The Beer Nerd - what are you drinking / brewing thread

Meh. @christyle will say I'm wrong though . I don't think they're anything special though, honestly. I liked them way better before they started in to the hazeboi game and quit making everything they used to that defined them. They're "good" because they're hard to get and you have to go sit in an hour long line in the middle of a work day to get their cans. If I never had a monkish again, I'd be perfectly ok with it.

 

I think I need to get over there.
There is another place I have been wanting to check out,
Brick & Feather
if you are up for a road trip let me know.
I think the head brewer at B&F brewed at Russian River for a while.

 

Damn this MT - Dreamspeaker is freaking great. Hitting the spot again.

 

You can send it to me and I’ll send you something you may like that isn’t haze back then! Unfortunately tho, that’s most of the craft scene lately.

 

They're one of the top in the hazy IPA game, which you aren't a fan of. It's tough to judge any brewery on them really because they're so delicate. Try the same beer on release day, then a week later, totally different. Don't keep it stored properly, same thing. A hazy is all about freshness, and if you don't have them fresh, did you really have them? If I compared the monkish stuff to Offshoot or Bottle Logic, the key difference is consistency. Monkish is always pretty good, Modern Times is close to always good, better than BL or Offshoot. Anyway....whatever.

 

I’ve had Modern Times and have always loved it for being readily available in store in Hawaii. That said, it’s not on the east coast near me.

Some haze ages fine, some definitely does not. The stuff I get here ranges to great when bought to needing to be settled.

 

Back to back comparison

 

I will never have Monkish cans unless someone gives them to me. I'm not dropping everything to drive at least an hour to wait in line for another hour lol. I get plenty of other great beer without lines... just don't ask about last week ha! I also don't really like hazys. I think they all taste the same with a few exceptions. I'm a hazy hate-er, I'll admit it.

Ya, whatever . How was the beer fest this weekend?

 

So you’re saying you don’t want the Triple IPA made with seven kinds of hops from 4 continents and then dry humped, uh I mean dry hopped with 3 variants and bottled at midnight?

 

I mean, if someone gives it to me, sure. But I won't go out and buy it haha

 

Gost in the Machine. Mmmm

 

Only beers worth drinking were the Hazys hahaha. Alvarado Contains no juice and something from Made West. Nothing dark really, or at least good. Couple decent things from Firestone, including a watermelon sour and a manhattan-inspired one. And Zin Skin. Whatever, I was blacked out from like 3-8pm

 

Come on man... ya gotta have standards!

 

New can release last Saturday at RHB, picked up 2 4 packs

 

Got a little shipment from a buddy back in Arkansas.

 

Results are in, there is a faint difference...

My palate isn’t refined enough lol

 

Vol 6 used some new experimental hop called Lotus... https://www.hopsteiner.com/blog/we-are-excited-to-announce-the-official-release-of-lotus/

I haven’t tried it yet, but the manager at the growler shop was telling me about it at lunch the other day.

 

11% beers are good a month later.

 

Yep, the description on each can is the same other than the hops. One uses “lotus” and the other uses “Nelson sauvin”

I like them both, so that’s what counts lol. Still probably my favorite ipa

 

Finally found a coffee stout not barrel aged! Does not disappoint.



Beer is dark so no need for glass