What beer are you drinking now? #3792

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  1. VABA

    VABA Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,735) Aug 8, 2015 Virginia
    Pooh-Bah

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    Cheers!
     
    #41 VABA, Mar 9, 2023
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  2. VABA

    VABA Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,735) Aug 8, 2015 Virginia
    Pooh-Bah

    Happy Birthday!
     
    #42 VABA, Mar 9, 2023
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  3. defunksta

    defunksta Grand Pooh-Bah (4,164) Jan 18, 2019 Wisconsin
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    1) BlackStack Final Fantasy 3 (8.0% no canning date): A NEIPA from Minnesota with El Dorado, Talus, Phantasm for flavors of grapefruit citrus, tropical pineapple, vinous grape, and mango flavors.
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    BlackStack Side Hustle (8.4% no canning date): A NEIPA from Minnesota with Idaho 7, Citra Cryo, El Dorado Cryo & Azacca Cryo for flavors of tropical pineapple, sweet navel orange, some melon and faint flower. Heavy, juicy, sweet. (Correctly matched the two blind)

    Winner:
    1) BlackStack Final Fantasy 3:     No canning date as usual, so can't remember how old Side Hustle is but probably canned in January. Had been one of my favorites. Now it shows a little age and drinks a too sweet as the hop flavors fade. Sweet grape, pineapple, berry flavors. Final Fantasy drinks cleaner and has that vinous phantasm flavor. Not always my favorite flavor, but keeps this one dryer and not overly sweet. Side Hustle was probably better fresh, whenever that was.
     
    #43 defunksta, Mar 9, 2023
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  4. LarryV

    LarryV Grand Pooh-Bah (5,420) Jun 13, 2001 Massachusetts
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    This beer is tasting great after a pretty busy day of work Glad to be done working for the day.

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    #44 LarryV, Mar 9, 2023
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  5. cbcrunch

    cbcrunch Grand Pooh-Bah (4,783) Jan 21, 2012 Wyoming
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    Happy Birthday!
     
    #45 cbcrunch, Mar 9, 2023
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  6. Bluecrow

    Bluecrow Grand Pooh-Bah (3,501) Jul 16, 2012 New York
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    The Substance with some ACC BBall. cheers!
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    #46 Bluecrow, Mar 9, 2023
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  7. Roguer

    Roguer Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,811) Mar 25, 2013 Connecticut
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    Switched to hoppier fare this afternoon.

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    #47 Roguer, Mar 9, 2023
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  8. DoctorZombies

    DoctorZombies Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,887) Feb 1, 2015 Florida
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    Crazy day. Now at the pub for the Shilling Beer tap takeover, drinking Alexandr a Czech style pilsner:

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    Crisp with a dry finish. Excellent - Cheers from TBBW!
     
    #48 DoctorZombies, Mar 9, 2023
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  9. lordofthewiens

    lordofthewiens Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,225) Sep 17, 2005 New Mexico
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    Happy Birthday!
     
    #49 lordofthewiens, Mar 9, 2023
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  10. ANIMOUL

    ANIMOUL Pooh-Bah (2,524) Nov 28, 2013 Vermont
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    #50 ANIMOUL, Mar 9, 2023
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  11. beergoot

    beergoot Grand High Pooh-Bah (9,310) Oct 11, 2010 Colorado
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    The Drowned Lands -- Frenweh
    Rauchbier
    ABV: 5.5%; pouring temperature: 53.6 ℉; canning info:
    Source: local purchase (Coaltrain Fine Wine, Craft Beer & Spirits)
    Auxiliary vice: CAO -- BX3 Toro

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    3.54/5 rDev -6.1%
    look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5

    Vibrant and clear golden body; dense and lively carbonation; thick white head initially; head size reduces to a fair size rather quickly, sudsy. Malt sweet nose; faint suggestion of phenol smoke snaking through the caramel sweetness; fruity esters. Medium body; smooth with a touch of stickiness on the palate.

    A rather disappointing rauchbier, especially with the taste. I don't expect most rauchbiers to come across like the famous Bamberg beers but at least there should be a more smoke character the aroma and taste. Not a bad beer for, say, an amber lager, but the lackluster smokey presence one might hope for is very, very tamed.

     
    #51 beergoot, Mar 9, 2023
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  12. SawDog505

    SawDog505 Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,922) Apr 9, 2010 New Hampshire
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    [​IMG] Isle Of Pine Barleywine. This is the place and beer that turned my into the beer geek I am today. 20 years ago it was 12% served in an ice cream Sunday glass. You were only allowed 3 and you couldn’t get a growler to go. Now it is 10.8% and in a 16 oz glass. Cheers all.
     
    #52 SawDog505, Mar 9, 2023
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  13. SABERG

    SABERG Grand Pooh-Bah (5,001) Sep 16, 2007 Massachusetts
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    Happy Birthday
    Cheers to many more!
     
    #53 SABERG, Mar 9, 2023
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  14. Ocalafox

    Ocalafox Grand Pooh-Bah (4,505) May 17, 2016 Florida
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    Gulfport Brewing Eatery Weird Science vol. 2 at Flying Boat Taproom.....
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    #54 Ocalafox, Mar 9, 2023
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  15. beergoot

    beergoot Grand High Pooh-Bah (9,310) Oct 11, 2010 Colorado
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    ...happy birthday at ya...
     
    #55 beergoot, Mar 9, 2023
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  16. defunksta

    defunksta Grand Pooh-Bah (4,164) Jan 18, 2019 Wisconsin
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    1) North Coast Brewing Old Rasputin (9.0%): A Russian Imperial Stout from California with flavors of bittersweet chocolate, earth black malt, light cream. Dry and roasted coffee on the end.
    versus
    2) Stone Imperial Stout (10.6%): A Russian Imperial Stout from California with flavors of dark chocolate, dark fruit, dark coffee, with a lingering hoppy and bitter pine note. Heavy, but bitter. (Correctly matched the two blind)

    Winner:
    1) North Coast Old Rasputin:     The great Russian Imperial Stout Battle as this final winter storm approaches. Stone has a great one . Dark chocolate. Roast, with a classic Stone bitterness that really fits nicely and keeps it somewhat dry and clean. One of my favorite RIS. There's a reason Old Rasputin is the greatest though. Old Rasputin has the bittersweet chocolate balanced by a light coffee and cream. Authentic Eastern hemisphere malt flavors. If Old Raspy didn't exist, I'd surly pick Stone as my favorite RIS. But as it stands, the gods have blessed us with Old Raspy, the perfect comfort for snow days like today.
     
    #56 defunksta, Mar 9, 2023
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  17. CarolinaCardinals

    CarolinaCardinals Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,231) Jun 11, 2003 North Carolina
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    Enjoying a 3 Floyds BA Behemoth, very nice beer. Could possibly improve with resting for a year or so to let the hops and barrel meld together.
    Cheers!
    Tom

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    #57 CarolinaCardinals, Mar 9, 2023
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  18. LesDewitt4beer

    LesDewitt4beer Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,315) Jan 25, 2021 Minnesota
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    R2B2. Actually this is the 3rd. Just destroying the 4pk. HF Pin Seeker Pils. Cheers!
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    #58 LesDewitt4beer, Mar 9, 2023
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  19. DoctorZombies

    DoctorZombies Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,887) Feb 1, 2015 Florida
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    Another from Shilling Beer - Palmovka, an unfiltered Czech style pilsner:


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    Darker in color and not as dry in the finish as the Alexandr; I still like! Cheers!
     
    #59 DoctorZombies, Mar 9, 2023
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  20. jzeilinger

    jzeilinger Grand High Pooh-Bah (8,847) Dec 4, 2004 Pennsylvania
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    The Good Fight IPL and pretty stoked because this has been a bucket list brewery stop for a long time, dig their beers!

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    Is it Friday yet?

    Prost! :heavymetal::nerd::beers: !!
     
    #60 jzeilinger, Mar 9, 2023
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