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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #6945 on: May 18, 2016, 12:46:27 pm »
The Veil - Master Shredder

Have enjoyed a few cans of this over past couple of weeks. What a delicious beverage.

Light, tropical, lil' juicy... and only 5.5%. I also hope to get to this brewery by 2019.

Broz Day Off their session IPA (4.8%) may be the best session IPA i have ever tasted

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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #6946 on: May 18, 2016, 12:56:48 pm »
Won't try to copy and paste the whole list here, but lots of Savor related events starting to roll in. See page two of this thread.

http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/savor-dc-2016.379973/page-2#post-4772480

Still say the side events are better than the main event, though admittedly I've never been to the main event.

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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #6947 on: May 18, 2016, 01:19:34 pm »
The Veil - Master Shredder

Have enjoyed a few cans of this over past couple of weeks. What a delicious beverage.

Light, tropical, lil' juicy... and only 5.5%. I also hope to get to this brewery by 2019.

Broz Day Off their session IPA (4.8%) may be the best session IPA i have ever tasted

Can a 5.7% IPA beer considered a session IPA? If so, my vote for favorite session IPA is Aslin's Orange Starfish...my favorite Aslin beer so far.

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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #6948 on: May 18, 2016, 02:55:25 pm »
The Veil - Master Shredder

Have enjoyed a few cans of this over past couple of weeks. What a delicious beverage.

Light, tropical, lil' juicy... and only 5.5%. I also hope to get to this brewery by 2019.

Broz Day Off their session IPA (4.8%) may be the best session IPA i have ever tasted

Can a 5.7% IPA beer considered a session IPA? If so, my vote for favorite session IPA is Aslin's Orange Starfish...my favorite Aslin beer so far.

Technically.... no.

In other news.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/5583420-181/russian-river-brewing-co-near?artslide=0


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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #6949 on: May 25, 2016, 11:40:10 am »
Broz Day Off their session IPA (4.8%) may be the best session IPA i have ever tasted

Can a 5.7% IPA beer considered a session IPA?

Technically.... no.

yeah, by most sources 5.7% is no longer a session beer.  the highest limit i've seen is 5%, some want session beers to start even lower 4.5 or even 4).

also, per the BJCP, american IPAs start at 5.5%, so 5.7% is comfortably within the limits of a normal IPA. 

admittedly if you're used to drinking 8+% monsters, 5.7% will seem session-like ;D
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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #6950 on: May 25, 2016, 12:46:35 pm »
My wife was in a Manhattan bar Monday night drinking beers by Hill Farmstead, Almanac, and Modern Times, while I was at home with my Waldo in my hand.


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« Reply #6952 on: May 25, 2016, 01:01:23 pm »
i'm getting amped up for my annual beercation known as HomebrewCon, AKA the National Homebrewers Conference, which will be in Baltimore in 2 weeks time.  3 days of seminars, shwag from vendors, catching up with friends, and beer beer beer.  they've just announced the pro breweries and clubs that will be pouring throughout the event (yes, beer for breakfast if you want it).  a lot of smaller local breweries that i haven't had a chance to try yet will be pouring so looking forward to that.  it's always a blast... last year in san diego, the hippies from Lagunitas were vaporizing hops and handing out baggies filled with hop smoke.  the experience of taking a huff and then drinking a non-hoppy beer was amazing (drinking a hoppy beer was a bit much...). 

"The name of the game here is beer.  There's more of it, in greater variety, than you'll find anywhere in the world.  That's a bold statement, but I challenge anyone out there to prove me wrong."
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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #6953 on: May 25, 2016, 01:03:08 pm »
Ballast Point opening brewery near Roanoke.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/botetourt_county/ballast-point-brewing-announces-plans-for-brewery-in-botetourt-s/article_ef293877-cdb3-5572-813c-e57b3022bdce.html


So VA (Green Flash, Stone, Deschutes, Ballast Point) is beating NC (Sierra Nevada, Oskar Blues, New Belgium) for second brewery locations. Though if you count Stone's brewery in Germany, Richmond will be their third location.

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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #6954 on: May 25, 2016, 01:05:44 pm »
Did Founders stop producing their Double Trouble?

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« Reply #6955 on: May 25, 2016, 01:06:09 pm »
My wife was in Manhattan (...)  while I was at home with my Waldo in my hand.

you call yours waldo, huh?
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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #6956 on: May 25, 2016, 01:21:40 pm »
My wife was in Manhattan (...)  while I was at home with my Waldo in my hand.

you call yours waldo, huh?

big, bold, and tasty

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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #6957 on: May 25, 2016, 01:25:09 pm »
Did Founders stop producing their Double Trouble?

it's not being made this year, at least: http://foundersbrewing.com/availability-calendar/

maybe next year?
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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #6958 on: May 25, 2016, 01:35:38 pm »
Did Founders stop producing their Double Trouble?

it's not being made this year, at least: http://foundersbrewing.com/availability-calendar/

maybe next year?

I actually saw the 2015 version on the floor at Whole Foods Fair Lakes until a couple months ago. I was wondering if they should have been marketing it as a barleywine at that point.

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Re: The Beer Thread
« Reply #6959 on: May 25, 2016, 01:37:42 pm »
Did Founders stop producing their Double Trouble?

it's not being made this year, at least: http://foundersbrewing.com/availability-calendar/

maybe next year?


That's disappointing.  Don't see an equivalent on that list.......