The Beer Run

[Eli the Mad Beer Man]

A place for jotting down what you just picked up at the liquor store.

Women shop for shoes and clothes, men shop for beer. At least I do. I do all my shopping for anything not beer online, or Fran gets it for me. Otherwise... there ain't no shoppin', there's just buyin. I only shop for beer.

So start scribblin'!

[Virgil G]

Meat and I got to have a bottle of the Alaskan smoked porter this past summer. A person we work with went on vacation on an alaskan cruise, and we gave her $20 to try and get a bottle and she was nice enough to bring us back one.

Was just at friar tucks on friday with meat and saw the bottles of oak aged and laughed.

[Rob DeNunzio]

It's a bbq weekend, kids. A sixer of Warsteiner and a sixer of Dead Guy. Oh, and one of these... Happy Easter (and spring break, for those of you slaving away in education) to all y'all.

[Randy]

I got a growler fill of Capt lawrence Smoked Porter. 4pack Old Rasputin, 4 bottles of Westmalle, 2 bottles St Bernadus (8 and tripple), and a 4 pack of ten fidy imperial stout( in cans)

[Chipper Dave]

Time for a mid-week beer run. I decided to get a wide range of brews this time around. Here is what I picked up.

Alaskan Summer Ale - my 2nd Alaskan brew in a week.
Chimay (blue label) Grande Reserve - trappist ale treat!
Left Hand Snow Bound Winter Ale - saving it for the last snow fall of the year
Bristol Brewing Laughing Lab Scottish Ale - gotta try my 1st Bristol.

Quite the mix. It was hot today and I already cracked open the 22oz Alaskan Summer Ale. I wrote up my review on the blog. Going camping this weekend and wanted to sip some brews before heading into the woods.

[Virgil G]

how do you know which is the last snowfall of the year?

[Chipper Dave]

The last snowfall of the year typically happens in April which is the 3rd most snowiest month in Colorado. it can come at any time. Take today for example. it was 75 degrees here yesterday but this morning it was snowing and in the upper 20s. Go figure. This is typical Colorado. So if i see a decent snow in early April then that's what I'll call the last snowfall of the year. Then it's time to drink more of the lighter colored beers until the 1st snowfall of the year, which is usually around late September or early October.

[Chipper Dave]

This weeks beer run included the following brews:

Bitch Creek ESB Ale - Grand Teton Brewing Co. - 6-pack
Rogue Dead Guy Ale - 22oz bomber
Colorado Kolsch Ale - Steamworks Brewing Co - 22oz bomber
Salvation (Belgian) from Avery

Still haven't opened up that Chimay (Blue) from last week. That's going to be opened this weekend though!

[Eli the Mad Beer Man]

Glad this little scratch pad of beer runs has become so popular!

Okey dokey, in preparation for an impromptu birthday celebratory BBQ tonight I swung by and picked up:

6er of New Belgium Abbey
6er of New Belgium Trippel
6er of Breckenridge Pandora's Bock (this has just become one of my fave beers)
6er of Widmer Hefe
6er of Hacker-Pschorr Weiss Dark
Two 1 pint 9 oz bottles of Franziskaner Dunkel

6er of Blue Moon (ALL of which went into a boiling pot of taters to make beer mashed taters, and once you have beer mashed taters there ain't no goin' back to regular mashed taters!)

6er of Oskar Blues Dale's Pale Ale (one of which is going up inside a chicken to make lip smacking, mouth waterin' BBQ beer chicken, and once you have beer chicken there ain't no goin' back to regular chicken!)

Tomorrow... Resurrection Mary's (and yes, that term is trademarked, so leave it be) - our version of the world's greatest hangover remedy - Bloody Mary. ;)

[Chipper Dave]

I finally opened that bottle of Chimay (Blue) Grande Reserve. Oh baby! Tasty stuff! One of the most unique brews I've had to date. Well worth it.

[Randy]

Today I went just a wee nuts.
6er's:
Stone's Ruination IPA
Saranac's Caramel Porter
Acme's California Brown Ale

Bombers:
Smuttynose's Baltic Porter
Bear Republic's Racer 5
Stone's Imperial Russian Stout
Weyerbacher Twelve (aniversary ale)

750 ml corked and caged Brookly Brewery's Brooklyner Schneider Hopfen Weisse

Pint Aventinus Wheat DobbleBock

Trappists
1 Orval
1 Westmalle Dubble
2 Rochefort 6
2 Rochefort 8
2 Rochefort 10

A growler of SixPoints Sweet Action Cream Ale

And to keep in the beer theme
One 4 pack of Virgil's Micro Brewed Rootbeer.

Then I went to the brew supply store.. lol.. Maybe I should take up bottled water as a habit.

[Virgil G]

went to columbus ohio on saturday.

First stop was "from the vine" a quaint little shop... um... somewhere in town. Later went to another store where i got a couple of things. Most of the list comes from the first stop.

12 oz bottles

4 great lakes blackout stout
6 weyerbacher blithering idiot
6 founders kentucky breakfast stout
6 mad river john barleycorn barleywine
6 brooklyn black chocolate stout
4 dogfishhead palo santo marron
6 Westvleteren 8 (not a typeo)
1 brew dog paradox batch 005
1 brew dog paradox batch 008
1 brew dog paradox batch 009
1 Alaskan winter ale
2 Stone Levitation
1 harviestoun ola dubh 12
1 harviestoun ola dubh 16
1 Harviestoun ola dubh 30

bombers and 750's

9 Stone Imperial Russian Stout
1 stone double bastard
1 Stone 7-7-7
1 stone 6-6-6
1 stone old guardian early 07
1 sletz oatmeal cream stout
1 sletz chocolate porter
1 avery collaboration
1 bison reunion 08 organic red rye
1 alesmith old numbskull
1 alesmith wee heavy
1 alesmith speedway stout
1 weyerbacher 12 anniversary
1 moylans ryan o'sullivan Imperial stout
1 southerin tier Imperial choklat stout
1 southern tier oat imperial oatmeal stout
1 mikkeller black hole coffee stout
1 mikkeller big/worse barleywine

so it was a good trip.

not to mention, stopped at alcatraz in indy on the way there had a sinister double and the black lager. then after shopping went to barleys and had the sampler which was 11 beers; then went to elevator and had their sampler of 12 beers.

it was a good trip.

V

[Rob DeNunzio]

Just got back from picking up my BOTM from Healthy Spirits, and grabbed some extras while I was there:

Koningshoeven Bock
Allagash Black
Avery/Russian River "Collaboration not Litigation" Salvation Batch #2
Malheur 12
Hanssens Oudbeitje Lambic
Struise Witte
De Dolle Stille Nacht
2006 Alesmith Grand Cru

And something else... Something special.