they were out. i asked if they had anything tasty left from the weekend and they said they dried up.

I drank The Perfect Crime last night. It wasn't bad. Not nearly as good as Stone's collab Saison du Buff.

I'm taking notes so I can plan a beer trip or two...

http://draftmag.com/features/america-100-best-beer-bars-2013/

Glad the Fort Collins places continue to fly under the radar.

Oh, and the Rare Beer Festival is at Wynkoop Brewing.

Had this at the bar the other night. Pretty good and will probably try and grab a bottle next month when they release it in bottles.

Also ate at the Firestone tap room in bulleton the other night and they were talmbout that they're fixin to get in the sour game

Sucaba is one of my favorites. One of the few I stock up on to drink all year. Looking forward to it dropping next month.

I love pretty much everything from Firestone Walker.

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that looks REALLY clear for Pliny ... perhaps its just your baller photography. Nevertheless, its making me thirsty at only 8:15am

It was pretty clear! It is everything that I imagined. It is truly the best beer I've ever had. Perfectly balanced. Perfect texture. Perfect taste.

I can't believe the best beer in the world only costs $5/pint bottled. Best $5 I've ever spent on a beer in my lifetime.

Picked up 3 DFH 120's last night and 3 more just now... one pricey 6 pack. I plan to maybe sell 1 or 2 to a friend or two that really wants one and missed their chance.

will age another 1-3.

A little Rock Island Red from RCB in Wichita tonight. Headed to Anchor bar in a bit to see if they have anny good sh*t on tap this week

Anyone know more about Abyyss hitting TX? More specifically the tine?

I wish I knew streetfighter2012, I wish I knew.

Picked up the Real Ale Brewer's Cut #4 Imperial Red Ale tonight. It's really good. A little more hop-forward than I was expecting, but that's a good thing in my book.

Odell Myrcenary DIPA is mighty tasty

Avery duganA DIPA

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I've always wanted to try one of those...

I've it a couple of times, pretty good stuff

It's a BSD kinda brew

Word on the street is that Abyss has hit Austin... having a regular person job sucks. I'll be on the prowl after work tomorrow, hopefully there are still a few bottles around/have arrived in my area.

Enjoying a Harpoon for once.....

Decent enough...this one started meh after a rather tasty rye, but this one is growing on me....

Question for the beer board:

How many unique beers do you think you've tasted?

This question was posed to me about two years ago from a fellow bar regular at Rockwell's. This guy had a ridiculous beer cellar, like hundreds and hundreds of beers in a bedroom that had nothing but beer.. he had every Saint Arnold DR still (this was around DR 11 time). Anyway he said his best guess was around 2000 beers.

At the time, I answered maybe 250. I think I may be higher than that.. 500? Not quite; somewhere in between if I had to make an educated guess.

How about you?

My dumb ass actually started a spreadsheet like 4 years ago that I would try to update every time I had a beer including a scale of 1-5 if I liked it. It got to like 50 beers in no time, but I didn't keep up with it.

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I tried this as well and just couldn't keep up. I actually tried to put them in order from favorite to least favorite.
I had the list up to 120 or so and decided it just wasn't worth doing. I know the beers I like and the beers I don't.

Rough estimate? I've tried probably 300ish different beers.

Good question. I've logged 87 distinct beers in Untappd in the last 7 months. There are several that I haven't logged, so that number is probably pushing over 100. Granted, I've tried a lot more new beers lately, but I've always been one to try lots of different things. So I imagine I've got to be pushing 300-400+ when all is said and done.

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I've been on untappd for 6 months or so and am already pushing 350 on it. Granted, over 100 of those were in the last 3 weeks (been on business trip and hit up a lot of breweries and beer bars....a lot of them offered 5oz pours so that made it easy).

Over time....I would say my number is easily above 2500. I am basing this off of the sheer amount of beer I had in the last week and actually keeping track of it, and e years ago I had a beer bottle collection that was pushing 1500 different bottles (that I tried or had at least 95% of them).

You'd be surprised how easy it is to get to 500+ and not even realize it.

Who here have sampled bourbon barrel aged IPAs. I had one over the weekend and thought it was s nice twist. Don't see the style in TX. I could dig up my Untappd comments and pic if anyone if interested. Brewery was in Flagstaff.

Karbach is rolling out BBA rodeo clown (DIPA) tonight at hay merchant in Houston

Karbach is rolling out BBA rodeo clown (DIPA) tonight at hay merchant in Houston
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wow........ please tell me they are gonna bottle some of that!!!!

heres the Karbach tap takeover at Hay Merchant

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Weisse Versa
Sympathy
Hopadillo
Rodeo Clown
Weekend Warrior
Pontificator
Hellfighter
BBA Hellfighter
Cask BBA Hellfighter
Yule Shoot Your Eye Out
Fra-Gee-Lay
Bodacious
Wine Barrel Aged Krunkin Pumpkin
Bourbon Barrel Aged Rodeo Clown

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They were also filling wine barrels last week with the Barnburner to be bottled as part of the F.U.N. series

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit drinking.

Don't know if this has been mentioned here before, but Firestone Walker will begin distibution in Austin markets Feb 19 and the DFW area in March!

http://beerpulse.com/2013/01/firestone-walker-to-launch-austin-market-in-feb-with-brown-dfw-in-march-with-andrews/

Plus, Ballast Point has made its way down to Austin/ Houston, also!

I wouldn't mind getting growler fills of a couple of these, but I doubt by the time I get off work and over there that much will be left. And I think I remember reading that they would be restricting growler fills on some of the offerings anyway.

There are tap takovers once a month or so at a place by my house, usually 16 taps worth, and several of the offerings always last about a week.

Course this is in the burbs, and in denver. Much more supply over demand compared to houston.