Pittsburgh - New Beers & Local Breweries

Yeah its some long nights of drinking with the old man so not much to complain about.

 

I buy maple water at trader joes and drink that stuff by the gallon. Its more expensive than beer. I dont care for any yuppieladen effects, I just think its delicious. Secondly, back home on many VT ski trips, maple milk from Hunger Mountain CoOp is just as prized in my priorities list as Heady, Lawsons and Oakshire. Any idea if people around here make Maple Milk? Its like coffee milk but thrice as good.

 

hahaha. I don't know what maple milk or coffee milk are but I'm intrigued.

 

Anyone else going to beer fest this weekend? They have some decent offerings:
http://www.pittsburghbeerfest.com/#!brewery-list-/cfug
In particular I'm looking forward to finally trying Grapefruit Sculpin

 

Don't let Rogue see this post.

 

I think it's just the single biggest threat to our planet and it threatens our very existence and may be the end to the human race as we know it.

 

I am not. Let us know how it was. I really want to try Red Sky At Morning and would totally hammer back a few tasters of Serpent Stout. Such a great beer.

 

I know I am super late to the party on this one but I'll ask anyway. Why did Voodoo change the name from Pilzilla to KillaPilz?

 

Despite being out of town for work a lot lately, I made it to Hitchhiker and Spoonwood. Tried the Barbarian that Hitchhiker made with Conan yeast. It was solid. Decent nose and good, dank hop character. It didn't seem to me like it was made with Conan yeast. You could've told me it was the regular Chico strain and I'd have believed it.

I probably won't be going back to Spoonwood until I here that they've improved a bit. Nice space though.

Based on what I had at Hitchhiker, I would go back if in the area.

 

I know somebody brought this up but tomorrow is the Same Day Tank to Tap Headhunter event at all 7 Mad Mex Locations. Fat Heads just mentioned it in a tweet - https://twitter.com/FatHeadsBeer/status/620580448893333504

 

Anyone make it out to Roundabout yesterday to try the new beers? If so, thoughts?

 

I obviously won't speak for Voodoo, but when the rights were secured for the new Godzilla movies a couple years ago, many C&Ds went out with anything 'zilla.

 

I tried the kolsch. It was nice for a kolsch.

Makes sense. Kind of surprising that Ithica, which is quite a bit larger than Voodoo, can get away with CaskaZilla though. KillaPilz is a criminally underrated beer btw.

 

Woot back in stock at Shadyside GE. RuinTen and Hi Fi + Lo Fi also came in

 

Coffee milk is mostly a new england thing from what Ive gathered in my travels. Its pretty much just coffee syrup (sounds gross but actually delivious) and milk. Maple milk im hoping is elsewhere as red, black and sugar maples are all over.

 

Yeah I popped in around 1:30 and must have gotten one of the last extra 4 bangers. Pretty excited to try one this weekend. btw does anyone love "Cucumber" as much as I do? I made apoint to not drink this past weekend but was so tempted to slug one down while I was in there. It is awesome. Garden Party is awesome too, Rob gave me a nip when I was at BG for the 4th. I should be getting a CCB one this week to compare all 3.

 

I had this years CCB Cucumber Saison over the 4th wknd. It was back to being good (after a down year last year). I like Garden Party more than the Voodoo one.

 

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Garden Party is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy too cucumber heavy for me.

 

Given the context of his post and talk of cucumbers this would have been proper.