The QuadraphonicQuad Craft Beer/Microbrew thread

[edisonbaggins]

Guess which one I like better...

Stone, SD
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156437825028020&id=570303019
Modern Times, SD
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156437622083020&id=570303019

 

[user 1679]

Another sour - La Cumbre "Space Man(atee) pomegranate sour - love the can design.

 

[user 1679]

Sour gone, back to hoppy-hour....one of my last cans of La Cumbre "All In" dbl-dry-hopped DIPA (8.6% abv)...juice bomb...oh yeah baby!

 

[Strilo]

Modern Times? I love that gose. They have a brewery/taproom in Portland, now, and I always like seeing what new interesting beers they have going.

Unfortunately, the brewery that preceded them was a truly local favorite called Commons. They had an unfruited gose that was to die for.

A couple blocks down the street is the Cascade Brewing Barrel House, a Mecca for sour beer.

Yes. Yes. All of the yes! I do miss Commons. I’ve not yet made it to the new Modern Times setup. However, huge fan of Cascade. My Favorite Portland brewery.

 

[user 1679]

Once again, sharing the sour with Mrs D and her mom.....it's a "Milkshake" (lactose and vanilla added) version of Boxing Bear's "Black & Blue"

 

[JediJoker]

Today, we tasted at Freeland Spirits. They recently collaborated with 10 Barrel on a sour inspired by the French 75 cocktail (gin, lemon, sugar, champagne). I was given a taste and it was very much as-described. Champagne-like, with notes of lemon and botanicals, with a slight malty/yeasty aftertaste. I found it quite scrumptious.

(Their gin is interesting. Other botanicals take precedence over the juniper. Decent for sipping, unlike any other gin I've ever had. I'm not a whiskey fan, but the bourbon was the most-appealing, most rum-like I've ever tasted.)

 

[Perp]

Yesterday, I was at my local wine store called Total Wine. They specialize in wine but carry hard liquor and all kinds of beer. They were featuring a Game Of Thrones display that had all kinds of Beer named after the kings, offered in pint size bottles, along with some drinking glasses. I wish I had taken a photo a couple weeks back because some of the drinking glasses were still there but the beer looked to be sold out and replaced by another brand. I wish I had taken a photo back then but I did manage to get a current shot of the display.

 

[Perp]

This looks like an interesting Stout that hails from Michigan but the price is quite bit high on a 4-pack.

 

[Clint Eastwood]

This looks like an interesting Stout that hails from Michigan but the price is quite bit high on a 4-pack.

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[Perp]

It must be the bourbon...LOL

 

[Strilo]

Founders is amazing. Great stouts and Scotch Ales!

 

[The56Kid]

Founders is amazing. Great stouts and Scotch Ales!

How are their IPAs?

 

[Perp]

I’m enjoying this nice cool refreshing Irish Stout right out of the can.

 

[user 1679]

No beer yesterday - just had wine with dinner and an early night as we had a lot on the go all day today. Settling in for this evening after all the soccer games, furniture moving, grocery shopping etc....started off with a share with Mrs D and one of the step-daughters....Scuttlebutt Brewing (Everett, WA) Raspberry Moeite" (8.9% abv)...a raspberry infused belgian tripel:

After that I went to pour a glass of the home-brew brown ale but got about an inch of beer followed by a bit of sludge and foam....empty keg! Removed the keg and found a couple cans stashed behind it, one was this Marble Passionate Gose that I decided would be a nice refreshment.

 

[user 1679]

A glass of what I guess is a semi-home-brew. The local brew club did a "wort share" starting up at Bombs Away Brewing...it's a high-gravity Belgian tripel and after a bit of a rough ferment it's mellowed out quite nicely, tasty.

 

[user 1679]

Company started to arrive for Easter dinner, started pouring from the growler of Steel Bender Brewyard "Pucker Up Buttercup" black currant kettle sour (4.6% abv, 5 ibu). Every sour we've had from them has been really good and this one is no exception.

 

[user 1679]

Time for an IPA but I chose one a bit different than the usual - Steel Bender Brewyard "The Whole Shoe" Belgian-style IPA (7.4% abv, 80 ibu). The fruity Belgian yeast strain really comes through in the flavor and it really doesn't taste like an 80 ibu brew, that fruit taste softens the bitter very well for a great balanced Belgian IPA.

 

[edisonbaggins]

Time for an IPA but I chose one a bit different than the usual - Steel Bender Brewyard "The Whole Shoe" Belgian-style IPA (7.4% abv, 80 ibu). The fruity Belgian yeast strain really comes through in the flavor and it really doesn't taste like an 80 ibu brew, that fruit taste softens the bitter very well for a great balanced Belgian IPA.

Intriguing!

 

[user 1679]

Weekend winding down, going out with a big one - this year's release of La Cumbre "Father Nelson" DIPA (10.6% abv, 100+++ ibu)....total hop wallop.

 

[Strilo]

How are their IPAs?

Who cares?