What're you drinking right now?

phirleh · Post by **phirleh** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 12:24 am

Affligem Tripel
Westmalle Tripel
Homebrewed late hopped IPA
....goodnight!

Cale · Post by **Cale** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 4:36 pm

Over the past few days in Buffalo at Pizza Plant Transit/Coles/Blue Monk and back at the room:

To Øl/Mikkeller Ov-ral (draught) first beer of the trip and it remained the highlight. Loved that stuff.
Bear Republic Racer 5 (draught)
Community Beer Works Frank (draught)
Stone Sublimely Self Righteous (draught)
Victory Hop Devil (draught)
Long Trail Brewmasters Double IPA (draught)
Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere Harvest (draught)
Sinebrychoff Porter (draught)
Founders Centennial IPA (draught)
Founders Red's Rye PA (draught)
Great Lakes Lake Eerie Monster (draught)
Stillwater Stateside Saison (draught)
Firestone Walker Wookey Jack (draught)
Firestone Walker Union Jack (draught)
Dales Pale Ale (can)
Evil Twin Even More Jesus (bottle)
Mikkeller Hop Burn Lo (bottle)
Green Flash Imperial IPA (bottle)
Founders Porter (bottle)
Troegs Perpetual IPA (bottle)

All in all not a bad birthday. I have to say I was a little disappointed by what I tried from the Founders lineup. Not bad beers but not quite as good as I was expecting. Red's Rye was definitely the highlight of those but Cameron's RPA still kicks its ass.

Scoured the city but no sign of the 10th Anniversary Ruination. Ah well! Managed to score the last growler of Palate Wrecker from Premier at least.

cratez · Post by **cratez** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:22 pm

Cale wrote: Over the past few days in Buffalo at Pizza Plant Transit/Coles/Blue Monk and back at the room:

Bear Republic Racer 5 (draught)
Community Beer Works Frank (draught)
Stone Sublimely Self Righteous (draught)
Victory Hop Devil (draught)
Long Trail Brewmasters Double IPA (draught)
Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere Harvest (draught)
Sinebrychoff Porter (draught)
Founders Centennial IPA (draught)
Founders Red's Rye PA (draught)
Great Lakes Lake Eerie Monster (draught)
Stillwater Stateside Saison (draught)
Firestone Walker Wookey Jack (draught)
Firestone Walker Union Jack (draught)
Dales Pale Ale (can)
Evil Twin Even More Jesus (bottle)
Mikkeller Hop Burn Lo (bottle)
Green Flash Imperial IPA (bottle)
Founders Porter (bottle)
Troegs Perpetual IPA (bottle)

That's one hell of a birthday session Cale! I never saw any Firestone Walker on tap when I was there - what was your verdict? Also, how's the Frank?

Cale · Post by **Cale** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:34 pm

cratez wrote:
Cale wrote: Over the past few days in Buffalo at Pizza Plant Transit/Coles/Blue Monk and back at the room:

Bear Republic Racer 5 (draught)
Community Beer Works Frank (draught)
Stone Sublimely Self Righteous (draught)
Victory Hop Devil (draught)
Long Trail Brewmasters Double IPA (draught)
Sierra Nevada Southern Hemisphere Harvest (draught)
Sinebrychoff Porter (draught)
Founders Centennial IPA (draught)
Founders Red's Rye PA (draught)
Great Lakes Lake Eerie Monster (draught)
Stillwater Stateside Saison (draught)
Firestone Walker Wookey Jack (draught)
Firestone Walker Union Jack (draught)
Dales Pale Ale (can)
Evil Twin Even More Jesus (bottle)
Mikkeller Hop Burn Lo (bottle)
Green Flash Imperial IPA (bottle)
Founders Porter (bottle)
Troegs Perpetual IPA (bottle)
That's one hell of a birthday session Cale! I never saw any Firestone Walker on tap when I was there - what was your verdict? Also, how's the Frank?

I found Frank to be extremely bitter for such a low ABV pale ale. I certainly enjoyed the bitterness, but it was a big surprise. The Firestone Walker beers were fantastic. Had the Wookey Jack at Blue Monk and the Union Jack at Pizza Plant. They were pretty much everywhere. Premier, Consumer's on Elmwood, and Village Beer all had FW for growler fills. The new growler fill station at Premier is fantastic.

But my god today was not the day to drive back from Buffalo in a car without AC.

Now drinking: Oskar Blues Deviant Dales

TheSevenDuffs · Post by **TheSevenDuffs** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:46 pm

Founders Nemesis 2009. Preferred it fresh but still drinking well.

S. St. Jeb · Post by **S. St. Jeb** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 9:57 pm

Last week while on vacation in Tennessee/Kentucky

Bridgeport IPA
Foothills Carolina Blonde Ale
Fort Collins Rocky Mountain IPA
Harpoon IPA
Magic Hat No. 9 Not Quite Pale Ale
New Belgian Fat Tire Amber Ale
New Belgian Ranger IPA
North Coast Red Seal Ale
Schlafly Dry Hopped APA
Stoudt's APA
Sweet Water 420 Extra Pale Ale
Sweetwater Blue
Sweetwater IPA
Yazoo Amarillo Pale Ale
Yazoo Dos Perros Brown Ale

Brought home

Bluegrass APA
Butternuts Moo Thunder Farmhouse Ale
Kona Fire Rock Pale Ale
Left Hand Saw Tooth Ale
Red Hook Long Hammer IPA
Rogue Mogul Madness Ale
Rogue Northwestern Ale
Schlafly Raspberry Hefweizen
Yazoo Sly Rye Porter

electroluminescent · Post by **electroluminescent** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 10:06 pm

Currently 90% of the way through a Dogfish Chicory Stout which was preceded by Black Oak 10BY which came shortly after Green Flash Palate Wrecker and Goose Island Sofie down the street at Cale's.

phirleh · Post by **phirleh** » Tue Jul 17, 2012 11:49 pm

Just finished a bochet by jcc, boozy with hints of toasted marshmallow. Decadently delicious, thanks man!

JeffPorter · Post by **JeffPorter** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:45 am

Last night after a NickelBrook Berliner Weiss in the sweltering heat of Bar Hop, came home and had my first can of Welly IRS.

Um...not how I remember this beer...I'll post more in the review section...

kafercrazy · Post by **kafercrazy** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 9:20 am

Shipyard Smashed Blueberry
GLB Harry Porter Vanilla Bean

munrets · Post by **munrets** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:15 pm

Last night:

SN Hoptimum: Shazam. Pretty hot but incredible. Hop syrup.

As I type:

Firestone Walker Wookey Jack Black Rye IPA: WoW. Not that I have many black IPAs to draw upon (let alone black rye IPAs) but this is knocking my socks off. FW's Double Jack is one of the best things I've ever consumed and this is up there too.

iguenard · Post by **iguenard** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 8:27 pm

Russian River Damnation (so good with a charcoaled filet)
Dieu du Ciel! Solstice d'Été (sooooo good)

Will drown all that with a shot of Chateau Rogue Single Malt. I love summer.

phirleh · Post by **phirleh** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:03 pm

iguenard wrote:I love summer.

Me too, having a Rochefort 8, earlier today, grabbed a Cheshire Citra IPA at Wvrst.

JeffPorter · Post by **JeffPorter** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:54 pm

phirleh wrote:
iguenard wrote:I love summer.
Me too, having a Rochefort 8, earlier today, grabbed a Cheshire Citra IPA at Wvrst.

How's the Cheshire Citra? I heard it's pretty great...

Had an Cameron's RPA
Then a Victory Storm Kind and seriously considering cracking a Rochefort 10...

Should I?

phirleh · Post by **phirleh** » Wed Jul 18, 2012 10:59 pm

JeffPorter wrote:
phirleh wrote:
iguenard wrote:I love summer.
Me too, having a Rochefort 8, earlier today, grabbed a Cheshire Citra IPA at Wvrst.
How's the Cheshire Citra? I heard it's pretty great...

Had an Cameron's RPA
Then a Victory Storm Kind and seriously considering cracking a Rochefort 10...

Should I?

I liked it (the Cheshire), citra is my favourite hop, I originally wanted an Augusta, but they were out. Bust open the 10, I hold on to too many high calibre beers waiting for the right occasion. Sometimes you just have to have a good beer.