Beer Snobs Unite! 100+ IBU or GTFO

[ebola?]

I'm a big fan of pale ale's. So fuck y'all who hate on me for drinking Rolling Rock.

Rolling Rock is an American-style, adjunct-grain lager, not a pale ale.

 

[AmorRoark]

One thing is for certain though, even though I am super snobby, there are very, very few brews I would turn down being offered by someone. A free beer is a beer I didn't have before, after all. :D

I wish you could pass this attitude onto your friend.

 

[Changed]

Tonight I've had:
Great Lakes Blackout Stout
" Holy Moses
&
Lagunitas Undercover

The Blackout Stout was one of the best Imperial Stouts that I've had. Doesn't equal the Stone Russian IS, but only because the body was quite viscous. Still, the flavor was nearly unsurpassed.

Holy Moses was a good, not great wheat.

Undercover... well, I'm quite drunk right now, so I can't comment competently about that one. I think it was good, though.

 

[MPH1]

Tried a lovely beer from Fullers brewery over the weekend.

http://www.fullers.co.uk/rte.asp?id=109

looks like it is going to be a lot heavier than it is (considering it is a dark ale). Actually very refreshing on a summers day.

 

[SirTophamHat]

I'm a big fan of pale ale's. So fuck y'all who hate on me for drinking Rolling Rock.

...Are you joking? Rolling Rock is a lager.

I love my IPAs. Stone Ruination IPA is pure nectar. For those discussing Magic Hat, well I live in South Burlington and I can definitely say that it's overrated IMO. I don't think they deserve that much hate, but they aren't so amazing as everyone might have you think. Their best known beer, #9, isn't even very good for all the press it gets. Long Trail, even though they were bought out, is certainly better all-around. Ditto for Otter Creek.

 

[brutus]

you can throw that Sweetwater420 in the magic hat, saranac group

- beersnob

Seconded

 

[Finder]

Rolling Rock is fuckin' piss. GTFO with that shit.

Stone is pretty solid all around. Chicago was soooo late to that party with Stone only becoming available here within the last couple months. Their regular IPA is extremely sessionable. Ruination is also good, but they're not in my favorites.

Another solid brewery most may not have heard of it is Two Brothers Brewery out in Warrenville, IL. The Doumaine DuPage French Country Style Ale is delicious. Their others are quite good as well...their Hop Juice Seasonal DIPA is also quite tasty if you can find it (I think it's a June release?).

We're finally starting to get some new breweries both in Chicago and out in IL after some years of nothing new being added. My band played a show out in Plainfield, IL to help open a new brewery called Limestone (name is a nod to both Stone out west and the heavy limestone deposits of Illinois). I'm pretty picky about my beers, but was impressed with their offerings. They have a great "IBA" India Brown Ale and the IPA they had on draft was also excellent. I got a tour of the facilities and they hadn't started kegging yet and were running their taps straight out of the holding tanks. Looking forward to their beers being available in Chicago.

I'll touch on some of the new breweries that are actually IN the city of Chicago in another post.

 

[AmorRoark]

Wow, random, but it's so strange there's a Two Brothers brewery. My fiancee's best friend was one of the brothers in Two Brothers Big Tattoo wine. It was one of many wines his family made/imported from Chile. They gave the proceeds from the wine to cancer research (his mother died of breast cancer). Anyway, they had to sell their business because of the recession. It was a really good, cheap wine as well. /end off topic

http://www.gordonswine.com/sku23383... BROTHERS RED BIG TATOO COLCHAGUA VALLEY 2007

 

[We are all ONE]

^Yeah, not to big on that style myself.



I hate that name so much I don't think I would ever have tried it in the first place.

Moylan Hopsickle? That's a good one. Only ever had it in the bottle though.

Some of my favorite IPAs:

Bell's Two Hearted
Russian River Pliny the Elder
Founders Centennial IPA
Dogfish Head 60 Minute

Double IPAs:

Bell's Hopslam
Three Floyds Dreadnaught
Ninkasi Tricerahops
Great Divide Hercules
Founders Double Trouble

I guarantee I am missing some great ones, but these are top shelf off the top of my head.

I have put these into the 'must try' category. Two Heart and DFH are two of my favs they sell at the grocery store down the street.

Also - Ill be in Chicago a couple times this summer, any must hit breweries? EDIT : just read your recommendation(s) a coupld posts up

 

[Pegasus]

You guys have never had a good Hefeweizen? Hell, most I have tried have been good...

Local to me, I have the Harpoon Brewery which is famous for its Harpoon IPA and UFO Hefeweizen... I love the UFO! The IPA isn't bad, but UFO is hands down one of my favorites!

 

[Perpetual Indulgence]

I like UFO Raspberry

 

[Max Power]

You guys have never had a good Hefeweizen? Hell, most I have tried have been good...

good, but not great.

Check my original post.

 

[Finder]

I have put these into the 'must try' category. Two Heart and DFH are two of my favs they sell at the grocery store down the street.

Also - Ill be in Chicago a couple times this summer, any must hit breweries? EDIT : just read your recommendation(s) a coupld posts up

Are you going to have access to a car or are just looking for recommendations in the city? If you can get a car, I would HIGHLY recommend going down to 3 Floyds brewery in Munster, IN. It's only about 40 minutes out of the city, but they have some of the best beer in the midwest and probably the country.

In the city a new place opened up called Revolution Brewing Company, although I've only had one of theirs, the IPA, my girlfriend picked up for me to try when she was there having lunch with friends. I need to make it to the tap room. Half Acre has a tasting room, I believe, but not restaurant. I like their Daisy Cutter pale, but not some of their others. Have not tried any of the Metropolitan Brewing Company. They do tours and might have a tasting room.

Then, of course, there is Goose Island. Now Goose has some solid brews: Hex Nut, Honkers, Matilda, but I think most of their stuff is pretty middle of the road to not good. If you visit their original location on Clybourn Ave they have a lot of small batch beers and pretty good food.

Oh, and Piece Brewery in Wicker Park has great pizza and some excellent beers they brew in house. If you're looking for good beer bars I would highly recommend Map Room in Bucktown on Armitage Ave. For the best Belgian (+ lots more) taps and bottles in the city head to Hopleaf in Andersonville on Clark. Hopleaf has great food, but if you don't want to wait I recommend getting there around 4-4:30 and having a pint so you can be there right when the restaurant opens.

Drop me a PM if you want to meet up for a pint. If I'm around, I'd be happy to have a couple.

 

[We are all ONE]

Good people hunch confirmed- thanks again, and will do on the PM

Just bought a sixer of Terrapin Hopsecutioner - My gut tells me Ill be disappointed but Im going with the 'dont knock it untill you try it...'

Ill report back once I dive in later today

 

[Perpetual Indulgence]

I drank this last night
http://www.pyramidbrew.com/our-brews/haywire
tasty

 

[wibble]

I found this in a pub the other day:

I didn't get one but frankly with a name like that it has to be good.

More of a cider girl myself...

 

[Changed]

one foreign, one local--two of my favorites.

 

[n3ophy7e]

^^ Wow nice! How does that Mokah go?

 

[Changed]

umm... it costs around $7 for 22oz.

tastes like the best espresso you've ever had, with the best dark chocolate you've ever had dipped in it, then a little bit of vanilla bean and roasted nuts.

11% alcohol to top it all off.

 

[n3ophy7e]

^^ Sounds like heaven