The QuadraphonicQuad Craft Beer/Microbrew thread

[Clint Eastwood]

I can't wait till we have the weed thread, you guys are gonna kill it in cannabis land.

I know one member that would interested

 

[user 1679]

Gotta have my hop-fix, and this time it's Boxing Bear "AlbuMurky" hazy NEIPA (6.8% abv, ibu n/l).

 

[Strilo]

Had another Blood Orange Gose from Anderson Valley over the weekend. Such a nice beer. All their Goses are excellent. Also, one of the Trader Joes Maibocks. They really do a good job of making German beers that are straight up the middle and on style. I've said I could teach a course on German beer using their stuff as examples.

 

[beerking]

Consuming this today from good old Uncle Sam

 

[beerking]

This one disappeared just like that...Also from across the pond

 

[JediJoker]

Also, one of the Trader Joes Maibocks. They really do a good job of making German beers that are straight up the middle and on style. I've said I could teach a course on German beer using their stuff as examples.

Their Weißbiers, along with Sierra Nevada Kellerweiß, are the closest in flavor profile to the real German stuff I have found from the U.S.

 

[Strilo]

Exactly. And their Doppelbock, their Vienna Lager. I think they even have like an Alt and/or a Kölsch.

 

[GOS]

Sam Adams involved in merger....

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/09/business/boston-beer-company-dogfish-head-merger/index.html

 

[The56Kid]

Exactly. And their Doppelbock, their Vienna Lager. I think they even have like an Alt and/or a Kölsch.

Does a Trader Joe’s have a decent IPA?

 

[Strilo]

I don't know. I hate most IPAs so I haven't tried it. I was referring mostly to their mastery of German(ic) style beers.

Also yeah Sam Adams merging with Dogfish Head. Sam Adams is mostly garbage, so I am worried this is the end of DFH, which is the opposite. Amazing beer. I will watch this with great trepidation.

 

[The56Kid]

I don't know. I hate most IPAs so I haven't tried it. I was referring mostly to their mastery of German(ic) style beers.

Also yeah Sam Adams merging with Dogfish Head. Sam Adams is mostly garbage, so I am worried this is the end of DFH, which is the opposite. Amazing beer. I will watch this with great trepidation.

Totally agree on a great brewery like Dogfish Head getting pulled down to the ‘common’ ranks. Grrrr!

 

[user 1679]

A sour to start as usual, just me today though as Mrs D is a bit under the weather.....it's Prairie Artisan (Krebs, OK) "Lil' Nap" blackberry and lime sour (4.5% abv). Pretty nice one, the lime gives the blackberry a bit of extra bite and pucker.

 

[user 1679]

Also yeah Sam Adams merging with Dogfish Head. Sam Adams is mostly garbage, so I am worried this is the end of DFH, which is the opposite. Amazing beer. I will watch this with great trepidation.

Hopefully they know enough to let the DFH people keep on doing what they do, and look at it more as an investment, like what happened with Ballast Point - the buyers let it be known they were not going to mess with a good thing.

 

[user 1679]

I'm now enjoying the latest canned release from local Bosque Brewing - "Spacelion" IPA (6.7% abv, 65 ibu). Their new branding and can designs are very nice, and as multiple national award winners of course what is inside is top-notch too.

 

[Ninecats]

Enjoying an Ayinger Frühlingsbier, a well balanced kellerbier in the German school. This brewey may not be the most experimenting one, but damn the balance and quality in their catalogue is impressive. Oh, I'm having this to the Weather Report - Tale Spinnin' Quad. Both are delicate, somewhat complex, yet very digestable!

 

[user 1679]

Just home from grandson's soccer tournament - his team are champs for their age group (under 11) and he's got another medal for his growing collection (he's got a few from chess tournaments too)...great job little dude! So why not celebrate with a brew....another can of Bosque Brewing "Spacelion" IPA (6.7% abv, 65 ibu)

 

[user 1679]

Another IPA for me - La Cumbre "Project Dank - Spring 2019 Edition" (7.5% abv, 100+ ibu)...awesome piney dankness....just 2 or 3 more cans left now.

 

[user 1679]

Sour time, sharing with Mrs D - Prairie Artisan Ales "Blueberry Boyfriend" (blueberry & lemon zest - 5.4% abv). Yet another pretty good sour from this fine Oklahoma outfit.

 

[user 1679]

IPA time, and it's what looks to be my 2nd-last can of La Cumbre "Project Dank - Spring Edition" (7.5% abv, 100+ ibu)...summer edition ought to be out in the next week or two.

 

[Strilo]

Took a trip to the coast this past weekend and visited both Buoy and Fort George. Such great beers at both. I had to get a sampler tray at Buoy to try everything I wanted.