What beer are you drinking now? #3802

1) Toppling Goliath Radiant Haze (7.0% canned 2/2/23): A NEIPA from Iowa/CA collab with Radiant Beer with Amarillo, Citra, Mosaic, and Sabro for flavors of orange, citrus flower, passionfruit and mango rind.
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2) Toppling Goliath Fire, Skulls, & Money (7.8% canned 1/27/23): A NEIPA from Iowa with Citra, Mosaic, Galaxy, and Nelson for flavors of grapefruit and orange citrus flower, vinous white grape, gooseberry with some pine and berry to balance. Juicy, complex, and clean. (Correctly matched the two blind)

Winner:
2) Fire, Skulls, & Money: A couple of great Toppling Goliath NEIPAs. Radiant Haze has become a new favorite of mine with the orange flower and mango flavors, yet light and clean enough. Fire, Skull, & Money is truly wonderful. A perfect combination of hop flavors. Classic Citra and Mosaic combine with a newer Galaxy and Nelson. I picked up at least two 4-packs of these.

 

At Red Lion Pub in Houston. A pseudo English pub that gets it mostly right for a place like this in the US ha.

Fuller's ESB, haven't seen this in a long time, and they were without it for a while. Back on now. Still think its a fairly old keg, but oh well


Then Fuller's London Pride. Which seems much fresher. Full English Breakfast with black pudding, rashers, sausage, beans, and mushrooms, among other various things. Pretty good

 

Lol! Now you've got me curious about this one. Is it even possible to do almost 10,000 different beers in 10 years? That's something like over 2 different beers per day for 10 years.

 

Evil Twin Bozo Beer (2022 version)... have tiptoes around this past decade or so, but bullet and got a 4 pack. Boozy and very good.

 

Levante, “Infinite Obsidian “ Irish Dry Stout on Nitro!

 

Cheers!

 

Wake Up World Wide Stout
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

 

Beer from a soon to be defunct brewery from a defunct brewery's growler. Blueprint Brewing Hazy Stardust NEDIPA. Growler from Prism Brewing which closed 2017ish. Cheers!

 

Allagash Hop Reach...pretty good, my first Allagash IPA!

 

Howdy folks. Thanks @TheIPAHunter for 3802 today. I'm thoroughly enjoying this Sawyer Chainsaw Squatch WCIPA. Extremely tasty, clean & brisk with a whisper of resin. Very cool. The Chainsaw Squatch series from Sawyer is dynamite! Cheers!

 

Cheers!

 

Oh lmao, right on queue above me as I begin typing.

So I must have had his account on my ignore list until I cleared it recently or I would have noticed this statistical anomaly much sooner. Retired software engineer / data analyst here.

Hacked account? Perhaps, but as @ATL6245 just pointed out the 10k ticks with zero reviews is extremely unlikely. Anecdotally, from my experience here, those with the most beers are avid reviewers.

Certainly seems scripted / automated. Two (of the dozen or so) posts yesterday were just 7 minutes apart.

Anyhow, upon initially noticing these worthless posts, I was annoyed as this is my only form of social media and I want it to be as free of annoyance as possible. Also as I noted yesterday, all the posts and likes will have him a High Pooh Bah in short order - which is either infuriating or comical.

Yesterday's barrage of humorous posts, and hilarity that ensued, after I questioned the bot have me now of a different mindset, and I think it's a fun thing to observe and to look forward to. I'd also love to be a Data Mod just for the opportunity to see the full database. As a user we can only see past 200 posts and Mr. Bot is averaging 7-14 per day for past 200 posts, identically formatted. Possibly created via either manual copy/paste (if there's a maniacal human performing the actions), or scraped from the site via script.

Either way... a curiosity I am now welcoming with joy. I will assimilate!!

 

Cheers!

 

Kooky Doug

 

Cheers y'all!

Snörkel farmhouse ale brewed with smoked sea salt and oyster mushrooms 4.3% - Jester King

 

Another cross-post, but not triple as this isn't on the March Madness bracket, but I've never had it before, Velkopovický Kozel Černý. A low ABV Czech style dark lager in it's original Polish can (3.8% ABV according to the sticker on the can with everything required for US import).

Surprisingly tasty amd full bodied with plenty of sweet malty roast and toast for a 3.8% import beer going at 8.99 for a 4-pack of pints (500mL sue me)

 

Billy Ray Citrus.

 

Its finally nice out, after a week of gloomy, rainy oddly cold days...well cold for around here ha. Even so it was raining, with hail and in the mid 40's a few days ago. Now its just in the low 50's and sunny, which I love.

So, its courtyard, beer and book time. The pupper is out for a minute, but it is definitely too cold for him, so I let him back inside ha.

Saison Dupont in the glass. Up there with Orval as one of my favorite lazy afternoon beers.


My pupper Moe wouldn't sit still and didn't want his picture taken...just sniffing around the courtyard. Then I could tell he was cold, so let him back inside after minute.

 

Ex Novo - Brewers' Edition Eliot (2023)