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PostPosted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 7:41 pm 
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Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
Avery Maharaja - I remember it being a little rough. Like, dry and bitter compared to a lot of those.


I wouldn't say it was rough but it was a little out of balance with the bitterness being a little overly dominant. Not nearly as bitter as all the big west coast hop bombs, but still more than I'd ideally like. I'd still be happy to drink it if you put one in front of me, but I wouldn't seek it out again.


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Today is the annual Lincoln Lagers Bus trip. We are taking a short trip to Omaha this year to visit all the new breweries that have sprung up over the last year. Our first stop is the new production brewery/canning facility for Nebraska Brewing Company. We will also be hitting up Infusion Brewing Company, Benson Brewery, Farnham House Brewing Company and Borgata Brewery/Distillery today. I'll try to take some pictures and keep track of all the new beers I consumed today.

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Cap'n Squirrgle Wrote:
Avery Maharaja - I remember it being a little rough. Like, dry and bitter compared to a lot of those.


Its better on draft IMHO.

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Here's the list of commercial beers I consumed yesterday:
Dogfish Head Immort Ale, on the bus, early in the day
Cardinal Pale Ale, from a can at Nebraska Brewing Company
Karha T Mild Ale, a spiced beer at lunch at Benson Brewing
Day Pass Pale Ale, at Infusion Brewing Company
A yet to be named Kellerbier and Oud Bruin at the yet to be built Farnham House Brewing Company
Deschutes Red Chair NWPA at Crescent Moon Ale House in Omaha
Pilsner at Borgata Brewery and Distillery
Founders All Day IPA at Borgata Brewery and Distillery
The Bruery Provision Series: Snicklefritz on the bus ride home
The Bruery Mrs. Stoutfire on the bus ride home.

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About half of the contributors of Nebraska Beer Blog at Borgata Brewery.

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Damn, what a day. And Mrs Stoutfire is an excellent beer name.

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I haven't listened to any of these yet but figured a few people might be interested in listening:

http://www.almanacbeer.com/2014/02/beer-talks-2014/


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Coming in 12 packs this week locally and also........in TALLBOYS.


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At some point I want a parade and a wizard hat for being so ahead of a curve (any curve) for once.

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On the beer front, after I sent our friend Porter that box of homebrew ingredients, he sent back of northwest dipa's that I am now beginning to enjoy.

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Anybody else ever had Top Cutter IPA? Comes in cans, made in Washington. He sent me two of them, and it's a VERY good sixpack IPA. Something spicey and yet caramel about it. Manages to stand out in such a crowded field. I really like it for its category.

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I have quite a few beers to mention, most of them are beers that I tried at a Sierra Nevada tap takeover and video conference I attended last night. I scored quite a bit of swag including a Sierra Nevada beanie and some hop lip balm.

Harvest Single Hop IPA with Yakima #291 Hops
Snow Wit White IPA
Nooner Session IPA
Beer Camp #37 Weizenbock
Porter
Pale Ale

Non Sierra Nevada beers I had at the home brew club meeting on Thursday night
Bell's Hopslam 2014, I finally got my hands on a bottle.
Stevens Point JP's Casper White Stout
Bell's Special Double Cream Stout
Dogfish Head Kvasir

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I've been drinking a lot of English style pale ales at home lately, but I have consumed a few beers outside of that style that should be mentioned:

New Belgium Hop Kitchen RyePA
Stone Stochasticity Project Grapefruit Slam IPA
Black Diamond Rampage Imperial IPA

I also went to a tapping party for one of my fellow home brewers who won the last Beer Quest at Empyrean Brewing Co. and I have been enjoying the new canned products from both Nebraska Brewing Company and Modern Monks Brewing Co.

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I need to bottle. I've been drinking commercial stuff people left here after dinners or band practice.

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This thread has been slow. I've been drinking alot of beer but just have been too lazy to post about them. From what I remember:

Prairie Artisan Ales 'Merica - Single Malt/Single Hop (Nelson) Farmhouse Ale with two brett strains. First beer by them that I didn't love. Seemed a little out of balance.
Prairie Bomb - Truly a world class stout.
Prairie Birra - A sessionable, six pack saison. Awesome and a great value. I see this being a regular in the refrigerator.
Alesmith Yulesmith - not bad but nothing special
Allagash Saison - another sixpack saison. Not quite as good as Birra but still very good.
Allagash Odyssey - Very good even if I'm not sure it's really worth what they charge for it. I'd only had Allagash Black before these two. Count me impressed with their beers.
Alaskan Jalapeno IPA - Pretty enjoyable but not quite as good as Habanero Sculpin which I hear Ballast Point is going to start bottling or canning.
Stochasticity Project Grapefruit Slam IPA - Stone IPA with tons of grapefruit peel added. I liked it more than most Stone offerings but still probably not enough to seek out again.
Stillwater Folklore - they call this an "untraditional stout" Not particularly heavy but with lots of coffee roastiness, burnt sugar and some chocolate notes. Really pretty nice and perfect for the current inbetween season.
Beachwood Amalgamator IPA - 2 row malt kettle hopped with Amarillo, Warrior, Columbus, and Mosaic. Really great. Probably the most consistently good to great brewer in LA these days and LA Beer is a lot better than it used to be.
Ale Apothecary Sahati - probably the most interesting thing I've had in awhile. Their owner/brewer, Paul Arney, worked at Deschutes where he was in charge of their experimental beers before deciding to start Ale Apothecary. It smelled like sewer water but tasted really great and complex with lots of bright tart citrus flavors and an effervescence from the bottle conditioning.

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SAHATI is our interpretation of traditional Finnish sahti. Starting with a 200-year old Engelmann spruce tree felled on brewery property, we created our own kuurna (an ancient Scandinavian lauter tun) to separate the wort from the grain during brewing. The bottom of the kuurna is layered with spruce branches; the needles act as a natural filter and impart resinous oils into the wort. The hollowed-out trunk of the tree also contributes spruce essence and structure from the raw wood. The beer is made of barley & rye malts along with a sparing addition of Goschie Farms Cascade hops and is brewed just a few times per year.
 SAHATI is in many ways the very definition of The Ale Apothecary, where complex flavors arrive from the very methods used for production…the result is the process impacts the flavor profile at least as much as the ingredients themselves.


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Just wish this had some CA distribution. I was lucky to get to try it from someone who had brought it back from Oregon.


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I've been drinking alot of beer but just have been too lazy to post about them.


This.

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This has been a favorite recent, a ginger pale ale from Durham's Fullsteam Brewery.
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I went to an undergroundy bar event here that had kegs of Lawson's, Russian River, 3 Floyds, and others. Pic and details forthcoming.

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I'm hesitant to upload a pic of half of the menu, now that I think about it, because they strictly asked people not to. So I won't. But it was a normal craft beer bar, and how they got it all I'm not sure, assumably they took a BIG road trip. They spread the word verbally, forbid any talk of it on social media (under threat of "if someone blabs and ruins this, we will hide the beer / denydenydeny / drink it all ourselves.") They pitched it formally as a big April Fools joke... like "no of course we don't have these beers!" But they did. Every damned one of them.

The first page of the special menu for that night had the kegs:

Surly - Furious
Russian River - Blind Pig
Three Floyds - Alpha King
Three Floyds - Arctic Panzer Wolf
Three Floyds - Permanent Funeral
Three Floyds / Struise - Rich Life
Three Floyds / Half Acre - Shewolf
Port - Hop 15
Crooked Stave - Batch 60
Crooked Stave - Colorado Wild Sage
Melvin - 2x4
Russian River - Consecration
Perennial - Sump
Lost Abbey - Cuvee de Tomme
Lost Abbey - Red Poppy
Half Acre - Daisy Cutter
Half Acre - Double Daisy Cutter
Siren / Mikkeller / Hill Farmstead - Lemoncello
Struise Damnation 1 - Black Berry Albert
De Molen - Lost & Found
Bruery - Sour In The Rye
Epic - Big Bad Baptist
Crazy Mountain - Layers Guns & Money
Black Bottle - Dramamine (a sour porter of unknown abv%)
Elevation - Oil Man
Stone - Punishment
10 Barrel / Blue Jacket / Stone - Suede
Hill Farmstead - Edward
Triullium - Mettle*
Trillium - Sinister Kid*
Alagash - Midnight Brett*
Allagash - Merveilleux*
Struise - Cuvee Dalphine
De la Senne - Band of Brothers
Captain Lawrence - Smoke From The Oak (apple brandy porter)
De Molen - Lief & Leed
Hill Farmstead / Blaugies - Vermontoise

asterisks = can already be had in Boston

...there were brief descriptions too but fuck that's already more than I wanted to type. Second page was 22oz bottles and cans, included Heady Topper and Pliny among others, similar to this list but with NO OVERLAP.

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Jesus. How many people were there and how much did you manage to drink?

Also, were they doing 4oz pours?

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8oz pours, between $5 and $8. I had 4, and sipped several of Neuro's as well. Not nearly enough.

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Place was at legal limit, which is to say "full but well controlled." Loud, but not CRAMMED.

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Obvs, I avoided anything I could drive 2 hours and get, even though Heady and Hill are frankly among or at the top of that list.

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What bar was it?

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This has been a favorite recent, a ginger pale ale from Durham's Fullsteam Brewery.
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that looks awesome. might do an NC road trip for my daughter's spring break, maybe I can find this. Love cans! all kinds.


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What bar was it?



Hobo. Your absence was conspicuous.

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