The Bar Towel

yep, coffee in particular falls off pretty quick, which just leaves kbs felling a little 1-dimensional. still fun to experiment with as some turn out to be really good even as they change. just hate to see that tasty kbs at less than prime form, so i tend to pass that info along.

A few times now I've found bottles of a batch of homebrew that I thought was long gone. my cellar is a bit nuts, so i often find beers i forgot about - not quite the same as being sure it wasn't there. in my experience, KBS is best within a year of purchase. same with regular breakfast stout. i've c...

drank another "winter is coming". still tasting fucking awesome. glad i still have a bunch left!

nice! ah, mcgregor... my mom was the postmaster there for like 10 years, and i used to pass through on my way to high school every day... fun times...

alas, i can't make it down for the event. perhaps another time.

labour day weekend is always in close proximity to or includes my birthday, so i'll be digging into the cellar for some cool stuff to open. and with this year being my 40th, i think a few of the rarer ones might come out. i'm currently eyeing up the oldest bottle in my stash, a 1992 thomas hardy's t...

liamt07 wrote:

Kish84 wrote:$8 for a half pint?? Ridiculous. DDC is good, but not that good, especially after paying for a ticket.

Welcome to every Volo event ever. And they'll still sell out.

still cheaper than the DDC event at wvrst a while back... worked out to $20+ a pint from what I recall.

DDB is awesome. his video reviews are even better than the text ones - i was crying with laughter when i tried to marathon through them.

one of my favourite reviews of all time happens to be for black... scroll to the bottom of this page and read the review by kkipple (khiasmus's is pretty good too, just above it): http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/13307/41092/?view=beer&sort=&start=400 not sure if it's changed over th...

yeah, i often round values/volumes, but always upward so i can never be accused of falsifying anything. occasionally they ask for specifics when i say "a case" or "about a case", but mostly they don't care. if you're honest, they're usually pretty cool about it. if i'm doing a sa...

I've talked with customs too, and they said if you're doing $4$ trading, even providing receipts for what you sent would be good enough. but in my experience, they're usually shocked at how high the value of the bottles are, so even verbally telling them you paid whatever for them is good enough. re...

I also like that they put up a "similar products" section that totally doesn't work. For example, these are the products listed as similar to St. Louis Gueuze: ... Trafalgar Oatmeal Stout ...! haha, am I the only one who sees the awesomeness in citing trafalgar beers as similar to a gueuze?

atomeyes wrote:moving further into the stix?

yep, Brantford. rental initially while we find something in the area to buy.

WOW! That makes my moves seem rather tame. Best of luck... it'll be alright... i'm really only moving the beer myself, movers can handle the rest. hoping that between pickup+trailer I can get all 48ish cases + 4 fermenters + 10ish kegs down in one trip. It's only a 1.5hr drive, so nowhere near the ...

in continued preparation for the Great Move of 2014, blended and bottled 11gal of gueuze, bottled 10gal of old ale, and 4gal of imperial saison (the remaining 6gal dosed with 4-5# of cherries). Also emptied a dozen carboys into stainless. two left to keg this week, and all my (20+) carboys will be o...

Last night at Blue Monk: community beer works rutherford b haze ballast point sculpin Hit the 7-eleven a block away and quite happily surprised by their craft options. grabbed a sixer of ithaca flower power that i worked through in the hotel. today at Coles: galaxy andromeda ipa and a case of goodie...