Let's talk good beer

Had a few beers over the holiday weekend:

Dominion Brewing Morning Glory Espresso Stout (http://www.fordhamanddominion.com/#!dominionbrews/c22j5) - Decent coffee stout but not better than Flying Dog's or Evo's

Lagunitas New Dogtown Pale Ale (http://lagunitas.com/beers/dogtown-pale/) - quality pale ale. have loved everything these guys do

Schlafly Kolsch (http://schlafly.com/beers/styles/kolsch/) - Great drinking beer. Smooth, goes down easy. Would be a good beer to introduce craftbrews to that one guy who still only drinks macrobrew.

I'm a huge fan of Celebration Ale. Great beer, picked up a case of it.

I also discovered a terrific craft brewer out of Quebec while I was in Disney. The Canada section at Epcot's world showcase was featuring beers from Unibroue.

I tried these and LOVE them:

Unibroue Trois Pistoles Trois Pistoles | Unibroue | Chambly, QC, Canada | BeerAdvocate (http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22/30/)
If you like Troegs' Mad Elf, you'll love this one.

Unibroue La Fin du Monde La Fin Du Monde | Unibroue | Chambly, QC, Canada | BeerAdvocate (http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/22/34/)
And if you like Victory's Golden Monkey, you'll love this one. It beats Golden Monkey.

i tried the la fin du monde - belgian style, i just cant get into them. i think this beer was too complex for me to appreciate or something. im not the most sophisticated beer drinker. i liked it, i would order and drink it but i wouldnt buy a sixer.

i got a variety sixer of unibroue. its good until the year 2016 lol. i literally bought the sixer bc i never tried a self fomenting beer bottle before. not sure if fomenting is the right word. beer tasted lively for sure.

celebration ale is pretty good.

i just cant dig these beers from unibroue. not bad but i just hate that wheatty taste.

Drinking a Lagunitas Brown Shugga. Good stuff!

sculpin is so hit or miss with me. BD you must be right about the shelf life.

i dont get it.

the last 2 six packs have tasted off but the sixer before that was awesome.

at 14.99 a sixer, i dont think i can continue to gamble on them.

definitely looking forward to this one

Sierra Nevada Hops Hunter IPA Announcement - Sierra Nevada Wet Hops Beer - Esquire (http://www.esquire.com/blogs/food-for-men/sierra-nevada-hops-hunter-ipa)

Drinking a Lagunitas Brown Shugga. Good stuff!
Grabbed a 6er of this for New Years, but ended up drinking it yesterday. Had 4 of them. Since they are 9.9%, I felt very, very good. Helps that it is an awesome beer. I have yet to have a bad beer by Lagunitas.

Had a 6er of Uinta's Baba Black Lager, which I've had before. Very good lager. And a 6er of Pub Dog Chocolate Oatmeal Stout, which was just ok. A lot better chocolate stouts out there, but these guys are from MD so I gave it a whirl.

definitely looking forward to this one

Sierra Nevada Hops Hunter IPA Announcement - Sierra Nevada Wet Hops Beer - Esquire (http://www.esquire.com/blogs/food-for-men/sierra-nevada-hops-hunter-ipa)

thats nuts, i cant wait to try it. I see these 22 oz bottles from sierra nevada that i have never heard of but never pull the trigger bc they are $6-10 a piece. i will pull the trigger on this one.

i also grabbed a 6er of brown shugga, it was good. i liked it. i need to get off west coast IPAs every now and then. def a strong ale.

i dont have the article in front of me but did a flood ruin a large portion of the market's barley?

beer prices are soaring like gas prices in the mid 2000s. unionjack went from 12.49 to 12.99. telltale heart ipa and a lot of others went from 8.99 or 9.99 to 10.99.

i dont have the article in front of me but did a flood ruin a large portion of the market's barley?

beer prices are soaring like gas prices in the mid 2000s. unionjack went from 12.49 to 12.99. telltale heart ipa and a lot of others went from 8.99 or 9.99 to 10.99.
The articles I saw on the flooding of the barley crop said it won't affect beer prices in 2015...

BD - have you seen anything from farmstead hill in MD?

edit - no, farmstead brews a very little amount and want to keep their product quality control at its highest level. it is only avail in New Hampshire where it is brewed.

interesting article - apparently DC, unlike the 50 states, does not have a law that restricts alcohol sales across the line ... meaning if a DC distributor isnt selling enough of a product, a DC bar can go buy the beer and bring it back across DC lines for sale.

wish someone would go drive up to philly and buy some russian river.

The Business of Beer: The D.C. Import Loophole - BeerGraphs (http://beergraphs.com/bg/377-the-business-of-beer-the-dc-import-loophole/)

stumbled upon this as well ... beer distribution map for all states

SeekABrew US Distribution Map (http://www.seekabrew.com/distro/index.html)

21st Amendment
Abita
Against the Grain
Allagash
Anchor
Anderson Valley
Appalachian
Arcadia
Atlantic Brewing
Atwater
Avery
Ballast Point
Bard's Tale
Bear Republic
Black Diamond
Blue Point
Boston Beer Co. (Sam Adams)
Boulder
Boulevard
Breckenridge
Brewers Alley
Brewers Art
Brooklyn
Buffalo Bill's
Butternuts
Caldera
Cape Ann
Cisco
Clown Shoes [Limited]
D.L. Geary's
DC Brau [Limited]
Devils Backbone
Dixie
DOG (Pub Dog)
Dogfish Head
DuClaw
Elysian
Erie
Evil Twin
Evolution
FiftyFifty [Limited]
Firestone Walker [Limited]
Flying Dog
Flying Fish
Fordham
Full Sail
Goose Island
Gordon Biersch
Great Divide
Green Flash
Harpoon
Heavy Seas - see Clipper City
Hook & Ladder
Iron City
Jolly Pumpkin
Kona
Lagunitas
Lake Placid
Lakefront
Lancaster
Laughing Dog
Legacy - CLOSED
Leinenkugel
Lion Brewery
Long Trail
Mad River (Steelhead)
Magic Hat
Maine [Limited]
Matt (Saranac)
Maui
McSorley's (Pabst brand)
Mendocino
Mountaineer
Moylan's
Napa Smith
New Belgium
North Coast
Old Dominion
Old Schoolhouse
Ommegang
Oskar Blues
Otter Creek
Oxbow [Limited]
Peak Organic
Penn
Perennial [Limited]
Pike
Port City
Prairie Artisan Ales
Pyramid
Rahr & Sons
Redhook
River Horse
RJ Rockers
Rogue
Saint Somewhere
Schlafly [Limited]
Sea Dog
Shelton Brothers (importers)
Shipyard
Shmaltz (He'Brew)
Sierra Nevada
Sixpoint
Slumbrew
Sly Fox
Smuttynose
Southampton
Southern Tier
Spoetzl (Shiner)
St. George
Starr Hill
Stevens Point
Stillwater
Stone
Stoudt's
Terrapin
The Bruery
Thirsty Dog
Thomas Hooker
Tommyknocker
Troegs
Uinta
Union Brewing
Victory
Weyerbacher
White Birch
Widmer Bros.
Williamsburg AleWerks
Yards
Yuengling


^^^ MD distribution kinda sucks imo. im sure its better than half the states but i thought we would be a lot better.

if a mod thinks the list is too long, let me know and i will cut it out. kinda cool game if everyone bolds the beers they have tried. BD - you can just bold the beers you havent tried.