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Beer style of the week thread - Belgian Sour Ale Edition

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  • Member Posts: 13,325
    Founders has only been in WA for the last year or so.
  • Member Posts: 7,696
    Yeah, we've got Founders. I like their stuff.

    The Abyss used to be my absolute favorite beer. Now it's all bourbon barrel aged (and $20 a bottle), so I haven't had one in a long time. Before The Abyss, my favorites were Pike XXXXX and, even more so, Hales Pikop Andropov because they were the darkest, heaviest, most ass-kicking stouts I could find.

    Fun story about Pikop Andropov: Big group camping trip out on the coast. I stop by Hales and pick up a keg of the stuff to bring along. This stuff was like drinking 9% delicious tar, and we're all pounding it like crazy. By about midnight, I was shitting black. A couple hours later? I was shitting Pikop Andropov. Looked exactly the same coming out as it did coming in, only the smell was so foul that it made normal shit smell like perfume. And we're ALL just running to the little pit toilet, shitting black, and crying from the stench of the place. I'm betting many a tent were just thrown away after that trip... Lesson learned: Imperial stouts are one of the best beers for every occasion except heavy all night drinking.

    If you ever get a chance, and you like Rasputin, a visit to North Coast is totally worth it. Their fruited Berliner Weisses are fantastic, Rasputin on nitro, and they always have special one-off things only available there. And for what it's worth, the stretch of Highway 1 from where it forks off 101 to Fort Bragg is the craziest stretch of road I've ever driven. Had the ol' minivan's tires squealing in almost every corner! This was a stop on family vacation a couple of summers ago: For the kids, it was a drive down the Oregon coast, down to Fort Bragg, then east to my dad's place near Tahoe. For us? One rule: Every lunch and dinner of the whole trip at a different brewery (ended up being 12 total). Pretty sweet trip, and the brewery that caught us most by surprise (in a good way) was 7 Devils in Coos Bay.

    /yet more csbs
  • Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Last tim I did the Deschutes Brewery tour, they pretty much gave me ass much Abyss as I wanted at the end in the tasting room. Got decently loaded on amazing beer for zero dollars.
  • Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,388 Founders Club

    Last tim I did the Deschutes Brewery tour, they pretty much gave me ass much Abyss as I wanted at the end in the tasting room. Got decently loaded on amazing beer for zero dollars.

    I remember my drinking Mirror Pond pale ale over looking the Mirror Pond phase.


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    If one is ever inclined to drink in the Spokane Valley.

  • Member Posts: 13,347 Standard Supporter

    IFL Fremont Dark Star. So thick and syrupy.
    Fremont BBA Spice Wars may be my favorite dark beer. Regular Dark Star is also great. I have 30+ bottles of barrel aged stuff aging right now. Really looking forward to opening the various Big Bad Baptist releases.

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