/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Oh I got this chilling now. Traded another stout to a friend for it. Regular dragons milk is whatever, but the special releases they do are always great.

Is this on autosage?

>>10642904
What a fucking faggot ass mod

more like an english bitter than an ipa...I'm enjoying it though

>>10642904
you can't bump your own thread for a while I think

>>10643618
I've really liked all the Sam Smith's I've had, especially the oatmeal stout

>>10643648
me too except I was not a big fan of the chocolate stout. It tasted like a chocolate italian soda...kind of saccharine...I have had better...

>>10642838
Trying to whittle down my cellar but it's not going too well. Mostly drinking hoppy stuff lately anyways.

Also https://discord.gg/rqsxQdW beer general discord if you're feeling gay enough.

>>10643618
>>10643648
Sam Smiths is literally mass produced trash tier

local favorite out here

How accurate is this?

>>10645208
that depends on whether you're a soyboy or not. most of those beers are nasty hipster shit.

>>10645483
Surely with how widespread craft beer is now you faggot bizarro-hipsters are allowed to like it without fear of looking remotely trendy?

Overall it's like 5/10, but for 0.70$ lagger is surprisingly good. If someone is in Poland, for some reason and wanna get wasted cheap but w/o disgust, I recommend it.

>>10642838
Brewed an IPA last week and am halfway through building a Brutus stand, but I'm getting so fat and lazy and have zero motivation.

>>10645579
99% of american microbrews are completely unbalanced by how hoppy they are. it's more a matter of them tasting like shit, and not a fear of looking trendy.

see pic related for a delicious beer. i wish my fellow 56%ers could figure out how to brew something half as good as this.

>>10645771
> i wish my fellow 56%ers could figure out how to brew something half as good as this

We can and we have. Expand your horizons, faggot.

>>10645208
i'd say about 80%. you'd probably get something really good from anything you buy at mediocre tier or above, assuming it's the style you like (i hate dogfish head and brooklyn brewery for example, because i don't like hoppy beers and that's all they do for the most part). that said, there's plenty in the shit tier that i'll drink without any compunction at all - leinenkugal, laughing dog, shipyard, so ymmv

so what’s the deal, we can talk about beer again? or is everyone getting banned for off topic?

>>10645866
Just keep talking about it. There was a mod who we thought was Reddit but is really a kid from pol. It is annoying because this board was never left by any means.. especially not the brutally honest al/ck/s. this new mod, they think all drinking is degenerate, which is code for they couldn't limit themselves if they had heroin sitting next to them on the table, or an ice cream cake, or a mlp doll in his case. They think in stead of building strong men who can drink and abstain when needed via allowing discussion that it is better to block any mention of alcohol, like the ignorant mindset held by muslims

>>10644043
hey now. the taddy porter and stingo are pretty good. If you like sweet/malty beers you're bound to enjoy basically everything they do

>>10645771
How is this stuff? I tried Franziskaner recently for the first time and it was ok, but not great.

This gets posted, but I thought I'd give a shout out to pic related for being pretty fucking tasty.

>>10645208

This list isn't bad but it's basically worthless because beer is so regional.

>>10645771
>99% of American microbrews are IPAs
how to spot an utter retard

>>10645208
Like 60% maybe. It's all personal. I think flying dog is good. I don't think bells is best tier by any means. Dog fish head is easily one of the best in America. You get the point

>>10645208
I live within walking distance to The Bruery and i fucking hate bourbon barrel aged beer

that place is shit

fite me

>>10648791
Yeah this is like 2012 just drank something other than bud thinks pbr is for hipsters tier mentality. There are so many great fucking non-hoppy micros nowadays.

>>10645771
>>10645797
Is this like Hofbrau?

I like Hofbrau

>>10649989
I'm with you. Some breweries can pull it off, but most just make a gross bourbon bomb that is borderline undrinkable

>>10642909

absolute cunts. al/ck/ has literally stopped me from going over the edge during some fucking hard times.

>>10649989
How can you say that? They have a huge range of beers at their brewpub.

>>10645208
I agree with everything in the "best" section except evil twin and prairie. evil twin freudian slip is great but ive hated a lot of their other stuff. that biscotti stuff is real hard to finish. I really don't like prairie bomb either. I thought I would love it because I love perennial abraxas and mikkeller beer geek breakfast but it's like im drinking something completely different from what everyone else is enjoying. saccharine, old coffee, weird vegetal taste from the chiles and coffee (I guess).

>>10645208
>magic hat
>shit tier
Everything I've tried from them has been good. Though haven't had anything else from shit tier.

You'll find beer you don't like and beer you like from everyone on the list (except for absolute pleb tier). Just avoid spending less than $1/12oz and try some until you find a style/brand you like. Maybe find a beer you can stand from absolute pleb tier if you go out to drink with friends or something as a backup.

Pic-related is a far better chart. Style's more important than brand.

Does anyone else think Lagunitas is just going for the "thanks craft beer for making my alcoholism look like a neat hobby" crowd? Can't go wrong with them and mostly high abv brews. Though I've noticed there's a distinct taste that's common with all their beers. It's easy to spot with Sakitumi, which just tastes like sake with patented Lagunitas flavoring.

>>10650014
I went looking for a malty beer the other day and after awhile looking through the supermarket (which has plenty of aisles of beer) the IPA fad is fucking true. Had to go to binny's just to find a beer I want. There's selection outside IPA and adjunct lager but it's very easy to get the impression that that's all we brew.

For the weekend

>>10647922
the point of the list is to have beers that are available nationwide, or approaching that. like i can get ommegang even at the grocery store, despite being several hundred miles from the brewery. and The Bruery has been shipping to my state for several years now, before they "split up" into two breweries.

>>10649887
bells used to be best tier, but it's currently skating by on it's own reputation. they've had little to no special releases since the planetary series.

>>10653171
They had some sour out that was good, but yeah I've been waiting around for a repeat of the planetary series or something a little more up to date in their series. I did just buy a pack of oberon though

>>10645208
I agree with a lot of it, but there's a few disagreements in 'excellent.' Could go a rank lower on Victory. But that's just my experience.

Let's add Hoegarden to decent, for the price.

>>10642838
Hello MN friend

>>10642838
I see we're having a /Seattle/ thread. Excellent!

Got a 12 bottle box of Brewdog stuff delivered yesterday, just have to pick what to drink at lunch

Do you make these threads just to figure out what my favorite beer is? Alright, I'll spill the beans... It's Pabst Blue Ribbon™of course!

>>10645771
this dumb cunt only drinks "balanced" beer what a faggot

>>10653255
Oh god why

I really want to get into homebrewing but I am a borderline alcoholic and I don't trust myself to have a stockpile of beer in my house.

Reminder that IPA's are obnoxious and if you drink them, so are you.

>>10655273
Yeah I dont care they taste good

>>10655284
>warm soapy dishwater fermented in a re-purposed public telephone (for reasons lol)
>tasting good

>>10655291
Okay. I'll keep drinking them

>>10642838
>aging
baltic porters cause I live in Poland so they're cheap and they age extremely well

>>10655273
complaining about ipas has officially become more annoying than alpha-acid intensive ipas themselves. cascadian dark ale is the patrician ipa anyway.

>>10655273
how can a drink be obnoxious
how can consuming it make one obnoxious

how is complaining about IPAs existing not obnoxious?

>>10656442
I second the cascadian dark ale. A place 30 minutes from me used to have one as a mainstay and it was delicious. Idk why they got rid of it

>>10645208
North Coast and Dogfish belong on top with Bell's and Founders.

>>10655154
Based Roo poster taking shots

>>10654535
Hipsters please leave.

>>10645208
What's wrong with blue moon?

Recently got this and it's pretty good. Red as fuck and tastes more like raspberries than beer.

>>10659111
Bretty gud when I got it at a bar. My habitual underage drinker chadfriend claims it gets fucked if you drink multiple in a row though

>>10642838
Foggy Window

I'm spoiled

>>10659114
Not something I'd want to drink many of, but would love one or two.

>>10642838
I'm brewing a mead with huckleberry right now. Should be done soon

>>10654535
I love Pabst as well. Actually has flavor

>>10659095
shitty pseudo witbier, just drink the real thing

>>10651037
lagunitas does all taste the same in some respect, I agree. must be the hop profile or maybe they blow a bunch of pot smoke in every kettle

Been drinking this

MOOOOOODS PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT ALCOHOL AGAIN. DO YOUR FUCKING JOB

>>10660343
talking about different beers =/= talking about alcoholism

>>10660343
here's your (You), don't spend it all in one place

>>10645208
Flying dog should be the best-tier but maybe that's just me. I'm not a 56%-er btw.

>>10660368
>>10660371
fuck both of you alck faggots. Get cancer

>>10660401
nice try buttmad alck degenerate, go back to your containment board

>>10660343
i am an alcohol

>>10656464
it's more that obnoxious people drink IPAs, and there are loads of them. which explains why the market was saturated with IPAs over the last few years. it's basically entry-level craft beer.
>Dude! I love craft beer!
>IPAs are the best! the hoppier, the better!
it's basically led most of these breweries to target that audience, thus causing a massive influx of "hop explosion" beers, basically made for people who don't know any better. i still occasionally drink IPAs, but lean more towards the imperials or ones that showcase the nuances of different hops, not the hop-smoothies with an abv.
>>10659111
much better on nitro. this is the kind of beer i introduce to people who "hate beer", meaning that they have the alcohol tastes of a 14 year old girl.

my favorite summertiimes beer

>>10642838
Buxton and Omnipollo breweries' newest collaboration series.

Great beers, HORRIBLE labels.

>>10661405
Your neck beard is showing

>>10642838
This shit is pretty damn good if you never had it.

thoughts?
good on a hot day

>>10662981
I regret what I said this garbage is only good if mixed with cola, good to get drunk but too artificially tasting.

>>10662790
no, i make sure to trim that. it catches on my collar.

>>10642838
water

>>10662981
Some older lady who wanted me to fuck her in the ass always drank this stuff. Just found out she died the other day

>>10642838
I just buy a slab of whatever is on special, that or some Great Northern

>>10659831
pretty much this, I'd rather have a boulevard wheat than blue moon

>>10642838
I've just been drinking a lot of Sierra Nevada Torpedo lately cause a 24 ounce bottle costs like $3 where I live.

>>10664994
Is it good?

>>10665582
No

>>10642838
Is one beer every day healthy or unhealthy?
The more articles I read the more confused I become

>>10665712
>the more confused I become
Not surprising, dumb weeb.

>>10665723
Maybe most of it is clickbait, I have the feeling that most journalists don't know what they're talking about
So some say one beer a day can be benefitial for health, some say it is.

>>10665712
>The more articles I read the more confused I become
Why wouldn't you conclude that it's not possible to give a clear answer to that question?

The real world is never black and white. The idea of labeling anything "healthy" or "unheathy" is absurd out side of obvious edge cases.

>>10665712
It's like +2 years life expectancy based on a correlation. Drink if you want but don't expect anything.

>>10665712
Drinking multiple beers is healthy as long as you eat a meal. In fact drinkers live longer, the ones who don't do something stupid while drinking like driving a car. As long as you don't get rowdy and fight people alcohol is key to health.

>>10645208
It's pretty accurate, though there's good beer that isn't on the list due to the distribution requirement.

Great Lakes is Excellent tier if they distribute near you.

>>10665712
Entirely depends on the person

Happy belated cat grass day everyone! Had some Friday, drove to the pull barn in elk rapids to grab some for a buddy who is out of town and Joe threw the " that's a shame, it's almost 48 hours old. Just tapped a 1/4 barrel of old curmudgeon and tested out the $60 draft growler i picked up from Sierra trading post.

>>10665712
If you're white, your ancestors drank several beers/glasses of wine a day.

>>10666175
and those beers were also roughly 0.5% ABV.

whites get alcohol flush too, just at 10% instead of the 33% of east Asians.

>>10666191
>.5% abv
Not really. The manors would make different strength beers out of one mash. The first sparge was the equivalent of a barleywine with high abv and put up for holidays and special occasions. The second sparge was the everyday beer for the family and guests and was probably @ 4-6%. The third sparge was a weak beer, probably 1% or lower and was for the servants because they couldn't be trusted to drink in moderation. So if your ancestors were servants, that's the level beer they drank.

>>10666131
being an alcoholic is not a hobby, its a life-style.

>>10642838

>>10645208
Where would angry orchard fall on this list?

>>10666503
Angry orchard is cider, not beer.
If you want to risk a ban, try making a cider thread, although it will probably 404 like my sake thread

This is my favorite beer and only about 20% of the reason is the skeleton. Please judge me.

>>10665582
It's alright. Better than a lot of other beers you can get for that amount and price.

>>10666357
Alcoholics go to meetings friendo, I'm a drunk

>>10666726
t. AA cultist

>>10642838

I got a 5gal kettle and 2 fermenters from a friend of mine. I'm dabbling a little with homebrewing, and plan on putting a English brown Ale on kettle later this afternoon.

Turned 21 today, got a six pack of Sierra Nevada porter plus pic related. Plan is to age it and drink on either Thanksgiving or Christmas.

Got a couple of these.

>>10642838
I dumped yeast, sugar and water in my bath tub and waited 2 days. What now?

>>10668235
Heat it, cover it, and let it rest for 5 days, then drink it up.

>>10642838
this is the best beer Ive had yet I think

God tier beer lads

>>10666131
dude, do you live in that cabin?

also, i've been riding the Old Nation hype train. still yet to be disappointed by them.

I miss Pretty Things, you guys

>>10642838
Just started a strong barleywine for winter, using a Muntons kit, 1.125 kg of liquid dark malt, 1kg corn sugar, and M42 ‘New World’ strong ale yeast. I’m anticipating 10-12% ABV. A local place is getting out of home brew so is selling all stock at 50% off, good times ahead.

Slammin me a 1L of Flying Dog Bloodline. Where my Al/ck/s at?

>>10668991
expensive as fuck tier you mean, stop shilling, Evil Twin, your beer is good, you don't have to keep crawling around here looking for your next paycheck

>>10667098
Start with concentrates, you can jazz them up with dextrose, dried malt extract and extra hops if you like.

>>10669272
What happened? I liked their ethos, was looking to try them when I finally get stateside.

>>10669395

>>10669245
It's a house. Old nation makes baller shit. Check out witches hat from south Lyon if you want more cool shit.

>Microbrew homosexuals

Beers I've had recently.

Even More Coco Jesus was probably the best but Mikkeller's Raspberry Blush was close behind.

>>10670869
i've been to witches hat a few times before. they are pretty solid. Beer Baron in livonia sometimes taps kegs from them, and i believe they currently have more taps than 8* plato in detroit has. my personal favorite local is Batch in corktown, as they brew more belgian/flemish styles.

>>10669395
i think the nature of their business (being a gypsy brewer) and the fact that their distro is shit is what makes their beer so incredibly expensive. hopefully finally having a brick and mortar building and getting a new distributor will improve things some.

>>10665712
Technically speaking, any amount of alcohol will raise your chances of cancer and other drinking-related diseases, simply because it and its toxic byproducts damage cells, so there is no 'safe' level. However, it's not a significant increase, as long as you drink in moderation, i.e. well under the recommended drinking guidelines, which is 14 units in the UK (6 pints of 4% ale/lager) and 14 standard drinks in the US (248 ml of alcohol).

>>10650109
What happened to the regular al/ck/ threads? I've been gone for a few months.

>>10671800
Batch crops up every once in a great while in the central part of the state but I can't say I've had alot of it.

I don't know any science but does this get in the way for Bodybuilding and the like? something about dads and having beer guts

Recently moved and just consolidated the last bit of my beer. Didn't realize I had quite so much (probably less than a dozen are intentionally being cellared).

>>10642838
enjoying some refreshing Night Shift Nite Lite

>>10645771
Wehenstephaner is absolute GOAT tier

>>10663075
it's the best light watermelon beer out there. great for hot days like you said and golf.

>>10666383
nice

>>10673479

i've been to night shift and took a tour and they seemed a lot more innovative than "nite lite" wtf

>>10673490
A lot of breweries are putting out those types of lagers to compete with high life and stuff during the summer.

>>10673490
oh they definitely are, but they just made 12pks for $15, can't go wrong for the taste and style. had some of their willow hefe yesterday, was breddy gud

>>10673018
What's the one with the angel on the cap? I have that cap but can't remember.

>>10663075
I like it. They have a new watermelon sour I've been meaning to try.

>>10663075
Only watermelon beer I've liked. I've had 3

Where is al/ck/?

Has anybody had Stone Brewing's I'm Peach Double IPA? Trumpshit aside, I think it sounds really interesting.

>>10673702

Brasserie Dieu du Ciel! out of Montreal. The specific beer is Équinoxe Du Printemps.

>>10645208
I'd bump North Coast up to excellent for their price point, and personally, I think Founder's gets too much praise outside of its KBS. The Bruery is the epitome of a beer snobfest, so if you fucking hate hipster scum that only drinks barrel-aged shit or sours, then you'll hope that place burns to the ground.

>>10651037
>Does anyone else think Lagunitas is just going for the "thanks craft beer for making my alcoholism look like a neat hobby" crowd? Can't go wrong with them and mostly high abv brews. Though I've noticed there's a distinct taste that's common with all their beers. It's easy to spot with Sakitumi, which just tastes like sake with patented Lagunitas flavoring.

I think it has to do with them expanding eastward and trying to maintain some consistency across all their breweries, but you do have a point since all my friends that haven't graduated university yet blow Lagunitas really hard.

>>10645208

Very subjective, but it's also hard to tell because I'm not going to look up every beer's distribution map. Seeing Bell's in "The Best" is pretty fucking laughable; whoever made that list is obviously a flyover. The "Everything but my barrel aged...because I sold out" is pretty spot on, but Sierra Nevada is leagues above New Belgium and Sam Adams. Stone and Green Flash should both be moved up a tier; Bell's should be moved down a couple tiers, and The Bruery, Firestone, and Founders shouldn't be considered the best. Never lived anywhere with Prairie.

>tl;dr it's almost as infuriating as that "most popular beers in the us" list in that it doesn't represent the reality of what's actually good, and what people are actually drinking

>>10673969
i was wondering this earlier

>>10672499
they've only started distributing within the last year or so. used to be only a few bottle shops in the area would sell their beer, and almost never on tap. and if it was, it would be maybe a half-keg. i have a bottle of dicksmasher in the rye (an imperial stout aged in catcher's rye barrels) and BBA Better Together (barrel aged hybrid british stout and scotch ale) stored. i served their All The Fixin's (cranberry barleywine) with thanksgiving dinner last year.

>>10673018
i'm not proud to say, i have many more than that, my dude.

>>10674032
Saw it a at the store but passed it up. A local place does a peach IPA already so I didnt care much

>>10674032

I dislike most fruit beers, but I'll have to keep an eye out for this. Stone tends to have more hits than misses.

>>10670880
>Beer with flavor? No thanks, I'll stick to PBR

>>10669395
>expensive as fuck tier you mean
Have you tried not being poor?

dont mind me just best cheap beer coming through

>>10677241
High life is cheaper and better tasting

What a surprise, no gueuze/lambic in this thread...

>>10677515
Here you go, anon.

>>10645208
>merchant nose next to Shmaltz brewing

Funnyman.

I got a 15 case of Keystone and a bottle of Tanquray Gin

>>10677575
noooo did she really get fat

>>10677624
Meat was probably the only way to be a convincing tranny when he got older.

>>10677575
>She

>>10677515
Has one of these the other day, it was amazing

>>10677196
To be fair, Evil Twin is significantly more expensive than other brewers of its tier.
Its not expensive in an absolute sense, but it definitely is relative to other good beer

>>10678719
Anyone hear any news about their 2018 R&D releases?

>>10677624
Also bald

>>10674315
Word. Apparently this is a thing now.

>>10642838
Will be 6 months sober on wednesday, and am currently 72 hours nicotine free.

I would like to have a beer in six months.

>>10645208
>Lagunitas
>Excellent

Why not just drink a glass of S O Y while you're at it

>>10674315
My cellar space is getting drywalled and shelved because the wife found it "creepy" (still didn't say a word about the rape dungeon, she's a bright one) so the 2ne basement guest bedroom is getting gang fucked with booze. Again, it's not a fucking cottage.

>>10679341
My hoarder ass picture was to embaressed of its wall colors to post.

>>10679316
>this guy

Okay, can we all agree that the NE style IPA fad has officially played itself out?

>>10642838
I'm relatively new to brewing. Should I even bother with secondary fermentation if I'm not adding fruit or dry-hopping? Because I'm planning on brewing a stout and am considering just leaving it in primary for about 3 weeks in the carboy.

>>10679350
>negatory.

You like dick don't you.

>>10679405
I wouldn't. Contrary to popular opinion putting your beer in a secondary isn't necessary unless you are really anal about cleaning up particles in your beer (hop residue, yeast aggregate, etc). You can dry-hop or add fruit in your primary. In fact I rarely secondary anymore because I feel it oxygenates the beer unnecessarily. You can leave beer sitting on the yeast trub for 2-3 months without adding off flavors.
Also this isn't the thread to ask about homebrewing, go to /diy, there is usually always a thread there.

>>10679465
Thanks, and I'll ask over at /diy/.

>>10679425
Your boyfriend looks cute.

>>10663962
Godspeed

Does anyone actually like saisons? I like modern times brewery but this stuff tastes like a barn. Luckily in this situation, my love for beer Trump's my newly discovered dislike of saisons.

>>10662779
what are you talking about, those are excellent labels

>>10679347
do you actually dislike beer? how the fuck you got so much undrunk beer?

>>10679992
yeah love em

>>10677515
Post some

>>10679992
Yeah. Try a Belgian blonde next time. Less funk usually, but still has that yeasty characteristic to it that might help ease you into the style

>>10645746
Going back in to weeks so I'll give it a try if I see it in the liquor store in my hometown
>>10677241
Oh sorry did someone mention me

>>10679347
i really want to try that vivant beer, but i can't bring myself to paying almost $30 for a four pack. i just moved some bottles from my other cabinet to the fridge.
1 btl 2016 backwoods bastard
1 btl 2015 pilgrim's dole
1 btl 2016 sumatra mountain brown
1 btl 2015 dragon's milk reserve w/ toasted chiles

>>10681541
Wbg and love shadow are dumb. Drink well upfront and given a year to age turn into straight stupid good stuff. Can't wait to see how they turn out in 5.

>>10680703
That's like asking your mother if she hates dick with all that unsucked dick waving around her face. All that dick can't get sucked at once, she's only one woman.

This is pretty much my go to anymore. 15 pack for around 15 and change and usually lasts me a couple days.

>>10679590
That's me, and I'm glad that you think so.

A/s/l and do you fuck on the first date?

All IPAs taste the same.

>>10672445
some butthurt mod throwing his toys out of the pram because the threads weren't about tendies. it took al/ck/ disappearing for me to realise how shit /ck/ is outside of those threads though, in fact all of shiteatingchan is pretty dire at the moment.

>>10683325
al/ck/ pls go

>>10650022
It's better

>>10645208
Switch Lagunitas out with Deschutes. The Abyss is an amazing beer. Ditto on The Dissident, the annual special version of the Black Butte porter, and the Dissident. Lagunitas' high westified and imperial stout are really good but their stuff is too hoppy usually. All of Deschutes' supermarket beers are kind of boring but they're well done

>>10683661
ugh I meant
>Ditto on the Dissident, the annual special version of the Black Butte Porter, and the Stoic

>>10644043
sam smiths pubs are the best though

first time i've seen a collective arts beer in aus and it was reasonably fresh too. not bad

I made 6 handles of vodka yesterday. 4/6 right there.

>>10683578
>alck
>4.7%
nigga have you not calculated alcohol to price ratios for every drink in your city
what are you lazy

>>10684953
>15 pack lasts me a couple days
>nigga have you not calculated alcohol to price ratios for every drink in your city

If I wanted optimal booze/price I'd just be buying franzia boxes or everclear, faggot

>>10685031

no you wouldn't. so you clearly haven't done the math.

Having this """adambier""" this must be a new style. Mark by words, by 2019 Adambiers will be the new trend like new england IPA

>>10659092
this meme needs to die

>>10686815
What's it like

>>10686896
Nevermind it just says it's like an altbier

Are there any quality Lambics that come in 6packs or something similar? Timmerman's Oude Kriek and Double Mountains Devil Cuvee Kriek are ones that stick out in my mind.
I can't pay 20-30$ for a single beer very often anymore but they're my favourite beer type

>>10686918
>>10686896

Nah. It is like a sour smoked porter

pretty cool

>>10678737
>First R&D release for the summer, June 8 & 9, is our 25th Anniversary Ale, a bold Belgian Quadruple

>German & English malted barley, rich caramel & raisin notes. Aussie hops & Belgian Yeast rested in brandy barrels give subtle cinnamon & clove notes. Fusion of Wisconsin maple syrup & Belgian candy sugar pushes the original gravity to 23 Plato. 11.5% ABV

>Release starts at 10am. 4 bottles per person per day limit, $15/bottle

Mods just pruned alck thread. Left it up until I got there and punished the same fag, as always. Hats off to you, buddy. Delete every thread I defeat your "logic" in, shows character and true resolve to your purpose

an alcohol thread just got deleted. What's going on?

who are the freakshows that mod this board?

>>10687356
based nana

I want to know the mindlets that we need to report to the administrators and if that doesn't matter, I will leave shit shithole in the pile of compost it has become.

>>10687364
He's from pol, 21-23 years of age, likes to use VPN

>>10659092
>>10686842

in brooklyn or montreal the hip people are way more likely to be sipping Tecate / Corona than a PBR nowadays.

>>10687390
and even more likely to be drinking wine

Drinking an organic cab, straight from the fridge. Mixed with orange juice, quite lovely. It's wine but the alcohol thread is banned and wine threads get insta-banned

Any Tennesseans in this thread? Just finished off a growler of this stuff. Not my favorite local brewery but I've always liked this one.

>>10642838
Rate my purchase.

I'm a mod (currently off-duty) and I intend to report this thread to my superiors. This sort of discussion should not take place on the /ck/ board as discussion of alcoholism does not fall into our stringent enforcement rules which dictate that conversation deviating from food or cooking (despite exceptions) is not allowed.

Because such threads tend to devolve into boring stories with no punchline and ad hoc fallacies, and also because literally every-fucking-thing else is about fast fucking food and whether Five Guys is better than In-N-out, I request that you cease and desist. I won't ask you a second time. I was just hired yesterday and I intend to make this board what it deserves to be. No more /alck/, no more fast food.

COOKING is 50% of the board title. Cooking is less than 16.666667% of the board content. We need to fix this, and we need to fix it today.

>>10687583
Brewing, by definition, requires cooking. You sodomite.

>>10642838
al/ck/
>>https://join.slack.com/t/alcky/shared_invite/enQtMzc0ODExMDczMjU1LWY0Zjk0N2Y5YzU4MzQ5NjY5ZjlhYzBhMThjNTU5OWNiYmFlNjhkMzYzNWEyZjMyMTQwZGNjM2IzMDVmYWMxYTg

>>10687583
brewing is very much cooking, what are you even talking about?

>>10687583
Beer, by definition, is food. We're talking about food and how it makes us feel.

If we were this elaborate and enamored by chocolate or brussel sprouts, you'd be nutting about how awesome and cultured we are.

Today I had one of the scariest experiences of my life on a drug that I thought was relatively safe.
Please reconsider if you think you're someone who used or abused alcohol 'moderately' or even weed.
I wish none were to experience it.

>>10687562
havent had the victory, but two hearted is a bit oversaturated where i live. to the point where municipal golf courses and BWW's sell it.

>>10687635
Stop shitting up a food thread, this is not your personal blog because you cannot control yourself. Alcohol is found naturally in many food substances and grains have been fermented by man since before any written language as a form of nutrition. Beer is natural as fuck.

Just continue to get superobese on burgers straightedge.

>>10687655
Well, so are psychedelics. You people can be cruel.

>>10687583
Please escalate it. Doom yourself. Include the other 46 threads you deleted after your opinion gave way to logic

>>10687583
>mod uses reddit spacing
epic. epic for the win
>>10687635
>take drugs
>"warn" people on /ck/
piss off

>>10687661
Right, so if you want to talk about how to develope a tolerate to fly amanita and use it as a steak topping or its medicinal properties, or even the additional intoxicating effects, that's fine. But /ck/ isn't whine about chemicals.

>>10687682
>take drugs
>"warn" people on /ck/
piss off
jesus christ you alkies are an angry bunch
people can try out of desperation to not drink so much and try to enjoy life again

>>10687562
>babby's first tripel
>probably stale as fuck IPA

Not very interesting or even decent, but if you're just getting into craft beer then those are okay starting points. Check out Ommegang for better Americanized belgian style ales.

tl;dr: 4/10 you could have done a lot worse

>>10687641
Two Hearted is a top tier Old School IPA. Probably the best widely available pre-citra/mosaic IPA

>>10687714
Ommegang is literally owned and operated by belgians

>>10687714
>>10687758
this is true, they're owned by duvel.

>>10651037
M hat is mid tier

Drinking a home brewed NEIPA (galaxy, warrior, simcoe). Fermenting a black lambic, i suck at aging beer because im a beeraholic, but have a bunch of home brewed mead aging and a bottle of hill farmstead anna

>>10688301
got any recommended fermentation recipes for a beginner?

>>10688301
What's your favorite hop?

>>10683236
>That's like asking your mother if she hates dick with all that unsucked dick waving around her face. All that dick can't get sucked at once, she's only one woman.
speak for yourself. i would've sucked all those dicks within a few days, can't help myself. no self restraint.

blue moons good, but la trappe is very good

>>10674315
I spy that 8 maids a milking, and fuck you, good sir. I bought all 10 bottles my local shop had when it came out, and I finished them all as of a few months back. I'm sad.

>>10688385
Nelson or galaxy probably

>>10688348
12# golden promise malt
0.5# honey malt
1# oats
1# white wheat

0.5oz hops 30 min before cooling
2oz hops 15 min before cooling
2oz hops 5 min before cooling
Cool and pitch yeast
A day or two after strong fermentatio. Toss another 2oz of hops

Wa la juicy IPA

I dont know much about beer. I got some meme juice though

>>10690640
How is it? I got this at ren fest but they smothered it in fucking ice cream before I could say anything. Ruined the beer

>>10690669
Pretty solid, tastes more like a cider than a beer though

I spent all the money I had on summer college classes so it's a 12 pack of Pabst for me! Also, I still have some Johnny Walker Red left from last week.

New additions. Pretty happy my wife grabbed some decent beer for me while out shopping.

>>10671684
raspberry blush is one of my gf's favorite beers, solid berliner.

>>10691648
mikkeller has been putting out some pretty impressive ipas lately. Very nice.

>>10642838
Have never brewed in my life, but tasted a few decent drops from various friends of mine.
Currently drinking Japanese beer 'kirin'. It's fucking god tier I shit you not.

this is good beer yes?

>>10694095
Why are you asking strangers? If you like it you like it

>>10694132
i like it very much but i wanted opinions from other mostly

>>10694150
Czech beers have a pretty good rep, but arent the easiest to come by in the states since good lagers are pretty underappreciated here. Plus imports are spendier. The few dark lagers I've had from that region have been fucking delicious tho

>>10692832
kirin = sapporo > asahi > suntory malt > yebisu

>>10681137
Dupnij se perełke

>>10694954
Have you tried the far right premium malts.
It's my all time fav but a little more expensive.

>>10642838
MN beer represent

Drinking a 4 pack of xtra citra today

>>10642838

picked up a bottle of this, possibly the best APA around

>>10642838
Pic related. It's pretty good. Tastes like a mild black coffee.

>>10647648
Good stuff.
I'm drinking pic related. Made in south Florida. They just started using a new holder that becomes turtle food in salt water. So instead of killing turtles, they're feeding them. Pretty gnarly. I just got a DUI 2 nights ago and I'm already drinking again. Fuck me sideways.

>>10696524
Until you are sentenced you are on bond, so any alchohal in you blood is a conviction as a drunk and do not pass go on the primary offense, do not collect 200$ and a bond violation which can be a big time fuck off. Drink at home and don't fuck the pooch.

About to open one of these all black cans

i dont understand how anyone can enjoy IPAs. they are so disgusting

>>10696639
I LOVE ipa with all those delicious hops! I have some hubby points saved up and I don’t know whether to use them on more ipa or to use them to be able to touch myself when my wife’s bull pleases her

>>10696639
Some people like the taste some don't.
>>10696647
kek. All beer is estrogenic. Not just IPA.

>>10679337
Oh you got em. I laffed

>>10696639
Try to avoid mediocre West Coast IPAs in favor of more balanced and fragrant Midwest and NEIPAs

Midwest bros, what are the best breweries/beers to look out for in the area? I'll be taking a trip from chicago to minneapolis in a few weeks.
Really wanna hit:
3 Floyds
Revolution
New Glarus
Surly
Hammerheart
and maybe stock up on some BCBS/variants.

Best liquor stores/bars/breweries to hit that I'm missing? Also does Great Lakes distribute this far?

Just a honker's ale.

>>10696939
What route are you taking through Wisconsin?

>>10696939
Indeed's wooden soul series is worth checking out. Bottled or at the taproom. If you can tour Schells in new ulm its fascinating and they have a dope tap room and sour program. Bent paddle, castle danger, blacklist are all great north shore breweries and if you do end up near Duluth, thirsty pagan is a good brewery/pizza place in superior wisconsin.
Oh and back near Minneapolis you should check out fair state as well. Boom island and lakes and legend are cool too

>>10696965
Probably up from chicago to Milwaukee then hook up with the 94

>>10697071
Awesome, thanks for the information. Have heard Bent Paddle make some good beers, unfortunately probably won't be able to make it up to Duluth. Thanks for the recs!

>>10697089
If you want a quick retail experience while passing through stop at Woodmans grocery stores. They have amazing liquor departments with massive and relatively cheap beer selections. There is one in Kenosha right over the border from Illinois, and more the Milwaukee suburbs and in the Madison area

If you have time Good City, Black Husky and Third Space are probably the best tap room stops in Milwaukee. Lakefront is also a cool old school craft brewery and has a really fun tour. Best liquor store in the city is Discount Liquor on the south side. Best beer bar to stop at is probably Burnhearts.
Also on the way out of town Raised Grain is a good stop just off 94 in the suburbs.

In Madison, definitely make sure to stop at Funk Factory if you are into sour beer. New Glarus is about 40 minutes south of Madison off the interstate. A great place to stop if time but a bit out of the way. Ale Asylum and Karben4 are other good breweries in town

As for retail beers from breweries not directly on your route, definitely pick up any Central Waters or 3 Sheeps 4 packs. Also basically any New Glarus 4 pack is worth a buy

>>10687583
My new fave pasta motherfucker

>>10688348
Not that guy but I run two 30-litre fermenters and a Turbo 500 still. Fuck recipes.
Look up one of the hundreds of homebrew suppliers and forums. Homebrewing is easy as fuck, just start with kits/concentrates and adjuncts (spraymalt etc) until you have a good feel for fermentation, then start branching out.
Plus, fuck the revenuers.

>>10689200
>i would've sucked all those dicks within a few days, can't help myself. no self restraint.
A-are you a gril?

>>10697155
Thanks for all the information! Have never been to the state before, and I'm pretty excited to try some cool brews that are out of distro for me, have been wanting to try 3 Sheeps' wheat beers for years now. Will definitely look into Funk Factory.

>>10674094
Central Waters's barrel program is off the chain - but you know that.

>>10697428

You could spend 3 days touring breweries in Wisconsin on your way to MPLS and not see them all. We live in glorious times...

Milwaukee Brewing Company's tour is a good time too...basically 90 minutes of all you can drink. Lakefront's tour is good too, but not quite as much free beer. I went to the Miller Brewing tour for the first time last year and it was interesting. Definitely not like a craft brewery tour; there are a few very historic areas and some modern "beer factory" places. Still it's free.

The New Glarus brewery is the most beautiful brewery I've had the privilege to tour and depending when you go, you may be able to get some limited edition stuff in their beer store.

If you spend a lot of time in Madison, the Essen Haus is a traditional stop that usually has ~10 imported German beers they serve in liter mugs or boots. The Malt House in Madison has the biggest selection of Belgian beers I've ever seen with Brasserie V a close second. The tour at Vintage Brewing in Madison closely resembles looking through a window, but I really like their beer. Capital Brewery has a very nice beer garden, and Wisconsin Brewing Company makes good stuff too.

Great Lakes distributes into Wisconsin, but you could drink for a week on in-state beers and not go thirsty.