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Last night at Bar Hop:
Bellwoods Stay Classy (draught)
Great Lakes Simple Porter (draught)
Northwinds Kingpin (draught)

Right now:
Howe Sound Woolly Bugger
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Bellwoods Boogie Monster.

Clearly Bellwoods hasn't figured out how to brew IIPA's yet. Bitter, astringent, not much in the way of hop aroma or flavour. Witchshark isn't great, but this is even worse. How do you fuck up a beer with simcoe and centenial? i'm not sure.
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Seeing in the New Year with:

Green Flash Double Stout

Coronado Stupid Stout

50/50 Eclipse Java Coffee 2013

Paddock Wood Barrel Full of Monkeys
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I opted for a quiet night alone with...

Cantillon Iris (2013)
Cantillon Kriek (2013)
Hair of The Dog Fred (batch 89)
Russian River Supplication (batch 007)

Happy new year!
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Post by Grey »

pre midnight:
Trois Pistoles (aged ~16 months)

at midnight:
my last bottle of Chimay Cent Cinquante... please don't tell me if it ages nicely as it is better than any cheap sparking wine I've had. :)
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DeuS - she's nice one for the style, but I think I enjoy the Ithaca Brut more
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Tonight at Amsterdam BrewHouse's New Year's Eve party:
Amsterdam Space Invader (draught)
Amsterdam Lady Stavoren (draught)
Amsterdam Sour Cherry Imperial Stout (bottle)

Right now:
Lake Of Bays Rock Cut Baysville Lager

Happy New Year's everyone! :D
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Just to put me in a strange synchrony with the last two, I had a Deus before midnight, then an Amsterdam sour cherry after.

I have 3 deus left. I don't love them, but they may well turn into my new years brew just for the bubbles.
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Split with my girlfriend for New Years:

Cascade Blueberry
Greenbush Delusion
Dark Horse BB Plead the Fifth (2013)
Bruery Sour in the Rye
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J343MY wrote:Bellwoods Boogie Monster.

Clearly Bellwoods hasn't figured out how to brew IIPA's yet. Bitter, astringent, not much in the way of hop aroma or flavour. Witchshark isn't great, but this is even worse. How do you fuck up a beer with simcoe and centenial? i'm not sure.
Yeah I don't get the love for their ipas or imperials. This one was letdown for me too.
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Had a quiet New Years last night with the following:

Fremont Kentucky Dark Star
Crooked Stave Origins Grand Cru
Evil Twin Imperial Biscotti Break Natale (Cherry)
Central Waters/Local Option Le Petit Mort (Bourbon)
Founders KBS (2013)
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The Fremont is a beast of a beer!!!
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2012 Orval
2006 Chimay Bleue
2013 Rochefort 10

^ Something about belgian abbey ales in the winter!
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heebes wrote:
J343MY wrote:Bellwoods Boogie Monster - Clearly Bellwoods hasn't figured out how to brew IIPA's yet. Bitter, astringent, not much in the way of hop aroma or flavour. Witchshark isn't great, but this is even worse. How do you fuck up a beer with simcoe and centenial? i'm not sure.
Yeah I don't get the love for their ipas or imperials. This one was letdown for me too.
Not getting it 100% either. A beer like Philips Amnesiac or Avery Maharaja absolutely kills any strongly-hopped IPA of Bellwoods, with great citrus and herbal layers and good complexity. I don't überly care for Witchshark or Roman Candle, they seem malt-heavy and very blunt in style. In fact of all Bellwoods brews I tend to only really like the 'session style' single-hop beers, the saisons, berliner weisse etc. BW are quite good at those! Still I support whatever they do...
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Belgian wrote:Not getting it 100% either. A beer like Philips Amnesiac or Avery Maharaja absolutely kills any strongly-hopped IPA of Bellwoods, with great citrus and herbal layers and good complexity. I don't überly care for Witchshark or Roman Candle, they seem malt-heavy and very blunt in style. In fact of all Bellwoods brews I tend to only really like the 'session style' single-hop beers, the saisons, berliner weisse etc. BW are quite good at those! Still I support whatever they do...
I agree that their IPAs are too malt heavy. I love the grain bill they use for the Monogamy series. I wish they would have a regular IPA with that.
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