What beer are you drinking RIGHT NOW?

on sunday after riding we cracked open a growler of CMB city-to-shore DIPA, the general consensus was that it is as close to heady as we've ever had, good stuff indeed, don't know how long it will be on tap, sorry no pics
 
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Just got done putting in a hot-water heater for my next-door-neighbor . I told him no cash but I'd take some beer . Here's what he got me a bunch of . Not a huge fan of pumpkin beers but this one is GOOD ! HAPPY HALLOWEEN !
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pooriggy said:
Had a Ten Fidy the other night, I'm glad its stout season. That beer is amazing.
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Hit the hop shop tonight and stocked up on some dark brews. Included some Ten Fidy because it is great, but at $3 less a 4-pack, I'm digging the AndyJ and Founders Breakfast stouts.
Funny, 2 years ago you couldn't find Founders, now it's readily available and one of the cheaper 4-packs.

Tonight it was Carton El Dorado
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Sorry Mitch, they make good beer.
A solid Rye-PA.
 
jmanic said:
Hit the hop shop tonight and stocked up on some dark brews. Included some Ten Fidy because it is great, but at $3 less a 4-pack, I'm digging the AndyJ and Founders Breakfast stouts.
Funny, 2 years ago you couldn't find Founders, now it's readily available and one of the cheaper 4-packs.

Tonight it was Carton El Dorado
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Sorry Mitch, they make good beer.
A solid Rye-PA.
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The glass and growler are beast!!!

I'm surprised Founders was hard to find at some point. Maybe they r making a comeback on the shelves cause rewinding back 6-7 years they were readily available.
 
The Kalmyk said:
The glass and growler are beast!!!

I'm surprised Founders was hard to find at some point. Maybe they r making a comeback on the shelves cause rewinding back 6-7 years they were readily available.
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Yeah, I was talking with a Founders rep at a beer dinner a few years back when it was hard to find,
said they were going to ramp up production.
I always wonder what availability does to a beer's perceived desirability.
Would Heady be so popular if they bumped production and shipped out of state?

And yeah, I like my barware. My wife does not.
 
jmanic said:
I always wonder what availability does to a beer's perceived desirability.
Would Heady be so popular if they bumped production and shipped out of state?
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It would seem that in todays social media world that percieved desirability is huge. When someone gets a hold of a Heady you know damn sure there is going to be a pic on FB to document it. If it were 1982 we would be buying Michelob or Heineken when we wanted a top shelf beer. Back then we didn't have the internet to tell us what beer we needed to buy, just the televsion and radio advertisements supplied the hype.

I think Founders is a good role model. They make beers that are readily available but also have KSB for snob/hype appeal.
The Alchemist has a good thing going as well. They stay small, produce top notch IPA and remain extremely successful.
 
pooriggy said:
It would seem that in todays social media world that percieved desirability is huge. When someone gets a hold of a Heady you know damn sure there is going to be a pic on FB to document it. If it were 1982 we would be buying Michelob or Heineken when we wanted a top shelf beer. Back then we didn't have the internet to tell us what beer we needed to buy, just the televsion and radio advertisements supplied the hype.

I think Founders is a good role model. They make beers that are readily available but also have KSB for snob/hype appeal.
The Alchemist has a good thing going as well. They stay small, produce top notch IPA and remain extremely successful.
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Remember back in the 80s if you made the trip to canada, ya had to bring back some brador.
or going west meant getting some coors.
perhaps the actual Lowenbrau from germany would show up in the better stores. (miller was brewing it in the states)

but holy hell, bud was $2/6 mich was $2.50, and heini was $3.75.... or something like that. seems really expensive when you were 14...
 
My beer of choice at 14 was genesee cream ale until I shit my insides out. Low budget in my twentys and living in Pa. was without a doubt yenguling
As money got ok in my thirties it was German like spaten or dab or whatever right through the '90s. Through in molson xxx.

Thank you for basement Brewers very much. I could never touch another generic.
 
The Kalmyk said:
@pooriggy was drinking whatever was free in the early 80's. Followed up with some Greasy Tony's
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We were such dirtbags. A lot of summer days were spent kicking $2 ea. to buy a keg of Pabst and hang out under a pkwy overhang in Roselle drinking. We had this old wooden ladder that we carried the keg on. The first hour of drinking yielded mostly foam.
Greasy Tony's wasn't until college.
 
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