Lagunitas

Yoooooooo peoples,

Lagunitas is HERE!  And it went like gangbusters.  Six different six-packs and three 22oz bombers.  The big winner = Lagunitas Sucks, which some of you know was the beer I was pushing for like it was nobody's business.  Sucks is the DIPA that Lagunitas brewed in lieu of Brown Shugga as B.S. is not cheap to make.  But the funny thing is, Sucks turned out to be amazing.  We'll be getting more six-packs tomorrow along with the Pale Ale which we did not receive and re-stocks of everything else.  The Bevie crew loved Sumpin' - a lighter hoppy IPA - and their regular IPA which was super drinkable at 6+%.

Speaking of Bevie crew, another epic tasting, this time involving more people, which = more beer.  Some of the highlights - Peche Mortel from DDC, the aforementioned Lagunitas, Lawson's Chinooker'd, Old Rasputin.  Some of the infamous highlights - Dogfish 120 Minute (care of an out-of-state friend) and JW Lees Harvest from 2002.  Yes, 2002 - we drank it to see how long it actually aged properly.  The answer - not 10 years!!  Aged into a very dank and sickly sweet plum flavor.  As for 120 Min, well, just not sure about the hype - that is not easy to drink.

Alright, it's beddy time for me.  Come say hello this week and try some new brews!

Thanks,
Evan G.

DFH @ FT&G = YUM IMHO

Greetings beer lovers!

The REAL Pliny...

...who is wise but not as delicious.

Sorry (again) for the long wait in between posts.  The wife - who did not like being referred to as Lady Lager!  needs a new nickname...  - and I just returned from San Fran and wine country where we sampled some of the finest wines in Sonoma and Napa, ate our faces off at Bouchon, and - yes - visited Russian River for a taste or three of the famed Pliny the Elder.  Well, listen up all ye who asketh after the Pliny and bemoan thine lack of access to the Pliny...Pliny is amazing; Pliny is wonderful; but Heady Topper is equally as amazing and delicious.  So while I was delighted to finally try the freshest Pliny possible, I was once again reminded how lucky I am to work in beer in Vermont!

Speaking of VT being awesome, I want to give some major love to Jeff and the folks at the Farmhouse who have an EPIC tap takeover coming up tomorrow starting at 5 pm - DOGFISH HEAD, 18 TAPS.  WHAAAA?!?!?!?!  We're talking 60, 90, Burton Baton, Hellhound, the new Ta Henket, BITCHES BREW (yup), and many more, not to mention some delicious sounding dinner selections like Winding Brook Farm Pork Loin with juniper Braised Jericho Settlers' Farm cabbage, 60 Minute Fish & Chips with preserved lemon, and a beer float!  YUM!!!!  I'm heading there as soon as we close the store tomorrow so feel free to belly up at the bar with your boy.  Kudos, El Jefe - this looks delightful.

Speaking of DFH, we rode the FT&G wave and snagged ourselves a couple of specialty 5 gallon kegs, Burton Baton and Shelter Pale Ale for delivery soon, the former being amazing, the latter being something I don't recall seeing in the general market for some time.  BB is $175 and Shelter is $99 - email thebevy802@gmail.com to reserve!


Speaking of...speaking of beer, I had an epic session with some friends and some of the boys of the Bevie - Oliver, Dave, and our sadly departing Nick, a long-time fixture who is leaving our northern mountains for the sun and slack of California.  I've greatly enjoyed my brief time hanging with Nick and we're all sad to see him go:(  But he's going on a high note, 'cause check this sh*t out!

Don't try this at home.  We're professionals.

What?  Yeah, that's a Pliny and a Goose Island Matilda.  Heady Topper AND Chinooker'd?!  Yup.  You scared that we broke out the Rochefort 10?!  You should be.  But for realsies, it was a large group of people all sampling beers in moderation, as we of course always recommend when it comes to alcohol.  Wait, what's that hidden in the back?  The new Clown Shoes Vampire Slayer?!  YES!  It was delicious, as was the Sierra Bigfoot 2010, BBC Good Night Irene, Epic Armageddon IPA, Jolly Pumpkin Luciernga, White Birch Hop Session, Lawson's Red and Double Sunshine.  Yeah.  It was awesome.

So now that me and the mrs. are back, I'm hoping to do some more streamlined sampling for 2012.  We'll see how that goes:)  For now, I'm super psyched about the great beers we've gotten in recently which we've posted on Facebook and Twitter.  And we're looking forward to Dogfish's T'weason, their gluten-free beer, and Lagunitas in the not-too-distant future.  I've been told that Lagunitas Holiday Leftovers, formerly Lagunitas Sucks, is coming, and if you haven't tried Lagunitas Sucks then you should be darn excited.

More to come!  And as always, if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions for the blog, please either post a comment or email me at thebevy802@gmail.com.

Thanks y'all!
Evan G.

tidbits

Hi everybody!

Happy 2012!!!  Hope you all had a happy and safe new year's eve.

I'm enjoying a Founders Imperial Stout and finally getting a moment in front of the computer.  I've been slow to blog these past few days because, as many of you have witnessed, we've been a little busy at the Beverage Warehouse!  The holiday shopping crush was really intense and really fun.  Lots of people coming in from far and wide to clean out our shelves for their holiday gifts and parties.  New Year's day came, then it was right back to work.  (No rest for the weary!)  We reorganized the ENTIRE beer room over the course of a few days - no small feat when you have literally hundreds of beers to move!  The goal was to make the room more navigable and accessible - American bombers all together, cider/cider bombers/gluten-free having it's own prominent section, craft 4,6,12 packs all together, etc.  As always, ask me or any employee if you have trouble finding anything.  And please leave comments with your thoughts and suggestions.

As for the rest, just some notes about recent arrivals -

Founders Imperial Stout is here!  This is absolutely hands-down one of the great imperial stouts out there. Unlike imperial Russian stouts, this is big, boozy, and BITTER.  90 IBUs, 10%+ abv.  This can be aged but is 100% delicious right now.  That said, you may be wondering when Breakfast Stout/KBS arrives?  The answer is, you'll know when I know and KBS is always released by Founders mid-March! :)  That said, Lady Lager (aka my wife) did bring me back a Breakfast Stout from a recent business trip in Philly, so ha ha ha;)

It's been a flood of Sixpoint lately.  We now have Crisp and Diesel, their pilsner and stout, and we're giddy for the forthcoming Resin, their 12 oz canned double IPA that sounds like a hop monster.  Stay tuned for details.

Old Rasputin XIV has arrived in extremely limited quantity.  I've got my bottle stashed in the man cave gettin' all aged and pretty.

Green Flash's Rayon Vert (Belgian pale ale) and Double Stout also arrived.  (Ignore that Double Stout says black ale on the four-pack.  It's a friggin' stout and it's delicious.)

The Alchemist/Stone collaboration More Brown than Black touched down on Friday and the masses came a'buyin!  I had many a pint thanks to El Jefe (aka Jeff) and the crew at the Farmhouse and it was love at first sight.  It was...well...a dark Heady Topper, and who wouldn't love that??  Still a few cases left for latecomers.

Many of our MIA German breweries have made their triumphant debuts or returns.  Franziskaner, Julius Echter, Paulaner, Hacker-Pschorr, Lammsbrau, and Bitburger to name a few.

Dogfish Head's Ta Henke is arriving soon.  Another in the ancient ales series, this one with a yeast strain that they captured in Egypt.  Weird?  Yeah.  It's Dogfish.  That's what they do.  We're psyched.

Ass Kisser's new Vanilla Pale Ale is now available in four-packs.

I had the pleasure of sampling Slumbrew's IPA, straight outta Summerville, MA.  The IPA was a bitter bomb and will definitely appeal to the VT hop junkie.  IPA and their porter will be available in 22oz bombers.  Coming mid-to-late January.

Clown Shoes Vampire Slayer and the limited White Birch beers should be coming this week.

And last but not least, expect Sierra Nevada's Ruthless Rye very soon and Hoptimum soon thereafter.  Cans of Pale Ale and Torpedo will touch down (hopefully) in March.  You know how much I love Celebration so I'm definitely looking forward to Ruthless Rye.

I'm slowly slipping into a food coma thanks to Farmhouse Tap and Grill's fantastic Sunday night $5 mussel and sausage plate and Hill Farmstead's new Society & Solitude double IPA.  Before I go, big shout out for this week's Trapp Lodge event on Wednesday night which will have many Trapp beers on draft including Funky Dunky which I'm dying to try.  And seriously, the Sunday night deals are the best.  For $10 you can get a hefty plate of mussels and sausage and an amazing draft beer like Trapp Helles Lager.

Sayonara!

Evan G.