Totally random thread

[TDub]

If it aint colorado kool aid leave it in the GD store!

[ousdahl]

Have we discussed Montucky Cold Snacks?

[ousdahl]

Some Montana craft brewery that makes cheap yellow beer. A little more going on than most corporate beer, but still finishes like a lite. They even come in 30 packs too

[TDub]

Yes theyre actually pretty damn good

[ousdahl]

For real.

I think the craft lite beer market has a lot of untapped potential

[jhawks99]

I don't like IPAs. No idea what hazy means, but I doubt I'd like it.

Hazy means what it sounds like - it’s a cloudy, unfiltered, more translucent or even opaque liquid, that finishes thicker and heavier and more full-bodied cuz of it.

Apparently it’s supposed to give IPAs more popular appeal, and apparently they’re selling well cuz a lotta breweries are offering them, even in lieu of a normal IPA.

but to me it just makes them harder to drink and more like bitter liquid bread than any sort of refreshing beverage.

Thanks. I'll pass and just drink my cheap American macrobrew.

[ousdahl]

Cheers to that.

There’s an old ice pick we keep behind the sat shack bar if you guys feel like shotgunning

[ChalkRocker]

There’s an old ice pick we keep behind the sat shack bar if you guys feel like shotgunning

It's not there anymore. Trustee buried it in some dude's neck.

For wearin' the wrong school colors...

[TDub]

Don't wear black and yellow to the shack. Dude oughtta known....

[CrimsonNBlue]

I don't like IPAs. No idea what hazy means, but I doubt I'd like it.

Hazy means what it sounds like - it’s a cloudy, unfiltered, more translucent or even opaque liquid, that finishes thicker and heavier and more full-bodied cuz of it.

Apparently it’s supposed to give IPAs more popular appeal, and apparently they’re selling well cuz a lotta breweries are offering them, even in lieu of a normal IPA.

but to me it just makes them harder to drink and more like bitter liquid bread than any sort of refreshing beverage.

Thanks. I'll pass and just drink my cheap American macrobrew.

Boulevard's Wheat beer is a hazy.

[ousdahl]

I dunno if they market it as hazy, or simply “unfiltered.”

But yeah it’s a wheat beer either way, so the unfiltered only adds to the liquid breadiness

[CrimsonNBlue]

The official name has always been "Unfiltered Wheat." It's been around way before the "hazy" marketing name quickly spread. They've never used the "hazy" part for marketing on the wheat beer that I am aware of.

Much later on, Boulevard released 80 Acre and branded/marketed it is a "Hoppy Wheat Beer," so describing that as a "hazy IPA" probably wouldn't be too far off. But even that release was before I started seeing a ton of Hazy IPA's everywhere.

Hazy IPA's seem like a good entry into higher IBU beers for people (including, I have to say it, women) that are getting into more craft beers with taste over macros.

[ousdahl]

Good post.

But yeah, hazy ipa just seems like it makes it even less accessible, not more. But apparently the market says otherwise. I guess all that haziness helps offset the bitterness and make it more user friendly.

most of the market has moved toward either hazy, sour, fruity, or seltzers either way.

Boulevard Pale Ale is still my GOAT beer, but I can’t even get them out here any more unless I buy a sampler pack with 3 goats, 3 hazy, 3 fruity, and then something like 3 hazy fruity sours.

That’s a lot of beers to rather not buy just for 3 goats.

[CrimsonNBlue]

I don't see Pale Ale nearly as much even in KC, so I am sure it is really scarce out there. Boulevard, the company, has had a really rough go the last couple of years and everyone is really leaning into the micros.

I didn't think that I would become this guy, but by far the Boulevard I drink the most these days is Tank 7. It really does just hold its own every year in the saison category.

[jhawks99]

I do like 80 acre

[ousdahl]

Yeah. I think I can special order Pale Ale out here, but it takes weeks to get it and stuff.

I do see Tank 7 though, usually in a bigger champagne style bottle. I recall liking it, but generally never really got into saison/farmhouse ales.

On one hand they can be some of the most complex beers around, getting all these fruity flavors just from the yeast, without actually putting fruit in the beer, as it should be.

But on the other hand, I remember Shirley once describing saisons as “too yeasty and effervescent” for her, and that kinda ruined them for me too.

Not that I won’t drink them.

[Deleted User 902]

Y'all don't like New England IPAs? They've been popular here for a while. I think the name got changed to Hazy IPA outside of the Northeast. I like them. Nice and juicy. I'm a season beer drinker, and NE IPAs are perfect in the summer.

[ousdahl]

Didn’t know it was a regional style.

But yeah, in the summertime, gimme the coldest yellowest beer. Liquid bread just ain’t as refreshing to me. The “hazy” to me tastes like it needs to be filtered. Like French press coffee, all sedimenty and stuff.

And it’s a bummer that boulevard is hurting. It sucks that you have to make gimmicky Smirnoff ice style fruity beers to compete, cuz Boulevard otherwise makes some of the best traditional style ales/porters/stouts/etc around

[jhawks99]

Does Boulevard still make Boss Tom's? That's probably my favorite of theirs but it's never available when I'm in KC.

[ousdahl]

Yeah that one is good.

Their Oktoberfest too.

And I got their Irish ale out here last spring!

And their nutcracker winter ale is good too.

But looking at their website, some of this shit is ridiculous.

like WTF is this?



I’m for beer markets expanding, but not if it’s becoming less beer and more the alcoholic equivalent of a little kid filling his cup with every soda on the fountain.