Random Beer Thoughts

[FoudreGuy]

Modern Times' Booming Rollers came out last week and it's ******* stellar, but word on the Internet is that a lot of folks are disappointed, some even claiming it's too malty or not hoppy enough.

Guys, we're currently living in an age where people newly into beer (aka #newmoney) can't comprehend that sweet doesn't mean malty, and who think "hoppy" means "fermented Sunny D with a hint of Mango Kern's."

Newmoney perptually stuck in the "yummy phase".

 

[beerindex]

Grand Rapids Beer Week has always gotten surprisingly little participation from businesses in a city that annoyingly prides itself on being "Beer City USA." Yet for some reason, this year Grand Rapids Beer Week has been turned into Grand Rapids Beer Month. Of course the events calendar is still basically only a week, then there are a couple of weeks of nothing until KBS week, which is just KBS being tapped a bunch, which is boring.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Grand Rapids Beer Week has always gotten surprisingly little participation from businesses in a city that annoyingly prides itself on being "Beer City USA." Yet for some reason, this year Grand Rapids Beer Week has been turned into Grand Rapids Beer Month. Of course the events calendar is still basically only a week, then there are a couple of weeks of nothing until KBS week, which is just KBS being tapped a bunch, which is boring.

So about as "amazing" as Chicago Craft Beer Week.

 

[Stubs]

*eat, ****, & die

 

[daniel1]

The Facebook threads for these new Wakefield beers really make me want to quit beer altogether.

"You're off. Going for well over $1,000 secondary."

THE BEER HAS BEEN OUT FOR 10 ******* MINUTES. **** ALL OF YOU.

 

[jivex5k1]

The Facebook threads for these new Wakefield beers really make me want to quit beer altogether.

"You're off. Going for well over $1,000 secondary."

THE BEER HAS BEEN OUT FOR 10 ******* MINUTES. **** ALL OF YOU.

You can't look at facebook shitlords if you gouge out your eyes with a spoon.

 

[kodt]

God I love the internet:

Thinking about opening up a taproom with exclusive taps, are there any rules about driving through state lines with kegs? How do kegs get delivered.

 

[trickytunadicky]

God I love the internet:

You can do this in DC, just don't drive them in pennsylvania.

 

[danbanana]

Thinking about opening up a hospital with fancy beds, are there any rules about medical licenses in any states? How do babies get delivered.

Thinking about building a particle accelerator, are there any rules about physics? How do atoms work.

Thinking about running for president, are there any rules about checks and balances? How do walls get delivered.

 

[Padraig]

Great little article with Dutch grandmothers extolling the virtues of beer.

https://munchies.vice.com/en/articles/we-got-drinking-advice-from-adorable-beer-loving-grandmas

 

[user 312341]

Great little article with Dutch grandmothers extolling the virtues of beer.

https://munchies.vice.com/en/articles/we-got-drinking-advice-from-adorable-beer-loving-grandmas

"If the youngsters want to drink something here, they have to pour it in a nice glass first!" Hehehe

I love them and I want to hang out with them all!

(I mean, going to the Netherlands would be swell anyway.)

 

[quirk6]

"If the youngsters want to drink something here, they have to pour it in a nice glass first!"

This is what's it's like when my family comes over. "You'll drink it out of a glass like a civilized person."

 

[danbanana]

This is what's it's like when my family comes over. "You'll drink it out of a glass like a civilized person."

Was really ready to like this until I saw you're from Connecticut and now it sounds like the WASPiest thing you can say.

 

[quirk6]

Was really ready to like this until I saw you're from Connecticut and now it sounds like the WASPiest thing you can say.

I live in Connecticut now, but I'm from New Jersey.

My last name is Morgan (Welsh), my mother is Italian (Caruso). She used to call my father a WASP all the time and call out any behavior she considered WASPy. My father's defense was always that the Welsh are NOT Anglo Saxon and therefor not WASPs. Technically correct, though his Midwestern white upbringing was fairly WASPy.

 

[Kasher]

Captain Lawrence just posted that they're going to be releasing a beer called "Powder Dreams". An IPA dry-hopped with mosaic lupulin powder.

Is this a thing? Can it even be a thing?

 

[JCastle1]

Captain Lawrence just posted that they're going to be releasing a beer called "Powder Dreams". An IPA dry-hopped with mosaic lupulin powder.

Is this a thing? Can it even be a thing?

Yes, and it's awesome. Way more expensive than hop pellets but you use less product overall so the cost ends up being almost the same. The resin is separated from the plant matter so you get tons of hop flavor without the vegetal flavors that are sometimes present (some of Trillium's DDH stuff comes to mind). You also get better yield since not as much liquid is absorbed by the plant matter.

 

[user 312341]

Captain Lawrence just posted that they're going to be releasing a beer called "Powder Dreams". An IPA dry-hopped with mosaic lupulin powder.

Is this a thing? Can it even be a thing?

Those were my thoughts exactly after coming across this awhile ago: https://untappd.com/b/magnify-brewing-company-headaches/1783104
Description: "Juicy New England DIPA dry hopped with Simcoe lupulin powder."

I was rolling my eyes because I always do at "Juicy NE DIPA" but then the mention of powder made me wonder what the hell buzzword that could possibly be. But then Os told me the same thing as JCastle.

So much going on in this beer world, I don't even know how we keep up with it all.

 

[Gonzoillini1]

So this is like a live resin vs. flower situation?

 

[RedCoffee]

Thinking about brewing a beer with deep hop flavor, are there any rules about transporting mysterious powder across state lines? How do hops get made?

(Declaring now that I will never get tired of this joke)

 

[Kasher]

So this is like a live resin vs. flower situation?

Resin AF, mang.

 

[wuntrikpony]

So this is like a live resin vs. flower situation?

This post does a good job explaining it:
http://www.kentfallsbrewing.com/tag/lupulin-powder/?age-verified=c8bcf32598

 

[drgarage1]

THESE GUYS

Wonder if they give leave for, you know, babies?

 

[Stubs]

So this is like a live resin vs. flower situation?

Or is it like crystals vs nugs?


Hop kush?

 

[Shakedwnst]

Hop keef? That's what I think of it as.

The first TH beer that I had dry hopped with the powder didn't seem to pack the same punch regular hops do....

 

[mateoloco]

Captain Lawrence just posted that they're going to be releasing a beer called "Powder Dreams". An IPA dry-hopped with mosaic lupulin powder.

Is this a thing? Can it even be a thing?

Can't you snort it? MordorMongo

 

[jbeezification1]

dontdrinkbeer this is your alt account right? nice review for pliny the younger

Ooo baby. Watch this guy strut. Pliny the Younger's man-parts walk into a room and commands the attention of all the occupants a good five minutes before the man himself arrives. It snaps and yells and gets everyone to stand up in salute, looking astute and respectful as the man himself is about to enter. And the man? He himself is just a bunch of man-parts stitched together with the precision of the best cosmetic surgeon ramped up on the stress and the pressure of knowing his (or her) creation is set to be on every adult website one day. Looked at in high-definition 4k, 8k, retina display, 180-degree SBS VR technology. Gawked, ogled, eyes-gaped by thousands in the privacy of their home doing to themselves things in ways only they know they enjoy. The work has got to be perfect and indeed it is. Pliny the Younger takes no prisioners, makes no promises, and yet is promoted again and again to high legendary status. Some scoff at the hype, deeming themselves too cool for truth, banishing themselves to lesser beers deluded into thinking they still have their pride. Pliny the Younger strips these hip-types to the nude and laughs at their single excuse for a man-part. You can't even please men with those parts, he says. Your women must thirst for more every night, he goes on, waking you up at all hours in disbelief that it's over. They want more says Pliny the Younger. And when they get their heads on straight your women, he says, come to drink from one of my many abundant man-parts all stitched to me like a Picasso meets Rembrandt. And he laughs and laughs, bellowed out from deep inside, hearty and foul putting Santa on the naughty list and driving Satan to the hills of heaven. That's Pliny the Younger. And it's number 1.

That was difficult to read.

 

[MordorMongo]

Can't you snort it? MordorMongo

Just to address the monkey in the room. You can snort anything.

Doesn't mean you should.


But it can certainly be done.

 

[brentsdodgers]

Captain Lawrence just posted that they're going to be releasing a beer called "Powder Dreams". An IPA dry-hopped with mosaic lupulin powder.

Is this a thing? Can it even be a thing?

I think the Alvarado St/Cellarmaker collab was done like this. So I guess it's a new thing??

 

[drgarage1]

I think the Alvarado St/Cellarmaker collab was done like this. So I guess it's a new thing??

Correct. Still haven't tried it myself.

 

[trickytunadicky]

Just to address the monkey in the room. You can snort anything.

Doesn't mean you should.


But it can certainly be done.

Where was this wisdom at the last Meadapalooza?