What Beer Are You Drinking? #101

Discussion in 'The Bar' started by gtermi, Jan 29, 2013.

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  1. gtermi

    gtermi Initiate (0) Apr 21, 2010 Texas

    Good morning everybody! Just got off work and now I'm ready to drink a few before bed. I'll start my Tuesday off with a delicious Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout. Hope everybody has a great day, cheers!

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  2. gtermi

    gtermi Initiate (0) Apr 21, 2010 Texas

  3. scootsmal

    scootsmal Initiate (0) Aug 15, 2012 New York

    Picked up a case of Sucks. This beer is just incredible, and its fun to see non craft beer drinkers look at the label and ask if its really called that, lol.
     
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  4. Crusader

    Crusader Pooh-Bah (1,651) Feb 4, 2011 Sweden
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    Nothing extraordinary, but most definitely tasty. I think I read somewhere on the forum that they were going to discontinue the black lager so I figured I'd better pick one up again before it's gone, if the rumours are true.
     
  5. JohnDMartin

    JohnDMartin Initiate (0) Jan 13, 2013 Kentucky

    Just finished a Stone RIS now i am drinking a Founders Imperial Stout for a bit of comparison...
     
  6. JohnDMartin

    JohnDMartin Initiate (0) Jan 13, 2013 Kentucky

    Hey, cheers to all the night shift workers sipping on a delicious stout!
     
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  7. gtermi

    gtermi Initiate (0) Apr 21, 2010 Texas

    My third one this week... Only 10 bottles left :-(

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  8. acevenom

    acevenom Initiate (0) Oct 7, 2011 Louisiana

    That's the old label. I highly doubt if that is fresh, so it's pretty cool that this beer held up well enough. Where did you hear about this beer being discontinued?
     
  9. Crusader

    Crusader Pooh-Bah (1,651) Feb 4, 2011 Sweden
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    I think they've kept on using the old labels for beers exported to Sweden and sold via the monopoly here. This one has a best before date of June 13. Might be because they haven't run through their stock of old labels for the Swedish market since the volumes are so small (it's a combined UK/Swedish label with the importer for both countries listed on it). I noticed their Oktoberfest and Winter lager had the new labels though which is rather strange.

    The info on the black lager I read here:
    http://beeradvocate.com/community/t...eeps-racking-up-the-medals.50456/#post-759909
     
  10. JohnDMartin

    JohnDMartin Initiate (0) Jan 13, 2013 Kentucky

    Ok please dont rub it in any more. I dont have any and am not sure if my reatailer gets BCBS so i surely dont need to see that!
     
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  11. Devi0us

    Devi0us Savant (1,124) May 3, 2011 California
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    You ever have one of those days at work where you're like "Fuck, Today Sucks Ass?" Well, last night was one of those days...

    Got this in a BIF...Not much of a hop presence for a TIPA, tastes like a watered down 120 Minute but the alcohol is doing it's job...
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    Cheers!
     
  12. Crusader

    Crusader Pooh-Bah (1,651) Feb 4, 2011 Sweden
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    St. Eriks Pale Ale. A Swedish micro brewed pale ale, 4.5% abv hopped with citra hops. St. Eriks is like a Swedish version of Samuel Adams (its regular line-up at least), offering solid and tasty but not extraordinary beers at decent prices. It doesn't have the same hop punch as an American pale ale would have (Swedish craft breweries are either too cost-conscious or simply unable to reach the heights of their American counterparts in this department for the most part imo), and the body is light and pale due to the use of pale ale malt only (which I like since it makes for a rather dry beer), but it's still hop forward enough to provide a nice citrusy hop taste.
     
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  13. Providence

    Providence Pooh-Bah (2,628) Feb 24, 2010 Rhode Island
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    That looks great, I'd love to try that. The color is beautiful.
     
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  14. frankthetank86

    frankthetank86 Initiate (0) Dec 24, 2012 New York

    theres about 5 cases of this stuff sitting at my local bev store. cheers!
     
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  15. Crusader

    Crusader Pooh-Bah (1,651) Feb 4, 2011 Sweden
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    Their IPA which contains dark caramel malt apart from pale, and Northern Brewer, Centennial and Amarillo instead of Citra. It has a slightly fuller body due to a higher abv (5.3%) but the hop profile is still citrusy, I can't really distinguish much of a difference between the two in that compartment, other than the fact that the bitterness seems more muted in this one due to the caramel malts. A nice beer though.
     
  16. Crusader

    Crusader Pooh-Bah (1,651) Feb 4, 2011 Sweden
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    Has a similar hop profile to the previous beer, but it also has a rather different tasting note which I found to be hard to identify initially. It tastes familiar, and I'm now pretty sure it's the taste of a bubblegum, it's sort of like the taste of evergreen but without the cooling sensation. Really nice and refreshing though.
     
  17. Cavecreekchili

    Cavecreekchili Initiate (0) Jan 23, 2013

    My first Hopslam! Well second actually...I had one botlle in the parking lot to make sure it was worth the price, and the bought more :grinning: 71 cases just rolled into my shop HAHAHA friggen wonderful warm weather and great DIPA!
     
  18. seplo

    seplo Pundit (923) Sep 8, 2009 Connecticut

    I will be going to a NEBCo tap takeover and will be having

    Fuzzy Baby Ducks
    Double Dry Hopped Fuzzy Baby Ducks
    BA Imperial Stout
    Coffee Imperial Stout Trooper
    Cherry Vanilla Imperial Stout Trooper
    Mosaic IPA
    and a Gold Stock

    CHEERS
     
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  19. Kyrojack

    Kyrojack Initiate (0) Oct 9, 2012 Indiana

    Well its 1 in the afternoon here, but I'm planning on having a Yanjing Beer. Sounded interesting and never had an Asian beer before.
     
  20. Dannywhitewash

    Dannywhitewash Initiate (0) Dec 19, 2010 Ohio

    Heady-Topper a day will keep the doctor away. :grinning:
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