Beer!

I try not to give you too much crap about your beer preferences FF.  Like Sentinel said a few posts back, iif you like the taste, you drink it.  That's what we all do.   I do associate PBR with you though any time I hear something about the brand.

Oh good, they'll continue to push their swill on the unwashed masses.

Dark Horseman wrote:

Oh good, they'll continue to push their swill on the unwashed masses.

Hey now, I'm washed! I took a shower this morning!

You are the cream of swill drinkers.

Had to make a run to Sam's Club today and as usual when I'm in my old haunts of Chesterfield, MO I stopped by Total Wine.  I picked up 6 more bottles of Imperial 3 Blind Mice by Mothers Brewing.  I also picked up a cool Christmas beer by Prairie Artisan Ales called "Christmas Bomb".  It's a stout brewed with spices and weighs in 13% ABV.

The cool thing about this "Christmas Bomb" beer as that the label features "the same" picture on both sides of the bottle except there are 22 differences.  So far I've found 14 of them.  I love puzzles like this and it's what makes me good at my job.

(sigh)I have no beer in the house at the moment and it's very saddening. I hear great things about Prairie but it's not out here.

Had some more flat beer today. A Washington brewery makes a Schwarzbier and it was on Nitro. This is a style that needs more attention.

tohostudios wrote:

Had to make a run to Sam's Club today and as usual when I'm in my old haunts of Chesterfield, MO I stopped by Total Wine.  I picked up 6 more bottles of Imperial 3 Blind Mice by Mothers Brewing.  I also picked up a cool Christmas beer by Prairie Artisan Ales called "Christmas Bomb".  It's a stout brewed with spices and weighs in 13% ABV.

The cool thing about this "Christmas Bomb" beer as that the label features "the same" picture on both sides of the bottle except there are 22 differences.  So far I've found 14 of them.  I love puzzles like this and it's what makes me good at my job.

After a 13% ABV I believe I'd have trouble finding any differences in the pictures.

The beer was pretty good but a little too much spice for a stout IMO. I kept the bottle though; I'm up to 16 differences spotted.

I had another "Criminally Bad Elf" last night.

This is an English barleywine that's kind of watery but it's great for the price.

Dark Horseman wrote:

(sigh)I have no beer in the house at the moment and it's very saddening. I hear great things about Prairie but it's not out here.

BTW, this is unacceptable and needs to be remedied immediately.

Had to pick up some more prescriptions at Sam's Club and as usual when I go there I swung by my favorite "hoity toity" beer store on the east side of the Missouri River. 

Picked up 6 more bottles of Mother's Imperial Three Blind Mice (this is the only place I've seen this beer) as well as two bottles of Schlafly's Christmas Ale (which apparently is now only in bombers) plus a pricey stout by Brooklyn Brewery called "Black Ops".

I had one of these the other night...


It could have tasted like a wringed-out dirty diaper for all I cared. I just bought it because, well, do I really need to explain? Lucky for me, it was pretty damn tasty.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

I had one of these the other night...


It could have tasted like a wringed-out dirty diaper for all I cared. I just bought it because, well, do I really need to explain? Lucky for me, it was pretty damn tasty.

Oooh snap! Must...find!!!

From what i've heard, that's a very good ale. Nice work MG.

Dark Horseman wrote:

From what i've heard, that's a very good ale. Nice work MG.

I just stumbled upon it while I was wandering around the local 6 pack store while my wife was grocery shopping. I'd buy a case of it if it were available, although it's probably pretty pricey. Bottles too. I don't like cans.

Holy Grail ale is pretty good.  I found it at World Market

The local franchise of one of the two big grocery store chains here started a very small "beer snob" section (two shelves) a few months ago but those two shelves have been harboring some surprising finds lately.  A few weeks ago I scored a couple bombers of Founders CBS and yesterday I scored 3 bottles of Goose Island's Bourbon County Stout.  People wait in lines for that stuff!  I picked up the only 3 bottles they had so I don't know if that's it or not; I plan to go back tomorrow to see if they have any more because I could probably sell additional bottles at a profit.

I only had CBS on tap and I thought it was good but it carries a hefty price tag here.

It's pricey here too and frankly I think overrated. It's good but definitely not worth the price.

Scored 2 more bottles of Goose Island Bourbon County Stout and one bottle of Goose Island Bourbon County Orange Midnight Stout at a different grocery store.  These beers are going for STUPID amounts of money on ebay.  In fact I was only at this particular store to do a beer exchange with my friend from work and we decided to check out their beer section because every now and then they have stuff like this.  He bought one of the Goose Island Orange Midnight beers just to sell on Ebay after some guy came up and saw me looking at a bottle of it and said "You better buy that now cuz it will be gone in an hour".   And it's not like that damn beer is cheap; a 1 pint, .9oz bottle was 21.99.  But I just looked it up on Ebay and it's already going for more than twice that.

That can fund buying other beer that isn't overhyped.

And this IS definitely overhyped.  Make no mistake, it's a great stout but good grief, the lengths and expense people apparently go to to obtain it just boggles my mind.

Other then Abyss I think spending more then $15 is too high but maybe if I actually had money lying around I'd think different.

My Daughter's boyfriend brought me a bomber of Rogue Chocolate Stout so he's cool.