What's your favorite BEER?

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my beer-drinking guests will have to make some choices:
Please consider donating all unopened bottles to the Jags foundation.
 
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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! 394 years since the first, by my reckoning.
 
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. found this one 2 weeks ago and it's today's special
Harpoon's Winter Warmer nice brew with holiday flaver
 
What's on tap for Thanksgiving? In addition to a local farm-raised turkey and the local pork butcher's spiral cut ham, my beer-drinking guests will have to make some choices:
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You sound like the perfect host, im sure you get a lot of company for the holidays:)
 
Small crowd, this year! We've had 18 - 20 for dinner most years, but only 13 this year... sis' in-law's family could not make it. I can only take credit for the booze and the heat... my wife and family provide the rest!

This was the first Thanksgiving for which I remember turning on the air conditioning. Got up to 77F in the new part of the house, where we were dining. I blame Blaze King. ;) I had loaded it 24 hours earlier, when it was not nearly so warm, but it's still chugging away even now (28 hours after loading).

Oh... and to keep it on-topic: bottles consumed were Chimay Tripel, La Trappe Quad, and one Old Rasputen. More were enjoying the egg nog than the beer.

Hope you all had a good one! This weekend will be spent splitting wood for 2018, which has become my Thanksgiving weekend tradition.
 
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We had a good one. Everybody was out of town so I made us a pizza and enjoyed a few Gennneses. Considered imported beer from New York.

And fired the stove for the the first time just for the hell of it. For 30 years I have tried to hold off until Thanksgiving and finally made it.
 
What ever is in my hand is my favorite at the time
But prefer Perth Brewery IPA and Beaus Lug Tread Ale
Both from Eastern Ontario Micro Breweries
 
Lately its been BlueMoon with a orange squeezed into it
 
FREE!...probably been said already. High Life or anything Leinenkugel's. Too many to choose from in WI
 
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! 394 years since the first, by my reckoning.


If you want to be techincal , its officially the 152nd federally recognized observation. Records of the feast actually happening in Plymouth are sketchy at best.


I never realized until I watched a Nova special on the Pilgrims recently that Lincoln declared the pilgrim feast the official Thanksgiving in 1863 to try and bring the Union states together around a common holiday during the civil war and in the process give the south the finger over claims that the Jamestown settlement was the real start of the colonies.
 
Back on beer..... this year I stocked up on 6 12 packs of Spaten, Hacker Pschoor and Paulaner Oktoberfest since the local had a lot more of it than previous years.

I love Oktober but now Im stuck having to drink through all of it (2 to go) before getting to some winter varietals. Anybody wanna come over for a beer :)
 
Today I had a special treat: Fegley's 2010 Rude Elf's Reserve aged 4 years in bourbon barrels and kegged in fall 2014. Perhaps one of the best brews I have ever consumed, and that is a very long and expensive list. If you can find it, buy it!

I do have five 4-packs of 2014 and 2015 Rude Elf's Reserve in the beer cellar at home, and after this, they're going to be a little disappointing.
 
Hhuuuummmm !! Been away from the hearth for a while.... Catching up on this thread really make me tursty !!! But I am on a dry camp way up north these days...... But I am flying home next wenesday for the holidays. Between home and the airport there is a micro brewery who serve dang good beer, If the plane is not late, I should be able to stop, have a pint ( wich will be my first alcoolic brevage in 16 days) and get home before supper !!
http://www.lenaufrageur.com/bieres.aspx?biere=9
 
We have a chocolate milk stout going into the secondary today where it will soak with some cacao nibs for couple weeks. Looks like it will be coming in around 6% ABV. This is a first try at one.
 
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Hhuuuummmm !! Been away from the hearth for a while.... Catching up on this thread really make me tursty !!! But I am on a dry camp way up north these days...... But I am flying home next wenesday for the holidays. Between home and the airport there is a micro brewery who serve dang good beer, If the plane is not late, I should be able to stop, have a pint ( wich will be my first alcoolic brevage in 16 days) and get home before supper !!
http://www.lenaufrageur.com/bieres.aspx?biere=9
That beer is gonna taste reeeeeeaaaallly good...
 
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I can't wait to crack open this bad boy, finally had a friend in VA pick one up for me, usually they sell out as soon as the stores get them.
 

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Hardywood is a great brewery, and their bourbon barrel aged Quad is one of the best I've ever had. I see their Gingerbread Stout sitting on the shelf at one of my local bottle shops, but have never tried it.
 
Santa brought 3 new treats to try.
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It's a Tripel play! So far I have only tried the 3 Sundays Tripel. It was exceptionally balanced with a nicely floral nose and balance bitters, with a back note of oak and fruit. The nice thing was as it warmed in the glass the flavors got better. Black Raven is out of Redmond, WA. I think we will be visiting their taproom.
(broken link removed to http://www.blackravenbrewing.com/Beerfolio/three-sundays-oaked-tripel)
 
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this time of year i like a good porter or a nice oatmeal stout. come summer i enjoy a cold hefeweizen, the stand around a fire and bs with friends favorite is pbr
 
Beer = barley, hops, water, yeast.

PBR = corn, barley, water, yeast, hops. It's not technically beer.