Beer!

My last Boulevard Rye On Rye On Rye.  I sure hope they do this one again next year.

Goose Island Brasserie Noir

It's an imperial stout I picked up today.  Quite good and quite potent (11.8% ABV)

Stopped at a new, localish, taphouse last night and had Half Pipe which is a red ale. It was so smooth, could almost chug it.

I did something this week that I haven't done in a while... I tried some new beers!

Prior to the Snowpocalypse storm that hit New Jersey this week, I figured it would probably be a good idea to have beers on hand in case I was gonna be snowed in with the wife/kids/dog.

So on my way home from work Tuesday night I stopped at a new beer store - well, it's not "new," I've been driving past it for years, but it was new to me cuz I'd never checked it out before. The town it's located in has a large Polish/Russian/Eastern European population, so they had an entire section devoted to "Polish Beers" with weird names I"d never seen before.

I was feeling adventurous so I picked up four-packs (16 oz. cans) of two different beers, simply cuz I thought the labels looked cool. "Tyskie" and "Tatra" both turned out to be pretty tasty lagers, with a bigger kick than your average beer (5.3% for Tyskie and 6.0% for Tatra). Poland's got some pretty good beers. Who knew? I may have to stop in that store again for further experimentation.




(Random observation: the guy on the Tatra can looks like Indiana Jones. Haha.)

Never heard of either one but both HAVE to be better than your typical beer fare.

And now that I'm on the Toho Beer Diet where I only drink 2 beers a day, I don't even bother with anything less than 9% ABV because I want my "money's worth".

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Never heard of either one but both HAVE to be better than your typical beer fare.

Hey now, I haven't had a PBR in more than a year... I'm branchin' out in my old age

Better late than never.  

And I'm up to 42lbs and 5 inches of belly fat lost so I'm sticking with the "fewer beers but higher ABV" strategy.

^^ Nice! I'm down about 40 lbs. since New Year's Day 2017. Part of it is the change in diet, but I also don't drink nearly as much as I used to. This Snowmageddon stock-up was a special occasion, however

It's amazing how much weight you can lose by simply cutting back on the beer.  Add in healthier eating and some exercise and it gets even better.  I never thought it would be possible to lose this much weight at my age. At your age it should be a breeze.

I was out driving around in my old haunts across the river yesterday and found a new beer store opened up where a Toys R Us used to be.  Since that area is really hoity toity I figured I'd stop in and maybe score some "hifilutin'" beers.  I did.

Boulevard Manhattan Cask Ale - A stout aged in barrels that previously held premixed Manhattans
Goose Island Brasserie Noir - Stout aged in cabernet barrels
Decadent Ales Citra - A triple IPA
Against The Grain Brewery London Balling - A barrel-aged barleywine
Evil Twin Pecan Pie Even More Jesus - another variation on their EMJ stout but this one has molasses and pecan extract

...and 5 more bottles of Schlafly's Bourbon Barrel Aged Quad - this stuff had been out of stock everywhere for a couple weeks now so I wiped out the shelf when I found some more.

I've been educating myself on the barleywine style of beer.  I thought I didn't like them because Schlafly used to make a bourbon barrel aged one that looked a lot like their bourbon barrel stout bottle and when I bought one accidently it was a total drainpour.  But it turns out I like the British barleywine style, not the American.  English barleywine is also called "old ale" which I didn't know until the other day.  I like old ales. The English barleywine style has much more of a malt presence and very little hops. The American version is the other way round.

So today I went to the local beer store looking for English barleywine beers and I found one.  I also found a boatload of other stuff.  Like Stone Totalitarian Imperial Russian stout.  It's 10.2% ABV and comes in a sixer.  I don't think I've ever seen a six pack beer with that high an ABV.

I also found something from Avery that's a Belgian quintuple.  I didn't even know there was such a thing.

Hey, guys...I'm back!

Was down in Memphis on a business trip recently, the company took us out for dinner at The Flying Saucer and they had Founder's Breakfast Stout on tap.....with an open bar.

It's very nice when the company picks up your bar tab, that all I have to say.

I bet Founder's Breakfast Stout on tap is extremely tasty!  Tastes even better when you're not paying for it.

It was really good...that's kind of my favorite beer anyway.

Trying a new cheese and the website for it suggested some beers that it goes with (Stout, IPA, and Bock). I don't do IPAs and I don't have any stout but I did have this:



First beer I've had in months. Of course I had my first real easy work day in months too. When I'm too tired beer wipes me out.

Fat Freddy wrote:

I did something this week that I haven't done in a while... I tried some new beers!

Prior to the Snowpocalypse storm that hit New Jersey this week, I figured it would probably be a good idea to have beers on hand in case I was gonna be snowed in with the wife/kids/dog.

So on my way home from work Tuesday night I stopped at a new beer store - well, it's not "new," I've been driving past it for years, but it was new to me cuz I'd never checked it out before. The town it's located in has a large Polish/Russian/Eastern European population, so they had an entire section devoted to "Polish Beers" with weird names I"d never seen before.

I was feeling adventurous so I picked up four-packs (16 oz. cans) of two different beers, simply cuz I thought the labels looked cool. "Tyskie" and "Tatra" both turned out to be pretty tasty lagers, with a bigger kick than your average beer (5.3% for Tyskie and 6.0% for Tatra). Poland's got some pretty good beers. Who knew? I may have to stop in that store again for further experimentation.




(Random observation: the guy on the Tatra can looks like Indiana Jones. Haha.)

Tyskie is insanely popular where I live as we have a massive Polish community. Never tried it because I gave up drinking before all of the Polish workers came but I have had a few Polish beers and they are almost up there with German and Czech beers (If you get your hands on some Czech Budweiser, you will realize that you are getting royally screwed with the American swill)

Boris2008 wrote:

(If you get your hands on some Czech Budweiser, you will realize that you are getting royally screwed with the American swill)

Along those lines, this morning our local news had an item about Anheuser Busch breweries in the US competing to conserve water usage. 

I just laughed out loud.  I won't drink a Budweiser even if it's free; I'd rather drink water.  Same thing.

Just got back from the store with some milf.

That's M.I.L.F. as in Mother's Imperial Liquid Fantasy.  It's a barrel aged imperial stout from Mother's brewing company out of Springfield, MO.  They just started distributing in this area.

Destihl Brewing's Here Gose Nothin' from their Wild Sour series

Picked up this new Lakewood Lt. Edition:



I'll be trying it after I eat my Subway.

DallasBlack wrote:

Picked up this new Lakewood Lt. Edition:



I'll be trying it after I eat my Subway.

A Coconut imperial milk stout?  I'm in!

Tonight I had a pint of Evil Twin Brewing's "Big Ass Money Stout".

I only had the one pint can but at an ABV of 17.50% that's all you need.  It was good but I don't think I'd buy it again.  If I'm going to drink a "big ass" stout like that I prefer Dogfish Head's World Wide Stout.

tohostudios wrote:

DallasBlack wrote:

Picked up this new Lakewood Lt. Edition:



I'll be trying it after I eat my Subway.

A Coconut imperial milk stout?  I'm in!

You'd like it, it is quite good!

Just saw the ABV, it is quite strong (9.1) too! I'm drinking it after sampling several liquors so I'm sure I will be feeling it tonight .

DallasBlack wrote:

Just saw the ABV, it is quite strong (9.1) too! I'm drinking it after sampling several liquors so I'm sure I will be feeling it tonight .

Since I've cut way back on my beer consumption (no more than two per day) I don't even drink anything less than 9%.  In fact I gave away a whole bunch of beer because I knew I wouldn't drink it.   It's like a lot of food I've also given up; I may enjoy the taste but it has to be worth the calories.