It's fine for what it is, an unfiltered wheat recipe with pineapple and coconut added. Of course, it's sweet, people!

Don't sleep on the blood orange. I used to think the same, but last year I had three great blood orange beers. Parish's Blood Orange Envie, Burnt Hickory Didjits, and I honestly can't remember the name of the third one, but I had it around the same time as the didjits and they both stuck out as solid beers.

That being said, I know you're in the Houston area, if the Southern Star Blood Belt is the can you've tried, I wouldn't judge off of that one. I swear the blood orange in there is fake. It has a Hawaiian punch taste to it.

It's no problem, man. I actually just worked a trade for a can on Facebook a little while ago. I mainly want to check it out because of the Tech N9ne reference. Wheat beer isn't usually my thing.

While I'm talking KC area trades, I'm looking for the 31 Heroes release from Torn Label in a couple of weeks, along with one of the 31 Heroes glasses, or just a Torn Label glass in general.


I'm down to trade Ghost or some other Louisiana beer for it. I've got a couple cans of fresh Jucifer left.

I'm still about 50/50 on liquor store/brewery purchases. Most brewers here do a really good job of making their stuff available at the brewery and distributing to stores around the city to get it into as many hands as possible, even their limited releases.

I've been stocking 4pks of fresh TG Psuedo Sue at $7.99 all summer to offset the $15-18 4pks of special or rotating releases. With our +11% sales tax, 4pks can reach $20 pretty quickly. I love NEIPAs, but it's pretty rare that I'm able to take down a 4pk of the same one by myself, so I like to drink a couple and share or trade the others for something outside my market or were in-market that I may have missed.

Phoenix beerfest highlights...

AleSmith Barrel Aged Speedway Stout... don't remember the regular stuff being all that great, but this was fantastic.

Ironfire Last Rites Stout

Clown Shoes North of Sonora Porter

Four Peaks Sirius Black Stout

McFate Shot in the Arm Stout

Prescott Brewery Achoco Loco... surprisingly, a top ~3 favorite.

8 bit Aleworks had cereal themed beer... Cocoa Pebbles, Fruity Pebbles, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and Reese's.... but, they were the most disappointing of the bunch.

Sent you a PM today. I got there too late to get a glass but I got a couple of four packs if you are still interested. Hit me up.

I would have joined you for a few cold ones at the event as I think other's here on CP in the Phoenix area may have.

I'm starting to think you really dislike us...... ROFL

He's denied my request to meet him numerous times.

Now I'm saddled with an infant and barely leave the house.

He's going to be added to my CP hate list here pretty soon and I'll post about it in that other thread.

LMAO


Well, I did post this a week prior to the event.....

Damn, sorry I missed it. :(

Indoors no less, that had to be great. How many people would you say were there? Good food to eat as well with all that beer?

The bathrooms must have been REALLY busy....ROFL

There were hundreds of people trying to get in when it opened, it was a major cluster**** of zig-zag/intersecting lines with no idea where to go... terribly unorganized. We got in about 30 minutes late, but the space was so large and there were more than enough places to go/things to do, that it wasn't nearly as crowded inside.

They had 'small bites' from several places, it was good food. They had games like tug of war and a giant cornhole game with throw pillows. None of the lines were long or slow (didn't see lines forming around the bathrooms either).

They give you 20 tickets for 4oz pours (most of them were actually 4 oz, too)... I'm sure they do that so they can jack up the price ($65, IIRC), knowing you're not going to drink that much (at least not the beer I drink).

It was a great time, I'd definitely do it again.... but, maybe show up an hour early or late though.

For you Bourbon County folks, the actual 2018 lineup has been released. Of note to me is the Coffee Barleywine. I can already hear the NillaBroz swarming with the return of Vanilla.

If their craft beer hating ownership doesn't ax it first, maybe demand will drop to the point where they'll stop making it ridiculously hard to find their beer on the absolutely worst day to go shopping.... considering how much good beer is being made now.

A few of them do sounds pretty damn good though, at least the regular stuff has been easy to find the past couple years here, still have some from two years ago and last year sitting around.