The Beer Thread

Got my second shipment from Tavour:
Breakside IPA
Darkhorse Crooked Tree IPA
Darkhorse Plead the 5th Imperial Stout
Darkhorse Reserve Black IPA
Heathen Bourbon Barrel Aged Epitaph
Lord Hobo Steal this Can IPA
No-Li Big & Juicy
Stormbreaker Triple Double IPA
Three Magnets Little Juice
Toppling Goliath Rover Truck Stout

The Darkhorse Crooked Tree is decent but not something I will order again. I like the Lord Hobo but again probably not something I would order again. Going to age the Epitaph for a bit and see how that turns out. The bottle shop I go to got their bi weekly Pliny shipment in so I picked up a bottle for football. The beer fridge is full #firstworldproblems

How is Tavour?

Alex said:

How is Tavour?

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I am really liking it. It's free to sign up. You will have access to the beers they have available at that moment. Every day you get 1 to 2 notifications on new beer available. I've seen everything from Strong Ales to Sours to IPA's. You pick what you want and then it gets shipped to your door. It's $15 shipping no matter how much you order. The one complaint I've seen is that there is no menu list so you have wait for the notifications to see what new beers they are offering. To me it's been a great way to find beer I wouldn't normally be able to get (PsuedoSue) and to try new things. Some have been good and then there has been some that has been meh. I would say check it out, there is no risk because there is no monthly fee and you don't have to order anything if you don't want to. Prices seem pretty reasonable as well. Overall I am very happy with it.

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The double barrel baptist was better than the hype around it. I'm sad I didn't get more than two of them.

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Had it on tap yesterday, confirmed delicious. Wonder if I can still find any on a neglected shelf...

EDIT: Yes. Yes I can, and did.

I'm know there's a number of Texas bros on the board. What is your take on Karbach now that they sold to InBev? Torches & pitchforks? Still drink it like before? Drink less of it?

Do we have any Florida beer bros? Especially down by Miami. I know we had one person who was El Catador, but hoping someone closer to J Wakefield.

Yeah I will be down there in a few weeks, but my girlfriends all time favorite beer is being released again in a week or two and I will certainly miss out on the release. Was hoping for proxy or trade.

I just got back home from being overseas for the past week. I'll check out the finalized itinerary this weekend and let you know.

Was pretty good. After the initial swallow I thought it was going to end up being just a little too sweet but by the end that impression melted away and it turned out fairly well balanced. I didn't pick up any maple flavor though, just the vanilla and cinnamon.

Wicked weed is great, haven't had that one but if you get a chance to grab any of their angel series I'd go for it

I've tried about a dozen different Wicked Weed brews. I've yet to have a bad one and several have been glorious. I haven't seen any of their angel series around here yet though. I live on the opposite end of the state from their brewery and I don't think they have a very large distribution range as of yet.

If you have time for a tasting & tour in a micro brewery, don't pass on it. Something about the fresh brewed beer, before setting in containers, will spoil you.

Nice, Wicked Weed will be at the Firestone Walker Invitational. I'll have to check them out.

So I flew down to Miami this weekend and went to Wakefest. Won a bottle in the raffle and sold it before I even left Miami for $1000... sometimes craft beer is ridiculous

Alex said:

Nice, Wicked Weed will be at the Firestone Walker Invitational. I'll have to check them out.

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They're best known for their sours, which are actually balanced and not just tongue encaving sour, so I would definitely hit up that Golden Angel. But I have liked everything of theirs I've tried. Even their IPA's and I'm not typically an IPA lover.