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velovampire
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Post by velovampire »

All at home, and perfect ales fort this sticky night:
Beau's LugTread
Bellwoods/Trou de Diable Frambizzle (Raspberry Saison)
(then drainpoured a full can of Hogtown Ale that was pure diacetyl - butterface?)
GLB Crazy Canuck

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Post by cratez »

Last night at Amsterdam BrewHouse:
Maverick & Gose (draught)
Boneshaker IPA (draught)

Then at beerbistro:
Sierra Nevada Porter (bottle)
Rogue Yellow Snow IPA (draught)
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Post by matt7215 »

last night with jsprime:

homebrewed citra xpa
Deschutes Hop Henge Experimental IPA
Heretic Evil Cousin
Lost Abbey Red Poppy
Creemore Springs Mad and Noisy Sunny & Share Citrus Saison

thx for the shares jeff!

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Belgian
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Post by Belgian »

Alesmith IPA, it's gots the hops.
In Beerum Veritas

icemachine
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Post by icemachine »

Ephemere Cerise

It's good, but I still prefer the Pomme or Cassis
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G.M. Gillman
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Post by G.M. Gillman »

Beau's Alt. Authentic, nutty-tasting, tangy German-style alt beer. I would prefer a deeper malt and hop profile - same tastes as present but just more of them - but this is very nice. Slight smoky aftertaste.

Gary
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spinrsx
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Post by spinrsx »

Bear Republic Black Racer - good.. just not as good as I thought it was going to be.

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Post by Belgian »

icemachine wrote:Ephemere Cerise
It's good, but I still prefer the Pomme or Cassis
+1, Cerise is far from awful and I liked it, but the Pomme has been around a while and is extremely well put together.
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Torontoblue
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Post by Torontoblue »

A good day at the Seattle Int. Beer Fest. $45.00 entry fee, which included a 4oz glass and 40 beer tickets, with free admission for every day the festival runs. So, started with:

Hof Ten Dormaal Barrel #3 Madeira Aged
St Feullien/Green Flash Biere de L'Amitie
Boulevard Tank 7
Mad Viking Night Raid
Mad Viking Night Raid Cognac aged (x2)
Upright Mystery (Whisky Barrel Aged #6)
Green Flash Le Freak
Sierra Nevada Ovila Saison with Satsuma
Wandering Angus Bloom Cider
Timmermans Kriek
Linderman's Cuvee Renee
Fremont Barley Wine
Omnipollo Nebuchadnezzar

Back at the hotel and relaxing with a :

Manny's Pale Ale
Deschutes Obsidian
Tieton Dry Cider

Can't wait for day 2 of the beer fest...so many more beers to try!

Beer'n'gin
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Post by Beer'n'gin »

Sawdust City tap takeover at Hardrock42 in Sudbury:

Princess Wears Girl Pants 2XIPA
Red Rocket Stout (stout with chilli peppers I think)
Long Dark Voyage to Whiskey
Ol’ Woody Alt
Gateway Kolsch
Lone Pine IPA on cask

The Alt and Lone Pine on cask were favourites.

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Post by munrets »

At the tail end of a Los Angeles trip and have been doing a little bottle hunting. Tried the DFH 61 yesterday - meh. Also had Mikkeller's Wheat Is The New Hops. I liked it but it came off really unbalanced. Maybe it's just my lack of familiarity with funk. (And on the issue of Brett: I had an Evil Twin Femme Fatale Brett a little while ago which I picked up at Premier Gourmet and it was fantastic - the funk came off as a savouriness that I've never found previously.)

Some of interesting finds out here: a couple of Parabola, three versions of Fifty Fifty Eclipse (2012 red, blue and black wax), RuinTen, The Bruery Bois, a few of Stone's Quingenti Millilitre series (I picked up the 20120 Old Guardian aged in Bourbon Barrels and Ruination aged in Kentucky Bourbon Barrels), Stone/Ballast Point/Kelsey McNair session ale collar, and one that I can't seem to find much about: Cismontane's American Strong Rye Ale, listed at 130 IBUs.

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Post by cratez »

Last night at C'est What?:
Great Lakes Brewing Hissy Fit (draught)
Cameron's Obsidian Imperial Porter (draught)

Then at Bar Hop:
Sawdust City Lone Pine IPA (draught)
St. Louis Gueuze Fond Tradition (bottle)

Right now:
Amsterdam Fracture Imperial IPA
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Post by icemachine »

Last night at home

Smashbomb - last few sixpacks I've had seem to be much more consistent in terms of batch to batch quality
Founders Breakfast Stout
Jai Alai
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spinrsx
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Post by spinrsx »

DDC - Solstice D'Hiver from the lcbo release in 2011. Holding up very well and still a lot of hoppy bitterness

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Bellwoods x TDD Frambizzle

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