STOUT Season - What are your favorite brews?
downtownrobbrown
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Rocking a case of this for the holidays.
downtownrobbrown
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Lovin this for the Holidays!
Co-fucking-sign. Anything Founder's has made is amazing, in my opinion.
In the vein of Stouts, I've been a big fan of this muh' fukka:
This has always been my IPA of choice, when I have the guap:
The local brewery here in Charleston has a bad ass porter that I've been digging for a while now. Holy City Pluff Mud Porter. They only do draught brew...no bottles, so I don't have a pic...best I could do is a pic of the tap handles:
The best cheap beer I get this time of year is this though...
...it's as cheap as the main stream piss but has way more taste.
Cheers, Strut...
love the simple label on that one.
In the fridge:
Chimay Blue
Dogfish Midas Touch
Sam Smith Nut Brown
I wonder how well this goes down with the Irish diaspora, LOL.
*cross-thread craic ;-)
Well......shit.
EDIT: And I googled 'craic'.......well played.
My local bar in Brooklyn always has a tap for Avery, I always looked forward to their porter and stout.
Keegan's Mother's Milk is another personal favorite.
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I know a guy that buys these up from Whole Foods at $11.99 a bottle. Waits a few months and sells them online for $50-60.
I buy these up from Whole Foods and drink them all.
If you get a chance to try a nice fresh "Lunch" IPA from them, do so. It's ridiculous. I've got a few Mean Old Tom's from different dates sitting in my basement too, haven't had one in awhile. Real nice and smooth.
Founder's Breakfast is wonderful, I still have some left over from my case from last year. Same with the Imperial Stout from them, I think that comes out again next month. If you like barley wines, try and get some Bolt Cutter. It came out this week but is expensive.
Goose Island Bourbon County is much easier to get this year, they brewed 10x more than last year.
Southern Tier's Mokah and Choklat are top notch also.
Yeah, man. Their Imperial Choklat is ridiculous. I had the privilege of having that on tap sometime last year and it was amazing.
Source: brewmaniacs.com via Bryan on Pinterest
you beat me to it. i have one of these sitting in my fridge. I'm not a huge stout person, but this is amazing.
also got my hands on this epic brew:
Hopefully its still good.
Waiting for a nice snow day to enjoy them.
going by the date on the label I'm sure they'll claim they had the name before it's more sinister meaning came about. Still, not something I ever expect to see on off licence shelves in my locality...
Whoa...you made me 'google' alternative Black and Tan meanings. Hell of a read. Thanks for that. Also, the date on the label is just the age of the Brewery not that specific drink...so who knows.
At any rate, the drink ain't bad...and for the price it's great.
What'd you do to get the CBS? I'm sitting on 3 of them, got two when they came out and drank one, traded for one and paid 60 for the last one. Up to my ears in KBS from the last two years as well.
I've lost touch with how to post photos on here unfortunately, every time I try it's a colossal failure. I'm @mattysween on instagram, have a load of beer photos on there.
I made a trade with someone in the area a little while back. i sent him a Pliny the Elder and an Alpine Nelson. I live in LA, so it's nearly impossible to get my hands on anything from Founders.
I've never had the KBS...would love to make a trade with you!
This is coming to NY, if you can wait a few weeks.
And to add to the thread, from Belgium t' Smisje Catherine the Great is really tasty
Abyss is so good we like to drink ours and snack on chocolate covered bacon. Heaven.
rooklyn Black Ops does not exist. However, if it did exist, it would be a robust stout concocted by the Brooklyn brewing team under cover of secrecy and hidden from everyone else at the brewery. Supposedly ???Black ops??? was aged for four months in bourbon barrels, bottled flat, and re-fermented with Champagne yeast, creating big chocolate and coffee flavors with a rich underpinning of vanilla-like oat notes. They say there are only 1,000 cases. We have no idea what they???re talking about.???
Great Divide Yeti has some good variations
On the less rare trip these are always in my fridge
I can't do porters cause I end up wishing they were stronger like stouts.
Try Baltic/Imperial Porters. Victory, and Smuttynose make great ones.
I'm not much of a beer drinker myself (I stay on that cold gin like Paul Stanley), but I hit a few spots today on my way here and there looking for those Goose Island jernts for you, and no dice. I'm gonna check one more place on my way to my kid's school ("It's a classy move"), but I am not optimistic, as it's over by th' cawledge, and thus frequented by professors and other top-hat types that drink beer out of actual glasses, and thus more likely to be tapped-out on the boutique strongwaters. I'll let you know.
If, however, you ever find youself needing some flavored brandy in a bottle shaped like a woman's shoe, holler. I now know a place.
What flavor brandy, and what size shoe?
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