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I'm taking a Victory lap again drinking Victory Hop Devil, Golden Monkey and Headwaters.

Early sampling of Tabby, my hefeweizen, and it's soooooo good!

tried My Bengal in the Rye with T-58 yeast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krD4hdGvGHM

did it turn out really spicy?

We have gotten Anchor Steam here in Nashville for just about forever, but since Christmas Ale season last year, we've started getting deluged with Anchor beers in our market (which is a good thing). I'm guessing they changed distributors in the area, but not exactly sure. I haven't tried many of them yet besides Breckle's (and, of course, the steam), but I plan to get their saison, IPAs, barleywine, and a few others onto my tasting list soon.

Today I picked up Anchor American Lager. According to the writeup, it seems to be a SMASHish ale, with "two-row California barley, Cluster hops (the premier hop in 19th-century California), and our own lager yeast." It's based on an 1876 recipe from Boca Brewery, which was a brewery active in the 19th century in California, and is considered the first California lager. I love historical beers, so I'm all in on buying a sixer of this. It's a decent lager... very clear, great head retention, distinctive Cluster hop flavor, and that Anchor Steam flavor/character (to a lighter degree). But, much like Champagne Velvet and Gerst, I love these stories and these breweries recreating historic beers, so I'm really glad I tried this...

Lagunitas Sucks... I may need the entire quart for this football game...

I picked up a bottle of Sucks this past Friday....how is it Swen?

Had friends over last night and we collectively had:
Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
Lagunitas IPA
Tasted my Nelson Sauvin Pale Ale (not fully carbed yet)
Tasted Experiement 626 (not fully carbed yet)
Enjoy By
Port Brewing Whitewater IPA
2 different sours

Slow morning......we were up until 12:30am and after a LONG work week that included travel and multiple midnight nights....I'm beat.

Had a Yuengling Oktoberfest, It's a good beer. Then had a Andygator Helles doppelbock, a lot of beer there.
No pics. I drank up the evidence
Now continuing on with my sMashed Pumking Ale

Very old Oktoberfest not great but drinkable Can't even find record of when I brewed this!!

Had some homebrew whilst brewing today but I'm ending my day with my new fav, Lagunitas Little Sumpin Sumpin.

ScrewyBrewer wrote:I'm taking a Victory lap again drinking Victory Hop Devil, Golden Monkey and Headwaters.

I like's me Victory DirtWolf.

To answer the earlier question, Sucks is a quite pleasant DIPA. And... the cost/benefit on this (and most Lag beers) is quite good. $6 for a quart...

Tonight, while setting up a bottling session, I assessed the beer fridge and found something hidden in the back that probably shouldn't have been kept this long. The Beacon: A Tennessee High Tax Ale, a collaboration of Yazoo and Calfkiller, two of my favorite TN breweries. I had had a case of this, and this one got buried behind all of the other goodies. I guess I need to rotate the stock a bit more often. This beer was created when the TN breweries (led by Linus at Yazoo) were fighting to fix the beer taxes in TN (a successful, but ongoing, battle). This has held up surprisingly well, considering this smoked wheat ale is two years old.

Lexington Brewing's Kentucky Peach Barrel wheat ale... This beer is delicious! Very present but not overly sweet peach flavor, lightly hopped, well balanced. Easy drinkin!

The last Dogfish Head 90 Minute......oh yeah baby! Wake up them taste buds with a hop bite to boot!