So my local Flying Saucer has all the varieties of Breakfast Stout on tap.....I might have to drop in soon.

Just trying to get the 18 year old Snapchat friend naked.

Non swapping foursome no doubt.

Drinking my last King Falling Flag from Narrow Gauge. It's one excellent Imperial NEIPA!

Jealous. Still haven't had a chance to try CBS.

http://www.kansascity.com/living/liv...210456564.html

So Boulevard and Tech N9ne collabo'd on a Wheat beer based on his Caribou Lou drink that he raps about. The beer is a Wheat beer with Pineapple and Coconut. I'm not a huge fan of wheat beers, but I am a huge Tech N9ne fan. I'd like to get my hands on a couple of four packs of this. Looking to any of you KC locals for assistance. I can pay cash or trade beer. Let me know if anyone can help out. Thanks!

I'm with you on wheat beers, but that sounds unique enough to try and a cool collaboration.

Somebody hook TimBone up!

EDIT: Just saw the 4-pks don't come out until 6/15

I'll look for it when its released.

Yeah, I tried a ton of wheat beers when I first got in to craft back in 2014, and I only found a couple that really made an impact. I've kind of abandoned them at this point. Still, I'd like to try the Tech N9ne collabo.

On that note, this is the third time I've noticed rappers doing collabos with breweries. A couple of years ago, I noticed Nappy Roots, another favorite group of mine, started making references to craft beer in their songs. Then earlier this year, they announced a collabo with a brewery in Kentucky. Also, I recall Run the Jewels doing something with a brewery in Chicago (maybe Pipeworks?). I never would have thought the worlds of hip hop and craft beer would cross paths. Pretty cool.

As you can see, I'm slowly coming back from my beer break. I'm headed to Great Raft tomorrow with a buddy. I'm hoping to snag you and myself a bottle or two of the latest Oceans Between Us release. They've also got some Grace and Grit cans available, but I'm not sure what the canned date is on those. I'll see when I get there.

Awesome, Marcellus! I really appreciate it, man. I can start putting something together for you, or I can get you some cash. Let me know.

Nice to see you getting back in the game, man!

Run The Jewels has done collabs with Pipeworks, Interboro in Brooklyn, J Wakefield in Miami, Mumford in LA, Creature Comforts and one in Europe. I have an extra Pipeworks Panther Like A Panther I can kick you. It's a porter thats blended with other barrel aged beers. It was a 3-way collab with Pipeworks, Interboro, and J Wakefield. Their Stay Gold hazy from Interboro is fire.

Please share photos when you do! :thumb:

Fellow KC enthusiasts, if any of you are planning on rolling through BKS on Saturday, I'd be interested in trading for a Fleur de Lupulin bottle. I'm sitting on some different Pipeworks BA stouts and some various hazy hops I can trade. Plus Chicago craft beer week kicks off tonight with a bunch of awesome beer releases happening over the next 10 days from Mikerphone, Pipeworks, Half Acre, Forbidden Root, Corridor, Hop Butcher and many more (not More Brewing, I'm not brave enough for that impending shitlord show) that I can pick up.

Let me know if we can work something out.

First time for me. Pretty decent.

Did anyone help you out? I can stop by there tomorrow to see if they have any left.

I'm still looking so that would be great.

I took one of their oak aged saisons and a gose to a monthly bottle share a few weeks ago and they they were a big hit, so I'd like to keep bringing them whenever I can.

Key lime sour NEIPA from Forbidden Root. Much better than the first one I tried (blackberry). I can see these becoming more popular, especially in cans.

https://i.imgur.com/jnReMZu.jpg?1

Its very good, not my favorite of style but very good.

Went to a Founders tasting a few months ago... didn't have that one, but had Canadian Breakfast Stout, Kentucky Breakfast Stout, Lizard of Koz, and a couple others.... along with a breakfast burrito the size of my head.

Then I went on keto.

I grabbed you a couple!

Thanks man! I sent you a PM.

Had one two three four of these yesterday!

Very very tasty! :D

Had this one the other day at an Asian restaurant. Tasty.

I'm doing the calorie counting thing, and apparently I've been lying to myself all these years about how calories in beer. Holy shit.

I've been back in to beer for a week or two now, and it's been an eye opening experience. I'm definitely having to be careful.

I had no idea Run the Jewels was getting around like that. I don't know why there's a sudden association of beer and hip hop, but I love it. Super cool.

A buddy and I hit Great Raft the other day for my big return to beer, and they had some great stuff on tap. Grabbed you a bottle of the new Ocean's Between Us batch. This one wasn't as good as the cascade and blood orange batch, but it's still solid.

They also had a IPL on tap and in cans that I passed on trying while I was there because I could have swore I tried it before. A buddy of mine asked me to grab him some four packs of it while I was there, and I did, but didn't bother grabbing any because I remembered it being mediocre. Well, he gave me a can when I dropped it off to him, and demand I take it home and try it. It turned out to be very good. I must have had it confused in my head with a different beer of theirs. I immediately regretted not grabbing you a can. Hopefully they releases it again at some point this year.

Anyways, I'm putting a small box together to send your way. Hopefully it can go out Tuesday or Wednesday. It ain't much, but there's a fresh beer I wanted to get headed your way fairly quickly.

Had a Busch Light last night.

**** you it was cold n tasty.

Ballast Point Aloha Sculpin is delicious.

Yup the Brux Tois yeast gives it a nice fruity slightly funky flavor.

I've been drinking a lot of Sculpin IPA so I'm a fan of Ballast Point. What is the flavor profile and ABV? :hmmm:

Not the biggest fan of any beers with fruit flavors.

I was lucky enough to be in Chicago last weekend. BA softly telling lies from mikerphone is delicious.

Last weekend was a good weekend to be here for sure. I definitely slept on it, but I've heard nothing but super high praise for BA Softly Spoken Lies. I think it was a sleeper because of Dark Lord day and the base beer is just OK, imo. Sounds like the barrel really transformed it. I love me some Mikerphone, but rarely get out to the burbs. He did just purchase a canning line though, so hopefully we'll see more distro into the city.

That's cool you were able to try it.

This is some good shit! Odell Brewery in Colorado and it's potent!
Myrcenary IPA.

Anyone going to the Real Wild & Woody Indoor Beer Festival in Phoenix next weekend?

http://www.realwildandwoody.com/

Can anybody in KC grab me the Boulevard Bou Lou if there's any left? Marcellus tried to grab me some where he is, but couldn't get his hands on any. I've got beer to trade, or can send straight cash, homey. Also, if anyone is going to the 31 Heroes release at Torn Label, I'd definitely be interested in a trade for that.

Just buy this. It's the same drink, w/o alcohol.

https://taldepot.com/media/catalog/p...se-1712-ce.jpg

It's billed as a "hazy" IPA (think NEIPA), though it's not really very hazy when you pour it. Definitely "juicy" and lots of citrus/fruit tones to it.

I'll see if any is laying around here, but they said it will be released again when his tour starts later this year

The flavor point for Aloha Sculpin is the Brett Trios yeast they use which gives it a funky pineapple flavor.

Its good stuff but I don't think its a NE style IPA.

Anyone tried one of these Brut IPAs that are trending? Bone dry, 0° Plato IPA with late hop additions, and an effervescent/fizzy carbonation. I've sampled a couple local versions that I was kind of mixed on. I'd be interested in trying others though as they seem to be popping up. Big hop aroma and a shocking dryness.

I've been reading up on them as I'd like to brew one with some Nelson hops I'm sitting on. Seems like they would go well together.

Tried 8th Wonder's version a couple weeks ago. It had the IPA piney and hoppy taste but without the bitterness.

I appreciate that, man.

I honestly didn't see any when looking for it on the first release. From what I've gathered, not too many places sold it.

https://wir.skyrock.net/wir/v1/resiz...mtii.png&w=466

Did a 6 pack mixer at Total Wine this past weekend. Found this great beer and absolutely loved it. 7.2% ABV with a super smooth finish and lemon notes. Slightly tart. Scored a 90 on the beer advocate (WTF does this mean?)

You Colorado boys try this?

https://www.totalwine.com/beer/ale/b...ge/p/149084121

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/25191/100390/

You can get that here in Missouri. Really good stuff. Did they have the Crooked Stave Hop Savant as well?

Oh shit. Crooked Stave is in Missouri, now? That means I should be able to get it across the border at Macadoodles. Sweet!

Crooked Stave has been in Missouri for probably 3 years now. I'm not sure how much the Shelton guys (distributor) get to Springfield, but it's been plentiful in COMO, StL and KC for a bit.

Eh. Yeah.. it hasn't made it down to the Springfield/Joplin area, then.

Hot take. I don't give a shit about releases/whales anymore. There are more than a dozen breweries within an hour of me that produce high quality beer that I can get in various formats (growlers, crowlers, bottles/cans).

I rarely go to the liquor store anymore.

I still go to the store, but that's because its more convenient. I drink more local/regional beer than anything else by far, though. Unless there's something from out of town that just really interests me and is new to me (usually NEIPAs or Saisons), my regular drinkers are all local.

The only one I still sort of care about is BCS, but even that's been on thin ice the past few years because of the Black Friday bullshit... if it was limited here, I wouldn't even go out of my way for that with all the other great seasonal and year round selection.

What whales get released around here anyway other than a few in St. Louis?

There are very few beers going through regular release at retail that I would consider whales; maybe some of the lambics.

Crooked Stave has been available in Joplin for probably 6 months now.

Well damnit! Why isn't it getting down to Macadoodle's at the border then? :deevee::cuss:

I've been looking for 2 weeks here in STL and nothing...

Until today, when I stopped at a grocery store I don't normally shop at on the way home from an appointment.

Unfortunately, they only had one four-pack left. Sorry!

*and WTF does this shit cost $13 in KC too?

That's true. The definition of a whale changes every 3 months now.

Yep, $12-14

I'll admit, I just cracked one a few minutes ago and I'd probably buy another couple of four-packs if I could find it again.

Thankfully, my favorite beer retails for about half that. I only pay that much for something really special usually a Buffalo Bayou bomber of some sort and that only about once or twice a year.

Very likely but didn't look for that one. I'll give it a shot though as I loved this one.

Thanks.

The breweries around here seem to be on a blood orange ale kick, which is disappointing. It doesn't go good with beer at least none of the ones I have tried work.

Tart cherry works wonders in beer though.

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.

They'll never ax it but I could see the regular BCBS becoming more of a shelfie nationwide. They love the Black Friday thing though. I don't know the decision making process on their distribution strategies, but it seems like more of the variants go out each year. I know they make a ton of it so hopefully that continues. Like you said, nearly every market either has their own breweries with solid barrel programs or have good ones coming in, so the hype is definitely fading. I'm not sure Bourbon County and their variants are the best barrel releases in Chicago anymore. Not because they've dropped off, but because others have caught up.

On a related note, and regarding their craft beer hating ownership, Josh Noel's (Chicago Tribune writer) new-ish book, "Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out" is a decent and easy read. He had access to John Hall (Goose founder) and basically wrote the Goose Island story which includes the history of Bourbon County, but also with a parallel story of Anheuser-Busch's attempts to kill off craft beer. It's a really interesting look back at the craft beer landscape as a whole in the 90's, which I was oblivious to. It's recommended even if you're not interested in the craft/big beer storyline, but just like reading about beer and key moments in beer history.

tl didn't read. Please tell me that bud 1776 shit didn't make the list.

ME: I'm going to eat super healthy this weekend.

ALSO ME:

https://i.imgur.com/Lj5YtJi.png?1

Holy shriveled liver, Batman!

Haha, yeah. I told my wife I'm showing up when it starts at 5pm today and staying until they tap the '14 Weller. So with my luck that will be the last keg tapped on Saturday night.