What are you drinking right now?

Nothing about that sounds appealing with my beer.

 

Westbrook Key Lime Pie Gose. Not a big gose fan but this is good, nice sweet/sour contrast.

 

Oban Little Bay, it's a 12-year-old small cask Scotch. Among my favorites at the $65 price point.

 

Maine Beer Mo, easy drinking pale ale.

 

Grapefruit Sculpin. Think it's decent, but can be very sour, guess if you don't like grapefruit you won't like it. But sometimes one bottle can taste different from the next. Also had their pineapple sculpin, where one bottle you taste no pineapple at all and the next you do.

 

The Sculpin IPA is good.

 

Anyone on this thread have access to Rhode Island brewery Trinity Brewhouse? I would love if you could send me a sixer of Red Devils Belgian Pale Ale for a homebrew clone contest we are having.
PM me if you can.

 

Even More Coco Jesus. A smooth imperial stout with maple syrup and coconut at 12%. Not as good as Michigan Maple Jesus, but still very good.

 

Grapefruit Sculpin is one of the most overrated, overpriced beers on the market. Sells for close to $15 a sixer, which is just ridiculous.

Anyway, not drinking all of this right now, but I just returned from a weeklong jaunt to New England and can report back on some of the great beer options up that way.

Tried a few New York offerings when I was in Cooperstown, but honestly, they were all a little too malty for my liking.

Went to Stowe, Vermont and drank Heady Topper from the source at Alchemist (and brought two four packs back in the cooler.) It is not overrated. Right up there with Pliny the Elder as one of the best IPAs I've tried. Their Crusher was pretty good too. Headed south to Waterbury and tried out Prohibition Pig and Blackback Pub. Pro Pig brews a bunch of their own beers and has a pretty good bbq/taco menu. They even managed to have Cheerwine, which I assume is rare for Vermont. Blackback Pub had a ridiculous selection of local offerings on draft. Best I tried were Foley Brothers' Pieces of Eight; Lawson's Finest Liquids' Sip of Sunshine; and River Roost's Mas Verde, which is what Grapefruit Sculpin should aspire to be.

Ended up trying a bunch different places in Maine over two days, including Maine Beer Co., which ended up being one of my least favorites. Probably somewhat overhyped because it's one of the few places that anyone outside the region has heard of. (Outside of Allagash.) Went to Bissel Brothers, Lone Pine, Rising Tide, Foundation, Austin Street Brewery and Allagash in Portland proper. Thought Lone Pine might have been the best of that bunch, though Austin Street was really, really good. I don't really care for Allagash's beers, but I was right there and they give you a free sampling flight, so the price was right. Cool building, too. There's a distillery in the same industrial park that houses Foundation, Austin Street and Allagash too if you're into whiskey and cocktails.

Ended up down south on my way back out checking out Barreled Souls in Saco/Biddleford and Banded Horn in Biddleford. Barreled Souls is tucked into a basement in an old house and they have some pretty serious offerings, including a 15 percent (!!) barrel aged imperial Russian stout. Banded Horn has some pretty tight beers along with a bunch of old arcade games to mess around with.

I'm going back to Maine at some point to spend a whole week up there. It really was an incredible place.

 

Belvedere Gimlet w fresh lime juice; (okay it was last night).

 

Now that it's Sept. 1 I can feel a tad more justified in drinking Marzen's and maybe a pumpkin beer...maybe...if someone gives it to me for free.
I'm just happy to see more RIS and dark Belgian ales on the shelves again...IPA overload in the summer sucks. I like the style...but come on people! LOL

Oh, and a local brewery here in Toledo (Earnest Brew Works...I highly recommend if you come through) does a firkin each Thursday. Last night was a Tart Cherry version of their New Sincerity WCIPA. The tartness overpowered the hops and it came off like a light sour. It was lovely.

 

My mother in law sent me a care pack for my birthday. There's three here I've never had. I'm eager to try the Old Brown Dog.