Random Beer Thoughts

[Turfy]

The tulip glass is empty. Damn. I reach for the empty can, only to find that it is still 2/3 full. YES!!

Simple things....

 

[Marksy]

Thought this was as good a place as any to share an amusing anecdote of shitlordfuckstickery.

At a share last week with a buddy and two of his other friends I had not previously met. One of the guys goes into detail of what a Side Project "fanboy" he is, bragging about all of his great muling endeavors and the size of hauls past, you know the routine. To give an idea of his type of ilk, this guy intentionally opened the Fuzzy he brought before I arrived so he wouldn't have to share it with someone he didn't know, while also boasting about being able to acquire 18 of them at the latest release.

Anyway, as he's going on and on I ask about Apricot du Fermier and he says that he was able to originally get 10 or 12 or some **** but only has two left. So I mention that I have been planning an apricot-themed blind tasting for a small group and ask if he'd be interested in bringing one to go along with the Fou, West Ashley, Veritas 015, Map of the Sun, Eleventh Labor, Apricot de Brettaville and Cascade Apricot that I'll be opening. His response?

"I wouldn't trade an Apricot du Fermier for all of those beers so we'll have to see."

I love beer.

 

[austinbridges]

So I mention that I have been planning an apricot-themed blind tasting for a small group and ask if he'd be interested in bringing one to go along with the Fou, West Ashley, Veritas 015, Map of the Sun, Eleventh Labor, Apricot de Brettaville and Cascade Apricot that I'll be opening. His response?

"I wouldn't trade an Apricot du Fermier for all of those beers so we'll have to see."

I love beer.

He's probably worried about how his beloved Side Project will do.

 

[RyanG1]

Thought this was as good a place as any to share an amusing anecdote of shitlordfuckstickery.

At a share last week with a buddy and two of his other friends I had not previously met. One of the guys goes into detail of what a Side Project "fanboy" he is, bragging about all of his great muling endeavors and the size of hauls past, you know the routine. To give an idea of his type of ilk, this guy intentionally opened the Fuzzy he brought before I arrived so he wouldn't have to share it with someone he didn't know, while also boasting about being able to acquire 18 of them at the latest release.

Anyway, as he's going on and on I ask about Apricot du Fermier and he says that he was able to originally get 10 or 12 or some **** but only has two left. So I mention that I have been planning an apricot-themed blind tasting for a small group and ask if he'd be interested in bringing one to go along with the Fou, West Ashley, Veritas 015, Map of the Sun, Eleventh Labor, Apricot de Brettaville and Cascade Apricot that I'll be opening. His response?

"I wouldn't trade an Apricot du Fermier for all of those beers so we'll have to see."

I love beer.

His reptilian brain could not differentiate between:

"Hey bud! You have an awesome apricot beer. I have lots of apricot beer. Would you like to come to a share, drink good beer, meet people, chat, etc."

vs.

"Ughhh, my beer cellar."

 

[CSO]

Thought this was as good a place as any to share an amusing anecdote of shitlordfuckstickery.

At a share last week with a buddy and two of his other friends I had not previously met. One of the guys goes into detail of what a Side Project "fanboy" he is, bragging about all of his great muling endeavors and the size of hauls past, you know the routine. To give an idea of his type of ilk, this guy intentionally opened the Fuzzy he brought before I arrived so he wouldn't have to share it with someone he didn't know, while also boasting about being able to acquire 18 of them at the latest release.

Anyway, as he's going on and on I ask about Apricot du Fermier and he says that he was able to originally get 10 or 12 or some **** but only has two left. So I mention that I have been planning an apricot-themed blind tasting for a small group and ask if he'd be interested in bringing one to go along with the Fou, West Ashley, Veritas 015, Map of the Sun, Eleventh Labor, Apricot de Brettaville and Cascade Apricot that I'll be opening. His response?

"I wouldn't trade an Apricot du Fermier for all of those beers so we'll have to see."

I love beer.

Him not coming sounds like pretty much the best possible outcome. Hanging out with ****** people just for the sake of a good beer is not a worthwhile endeavor. I'd rather drink Bud with cool folks than deal with all that nonsense.

 

[jivex5k1]

I'd rather drink Bud with cool folks than deal with all that nonsense.

**** yeah. Bottle shares are a lot better when they aren't about the beer. Just friends getting together for some food and bullshitting, possibly while playing some party games or watching some UFC fight or other sports event.

The ones centered around beer that I attended a long time ago seemed to be filled with carbon copy conversations.

"Oh man, this was so much better last batch"
"The value has gone to **** since it hit distribution"
"I traded a guy a used condom for a Don Q. , man I really made out in that deal"
"I got 14 bottles of that one, paid a bunch of co workers"
"Yeah, I got them just to trade them, I don't really like that style"
"It's only rated 86 on BA"
"Who brought this shelf beer?"

I realized I ******* hate talking about beer and stopped going to bottle shares with strangers.

 

[thatguy2014]

Thought this was as good a place as any to share an amusing anecdote of shitlordfuckstickery.

At a share last week with a buddy and two of his other friends I had not previously met. One of the guys goes into detail of what a Side Project "fanboy" he is, bragging about all of his great muling endeavors and the size of hauls past, you know the routine. To give an idea of his type of ilk, this guy intentionally opened the Fuzzy he brought before I arrived so he wouldn't have to share it with someone he didn't know, while also boasting about being able to acquire 18 of them at the latest release.

Anyway, as he's going on and on I ask about Apricot du Fermier and he says that he was able to originally get 10 or 12 or some **** but only has two left. So I mention that I have been planning an apricot-themed blind tasting for a small group and ask if he'd be interested in bringing one to go along with the Fou, West Ashley, Veritas 015, Map of the Sun, Eleventh Labor, Apricot de Brettaville and Cascade Apricot that I'll be opening. His response?

"I wouldn't trade an Apricot du Fermier for all of those beers so we'll have to see."

I love beer.

Seems like the kind of guy who would open it, but only if you all agreed to rate it a 5 on untappd to protect its rating.

 

[Marksy]

Him not coming sounds like pretty much the best possible outcome. Hanging out with ****** people just for the sake of a good beer is not a worthwhile endeavor. I'd rather drink Bud with cool folks than deal with all that nonsense.

**** yeah. Bottle shares are a lot better when they aren't about the beer. Just friends getting together for some food and bullshitting, possibly while playing some party games or watching some UFC fight or other sports event.

The ones centered around beer that I attended a long time ago seemed to be filled with carbon copy conversations.

"Oh man, this was so much better last batch"
"The value has gone to **** since it hit distribution"
"I traded a guy a used condom for a Don Q. , man I really made out in that deal"
"I got 14 bottles of that one, paid a bunch of co workers"
"Yeah, I got them just to trade them, I don't really like that style"
"It's only rated 86 on BA"
"Who brought this shelf beer?"

I realized I ******* hate talking about beer and stopped going to bottle shares with strangers.

A-*******-men. I originally concocted the idea to surprise two of my closer beer-drinking buddies (who still have no idea it's coming) and this jabroni would have just dicked it up.

 

[Wino1]

You could also devise a way to know which 'blind' beer is the AdF and have everyone rate it the worst in front of this knob job.

 

[Marksy]

You could also devise a way to know which 'blind' beer is the AdF and have everyone rate it the worst in front of this knob job.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Thought this was as good a place as any to share an amusing anecdote of shitlordfuckstickery.

At a share last week with a buddy and two of his other friends I had not previously met. One of the guys goes into detail of what a Side Project "fanboy" he is, bragging about all of his great muling endeavors and the size of hauls past, you know the routine. To give an idea of his type of ilk, this guy intentionally opened the Fuzzy he brought before I arrived so he wouldn't have to share it with someone he didn't know, while also boasting about being able to acquire 18 of them at the latest release.

Anyway, as he's going on and on I ask about Apricot du Fermier and he says that he was able to originally get 10 or 12 or some **** but only has two left. So I mention that I have been planning an apricot-themed blind tasting for a small group and ask if he'd be interested in bringing one to go along with the Fou, West Ashley, Veritas 015, Map of the Sun, Eleventh Labor, Apricot de Brettaville and Cascade Apricot that I'll be opening. His response?

"I wouldn't trade an Apricot du Fermier for all of those beers so we'll have to see."

I love beer.

F that guy and his overrated beer.

 

[drgarage1]

**** yeah. Bottle shares are a lot better when they aren't about the beer. Just friends getting together for some food and bullshitting, possibly while playing some party games or watching some UFC fight or other sports event.

The ones centered around beer that I attended a long time ago seemed to be filled with carbon copy conversations.

"Oh man, this was so much better last batch"
"The value has gone to **** since it hit distribution"
"I traded a guy a used condom for a Don Q. , man I really made out in that deal"
"I got 14 bottles of that one, paid a bunch of co workers"
"Yeah, I got them just to trade them, I don't really like that style"
"It's only rated 86 on BA"
"Who brought this shelf beer?"

I realized I ******* hate talking about beer and stopped going to bottle shares with strangers.

I am quite fortunate to know non-****** people who like good beer.

 

[drgarage1]

Also, people really need to get over apricot beer. But that's another story.

 

[Marksy]

Also, people really need to get over apricot beer. But that's another story.

Huh?

 

[Snarf1]

Also, people really need to get over apricot beer. But that's another story.

Huh?

Fou is the worst seasonal Cantillon and apricot beers go downhill from there.

 

[drgarage1]

Huh?

Apricot beers tend to have a trade multiplier much greater than other fruited variants, despite the fact that the vast majority of them, including Fou Foune, tend to get hyper-acidic even while relatively young. Moreover, I've had plenty of unfruited BA saisons and lambics with huge stonefruit character that are much more balanced. Basically, I'm saying I wouldn't trade for any of the beers on either list.

 

[Wino1]

Fou is the worst seasonal Cantillon and apricot beers go downhill from there.

From a different perspective, I spent a week at Cantillon trying and revisiting everything on their board - Fou and Carignan were the standouts for me by the end. Not saying you're wrong. It was quite interesting because before doing this, I also wouldn't have said Fou is their best seasonal, but then again before this I only had a seasonal loon once every ~6 months.

 

[Snarf1]

From a different perspective, I spent a week at Cantillon trying and revisiting everything on their board - Fou and Carignan were the standouts for me by the end. Not saying you're wrong; it was quite interesting because before doing this, I also wouldn't have said Fou is their best seasonal.

Different strokes and whatnot. I'd take the razzleberry Cantillon lambic at Moedar over Fou at the brewery all day every day.

It's a real shame that good peach beers are few and far between because peaches >>>> apricots.

That being said I'm planning to plant some black apricot trees for them fruit whalez.

 

[quirk6]

black apricot

Now those are ******* delicious. I had a black peach once, that was friggin' amazing.

 

[regularjohn]

i never had a veritas before, are they hard to come by at all? will the man himself hunt me down if i acquire one of his beers?

 

[drgarage1]

Different strokes and whatnot. I'd take the razzleberry Cantillon lambic at Moedar over Fou at the brewery all day every day.

It's a real shame that good peach beers are few and far between because peaches >>>> apricots.

That being said I'm planning to plant some black apricot trees for them fruit whalez.

PEACHES ARE SO MUCH BETTER IN BEER THAN APRICOTS! I feel like we share a tiny, tiny, piece of the same brain.

 

[Snarf1]

PEACHES ARE SO MUCH BETTER IN BEER THAN APRICOTS! I feel like we share a tiny, tiny, piece of the same brain.

In theory peaches are better than apricots. In application, it is extremely difficult to capture the ephemeral nature of a ripe peach in a beer. I've been pretty underwhelmed by most of the acclaimed peach beers I've had. Had an AC Golden Peche last year that was STFU good, though.

 

[Snarf1]

i never had a veritas before, are they hard to come by at all? will the man himself hunt me down if i acquire one of his beers?

Speaking of, have you hear Dupont is going to release a flat saison soon?

 

[drgarage1]

In theory peaches are better than apricots. In application, it is extremely difficult to capture the ephemeral nature of a ripe peach in a beer. I've been pretty underwhelmed by most of the acclaimed peach beers I've had. Had an AC Golden Peche last year that was STFU good, though.

Agreed. The exceptions are magical, though, AC Golden Peche included. One of the batches of Peche n' Brett I had is still my favorite beer ever, and I'm not a Logsdon fan. It was either batch 1 or 3. The key is the skins have to work well. If they're there, it's on.

 

[regularjohn]

Speaking of, have you hear Dupont is going to release a flat saison soon?

 

[regularjohn]

flat saison

 

[jivex5k1]

Walter White really let himself go.

 

[Snarf1]

Agreed. The exceptions are magical, though, AC Golden Peche included. One of the batches of Peche n' Brett I had is still my favorite beer ever, and I'm not a Logsdon fan. It was either batch 1 or 3. The key is the skins have to work well. If they're there, it's on.

I don't think anyone is skinning peaches before putting them in beer, as very few peach varieties are easy to skin without blanching. Using actual tree ripe peaches is the key and they aren't readily available as a ripe peach is about impossible to ship.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Also, people really need to get over apricot beer. But that's another story.

Apricot beers tend to have a trade multiplier much greater than other fruited variants, despite the fact that the vast majority of them, including Fou Foune, tend to get hyper-acidic even while relatively young. Moreover, I've had plenty of unfruited BA saisons and lambics with huge stonefruit character that are much more balanced. Basically, I'm saying I wouldn't trade for any of the beers on either list.

But have you ever blended them with Hunahpu?

 

[regularjohn]

But have you ever blended them with Hunahpu?