What's your favorite Beer?
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Don't get me wrong, there are a few available, just not many, and definitely not on the level of anything else we have. Most notable would be Bell's Oarsman and one from Jolly Pumpkin whose name escapes me. I would likely find more if I could get into the pubs and restaurants more frequently, as all of our brewers have some GREAT selections that are in house only.
Any of Jolly Pumpkin's are a good jumping off point for sours in Michigan. All of there beers are "Belgian Style" sours, so any of them will do. New Holland does Blue Sunday, which is usually a pretty solid one. Brewery Vivant does them occasionally (Tart Side of the Moon was canned last fall). We (Short's that is) have a bottled brett beer releasing this coming Saturday at our pub.
Michigan sours definitely aren't wildly available yet, but the style is starting to develop within our great state!
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Thanks for the heads up emceeQ. Short's does some interesting brews, though not sure where the pub is honestly. Congrats on getting on with them by the way.
Had a nice little trip over to Arcadia Brewing tonight. Opted for a beer sampler with my meal. Funny enough, the IPA was my favorite of the selection.
Left to right: Loch Down Scotch Ale, B-craft Black Double IPA, London Porter, Cocoa Loco Stout, Imperial Stout
Paired with their Brewer's Brisket Sandwich with house chips and slaw
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I can't get enough Crooked Stave, this dry hopped sour ale is ridiculous.
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I haven't had anything bad from brewdog yet. The tokio has been my favorite so far, but he harcore ipa was a close second
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Drinking another Grapefruit Sculpin now, gotta decide what's next…
So good…
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Funny enough, the IPA was my favorite of the selection.
I LOVE the B-Craft Black. So good…
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Some new beers at the supermarket. 6.5% IPA, 6% Lambic kriek, 6.66% DIPA.
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/brussels-beer-project-delta/218467/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/oud-beersel-oude-kriek/10908/
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/brussels-beer-project-dark-sister/248127/
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Had a dinner at some friends' house. This went over well.
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The Dark Sister is very good. Beautiful colour, perfect, thick texture, very piney, complex enough; will be drinking this'un again!..
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/brussels-beer-project-dark-sister/248127/
Outblack Struise/ Stillwater collab. My last bottle and I'm glad it is. Massively offputting aroma (anis, mint). Taste is better but doesn't make up for it. Fascinating beer, if you're into BDSM.
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/struise–stillwater-outblack/139000/
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A saison aged in oak with cranberry, cinnamon, hibiscus, nutmeg. Yet another terrific effort from Crooked Stave, by far my favorite local brewery.
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Went way the fuck out into the burbs to escape the Denver market's decimation of beer stock. I'd hoped for Russian River and Bruery, instead got a sixer of Sculpin (usually sold by the bottle, one max due to demand), AleSmith Grand Cru, and Double Swingline from Trinity, which is a very bitter (150 IBU) and very sour (3.6 pH) ale, a wild DIPA. Intrigued by that. They also had a shitload of Hibiki 12, but I resisted… For now.
