Let's talk good beer

There's a Maine beer event going on today at my local watering hole. Lunch, Mo, Peeper, and Zoe. On the fence as to whether I want to go or not, chilly day out. Feels like a stay at home kinda night. We'll see.

Spiegelau 2-Pack Beer Classics IPA Glass, 19-Ounce https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BTPUT3S/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_qKYDwbVRT33MX

These beer glasses are sweet - very thin glass but sturdy

Spiegelau 2-Pack Beer Classics IPA Glass, 19-Ounce https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BTPUT3S/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_qKYDwbVRT33MX

These beer glasses are sweet - very thin glass but sturdy

Yeah, I peeped those...thanks for your endorsement. Im probably grab them after the holidays, my wallet is getting killed this Christmas.

I have a cabinet full of pint glasses from various places, but my go-to glass is usually the goblet I got at Flying Dog.

http://flyingdogbrewery.web-stores.biz/assets/images/goblet500.jpg

For smaller pours, I have a snifter beer glass I got from the Maryland Craft Beer Festival.

Just found out my beer store tapped Maine - Lunch the other day...time to get the growler filled.


Folks, is there a preference "glass ware" you break out for drinking good beer? For the last 6 months I've been using wide mouth mason jars and its great. keeps the beers surprising cold and the wide mouth drinks for maximum consumption when I need to go there( i.e. listening to an annoying conversation by a semi-girlfriend, watching the opposing team score a touchdown against the skins)


I have six of these and always in the refrigerator (not freezer)

The Mighty Pint by Berkshire | Berkshire Brewing Company (http://www.berkshirebrewingcompany.com/product/berkshire-pint-glass/)

Budweiser buys Breckenridge. Good luck with that Budweiser. Breck is not good imo and tends to sit on shelves w no real movement.

Anheuser Busch-InBev Buys Third Craft Brewer in 5 Days - Fortune (http://fortune.com/2015/12/22/anheuser-busch-buys-breckenridge/?xid=yahoo_fortune)

Budweiser buys Breckenridge. Good luck with that Budweiser. Breck is not good imo and tends to sit on shelves w no real movement.



Anheuser Busch-InBev Buys Third Craft Brewer in 5 Days - Fortune (http://fortune.com/2015/12/22/anheuser-busch-buys-breckenridge/?xid=yahoo_fortune)


Tried their vanilla porter once and it was just meh. Love how Bud makes commercials ragging on craft beer, all while buying up craft breweries. Fuck them and their piss water.

I had their imperial vanilla porter last night and it was a bit sweet. I don't run into their stuff too often.

Bigger guys will continue to buy up the smaller guys to keep their part of the market secured. Smaller guys will continue to take the money in hopes that they continue to have creative freedom.

Breckinridge is one of those breweries in the late 90s I cut my teeth on...I fondly remember the grateful dead lighting bolt on the label on the original label..oatmeal stout used to be their big beer..porter mentioned above became big.

But one of my all time favorite beers was their trademark pale ale. Just awesome...don't really see it much around for last 5 years...

Let’s see…what have I had the last few days…

NYE dinner was at an awesome pizza shop in Kensington, MD called Frankly Pizza (http://www.franklypizza.com/). The owner’s wife used to work with my wife, so we’ve watched the business grow from an idea to a mobile unit to a booming brick and mortar. They have 4 beers and 4 wines on tap. I had DC Brau’s The Corruption and Starr Hill Snow Blind. I just can’t get into DC Brau. The beers of theirs I’ve had just aren’t that good to me. Snow Blind was great. Actually helped balance the heat from the pizzas I had (pickled jalapeños do the trick).

Spent the ball drop with some friends. Had fresh cans of Manor Hill IPA, which is one of the better MD IPAs out there. Helped share in my friend’s 4 Hands Chocolate Milk Stout Variety Gift Pack. Already had OG, so we had the Tiki and Horchata versions. Quite tasty. We also split a 4 Hands/Stone/Bale Breaker Sorry Not Sorry, which was decent. Most of the Stone collabs seems to be just ok. Points Unknown I think is still my fave. Looking forward to NXS though.

Had a flight at my favorite beach watering hole on Saturday. Oskar Blue Hotbox Coffee Porter, Magic Hat Snow Roller, Mispillion River Praetor, Troegs Mad Elf, and 2 in house brews (http://www.bigoysterbrewery.com/), a winter warmer and a pale ale.

Getting some New England goodies from a friend of mine this weekend. He made his holiday trip to see the in-laws in CT and goes on a Heady hunt. I’m getting a small sample of his load: Heady Topper, Tree House Julius, Sap, & Eureka, Lawson Sip of Sunshine and Special Session #2, and Fiddlehead Second Fiddle. I’m really excited as I’ve only had half of these beers (heady, julius, sip).