That is an all-time classic brewery name...Hermit Thrush Brewing. Wow.
More classic names:
Damn you. I haven't had a beer since Labor Day and I'm down to -25 pounds and counting as of just this morning. As I sit here in New Haven feeling like rewarding myself a bit, this is the last thing I need to see. I could give back five pounds easily today/tonight with access to those two beers alone.
I love Fuzzy Baby Ducks, I can't wait to try this one. I think NEBCo's Fuzzy Baby Ducks and Double FBS is right there with some of Triullium's Double IPAs, and I know how much people love their Triullium.
Good for you! I find myself drinking at least a beer a night these days. I've got 4 different types of Trillium beers, 4 Julius', 4 Lights On, 2 G-Bots, and 2 SoS all in my fridge right now.
Thanks. In fairness it's -25 since August 9th (but who's counting...). I just dropped the beer on Labor Day because I've been seeing a nutritionist/dietician and using the myfitnesspal app to track food and exercise, and when I reviewed it with her there was a comical exchange when she saw that I logged some 320 calories for a can of SoS:
I used to try to drink those types of IPAs within two weeks for maximum freshness, but the guy from Alchemist himself apparently recommends something like three weeks to three months for what he believes is the best taste. Pretty sure there's a video out there from him to that effect but I can't access now.
Yup, I saw the video on Youtube. He also recommends it drinking out of the can vs drinking it out of a tulip glass for maximum freshness, especially for the last 1/4 of the beer.
Yeah, I think it was Fishy who posted elsewhere some time ago the maxim that "what gets measured gets managed," and seeing my caloric report card every day has definitely had a huge influence on my behavior.
Agree 100%. I was at a bottle share several months ago and I brought some wonderful rare beers that had been in my beer fridge for more than ten years, including an early 2000s Stille Nacht from De Dolle and some Cantillion Gueze of a similar vintage. I had confidence that those would still be very good, but the surprise of the night was a beer I brought as an extra to share as a novelty, 3 Floyds Dreadnaught IPA bomber that was around 12 years old. I figured it would be interesting to see if it had any life left, and it was still quite good, shockingly.
You have a beer fridge with 10+ year old beer in it? You sir, have just become my hero.
It's mostly a function of having a bunch of good friends who all became beer geeks around the same time, acquired a lot of ridiculously great beers and then consistently brought too many of them to gatherings at each others' houses. Back when life was simpler and our kids were very young, we used to host a lot of the gatherings, and I always ended up with an excess of great beers that people had left behind. My informal rule for a long time was to hold the bottle(s) until I could share them with whomever left them, but as we all get older the gatherings became fewer and farther between, so I decided that it was time to share them whenever I had the chance to do it with others who would appreciate them. I still have a few left to share...
