The Beer Thread

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even though i just posted all those... this is still my favorite.

 

 

 

 

[Shittles..TasteTheAsshole]

Fuck I need a beer

[count chocula]

Where were you at Choc?

 

Those glasses look all nice lined up right there. and looks like a hefty tab.

 

just saw this -

i was at a local spot that serves some real nice brews. tab wasn't that bad. they've got chimay on tap for $5.

i'm not huge on chimay, but since it's been hot i go and hit up that allagash white...stuff is super crisp.

 

:)

[yinz n'at]

[morton]

Humboldt county up in here with that Great White, I stopped by the brewery last year when I was down there for a wedding, nice little town, kind of shitty food at the brewery in my opinion.

 

I am drinking PABST and I do not think that makes me a hipster just a unemployed individual who appreciates the 4 dollar rebate coupon on a nine dollar eighteen pack of beer.

[count chocula]

nothing wrong with pbr on a budget

i just hate the headaches that follow

[opentop]

man i just moved down to florida and the beer selection down here sucks....even whole foods dosnt have shit

[support local lurker]

gotta hit up a Bevmo

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Prehistoric Yeast Used to Brew Fossil Fuels Beer

 

Talk about a cold swig of history.

 

Beer made from a yeast 45 million years old will soon be hitting taps in California.

 

Northern California microbrewer Stumptown Brewery is already selling two brews made with the yeast, extracted from a prehistoric piece of amber found in Burma. But as early as next month, Fossil Fuels Brewing Co. plans to distribute two others made with the yeast on a larger scale.

 

Find out where after the jump.

 

Don't expect to be drinking mead when you down one of the company's wheat or "Ancient Ales."

 

"In the world of microbiology, 45 million years doesn't cause a lot of changes," Chip Lambert, the president of Fossil Fuels Brewing Co., of Oakland, Calif., told Slashfood on Wednesday. "We call this the mother of all modern yeasts, but it's just a 45-million-year-old mom."

 

The yeast colony, grown from samples extracted from prehistoric amber, do different things than their modern cousins in the brewing department, he says.

 

"We've certainly noticed a couple of different characteristics in its sugar assimilation and a couple of different characteristics in how it brews," Lambert says. "It's not that much different from modern brewing yeast, but it's enough different that it really adds unique flavors and brews in a pretty unique way."

 

Stumptown has already experimented with the yeast in its X.P. and XPort brews. But Kelley Brothers Brewing Co. in Manteca, Calif., will begin brewing on a commercial scale with the yeast this month, Lambert says. The company will use the X.P. recipe for the Ancient Ale, according to Stumptown.

 

Fossil Fuels Wheat beer and Fossil Fuels Ancient Ale should be ready for distribution in the California Bay Area by September, he says. It will only be available in kegs.

 

"We just hope that it gets out there and everybody enjoys it because it is unique and it is very good," Lambert says.

[ih8juggalos]

 

a bitch beer i know, but the a.c. isnt lacking too heavily and the drinkability is unmatched lol

[the.crooked]

just saw this -

i was at a local spot that serves some real nice brews. tab wasn't that bad. they've got chimay on tap for $5.

i'm not huge on chimay, but since it's been hot i go and hit up that allagash white...stuff is super crisp.

 

:)

 

 

Well, I was asking cus I thought for some reason you were in SF. so i wondered if it was Le Trap in northbeach. One of my friends has gone there a couple times and I haven't made it out there yet.

[DGK404]

 

a bitch beer i know, but the a.c. isnt lacking too heavily and the drinkability is unmatched

lol

 

That isn't a Bitch Beer, this is a Bitch Beer. . . or rather a Beer Bitch, and a Bierbitzch. That is enough puns for a few months I reckon.

[MrChupacabra]

Strawberry beer....puke. And the alcohol content isn't lacking? its 4.1% abv, which is the equivalent of Bud Light. Total bitch beer. You might as well drink Zima while you're busy diddling your vagina.

[LUGR]

[ih8juggalos]

Strawberry beer....puke. And the alcohol content isn't lacking? its 4.1% abv, which is the equivalent of Bud Light. Total bitch beer. You might as well drink Zima while you're busy diddling your vagina.

 

ya but i get this shit for free at the restaurant i work at. and last time i checked, free beer is always good beer

[Shittles..TasteTheAsshole]

I just traded a gram of some recently harvested outdoor for a 12 pack of Mill St. Tankhouse Ale. 5.2%

 

A complex malty texture. The spicy Cascades hop is used to give an assertive hop flavour, aroma and bitterness. The result is a satisfying and complex-tasting beer.

[LouTool]

this thread always makes me thirsty..HOPTIMUS PRIME>>lulz..had a Hobgoblin that was like chocolate or some shit..pretty cool..TsingTao..just had that..isnt that CHina's numero uNo beer or sum jazz? just wack waterysauce like US's Bud Lite..i always get diff beers from nao on...LooT.

[KILZ FILLZ]

 

they own shock top thru michelob

 

so it MAY not be that bad

 

 

but i mean cmon. firt bud lime now this....

[MrChupacabra]

Shock Top sucks. Beer brewed with coriander and citrus peels sounds terrible, especially coming from Bud Light. I'd set your expectations to mighty low before drinking that.

[KILZ FILLZ]

i wouldnt say it sucks.

if im going hefeweisen im going paulaner though.

[MrChupacabra]

I'm not a good judge of what is or isn't a good hefeweisen, because none of them are good in my book. But i really wasn't impressed by shock top when i tried it. It could just be my hate for most beers with strong fruit flavor to them though.

[yeaaaah baby]

fuck shock top.

fruit beers can suck something.

[ElectricitySucks]

 

I forgot about these. so good.

 

thanks, now im going to have to pick this up tomorrow.

[serum]

 

Atwater Bloktoberfest

 

i've never had anything from atwater and since i'm in the mood for seasonals i grabbed a sixer of this.

wow i was really surprised. definitely in my top 5 for autumn seasonals.

 

Atwater beers

 

 

 

 

Fort Collin's Brewery

Major Tom's Pomegranate Wheat

 

I know fruit beers are gross. i got this thinking if its gross i'll just pass it off to my girl

and pretend i was thinking about her when i bought it. but to be honest i ended up drinking them all.

i wouldn't call this a fruit beer at all since i didn't taste any fruit. it was mainly a blonde ale/wheat beer

with a slight sweet/tart aftertaste. you cant taste pomegranate. i'm going to try the other fort collins

and let you know what other ones are good.

 

 

 

 

Buffalo Bill's brewery (pyramid??)

Pumpkin Ale

so being the open minded beer consumer that i am i was willing to try another pumpkin beer

i was pissed that it turned out to be like 4% alcohol which doesn't make me happy since

i could have gotten miller lite.

in terms of this compared to o'fallons this isnt that great.

way too much spice and very sweet. definitely drinkable however and i wouldnt say dont buy it.

worth a try but i may stay away from pumpkin beers because the novelty is wearing off for me.

[MarcoFromHouston]

my local craft brewery http://www.saintarnold.com/ released their Divine Reserve #8 two weeks ago. Most stores were sold out within the 1st hour it hit the shelves. Very limited release. This is a Scotch Ale. It pours a deep amber brown. Very good, very strong. 9.30% ABV.

 

 

[viperface]

I'm not an expert at all, matter of fact I've gotten to learn things a bit more just recently...

But talking about weissbier and fruits sound mad suspect to me. I mean, why even call it with a german name if you're gonna mix fruit and herbs and shit in it?

Wheat beer sounds less cool?

 

Germans have a long, long history of uptight beer purity laws.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot

 

I only say this because I lately got into hefe weissbiers like Paulaner, Erdinger, Franziskaner and Weihenstephaner... they fucking rule. Although 1 or 2 a night is usually enough for me, and all taste pretty much the same too.

 

 

edit. No intention to sound like a purist with the wisdom...just a thought.

[AREANKAY]

The only reason any company would use the term weissbier or heffe or whatever and then have the addition of fruit is only to inform the buyer of the underlying style of beer. If they did not and just labeled it as a "wheat beer" it could be any of the handful of styles of beer that are brewed with wheat being the main role in the beer.