The rooms do look nice, and yes, Drekker-themed, and they offer to stock your fridge with Drekker beer at retail prices (4pks). Nice touch, but if I want beer in the fridge, I'll just stop at a liquor store, I don't mind. 😉
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For all of you beer aficionados.
https://twitter.com/StarTribune/status/1811128331380679035
Here's a list of all the Minnesota winners:
- Spilled Grain Brewhouse: gold in the old/strong ale category (Bearded Man); silver for root beer; bronze for white wine barrel age (Batch 1000).
- Lupulin: silver for strong bock (Doppelbock); silver for barrel-aged german lager (Barrel-Aged Doppelbock); bronze for breakfast stout (Church Basement Pancake Breakfast Stout).
- Haggard Barrel: gold for sour smoothie (Glonky).
- Forgotten Star: gold for Belgian strong blonde ale (Starstryker).
- Venn: silver among peanut/peanut butter beers (Choconut); silver for German-style heller bock/Maibock (Maibock).
- Hackamore: silver for oatmeal stout (Potbelly); bronze for breakfast stout (Saturday Morning Cartoons).
I'm 50% factual and 50% sarcastic. When you get to know me, you will know which is which.
Go Annandale!
Haggard Barrel might want to work on their marketing. I can see that building from my office and had no idea they are there.
The only issue I have is that it's the best who entered the competition. LTD in Hopkins have won a couple awards, but they don't really enter anything on any regular basis. Of course, the secondary question is how relevant is the competition? For example, you win at The Great American Beer Festival in Denver? Booyah. That's the gold standard.
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The only issue I have is that it's the best who entered the competition. LTD in Hopkins have won a couple awards, but they don't really enter anything on any regular basis. Of course, the secondary question is how relevant is the competition? For example, you win at The Great American Beer Festival in Denver? Booyah. That's the gold standard.
well in that case I could be an Olympic champion then. I just never bothered to enter.
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Honestly, find the right competition, you can be a gold medalist. 😉The only issue I have is that it's the best who entered the competition. LTD in Hopkins have won a couple awards, but they don't really enter anything on any regular basis. Of course, the secondary question is how relevant is the competition? For example, you win at The Great American Beer Festival in Denver? Booyah. That's the gold standard.
well in that case I could be an Olympic champion then. I just never bothered to enter.
😂
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I like Lupulin, but they seemingly enter nearly every competition so they’ve really racked up awards. That being said it is cool to see them winning for things that aren’t IPAs.
In Minnesota we'll even discount winning a beer award. 🤣
@the-rube I'm just glad they're brewing dopplebocks. I haven't seen Bell's Consecrator much the last few years, but Lupulin does make a good one.
I also wish there were more Rye IPA options out there. Modist's Wastelan, Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye, Two Brothers Cane and Ebel were some of my favs.
Brewhalla (Drekker hotel/brewery) is friggin' awesome. The rooms are themed after the different Drekker beers, there's a full marketplace in the brewery, monstrous taproom area(s), etc.
Weird thing: when you check in, you get a 4 digit code, that is your personal code, to use the elevator/get in your room/etc. There are no keys, just the code.
We also stopped by the new Junkyard taproom in West Fargo, and that also is rather large, and very nice.
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Trip to Da U.P. this past weekend+. My travel partner wanted to take a slight detour on the way, I didn't know what it was, didn't want to know, surprise me. Central Waters Brewing! (she had never been). Flights were 6 5oz pours of anything on tap. They recently had their 26th Anniv, so THAT stout was on tap, along with Black Gold stout (both amazing). What a planned 45 min stay ended up double the time 😀 . Bought some bottles, some swag. Great destination brewery for a road trip. To say the tap list is extensive is a massive understatement.
Also, on the way out of Houghton, stopped at the big grocery store on the edge of town, and happened to find Bell's Black Note at an incredible price ($25/4pk). Around here, if stores had it (and I admit, the prices may have changed) it was a limit of a bottle at about $8-$10.
Finally, did find some New Holland's Dragon's Milk Oatmeal Cookie Stout variant, which I have not seen in MN. That right there is one of the best variants I've had over the years. I mean, I had to crack ONE bottle, for science, right?
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Looks like Surly to me. Can't really tell, though.
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Oktoberfests will be out soon. Schells is the gold standard.
I would readily agree with that statement. Schells is already on shelves but I find that I don't really start to enjoy Oktoberfest until the temperatures start to feel like fall.
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THIS IS NOT POLITICAL THIS IS JUST BECAUSE HE'S OUR GOVERNOR.
Got his own beer, from (get this, a WISCONSIN brewery) Minocqua Brewing:
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Oktoberfests will be out soon. Schells is the gold standard.
Hands down the best Ofest from a American based brewery. The only debate... who's #2?
Keep your stick on the ice...
THIS IS NOT POLITICAL THIS IS JUST BECAUSE HE'S OUR GOVERNOR.
Got his own beer, from (get this, a WISCONSIN brewery) Minocqua Brewing:
Doesn't even look like him...
Keep your stick on the ice...
Hands down the best Ofest from a American based brewery. The only debate... who's #2?
Not to needle you or anything but IMO Surly Oktoberfest is very good and #2 on my list of O-fest beers.
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Hands down the best Ofest from a American based brewery. The only debate... who's #2?
Not to needle you or anything but IMO Surly Oktoberfest is very good and #2 on my list of O-fest beers.
Unless the recipe has changed, Surly Oktoberfest is the worst I have ever had. I don't even consider it an Oktoberfest beer.
Oktoberfests will be out soon. Schells is the gold standard.
Hands down the best Ofest from a American based brewery. The only debate... who's #2?
Millstream (IA) is the best Oktoberfest. Viking tried it once, and said he'd put it up against the real German Oktoberfests. The stuff is insanely good.
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Receptional from Utepils is a solid entrant.
Oktoberfests will be out soon. Schells is the gold standard.
Hands down the best Ofest from a American based brewery. The only debate... who's #2?
Millstream (IA) is the best Oktoberfest. Viking tried it once, and said he'd put it up against the real German Oktoberfests. The stuff is insanely good.
I'll agree that Millstream is insanely good. And I originally going to put in my comment...
Hands down the best Ofest from an American based brewery followed by Millstream being #2. The only debate... who's #3?
Keep your stick on the ice...
Bias aside, I'll take Millstream over Schells. Bias included, then Schells, because MN, duh. I really don't recall any other US-based Oktoberfest beer (Marzen or Festbier) that blew me away. Many are very good, but not the level we are talking about.
Also, the store I work at happened to have Dragon's Milk Orange Chocolate single 12oz bottle, and a 2017 Bell's Black Note single 12oz bottle. Not in the system, which means "open beer sale" and we choose the price. I was buying them and ringing them up, which meant I chose the price. 😀
I was fair. I found 2023 Black Note in July on my MI trip, $25/4pk (which is CHEAP compared to what it would sell for here due to basically gouging, it was $9-10/bottle limit one), and DM variants' cost I am familiar with (about $17). So $7/$6 respectively, as one gets a little more when one breaks a 4pk. Still, haven't seen those bottles in ages (obvious). Worth it. Can't wait to try them.
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Unless the recipe has changed, Surly Oktoberfest is the worst I have ever had. I don't even consider it an Oktoberfest beer.
I will change my opinion on this and trust your pallet on O-fests which is much more worldly than mine. I'll change my statement to read that Surly Oktoberfest is the only Surly beer that I enjoy drinking without placing it in a category of style of beer. I will preface that by saying I haven't tried too many Surly beers because they lean to the IPA side which is a style that doesn't appeal to my beer pallet.
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Picked up a bottle of Woodford Reserve Master's Collection upon my return from Seoul in duty free. Not an all-time favorite, but it's a comforting standard.
Which Master's Collection? Most common is the Batch Strength, but there's a bunch of possibilitiesPicked up a bottle of Woodford Reserve Master's Collection upon my return from Seoul in duty free. Not an all-time favorite, but it's a comforting standard.
B1G refs... corrupt, or just incompetent?
State Fair:
Lift Bridge Key Lime Pie: It was the salted rim deal, tasted ok, but tired of the salted rim gimmick.
Mankato Brewing Cinnamon Limoncello: reallllly liked this. Light, easy drinking, kinda sorta wants to be a shandy of some variation, but it's still a beer.
Millstream Oktoberfest: I was honestly looking at a cider, at Giggle's, until I saw this on tap. Oh, hell yes. I want THAT.
For the most part, none of the brews really stood out. I either can get them outside of the Fair at some point, or they just didn't sound that good (or were seltzers, which, blech).
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OK hivemind, I need some recommendations:
I will be flying into Phoenix and driving to Tucson. Any recommendations for breweries where I can pick up some things to go?
I love unique beers, sours, and malty beers (red ales, Oktoberfest, etc.), and really like Drekker, Junkyard, WeldWerks, Wiley Roots, Lupulin, Woven Water, etc.
Thanks in advance!
I dunno if Prescott AZ is in the mix here, but Superstition Meadery is gold.
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If not too far for you (Tempe), a few we enjoyed were O.H.S.O, Four Peaks, Wren brewing is closer to the airport, Huss is good too. I know I took stuff home from all but Wren.
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For those local...stop by LTD Brewing in Hopkins tomorrow for their annual block party known as Oktoberfest! Games, live music (in the evening, apparently a band that polka-izes current hits), etc. I'll be pouring beer inside from 2-10.
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The Kilt Lifter is a good Scottish Ale made by Four Peaks Brewing in Tempe.OK hivemind, I need some recommendations:
I will be flying into Phoenix and driving to Tucson. Any recommendations for breweries where I can pick up some things to go?
I love unique beers, sours, and malty beers (red ales, Oktoberfest, etc.), and really like Drekker, Junkyard, WeldWerks, Wiley Roots, Lupulin, Woven Water, etc.
Thanks in advance!
Not necessarily between PHX and Tucson, but I liked Fate Brewing. I've only been to the South Scottsdale location but they have a Tempe location.
Dove Mountain Brewing in Marana has some good options and good food too.
I haven't been to any other places in Tucson, but would be interested to hear about any if you do go as my parents now live down there and will be visiting often.
Surly Darkness and variants should hit stores by the end of the month, Darkness Day was last Saturday.
As for non-beer, came across an over-proof rum at the store today while stocking shelves. Plantation, and it's 138 proof. FOR A FRIGGIN' RUM. About $33, so my co-worker and I each bought a bottle, because curiosity. Ended up cracking one to sample, and it's delicious madness.
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I refuse to buy darkness unless it's in a bomber.
I wish they still had bombers, just for the artwork. Another bad decision by Omar.
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We were on the island of Grenada and visited an off the beaten track rum spot. They pretty much made rum like it was the 1700s. Water wheel crushed the cane, a tiny train carried crushed cane to the boilers. Except for the fact they’d replaced bamboo pipes with PVC, it was identical. The “bottling” area was 2 women sitting in lawn chairs with Coleman spigot coolers, filling bottles, capping and hand labeling. They made 3 versions, one of which was over 150 proof. Hubby wanted a bottle of that. Woman said she couldn’t sell it to him because he couldn’t take it on the plane…it was basically a Molotov cocktail. 😳. Then she said, well I can sell it to you, I’ll just put the other label on it so they don’t know!As for non-beer, came across an over-proof rum at the store today while stocking shelves. Plantation, and it's 138 proof. FOR A FRIGGIN' RUM. About $33, so my co-worker and I each bought a bottle, because curiosity. Ended up cracking one to sample, and it's delicious madness.
Note: Due to inflation dirty deeds will no longer be done dirt cheap.