Got Beer?

Depends on carbonation. I have found some NE IPAs or Hefes still foam up a bit. It’s rare, though.

Most of the fruit sours I’ve had lately like to foam. Pouring fast reduces spillage but certainly increases foamage!

This may be better as a dumb question. Am I the only one who finds crowlers (cans) impossible to pour without making a mess??!

Use a church key and put a second hole in the can.

Sunday regulars at LTD Brewing, one of the crew and the owner each brought something to share today. 2015 bottles. They held up over time, although the RIS had about 2-3 months before it was going to turn. You could tell.

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When you say at LTD and at Ansari’s, etc. I didn’t think you could drink off-sale things on-site… Especially off-sale from another brewery.

I get the owner was there, so he is probably fine with it. Just wondering if there is any legal ramifications to these, or just places not wanting people doing “Growler races” or something stupid on site.

I am not trying to be a jerk, honestly curious. I’ve been hassled enough times for a post-game cooler of beers in the parking lot of some local rinks with staff threatening to call the police (STA Arena in particular does not like this it seems, even after 10:00pm men’s league games).

Great day of boozing.

Started at Toppling Goliath. Out of the good stuff (I like) but still a great stop. Worth the drive if you haven’t been. The food is pretty good too.

Next up was Pulpit Rock. They had a strawberrry banana several liked, my faves were guests ciders from Jefferson County.

Harmony Distillery – awesome place if you ever find yourself in southern MN.

Trout City Brewing. I don’t like beer so I tried some guest mead; jalapeño lime was good.

Karst Brewing – I had a good cherry sour.

Forager. Nothing I had I didn’t like. Except by the time we were done I was so full it hurt, luckily that made me not in the mood to spend more money to bring anything home. 😬

My beer won! :wink: :wink: :wink:

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2021/06/23/best-beer-in-every-state-and-d-c/6/

These lists are always fun to argue about. There’s some very good choices on here as well as horrible ones as well. The MN choice falls into the latter

I’ve actually had 21 of the ones on the list. I’m a little surprised by that

My beer won! :wink: :wink: :wink:

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2021/06/23/best-beer-in-every-state-and-d-c/6/

I clicked on that link and so many pop-ups covered my screen I couldn’t even read the story

Try this one.

https://www.eatthis.com/best-beer-spot-every-state/?utm_source=msn&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=msn-feed

This may be better as a dumb question. Am I the only one who finds crowlers (cans) impossible to pour without making a mess??!

Use a church key and put a second hole in the can.

Never thought of that. Nice!

Tried this tonight. Never looking back. Changed my life. Thank you, Viking.

This may be better as a dumb question. Am I the only one who finds crowlers (cans) impossible to pour without making a mess??!

Use a church key and put a second hole in the can.

The church key is a beer vendors best friend.

A big thanks to melmac and Mr melmac for muling this fine MI beer, and to Viking for holding it for a couple hours until I picked it up. Note: missing from pic is another 5yr vertical + Malted Milk Ball No Rules that I traded for a 2021 Toppling Goliath Assassin.

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Had Insight Brewing’s Hop Spin tonight per recommendation from a friend. Their beer has always struck me as decent, but not something I would seek out.

Hop Spin is a rotating series according to the text on the can. This one was a triple IPA (second in the series) and was outstanding. Rivals many of Blackstacks TIPA offerings, and that’s saying something (to me anyway). I might have to start giving more of their beers a better chance.

Insight is solid. I’ll have to look for that one.

I know there has been a flurry of head brewers going elsewhere, hard to keep track of who went where. Stacked Deck’s head brewer went south somewhere, for example….

Thank you for the heads up.

Had Insight Brewing’s Hop Spin tonight per recommendation from a friend. Their beer has always struck me as decent, but not something I would seek out.

Hop Spin is a rotating series according to the text on the can. This one was a triple IPA (second in the series) and was outstanding. Rivals many of Blackstacks TIPA offerings, and that’s saying something (to me anyway). I might have to start giving more of their beers a better chance.

Insight is solid. I’ll have to look for that one.

You know their new head brewer was the head one at Blackstack?

I did not know that… I guess that makes sense then.

That is quite a get for them then. Blackstack has been, in my mind, one of the best breweries in the state the past few years. Its been my personal favorite due to the quality and variety of IPAs they put out there.

Spent the birthday Friday doing a short tour. Started with lunch and beers at Pyres. The pizzas they had were great. Headed to my favorite TC brewery (Dangerous Man) and got a great Watermelon Sour, plus the Blue Raz Slushie to share. Headed to La Dona for a couple before a free birthday drink at Royal Foundry next door. Got a Gin Old Fashioned which was great as well.

Sounds like we missed your birthday. Happy belated!

:bd: :bday2:

I love Drastic Measures.

Highlight for beer for the weekend. At The Fitz in Eagle River MI (just north of Houghton), due to an inventory snafu, Perrin somehow still had a 2016 No Rules keg, which the Fitz bought, and just tapped. Good. God. Yes!

My neighbor is moving later this week and they texted me if I wanted the beer in the cellar they weren’t bringing with them. They won’t take any money so it’s all free and there’s probably 2 dozen bombers of different things

There’s a bunch of Darkness, a couple PAMP Pastry Stouts and at least one Starkeller beer.

In the ‘this will be interesting’ category there’s a bottle of Hexxit (Todd Haug’s last beer he made in MN) and some vintage Old Friend from Indeed.

In the likely drain pour category will be some DIPA from Bauhaus that I’m assuming is years old and a few bottles of Surly’s Brett Mikkel IPA. We’ll try them but I suspect they haven’t aged gracefully

I just tried a beer called Hearing Colors from Drastic Measures that we picked up over the weekend. It’s billed as a strawberry, mango and bubble gum sour

The beer pours close to a Bloody Mary color and it smells like fresh bubble gum. The mango is the most dominant flavor but you get the other two as well

It’s a really odd combo that surprisingly works out OK

I just tried a beer called Hearing Colors from Drastic Measures that we picked up over the weekend. It’s billed as a strawberry, mango and bubble gum sour

The beer pours close to a Bloody Mary color and it smells like fresh bubble gum. The mango is the most dominant flavor but you get the other two as well

It’s a really odd combo that surprisingly works out OK

I have seen that beer, but don’t think I’d like it…

I thought it was ok. We have another crowler of it but may keep it to share so others can try it.

I am set for a while…I did just come back from MI with a full cooler.

Funny…i wasn’t intending to say you could have it. :lol:

Molson-Coors is sunsetting 11 of their economy brands, including Hamm’s Special Light: https://www.fooddive.com/news/molson-coors-to-sunset-11-economy-brands/604212/ :censored:

Went to Pryes on Saturday after a friend’s wedding. We haven’t been there for a few years so we wanted to go somewhere other than Indeed or Dangerous Man.

I don’t think they’ll ever get a lot of run but we had some really good beers there. I liked Pineapple sour and their Tropical Smoothie sour, but their Dry Stout and Lost Moon were both fantastic. Lost Moon was one of the best local RISs I’ve had in a long time.

I think Pryes is underrated. And couldn’t agree more on Lost Moon. So good.

A college buddy of mine would buy 30 racks of Keystone Ice.

It was abysmal. But it was strong and cheap.

A college buddy of mine would buy 30 racks of Keystone Ice.

It was abysmal. But it was strong and cheap.

I still remember a guy two doors down in the dorm my freshman year who brought back 12 cases of Old Milwaukee Light bottles one weekend and by Friday he had finished all of them and turned the cases into the beginning of a new dorm room chair. He eventually had pretty much multiple

Pieces of furniture made from empties by the end of the year

Between him and my next door neighbors who moved out a bed and turned their room into a bar (completely with selling out of it) I think I was surrounded by alcoholics. I have no clue how I was able to sleep that first year given all the noise.

A college buddy of mine would buy 30 racks of Keystone Ice.

It was abysmal. But it was strong and cheap.

For college student purposes, I suspect those last two attributes were the driving factor, yes.

For me it was Pig’s Eye (bottles only, unless it was a road trip) and Mickey’s 64ozers (and Mickey’s Ice when that came around). Mostly Pig’s Eye, though. $7 for a case (after you got your deposit back)!.

Going to Mankato, it was Hauenstein for us. $11.00 for 24 bottles, got two bucks back if you brought them back. This was a little less than twenty years ago.

Anyone here old enough to remember Pfeiffers?

http://pfeiffersfamous.com/

“Back in the day” you used to be able to score three cases of the stuff for $9.00. Yes, it was overpriced, but for a bunch of us underaged teenagers, it got the job done. And readily available at “Mendota Teenage Liquor Store”.

Pfeiffers – Famous Beer. It said so on the can!

In the mid-80s we could slide over to Superior and get a case of Old Milwaukee, with deposit, for about $5. Our justification is it was as good as Stroh’s. :lol:

The cases were then used as furniture and between several dorms I think we had about three pickup loads to return in May. We gave the nearby liquor store a heads up and he brushed us off like it’s no big deal. Dude, we’re probably talking over a hundred cases here. Once he saw the light he told us when returnables would be picked up, we brought the cases then and helped load him and the driver load them into the truck. That act scored us a couple more cases of Old Swill (cans – he was no dummy!) and a jug of Windsor. The money from the case returns went to good use….a keg.

If you’re in Laguardia and want to buy a Sam Adams Summer Ale….. :shock:

https://twitter.com/cooperlund/status/1412791422000959488

Even by airport standard those are insane prices. Holy crap

The price for the Sam Adams was evidently corrected to $18.15, which is still nuts to me. This tweet prompted the retailer to perform a full price audit of everything on the menu, though.

FYI there’s a free concert scheduled on Saturday 8/11 at the Luce Line Brewery (12901 16th Ave N, Plymouth). This will be the 10th annual “Blues, Brews and BBQ’s”, albeit a scaled down version of what it’s been in past years when several different bands performed on nearby church grounds. Music starts at 4:00pm.

https://highergrounds.moply.org/bbnbbqs/

http://www.thebadcompanions.com/

https://anniemackmusic.com/

FYI there’s a free concert scheduled on Saturday 8/11 at the Luce Line Brewery (12901 16th Ave N, Plymouth). This will be the 10th annual “Blues, Brews and BBQ’s”, albeit a scaled down version of what it’s been in past years when several different bands performed on nearby church grounds. Music starts at 4:00pm.

https://highergrounds.moply.org/bbnbbqs/

http://www.thebadcompanions.com/

https://anniemackmusic.com/

My wife and I have been to these in the past at the church grounds. A great time and very good causes. 👍

FYI there’s a free concert scheduled on Saturday 8/11 at the Luce Line Brewery (12901 16th Ave N, Plymouth). This will be the 10th annual “Blues, Brews and BBQ’s”, albeit a scaled down version of what it’s been in past years when several different bands performed on nearby church grounds. Music starts at 4:00pm.

https://highergrounds.moply.org/bbnbbqs/

http://www.thebadcompanions.com/

https://anniemackmusic.com/

8-11? A Saturday? Sure about that? :lol:

Had the 2021 Perrin No Rules (regular) last night. This year’s batch is a really good batch. Already tasting like it has aged a bit. That smooth.

Forager announced their lineup for Forager Fest in Sept…the line-ride might be back. Depends if I want to spend the money and the time for the bottles.

Barrel Aged Beer Release starting at 10am;

Kitten Treats Vintage 2021

Cognac Puncheon Aged Wheat Wine 16.8% ABV $50

Nillerzzzzz Killerzzzzz 2021

Barrel Aged Vanilla Coffee Stout 14.5% ABV $50

Chicatanazzzzz

Barrel Aged Stout 14.5% ABV $50

Syncopation

Double Barrel Stout 13.4% ABV $50

Derby Pie

Barrel Aged Pastry Stout 14.8% ABV $50

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Critter Cuvee

Barrel Aged Cuvee 13.5% ABV $50

Buzzed

Barrel Aged Coffee Stout 14% ABV $50

Full descriptions on their FB page.

Why do I think that lineup is going to add up to me having a much lighter wallet than I usually do after I buy BCBS?

Why do I think that lineup is going to add up to me having a much lighter wallet than I usually do after I buy BCBS?

Assuming you can find ’em.

I barely found regular BCBS last year, hitting stores AFTER work was the issue. The majority of the crowds still treat these as a jewel, so I have had little luck the past few years, but it’s not a HUGE deal to me. I’d like to get them, sure, but not heartbroken.

I don’t usually have much of a problem and likely could get you some as well if I find extra variants.

The new Drekker BRAIIIIIIIIINS Raspberry, Raspberry, Raspberry…

I don’t know if this would count as a liquid. That thick. Absolutely delicious. It’s all the raspberry puree that man ever created and jammed into a pint can.

I wish places would stop trying to make < 4% stouts. Had a Dry Irish Stout at a brewery in North Platte NE tonight and it tasted like it was watered down and no flavor or body.

Even Guinness is 4.2. I can’t imagine how thin under 4% would be.

Wicked Wort did a sub 3% one once.

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