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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #5850 on: September 30, 2015, 04:03:39 pm »
and I had a coney island root beer thing beer.  horr,ible.  like really, man.

It's good as a mixer with a middle shelf rum, like a 8 year old Bacardi.
I can see why Alchemy & Science/Boston Beer purchased it from Schmaltz.  It goes with the lighter, sweet shandy stuff they make with The Traveler (which also makes good cocktails/mixers).

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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #5851 on: September 30, 2015, 06:54:21 pm »
Sad week for craft beer lovers who shop at Whole Foods, as WF has basically fired the beer buyers at all their stores. No doubt supply and selection and service will suffer greatly.

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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #5852 on: October 01, 2015, 09:15:59 am »

Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #5853 on: October 01, 2015, 09:36:01 am »
so few thoughts
1. typically don't get my beer advice from USAtoday (that still exists?)
2. Why are they wearing their protective glasses for the sit down interview
3. 'ultra-hopped'
4. I've always wondered why more beers weren't using the nitrogen pour as a way to make something 'different' in the market.  But makes sense why it works well on porters/stouts (again why aren't more craft brewers doing this with their porters/stouts) But I wonder if a little more experimentation is needed with this. As a lot of bars have nitrogen available (maybe Guinness has a deal where the bar can't use that for any other drafts?)
5. most BA reviews say it's not that hoppy (IPA?!), tastes flat and is remarkably unremarkable
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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #5854 on: October 01, 2015, 09:46:46 am »
Sad week for craft beer lovers who shop at Whole Foods, as WF has basically fired the beer buyers at all their stores. No doubt supply and selection and service will suffer greatly.

is this for real???  wtf?  do they think good and unique beer is going to find its own way on to their shelves?

i'll be checking in on my downtown WF tomorrow... i hope my beer guy is still there.
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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #5855 on: October 01, 2015, 10:03:47 am »
Sad week for craft beer lovers who shop at Whole Foods, as WF has basically fired the beer buyers at all their stores. No doubt supply and selection and service will suffer greatly.

is this for real???  wtf?  do they think good and unique beer is going to find its own way on to their shelves?

i'll be checking in on my downtown WF tomorrow... i hope my beer guy is still there.

Best I can tell, totally real.

http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/whole-foods-beer-specialists-laid-off.339367/

I've gathered more info about a couple of beer guys in particular by reading some employee Facebook pages, but it's probably not cool to share that kind of info on a public forum like this.

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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #5856 on: October 01, 2015, 01:07:26 pm »
the good news is this'll probably open up the market for more specialty markets and bottleshops.

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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #5857 on: October 01, 2015, 01:12:45 pm »
the good news is this'll probably open up the market for more specialty markets and bottleshops.

More places with 30-50% markup above Whole Foods or Total Wine where you have to spend a fortune or kiss someone's ass to get the rare stuff.

Woohoo! Right on.

Not that I'm happy about shopping at a company that just shit on it's workers though.
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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #5858 on: October 01, 2015, 01:28:20 pm »
the good news is this'll probably open up the market for more specialty markets and bottleshops.

More places with 30-50% markup above Whole Foods or Total Wine where you have to spend a fortune or kiss someone's ass to get the rare stuff.

Woohoo! Right on.

Not that I'm happy about shopping at a company that just shit on it's workers though.
gotta agree with SF on that, price and selection has been pretty darn good at WF
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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #5859 on: October 01, 2015, 01:52:36 pm »
the good news is this'll probably open up the market for more specialty markets and bottleshops.

More places with 30-50% markup above Whole Foods or Total Wine where you have to spend a fortune or kiss someone's ass to get the rare stuff.

Woohoo! Right on.

Not that I'm happy about shopping at a company that just shit on it's workers though.

you're dumb

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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #5860 on: October 01, 2015, 03:50:19 pm »
the good news is this'll probably open up the market for more specialty markets and bottleshops.

More places with 30-50% markup above Whole Foods or Total Wine where you have to spend a fortune or kiss someone's ass to get the rare stuff.

Woohoo! Right on.

Not that I'm happy about shopping at a company that just shit on it's workers though.

you're dumb

BOOM! You got me.

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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #5861 on: October 06, 2015, 08:20:09 am »
The Shelton Brothers Festival in St Petersburg is the place to be NEXT weekend. Who can argue with this list?

The Festival 2015 ? Bottle & Tap List


18th Street
 VIP: Sour Note Blackberry Gose & Deal With the Devil
 All Sessions: For Rent Single-Hop Citra Pale
 Session 1: Hunter Vanilla Double Milk Stout
 Session 2: Forman Coffee Porter
 Session 3: Sour Note Flanders

7venth Sun
 All Sessions: TimeBomb Session IPA

8 Wired
 VIP: Mighty Imperial Ale
 All Sessions: Saison Sauvin
 Sessions 1 and 2: Wild Feijoa
 Session 3: Batch 2.18

Amager
 VIP: Double Black Mash
 All Sessions: Chad, King of the Wild Yeast (Crooked Stave collaboration)
 Session 1: Shadow Pictures (Grassroots collaboration)
 Session 2: Lawrence of Arabica (18th Street collaboration)
 Session 3: The Amazing Gotland Campfire Beer (Malmö collaboration)

Argus
 Session 1: Ciderkin & Malus Cuvée
 Session 2: Ginger Perry & Perennial
 Session 3: Tepache (pineapple wine) & Ciderkin

Arizona Wilderness
 All Sessions: Suit and tiePA
 Session 1: Grape Bear Wallow Berliner Weisse
 Session 2: American Presidential Stout
 Session 3: Sour Guy Rye

Art Bev Coop
 All Sessions: Ginger Libation

Bagby
 ALT in the Family
 Reconnoiter Porter
 Weissenhopper
 Pesky Neighbor

Baird
 VIP: Temple Garden Yuzu
 All Sessions: Wabi-Sabi
 Session 1 & 3: Natsumikan Ale
 Session 2: Numazu Lager

Beachwood
 All Sessions: Hop Ramen & Onyx Imperial Stout

Blaugies
 All Sessions: La Vermontoise (Hill Farmstead collaboration)
 Session 1: La Moneuse
 Session 2: Darbyste
 Session 3: Saison d?Epeautre

Bluejacket
 TBD

Bottle Shop
 All Sessions: Moor Beer B-Moor & Moor Beer Stout

Brasserie du Pays Flamand
 VIP: Sour Ale Blackberry
 All Sessions: Sour Ale Cassis
 Session 1 & 2: Cuvée Brett White
 Session 3: Cuvée Brett Red

Brasserie Dunham
 VIP: Flanders Red
 All Sessions: Tropicale IPA & Amicis Magicus (Jester King collaboration)
 Session 1: Assemblage No. 5 & Assemblage Hors-Serie #2
 Session 2: Assemblage Hors-Serie #3 & The Red Sashes
 Session 3: Saison Rustique & Assemblage No. 1

Brekeriet
 All Sessions: Ribes
 Session 1: Saison Sauvage
 Session 2: Brillant
 Session 3: Funkstarter

Brewfist
 All Sessions: Spaghetti Western (Prairie collaboration)
 Session 1: Bureaucracy IPA
 Session 2: X-Ray Porter
 Session 3: Galaxie Saison

Brewski
 All Sessions: MangoFeber & Brewski Berliner
 Session 1 & 2: Grape Me Berliner Weisse & AnanasFeber
 Session 3: Xenomorph Session & From Skåne with Love

Bridge Road
 All Sessions: TBD & Enigma

Buxton
 Session 1: Far Skyline & Sky Mountain Sour (To Øl collaboration)
 Session 2 & 3: Red Raspberry & Extra Stout

Cantillon
 VIP: LHD & 2005 Gueuze
 All Sessions: Kriek (on draft) and Bag-in-Box Gueuze (Year 1, 2, and 3)
 Session 1: Vigneronne
 Session 2: Cuvée St. Gilloise
 Session 3: Mamouche

CCM
 All Sessions: Mala Vida
 Session 1: Negra
 Session 2: Lupulus
 Session 3: Malta Cuvée

Cervesa Guineu
 Session 1: WIPA & Montserrat
 Session 2: Jack the RIPA & Marky Ramone?s Brown Ale
 Session 3: Riner & Vanilla Black Velvet

Cidrerie du Perche
 All Sessions: Cidre Brut, Cidre Demi-Sec, and Poiré

Cigar City
 TBD

Coniston/Ridgeway
 Session 1: Coniston Bluebird & Coniston Old Man Ale
 Session 2: Ridgeway Imperial Barley Wine & Ridgeway Imperial Russian Stout
 Session 3: Ridgeway Santa?s Butt and Ridgeway Bad Elf

Coppertail
 All Sessions: Whoops Cranberry Hibiscus Berliner
 Session 1: Brett Oxtail (Oxbow collaboration)
 Session 2: TBD
 Session 3: TBD

Crooked Stave
 TBD

Cycle
 TBD

De la Senne
 All Sessions: Saison du Meyboom & Schieve Tabarnak (Trou du Diable collaboration)

De Molen
 All Sessions: Cuvée #3
 Session 1: Cease & Desist BA
 Session 2: Ball & Chain
 Session 3: Barley Bomb

De Ranke
 All Sessions: Cuvée de Ranke
 Sessions 1 & 2: XX Bitter
 Session 3: Guldenberg

Dieu du Ciel!
 All Sessions: Péché Mortel & Disco Soleil
 Session 1: Exorciste 2015
 Session 2: Or des Marais
 Session 3: Dernière Volonté Brett

Drie Fonteinen
 VIP: Zenne y Frontera
 All Sessions: Oude Geuze & Oude Kriek

Edge
 Session 1: Barretina & Power Plant
 Session 2: Apassionada & Hoptimista
 Session 3: Flor de la Vida & Pure Decadence (Lervig collaboration)

Faction
 Pale Ale
 Bornday IIPA
 Pilsner
 Athena
 Java World Stout

Fonta Flora
 VIP: Meemaw (Appalachian wild ale w/ High County wild cherries)
 All Sessions: Bloody Butcher (Appalachian Grisette)
 Session 1: Shopping Spree (tart Appalachian Kvass)
 Session 2: Rhythm Rug (tart Appalachian saison w/ local strawberries)

Freigeist
 All Sessions: Geisterzug Rhubarb
 Session 1: Salzspeicher Cherry
 Session 2: Abraxxxas Apple
 Session 3: Salzspeicher Raspberry

Funky Buddha
 All Sessions: Strawberry Basil Berliner
 Session 1: Morning Wood
 Session 2: Snowed In
 Session 3: TBD

Fyne Ales
 All Sessions: Ich Bin Ein Berryliner
 Session 1: Mills & Hills
 Session 2: Jarl
 Session 3: Fynebank

Gravity Brewlab
 All Sessions: Sunshine State of Mind
 Session 1: Grodzilla (smoked sour)
 Session 2: BA Cranberry Cider
 Session 3: Black Currant Wild Ale

Green Bench
 All Sessions: Les Grisettes, Petit Provision, Sauvage Blanc, Webb?s City Cellar Series Florida Poster Girls, Monsieur Ed (St. Somewhere collab), Backpack (Cigar City collab), Wood Parade Series Manaphin Chocolate Stout, Green Bench Mead & Cider

Grimm
 All Sessions: Pulse Wave DIPA
 Session 1: Psychokinesis
 Session 2: Rainbow Dome
 Session 3: Super Symmetry

Hill Farmstead
 All Sessions: Anna & Table Dorothy
 Session 1: Convivial Suarez
 Session 2: Brother Soigne
 Session 3: Clara

Hofbrouwerijke
 All Sessions: Anarkriek
 Session 1 & 3: Flower Sour
 Session 2: Hoftrol

Jandrain-Jandrenouille
 All Sessions: IV Saison & V Cense

Jester King
 All sessions: Noble King
 Session 1: Fen Tao
 Session 2: Cerveza Sin Frontera
 Session 3: Amicis Mortis

Jolly Pumpkin
 All Sessions: Oro de Calabaza
 Session 1: Ursae Majorus
 Session 2: Saison X
 Session 3: Pinchadiscos

Jopen
 All Sessions: Koyt
 Session 1: Stillwater Bloemen
 Session 2: Grateful Deaf
 Session 3: Coastal Gose

La Choulette
 All Sessions: Lafayette
 Session 1 & 3: Sans Culottes
 Session 2: Framboise

Le Trou du Diable
 VIP: Dulcis Succubus
 All Sessions: Oude Blanche Cerise
 Session 1: Pitoune
 Session 2: Buteuse Brassin Special & L?Ours
 Session 3: Saison du Tracteur

Les Trois Mousquetaires
 VIP: Ceci n?est pas une Gueuze
 All Sessions: Berliner Weisse
 Session 1: Saison Brett
 Session 2: Porter Baltique & Porter Baltique édition spéciale
 Session 3: Gose

Les Vergers de la Colline
 Session 1: CID Rose & Les Russet
 Session 2: CID Original & Glace
 Session 3: CID Cuivre & Api-Hop

Libertine
 TBD

Malmö
 TBD

Magic Rock
 Session 1: Pina Collision & Bearded Lady (BA with cherries)
 Session 2: Salty Kiss (Tequila barrel) & Cannonball
 Session 3: Ginspired & Cannonball

Marina
 Session 1: S?Aguia & Mas Cremat
 Session 2: Vinya Hop & Black Sea
 Session 3: Sour Skull & Devil?s IPA

Mikkeller
 VIP: Wineale
 All Sessions: Beer Geek Big Blend
 Session 1: Spontanpassionfruit
 Session 2: Spontanmango
 Session 3: Spontangreenapple

Monarchy
 All Sessions: Holunderheimer
 Session 1: Münchhausen
 Session 2: Preussen Weisse
 Session 3: Viking Gose

Mystic
 All Sessions: Flor Ventus
 Session 1 & 3: Saison Renaud
 Session 2: Vinland 3

Nøgne Ø
 TBD

Oedipus
 All Sessions: Mannenliefde (Saison with szechuan pepper, lemon grass and sorachi ace hops)
 Session 1: Himbeer (Berliner Weisse with raspberries)
 Session 2: Thai Thai (Belgian tripel, with thai spices)
 Session 3: Kinderyoga

Oersoep
 All Sessions: Brettalicious
 Session 1 & 3: Wild at Heart
 Session 2: Raspberry Tart

Oxbow
 All Sessions: Crossfade
 Session 1: BA FPA #10
 Session 2: Saison Dell?Aragostra
 Session 3: Oxtoberfeset 12/13/14 Blend

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 All Sessions: BA Imperial Stout (bourbon)
 Session 1: Robust Porter (Twickenham collaboration), BA Brune with cherries (red wine), Barleywine
 Session 2: Robust Porter, BA Brune with cherries (red wine), BA Brune (red wine)
 Session 3: BA Brune with cherries (red wine), Barleywine

Peckham?s
 Session 1: Cider Kir & Moutere Cider
 Session 2: Boysenberry Cider & Moutere Perry
 Session 3: Elderflower Cider & Cider Kir

Perennial
 VIP: 2015 Maman
 All Sessions: Regalia
 Session 1: 2014 Abraxas
 Session 2: Peach Berliner Weisse
 Session 3: Funky Wit

Playalinda
 All Sessions: Bring It IPA & Barrel-aged Farmhouse Saison

Prairie
 VIP: 3rd Anniversary
 All Sessions: BOMB!
 Session 1: HOP!
 Session 2: Funky Gold Mosaic
 Session 3: Brett C

Pretty Things
 All Sessions: Meadowlark
 Session 1: Jack d?Or
 Session 2: Field Mouse?s Farewell
 Session 3: Barbapapa

Redlight Redlight
 VIP: Merde de Singe (saison with tamarind)
 All Sessions: Singe de Mer (Saint Somewhere collaboration: dark saison with sea monkeys!)

Renaissance
 All Sessions: Black the RIPA
 Session 1 & 3: Grandmaster
 Session 2: Abundance Baltic Cherry Porter

Ribela
 All Sessions: Cider & Artesana

Ritterguts
 Gose!

Rooie Dop
 All Sessions: Chica Americana
 Session 1: Three is a Magic Number (Oersoep/Brew by Numbers collaboration)
 Session 2: Blue Dot Double IPA (Ruig/Hair of the Dog collaboration)
 Session 3: Back to Black (Tupiniquim collaboration)

Sagra
 All Sessions: Blonde, Bohio, Spanish Roja

Saint Somewhere
 VIP: Assoiffe
 All Sessions: Lectio Divina (Rare Beer Club version)
 Session 1: Crépuscule
 Session 2: Anne
 Session 3: Punaise de Amour

Santé Adairius
 VIP: Mercy, Mercy (saison/grisette for Michelin-star restaurant)
 All Sessions: Lady in Grey & Appreciation

Side Project
 All Sessions: Saison du Blé
 Session 1: Marietta Ave
 Session 2: Abricot du Fermier
 Session 3: Fencerow

Siren
 All Sessions: Calypso (Enigma), Mum?s the Word (AZ Wilderness collaboration), Maiden 2014

Struise
 VIP: Ypres Reserva 2011
 Session 1: Rye Triple Reserva (bourbon barrel)
 Session 2: Obelis & Black Albert
 Session 3: Aestatis & Danko Power Session IPA

Thiriez
 All Sessions: Train to Mars
 Session 1: Extra & Fièvre de Cacao
 Session 2: Ambree & Petit Princesse
 Session 3: Extra & Dalva

To Øl
 VIP: Yeastus Christus
 Session 1: Nordic by Nature & Fuck Art The Heathens Are Comin!
 Session 2: Gose to Hollywood & Sur Amarillo
 Session 3: Nelson Survin & Spildt Maelk

Toccalmatto
 VIP: Sugar Kane
 Session 1 & 2: Zona Cesarini
 Session 1 & 3: Kaleidoscope (Evil Twin collaboration)
 Session 2 & 3: Okie Matilde (Prairie collaboration)

Trois Dames
 All Sessions: Sin Frontera (Crooked Stave/Jester King collaboration)
 Session 1: l?Amoureuse Rouge & Saison Framboise
 Session 2: l?Amoureuse Blanche & Grande Dame
 Session 3: l?Amoureuse Blanche & La Tentation

Way Beer
 Session 1: Sour Me Not Acerola & Amburana Barley Wine
 Session 2: Sour Me Not Graviola & Purple High Five
 Session 3: Sour Me Not Caju & Sour Barley Wine

Weird Beard
 Session 1: Little Things That Kill & Faceless Spreadsheet Ninja
 Session 2: Little Things That Kill & Sadako
 Session 3: Black Perle & Double Perle

Westvleteren
 All Sessions: Westvleteren XII

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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #5862 on: October 07, 2015, 03:35:47 pm »
It may be a case of what have you done for me lately, as these are the three locals I've most recently visited, but ranking the DMV breweries, I'd have to say:

1. Ocelot
2. Bluejacket
3. *Right Proper
4 through ?: Everyone else

How do you folks see it???


*Right Proper loses a spot because my bartender was wearing a Frank Turner t-shirt.

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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #5863 on: October 07, 2015, 03:49:01 pm »
Sorry to come bursting in here with a dumb question like Mr. Kool-aid but I have to ask: Do you beer dorks like pumpkin beer? Does anybody? I see it all over the damn place, and yet everyone I talk to says they hate it. So who's buying it? Has this been discussed to death already?
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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #5864 on: October 07, 2015, 03:50:49 pm »
women, are buying it . . . lots and lots of women, in pajama parties while oogling at the pizza delivery guy who seems to be too darn cute to just be a pizza delivery guy.