What's your favorite Beer?

[Seul]

[Seul]

My brother:

"So yeah - I tried a Stille Nacht a couple of days ago but I think it had expired, I poured it in the sink…"

Me:

(Earlier today I was looking for my last 2012 bottle, only found two 2013 bottles in my fridge... Guess what... He hadn't drank it before so he didn't really know what to expect...)

[seanocono]

Gakusei's fault? Or Sensei's?

[Seul]

I used Google Translate for your post to no avail…

[seanocono]

Student's or Teacher's?

[Seul]

Good question… My brother described the beer as "very sweet, had lots of residue, and no carbonation"... It's hard to believe for me as I never had a bad bottle of SN before (and the gods know I've had me share), but I actually reckon he was dead right in pouring it away!..

[seanocono]

Hmmm. Interesting. Well, it sounds like you've taught him well.

I'm curious if you will agree when you eventually try one of your 13s.

[Seul]

Oh I had lotsa 2013s before… But since I was able to score the last couple of 2012s (at a reasonable price), I was keeping them to try one every couple of months, to see how the evo was...

I can tell you right now: I'm buying a case of 2014 to cellar it... This beer evolves like none other... It's truly one of Belgium's best beers, and certainly De Dolle Brouwers' flagship!..

[seanocono]

Okay, I was a little confused because I thought you had posted the SN several times before.

I read your post incorrectly (read: "never had a bottle of SN before", instead of "never had a bad bottle of SN before").

Sounds like I need to pick up a few next time I'm at the beer market.

[Seul]

Oh aye mate - you do!!!

[Seul]

Walnut/ raisin cake with Aventinus Weizen-Eisbock. Stellar.

[Megatron1505]

I'm going to be trawling beer importers for my own case of Stille Nacht too.

[jock1624]

Trying a new beer tonight , so far so good - wet, cold and by crom refreshing .

[David_pll]

About to try this:

[Seul]

I bet that's tasty…

[David_pll]

Was really nice @Seul will be trying to find some online!

[seanocono]

Lagunitas is a classic California IPA. Good choice, David.

[DanielAFC]

Lagunitas make a great ipa, and Phillips, the brewery jock just posted also make some great ipa's, one of the best breweries for the style in western canada.

I just had a great trip to New York where I was lucky enough to have the founders breakfast stout and porter on tap. Also had dog fish head 90 minute and goose island bourbon county on tap
, and was able to pick up a few nice bottles from top hops in soho, just up the road from seny.

I was in toronto last night and had my first foray into cantillon. They had a 2010 Lou pepe, but the two people I was with are not into lambics, and I wasn't about to pay 70 to drink it myself

Will be in portland this week and am looking forward to checking out hair of the dog brewery and trying the pannepooch collab and seeing what interesting things they have in the shop. Hoping for some treats from de molen and Russian river.  Stopping in seattle as well and will get to check out stogies and hops as well, the new shop started by the former owner of the classic super deli mart in seattle

[jock1624]

Travelling man there Daniel FC . Some great bevys and places your getting to drink in . Did you pick up your 107 (I think ) at SENY ?

[DanielAFC]

I most definitely did, will find some time to snap a few photos for the thread soon. I've been visiting family in Ontario and went down to New York.  Flying back into vancouver tomorrow and doing a quick run to portland and seattle before settling down for awhile