The Craft Beer Thread....

carolinabeerguy

Mamasan23 wrote:

Anyone here on Untappd? Super cool site, check it out if you get a chance!
http://untappd.com/home

I use it all the time - well, I did use it all the time until I cut back on drinking to 1-2 days a week 5 weeks ago. Add me as a friend, if you'd like. Same username as here. I'm at 770 beers - 377 unique - going back to November 2010.
http://untappd.com/user/adam42381/

Mamasan23

adam42381 wrote:

Mamasan23 wrote:

Anyone here on Untappd? Super cool site, check it out if you get a chance!
http://untappd.com/home

I use it all the time - well, I did use it all the time until I cut back on drinking to 1-2 days a week 5 weeks ago. Add me as a friend, if you'd like. Same username as here. I'm at 770 beers - 377 unique - going back to November 2010.
http://untappd.com/user/adam42381/

Awesome! just requested you, I'm Smerrill23. I am jealous of your beer intake sir.

81 wrote:

can't see myself ever using that.....

Elitist pig!

81

it would be curious to see how many different beers i've consumed. 377 is a pretty impressive number. doubt i'm that high.

intodeep

I have been going to Taco Mac for tha past two years and i'm up to 300 beers. Now they do it weird if you have it on draft that counts as one if you have it in a bottle that counts as another one. So 300 over the past two years there is a little exagerated.

But then again it only counts what i drink there and its only been keeping track the past two years

I am downloading that app now it looks pretty cool thank you for sharing

carolinabeerguy

intodeep wrote:

I have been going to Taco Mac for tha past two years and i'm up to 300 beers. Now they do it weird if you have it on draft that counts as one if you have it in a bottle that counts as another one. So 300 over the past two years there is a little exagerated.

But then again it only counts what i drink there and its only been keeping track the past two years

We have a similar place, World of Beer, that opened in August 2011. They also count it as 2 different beers if you drink the same thing on draft and in a bottle/can. Also, my wife's drinks are allowed to count toward my total. I'm at 217 - approximately 30-40 are hers - which is good enough for number 10 on their list. Number 1 is at 417! The leader's girlfriend works there do he uses her 40% discount. He also gets beers to go in 6 packs which they also count.

intodeep

shep wrote:

Over the weekend I tried an Avery Brewing Maharaja... wasn't much of a fan... it's a very citrusy hopped IPA... unfortunately that's not how I prefer my IPAs. I could still taste the beer in the back of my throat when i got up the next morning...

:( that is one of my all time favs :(

guitar59

81 wrote:

Where should we stop and what should we look for in the NW corner of Arizona and SE corner of Nevada (Flaggstaff/Vegas)? The Mr. loves the IPAs and I am a pale ale gal.

Sierra Nevada [/quote]


Although I am sure we will find California brews in Arizona (in fact we are counting on finding Stone and Sierra Nevada), we were actually looking for some unique brew pubs and local brews that might not leave the state. [/quote]


oh...thought this was a quiz...carry on.




check ratebeer.com or beeradvocate.com both good sites

both stone and sierra are good quality even rated beers[/quote]

Thanks for the general advice...seems that lack of great suggestions from anyone has resulted in a change in plans...actually we were on the fence as to where to vacation ...decided to go to Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula.

Any suggestions for brewpubs there? Does anyone have a fave Northwest beer they think we should try? We have a book or 2 to reference, but could always use more info. We are travelling with kids, so are looking for family friendly places.

FenwayFaithful

guitar59 wrote:

...decided to go to Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula.

Any suggestions for brewpubs there? Does anyone have a fave Northwest beer they think we should try? We have a book or 2 to reference, but could always use more info. We are travelling with kids, so are looking for family friendly places.

Had a great time at the Pyramid brewhouse when I was out there. Its literally right next to Safeco Field where the Mariners play. Great beers at Pyramid.

guitar59

FenwayFaithful wrote:

guitar59 wrote:

...decided to go to Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula.

Any suggestions for brewpubs there? Does anyone have a fave Northwest beer they think we should try? We have a book or 2 to reference, but could always use more info. We are travelling with kids, so are looking for family friendly places.

Had a great time at the Pyramid brewhouse when I was out there. Its literally right next to Safeco Field where the Mariners play. Great beers at Pyramid.

Great idea...Mr. Guitar can take the kids to a ball game (the Yankees play the Mariners 3 times the week we visit) and I can sit in Pyramid and try all the ales!

rcs

guitar59 wrote:

FenwayFaithful wrote:

guitar59 wrote:

...decided to go to Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula.

Any suggestions for brewpubs there? Does anyone have a fave Northwest beer they think we should try? We have a book or 2 to reference, but could always use more info. We are travelling with kids, so are looking for family friendly places.

Had a great time at the Pyramid brewhouse when I was out there. Its literally right next to Safeco Field where the Mariners play. Great beers at Pyramid.

Great idea...Mr. Guitar can take the kids to a ball game (the Yankees play the Mariners 3 times the week we visit) and I can sit in Pyramid and try all the ales!

Hey, where's that new avatar?

shep

intodeep wrote:

shep wrote:

Over the weekend I tried an Avery Brewing Maharaja... wasn't much of a fan... it's a very citrusy hopped IPA... unfortunately that's not how I prefer my IPAs. I could still taste the beer in the back of my throat when i got up the next morning...

:( that is one of my all time favs :(

Sorry... just too much citrus for me...

RW81233

belgium and a beer brewing sesh fucked me until this evening...god damn monks. had a stone ipa this eve and it was delicious.

Kel Varnsen

FenwayFaithful wrote:

guitar59 wrote:

...decided to go to Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula.

Any suggestions for brewpubs there? Does anyone have a fave Northwest beer they think we should try? We have a book or 2 to reference, but could always use more info. We are travelling with kids, so are looking for family friendly places.

Had a great time at the Pyramid brewhouse when I was out there. Its literally right next to Safeco Field where the Mariners play. Great beers at Pyramid.

The Pike brew pub is also awesome. It is in a great location right next to the Pike Place Market. The beer is really good. I didn't have kids yet when I went a few years ago but looking at the menu it appears they have a kids menu, which to me would mean family friendly.

http://www.pikebrewing.com/

Kel Varnsen

81 wrote:

it would be curious to see how many different beers i've consumed. 377 is a pretty impressive number. doubt i'm that high.

If you want to keep track of the beers you have had there are a few other options. There is a facebook app called beerseek which is pretty decent and lets you do star ratings between 1 and 10. If you don't like facebook Beeradvocate.com lets you rate your "hads" on a score of 0 to 5 without having to write a full rating. I used to use beerseek but it was down for like 3 months so I signed up for the beer advocate one. Now beerseek is back and I use both. On beer advocate I am up to 452 and beerseek I am at 468 (beerseek separates beers on cask (I was in London a few years ago and drank a bunch of cask ale) as well as the different years of things like Fuller's vintage ale while beer advocate doesn't that explains the difference).

Yellow Ledbelly

As I've admitted before, I for long a time purely drank mass-produced American swill (Miller Lite) but since my drinking buddy and I have begun buying anything and everything we have never had late last summer we've piled up a pretty damned impressive number I think...we've been keeping a bottle of each and at last count just after the turn of the year we had right around 110 bottles....since then I would say we've easily averaged over 1 new one per day. Pretty much the only day we don't typically have a brew together is Monday. I've pretty much been drunk since last July

Hopefully the state legislature will get their heads out of their asses this session and make the appropriate changes to the ABW limitations so we can open up the selection available to us...there's three bills out there now to do so while also legalizing homebrew....my fair state along with 'Bama are the only two in the country where its illegal to homebrew...not that anybody is stopping us

carolinabeerguy

Last night was Bell's Brewery night at World of Beer. The highlight, of course, was Hopslam on draft.

Mamasan23

adam42381 wrote:

Last night was Bell's Brewery night at World of Beer. The highlight, of course, was Hopslam on draft.

DROOL.

Indifference71

adam42381 wrote:

Last night was Bell's Brewery night at World of Beer. The highlight, of course, was Hopslam on draft.

This one bar by my place that has all of these crazy craft beers has all these signs about this Bell's Hopslam....what's so special about this Hopslam?

Cliffy6745

Indifference71 wrote:

adam42381 wrote:

Last night was Bell's Brewery night at World of Beer. The highlight, of course, was Hopslam on draft.

This one bar by my place that has all of these crazy craft beers has all these signs about this Bell's Hopslam....what's so special about this Hopslam?

I have heard great things and I have heard it's just alright and the rage is just that it's hard to get. That said, I'd like to try it.

carolinabeerguy

Indifference71 wrote:

adam42381 wrote:

Last night was Bell's Brewery night at World of Beer. The highlight, of course, was Hopslam on draft.

This one bar by my place that has all of these crazy craft beers has all these signs about this Bell's Hopslam....what's so special about this Hopslam?

Bell's only releases it once a year and it's consistently ranked among the best Double IPA's - and beers in general - in the world. For me, it's a little more boozy and bitter than last year's version, but it's still quite good. The price is a bit much at $20 for a 6-pack, but I still bought it. At $6 for a snifter, I'd be much more inclined to drink it regularly.