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sweetwater festival ale was 39 a case could not pass that up.. 8% shit is to good for a work night

 

I can send someone bud light or dos equis

 

I have another can of Bundaberg Rum with the Throwback design. I'm keeping it for my collection of Bundy stuff.

 

Thanks to YouFreeMe for sending me this. I so cannot wait to try this. It could not have arrived at a better time, because tonight is my night off from work.

 

Lucky!!!!!




The milwaukees best i sent you should be arriving this week as well

 

well gosh I didn't send you anything

 

Well, I just cracked open my Heady Topper, but first a brief background on this beer.

Heady Topper is one of the most acclaimed beers in the US if not the entire world. It is made by the brewery known as The Alchemist, which is based out of Vermont and headed up by a guy named John Kimmich. Heady Topper is a double IPA that comes in at 8% ABV. The Alchemist is known for a number of beers, including beers with names such as Focal Banger and The Crusher, though Heady Topper is by far their most popular and sought after beer. It is next to impossible to obtain outside of Vermont as it is distributed to only a select few stores within a limited radius of the brewery, and only within Vermont. The beer is released on a weekly basis to these select few distributors, and people line up, sometimes for hours, just to acquire this beer. If you live outside of Vermont, the only chance you stand of acquiring this beer is through online beer trading groups, or, in my case, you know someone who lives in Vermont who is kind enough to send you some. The latter was the case with me, as our own YouFreeMe was kind enough to send me a can free of charge via mail.

Before cracking this beer open, there was an ongoing dispute in my head as to whether I should do as the can states and drink the beer from the can, or do as I have always done and pour the beer into a glass. I have always found the notion of drinking a quality beer from the can or bottle it comes in to be sacrilegious. However, the makers of this beer state that you should drink it from the can, and it gives their reasoning on the backside of the can, stating that some of the hop resins may have settled to the bottom of the can. After doing some research online, I came across a poll on the BeerAdvocate forums, where an almost equal number of people chose one or the other, with just slightly more choosing to pour it into a glass. This was enough to make me pour the beer into a glass, as I wanted to get not only the flavor of the beer, but the aroma and appearance as well.

I am not sure how fresh the beer is as the canning date is nowhere to be found on the can, though I am assuming it is quite fresh.

So this beer pours with a hazy, virtually cloudy orange color with a decent two-finger head that lasts.

Aroma is surprisingly quite subdued, with elements of a New England style juice bomb. Lots of initial tropical fruit juiciness, including peach and pineapple, as well as some grapefruit and orange zest. In the background there is lots of beautifully dank and herbaceous notes. There is also a faint bready sweetness present. Overall a beautiful combination of sweet, bitter and dank.

Upon the first sip there is just a ton of sweet juicy tropical fruit notes, mostly peach, pineapple and passionfruit, with a nice bite of bitter, zesty grapefruit rind. Very pithy citrus flavors combine with a mild biscuity breadiness and some herbaceous and resinous undertones. Very much a New England style double IPA.

The mouthfeel is what stands out the most with this beer. It is exceptionally soft and smooth, which lends this beer an incredible drinkability. There are some lingering resinous flavors coupled with some very dry, crisp citrus flavors.

Overall this is an outstanding beer, though I am not not quite sure it lives up to the hype it receives, especially in terms of the aroma and flavor. It is still, easily, an A+ beer.

 

I've read a lot about that beer, mainly on beerAdvocate. ^^^


I can try and score some pliny the elder again if anybody wants one.

 

dude...if you can get that you get whatever is available in the central east coast...now to be fair the only tough things to get are from dogfish head or secret sauce from burley oak but they would be yours if you could get me one.

 

Is it hard to get pliny where you are? Honestly im not into beer as much as i used to be but i have been able to score pliny on a few differnt occasions out here without even trying. One of the chicks who works at a whole foods i go to was like "hey you want some pliny the elder, got some in today?"... i was kinda shocked but yea. found it there a few times. I will keep my eye out for you and check there.

 

just messaged my niece about tree house. we shall see how or if she replies

 

its not hard to get it where i am. it is plain old impossible without a person to mail it to you. i am curious what the craft beer scene is in north jersey now...it was minuscule when i lived there but in the last few years things have changed. unfortunately all the people i still talk to there are happy with whatever is at the local bottle shop

 

Russian River, the makers of Pliny, do not distribute here, so Pliny is unobtainable here. However, if you could get your hands on some Pliny, I could trade you some Grimm for it.

 

craft beer seems to be getting bigger everywhere. So i'm sure they have some new shit now.

 

ok I will keep an eye out for you as well. If I remember correctly they only let me buy two last time but I could easily get around that.. ive heard of grimm, what you reccomend from them?

 

sure. look up ocean city maryland breweries or evo in salisbury. anything else i wouldnt recomend unless you were looking for a certain style. there are a handful of breweries that only do one style well around here.

 

Now drinking Full-Stack IIPA from SInglecut.

 

Anything from Grimm is top-notch, especially their IPAs. They're almost impossible to get outside of NY.

 

any ideas about in nyc rat? i may visit the city when i go up for christmas