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Drinking Thread: Beer, Whiskey, Rum, Vodka, Wine - Raise a Glass, All Are Welcome!
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Re: Drinking Thread: Beer, Whiskey, Rum, Vodka, Wine - Raise a Glass, All Are Welcome
Great news for me!
We have a brewery under construction less than half a mile from our house. They plan to open a "tasting room" when construction is complete.
The plans are pretty exciting. The brewery is close to a river and they've arranged with a marina on the river to have a boat dock. They also will have bicycle racks, and even charging stations for electric cars. While they will not prepare and serve food directly, there is discussion about inviting local restaurants to offer food to showcase their wares. They want to make it a destination event type of place.
and the best part of it for me is that I can walk there and back quite easily.
and the second-best part of it for me is that it is a good sign for our town to have new businesses opening. The residential property tax rates are a bit high because our old industrial companies have all folded up shop and left, and to have new businesses moving into town is good diversification for the town's tax base.
Great news for me!
We have a brewery under construction less than half a mile from our house. They plan to open a "tasting room" when construction is complete.
The plans are pretty exciting. The brewery is close to a river and they've arranged with a marina on the river to have a boat dock. They also will have bicycle racks, and even charging stations for electric cars. While they will not prepare and serve food directly, there is discussion about inviting local restaurants to offer food to showcase their wares. They want to make it a destination event type of place.
and the best part of it for me is that I can walk there and back quite easily.
and the second-best part of it for me is that it is a good sign for our town to have new businesses opening. The residential property tax rates are a bit high because our old industrial companies have all folded up shop and left, and to have new businesses moving into town is good diversification for the town's tax base.
Re: Drinking Thread: Beer, Whiskey, Rum, Vodka, Wine - Raise a Glass, All Are Welcome
I don't know what the laws are like where you are, but in MN many taprooms have food trucks that stop by, or the taprooms encourage people to bring their own food, or to order delivery of food (from pizza places, etc) to the taproom. A couple that I've been to even provide delivery/takeout menus of local restaurants.
I don't know what the laws are like where you are, but in MN many taprooms have food trucks that stop by, or the taprooms encourage people to bring their own food, or to order delivery of food (from pizza places, etc) to the taproom. A couple that I've been to even provide delivery/takeout menus of local restaurants.
Re: Drinking Thread: Beer, Whiskey, Rum, Vodka, Wine - Raise a Glass, All Are Welcome
Much the same in NY.
Much the same in NY.
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
Re: Drinking Thread: Beer, Whiskey, Rum, Vodka, Wine - Raise a Glass, All Are Welcome
Pabst is being purchased for $700 million
Pabst is being purchased for $700 million
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
Re: Drinking Thread: Beer, Whiskey, Rum, Vodka, Wine - Raise a Glass, All Are Welcome
Last night, I had an Arcadia Ales B-Craft Black IPA. Very strong, very hoppy... am very glad I limited myself to only one 22 oz glass.
Tonight, I'm having an Arbor Brewing Sacred Cow IPA. Not as strong as what I had last night. But I do recommend going to Arbor Brewing in Ann Arbor. Great food (try the etoufee) and equally good beer.
Last night, I had an Arcadia Ales B-Craft Black IPA. Very strong, very hoppy... am very glad I limited myself to only one 22 oz glass.
Tonight, I'm having an Arbor Brewing Sacred Cow IPA. Not as strong as what I had last night. But I do recommend going to Arbor Brewing in Ann Arbor. Great food (try the etoufee) and equally good beer.
Re: Drinking Thread: Beer, Whiskey, Rum, Vodka, Wine - Raise a Glass, All Are Welcome
Received some info tonight. Surly 8 is now probably coming out in November, as they don't want to overlap SurlyFest (out now) and Surly Darkness (which hits in late October). Just a heads up.
Received some info tonight. Surly 8 is now probably coming out in November, as they don't want to overlap SurlyFest (out now) and Surly Darkness (which hits in late October). Just a heads up.
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Gurtholfin
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Re: Drinking Thread: Beer, Whiskey, Rum, Vodka, Wine - Raise a Glass, All Are Welcome
While strolling the liquor department at HyVee, came across a new arrival...
Don Pancho Origenes 8yo Rum
The 18 & 30 year old rums of that line are out of my price range at $90 & $450, but had heard that an 8 was going to be introduced.
Cuban style rum distilled and blended in Panama by Cuban rum artisan "Don Pancho" Fernandez.
Most I've paid (by a lot) for an 8 year old rum, but couldn't resist the hype - gonna get the 18yo someday when I'm rich(er) - I hope.
Was very nice - will explore it more this weekend.
While strolling the liquor department at HyVee, came across a new arrival...
Don Pancho Origenes 8yo Rum
The 18 & 30 year old rums of that line are out of my price range at $90 & $450, but had heard that an 8 was going to be introduced.
Cuban style rum distilled and blended in Panama by Cuban rum artisan "Don Pancho" Fernandez.
Most I've paid (by a lot) for an 8 year old rum, but couldn't resist the hype - gonna get the 18yo someday when I'm rich(er) - I hope.
Was very nice - will explore it more this weekend.
G
Gurtholfin
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Re: Drinking Thread: Beer, Whiskey, Rum, Vodka, Wine - Raise a Glass, All Are Welcome
$43 for a 750. Typically the ones in that age area that I've seen max out around $25. I'm sure there are other relatively expensive ones, but I haven't bought any yet that I can recall.
I had a pour neat last night - which I wouldn't normally bother with on such a young rum.
I'll need a bit more before I decide how happy I am with the purchase.
So far, so good though.
$43 for a 750. Typically the ones in that age area that I've seen max out around $25. I'm sure there are other relatively expensive ones, but I haven't bought any yet that I can recall.
I had a pour neat last night - which I wouldn't normally bother with on such a young rum.
I'll need a bit more before I decide how happy I am with the purchase.
So far, so good though.
Re: Drinking Thread: Beer, Whiskey, Rum, Vodka, Wine - Raise a Glass, All Are Welcome
Hit up the Autumn Brew Review yesterday with bbdl and MNS (and a bunch of GPLers were there, too). You were supposed to only get 2 oz pours, but most breweries pretty much filled your 4oz glass. Highlights:
Surly 8: really boozy. I'd buy this one, and immediately put it away and wait a year or more for it to mellow. I liked it, but man, it was intense.
Town Hall Nitro Key Lime Pie: Very tasty; wasn't sure what to expect, and I was pleasantly surprised.
Saugatuck Neapolitan Milk Stout: Again, wasn't sure what to expect, and I liked it. Very complex on the flavors. They did this one right.
Indeed Rum King: This was at the top of my list to try. Imperial stout aged in rum barrels. Very much a sipper, and absolutely delicious.
Bent Brewstillery El Guerrero Chilean Double Stout (with a ghost pepper dropped into the beer): Not as spicy as I thought it would be. It was a slow heat (similar to the Dragon's Milk w/Peppers). It was decent, and A+ for creativity on the style.
Millstream Oktoberfest: Probably the best Oktoberfest I've had. Amazing.
Tallgrass 8-Bit Cask (pale ale w/cherries; limited release): I couldn't dump this one out fast enough. Horrible.
There were many others tried, and I will definitely try to make it back next year.
Hit up the Autumn Brew Review yesterday with bbdl and MNS (and a bunch of GPLers were there, too). You were supposed to only get 2 oz pours, but most breweries pretty much filled your 4oz glass. Highlights:
Surly 8: really boozy. I'd buy this one, and immediately put it away and wait a year or more for it to mellow. I liked it, but man, it was intense.
Town Hall Nitro Key Lime Pie: Very tasty; wasn't sure what to expect, and I was pleasantly surprised.
Saugatuck Neapolitan Milk Stout: Again, wasn't sure what to expect, and I liked it. Very complex on the flavors. They did this one right.
Indeed Rum King: This was at the top of my list to try. Imperial stout aged in rum barrels. Very much a sipper, and absolutely delicious.
Bent Brewstillery El Guerrero Chilean Double Stout (with a ghost pepper dropped into the beer): Not as spicy as I thought it would be. It was a slow heat (similar to the Dragon's Milk w/Peppers). It was decent, and A+ for creativity on the style.
Millstream Oktoberfest: Probably the best Oktoberfest I've had. Amazing.
Tallgrass 8-Bit Cask (pale ale w/cherries; limited release): I couldn't dump this one out fast enough. Horrible.
There were many others tried, and I will definitely try to make it back next year.
jmh
win or lose, we booze
Re: Drinking Thread: Beer, Whiskey, Rum, Vodka, Wine - Raise a Glass, All Are Welcome
Had a few interesting beers over the weekend:
Rushing Duck Part II is, if I recall what the menu said correctly, a blend of an imperial stout with two different barleywines, which was then aged in bourbon barrels. It was really great in a strong heavy beer kind of a way, but I think the point of diminishing returns was hit here - the whole thing with it being a blend probably does more for marketing than it does for the taste, which was really indistinguishable (in a good way, to be fair) from a plain old barleywine or dark ale aged the same way. Still worth a look, as are other beers from Rushing Duck if you can find them. I'd love to do a tasting at their brewery sometime, but it's kind of in the middle of nowhere up in Orange County, NY, so I'm not sure I'll get the chance.
Another good new brewery is Finback, closer to home in Queens, but their I Pumpkin A, which as you can maybe guess is an IPA with pumpkin beer flavorings, was just kinda OK. The flavor was weaker than I expected on both fronts, though maybe this was because I drank it after the Rushing Duck discussed above.
Tangentially, both of these were on tap at Saint Gambrinus Beer Shoppe, which is my absolute top suggestion for a place to get a beer before or after an event at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. They've got 16 taps, all of them interesting, and also a huge wall of bottles for sale to go in the back (thus "beer shoppe").
Yesterday I brought a 750 mL bottle of Brooklyn Wild Streak to a friend's place to watch football. Belgian-style golden ale, also bourbon-barrel aged, then bottled with champagne yeast and Brett. Very tasty, and I kind of wish I'd kept it to age for longer, but I had to bring something and, as it turned out, I had almost exclusively heavy wintery beers in my fridge, which wouldn't really go with the unseasonably warm weather we had yesterday, so Wild Streak it was.
Had a few interesting beers over the weekend:
Rushing Duck Part II is, if I recall what the menu said correctly, a blend of an imperial stout with two different barleywines, which was then aged in bourbon barrels. It was really great in a strong heavy beer kind of a way, but I think the point of diminishing returns was hit here - the whole thing with it being a blend probably does more for marketing than it does for the taste, which was really indistinguishable (in a good way, to be fair) from a plain old barleywine or dark ale aged the same way. Still worth a look, as are other beers from Rushing Duck if you can find them. I'd love to do a tasting at their brewery sometime, but it's kind of in the middle of nowhere up in Orange County, NY, so I'm not sure I'll get the chance.
Another good new brewery is Finback, closer to home in Queens, but their I Pumpkin A, which as you can maybe guess is an IPA with pumpkin beer flavorings, was just kinda OK. The flavor was weaker than I expected on both fronts, though maybe this was because I drank it after the Rushing Duck discussed above.
Tangentially, both of these were on tap at Saint Gambrinus Beer Shoppe, which is my absolute top suggestion for a place to get a beer before or after an event at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. They've got 16 taps, all of them interesting, and also a huge wall of bottles for sale to go in the back (thus "beer shoppe").
Yesterday I brought a 750 mL bottle of Brooklyn Wild Streak to a friend's place to watch football. Belgian-style golden ale, also bourbon-barrel aged, then bottled with champagne yeast and Brett. Very tasty, and I kind of wish I'd kept it to age for longer, but I had to bring something and, as it turned out, I had almost exclusively heavy wintery beers in my fridge, which wouldn't really go with the unseasonably warm weather we had yesterday, so Wild Streak it was.
Re: Drinking Thread: Beer, Whiskey, Rum, Vodka, Wine - Raise a Glass, All Are Welcome
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Re: Drinking Thread: Beer, Whiskey, Rum, Vodka, Wine - Raise a Glass, All Are Welcome
The bars I go to in NYC have been having their Octoberfest/Fallfest beers. One of them I went to yesterday had 9 pumpkin beer/ciders ughh
Had Brooklyn Breweries Oktoberfest which was good and Spaten's Oktoberfest which had it's usual excellence but they also had Kwaktoberfest. I have no idea why a Belgian brewery is making an Oktoberfest beer but it was awesome, regular Kwak is my favorite beer. I broke with tradition and had 3 of them in a row, normal bar drinking is drink up to 4 beers I haven't had seasonal, new brewery etc, then finish with an old favorite, Chimay Radburger etc.
The bars I go to in NYC have been having their Octoberfest/Fallfest beers. One of them I went to yesterday had 9 pumpkin beer/ciders ughh
Had Brooklyn Breweries Oktoberfest which was good and Spaten's Oktoberfest which had it's usual excellence but they also had Kwaktoberfest. I have no idea why a Belgian brewery is making an Oktoberfest beer but it was awesome, regular Kwak is my favorite beer. I broke with tradition and had 3 of them in a row, normal bar drinking is drink up to 4 beers I haven't had seasonal, new brewery etc, then finish with an old favorite, Chimay Radburger etc.
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