Quality Beer Thread

[Kuboaa]

Hey guys, I'm interviewing Tony Magee (Lagunitas) later today, if you guys have any questions I'd be happy to ask them for you.


(edit to add: re: this)

This just in...

Lagunitas is building a second brewery in Chicago. Hot damn

that spot is fuckin' huge, how much product do they expect to produce out of it? Are they just going to do just their regular batches or are they going to do some small batches exclusively out of this brewery??

[Potential Boarder]

Can you ask if they have plans for a Chicago brewpub to go along with their production brewery? their Petaluma happy hour and weekly firkin tapping is pretty awesome, and I'd love to see something like that in Chicago. Also, are they planning to expand their barrel aging program?

[pellegrino viking essays]

ask him why people love their regular IPA so much because it's fucking gross and sweet.

And yeah tell him to send me and nakedlunch some Sucks backstock

[MikeS]

love 4 packs because 3 usually suit me well on the weekday. Otherwise I buy 2 bombers and if it's a weeknight I get a little too drunk for a weeknight.

[sleigh]

So I didn't want to stray too far from chicago/the new brewery so I did't ask him about bombers/4 packs. He didn't outright say the new brewery doesn't mean they won't move into LA but he did say it's more about keeping up with demanding and reducing transportation costs/emissions than expanding.

Kuboaa, 140,000 barrels initially.they're not occupying the entire space, just half of it, which is still 150k sqft. As far small batches, they're essentially building a midwest outpost, so they'll do everything here that they do in Petaluma, and Petaluma will continue to to produce everything it already does. Everything east of the rockies will come from here. He sounded excited about doing small batch, chicago-exclusive stuff like Zephyr but there aren't any plans for anything like that right now.

Potential Boarder, it sounds like nothing's concrete but he was very excited about doing certainly a tasting center if not a full on brewpub. I think he wants to, it just depends on how the location works, permits, etc. Which I imagine won't be a problem. Did not ask why he thinks anyone likes their shitty IPA.

Also did a nice little #shotsfired. In talking about how quickly this came about, he talked about how awful it is when companies take a year to scout locations, about how it's really about getting states/towns to offer kickbacks. Said "that's how you end up in Asheville, and not somewhere cool like Chicago."

[pellegrino viking essays]

that's pretty funny.

but...asheville seemed pretty logical for NB/SN to me. It's a very leisure-friendly town in the same vein as ft. collins and chico

[brent]

i thought lagunitas was planning on covering all 50 states by the end of 2012.

[internethandle]

"sculpin habanero" is on over at the beer bar

dunno bout this one, will prob try it if i can

[Kuboaa]

awesome, lagunitas is one of those breweries that I don't normally pay attention to, hopefully they start putting out some interesting new stuff here

[darger]

three floyds really has the best label art.

Local beer geek darling Three Floyds will help local music geek darling Reckless Records celebrate Record Store Day with Rye'd Da Lightning, a rye pale ale.
Rye'd Da Lightning will only be available at Bottom Lounge on April 21 for a show featuring Sweet Cobra, Chicago Thrash Ensemble, and Party Downers.

[VHGisdead]

drinking

didn't know anything about it when I picked it up, it's great

[pellegrino viking essays]

Man, that label.


Had one of these beauties at happy hour today.

[wyatt]

going to drink this tonight. never had one before.

[honkduh]

How do I get one of these?

[wyatt]

pretty hard to land one. gotta trade some other rare stuff for it.

Arctic devil plus some other stuff might work.

[darger]

going to drink this tonight. never had one before.

drink it cold, one of my favorites.

[honkduh]

Have you tried it?

[VHGisdead]

Man, that label.

yeah, almost didn't pick it up because of that

Ohio has a couple breweries that make some good beers but have awful labels

[brent]

weyerbacher has the good beer/awful label thing mastered

[wyatt]

Have you tried it?

never had it. i am not a big fan of stouts with chilis added.

[pissydan]

my new neighborhood brewery just got their first beer advocate review:

[SNC]

I bought one of the mini-randalls from dogfish head

[grammatron]

I'm thinking about buying one too. Let me know how good it works. I'd like it for experimenting w/ ideas for home brewing.

[SNC]

I think it'll be fun novelty. Wanna try and recreate the coconut ipa I had during last years Philly beer kickoff party

[SNC]

Decided to go to lunch at the bar. Now drinking founders breakfast on tap

[honkduh]

Had this last night



it was great!

[VHGisdead]

was at my local shop last night and saw a sixer of Ballast Point Sculpin just chilling in the bottom row of the cooler. Pretty exciting development

[nibelheim]

yeah ballast point seems to be expanding like mad - went to a bar here in cincinnati the other night and they had sculpin and a stout on tap


god i cant wait to get my hands on lost abbey offerings once i get to SD

[nibelheim]

drank the hemel and aarde bruichladdich barrel last night, liked it much better than the original
the peat plays really well with the malts, just a great stout

also the carbonation issues that plagued the original were totally nonexistent- excellent and appropriate level of carbonation in this version and none of this:

[Duplo]

got suckered into buying this because of the name/packaging



its a pretty decent beer, although it seriously is a bit oniony, but 14 bucks for 4 tallboys is quite steep

bought a single can of these the other day, i was diggin it
didnt get the oniony thing

not sure i can fuck with it too often at that price though