The Beer Thread • Page 111

God bless Sam Adams Winter Lager.

 

Understandable. Luckily I have rich, nice friends willing to share with me, haha.

BB 4th Dementia is phenomenal. The same friend that shared the eisbock with me had us over for a bottle share last year where he wouldn't let us bring anything at all. We had a four year old BB 4th Dementia, a three year old Westy 12, a six year old Expedition and a couple of Avery's high ABV beers (can't remember what; but they were both 3+ years old). It was incredible. Dude is incredibly nice.

Haha, that sounds awesome and terrible at the same time.

 

My friend mentioned he's picking us up a bottle on Friday so it looks like I'll be lucky to try it haha

 

Dope! Hope you like it as much as I did. It was my first chance getting to try it and it surpassed my expectations.

 

Haha that sounds like diabeetus in a glass.

 

Lagunitas High Westified is hitting the shelves, and man it sounds wonderful.

 

So now that the election is over and I've wasted so much time not planning my road trip, I'm getting back into it. With that said, brewery recs in Wyoming? Judging by the most likely route I'll be taking through the state, my options (that are showing up on google maps anyway) are:
Gillette Brewing Company
Clear Creek Brewing Company
Black Tooth Brewing Company
One-Eyed Buffalo Brewing Company

I could also somewhat realistically possibly hit Snake River Brewing and/or one of the other places near by there, but they're not on my direct route.

Anyone have any praise or "get the hell out of there"'s for any of these places and their beers?

 

I had the Barrel Aged Ten Fidy and really enjoyed it, but side by side with a BCBS 2012 and 2014 was no comparison.

 

The amount of money my husband and I spend on beer is absurd.

 

Bourbon County Black Friday really fucked my wallet up.

 

Living in Colorado I am lucky to have so many great breweries all within an hour or less of me. Current favorite is Dry Dock Brewery and they have one just down the street from me There are still so many I need to visit and try

Their Apricot Blonde is sooooooo good

 

very tasty, but an awful lot of alcohol and sweetness. if you ever do this, do it with more than a few friends.

 

I think some breweries in Wyoming won a decent number of medals at GABF (thought it might've been Montana, now that I think about it). I would try looking at those results and see if any of them are relatively on your route.

I haven't had a beer stand up to BCBS, yet (comparing styles, of course), so that's no surprise to me.

Yeah, I spend more than I should, though I don't go to releases or anything of that ilk. I think my girlfriend gets annoyed because it's the holidays + we want to move to a bigger place in the spring/summer and she feels like I might not be saving as much money as I could because I keep buying beer. That said, I'm pretty good at rationalizing (I'm in the industry, so it's kind tied to my job; it's the only hobby I spend money on; etc etc).

 

Probably a lost cause, but does anyone have any reccs for Vegas bottle shops or good beer bars near the strip

 

Stuff I've recently tried for the first time and liked:

Bell's Special Double Cream Stout
Oskar Blues Death by Coconut
Modern Times Black House
Ballast Point Mocha Marlin
Dogfish Head Indian Brown
Pizza Port Bacon & Eggs
Firestone Luponic Distortion no 4

 

are you in California? I'd be surprised if not

 

Gonna crack open a bottle of 2015 Abyss tonight, cannot wait to try it after aging for a year.

 

Yeah I go to school in SD, originally from Bay Area!

 

thought so with all those SD beers hah!

 

Death By Coconut didn't make it to my area last year but it did this year. Great beer.

 

Everyone doing the Toppling Goliath lottery? The value of those bottles on the secondary market could probably pay for the trip out to Iowa to pick them up.

 

The problem is I wouldn't want to sell those on the secondary market, so then it just turns out to be an expensive trip, haha. Would love to have those beers, though.

Edit: that said, my girlfriend and I just registered for the lottery, haha. It's an eight hour drive from where we are.

 

I registered. I have a buddy like an hour from the brewery that it would be nice to visit anyway. My plan would just be to keep an Assassin and the KBBS for myself and sell the other Assassin to recoup some of the cost of the trip/box.

 

Hop Ranch I just grabbed is pretty bad, unfortunately

 

Yeah, we talked about it a bit before I left for work and she did a quick research on flight vs. driving time. Only thing that would suck would be it's traveling in mid-January in the Midwest. Oh well, not like I'll with the raffle anyways. Would be dope, though!