The First Weekly Beer of Tomorrow Open Thread
It’s been a long week, and if you haven’t done your taxes yet it could be an even longer weekend. Thankfully, there is beer, and beer makes everything better. Some come on in, crack-open a craft brew, and share your thoughts on beer, Los Angeles, or anything else that you’d like to chat about.
The comments will be running all weekend long, so if you have a question, a suggestion for what you’d like to see on the site, or just want to share what delicious beers you’re enjoying, let’s hear about it!
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Cheers!
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Word on the street that a certain Beer of Tomorrow reader is going to bring by a growler of something special from Stone this weekend! I’m looking forward to that, and to a Dogfish Head 90m IPA that’s been taunting me from the fridge all week.
Looking forward to some more Hangar 24 Orange Wheat, also eager to try the Saison du Pont…. And maybe some of our own homebrew hard cider!
Oh yes, the homebrew!
Yes, your favorite BoT reader will come bearing gifts Santa-style. Just please hang on to one of those homebrew hard ciders for me!
So, my “try something you’ve never tried before beer of the week” this week was Lagunitas’s Imperial Red. Lagunitas makes some great beers, including one of my favorites, their malty, hoppy, well-balanced double, Maximus. I’ve never had a brew of theirs that I’ve actively disliked, but many of theirs, including the Red, are just sortof okay.
Why are they so inconsistent? Is it because they try new and different things a lot and that means as many hits as misses? Maybe I’m a victim of my own raised expectations because some of their brews are so beloved to me?
Their packaging flavor text is always second-to-none, though, and NEVER disappoints.
Second to Stone you mean…
I find them super hit-or-miss too. Had the cappuccino stout at a festival and it was nearly-undrinkable (though I’m blaming dirty lines for that one). I like the Lucky 13, but did not like the varient. (I can’t remember if the regular is the blond and the varient the red or vise-versa)
I thought you didn’t like homebrew!
Uh oh! I sense a flavor-text-off post in the future!
I really like their Hop Stoopid, too. Maybe they just do hoppy really well, but not much else?
What in the name of all that’s holy made you think that? I’m not interested in DOING homebrew, but that’s mostly because I’m lazy. I love being a taste-tester! Honestly, I wish MORE of my local friends were homebrewers!
I specifically remember you saying that all home-brew tasted off to you and you didn’t enjoy drinking it. Or if not off at least too “home-brew-y.” But now that i think about it, it could have been commenter “The Sweetness” and not you after all… My apologies, and I will chill-down bottles of the Mild, the ESB, the dry-hopped wheat, and the cider for your taste-testing enjoyment!
Well, if it was me, it was in a drunken stupor, and that me was just wrong. I’ve had plenty of BAD homebrew, but that doesn’t mean that there’s anything necessarily universally bad about homebrews. I also don’t know if I agree that there is such a thing as a “home-brew-y” characteristic to home brews.
Personally, I’d rather invest myself in becoming a home-Cicerone than a homebrewer, but hats off to you for giving it a shot! Yay Makers!
Oh, and I think the blonde was the summer varient.
I was half awake thinking about beer and thought it would be cool if Firestone made a double- double barrel and called it 4bbl. The next day I checked t
o see if they had ever done it. It is coming out in July (not with my name though).
I really want them to come out with something called “Bear Vs. Lion” since that is what the brewery is informally known as in the BoT HQ.
What ARE they calling the 2x 2x barrel?