Let's talk good beer

[Chico23231]

Just found out my beer store tapped Maine - Lunch the other day...time to get the growler filled.


Folks, is there a preference "glass ware" you break out for drinking good beer? For the last 6 months I've been using wide mouth mason jars and its great. keeps the beers surprising cold and the wide mouth drinks for maximum consumption when I need to go there( i.e. listening to an annoying conversation by a semi-girlfriend, watching the opposing team score a touchdown against the skins)

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Just found out my beer store tapped Maine - Lunch the other day...time to get the growler filled.


Folks, is there a preference "glass ware" you break out for drinking good beer? For the last 6 months I've been using wide mouth mason jars and its great. keeps the beers surprising cold and the wide mouth drinks for maximum consumption when I need to go there( i.e. listening to an annoying conversation by a semi-girlfriend, watching the opposing team score a touchdown against the skins)

better hope they still lunch left. stuff goes quick. on tap .. im drooling.

i prefer a tulip glass but i drink mostly american ipas and practically stick my nose in the head right after the pour. i love that new pour smell. if not that, a straight or nonic pint glass is fine. sometimes i drink straight from the bottle just to see if there is a difference and there is imo. the pour done right creates a needed chemical reaction .. plus you cant stick your nose in a bottle.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Just found out my beer store tapped Maine - Lunch the other day...time to get the growler filled.


Folks, is there a preference "glass ware" you break out for drinking good beer? For the last 6 months I've been using wide mouth mason jars and its great. keeps the beers surprising cold and the wide mouth drinks for maximum consumption when I need to go there( i.e. listening to an annoying conversation by a semi-girlfriend, watching the opposing team score a touchdown against the skins)

I have six of these and always in the refrigerator (not freezer)

The Mighty Pint by Berkshire | Berkshire Brewing Company

[MTK]

There's a Maine beer event going on today at my local watering hole. Lunch, Mo, Peeper, and Zoe. On the fence as to whether I want to go or not, chilly day out. Feels like a stay at home kinda night. We'll see.

[fbirks]

Spiegelau 2-Pack Beer Classics IPA Glass, 19-Ounce https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BTPUT3S..._qKYDwbVRT33MX

These beer glasses are sweet - very thin glass but sturdy

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by fbirks

Spiegelau 2-Pack Beer Classics IPA Glass, 19-Ounce https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BTPUT3S..._qKYDwbVRT33MX

These beer glasses are sweet - very thin glass but sturdy

Yeah, I peeped those...thanks for your endorsement. Im probably grab them after the holidays, my wallet is getting killed this Christmas.

[BDBohnzie]

I have a cabinet full of pint glasses from various places, but my go-to glass is usually the goblet I got at Flying Dog.



For smaller pours, I have a snifter beer glass I got from the Maryland Craft Beer Festival.

[over the mountain]

Budweiser buys Breckenridge. Good luck with that Budweiser. Breck is not good imo and tends to sit on shelves w no real movement.

Anheuser Busch-InBev Buys Third Craft Brewer in 5 Days - Fortune

[MTK]

Originally Posted by over the mountain

Budweiser buys Breckenridge. Good luck with that Budweiser. Breck is not good imo and tends to sit on shelves w no real movement.



Anheuser Busch-InBev Buys Third Craft Brewer in 5 Days - Fortune

Tried their vanilla porter once and it was just meh. Love how Bud makes commercials ragging on craft beer, all while buying up craft breweries. Fuck them and their piss water.

[BDBohnzie]

I had their imperial vanilla porter last night and it was a bit sweet. I don't run into their stuff too often.

Bigger guys will continue to buy up the smaller guys to keep their part of the market secured. Smaller guys will continue to take the money in hopes that they continue to have creative freedom.

[Chico23231]

Breckinridge is one of those breweries in the late 90s I cut my teeth on...I fondly remember the grateful dead lighting bolt on the label on the original label..oatmeal stout used to be their big beer..porter mentioned above became big.

But one of my all time favorite beers was their trademark pale ale. Just awesome...don't really see it much around for last 5 years...

[BDBohnzie]

Let’s see…what have I had the last few days…

NYE dinner was at an awesome pizza shop in Kensington, MD called Frankly Pizza. The owner’s wife used to work with my wife, so we’ve watched the business grow from an idea to a mobile unit to a booming brick and mortar. They have 4 beers and 4 wines on tap. I had DC Brau’s The Corruption and Starr Hill Snow Blind. I just can’t get into DC Brau. The beers of theirs I’ve had just aren’t that good to me. Snow Blind was great. Actually helped balance the heat from the pizzas I had (pickled jalapeños do the trick).

Spent the ball drop with some friends. Had fresh cans of Manor Hill IPA, which is one of the better MD IPAs out there. Helped share in my friend’s 4 Hands Chocolate Milk Stout Variety Gift Pack. Already had OG, so we had the Tiki and Horchata versions. Quite tasty. We also split a 4 Hands/Stone/Bale Breaker Sorry Not Sorry, which was decent. Most of the Stone collabs seems to be just ok. Points Unknown I think is still my fave. Looking forward to NXS though.

Had a flight at my favorite beach watering hole on Saturday. Oskar Blue Hotbox Coffee Porter, Magic Hat Snow Roller, Mispillion River Praetor, Troegs Mad Elf, and 2 in house brews, a winter warmer and a pale ale.

Getting some New England goodies from a friend of mine this weekend. He made his holiday trip to see the in-laws in CT and goes on a Heady hunt. I’m getting a small sample of his load: Heady Topper, Tree House Julius, Sap, & Eureka, Lawson Sip of Sunshine and Special Session #2, and Fiddlehead Second Fiddle. I’m really excited as I’ve only had half of these beers (heady, julius, sip).

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by BDBohnzie

I’m getting a small sample of his load: Heady Topper, Tree House Julius, Sap, & Eureka, Lawson Sip of Sunshine and Special Session #2, and Fiddlehead Second Fiddle. I’m really excited as I’ve only had half of these beers (heady, julius, sip).

Dang, nice score.

I like the Corruption, there arent enough good piney beers avail in MD imo. plus you can normally find it brewed within 30 days. with that said, i havent gotten it in a while.

for NYE we had neighborhood kids over so it was kinda tame alcohol wise. champagne and maybe some bells two hearted? the champagne kinda got me though.
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NEW RELEASES -- apparently Sierra Nevadas beer camp "tropical" IPA is on shelves in MD today. While this has the beer camp label ive read this is not a collab. Also a bit early for a spring seasonal release ... im stopping by tonight to get some.

Sierra Nevada - 2016 Beer Camp - Tropical IPA | Community | BeerAdvocate

NEW LOCAL BREWERY - 7 locks brewery. gonna have to stop by for a flight.

7 Locks Brewing Home - 7 Locks Brewing

[over the mountain]

SN tropical IPA is a really good tropical ipa. kind of a more bitter grapefruit sculpin. also really fresh right now w a dob of 12-9-15. at 17.99 a 12 pack, highly recommend.

Manor Hill IPA - ive had manor hill at victorias before and thought it was okay but i got a sixer of cans last night and wow .. looks, tastes and feels like a dipa. really well balanced. dob of 12-17-15 is awesome. at 14.99 a sixer, highly recommend. thanks for keeping mentioning this BD, i had kinda written off manor hill as decent but not great.

Maryland beers are really starting to step up.

[BDBohnzie]

Going to do a mixed case with some friends next weekend of SN Tropical, 21st Marooned on Hog Island, and 2 others (maybe some more Manor Hill IPA) . Need to replenish the fund after the haul I'm getting tonight.

Heard 7 Locks is just ok. It's up the street from my wife's Aunt's house, so next time we visit, I'll wander over.

Yeah, I've liked their beers. Ben (Twitter @Here4DaBeer) does a great job. Their DIPA Citra Splendor is really juicy. Their canned IPA tastes better than what I had on tap...I wonder if they changed it up a bit? Either way, they're spitting off more cans today, hitting shelves next week.