A New Beer Thread

[Versatile]

Dogfish Head is good, if you like beer that tastes and weighs you down like brandy.

 

[mjp1542]

Some of Dogfish Head's offerings are really good. But they do often try too hard with the booziness.

That said, the 90-minute IPA is fantastic.

Had a Pliny the Elder on Monday. Outstanding as always. Just a terrific, terrific DIPA.

 

[spikechiquet]

Dogfish Head is good, if you like beer that tastes and weighs you down like brandy.

My wife's favorite. I do have to say...those guys and gals know how to get you drunk fast and good!

 

[maberger]

Strand Brewing here in SoCal is doing some really nice things i think. I really like their Beach House, 24th Street and Atticus

This from today's LATimes:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-made-in-california-brewers-20120701,0,6511149.story

and here's their website showing where their stuff is available

http://www.strandbrewing.com/locate.html

 

[Shoeless Joe]

I just saw and tried today Newcastle Werewolf limited edition. It's not bad at all.

 

[Fly]

Drinking a New Glarus Thumbprint Barley Wine now. Priming for next Saturday's Great Taste of the Midwest.

 

[Shifty Squid]

Good stuff, Fly. New Glarus is one of the great, little-known breweries in the country. Small distribution, and they're damn good across the board. Depending upon where you are in the midwest, another small one most don't know about is Flossmoor Station, in northern Illinois. Such a great little brewery. Cheers.

 

[Fly]

Good stuff, Fly. New Glarus is one of the great, little-known breweries in the country. Small distribution, and they're damn good across the board. Depending upon where you are in the midwest, another small one most don't know about is Flossmoor Station, in northern Illinois. Such a great little brewery. Cheers.

Not a huge Flossmoor fan anymore. They were a must-visit in the past but after both Todd Ashman (Fifty Fifty in Truckee) and Matt Van Wyk (Oakshire in Eugene) headed westward they've gone downhill hard. I'd rather spend my Chitown time at Half Acre, Piece or Revolution (in addition to Goose Clybourn).

 

[YankeeFan]

Now, here's a guy who knows how to file a FOIA request:

President Obama likes beer -- so much so, in fact, that the news broke last week that he travels with his own White House brew. After chatting with a voter about the beer at an event, the president had a bottle of White House Honey Ale brought out of his campaign bus to prove it.

It's been public knowledge for awhile that there's a special White House brew, but now homebrew enthusiasts are hankering to get their hands on the recipe. Some of them launched a petition on the administration's "We The People" site asking for its release. "In keeping with the brewing traditions of the founding fathers, homebrewers across America call on the Obama administration to release the recipe for the White House home brew so that it may be enjoyed by all," the petition states.

Unfortunately, as of Tuesday morning, the petition had only 276 signatures, well short of the 25,000 needed to get an official response.

Now, though, some members of a homebrew group at user-generated content site Reddit are taking a different approach. One of them posted an email he sent to the White House Office of Public Engagement asking for the recipe, arguing that any White House homebrews must have been "developed by staff paid for by American taxpayers."

No word on the response to that tactic, but another Reddit user has gone a more formal route: An official Freedom of Information Act request for the beer recipe. It's impressive in its use of formal bureaucratic language: "Disclosure of the requested information to me is in the public interest because it is likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of the operations or activities of the government and is not primarily in my commercial interest."

But then the missive closes with what may be the boldest (and yet, most tempting) specific request under FOIA in history: "Also, if you could send me a copy autographed by the president, you'd be the coolest FOIA officer in the federal government, and who could resist that title?"

http://www.govexec.com/federal-news/fedblog/2012/08/best-beer-related-foia-ever/57550/#.UDQueJ-Yby0.twitter

 

[Huggy]

http://www.thebeerstore.ca/home-delivery

I can't even get Chinese food delivered, and Canadians get beer delivered. Socialized medicine has it advantages

I have never heard of this. Must try this, wonder if they will take my empties back.

Years ago I knew a guy who delivered for one of the pizza joints near me and he would hit the beer store to get us a case on the way to deliver our pizza.

 

[YankeeFan]

The WH Beer recipe has been released:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/09/01/ale-chief-white-house-beer-recipe

 

[psychman56]

It would surely be interesting to try a high class beer like the WH beer. But beer itself is not all that bad on the body depends on how you mix it and what materials you use to make it.