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Beer Snobs Unite! 100+ IBU or GTFO

too many to name

- moylan's hopsickle
- dogfish 90 minute
- Foothillls Hoppyum ( hitting this brewery in the next couple weeks)
- arrogant bastard when I like to take the hops down a notch but still chew my beer
-Houblon Chouffe Dobbelen IPA Tripel when I want to spend 7.50 on 10 ounces ( have it on tap)

Had this one this weekend - off the charts ( only make 10 cases a yr so the guy told me)

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MyDoorsAreOpen said:
Oh no way, dude. I grew up in Elmira, which is actually in the region known as the Southern Tier. It's an area with a good bit of history of and culture, but poor all of my life.

Great beer, and definitely something to be prouder of than Mark Twain's grave.
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Changed said:
8o

I was the last baby born at Arnet Ogden

I now live in Ithaca/Baltimore
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Sorry off-topic, but that's interesting, I live about 15 min from Elmira across the P.A. border, and my girl lives in Elmira.
I spent a lot of time in Ithaca till my sister moved, she lived there for a while, I still visit occasionally.
Didn't realize there were other BL'ers from so close by. So hello & nice to meet ya.
Anyways, back on topic I find there to be a good availability of local micro-brews that are at least decent in this area.
Perhaps I can contribute more later I was just checking BL for a second and noticed those posts and had to say hello to locals. :)

As to Saucy, nice pictures.
I'm doing some moving so I just boxed up my collection.
Makes me wish I would have taken pictures first have around 150ish I had on display till recently.
Doh. :|
 
IndustrialStrength said:
Sorry off-topic, but that's interesting, I live about 15 min from Elmira across the P.A. border, and my girl lives in Elmira.
I spent a lot of time in Ithaca till my sister moved, she lived there for a while, I still visit occasionally.
Didn't realize there were other BL'ers from so close by. So hello & nice to meet ya.
Anyways, back on topic I find there to be a good availability of local micro-brews that are at least decent in this area.
Perhaps I can contribute more later I was just checking BL for a second and noticed those posts and had to say hello to locals. :)

As to Saucy, nice pictures.
I'm doing some moving so I just boxed up my collection.
Makes me wish I would have taken pictures first have around 150ish I had on display till recently.
Doh. :|
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If you haven't been, come up to Ithaca and hit the "Finger Lakes Beverage Center" on State Street. best selection I've ever seen.
 
^^they must be the Bentley of the beer world, then.

think im gonna take a trip out to my local pretentious international grocery store here in town and pick up chimay ale. ive always been curious and interested in it. could anyone tell me which would be the most creamy tasting out of them all? i dont want it to be super duper hoppy.
 
you aren't going to get hopped to death from any of the four Chimays...

from my ratings of the three I've had, the blanche is the smoothest. can't go wrong with any of them, though.
 
I love the majority of stuff from Unibroue (even though no longer export to Sydney Australia) but my straight up fave has to be Rochefort 10.

At the right temperature I love to sip on two bottles worth in a wide-chalice glass at night. Classic late night sipper.

I've got a few Rochefort's aging away in my temp and humidity controlled cellar storage along with a lot of Chimay bleu's of various sizes and ages (3 magnums, 15 75cl and about 24 33cl's) plus various randoms such as St Bernedeus, Maudite, Trois Pistoles, Terrible, Fringrante, Uni 14, 15 and 16 etc

At 5-6 years the Chimay's Bleu's really open up their flavour.

However I am holding off from announcing the best beer title until I try the offerings from Westvletern.
 
i like how people say unibroue instead of the unibrew alternative

in atlanta i was happy to find some uni in liquor shop or nice groceries, they even had some re branded trois pistol at trader joes (called : Trader Joe's Vintage Ale) ((well i dont know for sure if it is exactly a trois pistol but it tasted like it, hehe ; ) ))
 
RedLeader said:
Dogfishhead IPA

Best brewery in America, if I say so. Their other stuff is pretty solid too.

(I am putting this out there before jumping to the obvious "anything Belgian" response!)
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Fuckin' win. I'm partial to their 60 minute IPA. And if you don't drink it out of a pint glass, and instead out of the bottle, you truly are missing out on the aromas - piney, citrusy hops.. reminds me of marijuana :)

Other craft brews I like...
Sierra Nevada's Hefewiezen
Magic Hat Howl
Rogue Dead Guy Ale
And there's some other ones I like which are slipping my mind...

Me and my room mates don't really fuxwit imports, but when we do, it's Franziskaner or Samuel Smith's.

And of course Yuengling lager is always a staple in our fridge. It's local, cheap, and good. Gotta represent that east coast loyalty.
 
Can I hate on New Belgium Brewery and Fat Tire for a minute?

Dear New Belgium,

I was stoked when you made Chicago the first city east of the Mississippi to receive your beers. I had fond memories of drinking Fat Tire in the lots of various shows on many different occasions. Within a couple months, however, I tired of Fat Tire. Due to it being summertime, I switched to your summer seasonal, Skinny Dip, and it was good. By the end of the summer I could barely stomach another bottle yet couldn't put my finger on why. By then the cold was beginning to roll and and I noticed another seasonal offering, 2 Below, and it, too, was good. As the snow melted and the weather turned to spring I noticed that I could barely tolerate a bottle of this beer as well. What could possibly be going on?

It was around this time I realized the majority of your beers have a distinct flavor to them. It permeates almost everything I've sampled out of your brewery and it fuckin' sucks. I don't know if it's the yeast you use or what, but how about adding a little variety? If I wanted all my beers to taste the fucking same I'd stick to the Miller-Coors-Budweiser-Shitbeer category.

I do tip my hat to your marketing team, though. They're geniuses. Call me when you quit being a one-note brewery.

-F
 
Hey Finder, I totally agree... I actually think the hops/cultures they use are not as high quality as they used to be back in say 07... and it used to be a little bit more expensive per bottle, and this is here in Colorado.

They started supplying all over the US, so it leads me to believe they have cheaped out so people would buy the beer.

I believe New Belgium and some of the local breweries like: Twisted Pine and the Mountain Sun are using the same supplier -- all of the beer has this watery distinct flavor; where the flavor has not actually homogenized throughout the beer. Very strange.
/endsthoughts
 
I did try their new Ranger IPA which I thought was the best beer I've tried of theirs in some time--probably because it lacked that "New Belgium" flavor, whatever it is. I'm not sure I think they are cheaping out, I think their beers have always had that distinct taste to them. Haven't tried the two breweries you mentioned though, so I can't comment on those.

A couple of my favorite CO breweries are Great Divide, Ska, and Oskar Blues. :)
 
I drink Budweiser.

They won't leave St. Louis, where they found success...unlike so many corporate rat bastards.

When I'm in the chips, I'll drink Molson's Golden Ale, or Beck's Lager.
 
ninjadanslarbretabar said:
i like how people say unibroue instead of the unibrew alternative
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I have noticed that. They always have "unibroue" written on the labels and bottles but in the carton they have "unibrew" and I have also seen it written that way on websites to order the stuff.

Now presumably unibroue is french for United Brew so English diminutive Uni Brew makes sense, but it is also a brand name, so why not just stay with Unibroue?

I mean people don't call Peroni Nastro Azzurro beer; Peroni Blue Ribbon Beer?
 
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