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christ. don't tell me those are all pilsners and macro or adjunct lagers.
having one of my favorite beers tonight:
having one of my favorite beers tonight:
Zeph: It would probably aggravate you to know that Pliny the beer is commonly pronounced Ply-knee
Pliny the Elder is probably my favorite beer. Pliny the Younger is even better, but since it's released only once a year, the availability factor knocks it down a few ranks for me
anything by Russian River is worth purchasing. Their sours are absolutely outstanding, with Supplication being my favorite.
I have a growler of Stone double dry hopped Ruination in my fridge right now. Delicious.
Zeph: It would probably aggravate you to know that Pliny the beer is commonly pronounced Ply-knee
Pliny the Elder was a Roman naturalist from the first century CE. I'm a classicist, in case I hadn't mentioned.
I used to live in santa rosa so I was a frequent.
Yeah, but you have Russian River, which is basically the only stuff rated higher than the best of GI/3F/Founders that can't be had in Chicago. Well, I'll probably never have a Kate the Great either. There were a few times where one of the Three Floyds guys would bring a Dark Lord over to Metal Haven, back when that was around. We split bottles about 10-15 ways during the 10th anniversary and goodbye party. Dark Lord is great, but I would take KBS or BCS over it. I've also heard that some vintages of DL are a lot better than others. I feel like BCS doesn't really change year to year.I hate you MoL. KBS, Dark Lord and Kate the Great are all on my want list. I picked up two bottles of Goose Island Big John...haven't opened one yet. Hopefully since Anheuser-Busch bought them, we'll see more Goose Island stuff out here aside from the Belgian style ales.
V5: Quads are one of my favorite styles. Try Rochefort 10 or St Bernardus Abt 12. Either of those are outstanding, but some of the flavors you described are typical of the Quad style (pruney and sometimes overly boozy)
Belligerent: Mongo is outstanding. I had their 5th Anniversary DIPA over the weekend, and it was outstanding