For the moment, I'm in Louisville, KY. Aside fromt the fact I hate business travel, I'm excited to be trying out a whole new selection of tasty brews.

In my hotel Fridge I currently have Goose Head (?) Island "312" Wheat Beer from Chicago, and it's quite good. I plan to follow up with some Bluegrass Brewing Co. (BBC) Hefeweizen which I've never had.

I'm in a wheat mood these days for some reason.

I enjoy wheat beers a lot.

Per your reccomendation I got a Monkey Wrench last time I was at the Brew Works, I enjoyed it and would reccomend it to others.

Good to hear :)



Anyone else getting into, or have been, collecting bottles? Rogue's 24 oz bottles are really starting to look good on a shelf and I was wondering if anyone had thoughts on if it's shallow, tacky, or cool.

Sorry if this is perceived as a rescucitation (sp?) of a bloated thread :).

If you're ever in Boston, a couple places you need to check out if you're a beerfan.


http://site.mawebcenters.com/anamcar...use/index.html
The Publick House in Brookline has the best selection of Belgian styles as well as just about anything else you could think of for artisinal beers. Many on tap, many more bottled and the best selection of food/beer pairings you could ask for.

http://boston.citysearch.com/profile...ditorialreview
The Sunset Grill and Tap has the widest selection of any joint in town. The beer menu is 12 pages. Pretty standard pub fare to eat too.

http://www.linwoodgrill.com/
The Linwood often gets overlooked when in the fenway area because of the nearby Boston Beer works (http://www.beerworks.net/). The Beerworks is more of a mainstream, highly popular place that the college kids graduate to when they get sick of sticky floors and Natty ice. Those of us who have outgrown their meager (15 in house brews) move on to the Linwood with it's superior selection of imported and local suds. This week they're serving Stone's Double Bastard on tap. In fact, I think I'm going there for lunch right now.

I'm tempted to just sticky this thread. Beer talk is the best talk. (Sub-forum!)

I say display your Rogue bottles. My wife has done something similar with wine in our kitchen, but I've already told her that I want my own corner for a beer bottle collection.

My favorite saved beer bottle is a brew by Berkshire Brewing company called the Shabadoo.
http://www.berkshirebrewingcompany.com/shabadoo.html :V:

Goose Island is a Chicago local brewery which used to be located on, surprisingly enough, Goose Island. The 312 is a reference to Chicago's original area code, and yes, it's a pretty good wheat bear. Their Honker's Ale is nice too.

If I haven't/it hasn't already been mentioned, Three Floyd's Alpha King is good stuff.

Harpoon Brewery, Winter Warmer from their taster kegs = GG.

I'm trying to remember the names of my favorite Pubs in the area. There was one with this KILLER shepards pie in Brookline. I think they used steak tips in the damned thing instead of hamburger, but it's been about 5-6 years since I've been there :(

Though, I am going back at the end of this month - I'm curious to try Anna's tacqueria now that I've had "real" mexican food from SoCal. Yes, there's a reason the real's in quotes. :P

You're thinking of the publick house for sure.

Also, Anna's is bar none the best mexican for a good 300 miles.

My favorite beer here in wisconsin is definitley spotted cow, brewed in New Glarus wisconsin. Absolutley delicious and i can usually convince my friends to pitch in an extra dollar each so that we can get spotted cow barrels instead of miller light, or even worse *PLEASE DONT HURT ME* milwaukees best/ naddy ice. Please please please teach your kids its not okay to settle for naddy ice, its seriously like 3 dollars more for miller / bud which is roughly 15% better tasting until you are completely hammered.

(college student incase you couldnt tell)

I almost forgot; my thanks to whoever suggested Blue Moon. I had no idea what it was, just asumed it was another beer/lager/whatever, but its actually quite delicious in moderation; a good way to start the night. Wouldn't drink alot of it though, but then again I have a storied history with citrus tinted alcohol.

This is a wonderful thread, and I must say I agree with Kaubel on the Samuel Adams Cherry Wheat. Outstanding stuff! Granted, everyone I'm associated with is generally drinking Miluakee's Best (Beast) so anything is an upgrade from that. I'm in beer hell : (

In my cheap beer days, I'd still rather have Beast Light then Natty Light. The worst I've personally had is Dakota Kick, which was something ungodly cheap like 5 bucks for a palette. Tasting that has lead me to believe that all beers with a black can should be avoided at all cost.

Also stay away from Iron City beer :sad:


For Bethlehem bars, I loved McGrady's when I went to Lehigh, but I actually prefer drinking pitchers at Casa Mia which is on that same (3rd? 4th?) street, near Campus Square.

MacGrady's is a great place for a drink. They've got a pretty good selection and if your wallet is a little light 4 bucks for a pitcher of Killian's is great.

I've not been to Casa Mia yet, I'll have to check it out.

Amazing that this started over a passing comment about grammer and punctuation:

"This one Aussie in my guild speaks better English than I could ever hope to. His name is Hoegaarden, and his namesake is an exceptionally good white beer."

On topic: Could anyone recommend any ciders that would be similar to Kopparberg? It's a nice cider but just too damn expensive. 5.50 euro in a club for a bottle.

Echoing this. Completely made my afternoon.

It took me long enough, but all the posts related to the original topic have been moved. This thread is now about beer and only beer.

:toot: :beer: :highfive:

Ahhh, the post that started the entire off-topic discussion itself. The stuff of legends.

Yeah, I was tempted to leave out Minotas' and Nemesis' posts and take all credit myself.

I tried that sam adams cherry wheat the other day, I thought it was good, but a bit syrupy for me (though I'm not a big fan of cherries to start with). Next time I hit up a beer store I want to try and pickup a lambic or two and see how they compare, or maybe that Saison from Ommegang.

Right o.

Very glad that of the few Chicago dwellers we have, Three Floyd's got mentioned.

I'm also a fan of Piece Golden Arm. Though it's only available, AFAIK, in the restaurant itself.

I've had the Lindemans Framboise Raspberry Lambic and their Peach Lambic and both were eminently drinkable, but don't expect to drink a pint. I highly recommend a highball or old-fashioned (rocks) glass for it. And I also highly recommend a bowl of vanilla ice cream to eat with it. It's a dessert drink through and through and too sweet to drink in quantity, but wonderful nonetheless.

Also, even though I garbled my sentence a few pages back, if you like Blue Moon and you're in the Midwest, see if your local store has Boulevard's Zon. It's a summer brew, so they may have stopped making it already, but it's a fine Belgian style white wheat.