The Beer Thread

[go birds]

blue moon finally put out their winter abbey ale--i know what im sippin on tonight

[33anda3rd]

This is both awesome in concept and taste. It's at Binny's now, and the little guys who carry Pipeworks stuff.

Good [expletive] damn it.

I'm sure they have 4 packs.

Only 22oz bombers. $11. Worth every dang penny. And right up jim's alley, I'm sure.

for you guys around Chicago. Pipeworks is at 1675 N Western, at Wabansia/Western. There is a jiu jitsu studio next door, but they outgrew their space (apparently jiu jitsu is a growth industry, whatever) and that jui jistu stiudio is going to, in January, become a Pipeworks bottle shop/growler fill-erp-up. If you are not on these guys, get on these guys, they are doing great stuff. RateBeer named them best new brewery in the world in December 2012. Great great stuff.

[Maclowery]

I am furiously jealous about this, as I lived in Wicker Park my 3 years up there. Damn.

Honest admission, I never once went to the Goose Island brewery.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Georgia man runs into burning house to save his beer.

http://gawker.com/georgia-man-runs-into ... 1452592542

[lukethedrifter]

Georgia man runs into burning house to save his beer.

http://gawker.com/georgia-man-runs-into ... 1452592542

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[jim]

What kind of bull [expletive] is a 22 oz beer?

[lukethedrifter]

What kind of bull [expletive] is a 22 oz beer?

You wouldn't say that about a 2 X 4 so why say it about a 2 x 2?

[Freed Roger]

blue moon finally put out their winter abbey ale--i know what im sippin on tonight

A friend passed along his Goose Island Matilda last night, that wasn't to his liking. I took a sip and agreed -and passed it off to my wife who liked it Ok.

One thing I've learned in beer drinking is - I really can't stand* Belgian style beers - Saisons, Abbey, dubbel, tripel, farmhaus etc. The experience of drinking a Belgian is akin to when I see a good looking Waldorf fruit salad and take a bite and instant recoil. Belgian style is the Miracle Whip of beer.

I'm fine with other people liking them -and usually they don't dominate a beer menu - but far too many times I've purchased one just to try something different, and yack...I don't think beer should taste like flowers.


*With rare exception I'll like something Belgian - but they are so rare that I scarcely can remember their names. I did like Aslyum Ale's Bedlam - but it was hopped up in good way and probably genre-bending.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Dunno if I've said this in here but busch light is the best.

[lukethedrifter]

I love Belgian beers. Chimay was my introduction into non American beers back in the mid 80s.