Oldies But Goodies - a Classics Appreciation Thread (2023)

Micheal, I have never had the pleasure of drinking Captains Daughter but I gave you a like since that beer looks so good in that great glass!

Cheers!

 

Bridgeport Blue Heron also got a fair share of fridge space.

 

Bridgeport IPA was another classic favorite around here - RIP.

 

Thanks so much for it, Jack! It's still heavily used and looks no worse for wear.

 

Got it! Tastes delicious.

 

I have to give a nod to two important stouts that have been very key in the brewing/ craft beer industry: Yeti (released in 2004) and Ten Fidy (released in 2007). Both were very key in pushing the envelope in American stouts by making a very bold/ hoppy stout high in ABV and very strong in flavor.


https://www.porchdrinking.com/artic...fficially launched,in downtown Denver in 2001.

 

The beer or the breweries? I make a point to buy them both often and love them! I find they haven't changed much over the years. I really also enjoy the barrel aged versions of both (not so much some of the Yeti variations which are getting too whacky and served in big cans.)

 

Captain's Daughter is on draft at lot of places here. Even at local chain restaurants.

 

Deschutes Black Butte Porter casts a long shadow (for good reason), but I feel like the under-appreciated classic in their lineup is Obsidian Stout. It’s every bit as polished as a stout as Black Butte is as a Porter or Mirror Pond an English Pale Ale and has been around as long, but doesn’t get the same love.

 

I am assuming this qualifies. I only had it for the first time about a year back, but I’m guessing it’s been around a decade or more. This was lurking at the back of the fridge. A really nice Helles. Cheers!

 

Agree its one of the best low gravity stouts I can think of!

The XXX version of it is super tasty each year too!

 

I'd say NC brewing's entire old school lineup is classics. Old Rasputin, Scrimshaw, Old No.38, Red Seal, Brother Thelonius, Pranqster. All absolute classics

 

Too bad we can no longer enjoy Sam Adams Boston Lager, as they have apparently decided to mutate and dumb down the one perfect beer out there- the one that was good enough to not only create the success of the company, but create an entire generation of craft beer brewers to follow. The reward for the perfect original beer that created their entire company? Why, of course, change the original completely! It is unrecognizable now~ bad metallic aftertaste.

 

You have expressed similar thoughts in an other thread.

I think that Boston Beer Company did a great job with the Remastered Boston Lager. For some reason your personal palate has a differing response.

Cheers!

@sefus12

 

To each their own. I didn't taste much difference, Just found it to be a bit hopper.
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I had a couple Canadian (or more appropriately, Ontario) classics the past couple days.

Yesterday I had a can of Creemore Springs Premium Lager. This is the beer Creemore released back in 1987 when they first opened. In 2005 the brewery was purchased by Molson. They continued to make the beer at the facility in Creemore. I last had this beer about a year ago and I’ve had it periodically over the years. I’ve always felt it has remained pretty much the same over time. It’s a little on the sweet side for me, but otherwise a serviceable lager.



This evening I had a can of Lone Pine IPA from Sawdust City. This beer has been available from the brewery since around the time it opened back in 2011. It was one of the first piney, bitter ‘west coast’ IPAs available here and was, to my mind, one of the better ones of that era. I drank this fairly regularly back in ‘14, ‘15, and have only had it a few times in recent years. Tonight’s can was like the last few I’ve had, the piney, citrus flavour and bitter finish are toned down from what I enjoyed a decade or so ago. Still enjoyable though, and still one of the better WCIPAs regularly available locally.



Cheers!