A little bit of beer education

Ha. Its really funny your talking about craft vs crafted. The definition of a craft brewery is ridiculous. It is whatever Sam Adams says it is. Brewers Association made a fool out of themselves for writing the craft vs crafted stuff. Actually making a list of breweries that arnt craft. HA! what kind of beer is it then? AC Golden's Colorado Native is about as local and craft as a beer can possibly get. 100% CO ingredients, packaging, and sold exclusively in CO. Only 4 Brewers and everything is done by hand.

Oh.. and there is a Blue Moon brewery at Coors field. The Sandlot. They brew some blue moon there and they also make a lot of specialties like there peanut butter beer, proximity and impulse the wine beers, grand cru.

Dont get informed about beer on NS. Tour breweries, homebrew, go to beer dinner pairings, GABF, take cicerone classes and study BJCP. The industry is awesome and there are some sweet jobs to go along with it!
 
after drinking piss beer in college I'd have to say that I'm really into any IPA at this moment. something about them grows on you after a while
 
Holy shit you are on point my friend

I've never had that innis & gunn blonde but my favorite by them is their original nom nom nom and I'll literally drink any unibroue beer available that shit is delicious

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Bump. Just picked up a 6 pack of these yesterday. There wasn't a huge craft beer selection at the beer store but I actually liked these a lot.

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The Left Hand Milk Stout Nitro is awesome. Its a perfect beer for the nitro treatment.

You have untappd?
 
Also just had my first one of these 2 nights ago. Shame I only got 4 bottles total, but I will enjoy every last drop of each of them.

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Popular to the contrary belief, Utah does have real beer thats not watered-down 3.2% piss water. My personal favorite of the local breweries, Always stoked when my parents pick up a few things of it.
 
guiness is not a heavy beer at all. Calories wise its only 90cals a pint. I wouldn't even say its filling either.
 
no but I'll prob check it out. yea I haven't had many nitros and the only other sweet stout I've had is the regular Milk Stout so I'm looking forward to beer itself as well as the pour
 
Check untappd, its an awesome app for keeping track of beers you try, you can take a few notes, etc. You can also follow your friends/they can follow you, and see what you think of new beers as you try em.
 
Is bevmo like fucking Wal-Mart for alcohol or what? Washington just changed it last year so liquor can be sold at private stores rather than state owned liquor stores and I have been hearing commercials for a couple Bev-Mo locations opening up around here.. they pretty much make it sound like a wal-mart super center for alcohol..
 
Boy does the west have weird liquor laws... you just moved past state owned liquor stores?

The only thing we still have left is no selling until noon on Sundays, and I think its just because no one cares enough to overturn it hahaha.
 
unless they are producing 2 versions of Polygamy Porter thats 3.2

But yes, Utah does have some interesting brewerys. After touring and getting some of Uinta's tilted smile it might be my favorite of the good stuff. I also like the stuff Epic puts out.
 
Unfortunately those are the only two breweries in the state that have a consistently good lineup of beers. Although Epic is an exceptional brewery with a progressive and unique approach to brewing that at least makes up for some of the mediocrity of Utah breweries.
 
Ya I mean its not much in contrast to other places but its still pretty good. Some of them push 4 to 6 percent and some even are almost 9. I've heard a few things about epic, though.
 
expensive is relative, thats true. haha. i think its $9 a bottle. so not something i would drink every night haha.

conversely i can get a 12 back of Uinta Golden Spike or other watery 3.2 beer for ~$14
 
Oh thats not bad at all.

I paid 15 for a bomber of DFH Rhizing Bines. Not worth it haha.

However there are beers that are.

I paid 6.50 a bottle for the 4 bottles of KBS that I got (see pic above) and those are only 12 oz bottles. But worth every damn penny.

My biggest issue is companies that screw you in price per oz on those large format bottles. Look at Stone, they make Ruination, IPA, almost all their beers in both 6 packs of 12 oz bottles, or the 22 oz/750ml bombers. The 6ers come out to like 15 cents an oz. The bombers 30. I understand that for smaller breweries bombers are the cheaper option, and they cant afford to bottle in multiple forms, but charging more for a bomber because you are pretending it makes the beer better or classier (see associated with wine) is absurd. The pricing should come out to the same per ounce regardless.
 
Ive heard that number is grossly inflated from people who have tested the ABV. Not to mention that "beer" pushes what really is "beer" the way its made from what I heard.
 
I just started reading reviews for that beer, and there wasn't a good one in the first ten or so I went through. Advertising 65% ABV for a beer seems a little misleading, too, since there is no beer yeast that will survive above 22% ABV, as far as I know.

I'm all for making strong beers (I actually have a ~10% ABV IIPA fermenting right now), but I'm not sure what the point of something like that is.
 
HEY represent BARRIE ONTARIO woo hoo brewed in my home town

two of my good friends from highschool and one of their moms works at that brewery, so I have had my fair of access to free flying monkeys. their beers a pretty hit and miss IMO, hoptical illusion is good, but some of their shit is pretty bad. and its way too expensive for me to pay for it since i usually get it free. all in all, i would never actually buy it, but it is pretty decent.

their brewmaster cut off a bunch of his fingers last summer in the brewery. so watch out for bits of skin in your beer (just kidding, they werent brewing when it happened. i think he was cleaning a machine or something)
 
They're all over. In PA, NJ, MD, and some others over here you have to buy beer in a beer store or liquor store. They don't sell beer in gas stations or supermarkets.

In CT until a year or two ago you couldn't buy beer on sundays. That sucked when we ran out of booze on sunday and had to scrounge.

Laws like that are retarded and keeping them in place because "that's the way it's always been" is ridiculous. Nobody even goes to church on sundays, get over it you booze nazis.
 
We do, of varying sizes. Some are excellent, some are very overpriced for nothing but standard offerings from brewers.
 
i see youre from barrie too, but i think flying monkeys has a totally different reputation outside of barrie. people in barrie (at least in my opinion) just cant take it seriously enough to consider it a good beer. its just like, its flying monkeys, ya know?
 
I honestly have no clue what it was but i know that it was german. My friend brought it back and gave me one to try.

The bottle looked exactly like this but im not 100% sure if it was actually this one.

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