the wicked child wrote:I'm not fond of watermelon to begin with, so the thought of it in beer makes me feel nauseous.
I love watermelon and I didn't like this beer. I don't think it tasted anything like watermelon at all. Then again, and outside of watermelon I don't like anything that's watermelon flavored
Full Pint Chinookie, if you're into IPA's. If you prefer something smoother, less 'hoppy', Its Oktoberfest... many great regional brews from East PA like Stoudts and Victory, as well as the more traditional Penn & Hofbrau's available all over.
Pitt87 wrote:Full Pint Chinookie, if you're into IPA's. If you prefer something smoother, less 'hoppy', Its Oktoberfest... many great regional brews from East PA like Stoudts and Victory, as well as the more traditional Penn & Hofbrau's available all over.
I think regional brewers need to get together and offer regional, seasonal variety packs.
Pitt87 wrote:Full Pint Chinookie, if you're into IPA's. If you prefer something smoother, less 'hoppy', Its Oktoberfest... many great regional brews from East PA like Stoudts and Victory, as well as the more traditional Penn & Hofbrau's available all over.
I think regional brewers need to get together and offer regional, seasonal variety packs.
Pitt87 wrote:Full Pint Chinookie, if you're into IPA's. If you prefer something smoother, less 'hoppy', Its Oktoberfest... many great regional brews from East PA like Stoudts and Victory, as well as the more traditional Penn & Hofbrau's available all over.
I think regional brewers need to get together and offer regional, seasonal variety packs.
That would be fricken awesome.
I think i'm on to something here. How do we get this started?
Pitt87 wrote:Full Pint Chinookie, if you're into IPA's. If you prefer something smoother, less 'hoppy', Its Oktoberfest... many great regional brews from East PA like Stoudts and Victory, as well as the more traditional Penn & Hofbrau's available all over.
Yeah, lots of good stuff in central/eastern PA. Troegs and Weyerbacher stand out.
Pitt87 wrote:Full Pint Chinookie, if you're into IPA's. If you prefer something smoother, less 'hoppy', Its Oktoberfest... many great regional brews from East PA like Stoudts and Victory, as well as the more traditional Penn & Hofbrau's available all over.
I think regional brewers need to get together and offer regional, seasonal variety packs.
That would be fricken awesome.
I think i'm on to something here. How do we get this started?
Call your PA congressman and ask them to please relax the beer sales laws and let places like Giant Eagle to let me buy a *&#$*&#$ six pack with my *$^#@*! groceries.
When my wife and I go to State College for the first football weekend at PSU, Wegmans is the first place we go, and we stock up on mixed sixers of seasonals and fest biers. The fridge at our condo is GLORIOUS.
Pitt87 wrote:Call your PA congressman and ask them to please relax the beer sales laws and let places like Giant Eagle to let me buy a *&#$*&#$ six pack with my *$^#@*! groceries.
When my wife and I go to State College for the first football weekend at PSU, Wegmans is the first place we go, and we stock up on mixed sixers of seasonals and fest biers. The fridge at our condo is GLORIOUS.
A fair number of our local Giant Eagles are heading in that direction. The Market District in Robinson sells beer, as does the Giant Eagle near me in West View. My favorite Giant Eagle in McIntyre Square on McKnight Road recently had one of those orange “application for liquor license” signs in its window, so I think a beer café is on the way there are well.
Cracked the Sierra/Dogfish collaboration Life and Limb. It's classified as an American Strong Ale and is really a nice drinking beer for 10.2 ABV. The smell is very stout like, but the mouthfeel is thin with lots of dark fruit flavors you'd expect from a Belgian Strong Ale, finished with a nice hop bite at the end. With these two brewers it's obviously well crafted and certainly helped with a nice bittering hop addition. I'd prefer a bit more hops up front, but since I picked up two 750mls I'll age the second one.
UVM2003 wrote:Cracked the Sierra/Dogfish collaboration Life and Limb. It's classified as an American Strong Ale and is really a nice drinking beer for 10.2 ABV. The smell is very stout like, but the mouthfeel is thin with lots of dark fruit flavors you'd expect from a Belgian Strong Ale, finished with a nice hop bite at the end. With these two brewers it's obviously well crafted and certainly helped with a nice bittering hop addition. I'd prefer a bit more hops up front, but since I picked up two 750mls I'll age the second one.
UVM2003 wrote:Cracked the Sierra/Dogfish collaboration Life and Limb. It's classified as an American Strong Ale and is really a nice drinking beer for 10.2 ABV. The smell is very stout like, but the mouthfeel is thin with lots of dark fruit flavors you'd expect from a Belgian Strong Ale, finished with a nice hop bite at the end. With these two brewers it's obviously well crafted and certainly helped with a nice bittering hop addition. I'd prefer a bit more hops up front, but since I picked up two 750mls I'll age the second one.
Gotta try this
It's very solid - and not surprisingly it got better as it warmed. I'd of preferred pouring it at 50-55 rather than 42 degrees. Solid brew.
Picked a case of pumkin last night, they had a handful of them over at the distributor on west liberty avenue. I talked to my friend last night as well...said he spent over $500 stocking up on pumpkin beers this year.
I like idea, but the few I've had were too sweet for my taste.
Maybe I just had a bad version.
He's obsessed with pumpkin beers, he's the one who got me into them back in 2008. I'm pretty sure that he's partly responsible for the pumpkin beer craze in this city, he would go to most of the bars that had it on tap and rave about pumpkin to anyone that would listen to him. Back in 08 we would go to Harris Grill every other night till they kicked their ST pumpkin keg.
Kraftster wrote:Have a friend from Portland in town this weekend. He brought more beer than clothes, so I'll have some good stuff to review over this weekend.
A weekend of debauchery with Portland beers.
Kraftster is about to earn another hipster stripe, whether he wants it or not.
UVM2003 wrote:Cracked the Sierra/Dogfish collaboration Life and Limb. It's classified as an American Strong Ale and is really a nice drinking beer for 10.2 ABV. The smell is very stout like, but the mouthfeel is thin with lots of dark fruit flavors you'd expect from a Belgian Strong Ale, finished with a nice hop bite at the end. With these two brewers it's obviously well crafted and certainly helped with a nice bittering hop addition. I'd prefer a bit more hops up front, but since I picked up two 750mls I'll age the second one.
Gotta try this
It's very solid - and not surprisingly it got better as it warmed. I'd of preferred pouring it at 50-55 rather than 42 degrees. Solid brew.
Now, if I could just get my hands on Stone 15...
i'm obsessed with heavy duty belgian beer. ever try saint bernardus 12?
Kraftster wrote:Have a friend from Portland in town this weekend. He brought more beer than clothes, so I'll have some good stuff to review over this weekend.
A weekend of debauchery with Portland beers.
Kraftster is about to earn another hipster stripe, whether he wants it or not.
shmenguin wrote:
i'm obsessed with heavy duty belgian beer. ever try saint bernardus 12?
I'm a huge Belgian quad fan myself. I love St bernardus 12, Rochefort 10, etc.
I encourage you to seek out a Westvleteran 12. It's rare but you can secure bottles via uncommon means, ie eBay, beer clubs, etc. The Abbey that brews it doesn't like its beer to be resold so you pay a premium. In Rome I paid 10 euro, and I pay about 25 a bottle here in the US. If you're a Belgian strong fan it's worth checking out, even with the high price tags.
