Stumbled across this at BevMo tonight and it's surprisingly delicious. Not very sweet but really complex and evocative of the ice cream. Wouldn't have more than one a sitting but I'm happy to have it in my fridge.
So Friday, my oldest friend is in town, and we're having a board game night. I promised I'd bring a selection of craft brews with me, and here's what I have lined up:
From left to right:
Brasseurs du Monde (QC):
Houblinnière- Double IPA
Big Ben Porter
Les 2 Frères (QC)
Charles Henri amber ale
Hickson Imperial IPA
Unibroue (QC)
A Tout le Monde- Megadeth beer (Saison)
La Trappe (Only non-Canadian brewery here- The Netherlands)
Trappist Tripel
Beau's All Natural Brewing (ON)
Farm Table Patersbier (A Patersbier)
Farm Table Marzen (A personal fave)
Just by the name and ad copy on the box I'm thinking this HAS to be trashy as hell. Pink Champale levels of malt liquor depravity. I'm all in, because for whatever reason I love the truly weird and trashy. I google it just for the heck of it. Turns out it was originally brewed in 1902, managed to survive prohibition, went through some changes including actually being turned into a malt competitor of Pink Champale at one point before disappearing completely, then being brought back in 2012 in as close to its original form as Upland Brewery could manage.
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
It's Victory At Sea season and I'm very excited. I don't think I've seen it in a bourbon barrel aged form before, at least not since I've discovered it. This version is amazing, very smooth and rich. The coffee comes across strong and the bourbon bits are delicious. Easily one of the best beers I've ever had.
Carpy on
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I love Victory at Sea but unfortunately they got acquired by InBev and have thus joined my boycott. There's so much good craft beer I can't justify supporting anti-competitive practices with my dollar.
Admittedly I might make an exception for something barrel aged. Really jealous.
I love Victory at Sea but unfortunately they got acquired by InBev and have thus joined my boycott. There's so much good craft beer I can't justify supporting anti-competitive practices with my dollar.
Admittedly I might make an exception for something barrel aged. Really jealous.
They got bought by Constellation I think, not that it's much of a difference. And that's a pretty reasonable stance to take. I don't usually buy their stuff unless I'm at one of their tap rooms but I couldn't pass this up.
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I love Victory at Sea but unfortunately they got acquired by InBev and have thus joined my boycott. There's so much good craft beer I can't justify supporting anti-competitive practices with my dollar.
Admittedly I might make an exception for something barrel aged. Really jealous.
They got bought by Constellation I think, not that it's much of a difference. And that's a pretty reasonable stance to take. I don't usually buy their stuff unless I'm at one of their tap rooms but I couldn't pass this up.
Whoops, you're right, my bad. The ironic bit there is they shut down the (excellent) distillery even though that's the market they know, and so those guys started a new competing distillery called Cutwater.
I love Victory at Sea but unfortunately they got acquired by InBev and have thus joined my boycott. There's so much good craft beer I can't justify supporting anti-competitive practices with my dollar.
Admittedly I might make an exception for something barrel aged. Really jealous.
They got bought by Constellation I think, not that it's much of a difference. And that's a pretty reasonable stance to take. I don't usually buy their stuff unless I'm at one of their tap rooms but I couldn't pass this up.
Whoops, you're right, my bad. The ironic bit there is they shut down the (excellent) distillery even though that's the market they know, and so those guys started a new competing distillery called Cutwater.
They didn't shut it down, they just only bought the brewery side of the business. But the owners lost the name with the sale.
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Kinda seems like same difference to me.
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Wanted something nice to drink this evening and I'm most the way through a bottle of Campfire stout. Reading the bottle it's flavored like a s'more, which isn't wrong but I could swear it's got quite a bit of smoke to it which I love.
And while I was only planning on buying a single bottle, the BevMo had some Dragon's Milk and I don't see that every day so that got bought and is waiting for me as well.
Question for the thread, what type of beer has the lowest floor to you? Talking about bad beers and which type gets the worst. I can see IPA as a common pick but for me a bad IPA is still just hops, which is pretty similar to a good IPA. My answer would probably be stouts. A bad stout is actively undrinkable to me.
All this is inspired by my going into a store for a bomber of Victory At Sea, them being sold out and my subsequent decision to try a random local stout. It ended up being the first bomber I couldn't bring myself to finish in a very long time. A close second for me would probably be a bad pepper beer.
Umami is not a flavor that should be predominant in a beer.
I have had a few weirder dark beers that it seemed like their ferment went a little sideways, they got some glutamate getting made, and they figured "hey, it's dark enough, maybe nobody notices."
this is an inappropriate attitude for a brewmaster to hold.
They moistly come out at night, moistly.
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a thick, syrupy stout with way too complex a flavor is probably my pick and for some reason that’s how the vast majority of stouts are made by craft breweries
Barrel aged stuff is my favorite hot trend right now, so tasty! I'm sure it'll get overly exposed soon and I'll get tired of it (like super hoppy stuff) but for now I'm enjoying it. Backwoods Bastard from Founders is probably my favorite example of the genre right now.
Barrel aged stuff is my favorite hot trend right now, so tasty! I'm sure it'll get overly exposed soon and I'll get tired of it (like super hoppy stuff) but for now I'm enjoying it. Backwoods Bastard from Founders is probably my favorite example of the genre right now.
Barrel aged stuff is my favorite hot trend right now, so tasty! I'm sure it'll get overly exposed soon and I'll get tired of it (like super hoppy stuff) but for now I'm enjoying it. Backwoods Bastard from Founders is probably my favorite example of the genre right now.
Any favorites?
Allagash makes some great barrel aged stuff. Avery is pretty good but can get outrageous quickly.
Barrel aged stuff is my favorite hot trend right now, so tasty! I'm sure it'll get overly exposed soon and I'll get tired of it (like super hoppy stuff) but for now I'm enjoying it. Backwoods Bastard from Founders is probably my favorite example of the genre right now.
Any favorites?
I'm not a big stout fan anymore, but the barrel-aged Old Rasputin is something else.
Thanks to a dead man's liquor cabinet, I now have a bottle of this.
I'm guessing early 80s, maybe late 70s, as it predates barcodes, but still has a plastic shrinkwrap over the cap. It's unopened. Interestingly, Controy wasn't imported into the US until 2013, and even then it was under the name "Naranjas" so as to not piss off Cointreau I suppose. So whatever store this came from was importing it locally themselves.
There's also a bottle of Jose Cuervo silver that I'm guessing is the same age, since it's just as dirty, lacks a barcode, and has the same Texas state liquor tax stamp on it.
Oddest thing about it is that the recipe on the back, in Spanish they refer to it by name but in English they just say "triple sec".
Remy Martin is super represented in hip hop music because it's good. I like the Remy 1738 (if I'm remembering that number right), but even their least expensive cognac is tasty.
We bought a bottle of XO Cognac (Deau) for a friend, didn't drink Cognac before but it was quite tasty.
Tempted to get a Cognac in house for myself, though not going to spend the same $$$. Anyone got some good value recommendations?
If you like Armagnac, and I don't see why you wouldn't, Tariquet is very good for the price. The VSOP is extremely drinkable for a budget brandy and cheap enough you can use it for cocktails without more than a brief twinge to the walletal tissues..
That's vague...especially since their stuff also won last year. Bud Lite wins all kinds of awards too because it is often considered the best "lite american lager" in the "large scale brewery" category. You have to tell me what it beat to get me interested.
That's vague...especially since their stuff also won last year. Bud Lite wins all kinds of awards too because it is often considered the best "lite american lager" in the "large scale brewery" category. You have to tell me what it beat to get me interested.
A quick glance reveals to me that they hand out multiple gold/silver medals, so it's a "how much did the judges like it" not a "this got first place" kind of thing
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Stumbled across this at BevMo tonight and it's surprisingly delicious. Not very sweet but really complex and evocative of the ice cream. Wouldn't have more than one a sitting but I'm happy to have it in my fridge.
From left to right:
Brasseurs du Monde (QC):
Houblinnière- Double IPA
Big Ben Porter
Les 2 Frères (QC)
Charles Henri amber ale
Hickson Imperial IPA
Unibroue (QC)
A Tout le Monde- Megadeth beer (Saison)
La Trappe (Only non-Canadian brewery here- The Netherlands)
Trappist Tripel
Beau's All Natural Brewing (ON)
Farm Table Patersbier (A Patersbier)
Farm Table Marzen (A personal fave)
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Just by the name and ad copy on the box I'm thinking this HAS to be trashy as hell. Pink Champale levels of malt liquor depravity. I'm all in, because for whatever reason I love the truly weird and trashy. I google it just for the heck of it. Turns out it was originally brewed in 1902, managed to survive prohibition, went through some changes including actually being turned into a malt competitor of Pink Champale at one point before disappearing completely, then being brought back in 2012 in as close to its original form as Upland Brewery could manage.
http://growlermag.com/glass-from-the-past-champagne-velvet/
And it's honestly pretty decent. Nothing really special but smooth and good tasting.
It's excellent. Dark and rich, little bit of caramel, a lot of malt and just slightly sweet.
I'm sure it's going to be disgusting.
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fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
It's Victory At Sea season and I'm very excited. I don't think I've seen it in a bourbon barrel aged form before, at least not since I've discovered it. This version is amazing, very smooth and rich. The coffee comes across strong and the bourbon bits are delicious. Easily one of the best beers I've ever had.
Admittedly I might make an exception for something barrel aged. Really jealous.
They got bought by Constellation I think, not that it's much of a difference. And that's a pretty reasonable stance to take. I don't usually buy their stuff unless I'm at one of their tap rooms but I couldn't pass this up.
Whoops, you're right, my bad. The ironic bit there is they shut down the (excellent) distillery even though that's the market they know, and so those guys started a new competing distillery called Cutwater.
They didn't shut it down, they just only bought the brewery side of the business. But the owners lost the name with the sale.
And while I was only planning on buying a single bottle, the BevMo had some Dragon's Milk and I don't see that every day so that got bought and is waiting for me as well.
All this is inspired by my going into a store for a bomber of Victory At Sea, them being sold out and my subsequent decision to try a random local stout. It ended up being the first bomber I couldn't bring myself to finish in a very long time. A close second for me would probably be a bad pepper beer.
I have had a few weirder dark beers that it seemed like their ferment went a little sideways, they got some glutamate getting made, and they figured "hey, it's dark enough, maybe nobody notices."
this is an inappropriate attitude for a brewmaster to hold.
Any favorites?
I’m partial to New Holland’s Dragon’s Milk. https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/335/5428/
Allagash makes some great barrel aged stuff. Avery is pretty good but can get outrageous quickly.
It's enough that I've sworn trying them at all, for fear of having a repeat incident.
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I'm not a big stout fan anymore, but the barrel-aged Old Rasputin is something else.
I'm guessing early 80s, maybe late 70s, as it predates barcodes, but still has a plastic shrinkwrap over the cap. It's unopened. Interestingly, Controy wasn't imported into the US until 2013, and even then it was under the name "Naranjas" so as to not piss off Cointreau I suppose. So whatever store this came from was importing it locally themselves.
There's also a bottle of Jose Cuervo silver that I'm guessing is the same age, since it's just as dirty, lacks a barcode, and has the same Texas state liquor tax stamp on it.
Oddest thing about it is that the recipe on the back, in Spanish they refer to it by name but in English they just say "triple sec".
Tempted to get a Cognac in house for myself, though not going to spend the same $$$. Anyone got some good value recommendations?
If you like Armagnac, and I don't see why you wouldn't, Tariquet is very good for the price. The VSOP is extremely drinkable for a budget brandy and cheap enough you can use it for cocktails without more than a brief twinge to the walletal tissues..
https://www.esquire.com/food-drink/drinks/a21343868/aldi-whisky-best-in-world/
The bottles are $17 and $23.
It could be a passable bourbon at this point.
That's vague...especially since their stuff also won last year. Bud Lite wins all kinds of awards too because it is often considered the best "lite american lager" in the "large scale brewery" category. You have to tell me what it beat to get me interested.
A quick glance reveals to me that they hand out multiple gold/silver medals, so it's a "how much did the judges like it" not a "this got first place" kind of thing
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i'll drink anything twice