What're you drinking right now?

cratez · Post by **cratez** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:26 pm

Last night it was:

Central City Red Racer IPA
Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB) Rise Up Red
Niagara's Best Lager
Flying Monkeys Hoptical Illusion

dutchcanuck · Post by **dutchcanuck** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:23 pm

Has the Niagara's Best Lager improved at all?

cratez · Post by **cratez** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:45 pm

dutchcanuck wrote: Has the Niagara's Best Lager improved at all?

To be honest I was shocked at how good it is, considering it's a pale lager and sells as a value beer at TBS. It's very ale-like, and similar to the Blonde, which some people might resent. I got lots of toasty, bready, and grainy malts, some sweetness, a crisp, spicy and refreshing body, and a surprisingly solid hop bitterness. If you like the style it's worth a shot.

lagerale · Post by **lagerale** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 8:52 pm

Fuller's Vintage 2005

grub · Post by **grub** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:49 pm

cynic, furious, and a bender on deck. i <3 surly.

matt7215 · Post by **matt7215** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 10:01 pm

gold crown kings pilsner
Mill Street Schleimhammer Roggenbier
homebrewed bret c saison version 2

SteelbackGuy · Post by **SteelbackGuy** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 10:50 pm

cratez wrote:Last night it was:

Central City Red Racer IPA
Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB) Rise Up Red
Niagara's Best Lager
Flying Monkeys Hoptical Illusion

Had this last night, thanks Mikey boy!

Tonight, some Hornitos tequila I had sitting around.

boney · Post by **boney** » Thu Aug 26, 2010 1:24 am

Mikkeller Drink'in the Sun 10. This is 2.9% of pure awesome. Even as a low alc beer, it packs in more hops than most West Coast PA's. If it was more affordable and more regularity available, it would be my session beer.

Soods · Post by **Soods** » Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:07 pm

Cigar City Jai Alai IPA
Central City Red Racer IPA (clearly the better of the two)

TJ · Post by TJ » Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:16 pm

Ploegers Vlaams Rood. Wow.

TJ · Post by TJ » Thu Aug 26, 2010 9:44 pm

Oskar Blues Gubna. Ick.

kwjd · Post by **kwjd** » Thu Aug 26, 2010 10:17 pm

TJ wrote:Oskar Blues Gubna. Ick.

Don't enjoy onion flavoured beer?

biegaman · Post by **biegaman** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 4:31 pm

Half Pints Humulus Ludicrous - this shit is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S.

NRman · Post by **NRman** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:01 pm

Duggan's #9 275 lovely mls at a time

G.M. Gillman · Post by **G.M. Gillman** » Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:49 pm

A couple of beers from La Senne, a new micro in Belgium, available currently at beerbistro. The first is Stouterik, a 4.5% ABV stout and a beauty it is. Where it excels on most stouts we get here (or porters, the same style basically) is its firm bitterness. It's a clean big bitter, not American in style but more neutral yet with a big incisive taste. This is what stout needs, and historically the style was well-bittered, it became famous as a well-hopped black beer. The second beer was a pale ale, also well hopped with a spicy variety that I thought might be German. An excellent pale ale with everything right about it.

A new brewery but making classy, well-structured beers, and doing it at just under 5% ABV, thus with sessionable potential. Kudos to the team at beerbistro to find these.

Gary