- Sep 28, 2004
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Hunahpu Day @Cigar City Brewing:
Got there at 11a. Waited in line for an hour to get in. Wasn't that bad of a wait in all reality. The line was HUGE and moving at a good clip so I was surprised it only took an hour. NO ONE was buying their guaranteed 3 Hunahpu Imperial Stouts for the first two hours (11-1p). I hopped around and tasted at least a handful of beers from 12p to 1p, then decided to go grab my 3 bottles at 1p. I was about 5th in line when I picked mine up. Took less than 3 minutes. From 1p - 3p I mingled, tasted at least five more beers from other breweries, and shared BCBS for a couple other pours with a large group of people I met (I rolled dolo). Tasted some excellent beers. 3p hits and I went to the mosh pit to try and get my hands on a case of Huna Imp. Stout, as they said they'd start selling the leftovers by case load at 4p. Walked out of that joint and hailed a cab at 4:30p as a happy individual. Cigar City Brewing F'd up my letting people in who purchased counterfeit tickets via Ebay, Stubhub, etc. It was supposed to only be 3.5k people there, but there had to be double that.
This stuff is straight up chronic. Wow. 10/10.
I didnt realize what that event was until I read a little bit more into it.. Wow.. People traveled thousands of miles and missed out because of excessive ticket sales and an overall cluster of crap setup. The beer must be heaven.. Does anything somewhat easy to get come close to the taste? Beer is after all just 4 ingredients. Not directed at you specifically but I wonder what people do after drinking what they waited years for and hours in that day? Can they go back to regular Stone RIS or Ten fidy? I;ve had some great IPAs and feel I can go back to some other stuff without a crazy loss of nirvana.
Session beers to me are hefeweizens, pilsners, or pale ale type beers... If its gonna be a lighter IPA, its essentially a APA or pilsner in theory. If I want a 7.5% IPA, I'll drink one instead of two lighter pilsners.. The session concept has stumped me. I may even go with some oatmeal or milk stouts. My local brewery, Marble, made a India Lite ale awhile back. It was based on traveling to UK and many many lighter session beers in the mid 3 to low 4% range. They made some. I dont think it had too great of a following. They've also tried some red rye light lagers in the 4% range. If you think about it, Hops need malt to balance things out. Malts are sugars and essentially higher ABV beer because of the yeast eating away the sugars. So creating that perfect "session IPA" has to be a challenge. One I dont think breweries need to focus on.
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I drank some Killians Irish red the other day. Very basic malt structure and high carbonation. It's about the same price as the buds of this world, and made by the same macro bunch, but it at least has some flavor. I feel that's a great gateway beer for many afraid of diving into the full craft scene. I'd drink one without hesitation.
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To coincide with a fellow NTer who got some Project Dank from me, I bought the same dated bomber as the one I sent.. What a difference 18 days makes. I think I drank it within a couple days the last time around. Now the hop chracter subsided quite a bit. I dont want to go down the route of buying two bombers, one for fresh, and one to try in 3-5 weeks. But wow.. I can see how ratings of it fluctuate as much as it does.. I think I prefer, not so fresh (18 days after bottled date vs 1-4 days). The 2/26/ after just a week was still high potency stuff. I imagine it may be more to my liking in 2-3 more weeks
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I see yall talking about Left Hand Milk stout nitro.. That stuff is always nearly sold out at every place I go to. They have a nice following. It's their normal milk stout that sells well too.. Thanks for reminding me to revisit these guys. Nitro to me always tasted a bit undercarbonated. I know they are going for a creamy texture but for a touch cheaper price point, their normal milk stout is the way to go imho.
