Shipment from Beer Geek

I see several people in here posting their shipments so I thought I would join in. This is about the fifth time I have ordered from them.

Just received my latest batch: J.W. Lees Harvest aged in Lagavullin Scotch casks Julius Echter Weiss bier Eggenberg Dunkel Eisbock Allgauer Altbairisch Dunkel Neuzeller Bath Beer Iron City 12oz "Steel Bottle" (We watched Deer Hunter for the umpthteenth time the other night) Two Brothers Prairie Path Golden Ale Wisconsin Brewing Oscars Stout Avery 12th Anniversary Saison Ale Blaugies Saison d'Epeautre Thomas Hardy's English Ale

I had also ordered The Fantome Belgian Saison, but they were out :^(

Opinions welcomed....mine will be forthcoming.

Reply to
mrbetelman
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uh, ya mean the one made out of aluminum?

Didn't they drink Rolling Rock more than IC? (Deniro gets one for Meryl Streep, saying "It's good beer.") My favorite part of the movie was the fact that they drank IC & RR and the Viet Cong drank Miller? The movie was REALLY an allegory about supporting local breweries. So was the original Bad News Bears, in which Walter Matthau was constantly drinking one or another brand of cheap West Coast beer, especially all those General brands that were unique to a particular supermarket. They celebrate at the end with a case of Lucky Lager. (Much as I like Billy Bob Thorton, I'm guessing they left that aspect out of the new movie, and I won't like it as much.)

(Hey, before the microbrewery boom, there wasn't much around to thrill a beer drinker who hated A-B, Miller & Coors...)

Reply to
jesskidden

You didn't live in Cincinnati, though!

Within a ten mile radius of my house... Burger, Hudepohl, Schoenling, Weidemann, Bavarian, et al. ;-)

Reply to
Garrison Hilliard

I didn't say there weren't some "interesting" survivors still around, only that it was unusual for a movie character to be drinking those brands, or anything other than Bud, Miller, Schlitz, Pabst or Coors.

And, sadly, the little brands were dying off at an alarming rate...

Well, I was living in LA, Mass., upstate NY and NJ during those years and I had access to (at various times) Ballantine XXX Ale, India Pale Ale and Brewers Gold Ale, McSorley Ale, Croft Ale, Pickwick Ale, Narragansett Porter, Genesee 12 Horse Ale, Lucky Red Carpet, Rainier Ale, Acme Beer, Orlieb, McSorley's, Boarhead Stout, Rheingold, Black Horse Ale (2 different versions), Koch's (when it was British owned), Augsburger, Horlacher Perfection and, occasionally, Little Kings &

---what was that superpremium brand Hudepohl had, named after a pre-Pro Cincinnati brewer?--- would make it east, as well ....

Reply to
jesskidden

Moerlein is currently being brewed up at The Lion in Wilkes-Barre; the brewer there has sent me several samples lately, and they were generally quite good, particularly the Doublebock.

Reply to
Lew Bryson

"Lew Bryson" sings of arms, the man, and Usenet news:Xs3Oe.110$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net:

Only beer of theirs I have any real memory of is the Honey Almond lager. Tasted like a cookie in a good way. Yum.

Reply to
Dan Iwerks

Dan Iwerks wrote in news:Xns96BA6E45876B4daniwerksatyahoo@216.168.3.30:

I've never had (or heard of!) that one. But other Christian Moerlein beers I've had, including their doppelbock, have been somewhere between uninspiring and completely sucky. Suprises me to hear somebody say it was "quite good" -- maybe this is a different beer? The one I tried was their "Doppelbock", in a tan/brown colored 6-pack.

DB

Reply to
Doppelbock

That's the package; had it last January, and yeah, I thought it was good. Up there with the Sam Adams D-bock. Not as good as Optimator or Bajuvator. And the Dunkles I just had was pretty good too. Got a bad bottle of hefeweizen, though.

Reply to
Lew Bryson

Doppelbock sings of arms, the man, and Usenet news:Xns96BA804CADD08doppelbocyahoocom@207.115.63.158:

Oh, that's it, follow me around through various newsgroups. Gonna start calling you "Libbybock". Stalker.

It's obnoxiously difficult to find good bottled dopplebocks from U.S. micros. I'm very happy to be now living where I can get Capital's beers, as they make a dopplebock for every season, but the only other thing labeled a dopplebock I've really had out of a bottle from a U.S. brewer that I liked was Troegs dopplebock, and that wasn't traditionally "dopplebocky" (wasn't hefty enough, but was still good). I've had some other good ones, but they were draft when I had them and don't know if they're bottled.

I suspect most brewers don't bother because they don't want to deal with using up that much tank space for extended lagering but, as I know practically nothing about brewing a dopplebock, I could be (and likely am) quite wrong. It's a shame, a nice dopplebock is a beautiful thing.

Reply to
Dan Iwerks

I'd disagree on this one, too: Troegs is modeled on Andechs, which is the same kind of drier, flavor-packed d-bock: and Troegenator hits the mark

Reply to
Lew Bryson

Dan Iwerks wrote in news:Xns96BAABF9D1108daniwerksatyahoo@216.168.3.30:

Eh, get over yerself. I found this place all on my own. (Although I did follow you to ratebeer, thanks for that bit of advice.)

Uh... there's a doppelbock for every season? Yikes, I have so much to learn.

Another decent doppelbock, don't laugh, is Moretti LaRossa (sometimes erroneously called "Moretti Dark" by ignorant waiters and waitresses in Italian restaurants). Yes, I'm pretty sure this qualifies as a doppelbock. It seems to be pretty widely available, too. The only decent beer ever to come out of Italy as far as I know.

DB

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Doppelbock

"Lew Bryson" sings of arms, the man, and Usenet news:c8xOe.698$u snipped-for-privacy@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com:

Never had the Andechser; it's a "Dopplebock Dunkel" per the label? I guess I can see that. I'll hunt it down, there's always something new to learn about beer.

I very much liked the Troegenator, just wasn't what I expected out of a dopplebock. Someone I know referred to it as a "dark maibock" once which seemed a decent description.

Reply to
Dan Iwerks

Got that right. Brick's supposedly going to be making it under license, and making a pretty true rendition. Otherwise, it's tough to get hold of.

Don't get the Trogner boys started on that...

Reply to
Lew Bryson

"Lew Bryson" sings of arms, the man, and Usenet news:rsLOe.1039$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com:

Bah. I've complimented them enough times on their beer that they can slip me some slack. Chris' face practically lit up last fall at Jim Dorsch's fall beer thing at Whole Foods Vienna when he told me I should drink Mad Elf out of a good glass and I told him I drink it out of the Mad Elf glass I use all the time.

I recently moved to Minnesota, and I'm reaaaaaally gonna miss their Mad Elf and Oatmeal Stout. Those are two damn fine beers. I love the Mad Elf fresh, but I aged a bunch and the year-old variety was stinking lovely.

Reply to
Dan Iwerks

Cassissona, Super Baladin, Baladin Noel, Nora.

Now you know of a few more good Italian beers. There's a small but active craft-brewing movement there, and it's gaining some ground.

Reply to
dgs

Referred to as just Dunkel at the monestary's beer garden/restaurant, as well as their pub in Munich.

Also absolutely amazingly good.

Well, typically in teh States, you'll learn how difficult it is to find it here. They don't import (unless that's changed recently), but scattered bottles will sneak their way in from time to time. And as outstanding as the stuff is in bottles, it's a poor comparison to getting the stuff fresh out of the barrel. Absolutely amazing stuff.

And the best example I can point to of a beer being staggeringly malty without being at all sweet.

-Steve

Reply to
Steve Jackson

Forgot to mention one outstanding non-sweet doppelbock that does occasionally make it to the States: Augustiner's Maximator. They typically haven't sold it under that name, but IIRC just as "dark." But it's also outstanding. And the relative dryness makes both of these beers perilously drinkable.

-Steve

Reply to
Steve Jackson

No, no, as in "don't get them started on that, they'll talk all damned day long about it."

Reply to
Lew Bryson

Yeah. Yeah. And that's the deal with Troegenator. I named it best beer of

2004 on my site for just that reason: "Troegenator is a sly dog, a sneaky doublebock that is dry and even a bit spicy, not the fat happy style of doublebock we've become accustomed to. Troegenator is a d-bock that's been working out, the better to kick your unsuspecting ass. I found myself drinking it more and more often as the year went by, and I'm extremely taken by this American brewery that has pegged the elusive "dry malt" character of the Bavarian brewers."
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Lew Bryson

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