Denver & Colorado Sanity Thread

A town! As an essential worker I will be there... hmmm...

 

Picked up a sixer of Prost Bavarian Wheat ale for my babe and holy cow is it drool emoji... definitely reminds me of the wheat beers we were chugging at beer gardens in Berlin a couple years ago. An incredibly pleasant surprise

 

I've heard lots of reports about Prost being back to awesome again. That's great news. Having people in the Midwest ask me WTF we were drinking out here hurt a little bit.

 

Shout out to @TrveBrewer and Heather for the seamless and pain free delivery today. One more reason you guys rule.

 

Couldn't be more proud of our crew right now, but of course we wouldn't be able to deliver without the support of all you fine folk.

 

The new Starless Age is still fantastic, and it still has that "rustic Bavarian town" flavor profile to it. I can't really pinpoint a single beer that it reminds me of, but it has that essence to it. Very glad to have it, though.

 

Awesome. Glad we were able to keep the core essence in tact while further dialing...and thanks for giving it a shot.

 

Slow Pour in cans has made quarantine 10000x more bearable.

 

People are going bonkers for the Bierstadt cans. I can't figure out if people really like it or if they just think they're supposed to. Not that it matters (it's helping one of CO's best breweries), but I still want to know where this lager love was a few years ago.

 

Hearing a lot of people are drinking down their cellars. Maybe just needing a chance of pace

 

Not sure what this is supposed to mean, but the reason I'm pumped about the cans is that I don't have to drive 30 minutes to Denver to pick up their strange little crowlers. To me, Slow Pour is heads above any other local pilsner and is a perfectly balanced beer. Usually I look forward to getting it at a handful of restaurants I go to or at the Alamo Drafthouse, but that's obviously not an option right now. But now my local shop was carrying it and selling 4 packs of 16oz for 9.99, which puts it in line with the prices of most other good pilsners (Von Pilsner, Prost Pilsner, and a priced a little higher than Howdy Beer, but that's a wholly different animal) and like $4-5 less than those foeder lagers from Cerebral. So that's awesome, and selfishly I hope that they continue canning these so that I don't have to go back to the Rackhouse and its wrestling / fratty nonsense to get my fix.

 

It's not an indictment on you (or anyone else), but I'm still puzzled by this strange lager trend. These cans are selling out all over the place and people are Instagramming photos of them. That's weird. A few years ago you could barely give away lagers. Everyone is making them now, and they're even commonly starting to show up in those notorious cheaply labeled 16oz cans. I'm glad that places making great ones are doing well, but I'm kinda wondering if the bottom is going to fall out because they're simply trendy.

 

I think I'm just protective of lagers. Specifically the good ones. Nobody knew what the hell I was raving about a few years ago and I'm not sure they do now I don't want them to be the next amber or wheat (both American and German), where the bottom fell out and now you can barely find them. Classic copper-colored APA's and IPA's are getting there, too.
I got into German lagers a long time ago and it's very odd to see people taking heavily filtered photos with a pale lager. I'm hoping that the current lager boom isn't misplaced and just the next big thing. If people are still taking selfies with Bierstadt crowlers in 2025, I think I'll be ecstatic.

 

I am just gonna echo some other people I am sure, but sometimes I just want a good beer. Cold, Starless Age, Slow Pour etc all give me the opportunity to just have a damn good beer. The malts are present and clean. There are no esters interfering. I don't need to scrape the hop oils from my tastebuds afterwards. I had a celebrator last night and had forgotten just how damn good that beer truly is.

 

I suppose I get that. The "next new thing" trends can leave other good beers in the dust. I do appreciate the proliferation of lagers so that I can start to refine what traits of the beer I really enjoy. SPP hits the marks for me with being so soft and drinkable with the perfect slight hop presence running through it.

Also your comment about copper colored IPAs reminded me that White Oak Jai Alai should be hitting distro soon!

 

You just said what I didn’t know I was thinking, if that makes scents.

More than ever I’m searching for flavorful beer that I can have a couple of without getting smashed and without the caloric density of big stouts and IPAs.

So a great, crispy lager scratches that itch... same reason I love Zonker- jam packed with flavor and isn’t 10%.

 

For what it's worth, Slow Pour, Helles, and literally everything Bierstadt brews = on par with what you'd find in Germany. Not Oettinger or the stuff from ALDI either. That fact that it's flying off shelves is crazy, but awesome. I think that's one reason I distrust it. It's like bizzaro world. Now I just need to convince people to take advantage of those affordable Lufthansa direct flights to Munich so we don't lose 'em. Well, at least once things get back to "normal."