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That Bruery beeer you had is a rice pudding flavored beer and so damn good!
OT: Craft Beer For Easter/Spring
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That Bruery beeer you had is a rice pudding flavored beer and so damn good!
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as in Ohio, these big chain stores do some much more business than the small beer shops, so the distros give all the good beers to the big stores. so as a hardcore beer drinker, you have to adapt and frequent the chains to get good beer. It sucks because you know casual beer drinkers are randomly buying really great brews and not fully appreciative to what they are getting their hands on.
A good friend of mine is a rep for a big craft distributor, and she told me the big stores squeeze the small craft stores out of product and she has to fight to get the small guys good brews.
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I'm visiting NJ in mid June and will visit and buy plenty of Kane packaged goods.
IMHO Kane is clearly the top NJ brewer. They have been since day one when they opened.
Hey would love to but i only got a 4 pack of each and almost all gone already. In the future if possible I'd definitely try to work stuff out before hand with you.
Had some great beers this weekend. Spring House Brewing Citra Must be Destroyed IPA, Wicked Weed's Lieutenant Dank, Tired Hands WeedmanDudeGuy, Carton Unjunct, Smithwick's Blonde Brewmaster Edition, Magnify Beautiful Liquid, Captain Lawrence Seeking Alpha, Horny Goat Chocolate Peanut Butter Porter, Stone Enjoy by 4/20/17, Terrapin Walking Dead Blood Orange IPA, Wild Onion Java Jack Stout and many others. Great weekend. If you're an IPA lover and you haven't tried Magnify's stuff yet go get some, they are killing it, they are located right in Fairfield.
Terrapin Hi-Five IPA is a classic IMO. Try to find Against the Grain's Citra *** Down or any of the IPAs from Half Acre in Chicago (Daisy Cutter, Double Daisy Cutter, Navaja, Vallejo).
I was going to comment on his post too but was going to wait until he sobered up!! [banana]
Anyway has anyone had the Firestone Walker Fortem? Imperial IPA. We just got it Friday. Haven't had one yet. Hearing great things about that.
Yeah, had it last wkend. I gave it a solid 4 on Untappd. FW kills it with their Barrel Aged Line...IPAs are good but not world class IMO though.
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yeah for sure, I trade quite a bit of HH. Konkey Dong is coming in a few weeks. Hopefully on May 7th, so I'll be more than likely getting a case of that and whatever other release they do that day. HH is a bit of a pain, buy tickets, drive 2 hours on a Sunday to pick up. great share tho.
my email mike(dot)balut(at)gmail
I did a couple trades last year with some other board members, but sadly no Kane. Also looking for Grimm idk how hard that is to get.
my email mike(dot)balut(at)gmail
I did a couple trades last year with some other board members, but sadly no Kane. Also looking for Grimm idk how hard that is to get.
Also keep an eye out for Founder's PC Pils as well as Doom, the 3rd beer in Founder's BA Lineup after KBS. Philly is also getting distro from Upland Brewery in Bloomington, Indiana so looking forward to trying their stuff.
Had Magnify Brewery's Beautiful Liquid this week and it was really good. Too bad it is a limited release.
Also tried Brix City Just Another Double IPA and it was pretty good too. I prefer Magnify but will also buy from Brix City to support the local breweries.
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The Coconut Victory at Sea I actually liked... Maybe your batch was infected or something. Now the Peppermint Victory at Sea...blech. Anyone get Lagunitas The Waldo's or the first 2017 batch of Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA?
So I had the Firestone Walker today. Aroma wise exactly like Shape of Hops to Come. Taste wise like Pliny the Elder. Fantastic
Any fans of funky saisons/sour Ales in South Jersey need to hit up the Kelly Green bottle release of Adit on Saturday in Pitman.
Had Blaecorn Unidragon from Clown Shoes, a Russian Imperial Stout, was excellent. Demented's recent release Café Negro a Black IPA is very good too.
Have you had their Exorcism by Sunset? Fantastic. I'm looking forward to checking out the Upland Brewery beers...they just launched distro in Philly. They are from Bloomington, Indiana and specialize in BA Sour Ales.
Nope, have never had Exorcism at Sunset, would love to try it. Got a bottle of The Waldo's Special Ale(2017) from Lagunitas I'm gonna be opening this weekend, heard it's great, the 2016 was awesome
Had Founders Sumatra Mountain last night, the 2017 batch. It's good but I think will be even better aged a month or two. A Bourbon or Rum Barrel Aged Sumatra Mountain would be fantastic. Their next barrel aged beer, Doom comes on shelves in May. Wiens Brewery from LA is now in PA via Nevulius and Hydra from South Dakota is here as well.
Thinking of doing a Bourbon Barrel Aged Horizontal for the Kentucky Derby. A KBS will definitely be one of the BA Beers on that list. So will BA Ten Fidy and Hardwood Kentucky Christmas Morning.
Thinking of doing a Bourbon Barrel Aged Horizontal for the Kentucky Derby. A KBS will definitely be one of the BA Beers on that list. So will BA Ten Fidy and Hardwood Kentucky Christmas Morning.
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I bought Paradise bottles. It's good.
I had Hardywood Gingerbread Stout a few months ago (still have 2 bottles left) but haven't gotten my hands on Christmas Morning.
I bought Kane Morning Bell & it's easily my 2nd or 3rd favorite beer after Abraxas. I wish they had more production.
Kane A Night To End All Dawn's is quickly becoming the Moby Dick to my Captain Ahab. Just managed to get Founders Doom and Half Acre Galactic Double Daisy Cutter. Revolution also has started distro in NJ.
Did you mule those from Boston or trade for those? Trillium might be my favorite brewery.The thread is useless without pictures
I recently had Kane's Mexican Brunch on tap and it was outstanding!
Agreed. I wish they sold it in cans. One of my favorite beers I've ever had.
My local beer bar now has a Founders tap take over selection, incldg CBS, KBS and other Founders specialties. All brews are about 11-14% ABV.
Need to be prepared to take on those puppies. One or two and Done, ha! At least for this RU fan.
Need to be prepared to take on those puppies. One or two and Done, ha! At least for this RU fan.