What Beer Are You Drinking? #101

Good morning everybody! Just got off work and now I'm ready to drink a few before bed. I'll start my Tuesday off with a delicious Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout. Hope everybody has a great day, cheers!

Picked up a case of Sucks. This beer is just incredible, and its fun to see non craft beer drinkers look at the label and ask if its really called that, lol.

Nothing extraordinary, but most definitely tasty. I think I read somewhere on the forum that they were going to discontinue the black lager so I figured I'd better pick one up again before it's gone, if the rumours are true.

Just finished a Stone RIS now i am drinking a Founders Imperial Stout for a bit of comparison...

Hey, cheers to all the night shift workers sipping on a delicious stout!

My third one this week... Only 10 bottles left :-(

That's the old label. I highly doubt if that is fresh, so it's pretty cool that this beer held up well enough. Where did you hear about this beer being discontinued?

I think they've kept on using the old labels for beers exported to Sweden and sold via the monopoly here. This one has a best before date of June 13. Might be because they haven't run through their stock of old labels for the Swedish market since the volumes are so small (it's a combined UK/Swedish label with the importer for both countries listed on it). I noticed their Oktoberfest and Winter lager had the new labels though which is rather strange.

The info on the black lager I read here:
http://beeradvocate.com/community/t...eeps-racking-up-the-medals.50456/#post-759909

Ok please dont rub it in any more. I dont have any and am not sure if my reatailer gets BCBS so i surely dont need to see that!

You ever have one of those days at work where you're like "Fuck, Today Sucks Ass?" Well, last night was one of those days...

Got this in a BIF...Not much of a hop presence for a TIPA, tastes like a watered down 120 Minute but the alcohol is doing it's job...


Cheers!

St. Eriks Pale Ale. A Swedish micro brewed pale ale, 4.5% abv hopped with citra hops. St. Eriks is like a Swedish version of Samuel Adams (its regular line-up at least), offering solid and tasty but not extraordinary beers at decent prices. It doesn't have the same hop punch as an American pale ale would have (Swedish craft breweries are either too cost-conscious or simply unable to reach the heights of their American counterparts in this department for the most part imo), and the body is light and pale due to the use of pale ale malt only (which I like since it makes for a rather dry beer), but it's still hop forward enough to provide a nice citrusy hop taste.

That looks great, I'd love to try that. The color is beautiful.

theres about 5 cases of this stuff sitting at my local bev store. cheers!

Their IPA which contains dark caramel malt apart from pale, and Northern Brewer, Centennial and Amarillo instead of Citra. It has a slightly fuller body due to a higher abv (5.3%) but the hop profile is still citrusy, I can't really distinguish much of a difference between the two in that compartment, other than the fact that the bitterness seems more muted in this one due to the caramel malts. A nice beer though.

Has a similar hop profile to the previous beer, but it also has a rather different tasting note which I found to be hard to identify initially. It tastes familiar, and I'm now pretty sure it's the taste of a bubblegum, it's sort of like the taste of evergreen but without the cooling sensation. Really nice and refreshing though.

My first Hopslam! Well second actually...I had one botlle in the parking lot to make sure it was worth the price, and the bought more 71 cases just rolled into my shop HAHAHA friggen wonderful warm weather and great DIPA!

I will be going to a NEBCo tap takeover and will be having

Fuzzy Baby Ducks
Double Dry Hopped Fuzzy Baby Ducks
BA Imperial Stout
Coffee Imperial Stout Trooper
Cherry Vanilla Imperial Stout Trooper
Mosaic IPA
and a Gold Stock

CHEERS

Well its 1 in the afternoon here, but I'm planning on having a Yanjing Beer. Sounded interesting and never had an Asian beer before.

Heady-Topper a day will keep the doctor away.

had this tasty beer on tap, finally found this bastard in the bottle. Muhahaha!!!

Just as I am the "Crusader" for Italian beer, our friend is one for the Swedish! Fing awesome this!

Epic HopZombie DIPA! Remind anybody else of Stone Enjoy By 12/21/12?

Started with a Hebrew genesis 15:15

Moved on to very mad cow and dollar burger

Odell's The Meddler - an Oud Bruin paired with a Spanish Manchego



Beautiful. And this:



Cheers all!

Still drinkin' good after all these years. Cheers!

Goose Island Nightstalker

Sipping a NB Dig Pale Ale, not bad, not bad at all! Wife is sick, I am taking care of her and our almost two year old so I deserve a beer that is for sure!

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Where are you having very mad cow on tap?

This friggin beer is ridiculous. Cheers

Tap House Grill in St. Charles. Off of Randall and 64.

whats that like?? lol

No pictures, but I found my way to D's 6-Pack for some leftover draft Founders treats. It was before 1pm and the bitch bartender poured me a full pint of 2010 Nemesis! I mean, it was delicious, but c'mon! Are you trying to ruin the rest of my beer-drinking day? I pointed her toward the proper tulip/snifter 8oz pours before I ordered a Bolt Cutter. Good thing, too, because that beer is a serious disappointment. Where was the malty aroma? Just some quelled grapefruit hops and barrel wood. Taste followed the nose, pretty much. Well, glad I took a few brews home. Pictures of those up soon.

In the meantime, time to pop my '09 Nemesis in the fridge before stepping out to gather secret ingredients for my girlfriend's impromptu Chopped Challenge!

"Chef Hopmonster, do you have what it takes to become the next Chopped champion? When you get home from work, please open up your basket of secret ingredients!"

*Okay, maybe I'll post pictures of what I brought home with me.



...and, going in the fridge...

Hard day is melting away, It's 4:20 what more can I say.

Very solid dipa. Wish I would have bought more than 1 bottle when i was in Chi Town.

really really jealous D:

think i'll probably miss gold stock again this year, which sucks since just-released gold stock is a top 3 beer for me. fuzzy baby ducks i lucked out on the first time so other people deserve to drink some.

mosaic IPA i bet is going to be amazing.

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no drinking for me until thursday's CBC barleywine fest. then probably having an eclipse party on friday, and some random shit at someone's bday party on saturday.

Looks like it did

Deliciousness!!