Let's talk good beer

$3 a beer isn't bad when you think about it, at a bar that same beer is probably $8 or $9

Yeah I guess. Last time I went on a beer run I notice many of the Craft Beers now are 4 pk pint cans running around 14/16 dollars a 4pk.


If anyone gets a chance to get up there here are a few that you might enjoy..........

https://www.redlioninn.com/best-craft-beer-breweries-in-the-berkshires/

Surly's xtra citra pale ale was on some Maryland shelves. Asked about it, they said about once a year Bond Distributors will call them and offer a Surly as some part of a collab. Said they arent getting any more.

Pale ale was okay, I did enjoy the less than 5% abv as I like to put down 6 or so beers on a saturday night because drinking six or so 8% plus beers = a rough sunday morning with family obligations.

Yeah I guess. Last time I went on a beer run I notice many of the Craft Beers now are 4 pk pint cans running around 14/16 dollars a 4pk.





If anyone gets a chance to get up there here are a few that you might enjoy..........



https://www.redlioninn.com/best-craft-beer-breweries-in-the-berkshires/



Noticed the same And the cans are all works of art. Makes me wonder if im paying for the art or the beer? [emoji848]
I cant bring myself to pay the 15.99 for four - not when there are still soooooo many good beers for under 15.99.

https://youtu.be/je1NIf8GeeY

^^ SNL sam adams pumpkin beer commercial with Bill Burr

funny stuff

KBS espresso and KBS maple fudge - picked up a 4 pack of each for $25. Ive never seen a variation of KBS so im excited. My lady is starting to give me guff for coming home with more beer than usual (just loading up on stouts), I explained that with stouts I just throw them in the basement and will drink them over a years time. I dont think she understood it,she just sees me coming home with a box full of beer a week.

left the KBS in my trunk vs bringing it in. ill sneak it in when shes not looking.

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Saint Archer Mosaic Double IPA

Its 9%

I typically don't like the taste of IPA's above 7.5-8%. But this one packs a flavor wallop. Was at BevMo, and they sell individual skinny tallboys. Only got 1. You drink 2 of those in a reasonable time frame, and you'll be tuned up.

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Yes im biased as a Deadhead but this is good. Usually im not big on dogfish head.

Goose Island BC stout 2 year reserve ... cost $30, will crack open on xmas eve probably

Monument city early to rise stout - very watery and thin. like drinking a yoohoo. horrible beer

monument city NOBO ipa - really good but not great

burley oak habitual (pale ale) - okay would not buy again

union divine ipa - really good tasty crushable beer at 6.5%, which is my go to type of beer. this, 51 rye or country ride are always in my weekly haul

Goose Island BC stout 2 year reserve ... cost $30, will crack open on xmas eve probably


Took 27 years to make. using 25 year old bourbon barrels then the stout aging 2 years in the barrels.

I love stouts, BA stouts, they are so expensive but I drink them all the time but I just dont like the base taste of BCBS. it has like a raisin taste to it. I thought with all the aging the boozy flavor might mask it but no, I found very little flavor coming from 2 years sitting in a barrel.

Odd and disappointing stout. probably the last time I do a BCBS anything.

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Nostalgia for older maryland beer heads -- just saw Wild Goose Winter Ale back on shelves .. taking me back to my teenage years. if only Petes Wicked came back and did their winter ale.