pg 86

Wow, what total shit luck on my part.

Logged in to the Bruery reserve site today and there was an "unannounced"allotment of chocolate rain for sale. T4T!

i hate that im clearly apart of that, but i just cant get myself to drop that kinda cash on the membership and then the beer and then the travel to get the beer.
:sadface:

local place finally sold out of the "summer 2011" blue dot so they could stock "winter 2012" blue dot.

yay semi-fresh blue dot!

monday should be ship day
i shalst ship all purchased beer and anything i can find up to then
i will ship them all to adams for simplicitys sake since over half is his it makes the most sense

A person I've traded with like 6 times is my "trustee." He lives fairly close, picks them up and ships to me once he has a box worth to send. You can buy whatever you want and the Bruery will hold all of them for over a year. Membership starts in January and they will old all bottles until march the following year.

Like you said, it's a lot of money to dedicate to a single brewery. But it's a brewery I really like and they consistently experiment and make it worth while. With the initial membership, you get a case of different beer, hoodie, some other swag, Bruery reserve only releases and a 15% discount on all bottles purchased and growlers filled. You also get invited to parties but that's clearly something I want to buy a plane ticket to do.

This sounds like something that would make Dan stop dodging

I see what you did there...

I am sad to report that neither of the DC poop brewery beers got "best of show" in the competition over the weekend. So they will clearly be brewed commercially this time.

on a side note, as i fill this box i realize just how much i like the bottle shipper
going to buy 2 so we can have more frequent shipments cuz easy

Opening a bottle of DFH 75 Minute IPA

There they go again... Ruining the "exclusivity" of it being a cask only offering. I wonder how many people are going to bitch now and say "it's clearly the same."

I think it's interesting though. They retired "squall" last year and put this in a bottle now. If I'm clearly mistaken these 2 brews are strikingly similar. Maybe squall was more like 90 minute though with extra dry hopping if I remember correctly.

While on the topic of DFH, I was in a Wegmans on Friday and they had 120 minute. I kinda just walked on by and later decided to look at the price: $6.99. I nearly shit myself. Usually this runs 9.99+ with the other local store selling it for 11.99.

Evidently someone took notice right before me because when I walked by the first time there were at least a dozen bottles. They left 1 which I snagged up.

firing back a full sail imperial porter care of

Dare I say I like this more than the barrel aged version...

yes, you dare say
the ba version was clearly balanced at all, and that imperial porter was actually very good imo

found my black butte 21 in a box (adam you gave me this beer from joe the last time we met up)

also have 09 and 10 nc old stock

AND i just realized i have all of the jubels that joe sent me last year or the year before @ my parents house on their wine rack

i miss black butte 21... the 22 was tossed because of a "mysterious look" the beer had like coagulated shit because of the fat content in the chocolate they used. and black butte 23 is an atrocity IMO. whomever decided it would be a good idea to add chocolate, chilies and fucking orange peel/zest to a barrel aged porter should be kicked in the dick

you need to open up one of those jubels and tell me how it is/con me into drinking the only bottle i have

the old stock is a beast... forget about those bottles for another year or 2 and open one of them side by side with a fresh bottle just for the sake of comparison!

This post has been edited by xstakemx on Tue - Mar 13 2012 - 21:15:47

definitely hope to do that with the old stock

i also have some 2006 or 2008 (cant remember) bottles of dfh worldwide stout that ive been sitting on

thats about the extent of my beer collection

i do want to try a jubel soon but just havent had a proper occasion for it

pop that shit open! that becomes the occasion. You have a couple of them right? Curiosity would have gotten the best of me.

I bet that World wide stout is mighty freaking fine

Well said joe

I had to do a double-take... The bourbon one you gave me was listed as a stout. This one was "imperial porter." They really are blending the lines stylistically. Regardless, I think both brews were a little thin.

i dont know what beers you have in the nw

they have made both "brewmaster" imp porter and imp stout iirc. i just think their barral aged is a bit off (too much barrel and "wheres the base beer bro?"), but i find their offerings to always be extremely drinkable. the brewmaster porter and stouts were both just really good and drinkable imo. nothing that pushes the envelope but clean and crisp. maybe its average and i just dont have the depth of knowledge of whats on the market

favorite styles/tastes?

HELP ME HELP YOU!

im an alcoholic, dont care

Letsgetrightonit.nope

If you don't give a fuck, just go buy something local and don't worry about the extra cost/hassle of acquiring something from another area that you don't have access to

Is anyone interested in attending dark lord day with me this year? This will be my 3rd year going (if I can get tickets.)

DLD is April 28th. The tickets go on sale this weekend (Saturday, March 17th at noon central time.)

its too bad they make this in april. its basically our busiest time of the year. maybe ill set time aside next year. this year im also spending some vacation to go to illinois to help move my grandma. so ill have time to spare next year also.

its completely botched... they already have the 'sales' website up, it is just disabled until the tickets go on sale

last year and the year before, the people trying to buy tickets crashed the server. there were something like 14,000 connections to the site in a minute, i imagine this year it is going to be even worse

if there is anyone willing/able to assist me in my attempt to purchase tickets, I would forever be grateful and will compensate you for time/effort spent in trying to secure said tickets for me

i can proal do that, and i only ask for pics of dan molesting your dog in return

its the dog that humps him... clearly vice a-versa

does your dog make dan beg for mercy? cuz id like that.

its always awkward coming down the steps in the morning and seeing them spoon... more importantly is Dan is the small spoon so yeah

Jack and coke

He has soft skin.

spoinz and i got one for 9.99 at wine world

On truck for delivery

Dan's ability to dodge tonight just took a severe hit.

local beer place is closed for a 3 weeks
no idea why, just a note on the door
have to drive tomorrow to go somewhere to satisfy beer cravings

true, i shouldnt look for local recommendations from friends in other areas, thats how that works right?

Good beer should be available to drink. I don't really care for the hassle of exclusive limited stuff.

Went to NEBCO today and got a growler each of the saison and GB. Said hi on behalf of Dan. Both beers are great.

Found an old USPM record for 99c in a thrift store near there, that made it a great day.

Judging by the lack of responses, I guess that's a big nope.
clearly like any of us have the advance technical knowledge of being able to buy 1 of the 3,000 tickets that sold out in 3 minutes

Yup. If you don't care what you are drinking why go through the hassle of getting caught illegally shipping beer and paying the extra money for shipping.

http://cascadebrewingbarrelhouse.com/info_order%20form.pdf

sucks no PA or NJ

Move back to CT and agree to said purchase like I asked you to a year ago. This predicament was also valid for the "preorders" of mother of all storms in 2010 when I was #26 on the waiting list and passed because joe was sending us some and you wouldn't agree to receiving said package.

Remember this or am I making this up?

Mom, yes, cascade, no

The cascade order was going to include bourbonic plague and vlad the imp aler. Both were available back then. More recently they sold a blueberry sour which I'm sure was/is amazing but I'm throwing in the towel on chasing after rare/hard to get beer. (At least until some of my current inventory is consumed.)

And speaking of sour blueberry beers...
Ithaca lebleu is being released april 14th

Curious to see if this is the last time it's made since the commander in chief left