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Feel $30+ for BL is approaching secondary market values, especially for their experimental stuff.
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He comes to see you but has the unfortunate instance of my presence too. |
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Great sports days call for great beer.
Started with a Breakfast Stout at Noon. Then went a bit lighter with the Key Lime Sour (a relative disappointment) and Strawberry Shortcake Fandango... then a Peanut Butter Brownie stout to celebrate the KU win, and a Fresh Batch S'mores to finish off the evening with Duke/UNC and more hockey. https://i.imgur.com/0J0Zci4.jpg https://i.imgur.com/VPaV5ce.jpg https://i.imgur.com/qI7avZA.jpg https://i.imgur.com/7yLn3XQ.jpg |
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He's the Casper of the Phoenix Meetup Group.......talked about often but never seen. :LOL: I'm sure a bunch of us would show up to meet and greet you on your new arrival to the PHX area. |
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I actually had this one in the fridge yesterday just in case Kansas lost. They had a much better white chocolate strawberry stout on tap last weekend, but this one is solid.
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Something special for tonight, from Pulpit Rock.
Multiple people told me their stouts are as good or better than TG and I mean.... they might be right. :eek: It really excels in mouthfeel/thiiiiiiicness. https://i.imgur.com/ybbyjoK.jpg |
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8% is nothing! :D |
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WHAT!!! :shake: I would expect that from Billay not you........:p |
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For some reason-this is trending on twitter
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Billy Beer. Never had one but it survived 12 years in my dad’s fridge, consistently being passed over in favor of Stroh’s. Not sure when or how I came to possess it. �� <a href="https://t.co/wYAir41rtn">pic.twitter.com/wYAir41rtn</a></p>— Matt Finish (@GMinimas) <a href="https://twitter.com/GMinimas/status/1513148733244026888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 10, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> |
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Unpacking? ...you know, unpacking certain things that need unpacking and maybe chilled for a bit... |
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Phoenix might hit 100 for the first time this year early next week, so you're just in time. :D |
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The rental wasn't too bad pricewise. Enterprise was around 3K for a week but I found a National for much less. The trade off was that its a very small National, like a one terminal satellite location downtown. Since I rented it through a vendor discount at work, I had to be present to rent. I can't drive yet, so the wife and I drove downtown to pick it up and planned to leave our car down there and she would Uber back for it later in the day. Of course there's no place to park downtown so I reserved a SpotHero space in a nearby parking garage for $17. Then entire process of picking up the rental car took 2 hours. So typical moving day shitshow. But at least they had an SUV at a somewhat affordable price compared to others. |
I mean, as long as the beer makes it...
At least it didn't have to be an airport rental... I've tried to go out of my way to rent from other places (but often they're open like 3 hours a day and never when you're flying in) since they're so much cheaper. I've only used movers once (company paid to move here, think it was $5k) and it was pretty great... they even packed most of my stuff due to insurance and didn't break anything. Good luck and if you do need any help, let me know. I'll even bring a housewarming beer or two. :) |
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Fremont's beers are great.
The owner of Alma Mader here in KC was the cellar man and blender of the barrel aged beers at Fremont for several years. His barrel aged beers are coming soon here....can't wait. |
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One of my favorite IPAs and brewery spaces here in PHX.
The Shop Church Music https://i.imgur.com/VUYXOPD.jpg?1 |
I'm likely to get super annoying with this buddha statue. We drunkenly joked with our realtor that we wanted it to stay with the new house. Turns out it weighs 1000 ****ing pounds so we'd need a crane to remove it.
Anyway, here it is holding a Revolution VSOR b2 which is tasting great. https://i.imgur.com/9x0SqAn.jpg?1 |
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ROFL We took a dip in the pool between games. No drinks for me on the sabbath though. |
This one is my fav Anderson Valley Oatmeal Stout (Barney Flats)
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Arcane Rituals is their English style barleywine, and this is a barleywine/stout mix.
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Sadly, nothing great here. Always like finding nice, easy to drink summer beers. I don't taste much Prickly Pear so you're left with just a boring wheat beer that isn't all that good itself.
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I've never been impressed with any of their beers.
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Their orange blossom vodka is very good. Here's their all year lineup for beer. I like whoever is designing their cans though. https://www.grandcanyonbrewery.com/beer |
A few beer stores were making a big deal about Equilibrium's full distribution to AZ, figured I had to try it.... and this one sounded interesting enough, being a sour IPA.
It's pretty good, but unfortunate for this beer, it's going up against Drekker at the moment, and I've been all about the Drekker smoothie beers. I'm of course not one for 'crushable' beer (even when it's 90+ out) but I could drink this shit out of a straw.... the cherry mango pineapple on the right being the current favorite. https://i.imgur.com/AM42yIG.jpg https://i.imgur.com/FacHK3D.jpg |
I had a sour from OHSO about 5-6 weeks ago and I really liked it. I can't remember for the life of me the name. It was rose colored and wasn't overly sweet or heavy. Not something I normally drink or order but I'm IPA'ed out at the moment.
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If there's one thing I like better than drinking, it's saving money. 6 pack of this fruited sour for $5. Only 4.5% ABV though but it's an easy drinker. Acai, guava and elderberry with some Himalayan salt. The color is nice. I wouldn't buy it for $12 but for $5 I'd buy it again.
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Got both $5 6-packs they had for this. They don't call me Jewdog for nothing!
This one is pineapple, passion fruit and tangerine with the Himalayan Salt. https://i.imgur.com/9VdH5p2.jpg |
Buddy of mine got his “face” on a beer can. Unfortunately it’s only being sold in St. Louis and the brewery in CA, so I won’t be seeing it around KC. I’m not a lager guy anyway.
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I like the Odell India Pale Ale.
They have a nice variety. |
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Took a personal day and got to go to the beer store by myself. Both of these looked good to temper this long Phoenix summer.
I've never had either but will report back. https://i.imgur.com/yqlONop.jpg |
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Left Hand Milk Nitro is one of my Top Ten beers.
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Hmm, wonder if that's Boulevard's first smoothie sour, they're getting out of their comfort zone lately, which is nice.
I had a key lime pie IPA a while back from New Glory in Sacramento called Mindshaker... and holy crap was it good. Not sure I've ever had a Left Hand sour, but might have to check it out! |
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These were both in the seasonal section at Total Wine, near the bottom. I really like nitro offerings so this should be fantastic. I need to find their other nitro selections such as their cherry chocolate stout. That just sounds ****ing awesome. https://lefthandbrewing.com/beers/black-forest-nitro |
Wow. This is really outstanding. It pours just like a beer, not one of those traditional smoothie beers that I've seen can be thicker. I am not a strawberry banana fan but this is really good.
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Southern Tier has a dessert beer lineup and they nitro'd most of them in recent years... and I'm not as big of a fan.... and maybe it's a difference with those being relatively heavy stouts versus other styles, but I think the nitro versions lack a little of the flavor and heaviness.
I'll look for those though... even if the Blvd isn't a Drekker style smoothie pour, if nothing else I like a plain old sour. |
Well the Lime Nitro leaves me disappointed. Very faint lime taste on this one. Really faint flavors all around and can't really describe the taste. Not bad but nothing distinguishable. The nitro texture and lactose pouring into the glass was neat though.
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Thanks for your thoughts on both, won't worry about the Left Hand.... always sucks when it doesn't deliver.
PPLD is always cool about grabbing one off a 4 or 6 pack, which has saved me some money a few times. |
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My buddy goes to Montana all summer and for taking care of his house he brings me back beer of my choice at this cost. I sent him over a list today of Montana beers I can't get down here that he's going to get for me. Always a fun time and well worth checking on his house for this! |
PHX has to be the pastry sour distribution capital of the US.
I'm a bit fatigued on the style so maybe I'm noticing them more, but there are just so many and from out of market breweries that are known for other styles. I'll see a drop from like Great Notion in Portland, get excited but see its like 4 different pastry sours. Weldwerks in CO will send us like 1 IPA and 6 different pastry sours. Makes me wonder if there's that big of a market here for them or if they're sending stuff they can't move in their local markets. If you're into the style though, PHX is where its at. "We packed this tart ale with heaps blueberry puree, buckets of maple syrup, milk sugar, and a whole lot of whole bean coffee. Some days you want a balanced breakfast and some days you need this!" https://i.imgur.com/ga4j9AT.jpg?1 |
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Damn, Craft Beer Quick Stop has several from Weldwerks... I tried a blueberry cobbler sour (IIRC) that was phenomenal when I was in Fort Collins months ago, and already knew they made great stouts and had a couple that were world class.
There was a craft beer bar (Tap & Handle) with a lot of really great beer and a bourbon bar with a huge bourbon list that were almost across the street from each other... I'd go broke if I lived close by. |
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Are you both planning on going to the Cards/Chiefs? I'm still monitoring ticket prices... not a fan of paying $200+/ticket for a non-playoff game (and one so early in the season), but would like to see the place. |
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Really good beers if you see them around. Cool spot in Greeley too if you're ever there for a visit. |
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Kind of wondering what the gameday experience is like at...State Farm Stadium...wow that doesn't feel right saying. Like do people gather there prior to the game or just drive in and drive out? |
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Yes still looking at going but paying $200 for upper deck seats feels weird to me too. But Chiefs haven't played here in many years (I went to that) so I should just go to this one too. |
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Seats are all pretty good so it's a nice place to see a game. Wish it was later in the year so the roof could be open as that makes for a better experience. |
Yeah, the initial false rumor was early November and it would have been perfect.
Hotels were ~$250-300/night a few months ago and that hasn't changed, and Airbnb isn't any better. I saw some upper level tickets for ~$160 (before the TM rape), which sadly looks like an okay deal at the moment. I know I should just not look at the final prices and yolo... and we could all meet for ax throwing and drinks at State 48 on Saturday night (that order would be safer, but perhaps less fun). |
So its fall....octoberfest beer time
My fav is KCBeir Fest. Scored 4 cases today before it sells out early like last year. Second is Bobs 47, will get 4 cases this week. Any great ones I need to try? Tried the Martin City attempt last week and was not impressed, more like disappointed. Sam Adams octoberfest is a good one as well |
https://thewhiskeywash.com/lifestyle...tout-variants/
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Prop is an affront to humanity in general. I don't see a scenario where that is good. Barleywine is probably amazing. Coffee/biscotti/Isaac sound fine. 30 year is kind of bizarre with beam not exactly presenting as the highest class bourbon. You would have thought they would shoot for a big name barrel for that but I guess not.
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Yeah Goose should probably drop all new flavored variants and just stick to the reserves or specialty barrels where they actually still have dominance over other barrel programs due their network and available resources.
There’s too many other less than barrel programs out there leveraging flavors in lieu of skill or barrel quality that are doing them much better. |
Speaking of using premium barrels then flavoring with a bunch of stuff, this BL Motions of the Moon is pretty tasty. Nutella inspired, aged in ORVW barrels.
I also enjoy how BL provides suggested food pairing on their labels. This one has hazelnut cocoa grilled cheese as a suggestion. Hadn't heard of it before so Googled and found this Imagine drinking this stout while eating that sandwich. https://i.imgur.com/0IEGZDi.jpg |
I've always really loved BCS Coffee... hopefully it's not impossible to find outside of Chicago.
And yeah, BL has some very interesting food pairing suggestions... I'd bet on average I'd have to Google 1/3 per bottle. LMAO |
Finally met up with the elusive Bearcat (Yes that's his real name!). Very nice lunch and he had me try a smoothie beer which was just insane. I think I found some beers worth hunting for on that Drekker line!
My parents are normally terrible gift givers. However, they did get me some nice glasses for my birthday. The cocktail glasses are very nice and probably too classy for me. These beer glasses are cool, but super thin, which surprised me. The description says they are real crystal, which means thinner glass than pub glasses. I feel like I could crush them in my hands, lol. They do have good reviews though and should make beer drinking that much more enjoyable. https://i.imgur.com/iebsFTOh.jpg https://www.amazon.com/Spiegelau-Eur...10&sr=8-1&th=1 |
My friend is my Montana mule every summer and got me my beers last night when he arrived home. I think the only one you can get here is Summer Honey.
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The glasses are a great gift!
And yeah, don't think I've ever heard of those.... 'Dump Truck' as a beer is interesting, heh. |
My brother sent me a Dragons Breath once. Probably the only dark hefenweizen I’ve ever tried.
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