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Lot o points [155806]
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In the past 12 months, my local beer store has gone from
Mar 31, 2017, 2:46 PM
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the shidhouse to the penthouse.
When I first moved to middle TN, I was left feeling fortunate to find Stone IPA in the local beer fridges. Maybe if I struck it rich I could find some founders.
Dunno what's changed with the local distribution patterns, but in last year we've gotten Dogfish, Bells, Jai Alai, bunch of good ones from AL (straight to Ale, Good People, etc), ballast point, and now I JUST SAW THAT WE HAVE SIX PENCE.
Picked up a 6 of Resin and I'm in the process of letting this apparent nectar of the gods hit my lips in the next 5 minutes or so. Will report back.
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Finally started stocking Maddog 2020?***
Mar 31, 2017, 2:49 PM
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Re: Finally started stocking Maddog 2020?***
Mar 31, 2017, 2:50 PM
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Woah, woah, woah, stop the clock
Mar 31, 2017, 2:50 PM
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Do they have Bell's Two Hearted Ale?
Asking for a #####.
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Lot o points [155806]
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why yes, they actually do. I also noticed Oberon has come
Mar 31, 2017, 2:52 PM
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in. $34 a case. A perfectly wonderful summer beer.
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Re: why yes, they actually do. I also noticed Oberon has come
Mar 31, 2017, 2:58 PM
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that shyt isn't worth $34 unless its a true case
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Lot o points [155806]
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6x4=24 beers, or $9 a 6 pack***
Mar 31, 2017, 3:00 PM
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sorry, $8.50***
Mar 31, 2017, 3:00 PM
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True case
Mar 31, 2017, 3:01 PM
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would be worth it. I don't like oberon tho
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Lot o points [155806]
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I wouldn't pack clothes for a day and drive an hour and a
Mar 31, 2017, 3:02 PM
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half for it, but for a good summer session brew, it's #####.
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so good
Mar 31, 2017, 2:50 PM
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and strong, can't wait for the onslaught of chitpoasting to hit
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Ok, I'm 1/4 of a pint in.......it's reeeeealy well balanced.
Mar 31, 2017, 2:59 PM
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Reminds me of a DF90 with the smoothness turned up a notch.
Will buy again....for this good of a high gravity beer, they're charging for 6 ($12) what most other competitors charge for 4.
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Update........
Mar 31, 2017, 3:43 PM
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Horry sheet, you were right. I don't ever catch a buzz after one beer, but this one sure did.
Just confirmed that wife is taking daughter to lax practice tonight, and cracking another. Then, firing up the smoker, and having some salmon and twice baked potatoes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4UqMyldS7Q
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I'm glad you enjoyed the SIXPOINT Resin obed. Quality*******
Mar 31, 2017, 5:24 PM
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So you're black and live in middle TN?
Mar 31, 2017, 2:52 PM
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WTFack is happening to this country?
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Escaping Greeleyville wasn't easy, but we made it.***
Mar 31, 2017, 2:55 PM
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Re: Escaping Greeleyville wasn't easy, but we made it.***
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Good People Snake Handler and Straight To Ale Monkeynaut
Mar 31, 2017, 2:55 PM
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are both high quality brews. I've seen Monkeynaut in SC one time, at the Wall of Beer in Pendleton, and that was just a week after getting my hands on 2 sixers.
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Lot o points [155806]
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Correct! They're my go to canned beers for boat consumption
Mar 31, 2017, 2:57 PM
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Snake Handler is fantastic, but if you ever encounter the Good People IPA, it's good stuff too.
True fact....the founder of Straight to Ale came up with the name of his brewery at a DnC concert.
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When Joonyer was traveling a bunch with his job, he would
Mar 31, 2017, 3:03 PM
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bring me stuff from all over the Southeast. Many times he'd find a bottle shop and call and tell me what they had, and I would place my order. That's how I discovered those two. Another that he brought me that I absolutely LOVE is Cedar Creek Brewery Dankosaurus out of Texas. Not sure if those get distributed up your way, but keep your eyes open for that one. I think it's better than Snake Handler and Monkeynaut. Joonyer actually brought that one back from a trade show trip to the Beau Rivage in Biloxi.
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Lot o points [155806]
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You had La Cumbre Elevation (NM) yet?
Mar 31, 2017, 3:05 PM
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It's fantastic. I bought some last week in NM, then saw they had expanded distro to CO, so I got some more.
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I have not.
Mar 31, 2017, 3:18 PM
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My buddy here that gets his hands on all kind of exotics by trading through the mail has been down with the new marriage/new house thing the last couple of months. Usually, I get a recommend like this and I put that on him, and he usually is able to get a few. Hopefully he gets back full steam on both his home brewing and his trading once he gets settled in. He's got a pretty good little network and has gotten some white whales. He's my Zombie Dust man, and I'm down to my last one! I will put that on him and see what happens though.
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Lot o points [155806]
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I hate to run this one in the ground....
Mar 31, 2017, 3:22 PM
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but you were dead on with the Zombie Dust---it was special. That was a fantastic moment, having pizza with my son at Geno's East and drinking a few zombie dusts. Found out at the end, that they only got 2 cases a year, and they had just come in. So I drank 1/16th of Geno's Zombie dust annual allocation. I think that was my lottery moment.
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I don;t know anything about this beer
Mar 31, 2017, 3:24 PM
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But I'm beginning to think actually finding whatever beer it is that is so hard to get is actually better than drinking the beer itself.
Is this a thing?
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Lot o points [155806]
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Sometimes, sometimes not.
Mar 31, 2017, 3:27 PM
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Hopslam is a great beer, but IMHO, half the fun is tracking it down. Is it orders of magnitude better than some year round availability stuff? Nah.
But this Zombie Dust, man...it was the exception to the rule.....finding it AND drinking it were equally worthwhile.
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Actually, I think that is true.
Mar 31, 2017, 3:28 PM
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I have had a couple over the years that I was so excited to get hands on and thought I loved, only to be disappointed the next time I get one. But Zombie Dust has come my way 6 or 7 times, and I absolutely LOVE it every single time. I really think it is my all time favorite craft beer.
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People I barely know have talked to me about
Mar 31, 2017, 3:36 PM
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"Mexican Cake", and how great it is.
Then I had some.
I mean it wasn't terrible, but there's mo way in Hades I was spending whatever WoB wanted for it.
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I'm not a huge stout fan, so I'm with you on that one.
Mar 31, 2017, 3:38 PM
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It's good, but not really my preferred style.
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Ditto....had some and was like..sweet, coffee booze.
Mar 31, 2017, 3:42 PM
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Pretty much what I do with all stouts.
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Foothills Sexual Choclate seems to be the one exception for
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me. I still don't chase it like I would IPAs/Ales, but I also won't pass up a chance to grab one when I see it.
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Lot o points [155806]
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That place angers me.
Mar 31, 2017, 3:05 PM
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a) They're overpriced.
b) There's zero, ZERO reason they shouldn't have kept the Plez-U name.
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Oculus Spirit [81049]
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True, both counts.
Mar 31, 2017, 3:11 PM
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But..they were on the (back) way to the marina, and they sold beer on Sunday because Pendleton.
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I usually hit it on the way out of town, and only grab stuff
Mar 31, 2017, 3:12 PM
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when it's something I've never seen or tried, or something I can't get my hands on around Charlotte. But I can't say that I've found them to be overpriced for South Carolina in general, maybe a few pennies more but I think that would be the case with any independent as opposed to a big box like Total Wine. At least, they seem to be in line with O'Darby's and Main Street Bottle Shop here in Rock Hill.
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Lot o points [155806]
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I just remember, before the great ballast point sell-out,
Mar 31, 2017, 3:16 PM
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paying $18 for a six of grapefruit sculpin there because you guys kept saying it was sex in a bottle and then discovering it was $14-15 a six pack in the rest of the civilized world.
So in a nutshell, my sweeping generalization was based on a single piece of anecdotal evidence.
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Oculus Spirit [81049]
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You bought $18 of carbonated jizm in a can?
Mar 31, 2017, 3:21 PM
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Wow...I'm sorry.
I bought two can's of that stuff from WoB. Drank about two sips of one and straight tossed the other in the trash.
I had to drink a couple Natty's to get the bad taste out of my mouth.
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I don't like it either. Now the pineapple OTOH........***
Mar 31, 2017, 3:24 PM
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I would NEVER throw out a beer that I didn't like
Mar 31, 2017, 3:26 PM
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when I can hold onto it and offer it to a guest. That's what I did with Dogfish Head Burton Baton the other week at our Supper Club. One of my buddies is a DF fan and liked it, but that's one that I just could not stomach. Picked up a couple of singles in a make your own sixer, and the last one had been in my fridge for months.
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I'd feel bad giving that stuff to someone.
Mar 31, 2017, 3:28 PM
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All my friends are rednecks; I can see giving them that and them being like "WT F did you just give me?!"
And then possibly whipping my ### over it.
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Yeah, that's pretty much the MO on my life-long childhood RH
Mar 31, 2017, 3:42 PM
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pals. I've got a couple of buddies that are dang near alcoholics that won't touch a craft beer. I usually keep a stock of pedestrian beers like PBR, Rolling Rock, and Miller High Life around for visitors or all day drinking events, and they'll wipe me out of those and then stop and go to the store for more of those before drinking one IPA.
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You hosting Butch O and his brother?***
Mar 31, 2017, 3:44 PM
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LOL!
Mar 31, 2017, 3:48 PM
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Man, now you're talking Chester County redneck. That is a WHOLE different breed right there. I always enjoy hanging with Butch, and I still maintain there is not a more soulful bass player in the state of South Carolina than David.
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Awesome...I wish I had played more when I was there.
Mar 31, 2017, 3:51 PM
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I think we coulda had some fun jam sessions.
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No doubt!
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We've started doing a regular acoustic thing here lately that has been huge fun. My regular guitarist playing his ridiculously expensive Gibson acoustic, our old drummer is singing (no drums), and me on bass. We're doing some cool and interesting things that have been challenging, as opposed to a lot of the the three chord blues-based stuff that the full band does. Started working out a version of Pretzel Logic Wednesday night. Also, started doing REMs Don't Go Back To Rockville, which surprised me that it's actually a little challenging since we had never tried to play it before.
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Lot o points [155806]
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awesome....Rockville is fun, but it's really hard to
Mar 31, 2017, 4:05 PM
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get the fill without a keyboard. I tried it with my scraggly band too and invariably someone would also always miss the start/stop points in the song, me included.
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YES it is!
Mar 31, 2017, 4:25 PM
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Pretzel Logic is the same way as far as converting the keyboard into acoustic guitar. We're doing it a little more bluesy to compensate.
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One thing that helped was using my 12 string for
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the rhythm on Rockville....added a little fuller, more "jangly" sound that seemed to work.
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I think I did it because here.
Mar 31, 2017, 3:31 PM
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I also bought some Gose that day.
Holy shyatt what a strike out on beer gettin' day.
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Yes, the Jounge has sparked my interest to try some new
Mar 31, 2017, 3:37 PM
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beers. Will report back on whether or not twas a good idea.
Almost pulled the trigger on a 6er of the Resin, but decided to build my own 6 pack instead to try different flavors.
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Grapefruit and Pineapple both are just OK to me.
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Regular Sculpin is fabulous though. Haven't tried the Habanero yet, but I really like the Jekyll Pineapple Habanero Hop Dang Diggity. willki® and I hit the brewery and discovered that one, been a fan ever since.
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What are your thoughts on Bearded Iris Homestyle and
Mar 31, 2017, 3:01 PM
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can you be my mule for getting this delicious beer out of Tennessee?
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Haven't had any but I'll try anything once.
Mar 31, 2017, 3:03 PM
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Probably coming thru G'vill in May or June so just remind me when we get closer.
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It's great, I've had a couple of theirs and I approve.
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I do not approve of Tennessee's laws about not being able to distribute out of the state however. I'll definitely hit try to remind you if I think about it closer to then.
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It's only weird the first time.***
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cook all your life, nobody calls you a chef...***
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Where in Middle TN?*****
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Nashvegas area.***
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No doo doo?
Mar 31, 2017, 3:29 PM
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How long have you been able to get Ballast Point and Sixpoint? I live in the Memphis area, and I have seen nothing from either brewery. I do need to pick up my beers from my beer club membership soon. I'll definitely look then. Hopefully I can load up on some Big Eye and Resin. Kangarts in the newfound selection.
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Ballast Point in the last 4 months, Six Pence in the
Mar 31, 2017, 3:32 PM
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last couple weeks. Jai Alai was a bigger surprise to me than the Ballast Point---you getting that over there?
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Cigar City selling out to Oskar Blues was a distribution
Mar 31, 2017, 3:36 PM
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move. Not shocked it's showing up outside of Tampa now. I still think their best beers are the taproom only stuff. I'll be back down in Tampa in a week and a half, by the way.
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Not that I have seen. I will look again this weekend.
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If I've been missing out on it for a while because I haven't looked hard enough, I'll probably just get drunk... like any other weekend day.
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