i don't see how that's possible unless it's a brand new label

9/23/2013 11:42:43 AM

Either it's a new label or NC ABC has apparently "found a problem" that it didn't "find" before.

repost:

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"So I'm hearing that NC ABC won't approve Dogfish Head Punkin Ale's label and that Dogfish Head is pulling the beer from NC now to distribute elsewhere... Anyone seen Punkin in NC? "

[Edited on September 23, 2013 at 11:45 AM. Reason : .]

9/23/2013 11:44:45 AM

i don't care enough to do any research.

9/23/2013 11:52:49 AM

ABC site lists it as approved... but I don't know what/when that applies to. Still haven't seen any and my local store says the distributor has been delaying deliveries but won't say why.

9/23/2013 11:56:17 AM

^just arrived at my local shop

9/25/2013 2:55:59 PM

Looks like it just showed up @ Bottle Revolution

http://www.bottlerevolution.com/whats-new/

9/25/2013 2:59:11 PM

I was just informed that Sam's in Durham has it.

9/25/2013 9:22:18 PM

Jeepin4x4 cured me of this thread last weekend.

9/25/2013 9:46:27 PM

cured you or reignited your fire?

9/26/2013 8:04:04 AM

crisis averted. picked up my supply last night. whew.

9/26/2013 12:33:04 PM

What the hell is wrong with the label? It's...rather plain.

Anyway, I had some recently, and will be buying more. One of my favorites of fall. But I'm in VA so that may be of limited relevance. (I actually got mine at Kroger, for that matter.)

Also, this is kind of interesting:
http://t.now.msn.com/hair-of-the-dog-dave-rare-craft-beer-on-sale-for-2-grand

9/27/2013 1:34:29 AM

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"cured you"

This

9/27/2013 7:00:46 AM

Had one of my top beers of all times last night. An even more impressive feat because most of my favorite beers are stouts and porters...but this was a double IPA. Westbrook has collaborated with the owners for the past two years and made two batches of their Citrus Ninja Exchange, which is great by itself. I've snagged a growler plus some bottles the last couple years and it's one of my favorite double IPAs.




But last week they took the Citrus Ninja and added fresh ginger, chili peppers, and habanero a to make just one keg of the Spicy Ninja. I was worried about the spice (have had plenty of beers that overdid it) so I only got a small growler, but it was phenomenal. I like citrus hops, which this has the right amount of...but it's the spicy kick finish you get from the peppers at the end that make this beer great. I've never had a double IPA go down so fast. If not for the abv, I could have put down five of these last night. I'm going to shoot Westbrook an email and beg them to make more and bottle this.

9/27/2013 7:11:38 AM

how readily available is Gose in cans down there?

9/27/2013 8:31:06 AM

They've always got plenty at the beer exchange and bottles and brushes. I know CBX will ship it to you.

9/27/2013 8:50:38 AM

Anyone tried this yet? Thoughts?

9/27/2013 1:54:00 PM

The Epic Big Bad Baptist I had the other night had the biggest coffee notes of any beer I've ever had (in a good way). Holy cow, that is delicious if you're a coffee drinker.

9/27/2013 5:05:49 PM

Quote :

"how readily available is Gose in cans down there?"

I had it at The Whig in Columbia a few weekends ago. It was interesting to say the least...the saltiness is very strange.

9/27/2013 9:07:30 PM

I love the fall

9/27/2013 9:39:21 PM

BBA Sexual Chocolate is in my glass right now. Perf.

9/27/2013 10:59:41 PM

Quote :

"Anyone tried this yet? Thoughts?"

Anywhere in the triangle have it? Bottle Revolution had it briefly but they're out

9/28/2013 11:40:52 PM

Total Wine in North Hills had cases of Warlock when I was in there on Saturday. Picked one up for myself..it'll either be consumed in the next month or will be held for at least a year, based on current consumption rate.

9/29/2013 9:47:49 PM

FBS, yes.

9/30/2013 5:17:56 PM

these brew dog guys are pretty funny

http://tv.esquire.com/now/show/Brew%20Dogs/49929795664/1/San%20Diego

a bit blasphemous to leave obriens off the top-5 san diego beer bar list but otherwise entertaining, they also have san francisco episode

10/8/2013 8:59:25 AM

Warlock sucked.

Victory Dirt Wolf is the best beer I have had this year.

10/12/2013 5:36:19 PM

Warlock was horrible. Way too sweet

I picked up a couple bottles of Enjoy By 11.12.13. Drank one tonight and was not as impressed as I was with the variation I drank back in April. It was hoppy, but not nearly as fresh as I anticipated it would taste

[Edited on October 12, 2013 at 8:19 PM. Reason : as f2f]

10/12/2013 8:17:41 PM

I bought a New Belgium "Folly Pack" the other day and was surprised with thier "Rampant Imperial IPA"... one of the better imperial IPA's i've had lately.

10/12/2013 9:37:07 PM

mmm...Pumpking on tap

10/16/2013 10:13:44 PM

Pre-GABF:

New Belgium Tour:
- Cigar City Collab. (new beer released that day)
- Yuzu Imperial Berliner Weisse
- La Folie
- Ranger (1 hour old, right off bottling line)
- Sunshine
- Accumulation (new winter seasonal released that day)
- Pluot

Bottles:
- Perennial Peach Berliner Weisse
- Girardin Gueuze 1882 Black Label
- Russian River Supplication
- Avery Uncle Jacobs Stout 2013
- Avery Rumpkin 2013

GABF 2013:

AC Golden American Wild Ale
AleSmith Vietnamese Speedway Stout
Almanac Barrel Noir
Almanac Farmer’s Reserve No 3
Almanac Farmer’s Reserve No 4
Beachwood BBQ Amalgamator IPA
Beachwood BBQ System of a Stout
The Bruery Chocolate Rain (8:07p)
The Bruery Oude Tart with Cherries
The Bruery Sour in the Rye with Peaches
TAPS Remy
Bell's Black Note
DESTIHL Reserve Belgian-Style Lambic
DESTIHL Reserve Flanders
DESTIHL Reserve Sour Paw Paw Ale
DESTIHL Reserve Sour Raspberry/Strawberry Ale
Sun King Jungle Room
Sun King Stupid Sexy Flanders
Surly OverRated!
Three Floyds Permanent Funeral
Sierra Nevada Barrel-Aged Narwhal
Sierra Nevada DevESTATEtion Ale
The Lost Abbey Duck Duck Gooze
The Lost Abbey Framboise de Amarosa
Great Lakes Oktoberfest
Revolution A Little Crazy
Fat Heads IBUsive
Fat Heads BattleAxe Bourbon Aged
Hangar 24 Barrel Roll No. 3 Pugachev's Cobra
Heretic Evil Cousin
Heretic Torment
Kern River Class X
Kern River Dirty Hippie
Kern River Just Outstanding IPA
Modern Times Fortunate Islands
Russian River Framboise for a Cure
Russian River Propitiation
Short's Bourbon Aphasia
Short's Bourbon Woodmaster
Kuhnhenn DRIPA
Goose Island Bourbon County Coffee Stout
Selkirk Abbey Saint Augustine
Hopworks Organic Belgian-Style Pear Ale
Logsdon Seizon Bretta
Pelican Pub Mother of all Storms
pFreim Mosaic Single Hop Pale
Stone w00tstout
Stone Reason Be Damned Belgian Style Abbey Ale aged in Red Wine Barrels
Stone Ruination IPA Grapefruit Slam
Cambridge Cerise Cassee
Cambridge Shadows and Light
Jack's Abbey Hoponius Union IPL
Jack's Abbey Mass Rising
Samuel Adams Utopias 2011
Knee Deep Simtra Triple IPA
Ladyface Blind Ambition
Ladyface La Grisette
Freetail Ananke
Freetail Spirulina Wit
Marshall Wharf Cant Dog IIPA
Marshall Wharf Chaos Chaos
Marshall Wharf Ace Hole
Captain Lawrence Rosso e Marrone
Church Brew Works Cherry Quad
Peekskill Amazeballs
Peekskill Awesome Sauce
Swamp Head Saison du Swamp w/ Brett
Wicked Weed Freak DIPA
The Commons Maybelle
The Commons Myrtle

And after GABF tasting

At Crooked Stave:
Crooked Stave L'Brett d'Or
Crooked Stave Origins
Crooked Stave Muddy Cedar Box
Crooked Stave Hop Savant Galaxy
At Epic:
Epic Fermentation without Representation
Epic Brainless on Peaches
Epic Brainless on Cherries
Epic Big Bad Baptist
Epic Hopulent IPA (Mosaic)
Epic Barleywine
Epic Imperial Stout
At Great Divide:
Great Divide Peach Grand Cru
Great Divide Barrel Aged Yeti
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More Bottles:
Saint Arnold Endeavor IPA
Goose Island Bourbon County Coffee Stout
Crooked Stave Bourbon Barrel Cherry Origins
Cantillon Classic Gueuze 2012
Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout

And then there's this:


[Edited on October 16, 2013 at 10:50 PM. Reason : .]

10/16/2013 10:38:10 PM

That Velvet Merkin is delicious. I wish I had a few more bottles.

10/17/2013 3:03:02 AM

Boulevard sold to Duvel.

10/17/2013 3:36:24 PM

Has anyone been able to find Spaten Oktoberfest this year? Normally it's one of the easier Oktoberfests to locate but I haven't seen it *anywhere* this year.

I'm in Richmond, worth noting, but I'm curious if it's showed up in the triangle or if the disappearance is merely local.

10/17/2013 7:08:50 PM

weird, i saw cases upon cases at a Total Wine in Charlotte 2 weeks ago.

10/18/2013 9:12:36 AM

Is it possible to find Hofbräu in NC?

10/18/2013 10:59:09 PM

I guess I should be impressed by that large list of beers, but I feel like if you didn't drink more than 6 oz of a particular brew, it's hard to take credit for drinking it.

10/19/2013 1:32:34 AM

Breakfast Stout finally popped up in-stock near me so I bought 2 4-packs.

I also picked up a couple Samuel Smith Winter Welcome's and a SS Yorkshire Stingo while I was there. The WW is just a cheap bargain beer this time of year. I've never had the Stingo but heard really good things.

10/21/2013 8:25:44 AM

Triumph the Insult Dog at the GABF.

10/23/2013 8:50:43 AM

I lolled

10/23/2013 9:21:36 AM

I'm happy this week.

10/26/2013 5:27:48 PM

did we discuss this earlier in this thread?

Growler stations now legal in NC. I know a few of my shops in CLT have begun to install them and will start filling very soon.

10/28/2013 10:26:58 AM

^ Do you have any idea if that means anything on tap is available for Growler's? Wonder if they'll have specific ones that they will / will not fill.

10/28/2013 11:54:52 AM

i really don't know. i could see it differing from shop to shop. i wouldn't expect to get growlers of Breakfast Stout or anything of that magnitude.

10/28/2013 1:18:17 PM

WANT:

10/28/2013 10:00:45 PM

Quote :

"So I'm hearing that NC ABC won't approve Dogfish Head Punkin Ale's label and that Dogfish Head is pulling the beer from NC now to distribute elsewhere... Anyone seen Punkin in NC? "

I'm drinking some right now. Why wouldn't NC ABC approve a 7% ABV beer?

10/28/2013 10:42:40 PM

And... broke this week.

11/2/2013 8:13:49 PM

That'll do it

11/2/2013 8:16:13 PM

Dang, y'all drink some fancy beer.

I've had the opportunity to make my own six packs at Food Lion and Harris Teeter--LOL. For various reasons, I've been emphasizing North Carolina beers and random pale ales. But I just wanted to post that Shiner Holiday Cheer is seriously delicious. I know nothing about it except that it's sooooo good.

It was one of two holiday beers I included in my most recent six pack, and I am super pumped for the holidays now. It's gonna be nothing but Christmas beers and Budweiser from here until New Years--and maybe several other beers that I'm emotionally attached to.

[Edited on November 3, 2013 at 3:24 PM. Reason : ]

11/3/2013 3:22:38 PM

Finally got a chance to try Dogfish Head Bitches' Brew on Friday. That's some seriously good shit.

Also good (though not on the same level) is the Rum Pumpkin put out by Hardywood (craft brewery here in Richmond). It's a Pumpkin ale aged in caribbean dark rum barrels, as the name might imply. Very tasty, the rum flavor really comes through, plus it packs a punch (10.5%). Nice big fall beer, but not too in-your-face.

11/3/2013 4:43:43 PM

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"Also good (though not on the same level) is the Rum Pumpkin put out by Hardywood (craft brewery here in Richmond). It's a Pumpkin ale aged in caribbean dark rum barrels, as the name might imply. Very tasty, the rum flavor really comes through, plus it packs a punch (10.5%). Nice big fall beer, but not too in-your-face."

Avery Rumpkin doing it for awhile, incredible beer, but more like 15-18% Drinks like a port.
http://averybrewing.com/our-ales/rumpkin/

[Edited on November 3, 2013 at 4:56 PM. Reason : .]

11/3/2013 4:56:15 PM

2 Bitch's Brew, 4 Backwoods Bastard, and 4 double trouble acquired on Saturday. Pleased

11/10/2013 10:48:25 PM