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Pac 12 North Craft Beer Championship
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Washington
My biggest complaint on breweries is when you get a brewer who loves making one type of beer over everything else at the cost of having a variety of beers on tap.BleachedAnusDawg said:
Mostly these kinds of lists come down to what style of beer you prefer.
If you love making sours, good for you but if you 10 out 12 taps that are sours don’t be surprised when people stop coming to your brewery. -
Oregon
Abraxas is fucking amazing. Top-tier beer.1to392831weretaken said:
Was going to say exactly this. I like big stouts (and sours when I'm in the mood for something light). Fremont stouts/barleywines are good. Darkstar is a fine base stout for what I can pick it up for in a six-pack. Their specialty stuff is overpriced, but I never pay for it since I always have it when I'm digging into my brother's collection of verticals.BleachedAnusDawg said:Mostly these kinds of lists come down to what style of beer you prefer.
My favorite beer is out of St. Louis of all places (Abraxas), but it's $20 per bottle, so special occasions only. Firestone Walker, like Pumpy: good at everything. Used to be into The Abyss from Deschutes, but they've gone too heavy with the bourbon and priced it stupid like Fremont. Way back in the day, Pikop Andropov from Hales was the shit--thickest blackest beer money could buy at the time. Anymore, it's hard to say which brewery is better than which when the stuff I usually like best is all small release and comes and goes. I know it's hard to beat some of the specialty stouts from Evil Twin in New York, but they're hard to find here. I've walked into Cloudburst to find three stouts on tap that all rocked my balls, but the most recent time, they didn't have a stout on at all. Ditto Structures (although they have one now that's fucking amazing). Wander's base stout is meh, but when they do something special, it's usually right up there. My brother just turned me on to Great Notion, and they're a similar kind of brewery that tries big things and can seemingly do no wrong.
It's splitting hairs, and at this point it just comes down to where you live, therefore what's readily available, and what style you're into. One thing's for sure is that you get what you pay for, and once you have some of this big specialty stuff, it's harder to appreciate the off the shelf beer. My drinking habit has gotten car-payment expensive!... -
OregonAlso, for fellow beer fags on here there's an app called Tavour that is a great way to sample stuff from across the country. I used it for a few months and then turned it off after realizing I was blowing $150+ each month in addition to my regular purchases locally. Couldn't drink it as fast as it was building up in the refrigerator.
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PurpleThrobber said:
Like we say, fuck off.
#myvandals #PCC
As the Innui like to say to all you knew kids on the block: Fuck Off. Classics Rule. -
Love the Camper in this one. -
Oregon
I used to buy a lot of Dark Star. I also like the Blue Can pale ale from Fremont. But like every other craft brewer they make too many god damned IPAs and not enough other stuff that I like.1to392831weretaken said:
Was going to say exactly this. I like big stouts (and sours when I'm in the mood for something light). Fremont stouts/barleywines are good. Darkstar is a fine base stout for what I can pick it up for in a six-pack. Their specialty stuff is overpriced, but I never pay for it since I always have it when I'm digging into my brother's collection of verticals.BleachedAnusDawg said:Mostly these kinds of lists come down to what style of beer you prefer.
My favorite beer is out of St. Louis of all places (Abraxas), but it's $20 per bottle, so special occasions only. Firestone Walker, like Pumpy: good at everything. Used to be into The Abyss from Deschutes, but they've gone too heavy with the bourbon and priced it stupid like Fremont. Way back in the day, Pikop Andropov from Hales was the shit--thickest blackest beer money could buy at the time. Anymore, it's hard to say which brewery is better than which when the stuff I usually like best is all small release and comes and goes. I know it's hard to beat some of the specialty stouts from Evil Twin in New York, but they're hard to find here. I've walked into Cloudburst to find three stouts on tap that all rocked my balls, but the most recent time, they didn't have a stout on at all. Ditto Structures (although they have one now that's fucking amazing). Wander's base stout is meh, but when they do something special, it's usually right up there. My brother just turned me on to Great Notion, and they're a similar kind of brewery that tries big things and can seemingly do no wrong.
It's splitting hairs, and at this point it just comes down to where you live, therefore what's readily available, and what style you're into. One thing's for sure is that you get what you pay for, and once you have some of this big specialty stuff, it's harder to appreciate the off the shelf beer. My drinking habit has gotten car-payment expensive!... -
Oregon
You're not in the Pac 12 @PurpleThrobber . And borderline PNW at best.PurpleThrobber said:
Like we say, fuck off.
#myvandals #PCC
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OregonI pick Ore-gone, because my first craft beer (Portland Ale, IIR), progressing to Widmer Hefe. My initial foray into IPA's was Bridgeport, then to Ninkasi. Later, I drank Washington in Washington, and Oregon when there. I became an IPA knuckle-dragger, and slowly burned out my taste buds.
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OregonLove both. It's definitely a clash of the titans between the two. However, Boneyard RPM IPA puts Oregon over the top.
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Oregon
My Oregon loving treason only goes so far. I boycott all Eugene beer unless it’s free beer.greenblood said:Love both. It's definitely a clash of the titans between the two. However, Boneyard RPM IPA puts Oregon over the top.
I will also add that Ninkasi is extremely overrated in general
