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Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:34 pm
by warmjets
send me some space ways thx

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:38 pm
by jalapeño ranch
I'm guessing a lot of people might have issues with Taking Donations being a bit thin, but I find most barleywines to be too thick and sickeningly sweet, so I'm really digging the single barrel version I just cracked. Gonna be hard for me to save my other bottles.

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Sun Dec 16, 2018 12:35 pm
by deadwolfbones
jalapeño ranch wrote:I'm guessing a lot of people might have issues with Taking Donations being a bit thin, but I find most barleywines to be too thick and sickeningly sweet, so I'm really digging the single barrel version I just cracked. Gonna be hard for me to save my other bottles.


nice

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 4:14 pm
by gazedo
I am moving apartments and I just found a box of 8 remaining gap earth tulips. If anyone wants one, you have two weeks to email me at gapearth at gmail. I forget how much these cost, but I am pretty sure I recouped the money I spent getting them made so I am happy to just send them out for cost of shipping. Otherwise, they are going to the goodwill in January.

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 4:40 pm
by beefbroth inthe shitpipes
shankly wrote:Industrial Arts Wrench is really good. There are so many bad NEIPAs right now, so finding one that is actually refreshing and not just yeast slurry is a big deal to me.

Is this the dude that created flower power? Believe it is, wrench is good

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 4:40 pm
by beefbroth inthe shitpipes
Sloop brewing juice bomb is wrench-ish

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 5:16 pm
by Zurich
Industrial arts make very solid beers and I highly recommend visiting. It's not the best place to hang out but it is a really cool/unique space (some kind of old Mill/factory?)

I prefer wrench to Sloop JB, but they are another brewery I've randomly been into twice in the past few months. They make great stuff all around too but have a very strange Nickelodeon Studios vibe to their branding and decor which is extremely odd.

Hudson valley beer scene is heating up, sloop has another spot right near Suarez. Hudson valley brewing is good. In the Catskills you've got west kill and catskill. I think Woodstock is supposed to be good but haven't stopped in.

Picked up some other half for the first time in a long time

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 5:22 pm
by gazedo
what are the chill, readily available canned stouts / porters these days? something that is 6-8%, non-barrel aged, with no adjuncts. just want to drink something in the cold without getting blitzed or smelling like a coffee pina colada.

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 5:30 pm
by beefbroth inthe shitpipes
Torque Wrench was the best beer I’ve had from them

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 5:40 pm
by gazedo
gazedo wrote:what are the chill, readily available canned stouts / porters these days? something that is 6-8%, non-barrel aged, with no adjuncts. just want to drink something in the cold without getting blitzed or smelling like a coffee pina colada.


I think what I am thinking of is something like la cumbre malpais stout or fremont dark star. both in cans, both lower abv, neither have any adjuncts.

are there other widely available beers like this out there?

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 5:53 pm
by Zurich
Do you get founders Porter? I think it's basically the best Porter you can buy

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 6:37 pm
by gazedo
Zurich wrote:Do you get founders Porter? I think it's basically the best Porter you can buy


I do. It's in bottles and i try to avoid glass in the woods but maybe I'll pick some up and be careful.

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 8:57 pm
by fury
MT black house?

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 9:07 pm
by gazedo
fury wrote:MT black house?


Has coffee in it

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 10:01 pm
by Fullscreen
gazedo wrote:
gazedo wrote:what are the chill, readily available canned stouts / porters these days? something that is 6-8%, non-barrel aged, with no adjuncts. just want to drink something in the cold without getting blitzed or smelling like a coffee pina colada.


I think what I am thinking of is something like la cumbre malpais stout or fremont dark star. both in cans, both lower abv, neither have any adjuncts.

are there other widely available beers like this out there?

honestly, I've never brewed beer but I figure porter is a hard one to fuck up, as I've never had a bad one.

atm I'm drinking a collective arts brewing stranger than fiction, 5.5%, cascade & nugget hops, unfiltered, 16oz can.

but I'll drink an anchor porter or a great lakes edmund fitzgerald any time. Bottled not canned but that makes no difference to me.

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 10:06 pm
by Fullscreen
like I wouldn't over think porter as a style. my preferred bottle shop gets new ones all the time from a raft of downstate IL brewers and they're always.... good? Satisfying? again it's just an approachable style, pick one out of a hat and you'll be fine.

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 12:40 am
by Damien Amadeus MetalWind
was lamenting tonight that even though deschutes is canning they hasn't expanded to the obsidian stout.

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 1:26 am
by Birds vs Worms
I think I've seen Polygamy Porter in cans out in the wild

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 1:46 pm
by deadwolfbones
Nitro Merlin?

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 1:47 pm
by deadwolfbones
Anchor Porter is great obviously, but bottles only

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 1:54 pm
by aspirinkid
does sierra can their porter?

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 6:02 pm
by tonybricker
Mikkeller's Breakfast Kløb imperial coffee stout is outstanding, especially for a non-BA stout
(not meant to be an answer to the "canned stouts and porters" question)

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 7:13 pm
by Zurich
Fullscreen wrote:like I wouldn't over think porter as a style. my preferred bottle shop gets new ones all the time from a raft of downstate IL brewers and they're always.... good? Satisfying? again it's just an approachable style, pick one out of a hat and you'll be fine.


I really like porters and I generally think you're right that they're hard to screw up, but really good ones are significantly better than the average. Founders is so good/available so I usually don't deviate outside of a Maine beer co, HF, or other special one from time to time.

Ironically this one I'm having from la cabra right now is not very good

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 7:57 pm
by brent
surly recently canned a porter (mortal sun), but it's only in their seasonal mixed 12. it was good!

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 8:01 pm
by brent
deadwolfbones wrote:Nitro Merlin?

oo yeah this is a good one too but I wonder if drinking from the can would underwhelm? the non-nitro mocha Merlin is good too and while it's not adjunct free, the chocolate/coffee notes are super subtle

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 8:31 pm
by jalapeño ranch
I find most porters to be pretty underwhelming. Pretty happy Mocha Machine is getting distro'd frequently now though.

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Sun Dec 23, 2018 10:38 am
by gazedo
gazedo wrote:
Zurich wrote:Do you get founders Porter? I think it's basically the best Porter you can buy


I do. It's in bottles and i try to avoid glass in the woods but maybe I'll pick some up and be careful.


took some bottles of founders porter climbing yesterday. two of them clanked together in my not very full backpack and broke. 24 oz of beer all over all my climbing gear. so much for being "careful" :(

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Sun Dec 23, 2018 3:14 pm
by gazedo
gazedo wrote:
gazedo wrote:
Zurich wrote:Do you get founders Porter? I think it's basically the best Porter you can buy


I do. It's in bottles and i try to avoid glass in the woods but maybe I'll pick some up and be careful.


took some bottles of founders porter climbing yesterday. two of them clanked together in my not very full backpack and broke. 24 oz of beer all over all my climbing gear. so much for being "careful" :(


wow, this deteriorated from annoying to really shitty. left my beer soaked backpack in my truck overnight and it got broken into and stolen. never should have brought the glass to the crag :evil:

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 10:32 am
by acidity regulator
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got this one for an xmas present, gonna hold onto it for a while maybe

Re: Quality Beer Thread

PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2018 1:22 pm
by SonicBoom
gazedo wrote:
gazedo wrote:
gazedo wrote:
Zurich wrote:Do you get founders Porter? I think it's basically the best Porter you can buy


I do. It's in bottles and i try to avoid glass in the woods but maybe I'll pick some up and be careful.


took some bottles of founders porter climbing yesterday. two of them clanked together in my not very full backpack and broke. 24 oz of beer all over all my climbing gear. so much for being "careful" :(


wow, this deteriorated from annoying to really shitty. left my beer soaked backpack in my truck overnight and it got broken into and stolen. never should have brought the glass to the crag :evil:


I had a growler smash in a backpack, and all I could do was throw it out.