you guys are always talking about pliny the elder...just found a bar with it on tap right now

Where are you?

Portland, OR

Jealous

Spartan, where did you find it? I know that Horse Brass alternates Pliny and Blind Pig but I never found another bar that carried it.

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To me Lagunitas beers all have a weird sweet/metallic taste. I don't know if it is the malt they use or maybe just something weird about my palate.

this one was wonderful, but I can understand what you are saying.

APEX has it right now.

btw, hbc is at the place mailing the beer out now.

Just popped a hibernation ale and man is that good stuff

Tonight have had a couple Belgian Whites and a couple Dunkeweizens. all homebrews.

Old Chub and Goose Island Christmas Ale 2009

Ninkasa sleigh'r for pregame breakfast beer. The bitter builds as an aftertaste

Love Old Chub...had a couple of Boulevard Oktoberfests at the beginning of the game. One of the better Oktoberfest brews ive has this year.

I've seen Pliny on tap at times at horse brass, beermongers, Henry's 12th street tavern (Pearl), Roscoe's (eastside), and highland still house (Oregon city)

brewing a christmas ale right now.

i had to stop buying and tasting new beer b/c i have almost 200 bottles of homebrew in storage.

Real Ale Pale Ale. Great Divide Yeti Imperial Stout.

Sam Adams Utopias, a Sunday afternoon treat!

Jetch, there is plenty more, swing by sometime. Although after this weekend, I should probably dry out for a bit...at least til Friday.

Holiday Ale Festival released the beer list

Nice cheap local brew if any of you are ever in or around Cincinnati.

What year is the Utopias? I had the '03, I believe. Drank in in 2005. Serious alcohol. A sipping beer...I mean whiskey...I mean....hell, I'm still not sure what it was!

It's a 2011 Utopias. I could age it I guess but had some good friends in town this weekend so we opened it up. It's almost like a Port with some brandy flavors as well as a beer component on the mid-palate. But yeah, a lot of alcohol in that sucker!

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BSD, I'm sooo freaking jealous! Where did you pick up a bottle?

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In personal news (yet beer related); I just booked my flights for a 6 day trip to denver over spring break. I don't even know where I'll begin, but I'll be reporting here daily no doubt!

Start at Great Divide. My favorite spot in Denver

Going to Great Divide when I visit my sister.

Strat,

I've heard good things about Odell in Fort Collins. I'd be interested in hearing a report.

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I'm employed as of last night, so I decided to buy some beer. I got mostly winter beers, while spartan got some fruity things.



from l to r
Lost Coast Tangerine
New Belgium Frambozen
Two Rivers Huckleberry Cider
Two Rivers Blood Orange Cider
Deschutes Conflux #2
Terminal Gravity Festivale
Cascade Lakes Slippery Slope Ale
Full Sail Wassail
Bridgeport Ebenezer Ale
Epic Brewing Fermentation without Representation Imperial Pumpkin Porter
Pelican Brewery Bad Santa
Hopworks Abominable Winter Ale
Widmer Barrel Aged Brrrbon 2010


You can also see a voodoo box in the background -- i had to have a maple bacon bar before i drank the beer

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Heres 3 Floyds response to people b***hing about thier Anniversary party/Baller Stout release:

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Wow, Three Floyds responds to online concerns over the organization and enjoyment of this past weekends XV Anniversary Party, which coincided with the brewery only release of XV Anniversary Baller Stout. Cheers.

It has come to our attention that many of the attendees of our 3 Floyds XV Anniversary party were less than thrilled with the organization and overall flow of the event. We’ve heard complains that people waited 3 hours to gain entrance to the party with pre-paid tickets, we’ve heard complaints that people waited in line for extra long periods of time to get our Baller Stout bottles, and we heard complaints that many of the speciality draft offerings we anticipated on pouring either never showed up, or blew quicker than anticipated. Since the end of April, we’ve been proudly hanging our hat on the fact that Dark Lord Day didn’t have any of these issues, yet somehow, we are getting the exact opposite response for this past weekend’s party. We would like to address these concerns with just a few bullet points.

Why don’t you find a better brewery in the surrounding area? Oh that’s right,you can’t!
Even though there were 4,000 less people at this event compared to DLD, we thought it wasn’t worth paying for extra resources or beer. We simply don’t care.
You’re a stupid part monkey part sheep who will be back for DLD and our next anniversary party, hopefully we can make it even worse for you.
You’re a stupid part monkey part sheep who will be miserable at our event and still fork over $50 for one of our rare beers.
We are metal as f*ck.
No matter how many years we throw parties, we will only note the mistakes, and not correct them. It’s a waste of time and we will still rake in more dough each year.
We line our pockets with your money,your tears and Satan, and we are very grateful for that.

I hope this addresses the situation in a nutshell, and we hope to see you come out to our next party, Dark Lord Day 2012, which is slated for late Spring. We’ll be sure to keep all of the concerns you’ve expressed over at BeerAdvocate and RateBeer in mind while we cover our d*cks in aluminum foil and proceed to make love to your backside.

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Can't wait for DLD after that gem!!!

HBC, that's a nice haul!