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in a pressurized can tho

whoa. looks too heavy for warm weather but definitely going on my short list for fall. I love chocolate stouts.

you know, even in the summmer (which it is here, shit), "summer" beers don't appeal to me as much as a good stout. it's not that heavy though really, just tasty :D

maybe I'll have to check it out sooner then...but I don't recall seeing that around here.

young's chocolate stout is like guinness on crack. i'm pretty sure a bottle is about the same as eating approximately three big macs though.

  On 6/1/2011 at 1:30 AM, sneaksta303 said:

This is good shit.

young's is delicious, especially on tap. it's definitely a winter beer for me though.

had this the other night:

really tasty dark brown ale

this too:

tasted kind of like a cordial/liqueur. i liked it though, it'd be a good drink for after a meal.

also, just found out brooklyn lager comes in a pint can. i'm probably going to order a full pallet for the summer.

uptown, no bullshit, i was torn between the youngs and the turbodog. imma have to try it now for sure. i've never had it.

not a big fan of these but a buddy brought them to my house for a BBQ this weekend and they were goiownsown real nice.

more beer needs to come in cooler bottles.

big fan of red stripe, hard to get here though. i used drink a lot of it in holland.

PROTIP: the supermarket in schiphol airport had all the multinational beer in the fucking world when i lived there and had to pass through there every day on the way to work.

that turbodog looks fuckin tasty.

  On 6/1/2011 at 2:23 AM, kaini said:

big fan of red stripe, hard to get here though.

I never was but I did a double take and drank about 10 of them Sunday and they were great. also had:

yeah, i definitely recommend the turbo dog, it's nice and dark for a brown. abita's a good brewery all around, their jackamo ipa is the fucking shiiet. one of my favorite ipa's.

redstripe is nice as well. the bottles are like glass grenades, great for throwing if you have a nice throwing tree out back

kind of like these:

am i the only person that finds newcastle ale to be disgusting? or at the very least incredibly disappointing ( especially considering the price tag)

I can drink Mickey's 40s up until the last quarter. Somehow, it gets real warm, foamy and extra gross towards the end.

Anyway, I'm about to bottle the IPA my roommate and I brewed a few weeks back. I'll be having the Nectarine Wheat Ale by Lost Coast Brewery:

It's a fruit beer, but doesn't have too much of the fruit flavor. Real smooth.

  On 6/1/2011 at 2:42 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

am i the only person that finds newcastle ale to be disgusting? or at the very least incredibly disappointing ( especially considering the price tag)

I used to love Newcastle, but ever since I learned they use isinglass in their filtering process, I haven't drank it.

isinglass?

that fruit ale sounds fantastic.

im an abbey ale man.

St. Bernardus...check it...you wont regret it.

i love newcastle. 1st beer i enjoyed as a matter of fact.

  On 6/1/2011 at 2:47 AM, Braintree said:

Somehow, it gets real warm, foamy and extra gross towards the end.

yeah it seems like their 40s come with a 15 minute time limit. i'd rather have an OE or a magnum any day.

delicious, kind of.

  On 6/1/2011 at 2:55 AM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

isinglass?

It's a filtering agent added to the beer. It's basically pureed fish guts.

Newcastle is much better on tap than bottled-- those fucking clear bottles. Who does that? Skunks in about 30 seconds and tastes horrible.

As a beer, the draught is just "ok" -- better than Heineken or sommat for your Summer thirst quenching beer needs. I wouldn't really ask for it unless the other choices were Bud or something, and often those are really the only choices given.

Which brings me to:

I'm currently polishing this off from a Memorial Day party. 10 or so pints for pretty cheep and a lot less hassle than opening bottles for everyone. Lasts a good while and it's real draught tasty, with just as much head a few days after opening. This Draughtkeg needs to catch on-- works much better than other mini kegs I've used in the past.

Anyway, as much as I'd like to be the beersnob and say Newcastle's beneath me: would totally buy again.

Catch on with other beers, I mean.

I haven't drank a beer since like october of 2009... I've been doing wine! especially this stuff!

drank a load of lousy free box-wine last night at an art-school degree show. feel like my head is being split open with loud rocks. the loudest.

as for the farts - don't even ask.

how dem farts Iain?

many of these..

which is why i was 45 minutes late to work this morning.