How does a bottle share work? Do you trade whole bottles or just small pours?

You sample small pours from all the bottles. Keep your eyes open though, as some go quickly. It's always a fun time.

Gonna try and finally make this one... I'm sure BSD will be the envy of the neck beards

Where the **** have you been?

Just been busy, off later this week thurs/fri... Let's beverage or top golf perhaps

Chris, I was not impressed with the Jewbulation 16th Anniversary. I still have a bomber of it in my fridge. I think I'll sit on it a while to see if it gets better with age.

I don't think I'm getting any Wake N Bake Terrapin. I do know I'm getting a Phlux Capacitor and their Peanut Butter Bliss.

Went with the hoppy feet 1.5 double black ipa...

Because I had it before and didn't feel like writing any new notes tonight. the only thing I'll add is that you should definitely share a bomber of this rather than drinking it all yourself...this stuff is rich...

In any case, at the expense of being made fun of again, I'll post my old review anyway...


"Clown Shoes Hoppy Feet 1.5 pours a deep dark chocolate brownish black that lets almost no light through, even when tested with a flashlight. Atop this deep color lies a thin, creamy, brownish khaki head. The nose at first whiff is as would be expected for a black ipa, citrus and chocolate intertwined. However on subsequent ventures into this complex aroma, dark chocolate dominates, touched by espresso, with just a hint of orange. The chocolate definitely definitely takes over this portion of the party but allows citrus to float around at best. The taste reflects the complex aroma well. Chocolate envelopes the mouth from front onward, as the complex flavor crashes over the tongue in waves. The first, true sweetness of an almost milk chocolate, develops as it travels. The taster recognizes this familiar flavor, and a sensation of warmth from this recognition ensues. Appropriately, just as this recognition takes place, a slight true warmth appears as a hint of alcohol, the only hint of this concoction's ABV, heralds the second act. In this wave, the chocolate flavor changes from sweeter to a more sophisticated, pure dark chocolate. It is creamy, bitter, dark, and delicious. This wave splashes onto the upper shores of the mouth, washing up onto the peak of the tongue where a bold dark chocolate rides in front but clean bitterness remains after the tide recedes. Truly, even the bitterness comes in stages, as from dark chocolate to espresso to the true IPA bitterness of orange citrus and pine the pages of this story turn. The true beauty of this beer is that, more fully than any other, it accomplishes what the idea of a Black IPA is. All in one glass, the taster experiences a porter, a stout, and as expected by the name, an IPA. This beer is big. It looks creamy and strong, and delivers on that with a at first full mouthfeel and dominant flavors of chocolate and espresso. Further, and fantastically, the taster soaks in these flavors only to recognize that at its core this beer is still an IPA. The bold flavor gives way to the bitterness and finishes clean, almost as if the full mouthfeel upfront were just an illusion, though it repeats with each sip. Somehow this brew uses the natural progression from milk to dark chocolate to espresso to finally bring the drinker seamlessly and smoothly to the wonderful flavor of lingering bitterness that hopheads desire. It is a masterful transformation just makes fantastic and perfect gustatory sense. As near to flawless of a representation of what a Black IPA should be, Clown Shoes makes it easy to kick up your heels and give Hoppy Feet 1.5 an easily won and enthusiastic 5 stars."

Flame away...this beer rocks!

Chris, do you have an untappd account? And if so, how do you manage your comments when posting on it? While I appreciate a good in depth review, I think you expound too much. Keep it short and succinct, at least for what you post here. If you have another place that you post your in depth reviews, awesome. We want cliff notes.

Thanks for being a good sport as well.

Wow.

Chris, Double Bast@rd will eff up your world. I challenge you to post an unedited review after you have finished. You can take notes while you go, but the full write up must be done after you finish the whole bomber.

def. stick to write-ups, not beer judging. Beer judging needs to be much more concise!

Wow, did you even enjoy the simple act of drinking the beer?  And to think that this was my best tasting note:
 

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I wish it were winter so we could freeze it into ice blocks and skate on it and melt it in the spring time and drink it!

I want to put my dick in it!

I want it to put its dick in me!

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I kid, I kid.

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That is still the all-time best write up! I reference it from time to time....and get some strange looks from people.

If anyone in the Tine is still looking for Lucky Bastard, Whole Foods on Kirby had quite a bit left as of 9:30 this morning.

I've been a bit too lazy at getting these up here...I took a trip to visit my brewing mentor who now lives in MN. We took in a lot of beer and went to visit the Summit Brewery in St Paul as well.



Tasting/Tour Room








My haul from the trip...












If anyone can find me Belgian Red, I am willing to trade or pay you for it. That is an AWESOME beer!!


This is from a nice little taste test with a buddy of mine a week ago..DFH 60/90/75/120

Nice haul P-wonk!!!! I'm still kind of pissed my friend didn't bring me any Belgian Red when she went to Wisconsin to visit her family. I did get a 12 pack sampler which was great.

can anyone sum up for me what the difference is between lucky ******* and double *******?

from what I am reading on this thread, it seems that lucky ******* is much better even though it is less expensive and lower in abv?? Or is it just different??

and why is lucky that much harder to find than double?

if anyone can clarify for me that would be great!

Double is just that. Just more oomph from an Arrogant strong ale.

The Lucky is just a trash can punch version of all of them. There are plenty of bottles at Kroger on Buffalo Speedway. Also, Hay Merchant has pints of Lucky for $3 even durin regular hours (as of Saturday). It was the cheapest beer on the menu. Great deal.

I like the Double more but both are good.

Tonight's beer:



With a side of:

Lucky is made from a mixture of Arrogant, Oaked Arrogant, and Double IIRC. It has a more mellow flavor than the Double, but some added richness over the Arrogant. I like it better than Double.

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Could not understand...not enough adjectives...

Just kidding of course...thanks!

Sounds like they'd be interesting to taste side by side??

army, are those meatballs pre-made? i just bought a pack of some after sampling at the grocery store.. damn they were good.

the bridgeport kingpin is great. Strong hoppy red, and only like $6-$7 a sixer. One of the best bangs for you buck for craft beer.

Rodeo clown lunch

Well done.
I still haven't made my way out there yet. Looks very legit.

Rodeo Clown is $4.25 on draught ... not a bad way to spend a nice afternoon

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army, are those meatballs pre-made? i just bought a pack of some after sampling at the grocery store.. damn they were good.

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Hard to tell from the photo...but those are Scotch eggs. Fan-effing-tastic.

How have I not seen this thread before?

A little late to the game...

Beer from last night:



Pretty good for a coffee beer. Had a fantastic aroma and went down smoothly.

Anybody on here ever tried a beer called "Infinium"?

Infinium was one of the worst beers I've ever had.

No kidding?

I loved it.

Different strokes!

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Don't worry...don't worry. I'm not gonna do... what you all think i'm gonna do, which is just FLIP OUT!

All I wanna know is who's coming with me.  WHO'S COMING WITH ME?

Thought I'd come to the beer thread for some suggestions.

What's a good holiday beer to get for your girlfriend's(6 years) dad? He usually drinks Shiner but I wanted to get him something good. I thought about Yule Shoot Your Eye Out, but they're only selling those at Spec's in 22oz bombers. Which, wouldn't be bad, but I was thinking something along the lines of a 6-pack.

Cheers!

I typically like bombers better during the holidays to try a couple of new brews without doing a whole sixer...

Sixers... Maybe Deschutes Jubelale, Saint A Xmas ale, Sierra Nevada Celebration?

I've got bombers of Karbach Yule, Karbach Fra-gee-lay, & Rogue Yellow Snow for the coming weeks

Thanks for the suggestions. I think I'll go with the saint a Christmas ale.

And you're gonna like the karbach Yule. It's fantastic.

I've had the regular Yule, lookin forward to the barrel aged Frageelay version