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Trying these today...4.7% session from:
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Beer for art's sake. FAB: We are a gypsy brewery based out of Somerville and brewing at Dorchester Brewing in Boston.

Very god, plus, plus they set up the can art so you can peel it off the can and stick it wherever you want, or as call it, inside the shed.

Have to give these props...have purchased several times now. I am a normally "4 pack averse" kinda guy because there are so many 6ers in the $10-11 range that are good...but these are pretty tasty.
 
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Have to give these props...have purchased several times now. I am a normally "4 pack averse" kinda guy because there are so many 6ers in the $10-11 range that are good...but these are pretty tasty.
4 Packs always give me the heebie jeebies, plus they’re always like incredibly expensive.
 
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Had some Cloud Candy on tap today, extremely tasty full flavored, cloudy juicy in the Trillium/Treehouse styles but much more affordable per my fellow taste testers.
 
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When is the IPA craze going to end? My store stopped carrying Unibroue because they simply don't sell enough. Come on people, drink more Belgian beers please!
 
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When is the IPA craze going to end? My store stopped carrying Unibroue because they simply don't sell enough. Come on people, drink more Belgian beers please!
Not a Corona or Belgian Ale fan...but I do love me some F and F...


 

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When is the IPA craze going to end? My store stopped carrying Unibroue because they simply don't sell enough. Come on people, drink more Belgian beers please!
fwiw, when I make Belgian meatballs, I use Golden Monkey (Southern Tier). One can goes in the sauce, one can goes in me.
 
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fwiw, when I make Belgian meatballs, I use Golden Monkey (Southern Tier). One can goes in the sauce, one can goes in me.

But, Belgian Ale in a can? Have never seen that before.
 

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But, Belgian Ale in a can? Have never seen that before.
American ingenuity ;)

Bonus for me is cans are curbside recycling, glass is not. I'd put it a hair below FdM, but it's still good.
 

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When is the IPA craze going to end? My store stopped carrying Unibroue because they simply don't sell enough. Come on people, drink more Belgian beers please!

It isn't going to end. New England IPAs are probably 2/3 the cooler at my local shops. They get way more space than even Bud Light.

Do you really have a hard time finding Belgian Ales? They sit on the shelves collecting dust mostly. I love a nice Chimay Bleu or Abt 12 now and then but can't drink them often. Despite your comment about Golden Monkey in cans, Unibroue would sell more in cans. I sometimes see the four packs, but usually it is the big format bottles that people hate.

I should drink more of those Belgian beers, and more Ayinger Celebrator too. It's interesting that they are now cheaper than the IPAs I drink. @Yardigan is evidently not buying $16-20 4 packs like I am.
 
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It isn't going to end. New England IPAs are probably 2/3 the cooler at my local shops. They get way more space than even Bud Light.

Do you really have a hard time finding Belgian Ales? They sit on the shelves collecting dust mostly. I love a nice Chimay Bleu or Abt 12 now and then but can't drink them often. Despite your comment about Golden Monkey in cans, Unibroue would sell more in cans. I sometimes see the four packs, but usually it is the big format bottles that people hate.

I should drink more of those Belgian beers, and more Ayinger Celebrator too. It's interesting that they are now cheaper than the IPAs I drink. @Yardigan is evidently not buying $16-20 4 packs like I am.

The problem with Belgians in cans is that many of them are supposed to be exposed to continuous filtered light.

My problem is just with Unibroue disappearing from local stores. It's just better/cheaper than the alternatives (Ommegang, Allagash, Singlecut). The beers from Belgian are typically either not as good or else they are tripels and quads which are special occasion beers.
 
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American ingenuity ;)

Bonus for me is cans are curbside recycling, glass is not. I'd put it a hair below FdM, but it's still good.

That's a pretty high recommendation. & Southern Tier is local to me--& I've never tried it!
 
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Not gonna to go back and read this entire thread. Variety is the spice of life. That said:

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Not gonna to go back and read this entire thread. Variety is the spice of life. That said:

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Quite another topic, but I recently saw the Beastie Boys movie on Showtime, and I never realized how this song practically ended their careers. It became a frat anthem, which made the hip hop community disown them, and the boys themselves started partying with frat boys. They were kicked to the curb soon after that by Russell Simmons and their manager. It took a few years for them to get serious.
 

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Heady and Focal are now being distributed to CT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL


Omg. I figured the beer tourism in Burlington was probably hurting. Not surprised that Alchemist is broadening distribution.
 

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Yes, and the local place is only selling 2 cans at a time.
 
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Citation needed on this one.

Well, I was wrong about the light. Was always told they need to be in bottles, but I now realize it's because bottles are stronger than cans and can withstand the secondary fermenting process in the bottles.


 
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It isn't going to end. New England IPAs are probably 2/3 the cooler at my local shops. They get way more space than even Bud Light.

Do you really have a hard time finding Belgian Ales? They sit on the shelves collecting dust mostly. I love a nice Chimay Bleu or Abt 12 now and then but can't drink them often. Despite your comment about Golden Monkey in cans, Unibroue would sell more in cans. I sometimes see the four packs, but usually it is the big format bottles that people hate.

I should drink more of those Belgian beers, and more Ayinger Celebrator too. It's interesting that they are now cheaper than the IPAs I drink. @Yardigan is evidently not buying $16-20 4 packs like I am.

No, he most certainly is not spending $16 four packs.... ;)
 

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Well, I was wrong about the light. Was always told they need to be in bottles, but I now realize it's because bottles are stronger than cans and can withstand the secondary fermenting process in the bottles.



Yes, it definitely isn't light. Light destroys beer. It is why Heineken always tasted skunked in the USA. It was. Stella almost stopped exporting to the U.S. because they hated the way their beer tasted here. So many European brands have now gone to cans or dark bottles (not green) with cardboard packaging that prevents light.

But yeah, bottle fermented beers need to be in bottles. But they don't have to be in the big ones.
 

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Heady and Focal are now being distributed to CT, THIS IS NOT A DRILL



Missed opportunity that they didn't do it when it would disappear off shelves in minutes. Now it almost certainly won't be the best DIPA and IPA in the store.
 

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