What beer are you drinking now? #47

Was pleased to see 2012 Great Lakes Blackout Stout has arrived in Chicago...

 

Fairly average spiced beer. Glad I only bought a single. I've been plowing through it pretty quickly to get to something better, but it has improved as it has warmed.

 

Night Capper

 

I see your post and raise you this. To keep the beer quote intact, I am drinking Deschutes Black Butte Porter. My wife made fun of me in the Liqour store when I asked for, "Black Butt Porter."

 

Going through half a Big Bear Black Stout tonight and recapping to take to a friend tomorrow. Kind of reminds me of Stone's IRS in that it's a solid stout but I'm not really getting a dominant flavor out of it outside of a roasty, dark fruit tang. It's good but I like to get a few different flavors out of my imperial stouts, with something a little on the dominant side whether it be coffee or chocolate with the other flavors riding shotgun. Eh, we'll see as it warms up.

 

A few Racer 5's earlier...now onto something a little bigger.

 

Had a 10 hour day between gigs, so I had to stop by Trader Joe's for groceries. Can't go wrong with a 2012 Viintage Ale by Unibroue.

 

Drinking a Backwoods Bastard. I'll be sad when I'm out.



Having a chill night. A little Ben Folds Five on the stereo

 

Closing the night out with my first BCBCS...



Woah. Watching Elf as well!
Cheers!!!

 

I had a pretty fuckin epic beer day, started at 11 am. Brouwers Big Wood. Here they are in order of consumption.

Boneyard Suge Knite



Logsdon Far West Vlaming Flanders Red



HUB Army of Darkness Brouwers VI barrel aged



The Lost Abbey Cuvee de Tomme



Deschutes The Abyss 2011



Boulevard Rye on Rye



Then went to Peoples Pub for some dinner and had a Boneyard RPM IPA

 

Started out with a Peche Mortel 11e anniversary (nitro) and moved on to a Noce de Soie (Saison brewed with Japanese Peppercorns). Delish. Cheers.

 

Gotta keep it rolling. We've always dreamed of digging to the other side of the world right?

 

a little of this..


a little of that..


stout night bruh

 

Like it better fresh but it is still tasty. Look at the skills of my snowman.

 

I've never had anything from Ninkasi before so I thought I'd pick up their bomber 4 pack. It was only 13.99 so that's about 3.50 a bomber! Not too bad. Starting out with their Total Domination ipa.

 

Doing a side-by-side of both versions of International Arms Race gruit ales by BrewDog and Flying Fish. While BrewDog's offering is a little more flavorful than their American counterpart's, overall I'm under-whelmed. Not bad beers mind you, I just don't think that the style is for me.

 

I'm 8 episodes into the first season of American Horror Story and I feel like my head is full of nails and its just getting shaken around. Every ten minutes I literally say "WTF!!!?" out loud. This show is bananas.

Closing the night out with some old Two Hearted

 

Why not.....$10.99 a 4 pak and you get the over sized tulip glass.
DUVEL