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Sculpin IPA is maybe my favorite well up there.

Stocked up for Thanksgiving. Got the Southern Tier Fusebox (IPA, PMX and Porter, haven't had PMX but I liked Phin and Matt's) and Sierra Nevada's Snowpack (Pale Ale, Porter, Coffee Stout and the new Boomerang IPA) and a woodchuck mixer for the ladies. And I got myself a 4sie of Dirt Wolf to consume tonight.
 
MrShwag said:
..and just had a 32 oz. Lagunitas Sucks. Pretty much effin' rules.
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I love that beer; it was great seasonally in six-packs, but it's been even more of a boon year-round in the 32.

Related note: Little Sumpin' Wild is ****ing the tits.
 
jpx7 said:
I love that beer; it was great seasonally in six-packs, but it's been even more of a boon year-round in the 32.

Related note: Little Sumpin' Wild is ****ing the tits.
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I'm not a huge fan of Little Sumpin' Sumpin, but I love Little Sumpin' Wild.
 
zitothebrave said:
I'm not a huge fan of Little Sumpin' Sumpin, but I love Little Sumpin' Wild.
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Same. I think it's decent, and I'll drink Little Sumpin' Sumpin' every once in a while—say if it's the best thing in bottle at a dive, or something—but Little Sumpin' Wild is a few orders of magnitude superior.
 
Enjoying a nice Sweetwater Waterkeeper Hefeweizen at the moment. Pretty friggin good for an American hefe. Anyone recommend any good Pale Ales or seasonal Stouts to try out? I tried Terrapin's Liquid Bliss (chocolate and peanut butter). It was devine.
 
Carp said:
Enjoying a nice Sweetwater Waterkeeper Hefeweizen at the moment. Pretty friggin good for an American hefe. Anyone recommend any good Pale Ales or seasonal Stouts to try out? I tried Terrapin's Liquid Bliss (chocolate and peanut butter). It was devine.
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Terrapin's Wake and Bake blows Liquid Bliss out of the water. If you can find it their French Toasted WnB is good too.
 
Carp said:
Enjoying a nice Sweetwater Waterkeeper Hefeweizen at the moment. Pretty friggin good for an American hefe. Anyone recommend any good Pale Ales or seasonal Stouts to try out? I tried Terrapin's Liquid Bliss (chocolate and peanut butter). It was devine.
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keithlaw said:
Terrapin's Wake and Bake blows Liquid Bliss out of the water. If you can find it their French Toasted WnB is good too.
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Speaking of Terrapin, I recently tried a couple I really liked: the Pineapple Express, which is definitely a little out there but is really an excellent execution of its stated intention, and the Hi-5 IPA, which is much more straightforward but a damn refreshing, super bright, hoppy-but-restrained West Coast-style IPA.
 
I like Hopsecutioner from Terrapin.

As far as Carpe's post, my favorite stout for Winter is Weyerbacher's Heresy. Imperial Stout aged in Whiskey Barrels? How can you go wrong?

As far as best winter seasonals, that's subjective. Hard to guess what's in TN.
 
We have a local microbrew that holds its own.

Flying Bison Rusty Chain.

Look it up. Try it, if you can find it.
 
Little slow on the posting of this, after I came back from Christmas from NJ I brought back 5 beers. Carton Boat, Carton 077XX (believe I've talked about these before) Carton Epitome, Riverhorse IPA, and Weyerbacher Old Heathen.

I'm extremely happy with all of the purchases. Boat is a fanatastic lawn mower. Though this time of year I'd call it a pregamer. 077XX is an exceptional IIPA. Up there with Pliny, Heady, and Abner (hope I'm remembering the right Hill Farmstead) Though maybe a hair behind them. Epitome is the best black IPA I've ever had. Forever I thought it would be Wookey Jack, but it beat it out. It's perfect. First you get the sweetness from the malts and the sweet citrus burst of the hops, then it follows with the bitterness of the roasted malts and the intense hopping. So fantastic. I regret only getting a 4 pack as this would be my winter beer of choice. Holy **** it's special. Riverhorse IPA is nice and light. It's not marketed as a session IPA but I view it's flavor profile as that. Probably reminds me closest of Loose cannon but with a bit more malt back bone. Weyerbacher Old Heathen is so nice. Heavy Stout with lots of heavy stout flavors. I don't get why everyone is so into injecting other flavors in stouts like Coffee, Chocolate, and Milk. While I like those too, a nice bitter beer is also quite nice.

Last I want to throw a shoutout to my brother and I we brewed an IIPA that is super dank. We dry hopped the **** out it. You can see the hop particulates floating in it. It smells sooooo good and tastes even better. Kudos to us for brewing a fantastic beer.
 
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Recent pick ups
 
Let me know how the IPL is. Can't find it in less than a 12 pack up here and I was recently banned from buying beer until I drank all of mine
 
zitothebrave said:
BTW if anyone uses Untapped, my sn is hoppyhoppyhippo
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I haven't used Untapped—how is it? I operate all my **** on BeerAdvocate.

Tonight I finally did a side-by-side of Three Floyds' version of Blakkr (twenty-two-ounce bomber) and Surly's version of Blakkr (sixteen-ounce can)—conceived in collaboration with Real Ale (in Texas), but brewed separately at each of the three home-locations and packaged in three distinct fashions (Real Ale released six-packs of twelve-ounce cans). I was shocked to find that Surly's was decidedly superior—relative to both the Three Floyds iteration, either time I've had it (tonight, from the bomber, or back in May, on tap at Owen & Engine), and to the Surly version when I had it on tap about a month ago in Minnesota.
 
Untapped is like facebook for boozers. Basically a good way to keep track of what people are drinking in a pretty simple 5 star rating system. I utilize it primarily as a tracking system for what I've drank. It's hardly up to date, but it's a good way to look back. I'ts all really fun to do at a beerfest, it's fun to see things go down hill.

Interesting that they did the collaboration that way. I'm used to the ones made the same way, like Saison Du Buff.
 
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