Beer

[Dove]

Timber!!!!!!!!

Timber Ales IPA. So good.

 

[Dove]

Don’t know if anyone is getting Schenker in distro, but for those of you who have access to Twelve Percent Beer Project (or its CT-wide free delivery), run and get Joey Peppers’ beers. Everything I’ve had in the Schenker portfolio has been fantastic. Had the newest pale (it’s fantastic) and German pils today. Joey did great things during his years at Folksbier in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. We are lucky to have his beers brewed in CT now.

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I'll give a try.

 

[Yardigan]

Says you. There comes a point where too much is simply too much. I found that point earlier this year. Wife and I both tasted first can and tossed it. Gave the other three to my gutter guy.

And really, fork coconut in anything that's not a curry or pina colada.

Or

 

[Dove]

storrsroars - "Hey Fred. My wife and I almost puked when we tried this beer last night. We'd like you to have it."

 

[storrsroars]

storrsroars - "Hey Fred. My wife and I almost puked when we tried this beer last night. We'd like you to have it."

My gutter guy is in his 20s. That's the demo that seems to embrace these brewing abominations. He gladly took them.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

Don’t know if anyone is getting Schenker in distro, but for those of you who have access to Twelve Percent Beer Project (or its CT-wide free delivery), run and get Joey Peppers’ beers. Everything I’ve had in the Schenker portfolio has been fantastic. Had the newest pale (it’s fantastic) and German pils today. Joey did great things during his years at Folksbier in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. We are lucky to have his beers brewed in CT now.

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I'll parallel this post with the German style beers Nod Hill has been making this summer. Tried their pilsner on cask during their Wednesday trivia and it was fantastic.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Out in California for work in the Palmdale/Lancaster area and trying out some local beers.

Very good summer drinking beer when it's a "yeah but it's a dry heat" 100 degrees.

 

[Dove]

My last Belleflower. "Early Appearance of Stars." A west coastie.

 

[Dove]

Surprised to see Manchester's Labyrinth Brewing at my local North Madison grocer. This quaff is tasty!

 

[HuskyHawk]

Vitamin Sea with a winner. Light body and a different hop character. Almost a bit of banana. Atlantic Sunset.

 

[karstenkibbe]

Vitamin Sea with a winner. Light body and a different hop character. Almost a bit of banana. Atlantic Sunset.

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Love the beer name. Clearly a little play one of the two hops used… Pacific Sunrise. Very unique, fruity flavor profile.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Love the beer name. Clearly a little play one of the two hops used… Pacific Sunrise. Very unique, fruity flavor profile.

Yeah, almost a little bubble gum? Really liked it as a warm weather beer. Refreshing.

 

[karstenkibbe]

Treehouse is just destroying the IPA game these days. Back to that incredibly high standard with the 11th anniversary DIPA. Yum.

 

[Yardigan]

Treehouse is just destroying the IPA game these days. Back to that incredibly high standard with the 11th anniversary DIPA. Yum.

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Not to mention the can art....

 

[storrsroars]

I was shocked, shocked I tell you, to find a couple of beers from Toppling Goliath at our Whole Foods this week. First time I've seen anything from the legendary Iowa brewer around these parts. There were 4 packs of both Psuedo Sue and Pseudo Sue Double Dry Hopped. I picked up the former. It's an unfiltered single hop (citra) pale ale. Not particularly challenging, but grapefruit and mango are there. Quaffable at a relatively sane 5.8 ABV. Not the kind of beer that will be anyone's all-time favorite, but it's well done and enjoyable.

 

[HuskyHawk]

@storrsroars Pseudo Sue is very nice. I continue to enjoy these guys’ beers, even if this one is a but different.

 

[storrsroars]

@storrsroars Pseudo Sue is very nice.

Do they have distribution in MA now? Or is it something you get when you're in Kansas?

 

[HuskyHawk]

Do they have distribution in MA now? Or is it something you get when you're in Kansas?

Been in Mass for several years now. Mass tends to be the first state to get these beers. We were first east of the Mississippi to get Boulevard too. Oddly, I had it here before my cousins in Missouri.

 

[karstenkibbe]

Do they have distribution in MA now? Or is it something you get when you're in Kansas?

TG all over CT since pre-Covid. Always available at BevMax locations in Stamford and Danbury.

 

[karstenkibbe]

@storrsroars Pseudo Sue is very nice. I continue to enjoy these guys’ beers, even if this one is a but different.
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Little Willow having lots of trouble getting distro in CT. I should have stopped in Palmer to get cans when I went up to Treehouse a few weeks ago. I’m in Newport this weekend. He told me he has limited distro in RI. Going to search for it tomorrow.

 

[pepband99]

I was shocked, shocked I tell you, to find a couple of beers from Toppling Goliath at our Whole Foods this week. First time I've seen anything from the legendary Iowa brewer around these parts. There were 4 packs of both Psuedo Sue and Pseudo Sue Double Dry Hopped. I picked up the former. It's an unfiltered single hop (citra) pale ale. Not particularly challenging, but grapefruit and mango are there. Quaffable at a relatively sane 5.8 ABV. Not the kind of beer that will be anyone's all-time favorite, but it's well done and enjoyable.
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A great < 6% IPA is a treasure.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Little Willow having lots of trouble getting distro in CT. I should have stopped in Palmer to get cans when I went up to Treehouse a few weeks ago. I’m in Newport this weekend. He told me he has limited distro in RI. Going to search for it tomorrow.

I’m headed to Long Live today. Looks like some good stuff on tap and in cans.

 

[Dove]

Heading home from Thornton, NH, my wife wanted to hit a store in Keene. Who knew Branch and Blade was just a mile away? Not me. Here is a true juice bomb with galaxy and Idaho 7 hops.

 

[karstenkibbe]

Heading home from Thornton, NH, my wife wanted to hit a store in Keene. Who knew Branch and Blade was just a mile away? Not me. Here is a true juice bomb with galaxy and Idaho 7 hops. View attachment 90875

Nice stop! Big fan of Branch and Blade. They just did a few collabs with breweries in this area.

 

[Patman]

I saw Firefly Hollow in bristol is no longer of this world. I have three of their growlers I want to turn into light fixtures once I get the courage to try to do electrical things again without making it look terrible. The idea is pendant lights over a galley kitchen full of fairy lights inside the growlers. The engineering weakpoint would the metal chain holding the glass growler suspended. The ignorance weakpoint is, well, working the electrical bits without frying the fairy lights.

Fairy (LED) lights plus growler = fireflies.