Mac
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Dat Stella Artois is quite a good beer. Local bar & grill has it on tap. Best thing that's happened as a consequence of INBEV hookin' up with AB's distribution!  
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HAUS
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New Belgium Hoptober -- not bad at all. Five hops and fourt malt varieties in a light golden ale. Its got an upfront bite that lingers a bit, but this sixer will soon be a goner in the Dallas Fridge. Probably within the next 15 minutes.
Got to try the Hoptober when I was out in Sept. Tried it right from the tap at NB. It was goood. I still think Mighty Arrow is their best. I'm finding a lot of beers with Amarillo as their flavoring hop. Very distinct. I think the Hoptober uses some amarillo. To me the Hoptober had a hint of peanuts in it near the end. Different.
I'm heading back out to Colo Thursday. Hope the weather cooperates.
Bro-in-law has been drooling about Dogfish Head's 90 & 120 min IPA. He claims they're smooooth. He said they make Great Divide's Hercules taste like paint thinner and I think the Herk is pretty damn good. $10 a bottle (12oz) for the 120 min IPA... It better be forkin good.
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Forsythian
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My favorite New Belgian has to be the 1554... winner of last year's 1st annual Forsythian New Years Eve beer fest.
I'll have to look for the Hoptober and the Mighty Arrow, but I'm finding myself climbing back down the hop vine a bit... the Hercules, Titan, Torpedo, O'dells and the like have me up out of bed and reaching for the pepto about 4 in the morning. Anymore, I'd as soon have a Blvd Single Wide or (my new favorite) the SN Anniversary Ale.
Speaking of Sierra Nevada, anybody splurge on their Estate beer? I wanna say $12 or so for a 20-some-odd-oz bottle... pricy
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HAUS
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Hoptober is their fall seasonal and Mighty Arrow is a spring seasonal so don't funkin gonuts looking for the arrow.. 
I've only found Hoptober in one store. The rest still have the skinny dip on the shelves.
I love the 1554. It's a schwartzbier ain't it? I like those dark colored, semi light bodied beers. Schlafly makes a damn fine schwartzbier, but I don't think they bottle it.
Haven't had the Estate. Too much to try and not enough time or $$ to do it...
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Paul Dallas
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Founders Centennial IPA - had several last night, and didn't care for it that much. Very malty, very bitter, and I think its started to ferment and multiply deep in my bowels. I haven't been able to stop my methane production.
Sierra Nevada Harvest Wet-Hopped - may have to wait till the fermenter stops before I sample.
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Forsythian
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I've found that, overall, the offerings from the Founder's brewery are not for the squeamish. Their mission statement must be "more is better".
When it goes wrong for me, the symptoms tend to eminate from the upper GI... I fear I have hop-compromised my lower esophageal sphincter. 
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Ozark
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Hey, I'm still enjoying the Mendocino Spring Bock I found 8 six-packs of in the bargain baskets at Brown Derby. Good stuff!
I think I learned something about the incredible mark-up retail stores get on such beers. On a couple of the sixers there was still a price tag - "$9.99", marked out. I bought 'em on close-out for $3.99 each, and I'm sure Brown Derby's not selling anything for less than their cost.
So, the brewery that makes the beer, the beer distributor, and the trucking company that brought it from CA are all getting part of $3.99 out of that six-pack, and they're able to make a profit doing it. Brown Derby gets $6.00 for just putting the sixer on the shelf and selling it. Wow.
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Forsythian
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Founder's Centennial IPA... this one joins O'dells IPA as a crappie-bed special!
It's okay, but I'd trade my leftovers for Blvd Single-Wide.
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Paul Dallas
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Forsythian said:
Founder's Centennial IPA... this one joins O'dells IPA as a crappie-bed special!
It's okay, but I'd trade my leftovers for Blvd Single-Wide.
Yeah, I didn't care for it much either.
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DjF
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I just picked up a 12er of Sam Adams Harvest Collection for deer camp...what should I expect?
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Burrhead
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Well Dan'l, since it's a Harvest Collection, I'd say it's probably gonna taste like corn, soybeans or milo. 
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Forsythian
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DjF said:
I just picked up a 12er of Sam Adams Harvest Collection for deer camp...what should I expect?
Sounds like one of those sampler packs?
For starters, you gotta drink 'em out of glass. And not a frozen glass either. For gawds' sake don't freeze your glass. A mug is good. And if your hunting buddies give you any grief, tell them to pi$$ off, 'cause you're taking your beer drinking to the next level baby. They can come with you, or they can stay behind... no matter, 'cause you're on your way to flavor country.
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DjF
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yep a sampler pack...Cherry Wheat, Irish Red, Dunkelweizen, Boston Lager, Octoberfest, and Brown Ale...
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I picked up a 6er of Killian's Red. It's been way too long since I've had that. Back when I was in college at Rolla, a bunch of us would go to the City Limits Lounge every Tuesday night. The bartender would draw a mug for me as soon as she saw me walk in the door.
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Ozark
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I picked up a six-pack of Hofbrau Munchen Dunkel (dark) the other day, and it's real good. It's a German Dark Lager, and I bought it when I read the label and found it's actually brewed in Munich according to the old Purity Law (no ingredients except malt, hops, yeast, and water). Good stuff!
I was real surprised to find Price Cutter here in Ozark carrying it. Ya just never know.
Reading up on it, the Hofbrau House in Munich is a state-owned brewery/beer hall and it's been around for 100+ years. In 1920, Adolf Hitler formed the National Socialist Party at the Hofbrauhaus. Politics aside, those Krauts sure make good beer.
p.s. - Forsythian, I love your new avatar of you afloat on Bull Shoals. Something about a monkey and a football comes to mind.
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Forsythian
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Lord help me, the local Forsyth Country Mart got their liquor license, and they have turned their dollar-store section into a liver-pickling paradise.
Considering the limited catchmit of this store, I am impressed by their selection of beers. My first purchase? A quart of Lagunitas "Little Sumpin' Extra". I forget the IBU's, but at 8.5% ABV it was a wrestling match. Not nearly as smooth as the Founder's Breakfast Stout (which featured similar numerical credentials), it was more akin to the Founder's Dirty Bastard. I don't know if Lagunitas was trying for a scotch-style, but that's what I got out of it. Along with some indigestion.
Anyways, back to Country Mart. Here's the problem. After work today, I gots to pick up some bread and milk. I've done it a hundred times, but now I've got the Sirens singing to me from the Northeast corner of the store... "Ken" they'll softly purr... "try the Hop Stoopid".
This is gonna take some getting used to.
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Ozark
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OK, Forsyth's just got one street with businesses on it - a slow-down zone between me and K Dock. I've never noticed the Country Mart, but since I pass that way often at fishing time and it's got beer - where is it? Is that the name of the new supermarket there by McDonalds?
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Forsythian
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Yep, just take a right at the only stop light in town. Between McDonald's and Sonic, overlooking beautiful Taneycomo lake. Right across 160 from the ubiquitous Casey's. Sam, they might have a better selection than that lame excuse of a super center near you.
Come getcha some
Hey, btw, if you were gonna fish outa State Park this weekend, what would be your overall strategy? (besides the buttermilk thing)? 
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Ozark
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Hey, btw, if you were gonna fish outa State Park this weekend, what would be your overall strategy? (besides the buttermilk thing)?
I'll have to wait 'til you're along to check the beer selection at the Country Mart, so one of us can watch the boatload of fishing tackle. I don't like to go into big stores when I'm pulling the boat - some of those other "Forsythians" might not be honest.
State Park? Boy, I dunno. There's still a few reports of white bass boiling around there. Other than that, I'd think work a big leadhead jig with a Green Pumpkin grub across the bottom real slow from up shallow clear down to 50 feet of water. The islands, humps, and points around there are big smallmouth territory. You might try a wacky-rigged Senko in the same color up around the banks and bushes, too. I wouldn't know how to find a crappie now.
I've got my deer from last Saturday mostly ground into hamburger and in the freezer, and I'm gonna use the good weather this weekend to try and get another one.
Hey, State Park is where I came in from night fishing one summer about 1 a.m. and found two college-age girls sitting on the end of the courtesy dock, topless, drinking beer. If you see those gals, tell 'em Sam said hi. I bet I remember them a whole lot better than they remember me, though.
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Paul Dallas
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Whole Hog Imperial Pilsner by Stevens Point Brewery(Wisconsin) - had a 4 pack over the weekend, 8.5% abv, wasn't bad, but wasn't great. Pours a deep yellow, reminds me of Budweiser Special Release brew - the one that comes in the champagne magnum and is the higher octane version of Bud. Tastes like crappy butterscotch candy.
Followed it up with a few Boulevard Pilsners and felt better.
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HAUS
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Blessed again by the in-laws with more beer at holiday time.
Dogfish Head:
Palo Santo Brown -- awesome 12% abv beer. Hints of candy, coffee, caramel... Nice!
120 min IPA - Haven't tried. Supposed to be around 20% abv and costs $10 for a 12 oz bottle!!
Burton Baton - Haven't tried
World Wide Stout -- Haven't tried. 18% abv.. dear lord 
Ska Brewing - Durango, CO -- Ten Pin Porter: Real good porter. Not as meaty as a stout. Some darkened malt, coffee flavors. Sweet finish.
Ft Collins Brewing - Rocky Mtn IPA - Great hoppy IPA.
Leinenkugel Sampler:
Red Lager
Amber Lager
Creamy Dark
Fireside Nut Brown Ale
Creamy Dark is by far the best of the bunch. I'm not a big fan of Leinie. Most of their beers are watery and lifeless. With that said, the Dark is a pretty damn good beer. I liken it to beefed up schwartzbier. A little more body than a schwartzbier. No overpowering flavors of coffee or burnt malt like porters & stouts. I can drink this one alone. Most of the others I need to drink with some food to drown out the off flavors that mimic mass produced beer (MillerCoors).
The rest are okay. The Fireside is growing on me the more I drink it.
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Ozark
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Yer in-laws are trying to kill you.
Yeah, I bought a sixer of Fireside Nut Brown Ale awhile back, and I think it's pretty good. Not wonderful, but pretty good.
Hey, yesterday I bought a Winter Sampler 12-pack of Sam Adams seasonal beers. The only one I've tried is the Winter Lager, last night. THAT's a good one! It's a heavy dark lager with good malt and great hops.
I wish S.A. put the Winter Lager out by itself, but they don't. I'll have to soldier through the wheat beer ("grains of paradise" - yecch), fruity lambic, and whatever else is in there to get some more of it.
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3s
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I'm sure they got SA winter lager on the shelf by the 6 around here  Haven't tried it yet but its next up.
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HAUS
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Hey Sam, Does that SA sampler have the Scotch Ale in it?
If it does, it's a real good'un
I thought the Winter lager was pretty good too. Just a notch down from the Okto
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Ozark
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Hey Sam, Does that SA sampler have the Scotch Ale in it?
Nope - Boston Lager, Winter Lager, Coastal Wheat, Cranberry Lambic, Holiday Porter, and Old Fezziwig Ale.
I had a bottle of the Coastal Wheat last night. It's well-made but I'm not much of a wheat beer fan, so I finished up with a bottle of S.A. Cream Stout to get the taste out of my mouth.
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