Having some Clown Shoes Porcine Unidragon - Bourbon barrel aged stout using smoked malts. 12.5%! Wild stuff here - complex - very upfront bourbon - really tastes sorta like bacon on the back end. Well at first anyway - the smokey is truly meaty at first - on my second glass not so much - which is a good thing for me. I'm enjoying this - on first sip I didn't think I would.

Had a fun beer tasting over the holidays. VA beers vs. AL beers - mostly. Tons of beer that night and Cards Against Humanity. The winner for me that night was Richmond's Hardywood Brewery Singel Belgian-style. We tasted probably 12-14 beers.

Got a couple small batch bourbons for gifts - Belle Meade and Basil Hayden's. Both really nice but pretty different. Belle Meade just started up - outta Nashville. It's a rye so it's spicy/peppery.

Picking up some local bombers tomorrow. Avondale's vanilla porter again (me and my wife love this stuff!) and Straight to Ale's Unobtanium - bourbon barrel aged old ale. Looking forward to trying the Unobtanium - have heard great stuff. I have a 22 of it that I'm gonna hold on to for a few years probably.

I found this picture last night while stumbling. I've only been interested in beer for a bit over a year now, so it was pretty interesting to me. Taught me a thing or two:



Also tried a few new ones recently. Nothing fancy as I just grabbed a mix a six, but still pretty good. I'm particularly fond of Polestar Pilsner and Schalfy Pilsner.

Polestar Pilsner
Schlafly Pilsner
Chi-Town Windy City Wheat
Sam Adams Latitude IPA
Breckenridge Agave Wheat
Victory Prima Pils

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Had a couple of really tasty stuff during the holidays. Some of the better and interesting stuff were

Samuel Adams 13th Hour Stout
Goose Island Big John Stout
Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Bacon Maple ale
Stone 12.12.12 Vertical Epic ale
Stone 12.21.12 IPA
Epic Imperial Pumpkin porter

Good drinks and good times.

Originally Posted by Access_Denied I found this picture last night while stumbling. I've only been interested in beer for a bit over a year now, so it was pretty interesting to me. Taught me a thing or two:

Cool image, and I like that many of Great Lakes beers made the list.

Had a Sierra Nevada Narwhal Imp. Stout tonight. Really nice beer - bit of smoky-ness that was great. Having some Sam Adams red something or another from their spring sampler that we picked up at Costco. Has six different beers in it. It's a nice second or third beer for me after having a high gravity. Had a Green Flash Rayon Vert the other night. "Wild" stuff for sure. Bretts are funky. Not sure I really care for them. Green Flash can do complex though as this was a very complex beer.

Really into cider lately

Currently enjoying...

Strongbow
Bold Rock
Angry Orchard
Woodchuck

Anyone have any more to recommend?

Backwoods Bastard
Breakfast Stout
Hopslam
Schlafly TIPA

Had some cask hopslam last night and picked up six bottles of Bells Black Note stout today.

@ wv
Try original sin

Also if you haven't had orchard on draft yet do it

Founder's Porter
Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
New Belgium Imperial Coffee Chocolate Stout (part of their Lips of Faith Series)

Originally Posted by Rumors @ wv Try original sin Also if you haven't had orchard on draft yet do it

Thanks ill check it out. And I love Orchard and Bold on draught!

My favorite beer/lager is undoubtedly Landshark. It's described as "Island Lager", although I'm not quite sure what that means. I just know that it's good before, during, and after it goes down.

Went to Frankenmuth Brewery last weekend and picked up the coolest growler in my collection so far also individual numbered. Kinda of expensive at $40 but it came filled with their Batch 69 IPA. Also picked up there 150 anniversary Dark 1L bottle another cool bottle similar top as the growler, which I have yet to try.

Anybody here drink Lagunitas? Was able to get my hand on there Lagunitas Suck I.P.A about a week ago(very hard to get up here in jersey). It was pretty good ,but not as great as thought it would be. Also just had a Dogfish/Victory/Stone Saison de Buff collaboration. Very good. If you can find, it's worth a try.

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Originally Posted by motorkill Anybody here drink Lagunitas? Was able to get my hand on there Lagunitas Suck I.P.A about a week ago(very hard to get up here in jersey). It was pretty good ,but not as great as thought it would be. Also just had a Dogfish/Victory/Stone Saison de Buff collaboration. Very good. If you can find, it's worth a try.

I Loved Lagunitas Sucks! Snagged a 6pk a few weeks ago in Denver. Pretty scarce there. 2 stores I went to were out and saw only a few at the next two I was at.

Have you had Firestone Walker Double Jack IPA? Bought a 4pk of that as well and man is it delicious. One of my favorite IPAs now

Anyone have Lugene Milk Stout from Odells? Big fan of that as well.

The sucks is impossible to get up here. My brother, cousin, and best friend have been on the hunt for it with no luck at all. I got lucky grabbing one.

I have not had the Firestone Double Jack but have had there UnionJack ipa. It was quite good. Im going to a beer expo tomorrow and FireStone will be there. Maybe they'll have samples of it and then I can try it.

Bell's Hopslam was just released, its a delicious double IPA at 10% alcohol. I'm lucky and have a local bar that serves it on draft.

Here are the places they ship to...
Hopslam will start shipping to areas in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio the week of Jan. 7.

It will begin shipping to Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, Missouri and Arizona the week of Jan. 14.

It will then start shipping to Florida, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington DC, Kentucky and Pennsylvania the week of Jan. 21.

Originally Posted by combatrhombus Bell's Hopslam was just released, its a delicious double IPA at 10% alcohol. I'm lucky and have a local bar that serves it on draft.

I missed Hopslam this year. The places that sell it in my area sell out quickly. :(

Yeah, Hop City (best local beer store) posted they had it on their Facebook site twice, and then that it was gone in less than an hour both times.

I stumbled across some in a smaller beer store last year. It is very good, but not worth the effort to track down IMO. It's one I'll buy despite the price (think it was $18 for the sixer last year) if I see it, but there's too much good beer out there to put any effort into finding limited releases like this.

yep - I didn't get any Hopslam this year but I didn't try - I do have some from the last two years though! (what crazy fool ages DIPAs?!?) and threatened to break one out but just didn't. Our Hop City sold out in less than an hour too.

I had a year and half old Terrapin/Heavy Seas Free Spirit Farmhouse with sunflower and elderflower - it was ok - nothing special really. Awesome label though - and wax sealed - who doesn't love wax sealed! (it's actually sort of a pain to deal with but it looks cool!)

One of our local breweries Good People just released their latest can offering - their pale ale - nothing super exciting but I'm looking forward to picking some up just because it's a new release for them. Also had a strawberry saison from a local brewery Blue Pants up in Huntsville. We bought two bottles when they released it a half a year or so ago - it's like super crazy strawberry - ok for a glass but I certainly wouldn't want any more than that at a time.

I had Bruery's Autumn Maple yesterday before the Super Bowl. It is brewed like a pumpkin beer but they used yams instead. It was pretty solid and my buddy and I drank the whole bottle real quickly.

Also tried New Belgium and Elysian's Trip Blonde. Not a fan of it at all. Probably my least favorite NB beer along with Mothership Whit. It had too much of a honey taste. They brewed it with chamomile and honey and man it was a bit too sweet for my liking.

EDIT: Also had Great Divide's new seasonal Orabelle. 8.4% Trippel. Very light in color, very tasty beer. I only had one bottle left though cuz the damn liner broke and I lost all the others . I highly recommend this beer if you are into Belgian Dubbel, Trippel, and Quads.