great beers

[denverYooper]

This talk of Monks brewing beer reminded of one of the best beer experiences I have ever had. A monastery in Salzburg. Go in and pick out your litre mug out of a cleaning bin and get it fresh out of the wooden barrel.

http://www.augustinerbier.at/index.php?id=23&L=1

Twice a week, Tuesdays and Fridays, we deliver our Augustiner beer direct to your door in the Salzburg city region – free of charge from as little as one crate of beer!

....that's too bad about Fat Tire being bought out, that was an old skiing favorite back in the day. Also, Freak Out, that stuff looks really good, they need to deliver down here twice a week.

Fat Tire is not a Miller product.

Miller bought Coors out here, not New Belgium.

I've been to the New Belgium Brewery several times. Their tasting room is a blast and you usually have to wait an hour or more in the summer to get in. That's why I go off peak . In fact, if you go to Ft. Collins, you can spend a nice day going to the local breweries -- New Belgium, Ft. Collins Brewing, and O'Dell. In addition to the brews they ship, they all have some really nice seasonals fresh on tap. Ft. Collins Doppel Bock is one of my favorite beers. O'Dell's 90 Shilling is also a very nice beer. Biere de Mars (New Belgium) is probably my favorite New Belgium offering-- an awesome spring seasonal Belgian-style amber.

Then you can head 25 miles down I-25 and hit Left Hand in Ft. Collins.2 From there you can go another 15 miles to Boulder for Avery, Boulder Brewing Company, Mountain Sun (XXX IPA is killer if you're into IPAs). I lived by the Southern Sun (Mountain Sun) for a couple of years and they had an evening happy hour from 10-close. $2 a pint for strong beers and scrabble, probably my favorite way to get sideways on a Thursday night back in the day.

Boulder Brewing always has a new brew party when they roll out a seasonal with music and specials on whatever they were tappin'. IIRC, Avery used to have an all-you-can drink for an hour in their tasting room.

Denver's mayor owns Wynkoop right in the heart of downtown. They've got some pretty stellar pours too, but I don't think they distribute outside of the pub. They make a Chile ale that's pretty popular. I never really got into it though.

There are several other places around here too. These are just the ones that stirred up some memories.

What? Not a mention of Great Divide? Blasphemer.

http://www.greatdivide.com/

I got musta got so drunk just thinking about all of that beer that I forgot

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I got musta got so drunk just thinking about all of that beer that I forgot

lol

i think you must be drunk right now

[HowardRoark]

A few years ago, I was skiing in Summit County over Thanksgiving. An acquaintance at the time ran the local bakery....he cooked a turkey and put together a very good meal one of the nights. He had a fresh keg of Breckenridge Brewery Oatmeal Stout. I recall that as being a very good beer.

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{ilr]3]I have been enjoying "Shock Top" here lately. Even found it on tap in a few bars. I guess Anheuser Busch bought them out awhile ago, still a good beer.

i bought a 6 of that once

honestly didn't care for it at all

Agreed. Thought it was junk.

And, and don't think AB bought it, was there creation from the start.

Well I just had anouther Shock top thinking maybe I had missed something or was drunk already the last time I had one. I still think it was a pretty good beer.

[Sparkey]

I am a fan of wheat beers and I have yet to find anything that is anywhere close in overall taste, aroma, consistency and quality as Hacker-Pschorr Hefe Weisse.

No one makes beer as good as they do in Germany!

http://hacker-pschorrusa.com/products

[Tyrone Bigguns]

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{ilr]3]I have been enjoying "Shock Top" here lately. Even found it on tap in a few bars. I guess Anheuser Busch bought them out awhile ago, still a good beer.

i bought a 6 of that once

honestly didn't care for it at all

Agreed. Thought it was junk.

And, and don't think AB bought it, was there creation from the start.

Well I just had anouther Shock top thinking maybe I had missed something or was drunk already the last time I had one. I still think it was a pretty good beer.

If you like it, you like it. I thought it was junk. Keep drinking it. I don't like it, but what does Ty know.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

I am a fan of wheat beers and I have yet to find anything that is anywhere close in overall taste, aroma, consistency and quality as Hacker-Pschorr Hefe Weisse.

No one makes beer as good as they do in Germany!



http://hacker-pschorrusa.com/products

Fuck, i enjoyed that beer. One of my favs.

[HowardRoark]

I am a fan of wheat beers and I have yet to find anything that is anywhere close in overall taste, aroma, consistency and quality as Hacker-Pschorr Hefe Weisse.

No one makes beer as good as they do in Germany!



http://hacker-pschorrusa.com/products

Fuck, i enjoyed that beer. One of my favs.

I agree 100%. During summertime, I am always looking for a good wheat beer, but that one is still the best. Anyone try Dancing Man? It is rated very high, but I have never even seen one.

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i pick up 6 yesterday to try at my favorite liquor store in GB

tripel karmeliet
founders breakfast stout
new belgium fat tire, and abby
st. bernardus tripel
and monty python holy ale

[CaptainKickass]

Went out drinking last night and had some of this from a nitrous tap:




Incredibly smooth. Unbelieveably tasty and very easy to consume.

[MichiganPackerFan]

The belgium white's finish with that medicin-ey taste: blech. Phasing my night out with a fine 2009 vintage Miller Lite(s)...


(Prepare for random posts....)

[Rastak]

i pick up 6 yesterday to try at my favorite liquor store in GB

tripel karmeliet
founders breakfast stout
new belgium fat tire, and abby
st. bernardus tripel
and monty python holy ale

St. Bernardus ain't cheap.

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i pick up 6 yesterday to try at my favorite liquor store in GB

tripel karmeliet
founders breakfast stout
new belgium fat tire, and abby
st. bernardus tripel
and monty python holy ale

St. Bernardus ain't cheap.

if you think those are bad check of the westvleterens

http://shop.belgianshop.com/acatalog/info_1_BB22003.html

[Freak Out]

i pick up 6 yesterday to try at my favorite liquor store in GB

tripel karmeliet
founders breakfast stout
new belgium fat tire, and abby
st. bernardus tripel
and monty python holy ale

St. Bernardus ain't cheap.

if you think those are bad check of the westvleterens

http://shop.belgianshop.com/acatalog...1_BB22003.html

Was the founders breakfast this years release? The Bernardus is a keeper as well as the Karm....I've always loved the founders when I could get a taste.

If I end up coming over for a game or the melon tour I'll bring some beer from AK and out west and we can set up a tasting.

Roark is bringing the Darkness.

[CaptainKickass]

Roark is bringing the Darkness.

Darkness = Charlie Murphy!!