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Had a Hitachino Nest Anbai at Saucer last night and was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. It's brewed with green sour plums and Japanese sea salt, and both come through in the taste. Really nice.
Drinking a 90 min. Not nearly as good as what I remembered.
Am I crazy for thinking sculpin is better than Myrcenary??
Not at all. I think I agree with you.
I agree too, Sculpin is awesome. I also had some Maharaja the other day on tap, and I thought it was better than Myrcenary. But that's pretty much the only things I would put above Myrcenary that I can find around here on a regular basis.
Was looking into getting some Teku glasses and reached out to my uncle as he's a gm for BJ's. He asked his brew master about it and I thought you guys might be interested in his thoughts.
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Well there's a couple of things. First if all it's really a wine glass that an Italian brewer thought worked well for aroma/flavor profiles in beer. When I think beer expert I rarely think of Italian brewers and save for the twenty or so craft breweries in Italy I consider drinkable I never even think of beers made in Italy as even approaching good.
Having said that, I think it does work well as a tasting glass if you are judging or evaluating beer. But I believe each beer should have a glass to for with each style and trying to say that one overall glass is better than the proper glass for the style is a bit of a stretch. Plus they cost too much. I prefer the Sam Adams glass for drinking beer a better all around glass. For tasting the Teku is going to work better. It's shape allows for the expansion and concentration of aromas which is 70% of our flavor production.
Also, before I started expanding my beer selection I was pretty much an anything Shiner guy. I used to like their Kölsch a lot before they discontinued it. Noticed the other day that it is currently the rotational beer in the family reunion pack. Hoping that means they put the dunkelweizen in there at some point. I know they're not the best out there but I used to like those two a lot.
I had a Victory Hop Ranch with mosaic hops at lunch. I need to see if it's bottled as well, because it was fantastic.
Unless they did a second production on the hop ranch the bottles are starting to get a little old now. But fresh it is an excellent beer
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Unless they did a second production on the hop ranch the bottles are starting to get a little old now. But fresh it is an excellent beer
**** like this why I wish breweries would focus on making good regular rotation beers and not have everything be a *******ed limited release.
Yea but to be fair fresh hop season only comes around once a year
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Was looking into getting some Teku glasses and reached out to my uncle as he's a gm for BJ's. He asked his brew master about it and I thought you guys might be interested in his thoughts.
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Well there's a couple of things. First if all it's really a wine glass that an Italian brewer thought worked well for aroma/flavor profiles in beer. When I think beer expert I rarely think of Italian brewers and save for the twenty or so craft breweries in Italy I consider drinkable I never even think of beers made in Italy as even approaching good.
Having said that, I think it does work well as a tasting glass if you are judging or evaluating beer. But I believe each beer should have a glass to for with each style and trying to say that one overall glass is better than the proper glass for the style is a bit of a stretch. Plus they cost too much. I prefer the Sam Adams glass for drinking beer a better all around glass. For tasting the Teku is going to work better. It's shape allows for the expansion and concentration of aromas which is 70% of our flavor production.
Interesting. I usually drink out of a standard pint glass or a tulip glass.
Lucky 007, most beer glasses are pretty much just wine glasses with different stems.
Finally cracked my wine barrel noir today watching some NCAA lacrosse action. Tasty, my favorite of their offerings so far. Has a bit of a fruity sour flavor that I'm realling digging.
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Has anyone tried L’Equilibrista?
Oh yes. I bought 4 bottles at jester king last fall... It is literally the champagne of beers. Super good stuff.
Bought some Bible Belt today. How is it different from Bomb? Haven't tried it yet so I was wondering what y'all thought.
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Bought some Bible Belt today. How is it different from Bomb? Haven't tried it yet so I was wondering what y'all thought.
To me, it's got quite a bit more chile (Bible Belt that is)... In the last batch and the current batch of Bomb the chile is almost non existent. Every other difference is pretty subtle.
I thought bomb had more vanilla too, but I haven't had the latest batch to confirm. Anyone want to donate one to the cause?
Everything you 2 have described tells me I should have bought more Bomb instead of Bible Belt..... Oh well.... First world problems
Gordo, it seems like they are releasing bomb quarterly, there will be a lot more to go around soon.
There was some Bomb today but instead I grabbed Bible Belt
Making a bomb run tomorrow
Finished the bottle of stickee monkee with brunch. Went really well with waffles drowned in maple syrup.
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Bought some Bible Belt today. How is it different from Bomb? Haven't tried it yet so I was wondering what y'all thought.
My understanding is that it was the same recipe except the base was Even More Jesus instead of Noir (or whatever imperial stout recipe prairie uses). Even More Jesus sucks so it's no wonder that regular bomb is better than bible belt.
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Am I crazy for thinking sculpin is better than Myrcenary??
I love myrcenary, but yes Sculpin is tastier. It's a bit of apples to oranges since one is a 7% IPA and the other is a 9.5% double IPA. Nevertheless I'll take sculpin all day. They've been rumored to be heading to Colorado going on two years. They even held some industry events last fall but nothing came of it. Oh well, I'll just keep drinking all of the St Lupulin. All of it.
All that beer in Colorado and y'all don't get sculpin? That's almost criminal. I just picked up a growler, gonna be a fun night!
Anybody else out at JK today?
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All that beer in Colorado and y'all don't get sculpin? That's almost criminal. I just picked up a growler, gonna be a fun night!
Where you located??? Polishing off a growler of the good stuff myself as we speak!
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All that beer in Colorado and y'all don't get sculpin? That's almost criminal. I just picked up a growler, gonna be a fun night!
Where you located??? Polishing off a growler of the good stuff myself as we speak!
Katy, got it at Whole Foods off 99. What about you?
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Anybody else out at JK today?
I was there earlier... Encendia is pretty awesome. Nocturnal beats atrial IMO as well.
Killing off copious four squared and hopadillo while cooking a turkey on the bge.
Just.moved from.pearland out to Katy...any suggestions for the best craft beer bar out here??
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All that beer in Colorado and y'all don't get sculpin? That's almost criminal. I just picked up a growler, gonna be a fun night!
Where you located??? Polishing off a growler of the good stuff myself as we speak!
Katy, got it at Whole Foods off 99. What about you?
Nice! I am 2 miles from that glorious place. They had growlers of myrcenary for 11 bucks earlier this week...and now that it's gone, replaced it with Sculpin. Amazing
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Just.moved from.pearland out to Katy...any suggestions for the best craft beer bar out here??
Unfortunately, not much to choose from. My go to is WF. The price is right and it's close. World of Beer is ok, decent selection, but the service sucks unless you get a spot at the bar. I heard a new growler place is also opening up in Fulshear.
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