What Beer Are You Drinking Now? #3332

Started with a Voodoo Ranger now having a Christmas Ale

 

Digging this

 

Ok, on to the night games. Rooting for Michigan and Wake.

Had a riff on a Sazerac between VT IPAs to reset my palate. This last one ( ) was the surprise and one I liked as much as Heady fresh. The difference to me is vaguely similar to Pliny vs Heady - both great in their own similar but unique ways.


This beer held up for a couple months ok, but has dropped off in the last month. Not that anyone asked, but for me:

• Fresh: Heady, Double > Focal
• ~One month: Double, Heady > Focal
• ~Two months: Double, Focal > Heady
• ~Three months: Focal, Heady, Double

Still have a few VT beers left (almost all from one brewery north and east of the others).

Edit: also for me, Chinooker’d held up almost as well as Focal, but started a notch below.

 

Werk Force Double Barrel Maple Sleepy Bear

 

Something big and stouty to close out the night. Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout. Cheers!



This will be my last Genesis related post for at least the next 3 minutes...There was a lovely lady selling some, uh, "band merchandise" in the parking lot before the show. My cousin and I each picked up a T for less than half the inside merch table price. Thankful to have the shirt, but the spelling of "Phildelphia" yo...

 

St. Bernardus Abt 12 ...

 

Buenas noches, gringos.

Another Half Acre Tend IPA.

All is well. Did my half-marathon length slow run this morning, and the "tendon" is getting better.
I'm ready. I will commit. I won't quit. Cheers.... y salud!

 

An Irish Red Ale from @WunderLlama! Moby Dick's Ishm-ale.

 

Playing some halo with my friend. He randomly invited me. Open mic with random squad people is cool. Love the beer.


Cheers

 

Holy hell. Most of the family is now on a tropical island for a wedding. I am not. Crazy drama. I can’t help from here…kids, adult doesn’t matter, can’t plan or communicate for sh!t.

War Horse Vanilla Turn and Burn. It’s ok, but I don’t enjoy it as much as the original. The vanilla tastes lackluster, like some generic bottled extract. Pity.

 

My boys are already doing what they should be. 70k at Lucas Oil Stadium; the most ever recorded. Needless to say, I’m expecting another win.
Cheers, all.

 

Weyerbacher makes nice beer. Sunday Morning Stout, Insanity, Blithering Idiot….mmmmmm.

 

Jeff Buckley, nice

 

Doing well thanks, hope the same is true for you. Looked at many slabs of granite before picking that one.

 

It's not always ska/punk over here in casa de snaotheus.



Now just wait until I can find a ska or punk cover of either of these songs...

 

Went to my wife’s work Christmas party where I behaved myself. Now back at the house by the firepit with Life in the Clouds IPA

 

Lettuce wrapped Flintstone vitamins. Uhhhh. On the other hand, it’s strange how the mention of Flinstone vitamins instantly brings back memories of that taste, the texture, the tiny shapes…

 

Two fistin' it right now with a family tasting while watching #Svengoolie (mine is the small glass, just wanted enough to write a review) ...



And wearing Ugly Sweater numero-el-two-o ...





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Dish is still feuding with the media company that has the local CBS channel, haven't seen them in months. I miss their weekend AM shows. Sadly their over the air signal is too weak

 

Slowly moving through the Rochester Mills stout pack. Going with Chocolate Cheesecake tonight.

Nose is pretty spot on for choc cheesecake. Flavor is dark chocolate/cacao with a little vanilla that suggests the dessert. It feels a little thin but I think it's because massive pastry stouts have convinced me everything has to be super viscous. At 5.2% it's an enjoyable easy drinker. Cheers!

 

Well, when you're on a low carb diet but you're jonesin' for a Flintstone sandwich, who hasn't?

 

Always awesome.

 

Earlier: Drekker Braaaains Pineapple/Guava/Passionfruit Berliner. A tasty overly-fruited sour.


Now enjoying a Phase Three/Hop Ranches/Yakima Chief Symmetrical Design (Idaho 7/Pahto). An overarching clean earthy, resiny pine bitterness throughout that gains in intensity as you get into the finish. Undertones of pineapple, apricot, ruby red grapefruit, grapefruit peel, and cherry are there as well. These guys are making some of the best clear hoppy beer in the Chicagoland area right now imho.

 

@TCgenny so how did the middle daughters improv solo go?? Done biting your nails?

 

Left Hand Nitro Black Firest Cherry Chocolate Stout

 

A friend from further up north sent me a few beers, this one is beyond any IPA I've had before.....Tree House Sap.....totally taste changing................

 

Nova, a Juicy Pale Ale from 3 Sheeps. Cheers, BAs!

 

Pilsner urquell

 

@jzeilinger as a Big 10 Basketball fan, what you thinking about Mark Turgeon stepping down from Maryland? I'm no stranger to being rivals with his teams, as an alumni from both Illinois and Southern Illinois. Seems odd, and I don't know if I have ever seen something like this when there wasn't a health or really bad character issue.

 

I’m so glad deschutes finally came to my part of NJ a year or so ago. This is the first time I’ve seen jubelale here, it’s as great as I remember it….

 

Wasn't expecting this to be a Sierra Nevada Celebration clone, it is.

 

Oh I love that beer, but haven't seen it around me yet...

 

Phase Three Grunge

 

It’s been like 7 years since I’ve had it. Almost like a new beer to me at that point. There are minor hints of fresh squeezed in it that I do not remember at all. It so damn good and such a beauty to look at.

FWIW they do have a beer finder. You could give it a try and see if it’s around.

 

Giving this one a try while watching the Michigan game. I like it a lot

 

Dedicating this one to @GreenBayBA - damn fine guy he is:

Club Raul: