Rona Dranks

[Wes21]

20 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Driving up Route 13 through the VA portion of the Eastern shore might be the shittiest drive in America.

You clearly have a lot of driving yet to do around America.

[Wes21]

14 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

Do Trophy and Crank Arm distro up there or do you have a proxy?

This was greek to me.  Come again?

[onmyown]

7 hours ago, mattnasty919 said:

I bought a six pack of Fat Tire in February, I've drank 2. Mostly water and coffee here. 

Yep. Fat tire and the occasional old rasputin stout.

i was really digging the local crafts but you get sick of them all the time. Fat Tire always keeps me satisfied.

[LinvilleGorge]

17 minutes ago, Wes21 said:

You clearly have a lot of driving yet to do around America.

I'm up to 45 states now. That drive up 13 suuuuuuuuucks.

[kungfoodude]

29 minutes ago, Wes21 said:

This was greek to me.  Come again?

My bad. Too much beer community BS.

Are you able to buy Trophy and Crank Arm beer in VA Beach or do you know someone from around the Triangle that gets it for you.

[kungfoodude]

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Nope, definitely not. I hate artificial banana flavor and that's exactly what Belgians taste like to me.

I really accelerated my craft beer sickness when I started into the Belgian styles, so I still have a lot of love for that stuff. It was what created the financially irresponsible social alcoholic packaged into "enthusiast" that I am today. Thanks Belgium!

23 minutes ago, onmyown said:

Yep. Fat tire and the occasional old rasputin stout.

i was really digging the local crafts but you get sick of them all the time. Fat Tire always keeps me satisfied.

Even hard-core craft beer people have regular favorites or easy drinkers. I was down in Miami earlier this year for Wakefield and a 3 Sons festival and after the pure insanity from Wakefest, almost all the brewers pouring at the 3 Sons event were drinking things like Coors Banquet, Pacifico, etc. 

There are only so many triple barreled aged pastry barleywines, fruited infused kettle sours or marshmallow guava vanilla double dry hopped lactose New England triple IPA's you can drink before you just want a nice crisp, clean beer like a lager, pilsner, saison, etc.

[LinvilleGorge]

For me, just a good old Sierra Nevada Pale Ale or Fat Tire or something along those lines does that for me. 

[onmyown]

1 hour ago, kungfoodude said:

I really accelerated my craft beer sickness when I started into the Belgian styles, so I still have a lot of love for that stuff. It was what created the financially irresponsible social alcoholic packaged into "enthusiast" that I am today. Thanks Belgium!

Even hard-core craft beer people have regular favorites or easy drinkers. I was down in Miami earlier this year for Wakefield and a 3 Sons festival and after the pure insanity from Wakefest, almost all the brewers pouring at the 3 Sons event were drinking things like Coors Banquet, Pacifico, etc. 

There are only so many triple barreled aged pastry barleywines, fruited infused kettle sours or marshmallow guava vanilla double dry hopped lactose New England triple IPA's you can drink before you just want a nice crisp, clean beer like a lager, pilsner, saison, etc.

Indeed. My tastes have changed...I only like flavorful beers when eating food. If I’m just drinking I need something crisp and clean. It’s funny you say that my buddy it’s a craft beer know it all connoisseur and his go to is Coors lol I can’t stand coors. 

 

1 hour ago, LinvilleGorge said:

For me, just a good old Sierra Nevada Pale Ale or Fat Tire or something along those lines does that for me. 

Yep, after fat tire my next go to is the Sierra Nevada pale ale. Fat tire when I just want to drink, Raputin when I have a good expensive steak or dinner, and the Pale ale is great with any kind of snack, American food or home cooking. I have those 3 in my fridge now along with...

 

You may like pranqster Lineville. It’s a beer I find is a mood thing and it’s neither food or just drinking that makes me crave it. Can’t put my finger on it and it isn’t often. It is very very citrusy. And it has high alcohol...7.6 vs the regular 5ish. I like them when I want to feel buzzy but only want a drink or two and don’t want something real strong and filling like the rasputin. In cases where I don’t want filling but don’t want to drink an entire 6 pack of fat tire these are great.

[kungfoodude]

7 minutes ago, onmyown said:

Indeed. My tastes have changed...I only like flavorful beers when eating food. If I’m just drinking I need something crisp and clean. It’s funny you say that my buddy it’s a craft beer know it all connoisseur and his go to is Coors lol I can’t stand coors. 

I mean, I have a massive cellar of craft beer and a fridge full up here where I am working in Detroit. But, you get palette fatigue sometimes. Sometimes you just want a clean, refreshing, no frills beer. That's honestly why sometimes these brewers like to make those kind of beers with their hype styles. They actually like that poo.

I don't go to the beach and slug heavy, viscous barrel aged stouts. It doesn't go with the mood. I do actually know a guy that chugs those 10-20% stouts on the beach all day. But that is an outlier.

[The Huddler]

Wild Turkey 101 and fat cigars

[Wes21]

10 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Sours and Belgians are the two beer types that I pretty much just don't like across the board.

My wife used to work for a distributor, and we were at a beer festival she helped put together.  She goes inside one of the tents, pours some beer and hands it to me saying "here, alot of people seem to like this one."  She didn't tell me it was a sour!  I thought the keg had gone bad. LOL

That was a one time deal.  There's no way I want to duplicate that experience.

[MechaZain]

21 hours ago, Wes21 said:

Liquor - Patron, Jose Cuervo, Crown Royal

Beer - Sierra Nevada Torpedo, Stone Scorpion Bowl, New Belgium Voodoo Ranger

And I snuck over to Delaware and grabbed some of this:

Every IPA lover should check the 120 off their bucket list at some point but tbh I find the 60 and 90 to be better and more drinkable. 120 and Dogfish's Midas Touch are great conversation starters to have in your fridge if you know other beer lovers though.

I resented sours at first but I'm warming up to them. First few I tried were gross but it's a broad beer type with a lot of variation.

 

[mccjeff]

11 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

You like Trophy hops? I gotta be honest, not a big fan. 

Definitely a craft beer guy with The Answer on that list.

Burial has been CRUSHING with these weekly IPA releases. Great stuff. Their collabs with Other Half have really put them at another level.

Trophy is more about them being in Raleigh and wanting to support local breweries. I do like the Trophy Wife and Cloud Surfer but given other choices I usually go with the other choice. 

[raz]

11 hours ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Nope, definitely not. I hate artificial banana flavor and that's exactly what Belgians taste like to me.

interesting fact - that artificial banana flavor is what bananas use to taste like.   we now eat a different banana because that one got sick and they still use the flavor profile of the old banana to make the flavoring.   crazy huh.   when the current banana we eat gets sick we'll change again.   maybe to the blue ones - they exist, who knows