What beer are you drinking now? #478

So, this Ron guy shows up AGAIN. Says "save that Bigfoot for another year, I'm already aged...".

OK.



@ivorycannon

...yes it is every bit smooth and worth every penny to try if you can help it.

 

Had a DirtWolf before this also...but my first Hopslam!

 

Westvleteren XII. WOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!

 

Uinta Cockeyed Cooper. Love this beer, but I wish it had a bit more bourbon character.

 

Finishers:

Delicious stout.


I'm amazed at how incredible this is months after bottling. Better go buy another couple 6 packs


Highly carbed Nelson/Sorachi Saison I bottled nearly a year ago. Still glorious. Fermented at 85 degrees gets that Dupont strain riled up. I need to brew another pale Belgian soon.


Cheers

 

My first post, and I think a good way to start!

 

Really impressed by this one...almost more than Hopslam.

 

Torpedo for me tonight.

Cheers!

 

This is why I love craft beer:



This was my first ever (I'm now having my second) Sierra Nevada Stout. It's beautiful; I've spent so much time drinking huge, boozy, intense imperial stouts... and yet I can then try a standard stout like this that delivers awesomely with the chocolate, coffee and earth, with a slighlty smoky, roasty, finish of toasted bread... I'm really damn happy to reap so much enjoyment out of an affordable, common, standard stout.

It's inspiring a zen moment whilst I listen to this FFVII track:

 

Cheers!

 

Another successful SF Beer Week Event (Socal Brews You Should Know at Hog's Apothecary in Oakland)

San Diego Hops Flight (Stone - El Dorado + Calypso 2 Hop Collaboration, Societe The Pupil, Societe The Apprentice)


The Darkness Flight (Eagle Rock Solidarity [Not Pictured, enjoyed too quickly], Societe The Pugilist, Societe The Butcher)


Finished with a full pour of The Apptentice (my favorite of the previous) and the Nelson/Galaxy 2 Hop Collboration from Faction:

 

BBCS, cheers!

 

Finishing on a Hop Slam

 

Das home-brew!

Coffee chocolate stout with Khalid's highlander grogg.

Nightcap

Cheers BA!

 

Despite being a Pennsylvanian and in this hobby in three years now, I'm just now having my first Baltic Thunder. Pretty worth the wait.

 

Just getting outta work… Here's to a week off! Hope the Snow-Ma-Geddon II doesn't get too bad. Looks more like rain now….

 

Lakefront Holiday Spice Lager Beer. With all this snow here in Illinois and sub-zero temps, it's nice to have something that I like about winter. First time ever having this and I say it's delicious. Exactly what I want in Christmas spiced type beer.

 

That's pretty badass Al!

 

Ended the night with Crooked Stave Batch 60. Wow... what a beer..

 

Finishing off with a Sixpoint Hi-Res. I've heard this compared to Bells Hopslam and I have to disagree. Hosplam has a nice breadiness to the malts and this is a missing that. A bit watery (as a feel Sixpoint beers are). To me this is an "imperial" west coast double ipa lol. (As this seems to remind of like a Ruination or a Hop Stoopid, but just beefed up a bit as those brews fall in the 8% abv range and Hi-Res is 11%.) Like a west coast type of dipa with that kind of astringency, but it does have a sweet malt backing like a midwest dipa. (Funny how this beer is made on the east coast, yet so far the only regional descriptors I've used have been "west coast" and "midwest" lol. Best stop while I'm ahead I guess.)