What beer are you drinking now? #491

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  1. gshak

    gshak Savant (1,220) Feb 20, 2011 Texas

    Down to the last 3 of my Abyss from 2011. This brew has now morphed into something that can only be described as "otherworldly". The roast and dark chocolate notes are still very much there, but what puts this beer on an entirely new dimension is the added complexity coming from the cherry fruitiness. Mind officially blown...

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    What beer are you drinking now? Cheers!
     
    #1 gshak, Feb 23, 2014
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  2. ironchefkook

    ironchefkook Initiate (0) Nov 5, 2013 California

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    Drie Founteinen Oude Geuze. Feeling a little sour this weekend. Gimme that funk.
     
    #2 ironchefkook, Feb 23, 2014
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  3. hoppytobehere

    hoppytobehere Pooh-Bah (2,046) Aug 10, 2012 District of Columbia
    Pooh-Bah

    I think this is beer #13 for the day. I need sleep. Had some Blind Pig, Pliny the Elder, and Pliny the Younger earlier but it sure is nice to come home to a fridge full of Sucks.

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    #3 hoppytobehere, Feb 23, 2014
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  4. vkv822

    vkv822 Initiate (0) Nov 30, 2009 Oregon

    First time trying this. Damn good IPA, I'm glad I finally got around to picking some up.

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    I've gotta say, I've come to love the 16oz tall boy format!

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  5. bstyle

    bstyle Initiate (0) Apr 27, 2006 Indiana

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  6. BeerKangaroo

    BeerKangaroo Initiate (0) May 30, 2011 Alaska

    Couldn't sleep, decided to bust into ma cellar!

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  7. belvedere86

    belvedere86 Pooh-Bah (1,716) Apr 1, 2013 Belgium
    Pooh-Bah Trader

    Sunday = cheatday

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    #7 belvedere86, Feb 23, 2014
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  8. philsunset

    philsunset Initiate (0) Oct 3, 2013 Michigan

    Up a little early and opened a bottle of Founders Breakfast Stout. This is so good. I haven't had one in about a month. Welcome back old friend.

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    Cheers!
     
    #8 philsunset, Feb 23, 2014
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  9. belvedere86

    belvedere86 Pooh-Bah (1,716) Apr 1, 2013 Belgium
    Pooh-Bah Trader

    Thihttp://youtu.be/fxja2mhxffos bottle traveled all the way from Minnesota to California to Belgium. And now it's in my belly :wink:.

    Nice RIS but more hoppy then expected but really nice!

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  10. Ozzylizard

    Ozzylizard Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,419) Oct 5, 2013 Pennsylvania
    BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    Founder's Imperial Stout - seems to me a little too bitter for its high BA rating.
     
    #10 Ozzylizard, Feb 23, 2014
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  11. IrishGermanAmerican

    IrishGermanAmerican Initiate (0) Feb 24, 2012 Texas

    This is a new one from Karbach :slight_smile:
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  12. Ozzylizard

    Ozzylizard Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,419) Oct 5, 2013 Pennsylvania
    BA4LYFE Society Pooh-Bah Trader

     
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  13. belvedere86

    belvedere86 Pooh-Bah (1,716) Apr 1, 2013 Belgium
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    Yeah, I'll have to thank my gf for that. :slight_smile:
     
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  14. Roudy

    Roudy Initiate (0) Aug 20, 2009 Georgia

    I was introduced to Westmalle Triple in Brussels by a co-worker who had formerly worked for a Belgian company. He told me that his introduction to it resulted in his not being able to feel his face after three or four. Ha ha. I quietly had three glasses on an empty stomach, got up to pee, and almost fell on my face :-)
     
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  15. Ozzylizard

    Ozzylizard Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,419) Oct 5, 2013 Pennsylvania
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    Looks like she's fattening you up for the kill! LOL!
     
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  16. ThreeTens

    ThreeTens Initiate (0) Mar 9, 2013 Wisconsin

    just a bit in love with this little brew..
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    cheers, geeks. :slight_smile:
     
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  17. utopiajane

    utopiajane Grand Pooh-Bah (3,982) Jun 11, 2013 New York
    Pooh-Bah

    Morning. :slight_smile: A classic beer. It drinks really easily. Cheers.

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  18. Roguer

    Roguer Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,811) Mar 25, 2013 Connecticut
    Mod Team Society Pooh-Bah Trader

    Wow, what a huge weekend, and a great start to Sunday. It's been a few days since I've posted here, but I'll catch up real quick. :slight_smile:

    Yesterday I took a day trip up to VT. It was absolutely beautiful, and the beer was (obviously) fantastic. I have a little haul I brought back from HF, including a large growler of Everett, and two 750ml growlers of Society and Solitude #5. One 4-pack of Heady was all I could manage to find, but I got a ton of other great beer (including some HF and Grassroots bottles).

    Lunch at Prohibition Pig was excellent, and I enjoyed Heady, Jack's Abbey Mass Rising, and Lost Nation Gose on tap. Mass Rising definitely left me feeling that all the love for JA on this site is well-deserved!

    Pics in other threads; I won't deluge the WBAYDN? thread with pics of what I was drinking yesterday. :slight_smile:

    As to this lovely morning, one of my beer "finds" was Sculpin from this month. As befitting a large fish, I've been hunting fresh Sculpin for quite a while; I'd gone 0-for-2 in the past, getting two skunked and aged bottles. They had a ton of cans from early Feb at the Craft Beer Cellar, so it's finally time to hook this fish and reel him in!

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    Lacing on this beer is ridiculous! I can honestly, finally, say that this beer lives up to the hype. It's a very, very tasty and solid single IPA. I would probably put it up there as a daily drinking IPA with Jai Alai and Flower Power, if not quite as good as those two (for my palate).

    There will be plenty more drinking today, I have no doubt. Cheers, friends!
     
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  19. russpowell

    russpowell Grand High Pooh-Bah (8,292) May 24, 2005 Arkansas
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    A little early for me right now, but a Boulevard Saison-Brett to be sure. Looks like my beer fridge lost its mind & went into run away cooling so all my bottles on the top rack were frozen or near frozen:confused: A little beer is oozing out the corked and caged seal. Turned it down to minimum setting, so we'll how this goes...
     
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  20. Jeffries55

    Jeffries55 Initiate (0) Sep 5, 2013 New York

    Ok, so this tasting started last night, but finished at 2:30 this morning, so this still classifies as WBAYDN right?

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    Little Sumpin Sumpin.
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    Cigar City Invasion Pale Ale.
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    The Snack Spread (someone brought venison sausage!).
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    5-year aged gouda, walnuts, grapes, etc..
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    Bacon wrapped water chestnuts with BBQ sauce.
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    And... it was 2:30 at this point, we still had 5 beers left, and I didn't even include pictures of our palate cleansers (Strongbow and Schlitz).
     
    #20 Jeffries55, Feb 23, 2014
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