What're you drinking right now?

Ale's What Cures Ya · Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:11 am

Founder's Porter.

Nice to be drinking a world beater after working my way through some of the blander Ontario options gumming up my cellar.

Plus I needed something exquisite to celebrate the end of the NFL lockout.

cratez · Post by **cratez** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 2:37 am

Tonight at Piece Brewery & Pizzeria and The Map Room:

Piece Dysfunctionale (draught) - one of the best IPAs that I've had in a long time. Very citric, oily, and floral, lots of passion and tropical fruit (pineapple), bone dry/chalky finish with boatloads of pine and resin on the cough. Big hop burps.

Piece Flat Iron Stout (draught) - roasty as hell, but way too malt forward (almost cloying) for my liking. Low hops and English in style. Disappointing.

Three Floyds Dreadnaught DIPA (draught) - speaks for itself.

Rogue Morimoto Imperial Pilsner (draught) - biscuit, grain, hay-like funk, floral and fruity hops, lemony and astringent bitterness that intensifies as the beer warms. Satisfying.

Half Acre Daisy Cutter (can) - world class session APA, more complex malt profile (nutty, caramelly) than I expected. Worth seeking out.

Traveller · Post by **Traveller** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 7:46 pm

Founders Double Trouble. Pretty good, not quite the punch I was expecting from a Doublbe IPA.

Smuttynose Big A IPA. Wow what a punch, this is absolutely delicious.

Belgian · Post by **Belgian** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 8:15 pm

Eggenberg Urbock 23º / exp 04/11 - for a lager it sure tastes almost like a light barley wine. It's a great beer aged.

St Bernardus 12 / exp precisely 23.05.2010. Proof you should always let sleeping St Bernards lie... tastes wonderful, still very full but more wine-like than it used to be after 6 years' maturity. It is now emulating the world-beater Westy 12 the recipe is modeled after. Wow, glad I stashed away a few spares.

iguenard · Post by **iguenard** » Wed Jul 27, 2011 10:13 pm

Goose Island Bourbon County Stout 2009 and Hopslam 2011.

Cant think of a better way to celebrate a great hockey win around a fire. The stout tastes like it hasn't aged a day and the hopslam was spot on!

Wish I had more of each... Nice setup for my friday tasting !

icemachine · Post by **icemachine** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:17 am

Went out for a few drinks last night
Spearhead HSPA
Amsterdam Framboise
Saison Dupont
Black forest cake beer cocktail (McAuslan Oatmeal stout & Kirsch, I believe)
Durham Hop Head

Garthicus · Post by **Garthicus** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:59 pm

Red Racer of course!

G.M. Gillman · Post by **G.M. Gillman** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:24 pm

The kolsch-style beer from Beau's, on draft. Exemplary brewing, using one of the sub-sets of German hop tastes - I was in Germany at the end of last year and remember this precise taste. Hayfields and loamy earth, a rural, natural taste - but I can't accustom to it.

Gary

Streets · Post by **Streets** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:40 pm

Popped into the Judge after work for a glass of Spearhead HSPA.

Cale · Post by **Cale** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:53 pm

G.M. Gillman wrote: Hayfields and loamy earth, a rural, natural taste - but I can't accustom to it.

Pretty much sums up why I personally can't stand this beer.

Warming up a fresh Stonehammer Dark and will likely follow that with a Smash Bomb. Between my girlfriends' site visits that made her pass through Barrie (Flying Monkeys), Guelph (F&M/Wellington), and another one tomorrow for Niagara (Taps)... I am one spoiled son of a bitch when it comes to brewery-fresh beers this week.

JesseM · Post by **JesseM** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:22 pm

Cale wrote:Warming up a fresh Stonehammer Dark...

You mean you don't want that refreshing cold taste?!?!?

sprague11 · Post by **sprague11** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 10:24 pm

Great Divide Rumble - Far better after letting it warm for 20 minutes.

iguenard · Post by **iguenard** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 12:01 am

Paper city Hop Monster blonde. Meh. Also had a Kalamazoo Stout with Some pulled pork.

cratez · Post by **cratez** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 1:42 am

Yesterday at U.S. Cellular Field, The Publican, and Haymarket Pub & Brewery:

Goose Island Honkers Ale (draught)
Lagunitas Zephyr (draught)
Great Lakes Lake Erie Monster DIPA (bottle)
Mikkeller Draft Bear (draught)
Green Flash Summer Saison (draught)
SKA Modus Hoperandi IPA (can)

Today at Bad Apple and Half Acre Brewery (all 1-2oz samples, since I was driving):

Mikkeller Single Hop Warrior IPA (draught)
Mikkeller Single Hop Simcoe IPA (draught)
Lagunitas Lucky #13 (draught)
Left Hand Good Juju Ginger (draught)
Half Acre Over Ale (draught)
Half Acre Dripping Saison (draught)

Grabbed a mixed case of Daisy Cutter and Gossamer at Half Acre, and two mixed cases of Alpha King, Pride & Joy, Gumballhead, Dreadnaught, Lord Admiral Nelson, Gorch Fock, and Arctic Panzer Wolf at Three Floyds. Great ending to the best vacation of my life!

Bobsy · Post by **Bobsy** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 4:06 pm

Ithaca Cascazilla. God, I love long weekends!