THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: MrAngryFace on January 03, 2014, 09:48:09 AM
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My current favorite.
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Need to branch out from my IPA routine, so any recommendations outside of that would be cool.
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Try some saisons. Crux's Impasse is good, as is Logsdon's Seizon Bretta. Both are available in Seattle.
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It's like this thread was put here to make me cry.
Try a few reds. My friends who like IPAs also tend to enjoy reds, and they're not as boisterous. The Evil Twin or Evil Cousin was really nice.
MAF, are you on Untappd? If not, JOIN US.
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I am! I just don't have an iPhone so I forget to check in.
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that bottle is sex. i'd put it up my butt.
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I am! I just don't have an iPhone so I forget to check in.
No app for Windows phone?
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Oh wait, looks like there might be now? Back when I first signed up there wasn't. Installing now.
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I've been drinking a lot of black IPAs lately, although I can't really recall the names.
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I've been chugging Weihenstephaner Korbinian lately. I mean, you are required to when someone buys you a german stein
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Also, the sierra nevada bigfoot ale is quite nice too.
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I watched the Packers-Niners game at a friend's house today. They happened to be from Wisconsin, so I brought a bottle of New Glarus' Wisconsin Belgian Red. Also brought a growler of Maui Brewing's HI Standards IPA. Some friends lugged the growler back in their check baggage and gave it to me for Christmas. It was really nice, much better than the IPA that they can and sell over here.
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Went out and bought four small-bottle beers today, set me back $14 dollars. Jesus. This country.
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That sounds like Beer Hell
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That sounds like Beer Hell
Racer 5, when it is in stock, which it wasn't, is ¥760 for a 12 oz. bottle. The few Ballast Point offerings are all in that range as well. When the exchange rate was ¥80 to US$1, it was screamworthy. Anchor Steam Liberty Ale, which is usually out, was in for ¥380/bottle. Nabbed. Also got their barley wine for ¥460 or so. Import beers are hard to find and expensive. Basic Sam Adams Boston Lager is ¥400 a can. Corona and Bud are even ¥260 or so; not that I'd stoop that low.
Japanese macrobrews are about ¥220~280 per 12 oz. can, and there is almost no variation in taste, despite a plethora of limited-time brews being cranked out seasonally, all year long. There are Japanese microbrews taking off, but they're expensive due to Japanese beer-specific taxes, and in my region I'd have to order them on the net, paying Japanese postal rates for shipping heavy items.
Every time I am in the USA and in front of any decent supermarket beer aisle, I shed a single tear.
That tear tastes like Pilsner.
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Is Minoh still hard to find around you?
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Stunningly, yes.
The brewery is only like an hour away from me by train. I've only been to the town of Minoh once, in 2011, with friends who wanted to see the waterfall and the very first Mister Donut, and had NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER in beer. So I still haven't seen that brewery. Maybe we can get out there in April?
Minoh Beer has several pubs in downtown Osaka. They're called "Beer Belly" and carry Minoh exclusively, except for one in Tenma which is independent, but still features them primarily.
That said, Minoh Beer in bottles, I've only seen in south Osaka once, at a shop which no longer carries it.
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I was trying to tell my wife we should go to Minoh cause there is a waterfall and it's pretty.
Her response?
"There's a brewery there, right?"
As for bottles, I've heard they're really easy to find at shops in Osaka that cater to tourists.
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:lol
Shit! I should go to tourist shops. Didn't think about that.
The actual solution is for me to just order beer on teh internets via goodbeer.jp -- but it works out to be ¥500 a bottle, which still feels a bit irresponsible to order when I'm low-ish on funds while working on my startup. So I'm sticking with larger bottles of ¥255 Asahi Heartland (pale lager), which doesn't suck -- not even a little.
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has anyone had this? I'm sliiightly terrified haha.
(Samichlaus Classic Bier)
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Had a Cellar Door Farmhouse-style ale last night and was in love. If you're into saisons, I highly recommend it. Goes down extremely smoothly, with light citrus and herbal notes.
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Stillwater makes good saisons. Kinda pricey but good.
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What's characteristic of saisons?
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What's characteristic of saisons?
Barnyard funk, earthy, lightly tart, slightly dry with some spice and citrus notes. Very refreshing in the summer and one of my favorite styles.
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/style/129/
I know Baird does one. You probably have access to Saison Dupont over there.
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I had my first one tonight; Prairie Artisan's Eliza5beth, at the Mikkeller taproom in San Francisco.
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Prairie Artisan Ales makes some killer stuff, mang.
So I can bring you two or three bottles of beer based on Japanese custom regulations. Must choose wisely.
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Sweet! I will leave my beer fate in your experienced hands.
As you have likely seen on Untappd, I have been tearing it up here. Mikkeller yesterday, West End Tap and Original Gravity today. I am just stoked to have so much good beer around!
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Ah, that's OK. I like Blue Moon and Sam Adams just fine.
Corona can go wait with the lime soda.
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Didn't realize Blue Moon was more popular than Bud Light in many states (such as my own)... would take Blue Moon over Coors, Miller, Corona, Bud any day of the week...
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I won't front, I have zero problems with Corona. Maybe that's the Californian in me but I'll take it over anything else on that map.
Spent the past three days paying an average of $8.50 a pop for Stone IPA at different venues. And it was the best thing anyone had on tap. Can't wait to be out of LA and back in SD.
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I like Stone IPA just fine, but it isn't anywhere near my favorite IPA.
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Stone IPA is a very, very fine baseline IPA. I will gladly order it if it's the best thing on tap and have zero complaints. But at $8.50? Yeesh. Killing my wallet out here
My favorite right now is probably Sculpin. Also been really digging Green Flash's West Coast IPA lately, but I get phases with it. Sculpin is like consistently my go to.
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Ballast Point needs to get over themselves and lower their prices. Sculpin is no better than other mass market IPAs, yet it's consistently more expensive than other options.
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I think Sculpin is better than most others, but not so much so that it should have a premium attached to it. Feels like their pricing is high because they're expanding pretty rapidly. Their spirits operation is growing and they just built a new tasting room for it. Plus a new restaurant, another beer tasting room, the brand redesign that just went through, brewing expansion...they got a lot going on. Always felt like they were floating all these projects by charging a bit more. Maybe not the best decision to make, maybe not even happening.
Victory at Sea and Sculpin will keep me around at just about any semi reasonable price point tho.
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I'm ALL about Humulo Nimbus oh god so good
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whats the brand on the beer map, which is on some of the eastern/southern states (including Florida)? I recognise the others.
edit: oh, theres a Key at the bottom :duh
I actually like american piss beer, its kind of a novelty here. I often grab a case of Miller if I see one discounted. It's ideal for pounding down on a hot day
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I had some exceptional stuff today: Clown Shoes' Vampire Hunter, Tsjeesus, and a smoked double-porter called Where There's Smoke. It was a good day.
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I finished my US trip with some super good stuff, and then had a Kirin Lager on the plane. I'm not sure how I managed to finish it. It was like punishment from the Beer God.
I miss all the good beer, but I was seriously beginning to get a beer gut from rushing through so much good stuff.
And those grapes were probably sour anyway.
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Sigh... Long Island's best-known craft brewer gets absorbed into the In-Bev grinder:
http://www.brewbound.com/news/2014/anheuser-busch-inbev-to-acquire-blue-point-brewing (http://www.brewbound.com/news/2014/anheuser-busch-inbev-to-acquire-blue-point-brewing)