Beer (and beer pics!)

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#226
Sweetwater is the name of the brewery; it's about two miles from my house. IMO, the IPA is their best beer, although all of their offerings are worth drinking. (Except the Blue, which they ruin with blueberries. Gotta have something for the chicks, I guess.)
 
#228
#228
Vercingetorix said:
Sweetwater is the name of the brewery; it's about two miles from my house. IMO, the IPA is their best beer, although all of their offerings are worth drinking. (Except the Blue, which they ruin with blueberries. Gotta have something for the chicks, I guess.)
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Do you ever hang out at the tours after work? It's like a keg party after work- love it. :thumbsup: Freshest Sweetwater you'll ever taste.
 
#229
#229
Had the Georgia Brown Saturday. It tasted like....nothing. Very hard to explain. It wasn't bad though. I like the 420 over IPA but they are both very good.

How is "Road Trip"??

Also Vercing...could you scout some stores in Atlanta. I am looking for Wexford and Tetley. Both in a Nitro can.
 
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#230
A couple of favorites of mine are:

Samuel Smith's Taddy Porter

Young's Double Chocolate Stout (yummy).
 
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#231
volinbham said:
A couple of favorites of mine are:

Samuel Smith's Taddy Porter

Young's Double Chocolate Stout (yummy).
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I got a can of double chocolate coming from an online store:thumbsup:

Never tried it, hope its as good as you say it is.
 
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#232
volinbham said:
A couple of favorites of mine are:

Samuel Smith's Taddy Porter

Young's Double Chocolate Stout (yummy).
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The TADCASTER! 2 very, very nice choices. Young's Double is as thick as it gets.

I had a Chimay Grande Reserve tonight. . . .tasty.
 
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#233
USAF_Vol said:
I got a can of double chocolate coming from an online store:thumbsup:

Never tried it, hope its as good as you say it is.
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I found the bottle better than the can. The nitrous thingy never seemed to create enough carbonation for my tastes but maybe I had them too cold when I tried it.

Do you have a "Flying Saucer" bar where you are? I think they have it on tap.

It has a nice coffee/chocolate flavor in the head and it's super smooth.
 
#234
#234
I also like the Celebrator Dobbelbock.

One night I made a Celebrator float (vanilla icecream). Maybe I had too many before I came up with the idea but the end result was delicious :pepper:
 
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#235
kiddiedoc said:
The TADCASTER! 2 very, very nice choices. Young's Double is as thick as it gets.

I had a Chimay Grande Reserve tonight. . . .tasty.
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Chimay - yum yum yum. We would always crack that out after a long day of import sampling and our phrase the next day was "Much to my Chimay" in reference to our impared decision making.

I always liked the TADCASTER moniker - reminds me of a long-lost Fender.

I'm also partial to Young's Ramrod but I try to stay away from Young's Old Nick :yikes:. That stuff is a weird, wild taste experience.
 
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#237
Fine Vol said:
Do everyone prefer cans or bottles?
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The only beer I drink out of cans is Dale's Pale Ale. It's a fine hoppy pale ale, and they put it in cans so you can take it backpacking more easily. (A can of beer weighs 13 ounces; a bottle weighs 21!) I carried five of them up to Gregory Bald in the Smokies this very weekend, as a matter of fact. Chilled them down in a spring while we were setting up the tent and cooking dinner.

SWIL said:
Do you ever hang out at the tours after work? It's like a keg party after work- love it. :thumbsup: Freshest Sweetwater you'll ever taste.
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I've been to their tastings a bunch of times. It's not quite the huge cheap beery free-for-all it used to be a few years ago, but it's still great fun. I really hope they don't shut it down like the distributors want.

USAF_Vol said:
Had the Georgia Brown Saturday. It tasted like....nothing. Very hard to explain. It wasn't bad though. I like the 420 over IPA but they are both very good.

How is "Road Trip"??

Also Vercing...could you scout some stores in Atlanta. I am looking for Wexford and Tetley. Both in a Nitro can.
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The Road Trip is interesting. I prefer the IPA, but the Road Tip is definitely worth trying.

I'll be happy to keep an eye out for Wexford and Tetley for you. I live about half a mile from Green's, which has one of the best beer selections in Atlanta. I'll check it out this week for you.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
The Road Trip is interesting. I prefer the IPA, but the Road Tip is definitely worth trying.

I'll be happy to keep an eye out for Wexford and Tetley for you. I live about half a mile from Green's, which has one of the best beer selections in Atlanta. I'll check it out this week for you.
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Thanks. I really like sweetwater. I think it was SWIL who posted a "Help save Sweetwater" thread. At the time I had never had the beer, but I volunteered:) to email the link to have it saved.

I appreciate the scout report, I am close enough to ATL to make a trip if I know it would be successful. :good!:
 
#245
#245
Vercingetorix said:
Sorry, I should have warned you off of that one, but somehow I never think about it. Definitely a chick beer.
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What's with all the labeling beers with genders?:realmad: If it's good, freakin' drink it. Hummer and Blue are both great beers- if you've never had them, try them.
 
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#246
SWIL said:
What's with all the labeling beers with genders?:realmad: If it's good, freakin' drink it. Hummer and Blue are both great beers- if you've never had them, try them.
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Relax and enjoy your Zima! :p

I keed, I keed (in the words of you avatar)
 
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#247
volinbham said:
Relax and enjoy your Zima! :p

I keed, I keed (in the words of you avatar)
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haha- I said "beer"!! :p One shouldn't have the need to prove his "manhood" through the pint of beer he's drinkin'. :twocents::toast::beerf:
 
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SWIL said:
haha- I said "beer"!! :p One shouldn't have the need to prove his "manhood" through the pint of beer he's drinkin'. :twocents::toast::beerf:
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Agree - one of my favorite summer beers is Leinenkugel's Raspberry Wheat - very refreshing.

I couldn't resist the Zima reference :angel:
 
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#249
volinbham said:
Agree - one of my favorite summer beers is Leinenkugel's Raspberry Wheat - very refreshing.

I couldn't resist the Zima reference :angel:
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No worries- I was expecting it :eek:lol:
 
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#250
SWIL said:
What's with all the labeling beers with genders?:realmad: If it's good, freakin' drink it. Hummer and Blue are both great beers- if you've never had them, try them.
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Perhaps calling it a "chick beer" was a little much, but I find Hummer to be pretty bad. I've got nothing against the style (Belgian White, supposedly), but it's like a Belgian White that's been watered down for easy drinking or something. It ends up having some of the sour sour twang of the style, but without any depth of flavor. I guess I called it a chick beer because everyone I know who likes it is, well, a chick.

USAF_Vol said:
:salute: I'll let it slide, but good god....It is BAAAAAD. Have you had the Road trip??
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The Road Trip is pretty good. They claim it's a lager that didn't quite work and they ended up using an ale yeast; what they ended up with is definitely pretty quirky. It's worth trying out.

They had a "Happy Ending Imperial Stout" for awhile that I can't recommend highly enough. I hope it comes back this winter.
 
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