all are in London and none are in New York. Which is utterly bonkers.

Probably says something about trends in the industry but ****** if I know what exactly.

 

[Der Fuchs]

thanks for letting me know that Cigar City and KBS suck now. saves me buying any more in the near future. will have to wait until they're both scaled back to buy them again since that's when the flavor will come back.

To be fair, Kbs has always kinda sucked. that beer tastes like licking a bourbon filled chocolate covered ashtray. Wayyy too much roasted malt.

 

[Unbreakabolt]

We've got a Hedberg thread already, right?

If so where is it? I’d like to share the story of seeing him live in Madison like three weeks before he died. Dude was smacked out of his miiinnnnnnnnnnd.

 

[steimie]

If so where is it? I’d like to share the story of seeing him live in Madison like three weeks before he died. Dude was smacked out of his miiinnnnnnnnnnd.

https://www.talkbeer.com/community/threads/because-mitch-deserves-his-own-thread.32635/

 

[furley]

To be fair, Kbs has always kinda sucked. that beer tastes like licking a bourbon filled chocolate covered ashtray. Wayyy too much roasted malt.

 

[JulianB1]

This KBS talk and the Michigan game motivated me to open a CBS bomber tonight. It's tasting very nice.

 

[LukeAleTime]

Australia checking in: KBS sittin' on shelves around here.

 

[Kentucky1]

Kroger had buy 4 or more 4pks of KBS and save 20%, which brought it to $16.80/4pk. Right on, Right on.

 

[danidavid]

15 KBS tasted mighty fine last night

 

[Lutter]

Yet to see 2018 KBS on shelves in Austin. It out here yet, people who pay attention more than me?

Did see a buttload of 2017 BCBS in the cooler at the supermarket last night, which kinda made me laugh. I remember when people here would camp out in front of Whole Foods 4-5 years back to get it on Black Friday, heh.

 

[jivex5k1]

Yet to see 2018 KBS on shelves in Austin. It out here yet, people who pay attention more than me?

Did see a buttload of 2017 BCBS in the cooler at the supermarket last night, which kinda made me laugh. I remember when people here would camp out in front of Whole Foods 4-5 years back to get it on Black Friday, heh.

Now they do it for tallboys full of yeast starter and grass clippings.

 

[JulianB1]

I drank a fresh can of Oberon last night and enjoyed it more than 90% of the hazy IPAs I've had recently.

 

[jammery]

Interboro x Sand City - Mad Fat Mofo

Just checked this in on Untappd and of the 6 friends who’ve had it all are in London and none are in New York. Which is utterly bonkers.

Probably says something about trends in the industry but ****** if I know what exactly.

Have I not checked this in yet?
Just lazy

As usual, that crowler handwriting is flawless and reflects very favorably on the writer

 

[BadJustin]

Oh Founders, why are you the way you are. Next BA beer is a BBA, Dry Hopped post barrel treatment Imperial Red IPA. Sigh.

 

[RedCoffee]

Oh Founders, why are you the way you are. Next BA beer is a BBA, Dry Hopped post barrel treatment Imperial Red IPA. Sigh.

Founders Brewing Co. | Brewed for Us.

NOT THEIR FAULT YOU DON'T LIKE IT MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN

 

[arren]

Welp, it sounds like Green Flash filed for Chapter 11. That escalated quickly.