Beer!
I am really excited that BevMo! started carrying Gouden Carolus tripel, aka the beer that changed everything for me. I ordered 16 bottles of it... along with two six-packs of Hoegaarden, four bottles of Piraat, two bottles of Duchesse Flemish red ale, a bottle of 2005 Stone Vertical Epic, two bottles of Rochefort #8, two bottles of Rochefot #10, two bottles of Westmalle tripel, and four bottles of Anderson Valley Brother David's tripel. I think I'll be prepared for winter quarter. 45 bottles should get me by, right?
posted by sausagequeen @ 11:09 PM
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Most anything from Belgium, or Belgian style. Anything from brewery Unibroue. Chimay is ubiquitous and pretty good. Anything from Stone is good if you like a good kind of bitterness.
Stay away from anything in a green or clear bottle. Look for bottle conditioned ales. Some hefeweizens are very good. Franziskaner is good and cheap. Don't put lemon in it, whatever you do.
I think your liver would like to have a word with you.
My liver? LEAVE HIM OUT OF THIS!!
Actually, the beer is intended to last me through the year. I don't drink every night nd If I do, it's usually one - unless it's a special occasion.
Neither of the local BevMo's had the Anderson Valley Brother David's tripel (or dubbel). While I was at BevMo Pasadena, I cleared out the rest of their Gouden Carolus stock - making a combined total of 21 bottles.
I'm making another pickup today from BevMo Chino hills. That will make a grand total of: an obscene amount of beer. Sharing is caring!
The good thing about bottle conditioned beers, which all of these are, is the prolonged shelflife. The beers undergo a secondary fermentation in the bottle (just like champagne), so the beer is still "alive" when you open it, as opposed to a settled-and-filtered non secondary fermentation beer, which start to stale as soon as they are bottled. Not only are bottle conditioned beers fresher longer, they may actually improve with age. Stone brewed their Vertical Epic beers with the intention of aging them for 10 years. Unibroue's Trois Pistoles has a shelf life of 8 years and Maudite 5 years.
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