What's Being Drank This Weekend

[W.B.]

Sharing some nøgne ø imperial stout today. Thanks Bobby.

 

[tedski]

Been up in the Sonoma / Santa Rosa / Healdsburg area with my wife and bro-in-law drinking wine since Friday. (It's barrel tasting weekend! :bottle

Excellent Pinot Noir, Zinfandel, Syrah, Cabernet, Merlot, Meritage, Chardonnay, late harvest wines and Port ... plus lots of great food.

 

[corvid]

Been drinking Bock beers and my 90 min IPA. yumm

 

[smokinghole]

Tomorrow I'm having a sour beer sampling party. The list is pretty good I think.

Lindemans Cuvee Rene Gueze (Belgian)
Bourgogone Flanders Ale (Belgian)
Cantillion Gran Cru (Belgian traditional unblended lambic)
Leipziger Gose Bier Spezailitat (German)
Green King Suffolk Olde Ale (UK)
Liefman's Goudenband (Belgian)
Russian River Consecration
Russian River Temptation
Russian River Supplication
Russian River Santification

That list had a few added to it saturday night.

Rodenbach Gran Cru
Petrus Oud Bruin
Monks Cafe
Trader Joes Belgian Ale 2006 (made by Unibroue)

Then after we drank all in the quoted post and the other stuff we went out for cigars and some of my peat smoked beer. The capper for the weekend was Sunday. We drank a bottle of Rodenbach 2008 Vintage at the cigar shop and then came home to have a couple bloody marys with bacon vodka.

Needless to say after all that beer on Saturday night I was dun.

 

[La Chupacabra]

Tomorrow I'm having a sour beer sampling party. The list is pretty good I think.

Lindemans Cuvee Rene Gueze (Belgian)
Bourgogone Flanders Ale (Belgian)
Cantillion Gran Cru (Belgian traditional unblended lambic)
Leipziger Gose Bier Spezailitat (German)
Green King Suffolk Olde Ale (UK)
Liefman's Goudenband (Belgian)
Russian River Consecration
Russian River Temptation
Russian River Supplication
Russian River Santification

Stinky cheese funk....I love it. Gives me horrible heart burn if i drink too much. I tend to stay with the Flander reds and Olde ales. far less intrusive on the belly. Have you tried the Panil Barriquée? It's from Italy, wonderfully sour.

 

[smokinghole]

I have not even heard of Panil until now. I've heard of a couple other Italian small scale breweries but not that one.

 

[W.B.]

Ending the day with a VSG Eclipse and some Brooklyn's Black Chocolate Stout and Port Brewing's Santa's Little Helper.

 

[SkinsFanLarry]

I forgot I had a bottle of Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout Friday night before I got off work, it was damn good and the first Lagunitas Beer I've had.

 

[Greg]

Been up in the Sonoma / Santa Rosa / Healdsburg area with my wife and bro-in-law drinking wine since Friday. (It's barrel tasting weekend! :bottle

Excellent Pinot Noir, Zinfandel, Syrah, Cabernet, Merlot, Meritage, Chardonnay, late harvest wines and Port ... plus lots of great food.

That sounds like an amazing weekend, Ted. From my last visit (2003), I remember it being a fantastic region for Zinfandel.

 

[tedski]

That sounds like an amazing weekend, Ted. From my last visit (2003), I remember it being a fantastic region for Zinfandel.

Yes, definitely a great area for value wines. Napa quality at about 1/3 the price. Old vine Zinfandel plants (50-100 yrs old) abound. Widely varying climate too - from warm inland to cooler near the coast.

The highlight of the weekend was an unknown (to me) winery - Suncé. Owned / operated by a Croatian family since 2000. They had over 20 different wines to taste, along with delicious pulled pork sammys. I would up buying a mixed case of futures, 2009 Meritage (Bordeaux) and 2009 Les Trois Amis (Super Tuscan) blends. Fantastic wines that have the stuff to easily last 10 years in the bottle. If these had a Napa label they would most likely sell for $100+.

 

[TMS]

Just ordered a keg of Hofbrau Dunkel for this weekend (My one year old's bday)!!!

 

[W.B.]

Plenty drunk and shared today. A few included Lagunitas Gnarleywine, Brooklyn's Black Chocolate Stout and Monster Ale, Dogfish Head Squall and Stone's Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale. Thanks for sharing Jere, Rob and Rich. Good stuff today!

 

[smokinghole]

Plenty drunk and shared today. A few included Lagunitas Gnarleywine, Brooklyn's Black Chocolate Stout and Monster Ale, Dogfish Head Squall and Stone's Sublimely Self-Righteous Ale. Thanks for sharing Jere, Rob and Rich. Good stuff today!

How was the Squall and when was it bottled? I had on in the fridge that was bottled sometime in 2010 but I don't know if the 2A means april or august. Either way no matter how you look at it the bottle was old when my wife got it. It was bad like mildly hopped up wet cardboard bad. We dumped the bottle and what we had in our glasses. Then to wash the taste out we opened up a Pliny the Elder. hehe

 

[Doug B]

Trader Joe's Sparkling Raspberry and Lime. Perfect.

 

[W.B.]

How was the Squall and when was it bottled? I had on in the fridge that was bottled sometime in 2010 but I don't know if the 2A means april or august. Either way no matter how you look at it the bottle was old when my wife got it. It was bad like mildly hopped up wet cardboard bad. We dumped the bottle and what we had in our glasses. Then to wash the taste out we opened up a Pliny the Elder. hehe

The bottle was marked 2011 1c. It was my first taste of that brew and I enjoyed it quite a lot. I'm definitely not an I.P.A. guy; b/c the bitter finish is usually beyond my taste. But this bottle had essentially none of that quality(quite surprising for me as it's a 90 min.), but rather a very enjoyable malt and hop balance.

Pliny ehh, show off. Just kidding. More than a couple of my bud's wish it were distributed here in Chicagoland. I looked at their website and was sad to see they are nowhere east the Mississippi, save for one in Philly. I've been lucky enough to try it (though it's not for me) and the aroma's coming off the head are intoxicating.

BTW, Podman shared a couple of your homebrews a couple of weeks back. Don't remember which they were, but both I tried were very good indeed. Props my man, you've got skills.

 

[mwlabel]

A wide variety of beer, I'll list them later. Some whiskeys such as Jameson, Crown, and Jack Daniels. A little wine... know nothing about wine - I'm not even going to try to guess what they are. And my first experience with scotch tonight... Glenvilet 12 - really enjoying it so far.

p.s. My weekend is 9 days long. Not an alcoholic. lol

 

[smokinghole]

The bottle was marked 2011 1c. It was my first taste of that brew and I enjoyed it quite a lot. I'm definitely not an I.P.A. guy; b/c the bitter finish is usually beyond my taste. But this bottle had essentially none of that quality(quite surprising for me as it's a 90 min.), but rather a very enjoyable malt and hop balance.

Pliny ehh, show off. Just kidding. More than a couple of my bud's wish it were distributed here in Chicagoland. I looked at their website and was sad to see they are nowhere east the Mississippi, save for one in Philly. I've been lucky enough to try it (though it's not for me) and the aroma's coming off the head are intoxicating.

BTW, Podman shared a couple of your homebrews a couple of weeks back. Don't remember which they were, but both I tried were very good indeed. Props my man, you've got skills.

I figured my bottle of Squall was too old. I got the Pliny because of a special shipper in CA.

Thanks for the compliments. I told Tim that if I knew he was sharing I would have sent more. I see a shipment again in the future though once I get some things bottled up.

 

[W.B.]

Just finishing off the remains of a Lagunitas Gnarleywine bomber. Yes, this lightweight is feeling sparky.

 

[jmatkins]

I am loving this!



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[coastalgriff]

Just floated a a keg of Flat Tire and a keg of Shiner Blonde at a wedding. About to pour myself a glass of Rouge Rye.