This is about sharing my adventures within the vast world of microbrews

Big tasting yesterday……..moment of silence for our livers please.

 

Hill Farmstead Double Citra: Really good, one of the best IPAs I’ve had from this brewery, partially because Citra hops are incredible. A

Hill Farmstead Ephraim: Intensely hoppy. So hoppy that the Lagunitas IPA that we had on draft tasted like it didn’t have any hops whatsoever. This beer is good, just not quite as good as the Double Citra. A-/A

Crooked Stave Origins: Consecration lite. B

Alchemist Heady Topper: Something was going on with this can, not a good example of the beer. B

7venth Sun Grisette Roget: Tastes like apples, and it’s a good thing. A-/A

New Glarus Serendipity: Way sweeter than I remember….B

Oddside Citra Pale Ale: Drainpour. F+

Segundo Citra Blue House Pale: meh, not really a fan. C

R? Imperial Rye IPA: Rye beers are hard on me. Not a huge fan of this one. C+

Lift Bridge Irish Coffee Stout: Tasty, needs more Irish! B/B+

Things are starting to get difficult.

Hill Farmstead Civil Disobedience 2: I swear to god that this beer is Arthur. Very tasty, but I challenge anyone to be able to tell the difference between CD2 and Arthur. A

Unobtanium: Stupid sweet, diabeetus on Black Tuesday magnitude!  B-

Avery Samael: Also very sweet, but I’m struggling at this point with palate fatigue. It’s a rough life.

Hardywood Bourbon Sidamo: Not as much coffee as I thought. B/B+

Pipeworks Abduction: Solid stout, could use barrel aging. B/B+ We had the coffee version of abduction and that was awesome. A-/A beer right there!

Revolution Rise: Solid stout, nothing special. Bish

Block 15 BA Quad: Really damn good, better out of the bottle than when I had it on draft a couple months ago. A

Founder’s Breakfast Stout (3 year vert): I actually liked the 2010 bottle the most….weird.

Final Damage.

 

Patience Frances…..

 

 

I dragged my friends all the way to Brooklyn for this. I felt a little bad…and my heart sank when I saw the supposedly world-class bottle list. Best beer on the list was Drie Fonteinen Golden Blend, but even though this beer is fantastic, I can still find bottles of it back home in PDX. There was no Hommage, Framboos, Blabaer, or any other “whales” that have been on the bottle list before. They wouldn’t even sell me a bottle of Justin Blabaer despite the fact that it was on the bottle list. If you aren’t going to sell a beer to a patron, don’t put it on the bottle list, simple as that.

I did get to tour their cellar, and all the crazy beers you’d imagine being there actually exist and more. Don Quijote, Millenium Gueze, Pikkilintu, vintage Blabaer, Loerik…it’s all there. Then there are the hundred bottles or so of newer Blabaer, more Armand ’4 than you can count, and tons of the new batch of Framboos.

It’s cool to see all of those bottles, but I was irked when the bottle list of the day was a turd.

Anyways…

Hoppin’ Frog DORIS: I love this beer.

Drie Fonteinen Golden Blend: Tasty as always, and the best beer of the night….all because I couldn’t buy a Hommage.

Evil Twin Room 603: Very solid beer, makes me forgive Evil Twin for Imperial Biscotti Break!

Yeah….this beer kind of sucks.