Best (and worst) beers you've ever had

[AUDub 11,153]

It is glorious. One of my favorites. 

Sick as a dog tonight. No flu test, but the Teledoc prescribed me Tamiflu anyway as my fever was so high. Just hope I avoid giving it to the kids. Will have a beer either way during the game. 

[ShocksMyBrain 9,366]

1 hour ago, AUDub said:

It is glorious. One of my favorites. 

Sick as a dog tonight. No flu test, but the Teledoc prescribed me Tamiflu anyway as my fever was so high. Just hope I avoid giving it to the kids. Will have a beer either way during the game. 

I’ve been riding a sinus infection since October. Goes from one nostril to the other. Almost like clockwork...one nostril clears up and then the other flares up. Normally I don’t mind cold weather, but I can’t wait for Spring. Should’ve bought stock in Kleenex. Oh, and I’ve never had a sinus infection in my 33 years of being on this planet.

Hope you feel better. 

[AUDub 11,153]

5 minutes ago, ShocksMyBrain said:

I’ve been riding a sinus infection since October. Goes from one nostril to the other. Almost like clockwork...one nostril clears up and then the other flares up. Normally I don’t mind cold weather, but I can’t wait for Spring. Should’ve bought stock in Kleenex. Hope you feel better. 

It's not so bad. Only bothersome when the fever spikes. I'm medicating like clockwork right now to.keep it down. Not to mention the hopslam while watching this round ball. 

[ShocksMyBrain 9,366]

3 minutes ago, AUDub said:

It's not so bad. Only bothersome when the fever spikes. I'm medicating like clockwork right now to.keep it down. Not to mention the hopslam while watching this round ball. 

Thankfully I haven’t been that sick. I regularly run about a 97 degree temp, but it did climb to 99.4 at one point. Amoxicillin, Z pack, and a b12 sinus cocktail shot* have helped...but not solved my problem. 

*That was alarming. Peeing immediately after my shot and my urine was pink. Google told me I had cancer. Further research concluded that it was a common occurrence. 

[ShocksMyBrain 9,366]

We’re on the precipice, my dudes. The 1k has to be special. I’ve got 2015 BCBS Rare that I’ve been holding on to for this, or closing on our first house or getting Mrs. SMB preggo...but I dunno.

 

[ShocksMyBrain 9,366]

You know what. **** it. I can pop a bottle of Clicquot or Ruinart or some other fancy bubbles to celebrate those other things. 

Rare BCBS unboxing and tasting coming soon...

[McLoofus 35,182]

8 hours ago, ShocksMyBrain said:

You know what. **** it. I can pop a bottle of Clicquot or Ruinart or some other fancy bubbles to celebrate those other things. 

Rare BCBS unboxing and tasting coming soon...

Frankly, I'm amazed that I crossed 1k before you did. I have a feeling that you're going to lap me pretty soon, though. I actually quit checking in awhile back, but I'm not trying nearly as many new beers, either. 

[ShocksMyBrain 9,366]

5 minutes ago, McLoofus said:

Frankly, I'm amazed that I crossed 1k before you did. I have a feeling that you're going to lap me pretty soon, though. I actually quit checking in awhile back, but I'm not trying nearly as many new beers, either. 

I probably have hundreds of beers I haven’t checked in. I added 3 or 4 last night just thinking of them off the top of my head. I’ve been kind of crawling my way to 1k. 

[Tiger Refuge 6,670]

I'm too lazy now to go back and do anything with my apps. I pretty much just look up new stuff that I've never had.  This page serves as my check-in/sounding board. That and my photo album on my phone, which reminds me, I need to clean that out so I won't think I'm an alcoholic. 

[Tiger Refuge 6,670]

https://theknow.denverpost.com/2018/02/08/craft-beer-colorado-new-orleans-2018/175464/

 

Nice write up. I’m headed to NOLA in a month. Can’t wait. Parleaux and Urban South are on the hit list.

[McLoofus 35,182]

9 hours ago, Tiger Refuge said:

https://theknow.denverpost.com/2018/02/08/craft-beer-colorado-new-orleans-2018/175464/

Nice write up. I’m headed to NOLA in a month. Can’t wait. Parleaux and Urban South are on the hit list.

Parleaux is in the Bywater... that's a good start right there. Good stuff. I think I've mentioned before, but this reminds me of the Italian craft beer explosion. "We're better than everyone else at making things that taste good. Why don't we make beer that tastes good?" Love you, NOLA, mean it. 

Can't wait to read your travel notes!

[Tiger Refuge 6,670]

34 minutes ago, McLoofus said:

Parleaux is in the Bywater... that's a good start right there. Good stuff. I think I've mentioned before, but this reminds me of the Italian craft beer explosion. "We're better than everyone else at making things that taste good. Why don't we make beer that tastes good?" Love you, NOLA, mean it. 

Can't wait to read your travel notes!

I’m pretty pumped. I have a team of folks I trained with last year that are coming to Louisiana for a long weekend. They are from Denver and west. None have been here before, so we are starting in Shreveport, cutting across the state to Lafayette and ending in New Orleans. It’ll be a great cross section of our culture and state...plus beer.

[McLoofus 35,182]

8 minutes ago, Tiger Refuge said:

I’m pretty pumped. I have a team of folks I trained with last year that are coming to Louisiana for a long weekend. They are from Denver and west. None have been here before, so we are starting in Shreveport, cutting across the state to Lafayette and ending in New Orleans. It’ll be a great cross section of our culture and state...plus beer.

Nice! I will refrain from offering all the obvious observations on the different ways in which that is awesome. How cool. And obviously y'all are going to eat well. And to take a bunch of cool people to New Orleans for the first time... holy crap, what an opportunity. I only got to take a person for their first time once and, long story short, he didn't catch his flight the next morning. 

[Tiger Refuge 6,670]

54 minutes ago, McLoofus said:

Nice! I will refrain from offering all the obvious observations on the different ways in which that is awesome. How cool. And obviously y'all are going to eat well. And to take a bunch of cool people to New Orleans for the first time... holy crap, what an opportunity. I only got to take a person for their first time once and, long story short, he didn't catch his flight the next morning. 

Boy do I know that struggle. Yikes! And why is it always the best time had “evar” when it’s the last night somewhere? 

 

The peeps are are super excited to come here. They really wanna do a cemetery tour/voodoo/ghosty something. I’ve never done, so it’ll be a cool experience...or creepy.

[ShocksMyBrain 9,366]

Held a second drawing for allocated bourbons we held onto from the first. Couple people popped their bottles. In order of my preference:

William Larue Weller(121 proof)

Pappy 15

Weller 12

Bulleit Single Barrel 

[McLoofus 35,182]

8 hours ago, ShocksMyBrain said:

Held a second drawing for allocated bourbons we held onto from the first. Couple people popped their bottles. In order of my preference:

William Larue Weller(121 proof)

Pappy 15

Weller 12

Bulleit Single Barrel 

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[ShocksMyBrain 9,366]

3 hours ago, McLoofus said:

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Yeah, the few of us that got to taste weren’t so productive this morning. We were also “tasting” bloody marys garnished with candied bacon. So it was an all around decent shift at work. 

[Tiger Refuge 6,670]

15 hours ago, McLoofus said:

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[ShocksMyBrain 9,366]

Cheers to your Sunday. Local spot’s take on NEIPA. Solid, not the best but definitely not the worst. 

[Tiger Refuge 6,670]

Cooking, watching the olympics and straight chubbin’ on a Sunday evening.

[Tiger Refuge 6,670]

APA by Tin Roof. Not bad. The first one had some oxygen issues.

[McLoofus 35,182]

Coastal Empire's milk stout was my highlight of the weekend. One of those beers you don't expect much from and get halfway through when you realize it's really damn good. Can't recall having anything from them before but will be getting another sixer of that and will try more of their stuff.

[AUld fAUx@ 2,584]

Might be my second post on this one, but the first time I’ve caught it in time to do the porn shot.

Yellow Rose ‘smash IPA,” from Lone Pint Brewery out of Magnolia, TX (brought by one of daughter’s Mardi Gras visitors, Many Thanks!). Between my lack of knowledge of beer-tastes terminology and my cigarette-sodden palate, I’ll struggle to describe my fondness; please forgive if I wax poetic. If you run across it, I encourage you to try it and to critique my critique.

Very complex single-hop (they call it “massively dry-hopped” with something called Mosaic Whole Cone?) to me. I find the interplay of subtle (and multiple!) flowers and fruits, as the beer warms, to be downright symphonic. A barely recognizable, hinted flavor will change to another (sometimes in a slow, transitional way, sometimes in a direct handoff to a distinctly different entity), and the whole blend sort’a evolves with time. Not only a change, for example, from a component flower to another, but the overall flower/fruit balance shifts.

My natural urge is to slug beer. This one deserves slow sipping.

[Tiger Refuge 6,670]

13 hours ago, AUld fAUx@ said:

Might be my second post on this one, but the first time I’ve caught it in time to do the porn shot.

Yellow Rose ‘smash IPA,” from Lone Pint Brewery out of Magnolia, TX (brought by one of daughter’s Mardi Gras visitors, Many Thanks!). Between my lack of knowledge of beer-tastes terminology and my cigarette-sodden palate, I’ll struggle to describe my fondness; please forgive if I wax poetic. If you run across it, I encourage you to try it and to critique my critique.

Very complex single-hop (they call it “massively dry-hopped” with something called Mosaic Whole Cone?) to me. I find the interplay of subtle (and multiple!) flowers and fruits, as the beer warms, to be downright symphonic. A barely recognizable, hinted flavor will change to another (sometimes in a slow, transitional way, sometimes in a direct handoff to a distinctly different entity), and the whole blend sort’a evolves with time. Not only a change, for example, from a component flower to another, but the overall flower/fruit balance shifts.

My natural urge is to slug beer. This one deserves slow sipping.

Love your descriptions, sir! 

 

Yellow Rose gets lots of exposure amongst beer folks here(in Louisiana). I have never had the pleasure. Most definitely will be keeping any eye out.

 

[McLoofus 35,182]

13 hours ago, AUld fAUx@ said:

Very complex single-hop (they call it “massively dry-hopped” with something called Mosaic Whole Cone?) to me. I find the interplay of subtle (and multiple!) flowers and fruits, as the beer warms, to be downright symphonic. A barely recognizable, hinted flavor will change to another (sometimes in a slow, transitional way, sometimes in a direct handoff to a distinctly different entity), and the whole blend sort’a evolves with time. Not only a change, for example, from a component flower to another, but the overall flower/fruit balance shifts.

My natural urge is to slug beer. This one deserves slow sipping.

While the particulars have assuredly been different, you just articulated most of my more enjoyable IPA drinking experiences much better than I ever could. Flowers, fruit, interplay, symphony, evolution, shifting balance... yup.

Might be a new personal record for earliest hop craving in the morning.