"Craft" beer recommendation

[dsrtuckteezy]

Im a hop head so IPA is my choice for craft beers. I cant stand flavored foo foo beers... Such as blueberry or coffee. And I cant stand draughts like Guiness (and Im irish). Heres some fantastic IPA's / hoppy beers if it hasnt been posted. give them a shot.

guinness is a stout.

[BP]

The FW Flying Saucer is having a Dogfish Head day on March 29th. They'll have a few kegs of 120 minute plus about a dozen other rare beers.

It's a tossup between Ballast Point's Sculpin and the 90 minute as my favorite IPA. I'm with you on flavored beers but Dogfish Head's Burton Baton is fantastic.

[Tyrone Biggums]

FYI for those in the area, the Kroger on pleasant ridge and green oaks has Stone Enjoy By 4/20 for $8.99. It's going to be gone quick. I just bought a few and they only have two cases.

[lowthreeohz]

Made some mulled beers last night BC of the cold weather, was actually kind of surprised. They definitely work for cool nights out by the fire pit.

[dsrtuckteezy]

Got around to trying the iron thistle from rahr.Tastes a hell of a lot like some milk stouts and imperial stouts I've had

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[BP]

Got around to trying the iron thistle from rahr.Tastes a hell of a lot like some milk stouts and imperial stouts I've had

It's a beer that varies dramatically by how it's served but they are similar styles. A Scotch Ale should be a little thicker, not as hoppy and have a little bit of sweetness to it. That and they aren't usually nearly as carbonated.

If you liked it I'd recommend Founder's Dirty Bastard. It's a year round beer and relatively cheap and easy to find. Rahr's beer won Silver at last year's GABF so it's tough to beat but Founder's version is mass produced. Peticolas Great Scot is also pretty badass but very hard to find and it's not bottled, only kegged.

[VaderTT]

This weekend.



I really liked this Ballast Point!



And these Deviant Dales thanks to Teeshock.

[95DRGT]

FYI for those in the area, the Kroger on pleasant ridge and green oaks has Stone Enjoy By 4/20 for $8.99. It's going to be gone quick. I just bought a few and they only have two cases.

Went over there Sun pm and it was gone

[BP]

Oh my wife picked up a bomber of Woodchuck's cellar series. They take the pomace from the cider pressing and smoke it then filter their standard cider through it. It is pretty interesting to say the least. I like a good rauchbier like Urbock, not overdone but you know it's smoked.

[TeeShock]

FYI for those in the area, the Kroger on pleasant ridge and green oaks has Stone Enjoy By 4/20 for $8.99. It's going to be gone quick. I just bought a few and they only have two cases.

Damm I missed this. My little beer shack was sold out as well. Maybe next year.

[dsrtuckteezy]

picked up a six of stones go to ipa, and decided to try my hand at wine () so i picked up a bottle of a red zinfandel

[Slowhand]

picked up a six of stones go to ipa, and decided to try my hand at wine () so i picked up a bottle of a red zinfandel

Oh lordy.

[dsrtuckteezy]

Oh lordy.

Lol what? I don't know shit about wine. It's pretty tasty imo

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[dsrtuckteezy]

I could drink that go to ipa all day. Very light at 4.5 abv

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[Strychnine]

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2014/03/25/bone-dusters-paleo-ale-beer-from-fossils/

Bone Dusters Paleo Ale, Brewed from Real Fossils!

By Kalliopi Monoyios | March 25, 2014 | Comments1


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With craft brewing on the rise and many breweries tinkering with flavorings that range from the somewhat obvious (honey or citrus) to the eyebrow-raising (jalapeño, hemp, or even peanut butter cup) it was only a matter of time before someone stared a 35-million year old fossil in the face and thought, “would you make a good brew?” Well, the time has come, people. Now you can have a beer that is derived from a fossil icon. Really? Yes, really! Here’s how:

Jason Osborne, co-founder of Paleo Quest, a non-profit dedicated to advancing paleontology and geology, was daydreaming about how to engage the public in conversations about science. He made the natural connection between lively conversation and throwing back a cold one and wondered if he could sneak science in there somehow. Knowing that yeast, the organism responsible for turning sugar into alcohol, is everywhere, he wondered whether there was an undiscovered strain hanging out on fossils that could be roped into making beer.

To test his hypothesis, he enlisted a brewing scientist at Lost Rhino Brewing Company named Jasper Akerboom. Akerboom’s background is in microbiology but at some point in his career he decided it was more appealing to tinker with beer recipes at a place that values innovation and experimentation than it was to endure the academic grind. When Osborne asked him if it was possible to find yeast on the fossils PaleoQuest had dug up, Akerboom broke out his cotton swabs and petri dishes and began sampling.


Jason Osborne and Jasper Akerboom swabbing a 14-million-year old baleen whale skull at the Calvert Marine Museum, Solomons MD. No yeast here


If you are one of those people who wipes supermarket cart handles with disinfecting wipes or carries hand sanitizer around in your bag, the prospect of taking samples from dirty old fossils to make a beverage for human consumption might gross you out. For the rest of us who are comfortable with the microbes that coat virtually everything we come into contact with (and who outnumber us cell-for-cell, even on what we’d define as our own turf: the bodies we so arrogantly claim as our own), this is UNDENIABLY COOL. Yeast chilling on fossils being recruited to make beer? Uhm… that is so random and wacky and FUN! And if the reception that Osborne has gotten at lectures for various professional geology and paleontology groups is any indication, I am not the only one who shares this enthusiasm.


Yeast collected from a protocetid whale fossil. But will it make good beer? There's only one way to find out.



Testing the protocetid yeast to see if it makes decent beer. Mmm... looks like science


Osborne and Akerboom were hoping for a brewing revelation – an entirely new strain of wild yeast that would shake the brewing industry to its core and open up a whole new world of possibilities for craft brews. What they discovered turns out not to be an entirely new species, but rather a new subspecies of the yeast well known to breweries and wineries worldwide: Saccharomyces cerevisiae. They’re calling the new variant Saccharomyces cerevisiae var protocetus after the protocetid whale fossil it was swabbed from. Incidentally, the whale fossil is what drew me into this project as well, and I mean that literally. Last year, Osborne contacted me to obtain permission to use an illustration of mine on their label. Stay tuned for more on that front.

So when and where can you try this fossil brew, Bone Dusters Paleo Ale?! Lost Rhino Brewing Company in Ashburn, VA will be serving it out of their taproom any day now. They may also be offering it through distributors and are looking into supplying relevant professional meetings, assuming they don’t blast through the 650 gallons made in the first batch too quickly. But perhaps the best part about geeking out on Bone Dusters Paleo Ale is that the proceeds are being funneled into a fund dedicated to providing underprivileged schools with science equipment like microscopes and consumables. I’ll drink to that! Who’ll join me?