CBR 63: Winter Beers on the Winter Solstice

... to frequent local spots as opposed to the Applebees/Chili's/TGIFridays/Chotchky's/etc. It makes all sorts of sense; generally cheaper, largely better, and supports local economies. Hand in hand goes sustainability and all that blah blah blah.

Glad to hear some left-coast beers over there and happy birthday Jeff. I was slightly confused by the Celebrate discussion as it had never really entered my skull that there are two of those beers on the market. I'd heard so many bad things about one or the other that I just figured it was one big, stupidly packaged, bad beer. Go figure.

Also interesting to hear the news about Kona. I knew there was some A-B interest in there but I didn't realize they were being contracted at Widmer. Bogus. Contracted beer is bogus in general (I'm sure someone can point out some awesome contract brew but I can't imagine 'em).

Hoppy New Year guys!

Wed, 2007-01-03 14:31 — SeattleBen

How lame is it that I'm responding to my own post?

But I found an awesome contract brew even though it'll probably be utter crap.

http://www.buffettnews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54958

Sat, 2006-12-30 03:41 — Andy

Von's

Racer 5 is in your Von's, Nick? How lucky are you?

Sun, 2006-12-31 22:04 — Rick

Blind Tasting

Jeff says something like "if I tasted the Alaskan Winter ale blind I don't know if I could rate it higher than...". Silly man, that's why we do blind tasting. It surprised me too, to be honest.

Brown Shugga came in at number 5 out of 30 (not 25). Winter Solstice was number 3. This is important because we chose the Alaskan TWICE over these two beers - once in general tasting and once in the Best of Show.

The Alaskan Winter Ale is just so freaking drinkable and pleasant and simply flawless.

Tue, 2007-01-02 02:46 — Andy

Japanese and Hawaiian Beers

For DP: Yo-Ho Brewing's National Trust Porter is a fantastic brew. I would love to see that in a restaurant.

Kona brews its draft beer for the islands, but Widmer brews all of the bottled beer. Kona doesn't have the capacity and the shipping would be a real bitch. I don't know who brews the draft Kona that we get on the mainland, but I assume it's Widmer. Their beers are really good fresh on-tap in Hawai'i. They're about as night and day (I haven't tried the porter yet)as Spaten's Oktoberfest is in bottles vs. draft.

As Greg would say, "To beer. Beer is good. Beer, beer everybody."

Cheers!
Andy

Tue, 2007-01-02 07:16 — goodbeershow

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Interesting enough, you talked about finding expired Great Lakes beer. Our Indiana distributor dropped them because GL kept sending them old beer. We are happy about getting Brooklyn in Indiana. I have a rather special Brooklyn show in the works.

JeffreyT

Tue, 2007-01-02 15:58 — Rick

Brooklyn in BC

Just returned from Canada and was shocked that I could find the Brooklyn lager (can't recall name) in the BC Liquor Store - but not in California.

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