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[Chin Diesel]

Also judging by the extraordinary growth in the company a lot of other people do too. I agree it is probably in the Sam Adams genre maybe a little below but I love the 420 as my workhorse beer. I dont always want to drink a beer thats overly spiced and rich and has more stuff in it than a fruit cake. Water, hops , Barley and yeast pretty simple stuff and it will taste good and refreshing.

Also sweetwater is occasionally seen in The Walking Dead. So if its good to drink before the apocolypse got to be good!

Took me a long time to "get" the 420 reference. For the longest time I figured it had to do with an off-shoot of I-20 which goes through Atlanta.
It takes on a whole different meaning if you look at it as 4:20.

 

[Srqhusky]

Took me a long time to "get" the 420 reference. For the longest time I figured it had to do with an off-shoot of I-20 which goes through Atlanta.
It takes on a whole different meaning if you look at it as 4:20.

Check this out.

Could this be why it's 420. I snapped this when shopping at total wine.

 

[uconnfan68]

Something to enjoy on those cold winter nights in New England.

Blue Point Brewing Company's Sour Cherry Stout


http://www.pnj.com/article/20130206/LIFE/302060008/Beer-Garden-toast-Blue-Point-s-brewing-gear


The name only refers to the tart, fresh cherries added to the beer during fermentation. Not sour whatsoever, this Russian Imperial Stout is so dark brown that it’s almost black. A milk-chocolate head fluffs up tall and recedes to a nice thin cap that stays for the duration. It’s deeply scented with toast, coffee, vanilla, cocoa and a touch of maraschino. Flavors are rich and rewarding; creamy dark chocolate, roasted grain and candied cherry with a smooth texture.

Do you eat it or drink it?

 

[Chin Diesel]

Do you eat it or drink it?

I walk right past it. I hardly ever drink a stout or a bock. I'm definitely an ale and pilsner kind of guy. And an occasional IPA.

 

[Alum86]

I just want to be able to buy Yuengling in CT.
Sorry, not very exotic, but a good beer.

 

[uconnfan68]

I walk right past it. I hardly ever drink a stout or a bock. I'm definitely an ale and pilsner kind of guy. And an occasional IPA.

I'm with you, but probably more into the IPAs.

 

[coachcap]

I'm a fan of the Bock beers available in the spring. Glissade by Sierra Nevada is always eagerly anticipated. I couldn't get it in 2012. I'm hoping that it's reintroduced this season.

 

[Srqhusky]

Any home brewers on this thread want to do an exchange at a uconn game this year?

 

[Uconnalliance]

Sweetwater fills a role similar to Sam Adams. It's widely available, it's consistent and there's enough choices to cover pairing up with the essential food groups (Nachos, wings, fried platters, hoagies, burgers and Jaeger Bombs).

Holy someone finally said Jaeger!!!!!

 

[BoatShow]

I picked up Sam's IPA-Hopology sampler to ride out the storm.

 

[junglehusky]

Had a winter storm happy hour at work on friday, we picked up two of Full Sail brewery's Session lagers. The regular lager and the black lager. Pretty tasty, apparently the Session series is based on pre-prohibition recipies. I'll have to see if I can spot the red lager.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Going in another direction, who is familiar with what a "firkin" is?

It's a quick to drink after tapped, small batched brewed.

This is one from Abita, a great Louisiana beer. Their Purple Haze is fantastic year round. During the spring they produce a strawberry beer which is fantastic for summer cookouts. If you see, grab some.

So, if us fans do have to travel to Tulane for football, here's one more good thing to add to the list.

http://www.pnj.com/article/20130213/ENTERTAINMENT05/302130014/Beer-Garden-Hopjacks-celebrates-5-hoppy-years

Staying busy through the weekend, we’re presenting a special firkin event with our friends from Abita Brewing. A firkin is a refillable keg that breweries top off with a specialty concoction not usually found from their hands. At 6 p.m. Friday, we’re tapping a very flavorful British Mild.
The beer style is perfect for a firkin. Traditionally, British Mild ale was always a cask beer and, therefore, very lightly carbonated via natural fermentation.
In this age of bottle-conditioned, high-alcohol-by-volume everything and overdoses of hops, a smooth, light-bodied yet flavorful classic ale is a breath of fresh air. Low hop content allows the malt to take center stage with caramel, biscuit and a touch of toffee.
The quintessential session beer, the bubbles and alcohol are kept at a minimum without losing body or flavor. The idea is to enjoy a lot of this without getting goofy. Keep in mind that Abita probably won’t make this again, at least for a long, long time.

 

[HuskyDogArt]

I just want to be able to buy Yuengling in CT.
Sorry, not very exotic, but a good beer.

I go to the Yuengling brewery about 3 times a month to tour the plant. If anyone ever visit BUSCH GARDENS, you should visit its neighbor. (No, it isn't A-B's old plant, it was a Millers brewery.). Matter of Fact, Busch Gardens gets their beer from them.

 

[Alum86]

Suzy needs to cozy up to Dick Yuengling as well as Delany. We need their black and tan as well as a B1G 10 invite

 

[huskypantz]

I go to the Yuengling brewery about 3 times a month to tour the plant. If anyone ever visit BUSCH GARDENS, you should visit its neighbor. (No, it isn't A-B's old plant, it was a Millers brewery.). Matter of Fact, Busch Gardens gets their beer from them.

Interesting, didn't know they had a brewery there. Yuengling was always my beer of choice when I lived in Philly.

 

[HuskyNan]

My husband's birthday is coming up and one of the things I was considering giving him as a gift is a beer cooler. Does anyone have any experience with them? Most of the coolers I've seen are basically soda coolers, which would work for canned beer, but the beers my husband drinks come mostly in bottles. Does anyone have any recommendations?

 

[Fishy]

How much beer does this man drink? And what are you doing to drive him to it?

Are you making him watch women's basketball again?

I've never seen a cooler meant for beer bottles, specifically - maybe a wine bottle cooler would work?

Otherwise, I recommend this...

 

[prankster]

My husband's birthday is coming up and one of the things I was considering giving him as a gift is a beer cooler. Does anyone have any experience with them? Most of the coolers I've seen are basically soda coolers, which would work for canned beer, but the beers my husband drinks come mostly in bottles. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Your husband is a luck man to have you for a wife, Nan!

 

[HuskyNan]

How much beer does this man drink? And what are you doing to drive him to it?

Are you making him watch women's basketball again?

I've never seen a cooler meant for beer bottles, specifically - maybe a wine bottle cooler would work?

Hey, I watched 10 years of really awful Notre Dame football games - the guy can watch a few women's basketball games. If he needs a couple of beers to get through them, I can live with that.

We had a wine cooler, basically a cube refrigerator thingie, that died after 2 years. I was hoping someone here had had a good experience with a cooler that might be more dependable.

 

[jleves]

Not sure what your budget is, but this looks cool (so to speak):
Beer Cooler

 

[huskymedic]

If you really, really love him... "The Beer Cave"!

 

[storrsroars]

So you can work on increasing your score.

The Iron Pigs, Philly's AAA team in Lehigh Valley, will be the first US professional sports team to introduce interactive urinal games.

I suppose it won't work at the college level due to Title IX concerns.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Took the advice of several BY'ers and tried a sampler case this weekend- Summertime, 312, IPA and Honker Ale.

I like them all. The Summertime worked real well with the surf-n-turf skewers we were grilling.

Definitely a trump card when travelling on the road and surveying the tap handles in local pubs.

 

[CTGoonie]

Isn't Goose Island owned by Bud or Coors or something like that? Last year a guy in the industry told me it was but there is nothing on the bottle that says so.

That being said I used to drink summer brews all summer long but since last year I've migrated to just IPA's and Newcastle. Sierra Nevada Torpedo is pretty damn good.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Isn't Goose Island owned by Bud or Coors or something like that? Last year a guy in the industry told me it was but there is nothing on the bottle that says so.

That being said I used to drink summer brews all summer long but since last year I've migrated to just IPA's and Newcastle. Sierra Nevada Torpedo is pretty damn good.

They're owned by the A-B folks. I don't know how much of it comes from marketing and distribution and how much comes from messing around with ingredients, brewing and bottling.

Even though it started in Chicago the bottles I bought in Florida had a NY bottling location.

It's still good beer.

 

[Srqhusky]

The goose in key west.

 

[CTGoonie]

Agreed that it is still good beer but I just can't get past the fact that it is not a true micro-brew. Don't get me wrong, I'd still drink it though!

 

[Kgun7]

My wife and I try to sample local flavors whenever we travel. In Boston last weekend I told the bartender I wanted to sample all the local flavors and I'll start with the Harpoon IPA. Guy next to me says "No brainer ... order the Sam's." Bartender says ... "Good luck with that ... Sam's is brewed and bottled in Cincinnatti ..."

 

[Fishy]

We were in Burlington, Vermont this weekend and I tried something brewed there called "Alchemist Heady Topper".

It was definitely unique.

 

[superjohn]

Goose Island is pretty freaking average. Give me some Alpha King, Gumballhead or Zombie Dust from Three Floyd's brewing or anything at Revolution Brewing or Half Acre out here in Chicago, they blow Goose Island out of the water.