Beer! Glorious Beer Thread!

[Auspice]

Uploaded with ImageShack.us

Without a doubt greatest beer I have ever drank.

Fucking love that beer.

Nice beer collection Pirian. Here's a pic from about a month ago of my "cellar". I have about that much in homebrew too plus 5 kegs of homebrew on tap.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...imic/temp2.jpg

[Pirian]

Ahh fucking nice, man!

[Auspice]

My problem is that I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I get a really awesome one off or rare beer and I can't bring myself to just drink the damned thing unless it's a special occasion or something.

[pahnphoenix]

My problem is that I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I get a really awesome one off or rare beer and I can't bring myself to just drink the damned thing unless it's a special occasion or something.

as long as you veer toward stouts, barleywines, wild ales, etc, and ease up on the IPAs, all the better if you buy more than you can drink, no?

however, i'm in the "take a night when you have nothing else to do, and make the special occasion the beer itself," camp.

[Quixon]

Just tried some Dogfish Head beers this weekend. I'm impressed so far.

90 Minute IPA
Miles Davis' Bitches Brew
Raison D'Etre


All of them were pretty damn good.

[pahnphoenix]

if you like 90minute and happen to see dogfish head's squall IPA around, definitely pick it up. it's a dry hopped version of 90 minute (after they make the beer, they soak hops in it for a week or so to get more flavor and aroma into the beer). also my favorite IPA, though it kind of diverges away from what most people think of when they think of the style.

another one not to pass up is their burton baton, which is basically a double IPA aged in oak tanks, which imparts kind of a woody/almost vanilla flavor to the beer that works really well.

[Auspice]

Even IPAs can age well too! Sure, they lose some of the "bite" they have when fresh but I've had some year old 90 minute that was fucking tasty!

[pahnphoenix]

i want to say that i don't agree, but i've had year old squall IPA that proves your point.

edit: "want to say i don't agree" b/c you have to admit it would suck to score some hot shot IPA and then drink it 6 months later after the hops flavor has all faded; it may be a good beer, but you're not even really getting to try the "special" beer if you think about it. it's like how some bar on the west coast recently put up their 6 month old keg of pliny the younger and everyone thought it tasted alright but beer geeks were mad. the beer doesn't go bad, but the point of seeking out the beer is a bit undermined.

(also, most IPAs really do get appreciably worse with a few months)

[Auspice]

Totally agree with you. It's interesting though to see the beer go through a complete transformation after six months to a year(or longer!). I definitely think you should drink beer fresh to know what it's like but after that it's pretty sweet to try stuff when it's aged. Even better when you have them side by side for comparisons too!

[Zoolander]

Fridge atm has: 750ml Double Arrogant Bastard, 750ml DFH Squall, 750 Stone Ruination IPA, I just grabbed a 6 pack of Bell's The Oracle DIPA, and a 4 pack of Terrapin Big Hoppy Monster (a hoppy red ale).

Really looking forward to the last two since I've had the others before. I hear The Oracle is similar to Hopslam (both are same abv and dipa), with some saying its better but most saying its not quite as good. Hop heads apparently like it more, which means it should be perfect for me.

That Big Hoppy Monster sounds fucking good too, I'm hoping its similar to CCB's Tocobaga Red Ale, since they are rated about the same on BA and are both hoppy red ales. Can't wait!

[Pirian]

I missed pictures for a few nights of drinking, but here's what we drank on the 24th:

http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/y...p/100_0162.jpg


And special recognition to a very special beer:

http://i793.photobucket.com/albums/y...p/100_0161.jpg

Try not to focus on my very drunk friend in the background - caught him mid stutter...err, I mean sentence. Was oh so very very tasty. The alcohol was surprisingly absent for the 18 percent that it is. I really didn't get the strong alcohol taste that I found in reviews. Definitely get a bottle of this if you can find it.

edit: lol just noticed the price is right there on the bottle. $10 for the 12 ounce bottle, so it's not cheap but was worth it.

Oh, and don't make fun of my shitty phone, I know it's shitty.

[Tokitoki]

I thought that was the Indian Brown Ale at first. I didn't like the Indian Brown Ale. Thought it was too heavy. It just sat in my stomach and had too strong an alcohol taste. I love DFH otherwise though. My griflfriend and I went on a quest for Bitches Brew for my birthday at the beginning of the month. Have the bottle upstairs.

[Skyylya]

i'm enjoying a lagunitas brown shugga' right now....pretty damn good

[Pirian]

I thought that was the Indian Brown Ale at first. I didn't like the Indian Brown Ale. Thought it was too heavy. It just sat in my stomach and had too strong an alcohol taste. I love DFH otherwise though. My griflfriend and I went on a quest for Bitches Brew for my birthday at the beginning of the month. Have the bottle upstairs.

Yeah, we have a bottle of Bitches Brew that we'll be opening up one of these days. We're all looking forward to that one. Another one we're looking forward to is Bell's 10,000 Batch, which I can't even find on the BeerAdvocate or RateBeer

[Tokitoki]

It was delicious. I might see if the place we got it from has more. Have to drive 40mins to get there though.

[pahnphoenix]

Yeah, we have a bottle of Bitches Brew that we'll be opening up one of these days. We're all looking forward to that one. Another one we're looking forward to is Bell's 10,000 Batch, which I can't even find on the BeerAdvocate or RateBeer

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/287/63989

the recipe for it is fucking ridiculous. they use well more hops and malt varieties than could be reasonably expected to influence the flavor; it's gimmicky and silly (they use something like > 100 malt varieties, while most beers use like 1 to 5). someone posted the ingredients list on beeradvocate, and it was immediately met with indignation and ridicule by homebrewers (generally to the tune of how you'd have to use .01 oz of every ingredient were you to try to make a homebrewed clone).

that said, it's probably a good beer. stupid amounts different hops and malt don't necessarily kill a beer like different ingredients usually kill food, nor do they require a "deft hand" or something like too many ingredients in food might; they just don't all make a discernible difference.

re: bitches brew, i wasn't a fan. idea sounded good, but couldn't get into it. i see that i waxed longwinded about jazz/beer analogies in my review (was probably drunk).

[Zoolander]

I just busted into the DFH Squall IPA and Terrapin Big Hoppy Monster (Imperial Red ale)

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...5_932762_n.jpg

decided to take my own pic! turns out that bottle was almost two years old and was part of the first batch of Squall they made lol. It wasn't super hoppy although it still had a bite, but it actually tasted really well for being that old. I could get the sense I was having a 90min IPA but other flavors were coming through, was def intriguing. I'm thinking I might set out on a mission to drink as many DFH beers as possible. Everything I've had of theirs is so good...60, 90, Palo Santo, Squall, Midas Touch, Chateau Jihau, Indian Brown, Raison d'etre, Burton Baton, Immort Ale...still quite a few I haven't tried (ive tried more, like Sah'tea...but that wasnt so good lol), namely the fucking 120min that continues to elude me and that world wide stout can join the to-do list for sure.

And Big Hoppy Monster was the fucking bomb. The first sip was kind of soso, but after downing a few more gulps it was amazing. Not sure I've ever had something that would be classified as an Imperial Red Ale before. BA rates it alright but I loved it.

[pahnphoenix]

I just busted into the DFH Squall IPA and Terrapin Big Hoppy Monster (Imperial Red ale)

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...5_932762_n.jpg

decided to take my own pic! turns out that bottle was almost two years old and was part of the first batch of Squall they made lol. It wasn't super hoppy although it still had a bite, but it actually tasted really well for being that old. I could get the sense I was having a 90min IPA but other flavors were coming through, was def intriguing. I'm thinking I might set out on a mission to drink as many DFH beers as possible. Everything I've had of theirs is so good...60, 90, Palo Santo, Squall, Midas Touch, Chateau Jihau, Indian Brown, Raison d'etre, Burton Baton, Immort Ale...still quite a few I haven't tried (ive tried more, like Sah'tea...but that wasnt so good lol), namely the fucking 120min that continues to elude me and that world wide stout can join the to-do list for sure.

And Big Hoppy Monster was the fucking bomb. The first sip was kind of soso, but after downing a few more gulps it was amazing. Not sure I've ever had something that would be classified as an Imperial Red Ale before. BA rates it alright but I loved it.

mm, squall is actually my favorite DIPA (i don't know how "representative" it is, but i love it). i've also had it over a year old, and it's still great, maybe even better (i don't mind that it loses some punch). the only other DFH i can think of that i like (that you didn't mention) is aprihop, though i bet that will only be good fresh. my friend really likes olde school, though it makes me want to jump off a building. i haven't tried my antonia, but strongly suspect that it's good.

terrapin i haven't had ;__;. however, i'm a big fan of lagunitas's imperial red, lucky 13. this beer is supposed to be good too, though i'm skeptical of anything by long trail (i pick it up and put it down every time i see it at bottle shops, since people talked it up a lot on BA).

sorry for punctuating these threads with my posts(:. i like talking about beer.

[Eratosthenes]

You don't need to apologize for that.

[Pirian]

My roommates been looking forward to Lucky 13. He and a friend of ours have been drinking without me (for shame!) so I'm not sure if I missed it or not, but I'm thinking no because we have just so much to go through