Beer - liquid bread
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Siamese Suds by Hop Butcher for the World (Chicago, IL) - NEDIPA
Dank bomb - quick glimpse of some fruitiness at the beginning (mainly orange and some peach) before this IPA is taken over by a lot of strong flavors of pines, spicy herbs and lots and lots of dankness. Long lasting, dry, medium bitter finish with continuous notes of pines and dank. Quite intense DIPA.
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String Theory Watermelon Dragon Fruit by Equilibrium Brewery (Middletown, NY) - Saison/Farmhouse Ale
A summer beer with some light malts, crisp, yet light, hop notes and some wheat flavors in the background. The addition of watermelon and dragonfruit included some fruit notes without any sweetness. Overall a light farmhouse ale with a bit broader/expanded flavor profile.
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Polynesian Elevator Music by Definitive Brewing Company (Portland, ME) - Hazy DIPA
Super smooth NEDIPA - lots of tropical flavors, mango, papaya, peach, orange which stay throughout the sip and gets complemented by some floral notes, pine flavors and a dry, low bitterness finish. Outstanding beer.
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Major Science by Equilibrium Brewery (Middletown, NY) - NEDIPA
Citrusy with some mango and berry flavors upfront before some interesting dank, nearly weed like, flavors take over and get quite dominant. Dry, medium bitter finish which is very long lasting. Quite nice NEDIPA with a nearly creamy mouthfeel.
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The Floor is Guava, a Hawai’ian sour. Refreshing, tart, delish.
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Drake’s Brewing’s Scarlett O’Bretta, a barrel-aged sour red ale that’s part of their Advanced Oak series. Way too sour for me–you really have to be a fan of these kinds of beers.
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Last Saturday was Toronado’s 30th annual Barleywine Festival in San Francisco.
Hair of the Dog Adam - From the now closed Hair of the Dog out of Portland OR.
Drake’s Gin BA Santa’s Brass - Aged in gin barrels, definitely could taste some of the juniper and other herbs.
Great Notion Ol’ Naughty
Alvarado St. Fine Adjustment
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What softens our standing grudging agreement to the suggestion of a meal at Gott’s Roadside is the prospect of draft Pliny.
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The only time I’ve had Pliny the Younger was at Gott’s in the Ferry Building–it was a one-off, SF Beer Week thing. Drafts were $5 with a food purchase. I was working near there at the time, so I took a late lunch, got the hummus & veg plate, and enjoyed my beer. It was much better (read: less bitter/hoppier) than I’d expected.
Half-price Pliny, we’d welcome. We’re not sure how far we can take the non-burger possibilities after the last two attempts to evade a burger – we like 'em, of course, but for us it’s not special there.
I honestly didn’t care about what food I got–I just wanted the $5 beer!
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Back in the town I grew up in , visiting my mother. A relatively new craft beer bar. I would have loved this in my late teens, but craft beer was not really a thing in East Anglia in the 80’s. A milk stout and a wheat beer.
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Heavy heavy brew, there. I bet pretty high octane.
Beetlejuice Jr by Great Notion Brewing (Portland, OR) - NEIPA
Rather typical mosaic hazy IPA with citrus/mandarin notes dominant upfront, followed by grassy notes with some quite pronounced dankness and piney spiciness before a dry, medium bitter finish. Good but not so different from many similar mosaic IPAs
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Chimay Cinq Cents. Fizzier than I expected.
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Ghost in the Machine by Parish Brewing Company (Broussard, LA) - NEDIPA
One of the more “famous” hazy DIPA and it didn’t disappoint - bursting with orange and melon flavors and a solid malt backbone. Followed by strong but not overwhelming piney notes before a quite bitter and long lasting finish which still has some orange notes in the background. Very nice, nearly creamy mouthfeel.
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What sells here, content or art, or both?
The art can’t sell crappy content. It might work for a very short period of time when a new beer is released but it won’t last more than a few weeks. There are too many widely used rating sites/apps which all don’t care about art (and there are many very beautiful beer cans which sit on shelves because content is crap)
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