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Feb 18, 2017 7:45:11 GMT -6
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Post by Catscratch on Feb 18, 2017 7:45:11 GMT -6
We drove to Oregon and came back through California and hit all the states in between. I bought a 6 pack of local brew every time we stopped for gas. Filled the trunk up by the end of the trip and spent the rest of the summer drinking it. Lots of good beer out there that I had never heard of! Any of you guys do something like that on your travels?
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Feb 18, 2017 7:51:24 GMT -6
Post by MoBuckChaser on Feb 18, 2017 7:51:24 GMT -6
We drove to Oregon and came back through California and hit all the states in between. I bought a 6 pack of local brew every time we stopped for gas. Filled the trunk up by the end of the trip and spent the rest of the summer drinking it. Lots of good beer out there that I had never heard of! Any of you guys do something like that on your travels? Yep! But with cell phones now, to many people call in when I would throw the beer can out the window.......
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Feb 18, 2017 8:08:58 GMT -6
Post by smsmith on Feb 18, 2017 8:08:58 GMT -6
You must be driving around out here Mo. Apparently, this road must be a magnet for drinking, driving, and throwing beer cans/bottles out of the window Meth heads must like our roads too, last spring the wife found a meth pipe and cooking spoon. Gotta love "country living"
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Post by Catscratch on Feb 18, 2017 8:09:57 GMT -6
We drove to Oregon and came back through California and hit all the states in between. I bought a 6 pack of local brew every time we stopped for gas. Filled the trunk up by the end of the trip and spent the rest of the summer drinking it. Lots of good beer out there that I had never heard of! Any of you guys do something like that on your travels? Yep! But with cell phones now, to many people call in when I would throw the beer can out the window....... Lol. My buddy and I were asked to step out of the truck once, and told to go pick up the trash that he had thrown out the window. I went straight towards the old beer cans setting in the ditch instead of the fast food wrappers. He didn't think it was funny:)
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Feb 18, 2017 8:15:53 GMT -6
You must be driving around out here Mo. Apparently, this road must be a magnet for drinking, driving, and throwing beer cans/bottles out of the window Meth heads must like our roads too, last spring the wife found a meth pipe and cooking spoon. Gotta love "country living" You do know I was joking......
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Feb 18, 2017 8:18:26 GMT -6
Post by smsmith on Feb 18, 2017 8:18:26 GMT -6
Ya...I know
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Post by badbrad on Feb 18, 2017 12:18:48 GMT -6
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Post by westbranch on Feb 18, 2017 15:01:11 GMT -6
Kinda surprised none of the Minnesotans have mentioned Surly products. Most of what I've tried are hoppy because I love those brews Todd the Axe Man Furious Abrasive (drink this shit at home...around 10% abv I think) Hell - a lot "tamer" lager Another 'sota brewing company - Big Wood Brewery Bad Axe (I love this stuff - also a drink at home brew - around 10% abv) Jack Pine Savage (they brewed this shit just for Art) Bark Bite Wicked Ex I like the surly stuff, only get it when on tap somewhere because the cans are so damn expensive. Two local places for us usually have furious on tap so I always get it there, that is not a good one for someone that is new to hoppy beer. Have gave some to people before and they said it was like drinking pine needles. Have been to the surly brewery a couple times, neat place to go next to the old grain elevators in minneapolis. Have had a couple of the Big Wood brews before and no complaints on them from me.
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Post by Freeborn on Feb 18, 2017 17:21:03 GMT -6
I'm trying a new beer out of Grand Maris called Voyageur "Devils Kettle", it's and Indian Pale Ale but it's pretty Hoopy for my taste.
I always am up for trying different beers and whiskeys.
My local micro brewery is Badger Hill in Shakopee Minnesota, they have several beer I enjoy including a Minnesota Special Bitter I like.
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Post by badbrad on Feb 18, 2017 20:45:29 GMT -6
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Post by wiscwhip on Feb 20, 2017 9:14:24 GMT -6
So i finally got the pics off my phone from Friday evening. The list went as follows: Since stu is always raving about the stuff and the only other time I tried it I already had an assfull, first up was the beer on the left, Bell's Two Hearted Ale...I was impressed, and I found it to be very good, not sure if I liked it all that much or if it was the first beer of the night, but it only lasted about 10 minutes and I was reaching for another beer. That said, I would not go so far as to say I would personally choose it over Spotted Cow. Second was one of our local PSB beers that I had not tried, but was recommended to me the weekend before by another "beer guy".....Linalool. It is an IPA, the taste was ok, but the hoppyness went from zero to full throttle and back to being fairly mild in a few seconds after each drink, not sure how else to describe the taste, but it is brewed with wild hops discovered and harvested in Northern WI.... Next I got on the Foggy train........and tried a Grain Belt Nordeast...what can I say, I liked it, but I never thought regular Grain Belt was all that bad for a cheap beer. Not as good as New Glarus Totally Naked, and surely not a Stella, but if I ever get to foggy's place, I'm hoping he has one in the fridge! Next up was another local PSB brew, Rubber Mills Pils.......another good beer and a strange combo for me, as I had never had a hoppy pilsner. And in case you didn't catch it before, the Pearl Street Brewery is now housed in the old LaCrosse Boot Factory, thus the name.......... Finally finished of our evening visit with a new to me beer from New Glarus Brewery........a very nice lager, similar to Totally Naked and Two Women, but I still like my Naked better, can't wait until later this spring when it comes out again. Thus ended this past weekends "tasting".
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Feb 20, 2017 9:28:20 GMT -6
Post by smsmith on Feb 20, 2017 9:28:20 GMT -6
^^^looks like a good time IPAs are interesting to me. Some are just over the top with hops/bitterness and others are more balanced. I prefer them to be "hop forward" but with a malty finish. My wife hated IPAs the first time she tried a few. She now has become a fan of some of them, it is definitely a taste that is acquired. One of my favorite IPAs is Big Sky IPA, from Big Sky Brewing, Missoula MT. I had to talk to the beer manager at a local liquor store to get them to start carrying the stuff. They already had Moose Drool and Trout Slayer from the same brewery, but for some reason they weren't carrying the IPA. Now they usually have it stock. I'm going to try talking her into carrying Pack Train now, I haven't tried it but would like to. bigskybrew.com/beer/
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Post by wiscwhip on Feb 20, 2017 9:39:15 GMT -6
We have all 3 of those offerings from Big Sky at our local Festival Foods and I'm pretty sure our Woodman's carries them all as well. I already sense another Pick 6 coming for Daytona Day this coming Sunday. I might have to throw in a Big Sky choice of some type.
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Post by smsmith on Feb 20, 2017 9:43:03 GMT -6
I'm not a huge fan of brown ales, but the Moose Drool is pretty tasty. I wouldn't drink a 6er of them in a night, but 1 or 2 is good.
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Feb 20, 2017 9:50:34 GMT -6
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Post by kabic on Feb 20, 2017 9:50:34 GMT -6
I'm not a huge fan of brown ales, but the Moose Drool is pretty tasty. I wouldn't drink a 6er of them in a night, but 1 or 2 is good. I have had Moose Drool...I agree it is tasty.
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