What beer are you drinking now? #4835

Packing up a special order to send out West () while sipping on this kick-butt Scotchy from @muchloveforhops3 !! (And watching the Purdue / Iowa game.)





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TY. So true we did more work in 48 hours than i care to do at my tender age.

 

That’s what she said, unfortunately.

 

Sierra Nevada Celebration (6.8% canned 10/3/2025): An IPA from California with Cascade, Centennial, Chinook for flavors of soapy orange, pine resin, and a smooth caramel malt body.

Drinking smooth, resinous and a nice piney and citrus flavor underneath. Losing it's bitterness, but keeping the pine flavor and resinous notes.

 

A cold day today is a perfect day for the Wolf.

 

6th Lord. An IPA brewed by Basic City.

 

I’m really getting down to the nubbins on my Northwest Beer Tour. So much so that I’m doing a repeat of this delicious Altbier, produced by Alaskan Brewing of Juneau, Alaska.

Earlier this year I did a tour of Düsseldorf and Cologne beers - and we enjoyed poking fun at the silly glassware they use. Unlike the big Maßkrugs you might drink your Festbier in, up North in Düsseldorf they introduced the tiny and pathetic “Becher," literally “Beaker.” So the idea is, you sit around drinking while the beer-tender repeatedly brings you a continuing supply of “Bechers." Little tiny beers, usually about 8 ounces. RIDICULOUS!. Sort of like “Dimers” night at the Down-Under circa 1981 !!!

So anyway, I decided to re-name the pathetic Dusseldorf and Cologne glassware. In the case of the Düsseldorf-style Altbier, the Becher is hereby renamed the “Dinkster” !!! (Cologne, your equally ridiculous Stange glasses are hereby re-named the "Dorkster!”)

So I’d never say suck it up, but in this case, maybe sip it up. That’s all you’re going to be able to do with the Düsseldorf babyflaschen !!! Prost!

 

Cheers!

 

Notch pils with teddys favorite rock @ChicagoJ @LeinenkugelDrinker

 

Wow. That’s a beauty!

 

I haven't seen anything from that brewery on the shelf around for like, eons!

 

Its a beautiful day out...what does that mean...oh I don't know...maybe picking up Karl Ove Knausgaard's new novel at my local Brazos Bookstore. Then walking down the block to one of my favorite old school dives...Under The Volcano (which is also my favorite book). As I start this big doorstoper of a novel out at Volcano's amazing patio.

A Paulaner Hefe is first...actually had a couple of these



Then Saint Arnold Banger IPA. With their beef tips and German potato salad. Its not the best thing ever, and there is a bit of shrinkflation, but its way better than most dive bar food

 

Some middle neck clams and a Modelo to wash them down.

 

After Under The Volcano...on to another dive bar...Poison Girl...

One of the best Whisk(e)y bars around...but also has a good beer selection. Paradigm IPA, and Still Austin Bourbon...



Ridiculously great artwork on the wall, with all the ridiculously great and expensive Bourbons I can't afford

 

They do have it in 6 and 12 packs, but, I think it was a one time release of them in that format.

 

Having a Second Fiddle next up
Cheers!

 

Nugget Nectar

 

Pairing this one with a late dinner while watching the Illinois / Northwestern game.



No music, just hoops. Yo, hoops ya'll, ... hoops!

(And glad to see Verizon finally get their stuff together after a 7+ hour cell service outage. )

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