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What beer did you drink today?

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Had some Rogue Santa's Private Reserve this weekend. I didn't enjoy it at all. It gave it a very bitter IPA type taste that I often times find hard to pair with cigars. I switched it up with some Karl Strauss Red Trolley (one of my go-to brews).
 
Brickhouse said:
After 3 nights in Chicago with a co-worker I believe I polished off somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 Black and Tans - Smithwicks style.
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What? No Surly?

wavescrashing said:
Had some Rogue Santa's Private Reserve this weekend. I didn't enjoy it at all. It gave it a very bitter IPA type taste that I often times find hard to pair with cigars. I switched it up with some Karl Strauss Red Trolley (one of my go-to brews).
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I agree. A good IPA will just overwhelm your palatte with flavor. Good to pair them with something light in flavor, like a burger or something.
 
About halfway through a Firestone Walker Union Jack IPA at the moment. Very nice so far, more complex than a typical IPA. Definite hop presence but not overdone. A sweet backbone makes it an IPA that non-hopheads would enjoy.
 
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Hopslam!
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Man I love me some Hopslam! Have some enroute and it's painful waiting for it to get here.
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Since when did you like the big, over-the-top hop bombs?
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The difference to me with HopSlam, Nugget Nectar, and a few others is that they aren't just over the top bitter. The hops are more citrus and pine and there is a nice malt backbone as opposed to things like Hop Sickle that are just out of control bitterness.

Plus maybe I'm just starting to acquire a taste for them? :blush:
 
Last night we had a couple of 2008 Nugget Nectars and too much bourbon. ???

EDIT: BTW, the NN was still great but the hops were pretty much non-existent. I will drink the 2009 sixer very fresh.
 
Sam Adam's Triple Bock
I am more of the West coast U.S. red wine and bourbon guy but I wanted to jump in and say that I actually found a bottle of Sam Adam's tripple bock last week and really blew my mind. It was all dusty on the back row of a shelf in a local liquor store. Had obviously been there for these past 10 years. What a treat, I really enjoyed it. It was like expresso and bitter chocolate. A port more then a beer. What a strange great brew.
 
I had the day off from work yesterday so i spent it at the local B&M. Had some great smokes paired with a Carolina Blonde and also i had a Oaked Arogant Bastard Ale
 
Right now we are having a Maui Big Swell IPA and some Kentucky Breakfast Stout. Both are really good but good god the KBS is drinking especially awesome.
 
Yesterday at the Blackfoot taproom I had a pint of their new doppelbock which was very good, and a pint of their Brewer's Reserve 07 Scottish which was fantastic. Got a growler of OPA filled while I was there and drank that at home.

Getting ready to crack open a HopSlam right now. :thumbs:
 
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