quoting this cuz it needs to be top of the next page

nothing is so important to screw up a page over

so i have to spend the night in line in portland. so basically go to bar, drink their beer, pass out on the sidewalk in camping chair.
solid

Gave Schlafly's pumpkin ale a try this evening and it is clearly as good as Elysian. Took another look on BA to see what are the rest of the pumpkin ales in the top 10 that I havent had. Sadly there is only 1 left that I havent had. But I also saw that people have followed suit in their reviews and Selinsgrove's pumpkin is back in the top dog spot.

hopefully im still here for it

you had it last year though.. right?

Weekends purchases:

Kentucky Bourbon Ale (4)
Rivertown Pumpkin Ale (6)
Sierra Nevada Kellerweise Hefeweizen (6)
Bomber of Rogue Arrogant Bastard Ale

Sorry, it's stone, clearly rouge.

Started off very bad first few sips, getting better as my pallet adjusts.

black butte porter
caldera hop hash
firestone walker double jack
more black butte porter cuz pallet wrecked after double jack

I need to see if I can get Black Butte here.

I prefer Great Lakes Nosferateu over this Arrogant bastard

This post has been edited by sardoniclysane on Sat - Sep 22 2012 - 23:50:40

That first sip though was like old vegetables.

This post has been edited by sardoniclysane on Sat - Sep 22 2012 - 23:51:01

clearly exactly comparable imo

To me they are, just because Arrogant Bastard tastes more like that then it does to say, Founders Dirty Bastard. Both Arrogant and Nosteratu taste very hoppy, fruity to me. I don't seem to taste any caramel hints or anything of a scottish ale flavor like in Dirty Bastard.

im clearly disputing the style only the outcome.

Oh, thought you were saying I was tasting it wrong as in style, you like Arrogant over Nosferatu? To each his own I suppose. It's clearly bad, though that first sip was AWFUL. I just prefer GL. clearly like it's a runaway.

i think ab is one of those "back in the day this was the shit because there was nothing like it" but in todays world i dont find it all that great of an strong ale. but that title is quite broad. ive has nosferatu and i like it better than ab.

Ah ok. Gotcha!

Recent purchases
stone ruination and rogue brutal ipa bombers

brutal ipa is one of the rew rogue beers that i actually like, that and shakespeare stout

scratch 57
a whole lotta caramel going on here, clearly bad

Tastes a little flowery, I dont know anout this one

hops tend to go either floral or piney. i prefer floral tbh.

On Saturday I got to judge my first BJCP sanctioned homebrew competition. I signed up to just volunteer as a steward but one of the judges was MIA so i got to judge the flight of ipas. The 9 other judges all held national or higher ranks in the BJCP. I never felt so out of place... these guys were significantly more intelligent than the "beer guys" im use to talking to. It wasnt until after i got home that i realized the one fellow i was talking to was ranked a master and there are only 100 living BJCP masters in the world.

3 years ago i considered taking the BJCP exam. But couldnt make it work without taking half days of work. Now they offer the tests online. I think im gonna take the entrance exam.

on saturday i got to judge such fine beers are heineken, corona light, yeungling, bud light lime-a-rita. don't buy the lime-a-rita, you can clearly taste the hops

If you cant spell Yuengling right, you should probably just please explain.

yulenglinchang, its that weird chinese one right?

My cousin calls Yuengling, "Yingumbingum". His favorite beer is Milwaukee's Best.

Felt this should go here

berserker
this fucking beer, i could drink this every day

Neither of these taste like they are anything special to spend six dollars on

This post has been edited by randomtask on Mon - Sep 24 2012 - 20:24:33

but, prefer stone to the rogue

Mischievous and unsentimental, a devilishly coy rabbit lurked beneath a great elm tree, peering curiously at an unfamiliar hare across the yard.

also,

ruination is old school hoppy as fuck ipa, but from where you live its doubtful its fresh. and rogue, if you keep trying them, you will find an underlying flavor to them that every.fucking.beer.has. house yeast as i understand it.

both beers worth the try, though neither worth the cash unless ruination is fresh.

can i get a update on what beers from the box have been consumed and which are still outstanding?

Tonights consumption was a bit more than expected. Whoops?

Elysian Great Pumpkin bomber- consumed this while cooking supper (this beer grows on me each time I have it)

Bruery Steins throw 750 (brewed using 900 degree granite rocks throw into the wort to make it boil, has a strange sugary quality that i didnt like at first but the alcohol made me warm up to it and like it enough to finish the 750 of it.)

Penn Overlook IPA - meh, its ok but ive never been wow'd by this brewery. its freshness is questionable but i cant complain since i was gifted with several bottles of this and some others

Penn Penndemonium Maibock - see Penn beer above

additionally, devil dancer was outstanding and scratch 69 (vienna lager) was good but i didnt notice anything outstanding. might be the style, it had a bit more edge on it than i expected.
i have clearly had any of your 3 beers yet, was planning on yours going down tonight.

awesone
i thought the scratch beers would be fitting for the season but like you, i think its a style of beer "octoberfest" that i just dont give a shit about anymore. indeed, cant remember which one but one of them had the usual troegs extra hop bite

devil dancer is an ass kicker. i think that beer gets more and more alcohol and less hoppy each year (slight exaggeration) but i still try it every time its released

looking forward to your opinion on the home brews

operation spends 2 grand on beer in 7 days is evident

hotd doc sale 11/10
mother of all storms 11/17

what are we missing here? a Deshutes release and something uber hyped from oakshire and maybe some block 15 just for grins?

ill pass on oakshire me thinks but will buy whatever block 15 puts out (figgy pudding and w/e)
fucking hotd
also abyss

there was an announcement that block 15 recently acquired pappy van winkle barrels... instant gold right there

Got Nosferatu this week

me like

Congratulations, it's a p nice.

Yea its my fav great lakes beer, been grabbing it for years

in after leviathon

In an effort to remain as coherent as possible bought Stone Levetation and Goose Island 312 for today's session. clearly sure about either tbh.

Levetation 1 is going down pretty smoothly right now though. Wife hatted it, but the only beer she likes is Thirsty Dogs Old Leg Humper.

Going to have an Orval tonight me thinks

went looking for more berserker today, was disappoint

did pick up a nice ris
adam beer soon

Too young to drink. :/