Beer

[SixRings]

West Coast IPA.

LOL

Pliny = owning a Blackberry. It was nice in 2007.

 

[storrsroars]

Pliny = owning a Blackberry. It was nice in 2007.

Yeah, hipsters have moved onto fermented beverages flavored with organic fair trade maple syrup and jackfruit shavings stored in used Tennessee sour mash barrels that Mila Kunis peed on. Screw that stuff that tastes like beer.

But as long as we're on the subject, anyone ever been here?

 

[Rocktheworld]

I was at Trillium in Fort Point the other day and they told me the new restaurant/tap room at 50 Thomson Place was going to open in late October.

!!!

Man I haven’t had Trillium since they were disallowed from the city to do pours. I caught them when they were just months old; then, as I had no car when I lived in the city, had no real means to get to Canton. Hopefully it’s not delayed but these things often are...

 

[HooperScooper]

!!!

Man I haven’t had Trillium since they were disallowed from the city to do pours. I caught them when they were just months old; then, as I had no car when I lived in the city, had no real means to get to Canton. Hopefully it’s not delayed but these things often are...

I'll post on here when it opens. It's going to be packed for the first few months.

 

[Rocktheworld]

I'll post on here when it opens. It's going to be packed for the first few months.

We follow them on Instagram so I’ll definitely know the day it opens lol but please feel free to check it out and report in; I’m hyped

 

[idahohusky]

Guys...Idahohusky here. back from a multiple year hiatus. Been lurking, but not much time beyond that. I stopped being active once the kids started getting born in 2012...but, I’ve been working on a project the last two years, which is about to launch in about six weeks that’s relevant to this beer thread. And since it’s one of your own, I thought you’d enjoy it.

This UConn grad and HUGE husky fan is about to open the Great Falls Brewing Company in Canaan (officially, North Canaan) CT. We’ll be a brewery/taproom built in an renovated train station. We’re currently contract brewing and have a west coast style IPA called “Cascadia Farewell” and a brown called “Derailed”. We were at the Waterbury Brew & Que this past weekend and will be at the Small State Great Beer Fest in Hartford this weekend. Also, we’ll be at Prime16 this week for craft beer week & Three Sheets when the Beeracks takes over their taps. Up north, our beers are on tap at the Woodland, the White Hart, and Lone Oak campground. The reception of both of these beers has been tremendous.

Well open our doors in November, so once we do I’ll let you know. And I hope you come up and give us a try. You can find us on Our website (GreatFallsBrews.com), FB, and Instagram.

Good to be back to connect with you folks...especially if Fishy, UpstateNY, and Tom are still around.

Cheers,
Idahohusky (Trip)

 

[Jay-Bone]

!!!

Man I haven’t had Trillium since they were disallowed from the city to do pours.

Trillium has certainly grown up since then. They have a beer garden in the Rose Kennedy Garden Parkway now that gets lots of business. I was there yesterday drinking the PM Dawn. Boston made a big move allowing beer gardens for Trillium, Wormtown and Night Shift in public areas.

 

[Dove]

Welcome back @idahohusky

North Canaan is was too far for me but good luck and maybe I'll see your brews through distro.

 

[8893]

Guys...Idahohusky here. back from a multiple year hiatus. Been lurking, but not much time beyond that. I stopped being active once the kids started getting born in 2012...but, I’ve been working on a project the last two years, which is about to launch in about six weeks that’s relevant to this beer thread. And since it’s one of your own, I thought you’d enjoy it.

This UConn grad and HUGE husky fan is about to open the Great Falls Brewing Company in Canaan (officially, North Canaan) CT. We’ll be a brewery/taproom built in an renovated train station. We’re currently contract brewing and have a west coast style IPA called “Cascadia Farewell” and a brown called “Derailed”. We were at the Waterbury Brew & Que this past weekend and will be at the Small State Great Beer Fest in Hartford this weekend. Also, we’ll be at Prime16 this week for craft beer week & Three Sheets when the Beeracks takes over their taps. Up north, our beers are on tap at the Woodland, the White Hart, and Lone Oak campground. The reception of both of these beers has been tremendous.

Well open our doors in November, so once we do I’ll let you know. And I hope you come up and give us a try. You can find us on Our website (GreatFallsBrews.com), FB, and Instagram.

Good to be back to connect with you folks...especially if Fishy, UpstateNY, and Tom are still around.

Cheers,
Idahohusky (Trip)

Good luck!

Where are you contract brewing, and when do you expect to be brewing on premise?

 

[idahohusky]

Good luck!

Where are you contract brewing, and when do you expect to be brewing on premise?

Overshores in East Haven.
We’re looking to commisssion our system in three weeks. Brews out in 5 weeks.

 

[Conndog]

Any non-IPA recommendations? Or, ales that aren’t too hoppy?

 

[8893]

Any non-IPA recommendations? Or, ales that aren’t too hoppy?

If you like German styles (e.g., lagers, pilsners, helles, kolsch, etc.) von Trapp is excellent across the board imo. Jacks Abby also makes great lagers. Both widely available in CT.

 

[Rocktheworld]

A New England brewers pet dog can make a better IPA these days.

I’ll be at GABF in a couple weekends. We will see who places in the new Hazy categories

Regardless you need to do yourself a favor and stop perseverating on this notion that I’ve been talking about West Coast style

Lol poor dumb Auggie

Gold medals across IPA categories last night:

Societe- session ipa (San Diego)

Alaro- English ipa (Sacramento)

Tin roof- hazy (baton rouge)

Root down- ipa (phoenixville pa)

Noble- imperial ipa (anaheim)

Black market - imperial hazy (Temecula)

 

[Rocktheworld]

@August_West what’s with the absence of New England brewers (and their dogs) in the IPA categories? Why did CA win 4/6 and SoCal 3/6? How did “Hurr durr west coast” just dominate?

 

[methodology]

@August_West what’s with the absence of New England brewers (and their dogs) in the IPA categories? Why did CA win 4/6 and SoCal 3/6? How did “Hurr durr west coast” just dominate?

Did you happen look at the breweries that were there?

No Treehouse, trillium, Maine brewing, alchemist, other half, etc etc etc

 

[storrsroars]

@August_West what’s with the absence of New England brewers (and their dogs) in the IPA categories? Why did CA win 4/6 and SoCal 3/6? How did “Hurr durr west coast” just dominate?

I'm not going to say anything negative about any of the award winners.

What I will say is that I've been a certified sensory judge at multiple competitions. The "best" is subjective and the best doesn't always win. And sometimes the best isn't even the product you and I can buy.

I'd suggest reading this article regarding awards. It pertains to pretty much all "juried" beer, wine, coffee, pizza, bbq sauce competitions - or pretty much whatever food you can think of where there are "awards".

In the coffee business, it was well known that competitions were a game that had little relation to real world happenings. But most "serious" shops & roasters - including mine - entered to get that marketing buzz. And in Pittsburgh, nobody had even heard of a coffee competition, let alone won one. So we suddenly became the "it" shop. And stayed there for a couple of years.

Let's also remember that most of the entrants are probably pretty good anyway. But you do get the occasional Fred Franzia (Two-Buck Chuck) types winning hardware now and again. And that's where the following the often arcane and esoteric rules for entry to the letter comes in handy. It's not uncommon for some detail that wouldn't matter to you or me matters to the judges and competition - and gets decent product disqualified.

 

[Waquoit]

So the NEIPA category had less than the class of NE?

 

[Dove]

Was at Counterweight (Hamden, CT) today to grab some Talisman IPA that was released in cans yesterday. Has Nelson Sauvin hops and that's all I need to hear.

But while there I tried my first Void oatmeal stout and it was ridiculously good. Coffee and cocoa in it. I ended up buying a 4-pack of that, too. I followed it with a juice bomb called Inundation. Totally solid.

 

[methodology]

So the NEIPA category had less than the class of NE?

For instance the only breweries from CT were steady habit and two roads

No Nebco, fat orange cat, counterweight, Kent falls, Connecticut valley brewing, among others

 

[Rocktheworld]

Did you happen look at the breweries that were there?

No Treehouse, trillium, Maine brewing, alchemist, other half, etc etc etc

Why weren’t they here? Little ol’ River Horse from Edison NJ is here

 

[August_West]

Lol poor dumb Auggie

Gold medals across IPA categories last night:

Societe- session ipa (San Diego)

Alaro- English ipa (Sacramento)

Tin roof- hazy (baton rouge)

Root down- ipa (phoenixville pa)

Noble- imperial ipa (anaheim)

Black market - imperial hazy (Temecula)

@August_West what’s with the absence of New England brewers (and their dogs) in the IPA categories? Why did CA win 4/6 and SoCal 3/6? How did “Hurr durr west coast” just dominate?

Did you happen look at the breweries that were there?

No Treehouse, trillium, Maine brewing, alchemist, other half, etc etc etc

For instance the only breweries from CT were steady habit and two roads

No Nebco, fat orange cat, counterweight, Kent falls, Connecticut valley brewing, among others

Lol poor rocko.

 

[Rocktheworld]

Lol poor rocko.

Oh I was very aware of them all not being there.

Why weren’t they there though? Were they afraid? As I said, little ol’ River Horse from Edison, NJ was there

 

[methodology]

Oh I was very aware of them all not being there.

Why weren’t they there though? Were they afraid? As I said, little ol’ River Horse from Edison, NJ was there

Why did they need to be there? These breweries sell out and don't really distribute to stores. There nothing to gain by going there.

If there was a pizza competition in Denver do you think pepe and sally's would? Absolutely not they don't need an imaginary award to know they make the best pizza

 

[Rocktheworld]

Why did they need to be there? These breweries sell out and don't really distribute to stores. There nothing to gain by going there.

If there was a pizza competition in Denver do you think pepe and sally's would? Absolutely not they don't need an imaginary award to know they make the best pizza

Lol okay, sure, they’re too good for and have nothing to gain by participating in the Great American Beer Festival.

And to make the analogy fit, that pizza festival-with-included-judging would have to be in NY. And it would be weak as hell if Pepe didn’t show up.

 

[Fishy]

Why weren’t they here? Little ol’ River Horse from Edison NJ is here

Probably because no one really cares? Unless it was held in Hartford, why spend the money?

I’ll guess that it was held out west, is judged by people from out west, the vast majority of entries were from the west and whatever state hosted the thing was over represented and did really, really well in the awards.

 

[August_West]

Lol okay, sure, they’re too good for and have nothing to gain by participating in the Great American Beer Festival.

And to make the analogy fit, that pizza festival-with-included-judging would have to be in NY. And it would be weak as hell if Pepe didn’t show up.

Great American Beer Festival?

That’s reserved for the likes of Sam Adams and other 3rd tier try hard swill. Didn’t Sam Adams trumpet their wins at the GABF for years?



What a weird hill to choose to die on here

 

[HuskyHawk]

Lol poor dumb Auggie

Gold medals across IPA categories last night:

Societe- session ipa (San Diego)

Alaro- English ipa (Sacramento)

Tin roof- hazy (baton rouge)

Root down- ipa (phoenixville pa)

Noble- imperial ipa (anaheim)

Black market - imperial hazy (Temecula)

Four Gold medals went to Miller Lite. There are few things more reliable than that medals at beer competitions are not an indication of great beer (nor that it isn't great, they mean nothing).

 

[HuskyHawk]

Why weren’t they here? Little ol’ River Horse from Edison NJ is here

Because it isn't worth the effort, and beers not made for distribution get no benefit. Why bother when none of your beer lasts more than a couple of days? Added to that, those competitions are judged to style. So a Pilsner I actually like, like say Mary from Hill Farmstead, could never win. The styles they judge to are old settled styles. They finally added "juicy or hazy" pale ale and Double India Pale Ale, but I seriously doubt that the people there could recognize a good one.

 

[Rocktheworld]

Probably because no one really cares? Unless it was held in Hartford, why spend the money?

Actually you didn’t even need to show up yourself. There were many brewers guilds representatives there with single beers from breweries within their given state. And lol “spend the money” because Trillium is so strapped for cash

I’ll guess that it was held out west, is judged by people from out west, the vast majority of entries were from the west and whatever state hosted the thing was over represented and did really, really well in the awards.

Lol okay

 

[HuskyHawk]

Lol poor dumb Auggie

Gold medals across IPA categories last night:

Societe- session ipa (San Diego)

Alaro- English ipa (Sacramento)

Tin roof- hazy (baton rouge)

Root down- ipa (phoenixville pa)

Noble- imperial ipa (anaheim)

Black market - imperial hazy (Temecula)

I'll look for the Tin Roof - Voodoo when I am in NOLA this weekend. See how it compares.

But I honestly hold these events in very low regard. Same for Spirits competitions. The San Francisco one is best known and the results are usually laughably awful.

Here is the list of participating breweries. Breweries at the Festival - Great American Beer Festival Not a single one of the top 20 or so New England breweries is there. You might make a case for Night Shift.