Toppling Goliath Brewery appreciation thread...

Rest of WI is unknown. Hopefully tomorrow or early next week.

 

Nice to see that they required names on the tickets for this, so people "hopefully" can't resell them. Who else got tickets?

 

Maybe this has been discussed but...


Grabbed a few Pompeii bombers at Bettendorf Hyvee today. Flavor is way off from what I expected. Anyone else had a bad batch? This is one of my favorite beers and just seems off..

 

What was the date on the bottle? My experience has been that the TG beers fall off quickly - 2-3 weeks and you notice a difference.

 

They don't turn into bad beers, but the tropical juciness is gone very quickly. (This is not a large sample size, though, so no one should make too much of it...)

 

I had a pour on draft last night and it certainly wasn't the best. I had one a week ago and it was great. Who knows.

 

Key word "cold". Picked up fresh and stored in fridge for 2 months is different than buying 2 months later.

 

I had this exact experience. I think TG pale ales and IPAs, much like FFF's offerings can simply change rapidly. They're still great, just take on different characteristics even weeks after being packaged.

 

Pompeii is one of my favorite beers period, but one of the more recent batches tasted off to me.

 

i think this is just the name of the game with hop forward brews. but it's not just the beer that changes, it's also *me* that seems to pick up different tastes from the same beer from day to day. maybe it's the food i eat or the off chance that i've burnt my tongue on hot coffee - too many variables at play to say for sure. but certainly the beers change very quickly. the Pliny I brought home from my last pilgrimage tasted remarkably different within a matter of days (as did the Light Speed, Pompeii, etc..)

 

JMDNEO (just my decidedly non-expert opinion), but those beers that dry-hop for aroma and flavor seem to be fairly fragile for the so-called "juicy" characteristics... those characteristics seem to fade quickly.

 

In general, it is the dry hopping that causes these beers to be "fragile". The process doesn't extract and fix oils like boil and flame out type additions too.
You can get awesome aroma and juiciness from massive dry hopping, but, *in general* it will fade fast.
I know there has been some argument about TG beers holding up very well when stored properly, but my *personal experience* is that I don't enjoy them nearly as much once they are past a month of the bottling day

 

I've had TG beers hold up for a long time, but they never got warm at any point. If it gets to room temp, it's going to fade.

 

Looks like just you. Let us all know how it goes!

 

Do you guys get cans of Sue up there that Brew Hub brews? They just hit local distro here in Florida (along with Nugget, Rover Truck and Dorothy) and I cant believe the release was green lighted, the beer is nothing like Sue at all. I had Sue at Huna Day at the TG tent this past Saturday, and later that night had a can of local Sue. To say that they was 2 completely different beers is an understatement. Its like Brew Hub lost the recipe and are just guessing.

Ive lost a ton of respect for TG for duping consumers by releasing a beer called Pseudo Sue that tastes nothing (and I mean nothing) like the Sue thats brewed up there. Of course, most people here havent had the real Sue and wont know the difference...but for those that have had it and are buying it because they think theyre getting a reasonable facsimile....theyre going to be majorly disappointed.

 

Chilling up here in MSP with my shit-ass Sue cans. You'd never guess it, but I enjoyed the fuck out of both beers.

 

The cans I have are dated March 11 (canned 4 days ago). Tastes closer to Cigar City's Invasion Pale Ale than Sue.

I wanna send one to someone up there who drinks Sue from the source regularly and tell me Im crazy.

Someone claim it and PM me your address.