Damn, I miss DDBA.

Did you buy it at a store or trade for it? That's crazy.

Bought it here at my local liquor store a few years ago

How's it drinking? I have a 12 in my beer cabinet.

Pretty damn good, think it's thinned out a bit but still damn good.

Anyone seen hop delusion in SA?

I'm still finding the occasional glass shard from that.
And the wife never lets me live it down.

Where are you? If you are interested, I have some DDBAs in DFW.

I'm in Austin.

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Well..if you ever head north, let me know. I think I have two each left of 2013 and 2014.

honestly can't believe texas big beer took this long to shut down. don't recall a more blatantly unprofessional brewery, with terrible beers to boot. as humorous as they are, I don't think I could take many more grammatically incorrect diatribes about how the government is out to get the queen. that, and their attempt at a "sour" might have been the worst beer I've ever tried. luckily it was a friend who shelled out the cash for it and was stuck with most of the bottle, not myself. he was revolted as I was, and has never once drain poured any beer- not a rancid high life, nothing. he made it about a third into it and threw in the towel.

after a backwoods *******, going with a sam adams rebel rouser. first time I had it, I didn't know what I was drinking, but I enjoyed it thoroughly. was surprised when I found out because Im not big on their rebel ipa. but I do like this one and the cascade ipa, and I think it would hold up well with many in a blind tasting. it's no heavy hitter but I'll buy some when there's not much of a selection to choose from.

on the subject of cascade, is the blackcap raspberry still around anywhere, or does anyone familiar with their releases know when it might be back? since they've hit texas I've tried several of their offerings, but that one was the absolute best imo. drinks more like a lambic to me. I've got one bottle left but I really want to sit on it a while. if nothing else, sort of holding out hope that it's an annual release and might be back this fall, which is when I bought all mine.

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Good point. All the talk of 11 under yesterday got me brainstorming saturation. I'm not sure where that point occurs.

BSD may have a better mind to talk with about this, I'm sure wine producers in California hit this mark in the past.

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I ran the numbers last year for an article. This is how they came out:

Denver has one brewery for every 28k people.

Houston? One for every 274k people.

Austin? One for every 40k people.

DFW? One for every 185k people.

San Antonio? One for every 151k people

Houston, DFW, and SA can pretty much pump breweries in for quite some time. Sure, the Denver market is different, but all markets are starting to head towards more craft.

Austin is the only one somewhat getting close, and it can still add another 30ish before it is close to Denver.

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I would also be interested to see these numbers as barrels of beer produced per capita. Most of the breweries in Denver for example are brewpubs and probably don't make very much for the most part.

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https://www.brewersassociation.org/statistics/by-state/
I don't know of a by city source.

Your CO example is correct, but we have just a few juggernauts.. like coors (the largest single brewery in the world) budweiser, new belgium, oksar blues, odell, left hand, and breckenridge, only 1 of which is in denver, and NB's output is more than like the next 9 biggest brewers combine. NB is 4th in US, only behind Yeungling, Boston Beer, and SN.
Caveat: I don't think the stat link includes bud, as it says 'craft stats'.. but I can't find text that backs up my claim. Also, Since NB and Oskar Blues both have a NC plant, I doubt those numbers go towards CO, which makes a difference.

CO is 2nd highest beer produced per capita (defined as 21+ year old), 3rd in most overall beer produced (first place is not who you'd think), and 1st in economic impact per capita.

Due to Texas and it's sheer population, it will never top any per capita lists.. just like California. The smaller states get those, vermont, oregon, co.

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Another successful texags beer thread hookup.

Anyone have any recommendations on a beer that's like Karbach's Clown lounge?
I really only drink stouts and porters with the seasonal light beer and never really touch IPA's but this one was really really good.

The only barrel aged IPA I can think of that I liked is Great Divide Rumble. Of course, to me Rodeo Clown is more like a barleywine than a DIPA.

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Pennsylvania with the most produced makes sense because I think they usually include Yuengling in those craft beer figures.

But is Yuengling not an adjunct beer? My understanding is that a craft beer must, among other things, be independently owned/operated, making less than 6,000,000BBL/year, and have a flagship beer that is all-malt. Same goes for Shiner... I will see them in the production rankings of craft breweries by the BA, but Shiner Bock has rice in it.

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Anyone have any recommendations on a beer that's like Karbach's Clown lounge?
I really only drink stouts and porters with the seasonal light beer and never really touch IPA's but this one was really really good.

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I would look for a bourbon barrel aged American-style Barleywine of some kind.

Actually, Bourbon Barrel Arrogant ******* wouldn't be too terribly far off either.

Edit: I haven't had it yet but Deep Ellum seems to have a barrel aged Am Barleywine so that might get you close to a Clown Lounge fix

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CO is 2nd highest beer produced per capita (defined as 21+ year old), 3rd in most overall beer produced (first place is not who you'd think), and 1st in economic impact per capita.

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That's absolutely right. Yuengling is largest brewery considered craft. Combine that with small number of states distributed to, and you realize how dense their presence is in those states. The next 3 breweries distribute to almost all states. Yuengling output is about 3MM bbls (in '12).

Boston beer shows 4.1mm in '14, so maybe they are teeter tottering. SN is 800K, and NB is 700K, though they just opened their NC brewery, so that will likely surpass SN (Who has had a NC facility 2 years now).

Interesting fact, the SN NC facility has 8X the output as the Chico plant.

EDIT: NM, Sierra Nevada.

more on Big Beer:

http://www.shadetxcraft.com/editorial-texas-big-beer-crowdfunding-2/

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more on Big Beer:

http://www.shadetxcraft.com/editorial-texas-big-beer-crowdfunding-2/

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Lol. Thats not the real brewery Twitter account. But still funny.

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Haha awesome, I actually have one chilling at the moment. Great minds

Got dam, this is a fine beer. Purchased on 3/28/14, and it has lots of carb. (I didn't get the photo for a couple minutes after pour.)
Need to find this again.

BIL brought me back a Cantillion Gueuze (the Gueuze 100% Lambic Bio) from his Belgium trip. To drink soon or save?

I may be able to help you out with that.

Enjoying a 2014 Veritas - this one is cherry based. It is really good, but not as good as the 2015 with peaches and apricots.

Had the Waldo's Ale tonight. So good. Glad I bought two.

Tell me more? What style? Is it barrel aged?

Great night drinking good beers with friends tonight. The new Sunday Morning Stout is damn near perfect right now.

DFW folks, I'm ISO Collective Bug Rye'd or raspberry golden sour if you have any for trade. Evidently it's worth Atrial 1:1 now, despite it having no limits, so that's awesome.

I picked one up a couple of days ago.
It's a Fistful of Unidragon with espresso.
I haven't tried it yet.