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General Discussions => Spunk => Topic started by: weekapaug19 on October 06, 2005, 09:27:07 am
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long trail blackbeary wheat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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http://www.unibroue.com/products/3pistoles.cfm
I decided to drink these tonight
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Flying Dog/Tire Bite
Good stuff
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katonah Bev barn is really good for around here.
Not sure how it will stack up with some Mass stores. It is a pretty small place they just have a lot of hard to find ales etc
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Great beers blackieshamps Highland\'s Sturbridge is rock solid. Ommegang might be the best brewery in America, and virtually nobody knows about them because everything they do is Belgian strong ale so they have such a limited scope of drinkers. Unreal beers though, and the brewers are all ringers brought in directly from Belgium to work their magic. They also do a huge Ultimate Frisbee tournament each summer for club teams from across New York and New England. The winning team wins their weight in beer!!! (Comes out to about 40 cases...of 8-12% ABV beer, mind you.) I got to play in it this year, it was great.
Who can forget all the old Wolfman ulitmate frisbee games on the hill at UMass?
I am impressed by your thorough knowledge of beer, though it is your profession and passion.
We have a whole lineup of heady beers out here that doesn\'t include Magic Hat, Long Trail etc. (they are all regional interests of the Northeast). I\'m not going to start naming beers, but there are lots of good ones.
Next question: Which store has the best selection of alcohol? One name that comes to mind is the Spirit Haus in Amherst, MA.
The place I live above has an amazing selection of micro-beers / imports.
Katonah Beverage Barn - Katonah NY (2 seconds off of 684, Exit 6 )
I was thinking about taking a picture of some of the shelves so you guys could make some suggestions.
I guy that went to UMass with us is from Katonah, I\'ll ask him how the Barn ranks with Spirit Haus. Katonah Beverage Barn sounds like it would have a "heady" selection.
Since Wolfman has worked for Sam Adams in a few regional markets, I\'m sure he knows of some of the best stores in MA, CT and NYC.
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Great beers blackieshamps Highland\'s Sturbridge is rock solid. Ommegang might be the best brewery in America, and virtually nobody knows about them because everything they do is Belgian strong ale so they have such a limited scope of drinkers. Unreal beers though, and the brewers are all ringers brought in directly from Belgium to work their magic. They also do a huge Ultimate Frisbee tournament each summer for club teams from across New York and New England. The winning team wins their weight in beer!!! (Comes out to about 40 cases...of 8-12% ABV beer, mind you.) I got to play in it this year, it was great.
Who can forget all the old Wolfman ulitmate frisbee games on the hill at UMass?
I am impressed by your thorough knowledge of beer, though it is your profession and passion.
We have a whole lineup of heady beers out here that doesn\'t include Magic Hat, Long Trail etc. (they are all regional interests of the Northeast). I\'m not going to start naming beers, but there are lots of good ones.
Next question: Which store has the best selection of alcohol? One name that comes to mind is the Spirit Haus in Amherst, MA.
The place I live above has an amazing selection of micro-beers / imports.
Katonah Beverage Barn - Katonah NY (2 seconds off of 684, Exit 6 )
I was thinking about taking a picture of some of the shelves so you guys could make some suggestions.
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long trail blackbeary wheat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
agreed. but they don\'t sell it down here in Tejas
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long trail blackbeary wheat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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well, it may only be 2:45pm. but it\'s Friday, everyone has left, including my boss. So F\'it!! I\'m out! All this beer talk has gotten me thirsty. If you need me, I\'ll be @ the bar!!
Update: after sending this message, I got **** faced on Fat Tire. It was as good as I had remembered.
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Great beers blackieshamps Highland\'s Sturbridge is rock solid. Ommegang might be the best brewery in America, and virtually nobody knows about them because everything they do is Belgian strong ale so they have such a limited scope of drinkers. Unreal beers though, and the brewers are all ringers brought in directly from Belgium to work their magic. They also do a huge Ultimate Frisbee tournament each summer for club teams from across New York and New England. The winning team wins their weight in beer!!! (Comes out to about 40 cases...of 8-12% ABV beer, mind you.) I got to play in it this year, it was great.
Who can forget all the old Wolfman ulitmate frisbee games on the hill at UMass?
I am impressed by your thorough knowledge of beer, though it is your profession and passion.
We have a whole lineup of heady beers out here that doesn\'t include Magic Hat, Long Trail etc. (they are all regional interests of the Northeast). I\'m not going to start naming beers, but there are lots of good ones.
Next question: Which store has the best selection of alcohol? One name that comes to mind is the Spirit Haus in Amherst, MA.
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Great beers blackieshamps Highland\'s Sturbridge is rock solid. Ommegang might be the best brewery in America, and virtually nobody knows about them because everything they do is Belgian strong ale so they have such a limited scope of drinkers. Unreal beers though, and the brewers are all ringers brought in directly from Belgium to work their magic. They also do a huge Ultimate Frisbee tournament each summer for club teams from across New York and New England. The winning team wins their weight in beer!!! (Comes out to about 40 cases...of 8-12% ABV beer, mind you.) I got to play in it this year, it was great.
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Asheville\'s got this great brewery Highland brewing company, they make the gaelic ale, an instant classic. Georgia\'s Sweetwater Brewing Company does that "420" pale ale nonsense, but their brown ale called "Sweet Georgia Brown," is def one of my favorite beers ever. Both are HIGHLY recommended.
Up here, I think Ommegang holds it down pretty tuff if youre into the belgian type. they are real true to the style and are always full of variety that usually leaves me very impressed.
Yeah that 420 Ale was the only decent beer on Jamcruise last year and I was not too impressed. Maybe I was just soured to it because I drank so much of it and was therefore pretty sick of it by the end of the cruise.
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Thanks Seth!
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Asheville\'s got this great brewery Highland brewing company, they make the gaelic ale, an instant classic. Georgia\'s Sweetwater Brewing Company does that "420" pale ale nonsense, but their brown ale called "Sweet Georgia Brown," is def one of my favorite beers ever. Both are HIGHLY recommended.
Up here, I think Ommegang holds it down pretty tuff if youre into the belgian type. they are real true to the style and are always full of variety that usually leaves me very impressed.
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Ballast Point is awesome and their Brown Ale is a Gold Medal Winner. They\'re just starting to ship nationally, check it out if you see it.
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UFO Hefenwiezen Harpoon...Is that the correct spelling of Hefenwiezen?
Hefeweizen ;)
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not sure if you would actually consider it a "heady micro brew", but I prefer Miller Lite.
Wow! U need to come to CT & visit some of my promos! ;)
When I\'m not drinking Miller, or, the much finer quality Bud Lite, I love the Dogfishhead 60 min. brew. I\'ve bought the 90 min. brews a few times, but I can only down one in like a 1/2 hr. - it\'s way too strong!
The Blueberry Wheat beer is really good too
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I do like Shiner Bock...
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well, it may only be 2:45pm. but it\'s Friday, everyone has left, including my boss. So F\'it!! I\'m out! All this beer talk has gotten me thirsty. If you need me, I\'ll be @ the bar!!
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UFO Hefenwiezen Harpoon...Is that the correct spelling of Hefenwiezen?
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davidson brothers: nut brown ale
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New Belgium is an incredible brewery. They are true to their Belgian roots, creative and original in brewing, and shrewd in their marketing. Some of their beers are amongst the best beers brewed in this country
That being said, the reputation of Fat Tire wildly exceeds its true nature. It\'s still good, there\'s nothing bad about it. However, it is what it is: a craft brewery flagship brewed to be simple enough for the bulk of craft drinkers while clearly better than the mass domestics. Fat Tire is in the same class as Harpoon IPA, Sam Adams Boston Lager, Long Trail Ale, Magic Hat #9, or Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. It has an incredible reputation (which I commend New Blegium for achieving) because of its limited availability and fierce regionalism amongst those in Colorado. But once you drink it you\'re just kinda like "Oh...ok." It does its job though, which is bringing in the loot to support New Belgium\'s forays into truly unique and creative original beers. Great brewery. And for the record, I have 2 bombers of Fat Tire in my cellar right now, along with other CO beers I brought back in July :)
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lately i\'ve been drinking a lot of BBC Steel Rail, i also tried the 420 ale at coventry i believe, i\'d give it the :thumbsup:
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the sunshine wheat (new belgium) also a fruity beer is pretty damned good as well. another citrus beer, made with a slight orange taste. they have at least a few diff kids on tap in every bar out here.
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I also don\'t like most Belgian beer.
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Fat Tire is the ****. Def. one of my favorite beers. They now have it @ Winston\'s YEAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!
Used to have to have it sent to us from Colo. by friends but they finally are distributing it out here!!!!!!!!!!!! Man that beer is good!
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since I\'ve been spending a lot of time in TX lately, I\'ve gotten into Shiner Bock.
there\'s also a brewry called New Belgium that makes "Fat Tire" which is pretty good.
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Wolf I agree, but that stuff is more like champagne than beer.
And now for something completely different:
A BRIEF OKTOBERFEST HISTORY?..
Crown Prince Ludwig, later to become King Ludwig I, was married to Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildburghausen on 12th October 1810. The citizens of Munich were invited to attend the festivities held on the fields in front of the city gates to celebrate the happy royal event. Hence the birth of Oktoberfest!
Horse races in the presence of the Royal Family marked the close of the event that was celebrated as a festival for the whole of Bavaria. The decision to repeat the horse races in the subsequent year gave rise to the tradition of the Oktoberfest. The first carousel and two swings were set up in 1818.
Visitors were able to quench their thirst at small beer stands which grew rapidly in number. In 1896 the beer stands were replaced by the first beer tents and halls set up by enterprising landlords with the backing of the breweries.
Today, the Oktoberfest is the largest festival in the world, some 6 million visitors from all around the world converge on the Oktoberfest each year. And since the Oktoberfest is still held on the Theresienwiese, the locals still refer to the event simply as the "Wies\'n". So "welcome to the Wies\'n" means nothing other than "welcome to the Oktoberfest"
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The Lindemann\'s (second picture) are the most popular and go for about $5-7 per 11.2oz bottle in a liquor store. The Cantillon\'s (fifth picture) are also pretty findable and go for about $9 a bottle but they\'re bigger at 750ml. The Geuze beers are more expensive because there\'s only like 15 people in the world who know how to make them. That 750ml Oude Geuze (third picture) is probably about $12. Smaller bottles of Geuze such as Geuze Girardin go for $8-10. An affordable luxury for sure...a wine of equal quality would cost at least $125.
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How much does a bottle go for?
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Also... just wanted to say...
fruit beers suck! ;)
Actually, Lambic and Geuze beers have been made with fruit since the 1200\'s and are some of the most incredible beverages ever produced by the hand of man. The Belgians have handed down this art form through families for hundreds of years and scores of generations, often using the same farmhouses the entire time to capitalize on the natural yeast in the clean countryside air. Various Lambics are aged for 6 months to 10 years in wooden casks and can be more passionate and flavorful than the finest wines. Some lucky Lambics are carefully selected and mixed together by negociants whose only job is to perfectly mix different Lambics to create beer called Geuze.
You should try some of the amazing Lambic and Geuze beers made by the Belgians before slamming the incredible art that is good fruit beer.
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not sure if you would actually consider it a "heady micro brew", but I prefer Miller Lite.
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I think I\'m straight edge after drinking 10+ beers on Friday night. 3-4 are usually sufficient.
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Yeah, that 420 ale was awesome!! Had it again this past winter when I skied at Sunday River. :drool:
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Stone Coast from Maine is really really good.
I know they started selling the 420 Ale and some others in NYC. There was a Keg of it at the Party in Maine that The Breakfast played for a friend of mine. I had never had it before had 1 pint and was like waht beer is this.
I havent done that in a long time.
http://www.stonecoast.com/index.php
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About a bazillion.
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magic hat highpa should be available all year round
stanley mouse did the labels this past year and they are nasteeeee.. almost worthy of a tat if you ask me....
other beers of worthy mention- left hand brewing co. new belgium brew co.
rogue so many out there
sorry for the lack of commas once again my roomate\'s computer is lacking a few keystrokes.. how many times have we had a thread like this?? I feel like I\';ve been here before...
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I just go straight for the homemade blueberry wine.
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Any fresh, well hopped IPA works for me, good ones of late: Tremont IPA, Middle Ages Im Paled Ale, Hooker American Pale Ale, Southern Tier IPA, Magic Hat High PA
That being said I do like an ocassional stout or porter. Sierra Nevada, Magic Hat, Ipswich, Southern Tier all make good ones.
One of my favorite all around beers lately is Shipyard Export Ale.
Fruit beers not only suck, they are NOT BEER!
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I disagree about fruit beers.
Cherry Wheat is very good.
Blueberry Ale is pretty good.
They arent the type of beers where you should be drinking 6-9 of them but a few here and there is good. Not to mention the Framboise Peach, Cherry, Raspberry, I think there are a few more. But I would considered those dessert beers almost like sparkilng wine
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i had a sip of princesscaspian\'s pumpkin spiced apple pie yam pickled beet beer last week and almost :yack:
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to many to choose from and it all depends on the mood.. that being said I do feel that the dogfishhead IPAs are hyped up more than Chumphrey\'s McGee... they do make a delicious malt liquor and package it in an appropriate 40 oz. bottle.. at least $6 but guaranteed to send you to the moon.. only saw them in Camden a few summers ago... have been looking eversince....
the 40\'s are great.....I think they only sold 2 cases to all of Mass. my friend got 2 bottles of them this year and gave me one. Great stuff.
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I have to disagree with Gabe. Dogfishead 90 min is definitely one of my favorites.
Can\'t drink pumpkin ales.
Also... just wanted to say...
fruit beers suck! ;)
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I used to drink a lot of Ipswich Ale. They make really good beer. But I cant get it in NY.
Sam Smiths
I was drinking a nice keg of Dinkelager dark the other day (only had a beer or 3 though) someone returned the Keg because it was dark. hahahaha
I used to drink a lot more micro brews then I do now. I usually drink a lot of coors light with a few kind beers thrown in but it all depends
Oh had a great pumpkin ale the other night. I think it was a smuttynose.
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to many to choose from and it all depends on the mood.. that being said I do feel that the dogfishhead IPAs are hyped up more than Chumphrey\'s McGee... they do make a delicious malt liquor and package it in an appropriate 40 oz. bottle.. at least $6 but guaranteed to send you to the moon.. only saw them in Camden a few summers ago... have been looking eversince....
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Just wondering what every likes for Microbrews.
Right now I\'ve been drinking alot of dogfish head brewery 60 and 90 minute IPA\'s.