Pittsburgh - New Beers & Local Breweries

Tried Full Pint's Casa Bonita watermelon jalapeño tonight. If anyone else has, I'd be very interested to hear your thoughts (though I can probably guess what they might be).

 

My favorites from GABF:

Best Overall Breweries:
Rare Barrel - Berkeley, CA
10 Barrel - Bend, OR

Two to watch out for:
Strange Brewing - Denver, CO
Comrade - Denver, CO

Beer Of The Show:
Rare Barrel - Home, Sour Home

 

Sour Saturday - Oct 10 @ Caliente

From FB:

Pucker Up Baby

Here’s what I’m thinking…hearing that phrase from me should always make you shudder.

I’m thinking that I want to pour some crazy good beers along with our crazy Selection of Draai Laag Beers to Celebrate our First Ever Sour Collaboration.

These Sour Ales will be served in six ounce glassware: 10 Sour Beers will be Available, Along with a Crazy Sour/Wild Draft Selection of Draai Laag Beers and of Course THE PLAGUE

Tasting Will Take Place in Our Speak Easy
Pay As You Go
We will have available:

Free Will Key Lime Lambic
Goose Island 2013 Lolita
Bull Frog Old Gold Vieux Foudre
Sweet Water California Woody
Duchesse de Bourgogne
The Bruery Oude Tart
Timmermans Strawberry Framboise
Jolly Pumpkin Oro de Calabaza
Thristy Dog Berliner Weisse
Full Pint Wild Side Ned


Meet the founder Dennis and Head Brewer Tony of Draai Laag Brewing Co.

A crazy selection of Draai Laag Beers will be available along with:

300 Bottles of The Plague available at 1pm (4 bottle limit per person)


It’s dark, it’s wild – and once you taste it, you’ll never be the same.

Introducing… THE PLAGUE.

Our latest collaboration with Draai Laag Brewing yielded a brew so epic we needed a special Sour Saturday to Release it.

Join us to try and buy this limited annual release October 10th starting at 1pm. The Plague will only be available at the Draai Laag taproom and Caliente’s Bloomfield & Hampton locations, while supplies last.

 

I thought it was pretty terrible, to me it tasted like artificial cotton candy flavoring, pretty disappointing considering the last few other things I had from them I thought were pretty decent especially the Ned flanders.

 

Yeah, it was a weird one. Pepper-flavored bubblegum.

 

Only at the brewery I assume?

 

Presuming the bottle limit for The Plague will also be 4 per at Draai Laag. At only 300 bottles, might be advantageous to get there at 7 for people who are interested.

 

Yea I got bubblegum all day. With a relative imperceivable amount of spice flavor.

 

Holy hypwagon. No wonder they "collaborated" with Caliente.

 

Everyone wondered what Caliente contributed to the equation. Hype is pretty clearly the answer.

Smart move by DL, though.

 

It's that time of year once again- when Wigle embraces all things brewed in celebration of local BEER! Our Homebrewers Competiiton takes place on 11/1 at the Northside Barrelhouse, 1055 Spring Garden Ave, from 12 PM- 4 PM. The three winners will receive prizes including a freshly emptied whiskey barrel ($150 value), whiskey and tour tickets.

 

I recently developed a trading partnership with a guy out in the St. Louis area. I threw in a 750 of CPA as an extra to get the word out on a beer/brewery I really love. I asked him today what he thought and he agreed that it was as awesome as I'd lead him to believe and asked me to send him more growlers for the bottle share at the next Side Project release to gain some more exposure for The Brew Gentleman.

So I guess we aren't all just a bunch of biased homers...

 

Tell him and all his buddies to post reviews so you guys can start trading the crap out of it...

 

That's the end game isn't it?

 

If only I still had a bottle of Ta Luego... An early BG trading whale.

 

Unless you're lying to yourself.

That bottle would cancel out all progress made by CPA. For BG's rep's sake, you're better off just choking that shit down on your own.

 

Don't hold back, big fella!

 

I have heard great reviews of BG's Akamai and Lou. Hoping to make it down that direction to try those out or snag a growler or two

 

Hey...I could have used the dreaded "drain pour"...but I held back

 

I had Lou on a shredded palette after having several other hoppy beers so I can't comment properly but don't miss Akamai or CPA.