750ml bottles of beer

all this "omg this beer looks almost like a wine-bottle" stuff is so silly.

Augustiner > everything else.

I had a double whopper with cheese for lunch and that's sorted me out a bit. Trouble is I just want to go to bed now.

  On 1/15/2010 at 2:47 PM, BCM said:

I had a double whopper with cheese for lunch and that's sorted me out a bit. Trouble is I just want to go to bed now.

that's when you do 2 massive equally sized shits in 1 sitting eh?

  On 1/15/2010 at 2:47 PM, BCM said:

I had a double whopper with cheese for lunch and that's sorted me out a bit. Trouble is I just want to go to bed now.

Just back from a college trip. Lived off Mc D's and Burger King for 4 days. Not as fun as it sounds, you cant help but pass out after your meal.

I so want to go to sleeeeep.... I'm stuck at bastard work though :(

  On 1/14/2010 at 11:14 PM, Hautlle said:

  On 1/13/2010 at 11:11 PM, Fred McGriff said:

I just picked up some 750ml bottles of beer at the liquor store. Right now I'm about to crack open a bottle of corsendonk abbey brown ale, pictured here:

 

 

I also had a chance to meet the founder and the brewmaster of boulevard brewing company this weekend and had some of their smokestack series beer. they were extremely, extremely delicious. a revelation in beer for me. and salt of the earth people, too. so I picked up a "double wide" and a "saison brett," which i sill consume later.

 

 

 

beers that come in 750ml bottles.

 

FRED! Double Wide is fucking amazing! One of my favorite beers ever. The Saison is good, but I love IPA's so much...

 

  On 1/14/2010 at 3:44 AM, 42Orange said:

  On 1/14/2010 at 3:36 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

in aus you can get basically every beer in 750ml form (longnecks, longies etc)

is this as common in the rest of the world?

 

in america they sell six packs of miller high life with empty 750ml bottles so you can fill up if you want to impress your friends

 

my favourites in the 22-24 variety

ninkasi makes a mean brew!

 

Damn, I really want to try that ninkasi... Never seen it anywhere around ehre. Where's it brewed?

 

edit: read the label...

hey --- you around right now? i just opened up my double wide and it seems flat. is it supposed to have a big head or something? there wasn't much action when i uncorked it either. dunno... tastes good though. just flat.

  On 1/14/2010 at 11:22 PM, encey said:

put a Corsendonk on it!

 

do a barrel-aged roll!

lol

i think i just realized that i don't like talking about stuff that i'm passionate about (like beer) because it's so personal to me and i get overly enthusiastic about it to the point that i start to think that no one else understands how amazing it really is.

i've had a few, by the way. don't mind me.

just for the sake of conversation, tonight i am drinking Unibroue: La Fin Du Monde, Unibroue: Moudite, Duvel and Stella Artois

yeah the fucker is flat as fuck. gonna open up my brett

saison brett might be the most amazing beer ever

also i'm taking pills.

tomorrow is a luxury

  On 1/16/2010 at 2:42 AM, Fred McGriff said:

saison brett might be the most amazing beer ever

Ah, that sucks your double-wide was flat. The Saison-Brett is really good, it limited I think.

had an influx of belarus shit in the offie near me - got me some syabar (750ml obviously)

There's free beer at a Belgian brewery in Liege/Luik tomorrow:

(in dutch:)

http://www.nu.nl/economie/2165674/belgische-stakers-delen-gratis-bier.html

(googlated into engrish:)

http://translate.google.nl/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=0&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nu.nl%2Feconomie%2F2165674%2Fbelgische-stakers-delen-gratis-bier.html&sl=nl&tl=en

On a side note,

  On 1/13/2010 at 11:18 PM, Fred McGriff said:

i do believe, how you say? i'm putting a "donk" on it right now?

 

*swirls goblet*

Seems like Korg had the "Donc" covered back in '63.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korg#Timeline_of_major_products

  Quote

Timeline of major products

* 1963 - Donca-Matic DA-20

* 1966 - Donca-Matic DE-20

  On 1/14/2010 at 3:11 AM, zaphod said:

this is all i drink when i drink beer. just belgian trappist shit and the various abbey ales. right now i'm drinking this:

 

you have great taste my friend....that's the only shit i drink too!

Chimay Blue, Duvel, Piraat, Delirium Tremens....

There's nothing better than Belgian Ales....

i had piraat tonight and i thoroughly enjoyed it.

I tried a few bombs over the weekend:

Dogfish Head - World Wide Stout - I split a 12oz bottle with a friend of mine. I sipped gingerly at the first half while it was cold then got destroyed by the 18% ABV when I let the last of it reach room temperature. Quite a treat... never had anything that strong in a beer before.

Alpine Brewing - Good - I have never had a Barleywine from Alpine before but they make some of the best IPAs I have ever had, like the Bad Boy, Pure Hoppiness, and Exponential Hoppiness. This also packed a strong punch of 17% ABV. Overall not the best barleywine I have had... it was far too sweet with a molasses-like mouthfull, though the sweetness masked the alcohol well, it just lacked some chest hair and got even sweeter as it warmed.

  On 1/14/2010 at 11:22 PM, encey said:

put a Corsendonk on it!

 

do a barrel-aged roll!

lol

I miss the use of the word gusto in beer descriptions. In the 70's and 80's beer was all about having gusto, if you didn't have it, then you didn't have shit.

Trappists FTW

well i found this great bar in edinburgh doing exactly what i said was missing in the UK market. it's called the brauhaus and stocks about 350 lager/beers from around the world including quite a few from america... of which i tried sierra nevada bigfoot and an F/D old scratch amber. pretty nice but the best i had that night were the german wheat beers (my favourite of the night was Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier - so tasty).

i took a pic of the menu's US beers to see if any of you american guys recognise any of them...

holyshit was i drunk, some of these beers are a crazy strength (but no hangover in the morning at all!)

  On 1/25/2010 at 4:54 PM, keltoi said:

Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier

That stuff is dangerously good. Just six or seven and you're completely pissed innit.

  On 1/25/2010 at 5:09 PM, kanarie said:

  On 1/25/2010 at 4:54 PM, keltoi said:

Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier

 

That stuff is dangerously good. Just six or seven and you're completely pissed innit.

+ 4 pints guinness before cinema, half bottle of red wine and 2 tsing tao with chinese hotpot.

i was royally pissed in a great kind of pissed way.

http://www.southerntierbrewing.com/beers.html

they have a lot of good beers, but their heavy as shit imperial stouts are where it's at. their oatmeal stout, choklat, java and creme brulee are world class beers.

i need to find some fantastic belgian ales though. i've been quite into heavier belgians lately, but it seems to be i either love or hate them.

Good beers on that list, keltoi --

Flying Dog and Victory are so-so breweries -- not shitty, but not as good as others.

My two top picks would be Goose Island's Matilda (lighter, Belgian-style ale) and the Left Hand Milk or Imperial Stout -- some solid-snake-out-your-ass shit there! ... in a good way!

good to hear encey, think i've found my new home from home.