|  Posted Nov 12, 2008 by Is it on the Gosho? Can you point to it? I'm sure that most of you know me well enough to understand that this is going to be an almost exclusively beer-related journal conversation, with the occasional mention of solid food. And what better time of the year to kick things off
Anchor Christmas Ale 2008 http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/28/45537 Sierra Nevada Celebration 2008 http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/140/1904 Sierra Nevada Anniversary Ale 2008 http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/140/43509 Oaked Arrogant Bastard http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/147/8951 Breckenridge Christmas Ale http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/759/3508 Left Hand Black Jack Porter http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/418/1251
Also about half a pot of Gentleman's Relish very kindly donated by Mu Beta
I'm tempted to go back to the supermarket later today or tomorrow to pick a six pack each of the other two Christmas beers that caught my eye. They'll be in the fridge at some point in the very near future, oh yes
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 Posted Nov 12, 2008 by 2legs- Oh, alright then. *sneaks a bottle of the Sierra Nevada out of the fridge
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 Posted Nov 12, 2008 by Is it on the Gosho? Can you point to it? Good choice
Now bring it back
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 Posted Nov 12, 2008 by Count Zero Oooh... He's just going to do a bit of magic with it... He's going to turn it into water.
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 Posted Nov 12, 2008 by Is it on the Gosho? Can you point to it? Wow. The Anchor Christmas is a lot more spicy this year than I remember it last year.
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 Posted Nov 13, 2008 by 2legs- Oh, alright then.
BoB-damn the internet and google searchability and beerability :: http://www.beerritz.co.uk/search.as...uctName=Sierra+Nevada+&Submit=Go%21
damn they've a good sleection of beers
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 Posted Nov 13, 2008 by Is it on the Gosho? Can you point to it? And that's a mere selection of their vast range
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 Posted Nov 13, 2008 by 2legs- Oh, alright then.
I do likes me dark beers/stouts/porters Thought I'd put myself a little selection of beers together. :: 2 each of:
Anchor Steam Sierra Nevada Porter Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale Sierra Nevada Stout Chimay Blue Anchor Porter
I think they're all North American cept the Chimay Blue which I think is Belgium... Waht do you think for them as a selection, good choises?
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 Posted Nov 13, 2008 by Is it on the Gosho? Can you point to it? Definitely Except for the Chimay - I'm keen on Belgian beers.
If you drink the Anchor Porter and then the Sierra Porter you'll probably wish you'd bought more of the Sierra. Try one Anchor and then one Sierra and decide from there. Anchor Steam is a good one
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 Posted Nov 13, 2008 by Is it on the Gosho? Can you point to it? Damn damn damn.
I'm *not* keen on Belgian beers
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 Posted Nov 13, 2008 by 2legs- Oh, alright then. I like some* Belgium beers, but don't like others... Some are... well, a bit 'lagery' But others I find quite I'm in a bit of a quandry now.... I could limit the origional selection to one bottle of each, and have a selection of a furhter 6, probably Scottish and English stouts/porters in the box... naa think I'll go with the origional selection... just to test em out and then maybe do a simular selection of 6 X 2 bottles of a mix of UK stouts/porters/dark beers
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 Posted Nov 15, 2008 by 2legs- Oh, alright then. I'm liking the Anchor Porter more than the Sierra Porter.... to me at least (and I've a cold at the moment), the Anchor is more... err complex... more aoromas and flavours coming through than the Sierra The Steam was good.... But to my sens eof taste at least not good enough for me to probably hunt it down again; Of course its costing me a bit more to buy it here as an imported bottle beer, adn there are plenty of local brews roudn these ere parts I think I prefe to it, which are in a similar area taste wise to it, but of ocurse which are pretty cheap in comparason and availible pretty easily just in the pub Still got the stout and the big foot to go (actually the Sierra porter is growning on me somewhat)
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 Posted Nov 16, 2008 by Is it on the Gosho? Can you point to it? I wish you could get some of the Sierra Nevada Celebration Best beer ever
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 Posted Nov 16, 2008 by 2legs- Oh, alright then. I'lltry look out for it... the web-site I got this beer from didn't do it... But there must* be other web-sites selling imported beers bit of a hangover this morn.... this afternoon when I finally surfaced at about 3.30 and now I'm just upset there isn't any beer left in
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 Posted Nov 17, 2008 by Count Zero Saturday night I ended up at the bar down the road, the kind of place you don't expect to get anything but the typical sex-in-a-canoe American lagers. They actually have Belhaven Scottish Ale mysteriously, but only in bottles and it tastes like crap in the bottles after being imported over here and left on countless loading docks in the sun for hours.
Anyways, I took the opportunity to give Budweiser's new "American Ale" a try.
Be happy I did so I can save you the trouble. Basically it tastes like a flowery lager. It has none of the characteristics that I like in an ale, just the things I don't like in some such as St. Arnolds. Basically it tastes like you poured the backwash from an almost empty bottle of St. Arnold's into a can of Budweiser just for the color.
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 Posted Nov 17, 2008 by Is it on the Gosho? Can you point to it?
Sounds like an ideal addition to the Drafthouse bar, given that we sell more Miller Light and Lone Star than all our other bottles (all 30 of 'em) put together
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 Posted Dec 7, 2008 by Is it on the Gosho? Can you point to it? Deschutes Jubelale http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/63/2178 I'm very annoyed at our Capitol Beverage rep for palming us off with Shiner Holiday Cheer http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/143/45591 instead of the Deschutes . Still, it's from Texas instead of Oregon, it's cheaper for us to buy (so we make more money on it), and the locals are throwing it down their necks like there's no tomorrow, so... <result>. Personally I think it tastes like a really bad fruit-flavoured cough syrup.
Sierra Nevada Porter http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/140/279 I will never, ever, ever, ever get tired of this stuff
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 Posted Dec 7, 2008 by Is it on the Gosho? Can you point to it? I almost forgot! Two more that have enjoyed only a brief residency in Gosho's fridge, having been given as samples from one of reps.
Starr Hill Jomo Lager http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/13667/33177 Despite having a very odd name, and despite the fact that I find most lagers a bit bland, this one is really rather good. It tasted more like a pale to me in fact. This is definitely not Hoffmeister or Carling or any of those other mass-produced lagers that the kids like to swill on a Friday night before kicking seven colours of shit out of each other.
Starr Hill Dark Starr Stout http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/13667/29995 Bloody good stuff Very strong coffee smell and taste. Lots of highly roasted/borderline burnt flavours too. Drier than the bits of the Atacam Desert where it hasn't rained for centuries... if ever!
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