What beer are you drinking now? #1862

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Good Morning BAs

Last evening in Beijing before heading home. Back at Jing A tonight. Having a colab nogne o/Jing A Koji Imperial Saison. 14% and a bronze medal winner at Asian beer cup. To be honest it’s not really my thing. Boozy and a bit of weirdness to it, unpleasant flavors. Knowing it was 14% I expected boozy but there is just not enough “Saison-ness” going on here to keep me interested. I’ll make it up with the next beer.

Cheers BAs

 

My new favorite cookbook. Making bagels this morning.

 

Good morning. Blueberry Cream Ale for breakfast.

Cheers

 

The world is ending, because I finally found the ONLY craft brewer that knows how to brew a proper Mexican lager that’s not over-hopped. I’m so sick of drinking craft Mexican lagers that taste like hop bombs. I can’t remember the last time I drank a Corona or Negra Modelo and bragged about the hop profile. Anyway, rant over — this beer rocks. I only bought a single bottle to review.

 

Great beer here. Last one and NH doesn't carry Night Shift. Cheers

 

After yesterday was my best sales day yet (surprise), going to spend my day off setting up decorations outside before a visit to Santa tonight. But first, a morning Mounds bar/beer.
Happy Saturday, Advocates!

 

Happy Saturday Advocates!

Will share some pics below of some hiking yesterday in our nearby Cuyahoga Valley NP....very cool place

In the meantime....go BIG or go home!



2016 - last bottle - still have 4 of 2017's



Blue Hen Falls



Buttermilk Falls, with my daughter Chloe



tried to re-create a fav pic from when she was like 4 years old....



her hair is dyed now and she wears glasses sometimes....still my "little girl"



Cheers BA's - drink well today!

 

Founders Azacca IPA

Cheers

 

Mollusk • Funky Roots

Here’s my entry for today's Third Annual WBAYDN Beer Turkey Day. This thing has been lurking in the back of my fridge for a few months now since I’ve been a little afraid to drink it. All you need to know is that this stuff was "brewed with parsnips". Definitely funky…

 

Fantastic pics, thanks for sharing!! My wife and I loved these, kids grow up fast makes you cherish each day. Cheers :-)

 

Finally got around to cracking open 18th Street Brewing's Hunter (Double Milk Stout, with cocoa nibs). Love this...roasty chocolate, thick, velvety, nice balance to it, especially good with some left over pumpkin pie. Cheers all!

 

The bagels turned out OK.

 

I was gonna deal with the leaves - but wound up dealing with this fallen tree - lotsa fresh firewood - Cheers!

https://www.theonion.com/42-million-dead-in-bloodiest-black-friday-weekend-on-re-1819574242

 

Happy Turkey Day, all!! This first beer is making a repeat on Turkey Day...


No, not just the same beer, from the same 12-pack. The GF is a bit of a hoarder and apparently that applies to beers she wouldn't ever drink. So, let's see if a year of cellar-aging has helped Miller Lite.

Yes, there is a beer in that left picture - it's like one of those mosaic photos where there's a hidden photo inside. Pours fairly clear yellow golden with a frothy white head - sorta like what it looked like in the alley behind the fraternity houses back when I drank this more regularly in college.

Nose still has a light grassy note with a bit of stale corn - much like the GF's parent's neighbors house after the feed has been put out for the chickens on a spring morning. Well... aging has mellowed this. From mostly tasteless to tasteless. The GF one time sent me a beer menu with descriptions of each beer, and in the corner they had Miller Light with the description "Beer-flavored water." Maybe they were serving cellared cans, too.

Well, I poured that out in the bushes outside, as some deer watched. After I re-entered the house, I saw them walk up... sniff around a little, and then do something that showed they respected my marking of my territory.

Anyhow, onto this beer which still has a good deal of flavor after over two years in the same cellar:


Happy Turkey Day, and here's to a bad beer in your hand today (with a good one as a chaser).

 

It's here!!! Thanks for the early start @JouerAvecLeFeu and @cjgiant !





Announcement time!

For those who weren't around the last two years, or were unable to participate for whatever reason, now's your chance because we're doin' it again!!! Today is the Third Annual WBAYDN Beer Turkey Day. Your bellies should be rested and ready by then, because you're gonna need them in tip top shape.That's right, get your bad beers ready, whether they be stale, infected, or just plain poorly conceived, and tell us all about it. We've all got them laying around, for whatever reason- so why not put them to (sorta) good use?! Let us wallow in each others' misery, while simultaneously being thankful for just how great we all have it the rest of the time. But that's also no reason not to break out just a few overwrought descriptions (if you know what I mean)...So be prepared to bring your worst beers and your best purple prose. There will be no set time; just start posting as soon as you can muster the nerve.

Just a quick note: Let's keep in mind that this is all in good fun. We're probably gonna come close to the line with some of these, but let's not cross it; and always keep in mind to Respect Beer. It's just that sometimes stuff happens, ya know? Let's just not crap on the brewers who do their best to keep this demanding group happy and satisfied.

I'll be back later to join in on the fun- see y'all then!

 

Good morning BAs! Well, it’s a damp, chilly morning here in NW PA with rain forecasted for later today. Yesterday I managed to rake most of my neighbor’s oak leaves from my yard and burn them – the pile is still smoldering but this afternoon’s rain should finish that off. Today’s Turkey Beer is:



But wait (you say), how can Wookey Jack be a turkey beer? Well, because I screwed up and stored it with my stouts and RISs, unrefrigerated, for 2.5 years.



Now, in self-chastisement, I’m drinking it like a RIS.

And I find purple prose is not apropos. Despite the hops having bid adieu to the rye, the rye is maintaining its character. While I was expecting something akin to a Lovecraftian ichor, the fluid is slick and slightly oily, but not repulsive and doesn’t force its way back up my esophagus after kicking open my cardiac sphincter. In fact, if I had refrigerated this prior to consumption, it would still be better than any brown ale or AAL out there, and would kick ass on most session IPAs. So, rather than being dubbed a turkey, this could better be described as, perhaps, a Guinea hen or a Cornish hen or a pheasant in my glass.