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The wife, who doesn't drink and knows nothing about beer other than what she's tolerated of my ramblings about it, decided to give me one beer per day in June until my birthday on Sunday. With the help of the folks at Spec's beer dept., I'd say she's doing alright so far:
i liked the new birthday suit a lot more than I expected. I'm partial to raspberry sours anyway, but I really enjoyed it. it's definitely up there for beers I can stroll into the store and just grab off the shelf at my leisure .
my buddy who handles the beer at a shop near me offered to set a birthday bomb aside for me. I'm probably not gonna pass it up, but their prices tend to be on the high side there, on top of prairie also gouging the **** out of stuff like that lately. I wanna say barrel aged bomb was 18 there (though for some reason pirate was only 14, and imo a much better beer). I haven't done my homework on it, is birthday basically just barrel aged bomb tweaked a bit? BAB was great, but I didn't find it so much better than other similar options that I'd feel good about paying that much for it.
on another note finally got to astrolabe. pretty solid offering. I don't have much experience with new republic outside their standard lineup, but I'd like to try more if they've got anything worth while. any recommendations? I mentioned possibly buying warimono on untappd one time in some shape or form and actually got a response from NR saying any bottles avaliable at that time were old and they suggested passing on it as to not get a bad impression. I found that pretty respectable.
