Let's talk good beer

[Chico23231]

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Southern Tier

3XIPA Triple Unearthly

Not a bad banger...if you can hang

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

EXACTLY. It MIGHT be the best one in RVA, but for some reason we always forget it when we head over from Crozet. Their Joose days are just insane. It is beer you could truly feed to a child and they'd have no clue.

Stone is definitely one of our stops and right now the only breweries we're comfortable going to are 1) in HUGE warehouse styles or 2) heated and outside. Summer we were totally fine going to places because we knew we could sit outside. Winter making it a LOT harder now.

Strangeways is also our jam. They don't make the best beer in town, but there's something to be said for getting a flight of twelve.

They HAVE upped their game however. Murder Hornet is one of their best IPAs they've put out. Mostly my wife and I don't have a true "preference" on beer, but I tend to migrate to DIPAs/IPAs and she migrates to sours mostly. I am getting over the IPA craze a bit. These douches walk into a place and are like, "Bruuuuuh, what's your haziest IPA?" I'm like, do you just want your palette blown out by hops for hops sake?

The Veil has been notorious for that recently (at least for us). I bought their dry hopped pilsner because that's a style ranking higher and higher for me. Was almost undrinkable because of how bitter it was. Zero balance.

The problem I’ve complained about with the hop craze is a lot of the brewed ipa have the body consistency of lemonade. I like a strong hop - balance taste on a full body beer.

If you pour an ipa/dips and it looks like a light beer, you’ve been cheated. Should be a copper color. Now a pale ale, I like them light...as they should be.

[SunnySide]

Local craft store had surprise 3 Floyds in stock, one time only. They ran out of zombiedust before I got there. dont think they put a limit so im guessing some asshole just bought out whatever they had

lazer snake ipa, barbarian haze pale, alpha king pale and dreadnaught dipa

next level beers and not overly expensive, like $12 to $16 for each.

singelcut, cushwa etc are starting to charge $18 plus for their 4 packs

Maryland has great beers but I do wish we got at least one of the big guys from RR, 3 floyds, toppling, lawsons, tree house, hill farmstead

[sdskinsfan2001]

Coors Light. Every once in a while, you just need something nice and simple (more simple than nice).

[TheMalcolmConnection]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

The problem I’ve complained about with the hop craze is a lot of the brewed ipa have the body consistency of lemonade. I like a strong hop - balance taste on a full body beer.

If you pour an ipa/dips and it looks like a light beer, you’ve been cheated. Should be a copper color. Now a pale ale, I like them light...as they should be.

This, for sure. I'm wondering if the pendulum swings back the other way to where it's a bit more balanced.

[TheMalcolmConnection]

Originally Posted by sdskinsfan2001

Coors Light. Every once in a while, you just need something nice and simple (more simple than nice).

No doubt. Sometimes that (or a PBR) nearly frozen is the SHIT.

[RedskinMike]

Originally Posted by SunnySide

Local craft store had surprise 3 Floyds in stock, one time only. They ran out of zombiedust before I got there. dont think they put a limit so im guessing some asshole just bought out whatever they had

lazer snake ipa, barbarian haze pale, alpha king pale and dreadnaught dipa

next level beers and not overly expensive, like $12 to $16 for each.

singelcut, cushwa etc are starting to charge $18 plus for their 4 packs

Maryland has great beers but I do wish we got at least one of the big guys from RR, 3 floyds, toppling, lawsons, tree house, hill farmstead

The 3 Floyds drop shouldn't be a one time thing. They are distributing to MD now so it should be around semi regularly. I hadn't had it in a few years but Zombie Dust was a let down this time around.

[SunnySide]

Originally Posted by RedskinMike

The 3 Floyds drop shouldn't be a one time thing. They are distributing to MD now so it should be around semi regularly. I hadn't had it in a few years but Zombie Dust was a let down this time around.

ho le chit .. youre right. They distributed it everywhere even the local small liqour store types around Howard County.

https://www.3floyds.com/distribution/

2021>2020

edit - 3 floyds was smart, the beer i bought was like a week old. Surly dumped a ton of palletes on Perfect Pour about 6 months ago but the pale ale was like 9 months old at that time and its just sitting there for months later growing dust

[sdskinsfan2001]

Sierra Nevada Hop Bullet Double IPA

1st time having it as I type this. It's 8% and doesn't taste like it. These are dangerously good.

[SunnySide]

Originally Posted by RedskinMike

The 3 Floyds drop shouldn't be a one time thing. They are distributing to MD now so it should be around semi regularly. I hadn't had it in a few years but Zombie Dust was a let down this time around.

Got 2 sixers of zombie dust .. its a good beer. Mine is maybe 5-6 weeks old. I read that taste wise it starts to drop off a cliff after 2 weeks or so. But im not sure how its ranked 37 in BA.

The presence of malt was nice, good beer .. i dont know how to say this but Id take monument citys 51 rye over it in terms of everyday regular drinking beer.

Makes me appreciate Other Half, Singlecut and some other breweries that perhaps Im not missing out .. theres great beer evyerwhere

[punch it in]

Had my first heady topper this past weekend. Extremely pricey, but tastes like it.

[punch it in]

Originally Posted by sdskinsfan2001

Sierra Nevada Hop Bullet Double IPA



1st time having it as I type this. It's 8% and doesn't taste like it. These are dangerously good.

All Sierra Nevadas knock me on my ass. Lol. They really are one of the original dank beers. I must have gotten completely fucked up on the original ones a long time ago and now I am afraid of them and their stronger brethren. The sight of one actually makes me dizzy. Lol

[sdskinsfan2001]

Originally Posted by punch it in

All Sierra Nevadas knock me on my ass. Lol. They really are one of the original dank beers. I must have gotten completely fucked up on the original ones a long time ago and now I am afraid of them and their stronger brethren. The sight of one actually makes me dizzy. Lol

That's how I am about Southern Comfort. Got absolutely housed on a camping trip like at least 15 years ago, still don't think I've had it since.

I bought a 12-pack variety pack. Had 3 of each kind, with that 8%er being the strongest. 12 of those and you might end up in the hospital.

The original is still the best. But breweries are all just pumping out so much variety nowadays.

[MTK]

SOCO reminds me of my freshman year in college, gross stuff, sickly sweet

[SunnySide]

Last time I had SOCO I woke up in a hospital room with huge cuts all over my body. There was a straight jacket by my bed and I grabbed it, opened my door and threw it down the hall and started to yell 'Im not fucking cra .." and as the words were coming out of my mouth, I noticed there was a cop in a chair next to my door .. and I said to myself "ahhh crap maybe I am".

Next day I learned I was running around naked fighting cops with a broom stick. Then they handcuffed and beat me up pretty good. I managed to escape for a moment and started running and just fell chest first down a flight of concrete stairs with my hands cuffed behind my back.

Didnt do any jail time.