jbrshmonster Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 i have a few random bottles saved. my old roommate works at a distributor, so i'm always amazed at some of the art and packaging. i thought this was really nice, but I've yet to drink it. speakeasy butchertown printed on the bottle this is my shit though when it's around Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShortFuse Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Wow didnt think I would rub some the wrong way by my tacky comment. Didnt really mean to offend. I guess its just the amount of space thats taken up. I did know someone that keeps all the labels in a big folder behind laminate. Thought that was nice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aumstarsbcf Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 ^^Troegs! That's the home town jam, good shit, if you see there Java head, or Mad elf pick em up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 not offended, just discussing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tango 24 Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 picked up a 6 pack of this to try after work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 not offended, just discussing. Damn straight. You can rub me up the right way though, if you're offering, Fusey? @Tango: Not a bad go to beer, not a huge amount going on but at least it has true WA roots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crime stoppers Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Damn straight. You can rub me up the right way though, if you're offering, Fusey? @Tango: Not a bad go to beer, not a huge amount going on but at least it has true WA roots. what's going on with WA beer these days? any new breweries popping up? i remember in the months leading up to my trip last year there were a shitload of micros's popping up in the eastern states. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tango 24 Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 I'm quite taken with it, I prefer a smooth, slightly more aromatic beer and this meets my criteria. I keep on seeing this beer where I am at the moment, anybody tasted it? Booze is quite expensive out the back of woop woop and I don't feel like wasting money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serum Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 chicago has had an explosion of breweries Revolution being the best of them. http://revbrew.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
support local lurker Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Give me a day or two guys, have pictures from the Sierra Nevada world record night. Including Narwhal on tap, Big foot 2010-2011 and 2012 on tap. Hoptimum on tap. 3 year old barleywine aged in a brandy barrel, one in a bourbon barrel, and one in a regular oak barrel. Also included are some other bombers ive found. Edit: im going to start uploading now. EditEdit: that butchertown is nice, i love being only an hour from Speakeasy. and only 45 mins from firestone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
support local lurker Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 My tumblr. Not very good at it, but i just started posting pictures. http://craftbeeronly.tumblr.com/ aged from 2010, BigFoot. Sierra Nevada. Narwhal on tap. Life and Limb. Sierra Nevada Sierr Nevada, Hoptimum. I forget what this was... Shit. Port Brewing's seasonal, fresh hop, High Tide IPA This is all for now, wish i have been taking more pictures of other good finds. but i have been slacking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 what's going on with WA beer these days? any new breweries popping up? i remember in the months leading up to my trip last year there were a shitload of micros's popping up in the eastern states. There's a few popping up regionally, Denmark Ales, some joint out in Boulder even... Great Southern has Boston Brewery. Nothing really new in Perth, Blacksalt in North Freo, at the old surf club. It's just that nobody bottles. Too bloody expensive/hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crime stoppers Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 There's a few popping up regionally, Denmark Ales, some joint out in Boulder even... Great Southern has Boston Brewery. Nothing really new in Perth, Blacksalt in North Freo, at the old surf club. It's just that nobody bottles. Too bloody expensive/hard. i was always told that the costs of setting up a brewery in perth or even aus is a ridiculously expensive and hard process. as you're on the production side of things, why is that? i'd guess importing most equiptment, liquour laws and general prices would be the main ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 Tax and an amazing amount of red tape to get a licence is what turns most people off, even if they have the money. Liquor Licencing, Racing Gaming & Liquor, Health Dept, Police, ATO excise dept, local shire approvals - that's what makes it hard, I'm looking at about four full lever arch files of paperwork that took me well over a year and a half to complete and have full approval. It is MUCH MUCH easier to get a licence over east. I mean hell, you can buy booze 24 hours a day at the 7eleven's in Melbourne! Then you have to get the building approved for use, by pretty much all those same people, audits, weekly tax returns, it's actually a bit of a fucking nightmare. Even more fun when you've got a record! Awesome! Equipment/premises is definitely the most expensive aspect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crime stoppers Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 that's almost precisely what i expected. i've always wondered which city would be the easiest and most rewarding to set up shop in and i always thought perth would be alluring because of the lack of local competition, but recently i've come to realise some of the hoops you have to jump through (as you clarified) are a bit too ridiculous. in germany, belgium and poland (from what i've experienced), it is too easy to set up a new micro but the competition kills the chances of succeeding. australia really does seem like a great place to set up but it is pretty unlikely perth would hold much of a prospect in the future. although having said that, i've surprisingly found LC brews in a bunch of western European countries, they seem to be doing it very right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 They are owned by the Japanese mate, Lion bought them out for over $300mm... they also just shut down Swan Brewery out at Canning Vale. Every cunt said I was paranoid about the Lion take over and how it would effect us, now look what's happened. They are building a new massive brew plant.... IN GEELONG. So, we're pretty much fucked out of it, once more. The now largest brewery in the state is Gage Roads, which is now pretty much completely owned by Woolworths, who own around 30% of the nations bottle shops. Their approval to add a $12.4MM expansion to the joint so that Woolworths can make their own CRAFT BEER, was finalised within a few weeks. Sorry. Gets me a bit riled up. The massive places like Woolworths can get just about anything done, the have 42 QC's on their books. 42! The government is fuckin' scared to say no to them. Ugh. We just do not have the population for a 'grey area' market like other countries do, you're either TINY (like me) and scraping by, or fuckin' huge and dominating - there's no in betweens here, not if you want to eat something other than dog food for the rest of your life. The most positive thing at the moment is the American market really pushing the canned craft beer, nobody in Australia has the money to market it enough to convince people that beer from a can, poured into a glass, is better than beer from a glass bottle. It will take time, but it will filter out to here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tango 24 Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 I've only heard canned being inferior to bottled before, what's the deal with canned being better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShortFuse Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 I would think for starters light cant penetrate the can, cans cool quicker, and probably once set up its cheaper and less taxing on the environment. I know that is the one of the main pushes to have Stelvin Enclosures (twist caps) used on wine bottles is because of the overall abundance of aluminum and the less cost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Pretty much what Fuse said. Light strike/taint is non existent in cans. They're cleaner, better sealed, far more easily recycled. They just... make sense? Stelvins were catapulted to market when the global cork shortage become a big deal, they still have their issues. I don't know of any bottling lines laying their bottles down with a stelvin seal around here. Leakage issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griteeth Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 opened that voodoo doughtnut bacon maple ale yesterday. worst most awful tasting beer i have ever had. fuck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Realism Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 I drank a six of Brown Shugga on Wednesday night--wow that was an achey Thanksgiving morning Narwhal tonight hopefully Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 so narwhal is delicious. but. its really intense (implied in 'imperial stout') and a pint was kind of a lot. the alcohol is a bit strong in the finish, but still its quite good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vanfullofretards Posted November 25, 2012 Share Posted November 25, 2012 Whats the nose on it? haha just kidding I fuckin hate those beer advocate reviewers that somehow manage to pick out 20 different fucking flavors and scents from one beer. "A nice floral aroma with a slight hint of ginger" Eat shit. /end rant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted November 25, 2012 Share Posted November 25, 2012 I get them every fucking day, mate. Everyone is a fucking expert, I got told on Friday that my stout was 'under carbonated', get fucked you idiot, it's a fuckin' stout, it's perfectly within spec and you're just some BA faggot that regurgitates crap he's read online. /rant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 a couple weeks back i was drinking with a friend and some of her friends. the boyfriend orders 4 beers and brings them back to us. 1 in the mix was a dales, the other 3 were some belgian. the friend's friend tastes mine (the dales) with strawberry gum in her mouth and half the pint of belgian gone and tells me that mine isn't a dales, its something else, dales is brighter than this, yada yada. i didn't bother to argue, i just told her she was wrong and didn't know beer. she works for a very significant fort collins brewery. edit. upon typing this story out i'm not sure the point other than i hate beer douches that don't know what they're talking about. beer snobs that know i like talking to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theprotester Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 "This is the best beer in region" - no sale "I love this lager, so nice and hoppy" - it's ale, and it's barely got a sniff of hops, which is the actual reason you like it you limp wristed chequered wearing motherfucker. "I don't drink dark beer" - That's fine, you don't like beer. Fuck off, and for future reference, when you order a glass of Stout, it's going to be dark. "I've been drinking beer my whole life, I think I know what I'm talking about" - No, cocksnap, drinking XXXX Gold for thirty years doesn't mean you know anything about beer, it means you're a cheap fuck that bashes his missus. "Just let me take this chewy out of my mouth" - Just let me take those teeth out of your mouth. You remember the bad, more than the good. The good memories in your life don't haunt you, do they? I get mainly positive people, and people that are 'in tune' with how they taste my beers - if you don't like it, that's fine, I am absolutely cool with that, I have no idea how many beers I've tried and not liked. But to assume that because you don't like it makes it bad is one of the dumbest things humans do, across the board. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eviltrailer77 Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 This shit pisses me off to no end. People that, 10 years ago, used to heckle me for drinking "fru-fru faggot beer" now try to give me lectures on beer. Go get fucked you ignorant sheeple. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_gacy Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 Back to saving bottles for a minute, I can see it being tacky if it's crap beers. But, I've been to some brewpubs that have a whole history of old bottles/cans behind glass all around their place and I have to admit that was pretty cool, especially in an area that was rich in the brewing tradition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fist 666 Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 I also forgot to add that i save bottle caps and fill decorative/weird glass stuff with them. its a good conversation piece. though lately i've been asked why there are so many highlife caps on top... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_gacy Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 Did that too, one of each kind, but stopped that a long time ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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