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5 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

Rugenbrau, imo.

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Are you in Switzerland right now, or is that a shot of Lake Travis from 1983?

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@HenryJames I did laughing emoji on the candy case just because that seems beyond awesome for a kid/ anyone to get to pick Swiss chocolates that are...um...really Swiss chocolates.  That's a great pic. 

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Probably breaking some kind of beer thread law here, but posting anyway. Paczki, for those who don't know, are the Polish Fat Tuesday donuts. Beer purists will scoff, but I just think of these as alcoholic smoothies. Another from Brewing Projekt in Eau Claire, WI, which seems to be able to pull these things off nicely. Goes well with Horns and UTSA.20250318_194854.thumb.jpg.f8bdfb8a52b6d4be9490e207ebf7ad6c.jpg

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13 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

Fou Foune, imo.

How pronounced is the apricot in that one? That bottle looks like a 750 ml, but I suspect it was pretty easy for a couple of people to finish off. Or even one.

The sour fruited ale I posted the other night, OTOH, was something I came to regret purchasing in a 4-pack by the time I got to the end of the pint. I said the Brewing Projekt usually pulls that stuff off nicely, but that one was a bit much.

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Westie for the Win American IPA, District 1 Brewing, Stevens Point, WI. In the back is The Rising Sun, a Japanese rice lager my son ordered. Liked the Westie. Not fond of rice lagers.

Also got D1's Quad City, a Belgian quadrupel. That's one fine beer.

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Sierra Nevada Cosmic Little Thing IPA. Really damn good. Dangerously smooth for 8% - and that might be my main critique - a little syrupy on the back-end.20250324_211950.thumb.jpg.6f861af953c18dc3145be7e19075fb46.jpg

I'm more of a hazy guy - less of a double IPA fan. This is a nice little middle ground. 

It's kind of like a good version of a lot of the high ABV Voodoo Ranger shlock. 

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On 3/23/2025 at 9:37 PM, patrickdrinksbeer said:

that certainly looks like a midwest IPA

I love IPAs but haven't really reached the point of being able to properly distinguish among/articulate the points of different sub-styles. So what's your understanding of what a Midwest IPA is -- more malt, perhaps, or different malt? The AI gives me a superficial and perhaps incorrect summary and I don't feel like talking to it any more. You seem to know your stuff (and not just username checks out and all). I'm trying to get a little further down that road but am not too far yet.

I'm not even sure the photo does the beer justice in the first place. It was in my neighbor's man cave during our Sunday happy hour, a proper midwestern basement on a snowy and ill-lit day. Think I'll go see what Karben⁴ says about it, if anything.

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13 hours ago, Hayduke said:

I love IPAs but haven't really reached the point of being able to properly distinguish among/articulate the points of different sub-styles. So what's your understanding of what a Midwest IPA is -- more malt, perhaps, or different malt? The AI gives me a superficial and perhaps incorrect summary and I don't feel like talking to it any more. You seem to know your stuff (and not just username checks out and all). I'm trying to get a little further down that road but am not too far yet.

I'm not even sure the photo does the beer justice in the first place. It was in my neighbor's man cave during our Sunday happy hour, a proper midwestern basement on a snowy and ill-lit day. Think I'll go see what Karben⁴ says about it, if anything.

I took at his him saying it looked like shit, and Midwest IPAs are shit, which is a wildly ignorant take of course.

IMO there's no specific kind of IPA/APA that is unique to the Midwest, but there are plenty of Midwest breweries making world class IPAs/APAs.  Toppling Goliath, New Glarus, 3 Floyds, Black Stack, Pipeworks, Half Acre.  I could go on.

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3 hours ago, Al_4_ISU said:

I took at his him saying it looked like shit, and Midwest IPAs are shit, which is a wildly ignorant take of course.

 

not what i was saying at all. just a reference to the big stalwarts like founders and bells who were making darker, maltier IPAs with crystal malts more recently than other regions. obviously places like TG, FFF, pipeworks were on the leaner modern IPA grists earlier. joke would have been more accurate 5-6 years ago.

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15 minutes ago, patrickdrinksbeer said:

not what i was saying at all. just a reference to the big stalwarts like founders and bells who were making darker, maltier IPAs with crystal malts more recently than other regions. obviously places like TG, FFF, pipeworks were on the leaner modern IPA grists earlier. joke would have been more accurate 5-6 years ago.

You'll have to excuse me, assuming derision from others is baked into the Midwestern ethos.  Part of why we can't take compliments for shit.

Fantasy Factory is great when fresh.  It's a little leaner/lighter flavor profile from something like Two Hearted.

Agreed that fairly recently the Midwest was big on those kind of IPAs.  That's when I really started getting into them.  Surly Furious is in a similar vein.

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1 hour ago, patrickdrinksbeer said:

not what i was saying at all. just a reference to the big stalwarts like founders and bells who were making darker, maltier IPAs with crystal malts more recently than other regions. obviously places like TG, FFF, pipeworks were on the leaner modern IPA grists earlier. joke would have been more accurate 5-6 years ago.

Yeah that's what I assumed you were talking about.  

I don't like any of them, but the midwest IPAs from founders and bells were at least slightly more balanced than their west coast counterparts.

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1 hour ago, Al_4_ISU said:

You'll have to excuse me, assuming derision from others is baked into the Midwestern ethos.  Part of why we can't take compliments for shit.

I've only lived here for 18 years, so I still haven't gotten a compliment yet.

We've had a couple of Blackstacks at recent happy hours, although I can't recall what they were without looking them up on Untappd. But I didn't find any of them particularly memorable, which is mostly a clue that I may taste beers too indiscriminately at times. Furious is one I do favor -- the whole group does --  along with pretty much anything I've had from Toppling Goliath.

2 hours ago, patrickdrinksbeer said:

not what i was saying at all. just a reference to the big stalwarts like founders and bells who were making darker, maltier IPAs with crystal malts more recently than other regions. obviously places like TG, FFF, pipeworks were on the leaner modern IPA grists earlier. joke would have been more accurate 5-6 years ago.

That's much more helpful than what the AI gave me -- thanks for both posts of insight. Apparently the bot only visited the Great Lakes website and left it at that.

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52 minutes ago, AnotherUTFan said:

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8 minutes ago, zlavydra said:

Fuller's ESB at the Blackbird, across from the Earl's Court tube station.

 

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One of the drawbacks of the craft beer explosion in the US, is that it's become harder and harder to find import beers here, especially on draught.  I used to go to the Dog and Duck or the Gingerman or Maggie Mae's Olde Side and drink the hell out of some Fuller's ESB, or Whitbread, or Young's Oatmeal Stout, or Sam Smith's Taddy Porter.  It's not easy to find a lot of that kind of stuff on tap anymore.

These days I walk into a bar or tap room that's got 30 taps on the wall, and 20 of them are some version of American IPAs, 4 are various hard ciders, a couple are macro-swill from BudMillerCoors, and there might be one or two that I actually find interesting.  It's a travismahockery.

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Just now, utee94 said:

One of the drawbacks of the craft beer explosion in the US, is that it's become harder and harder to find import beers here, especially on draught.  I used to go to the Dog and Duck or the Gingerman or Maggie Mae's Olde Side and drink the hell out of some Fuller's ESB, or Whitbread, or Young's Oatmeal Stout, or Sam Smith's Taddy Porter.  It's not easy to find a lot of that kind of stuff on tap anymore.

These days I walk into a bar or tap room that's got 30 taps on the wall, and 20 of them are some version of American IPAs, 4 are various hard ciders, a couple are macro-swill from BudMillerCoors, and there might be one or two that I actually find interesting.  It's a travismahockery.

Cannot rec that enough. Fuller's, Whitbread, John Courage and Chimay were my gateway beers.

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