DDH Triple IPA from Querétaro. Best can if beer I’ve had since some Ft George offerings. Amazeballs.
Mexico has such great beer culture.
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Shouldn’t that be a Rauchbier? 
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Off to CDMX en la mañana. Dumped more Floodland for stout, opened an Anchorage Brewing Co “For Cory.” I think it’s better than Deal With the Devil…
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What are these like stylistically?
Thanks from a fellow who will probably never have one…but is curious!
I went to Anchorage brewing in circa 1999…think they had 5 or so beers
I hope you enjoyed, hard to tell from the note?
Barleywine and Double “dark ale.”
Thick, viscous mouthfeel with caramel and sticky vanilla notes, with that same raisiny undertone that you get in late harvest zin, although more subtle. Super syrupy and I didn’t pick up the heat that you find on some of these OTT barleywines. Went well with a NY steak.
Interesting, thought it was a stout. Appreciate you drinking them and sharing impressions! Fun
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I looked it up on Beer Advocate after your post and now see that this makes a lot more sense:
Blend of Barrel Aged ales in honor of Cory King of Side Project.
Blend consists of:
Triple Oaked Deal with the Devil (Bourbon, bourbon, bourbon)
Triple Oaked Deal with the Devil (Bourbon, Bourbon, Cognac)
Triple Oaked Wendigo (Bourbon, Bourbon, Bourbon)
Double Oaked Double Dark Ale (Rye, Bourbon)
If DWD is going for $200-$300, this has to be north of that., which is crazy. Guy I traded with doesn’t like the profile any more, similar to me not liking Floodland. Everybody was happy with the trade.
Figured @Scott_Tallman would appreciate this, more for the brewer than the style. Feral bones - Structures Brewing.
Will be honest - it’s delicious, but at some point I have a hard time differentiating between the high-octane Imperials.
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I don’t drink much beer these days (was into beer before wine took over), but Altbier is possible the best beer in the world and this is one of the best.
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I opened two (2) 2023 Goose Island BCS Bananas Foster today. Both tasted like licorice. No more bananas. All fruit and sweet was gone.
Popped a Floodland Endless Spheres and actually enjoyed it. Maybe there’s some hope for me, after all.
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A couple from our recent trip to Greece:
Tomato gose at Ftelos Brewery, on Santorini:
Santorini Brewing Co. - “Crazy Donkey” IPA
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Got out last night to an Irish place that claimed they were first Miami supporters of Cigar City Brewing. Had Jai Alai and Florida Man on draught. Both just terrific.
Not sure what else ranks on the beer scene down here.
Post Hike beer at home. Casey brewing & blending
take on a hazy IPA with Citria hops. Right where it should
be and not an over the top beer.
I’d expect no less from them, their fruit sours are tremendous.
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I would suggest utilizing the app Untappd…
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Last week I bought-out a local store of their 2016 Cascade Blackcap Raspberry. Ho-lee hell! This thing is intense! Strong raspberry flavor, intoxicating Nose, beautiful dark color — the only way I know this “tastes aged” is from having experience tasting aged sours. It tastes a little bit aged, and it’s really only noticeable in the sense that the beer seems more polished and burnished now than it does in its fluffier/more sugary youth ---- in no way whatsoever does this beer taste like “old beer.” It’s remarkable, really. No fruit is falling out of this one. 7.7% alc. is not noticeable — hell, I bet you could hide damn near 20% abv. behind this wall of fruit and pucker. Super happy to have three or four more bottles remaining!
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MY first post in this thread, but I’m really enjoying reading what folks are finding/trying. My beer history has followed my career and living path starting in college, Costcutter and Olympia and Mickey’s Big mouth, then settling in Delaware in the 1990’s when Dogfish Head was starting up, a move to midwest, then a subsequent move to Yakima, WA with access to the breweries of PacNW, and California with lots of work travel there. Current favorites are pFriem, Georgetown, Iron Horse, with Yak faves Bale Breaker and Wandering Hop.
To get really specific current neighborhood brewery is Cowiche Creek which opened ~8 years ago in the tiny town of Cowiche about 2 miles from our house, 1 mile as the crow flies. The trend, here at least, since big success of Bale Breaker is to make IPA, IPA, and more IPA’s. I get hopped out, but Cowiche Creek finally made a stout, appropriately called “I Caved” since all the other Cowichites also wanted something besides ultra hoppy IPA.
Last Saturday I finally tried the newest addition to our neighborhood, Shorthead Brewing, in the next town over, Tieton, also small town, but with a bit more people and town than Cowiche. New since July of this year at this location, they had started up somewhere in downtown Yakima, then fled to the county due a) easier permitting, and b) an association with the best restaurant in Yakima County, Nomad, which happens to be in Tieton.
Anyway, Shorthead Brewing. Awesome Japanese style rice beer, crisp and refreshing that my wife tried. I tried a doubled hopped hazy IPA (Yes, just the kind I’m tired of), then a Porter, shown below. Also tasted a Red Ale and a Vienna lager. All were solid beers with no flaws and lots of interesting stuff. Not quite to level of pFriem, but they are new and figuring it out. Currently a nano-brewer for sure. I think they have a 3 bbl brewery with 5-6 2.5 bbl tanks. It will be interesting to see where they go, and I will visit more often to keep trying them out. Almost 3.5 miles from my house.
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With notes like that, feel free to keep posting on this thread!
I’m one of those IPA fans that is trying to put all of your neighbors to work, including those at Bale Breaker 
Also believe that the Cowiche Canyon release is one of the few redeeming beers that Fremont makes these days…