2 reasons to cry into your beer...

[Miulang]

Due to a severe shortage of hops, the price of your favorite beer could go up about 10% soon. Breweries might also have to alter their recipes by either replacing the current strain of hops they're using, or cutting down on the amount of hops they use in a batch. Wonder how that will affect the taste of Longboard?

Miulang

[TATTRAT]

Re: 2 reasons to cry into your beer...

Good thing that good ol corn is around, GO BOURBON!


I wonder why the more farmers are not growing more hops on the mainland, is it the climate/soil? New England produces some awesome hops. Seems like the amount of struggling farmers and the lack of certain agricultural things(hemp, hops) could be a great match. produce something that is in demand, put people to work, win win.

[Fat Jeff]

Re: 2 reasons to cry into your beer...

And if you like the beer at Brew Moon, I'd suggest dropping in for one sooner than later...

[Pomai]

Re: 2 reasons to cry into your beer...

Coming soon to a pub near you...

[Fat Jeff]

Re: 2 reasons to cry into your beer...

Coming soon to a pub near you...

That's still cheaper than Black Butte Porter!

<mmmmmmm...beeeeeer> Homer Simpson

[cynsaligia]

Re: 2 reasons to cry into your beer...

Good thing that good ol corn is around, GO BOURBON!
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the price of corn is going up (due to its use in ethanol), which has already affected the price of milk. i would not be shocked if the price of bourbon and other corn products will go up, too.

That's still cheaper than Black Butte Porter!

<mmmmmmm...beeeeeer> Homer Simpson

more specifically, mmmmmmmmmmmm...beer with chocolate notes....

[scrivener]

Re: 2 reasons to cry into your beer...

I love Black Butte Porter, dangit. Where are you guys when everyone around me wants to drink canoe beer?*

Since most American lagers use corn and/or rice as extenders, you'd think the price would already have gone up.



* canoe beer: pretty close to water.

[cynsaligia]

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I love Black Butte Porter, dangit. Where are you guys when everyone around me wants to drink canoe beer?*

great (albeit sloshed) minds drink the same beer!

* canoe beer: pretty close to water.

ah, so clever! can i use that? i promise to stamp ©scrivener next to it! and for every so many uses, pay you with a pack of BBP!

[scrivener]

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ah, so clever! can i use that? i promise to stamp ©scrivener next to it! and for every so many uses, pay you with a pack of BBP!

I wish it were mine, but I can't say for sure that it is. Some friends and I have been saying that for years, and I don't know if one of us thought of it or if one of us heard it elsewhere. So use it wherever you please.

What are your thoughts on Haystack Black?

[craigwatanabe]

Re: 2 reasons to cry into your beer...

That's still cheaper than Black Butte Porter!

<mmmmmmm...beeeeeer> Homer Simpson

But is that per bottle or per gallon?

[cynsaligia]

Re: 2 reasons to cry into your beer...

I wish it were mine, but I can't say for sure that it is. Some friends and I have been saying that for years, and I don't know if one of us thought of it or if one of us heard it elsewhere. So use it wherever you please.

What are your thoughts on Haystack Black?

is that now called blackwatch porter? if it was served at one of the willow's hops & grinds events, i might have tried it, bcs i made sure to try every beer with cocoa, chocolate, honey, or coffee notes at the last h&g that we went to. i'm still a neophyte. how do you think it compares?

a few nights ago, we picked up some of the oregon honey beer to have with our dinner at bac nam. nice finish, went well with the spice in the vietnamese food.

actually, all this talk of oregon beers is making me wonder whether visiting one of their breweries is possible when we go visit my mom over the holidays. i wish i can remember the name of the irish pub we went to two years ago, bcs we definitely want to visit again.

one last thing, which is a rule of mine: no crying in beer! it's as sacrilegious as ice in beer! must not do! when drinking beer, one must sing, laugh, cheer, have rousing fun, or be, on the opposite end, blackly morose, darkly sarcastic, or passionately bemoaning whatever it is that ails you, but absolutely. no. crying. in. beer!!

[Mike_Lowery]

Re: 2 reasons to cry into your beer...

*gets wasted on potent Listerine/ apple juice mixture*
*hiccup*
*passes out with a clean mouth*

[Miulang]

Re: 2 reasons to cry into your beer...

is that now called blackwatch porter? if it was served at one of the willow's hops & grinds events, i might have tried it, bcs i made sure to try every beer with cocoa, chocolate, honey, or coffee notes at the last h&g that we went to. i'm still a neophyte. how do you think it compares?

a few nights ago, we picked up some of the oregon honey beer to have with our dinner at bac nam. nice finish, went well with the spice in the vietnamese food.

actually, all this talk of oregon beers is making me wonder whether visiting one of their breweries is possible when we go visit my mom over the holidays. i wish i can remember the name of the irish pub we went to two years ago, bcs we definitely want to visit again.

one last thing, which is a rule of mine: no crying in beer! it's as sacrilegious as ice in beer! must not do! when drinking beer, one must sing, laugh, cheer, have rousing fun, or be, on the opposite end, blackly morose, darkly sarcastic, or passionately bemoaning whatever it is that ails you, but absolutely. no. crying. in. beer!!

Washington has some nice breweries too (Red Hook and Pyramid are the 2 largest, but there are some boutique breweries in hops country (East Washington) too.

Miulang

[scrivener]

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is that now called blackwatch porter?

I don't think so; I just picked up a six-pack about a month ago and it was still called Haystack Black.

or be, on the opposite end, blackly morose, darkly sarcastic, or passionately bemoaning whatever it is that ails you...

This is me. It's why I never have more than two: I can't stand to get THAT depressed.

[cynsaligia]

Re: 2 reasons to cry into your beer...

*gets wasted on potent Listerine/ apple juice mixture*
*hiccup*
*passes out with a clean mouth*

eh, pinoy, do you think we can convince the mother country to ship over some lambanog? ng imas ti san miguel no kayyat ko ti "bariety."

pardon the very bad ilocano-glish.