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Title: Friday Night beer report! Join me.
Post by: Timalan on September 02, 2011, 05:05:44 PM
I'm enjoying a North Coast Brewing Co. Old stock ale. Very tasty brew weighing in at 11.9%! yum.
Watchahavin?
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Post by: GeeBeav on September 02, 2011, 05:34:07 PM
Crown Royal on the rocks.

40% alcohol - boo-yah!
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Post by: VirginiaJim on September 02, 2011, 06:31:21 PM
Coors Light!  Chasing a martini, though.
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Post by: Ron Dawg on September 02, 2011, 06:34:07 PM
Shiner Bock by the pool. Finally, a good use of a hot day!
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Post by: anycleavers on September 02, 2011, 06:48:57 PM
Shiner +1, good drinking beer.

OK, a warning. I got sucked in by marketing. In the store I saw a 12 of Dundee. It was an assortment pack, had pilsner, IPA, bock and something else. Sounded good, variety, and had a great looking case and labels. Chilled them up, cracked them open......ughhhh. Dreck, pure nasty in a bottle. Stay away. I tried one of each and don't know what the heck to do with the other 8.
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Post by: okxd45 on September 02, 2011, 06:57:15 PM
Shiner +1, good drinking beer.

OK, a warning. I got sucked in by marketing. In the store I saw a 12 of Dundee. It was an assortment pack, had pilsner, IPA, bock and something else. Sounded good, variety, and had a great looking case and labels. Chilled them up, cracked them open......ughhhh. Dreck, pure nasty in a bottle. Stay away. I tried one of each and don't know what the heck to do with the other 8.

Hum.......i think most of the Dundee stuff is pretty good.  But had a Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA with a calzone for dinner.......hop heaven!
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Post by: JetJock on September 02, 2011, 07:25:46 PM
Fat Tire but only one. B-day tomorrow and then a beer-b-que on Sunday with about 40 friends. It's possible I will get enough beer this weekend. Maybe.
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Post by: JetJock on September 02, 2011, 07:28:53 PM
Shiner +1, good drinking beer.

OK, a warning. I got sucked in by marketing. In the store I saw a 12 of Dundee. It was an assortment pack, had pilsner, IPA, bock and something else. Sounded good, variety, and had a great looking case and labels. Chilled them up, cracked them open......ughhhh. Dreck, pure nasty in a bottle. Stay away. I tried one of each and don't know what the heck to do with the other 8.

My experience is similar with other packaged variety packs. A few good ones and a bunch of stuff they vacuumed up off the brewery floor.
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Post by: anycleavers on September 02, 2011, 07:43:40 PM
Ooh... I think a Fat Tire or two is just what I need to clean up the palate.
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Post by: Ron Dawg on September 02, 2011, 07:50:20 PM
Our Kroger has a neat deal. Lots of singles and empty six pack cartons. Mix and match what you want. Unfortunately, their price point is lower than a six pack of some of the brands, such as Tsing Tao, a very good Chinese beer. It's fairly light with a hint ginger or something.  So people are "mix and matching" off the single shelf to get a better price than the Tsing Tao!
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Post by: Timalan on September 02, 2011, 07:58:58 PM
Our Kroger has a neat deal. Lots of singles and empty six pack cartons. Mix and match what you want. Unfortunately, their price point is lower than a six pack of some of the brands, such as Tsing Tao, a very good Chinese beer. It's fairly light with a hint ginger or something.  So people are "mix and matching" off the single shelf to get a better price than the Tsing Tao!
Oh to be able to buy cold beer in a grocery store. Freekin Oklahoma (and I typed more and took it back)
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Post by: ZG on September 02, 2011, 08:50:01 PM
Silver bullets here tonight...
 
Fun thread!  :chugbeer:
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Post by: Timalan on September 02, 2011, 08:56:04 PM
Fat Tire but only one. B-day tomorrow and then a beer-b-que on Sunday with about 40 friends. It's possible I will get enough beer this weekend. Maybe.
Fat Tire... Nope not in Oklahoma. Had some in Gunnison two years ago. Good beer. Happy Birthday! 40 friends wow! What's that like?
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Post by: Kazairl on September 02, 2011, 09:09:57 PM
Guiness extra stout.
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Post by: JetJock on September 03, 2011, 03:45:52 AM
40 friends wow! What's that like?

Mildly crazy with hints of total lunacy. This is the Hash House Harriers running group that I've been a part of about forever. Google it, but summarized, we follow a trail from beer stop to beer stop and then have a party afterwards. We refer to ourselves as "A drinking club with a running problem."
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Post by: mjrfd99 on September 03, 2011, 08:01:23 AM
Beer = breakfast drink.
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Post by: Conrad on September 03, 2011, 08:04:18 AM
Coors Light!  Chasing a martini, though.

 :pukeface:
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Post by: Timalan on September 03, 2011, 10:01:11 AM
:pukeface:
I wasn't aware that coors still existed?
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Post by: anycleavers on September 03, 2011, 10:10:49 AM
Quote
"A drinking club with a running problem."

Can I join if I don't run? I can drink pretty good.
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Post by: MAN OF BLUES on September 03, 2011, 06:30:53 PM
Fat Tire but only one. B-day tomorrow and then a beer-b-que on Sunday with about 40 friends. It's possible I will get enough beer this weekend. Maybe.

mmmm Fat Tire..mmmmmm
see if your dealer has Ranger from New belgium also.....super priced IPA!!!mega hoppy.

as for my sipper's last night it was Flying Dog Double Dog, double IPA (11.5% @ 85 IBU) and a couple  Dale's Pale Ale from Oskar Blues.....mmmmmmm  If you can find Oskar's "Gubna", you can experience the best beer ever placed in a can, unbelievable.....mmmmmmmmmmm  but expensive..... 8)
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Post by: Gsun on September 03, 2011, 07:36:25 PM
Pliny the Elder. Great beer from the Russian River Valley, CA. Hint of pine.
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Post by: JetJock on September 03, 2011, 08:30:13 PM
Can I join if I don't run? I can drink pretty good.

Yes, but we much prefer the non-running members to be female and good looking.
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Post by: Rick Hall on September 03, 2011, 11:20:52 PM
mmmm Fat Tire..mmmmmm
see if your dealer has Ranger from New belgium also.....super priced IPA!!!mega hoppy.

as for my sipper's last night it was Flying Dog Double Dog, double IPA (11.5% @ 85 IBU) and a couple  Dale's Pale Ale from Oskar Blues.....mmmmmmm  If you can find Oskar's "Gubna", you can experience the best beer ever placed in a can, unbelievable.....mmmmmmmmmmm  but expensive..... 8)

You gotta git out here dood! I just pulled a few suds from the fridge, and a couple of glasses from the cupboard ...

Rick
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Post by: VirginiaJim on September 04, 2011, 05:35:03 AM
I wasn't aware that coors still existed?

Yes, it does and tastes like beer which is why I like it.  I don't like beer that doesn't taste like beer.  I don't like odd flavors.  I don't like the micro-breweries and their twists.  I guess I'm just simple.  My wife tells me that all the time.  I might be convinced to like other beers.  I do like Guinness but that's not 'beer' as I define it.
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Post by: Conrad on September 04, 2011, 06:02:40 AM
mmmm Fat Tire..mmmmmm
see if your dealer has Ranger from New belgium also.....super priced IPA!!!mega hoppy.

as for my sipper's last night it was Flying Dog Double Dog, double IPA (11.5% @ 85 IBU) and a couple  Dale's Pale Ale from Oskar Blues.....mmmmmmm   If you can find Oskar's "Gubna", you can experience the best beer ever placed in a can, unbelievable.....mmmmmmmmmmm  but expensive..... 8)

 :thumbs:

 :chugbeer:
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Post by: sherob on September 04, 2011, 09:22:54 AM
Anything from Oskar Blues is great... 4 pack's of pure hoppiness bliss...

In da fridge...

Breckenridge Brewery, 471 Small Batch Double Hopped IPA... double yummy yummy!
Steelhead Brewery, Double IPA... double yummy!
Boulevard Brewery, Single Wide IPA... yummy!

Oh... almost forgot the single sitting in there...

Stone Brewery, IPA... yummy as well!

I think this should hold me over this afternoon while I change the innertubes on the Munchkin's mountain bike.  :o

Hop's... why, yes!  8)
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Post by: okxd45 on September 04, 2011, 09:37:38 AM
Yes, it does and tastes like beer which is why I like it.  I don't like beer that doesn't taste like beer.  I don't like odd flavors.  I don't like the micro-breweries and their twists.  I guess I'm just simple.  My wife tells me that all the time.  I might be convinced to like other beers.  I do like Guinness but that's not 'beer' as I define it.

You are an adjunct beer man.  Keeping it simple.......corn and rice......... :pukeface:
 

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Post by: okxd45 on September 04, 2011, 09:44:04 AM
Anything from Oskar Blues is great... 4 pack's of pure hoppiness bliss...

In da fridge...

Breckenridge Brewery, 471 Small Batch Double Hopped IPA... double yummy yummy!
Steelhead Brewery, Double IPA... double yummy!
Boulevard Brewery, Single Wide IPA... yummy!

Oh... almost forgot the single sitting in there...

Stone Brewery, IPA... yummy as well!

I think this should hold me over this afternoon while I change the innertubes on the Munchkin's mountain bike.  :o

Hop's... why, yes!  8)

Can't wait to move to PA!  Not a very good selection of beers in OK!  Boulevard is the only one of those I've seen around here........and it was just their wheat beer.  I too appreciate the hops!
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Post by: VirginiaJim on September 04, 2011, 09:55:10 AM
You are an adjunct beer man.  Keeping it simple.......corn and rice......... :pukeface:

Must be it...I like moonshine and Saki as well.
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Post by: okxd45 on September 04, 2011, 10:14:53 AM
Must be it...I like moonshine and Saki as well.

Moonshine......got some friends in them there mountains of Virginia?  ;D

Back in my younger days, my friend's dad was a scientist and had pure laboratory alcohol in one of those big brown glass jugs.  That was an experience!  Does that count as moonshine?
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Post by: VirginiaJim on September 04, 2011, 10:20:11 AM
Moonshine......got some friends in them there mountains of Virginia?  ;D

Back in my younger days, my friend's dad was a scientist and had pure laboratory alcohol in one of those big brown glass jugs.  That was an experience!  Does that count as moonshine?

Sorry, no.
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Post by: okxd45 on September 04, 2011, 10:23:19 AM
Darn it.
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Post by: Timalan on September 04, 2011, 12:54:45 PM
Can't wait to move to PA!  Not a very good selection of beers in OK!  Boulevard is the only one of those I've seen around here........and it was just their wheat beer.  I too appreciate the hops!
I'm in Tulsa and we have a few good stores with great selections. But Oklahoma has weird laws and we plain can't get things that don't come from the only 3 distribution places allowed by the state? At least that is how I heard it... Where are you?
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Post by: MAN OF BLUES on September 04, 2011, 01:10:46 PM
Yes, it does and tastes like beer which is why I like it.  I don't like beer that doesn't taste like beer.  I don't like odd flavors, LIKE HOPS.  I don't like the micro-breweries and their twists AT CREATING TRUE REPRESENTATIONS OF HISTORIC RECIPES, or inventing even better style specific brews with water, barley, and hops, in various combinations.  I guess I'm just simple.  My wife tells me that all the time.  I might be convinced to like REAL beers.  I do like Guinness but that's not 'beer' as I define it.
fixed that for you Jim..... ;)
HMMMMM, last time I judged BEER at a brewing competition, there were 23 different "styles" of BEER, and if you add Mead, and cider's, which are still classed as "brewed" the list tops at 28 styles, with each style containing up to a dozen "sub-catagories".......(if added up total 80 subs)
Stout is BEER. Coors, is beer also, albeit one specific type, tailored to mass production, and consumer priced sales.....

Beer is beer.
Coors comes under style 1A-lite american lager......open your palate bro, 22 more styles left to sample, and 79 more sub catagories......... 8)
Just some BEER is actually made to a specific "parameter", which can be judged and defined as fitting it's style, and HISTORIC recipe.
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Post by: valkmc on September 04, 2011, 03:14:36 PM
Just drank my last Alaskan Amber, brought it home from Alaska to Florida on the C-14. Great beer!!
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Post by: okxd45 on September 04, 2011, 03:53:32 PM
fixed that for you Jim..... ;)
HMMMMM, last time I judged BEER at a brewing competition, there were 23 different "styles" of BEER, and if you add Mead, and cider's, which are still classed as "brewed" the list tops at 28 styles, with each style containing up to a dozen "sub-catagories".......(if added up total 80 subs)
Stout is BEER. Coors, is beer also, albeit one specific type, tailored to mass production, and consumer priced sales.....

Beer is beer.
Coors comes under style 1A-lite american lager......open your palate bro, 22 more styles left to sample, and 79 more sub catagories......... 8)
Just some BEER is actually made to a specific "parameter", which can be judged and defined as fitting it's style, and HISTORIC recipe.

 :goodpost:
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Post by: okxd45 on September 04, 2011, 03:58:23 PM
I'm in Tulsa and we have a few good stores with great selections. But Oklahoma has weird laws and we plain can't get things that don't come from the only 3 distribution places allowed by the state? At least that is how I heard it... Where are you?
I'm in SW OK around Lawton. And yes the weird laws keep it kinda limited.  There is good beer to be had, but just a limited selection.
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Post by: Glenn on September 04, 2011, 04:24:45 PM
Great thread! Looks like there are several IPA freaks here! I'm one for sure, here are a few of my 'easy to get' favourite ones in my area. (Victoria, BC)
(http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac332/peatreek/redracer.jpg)
(http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac332/peatreek/hopcircle.jpg)
(http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac332/peatreek/fat-tug.jpg)
(http://i913.photobucket.com/albums/ac332/peatreek/TreeHopHead.png)
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Post by: VirginiaJim on September 04, 2011, 06:32:59 PM
fixed that for you Jim..... ;)
HMMMMM, last time I judged BEER at a brewing competition, there were 23 different "styles" of BEER, and if you add Mead, and cider's, which are still classed as "brewed" the list tops at 28 styles, with each style containing up to a dozen "sub-catagories".......(if added up total 80 subs)
Stout is BEER. Coors, is beer also, albeit one specific type, tailored to mass production, and consumer priced sales.....

Beer is beer.
Coors comes under style 1A-lite american lager......open your palate bro, 22 more styles left to sample, and 79 more sub catagories......... 8)
Just some BEER is actually made to a specific "parameter", which can be judged and defined as fitting it's style, and HISTORIC recipe.

You made my brane hurt....   :banghead:
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Post by: Strawboss on September 04, 2011, 07:04:39 PM
Being on a budget, I have to choose wisely. JW Dundee's Honey Brown is the least expensive darker beer here. $5.99/6. They've been reintroducing some beers from the 60's lately using the original recipes, pilsners, not bad on a hot day after cutting the grass, but not for sipping.
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Post by: Ron Dawg on September 04, 2011, 07:34:08 PM
Just had a marvelous evening grilling limed chicken on the deck with a Yuengling in hand.  Yuenling is another fine beer made in Pottsville, PA.
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Post by: Strawboss on September 04, 2011, 07:47:28 PM
For some unknown reason Yuengling has been unavailable in Ohio since time began, no one knows why. This summer though, they've gotten the ok to distribute in Ohio. I love their Black and Tan and can't wait till it comes to Cleveland as its inexpensive and good tasting to me.
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Post by: Ron Dawg on September 04, 2011, 08:34:41 PM
Back in the early 80's, you could not buy Coors east of the Mississippi River (I'm in GA). So when I went WEST of the Miss., on trips, I'd bring it back by the case. Yes, just like Smokey and the Bandit.  When they started selling it here, it suddenly didn't tast as good.
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Post by: Conrad on September 05, 2011, 06:51:52 AM
I'm in Tulsa and we have a few good stores with great selections. But Oklahoma has weird laws and we plain can't get things that don't come from the only 3 distribution places allowed by the state? At least that is how I heard it... Where are you?

Speaking of weird liquor laws. We were in Utah on vacation and went into Moab to buy some beer. The grocery store was well stocked, 6 packs, 12 packs, and cases. I was about to make my selection when, what's this, 3.2 beer? Oh hell no! Off to the liquor store instead. I'm looking around and see lots of beer with no 3.2 in sight. Ok, where's the cooler so I can get something cold. What? They don't sell cold beer? I ask the cashier where the cold beer is. She laughs and says that this is Utah, we don't sell cold beer in the liquor stores. I ask why not? She says because then you'll drink it! Well, that was my plan...

Then to top off that strangeness, you can't buy 6 and 12 packs in the liquor stores. Well, you can but you actually buy the beer by the bottle/can and make your own 6/12 pack. I wanted Stella and I had to pay $1.89 per bottle and make my own 6 pack. WTF?
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Post by: Ron Dawg on September 05, 2011, 08:24:30 AM
When we moved here to to this town in NE GA, we were looking for two sandwichs and two beers at a store one day. They said, "we can't sell you just two cold ones, but you can buy a cold six pack." Same reason. So we bought two sandwiches and drank six instead of two. Go figure.
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Post by: SteveJ. on September 05, 2011, 09:33:44 AM
When we moved here to to this town in NE GA, we were looking for two sandwichs and two beers at a store one day. They said, "we can't sell you just two cold ones, but you can buy a cold six pack." Same reason. So we bought two sandwiches and drank six instead of two. Go figure.
Pick the wrong county in GA, and others in the SE, you would have no beer option. :( >:(

Fix'n' to have my last Schell's Maifest I picked up in MN a month ago, then alternate 'tween Blue Moon Wheat and the One and Only, Newcastle Brown Ale.
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Post by: Timalan on September 05, 2011, 10:34:48 AM
Speaking of weird liquor laws. We were in Utah on vacation and went into Moab to buy some beer. The grocery store was well stocked, 6 packs, 12 packs, and cases. I was about to make my selection when, what's this, 3.2 beer? Oh hell no! Off to the liquor store instead. I'm looking around and see lots of beer with no 3.2 in sight. Ok, where's the cooler so I can get something cold. What? They don't sell cold beer? I ask the cashier where the cold beer is. She laughs and says that this is Utah, we don't sell cold beer in the liquor stores. I ask why not? She says because then you'll drink it! Well, that was my plan...

Then to top off that strangeness, you can't buy 6 and 12 packs in the liquor stores. Well, you can but you actually buy the beer by the bottle/can and make your own 6/12 pack. I wanted Stella and I had to pay $1.89 per bottle and make my own 6 pack. WTF?

Same thing here. Cold 3.2 in stores. Everything else warm in liquor store. I did talk the local store into lowering the temp of the entire store.... And the beer I like isn't ice cold normally so it's close. No liquor store here has a sign "coldest beer in town" also no beer on Sunday till after church... I usually needed it before but that is a different subject.