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sancarlos wrote:Come on out, both of you. We'll tour the San Carlos breweries!


Mikkeller night cap?
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sancarlos wrote:Come on out, both of you. We'll tour the San Carlos breweries!

Mikkeller night cap?

Mikkeller sounds great - but SF is a ways from SC after an afternoon of drinking!
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btw - Ale Arsenal (as seen in my new avatar) is a local San Carlos pub that specializes in Belgian and craft beers.
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sancarlos wrote:btw - Ale Arsenal (as seen in my new avatar) is a local San Carlos pub that specializes in Belgian and craft beers.


Is that the place we went to my first trip out? Next door to the restaurant with the amazing beer menu?

BTW, I had a Stickee Monkee last week. Wow, that was fucking awesome. Glad I tried one instead of waiting to let it age. Totally doesn't need it. It'll probably improve, but damn, it's great now. It's super hyped, but it was better than I expected.

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The Sybian wrote:
sancarlos wrote:btw - Ale Arsenal (as seen in my new avatar) is a local San Carlos pub that specializes in Belgian and craft beers.


Is that the place we went to my first trip out? Next door to the restaurant with the amazing beer menu?

BTW, I had a Stickee Monkee last week. Wow, that was fucking awesome. Glad I tried one instead of waiting to let it age. Totally doesn't need it. It'll probably improve, but damn, it's great now. It's super hyped, but it was better than I expected.

ETA: This spell checking software is impressive. I wrote "Monkey," and it correctly suggested "Monkee."

Good memory! Refuge is the burger place with the big beer menu (Giff and I also dined there, earlier this year.) Ale Arsenal is right next door, and derives a chunk of their business from people waiting to get into the other place.
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sancarlos wrote:
The Sybian wrote:
sancarlos wrote:btw - Ale Arsenal (as seen in my new avatar) is a local San Carlos pub that specializes in Belgian and craft beers.


Is that the place we went to my first trip out? Next door to the restaurant with the amazing beer menu?

BTW, I had a Stickee Monkee last week. Wow, that was fucking awesome. Glad I tried one instead of waiting to let it age. Totally doesn't need it. It'll probably improve, but damn, it's great now. It's super hyped, but it was better than I expected.

ETA: This spell checking software is impressive. I wrote "Monkey," and it correctly suggested "Monkee."

Good memory! Refuge is the burger place with the big beer menu (Giff and I also dined there, earlier this year.) Ale Arsenal is right next door, and derives a chunk of their business from people waiting to get into the other place.


I can't believe you took Giff there. I thought that was OUR place.
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The Sybian wrote:
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The Sybian wrote:
sancarlos wrote:btw - Ale Arsenal (as seen in my new avatar) is a local San Carlos pub that specializes in Belgian and craft beers.


Is that the place we went to my first trip out? Next door to the restaurant with the amazing beer menu?

BTW, I had a Stickee Monkee last week. Wow, that was fucking awesome. Glad I tried one instead of waiting to let it age. Totally doesn't need it. It'll probably improve, but damn, it's great now. It's super hyped, but it was better than I expected.

ETA: This spell checking software is impressive. I wrote "Monkey," and it correctly suggested "Monkee."

Good memory! Refuge is the burger place with the big beer menu (Giff and I also dined there, earlier this year.) Ale Arsenal is right next door, and derives a chunk of their business from people waiting to get into the other place.


I can't believe you took Giff there. I thought that was OUR place.


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As long as he doesn't take any of you fuckers to the dive bar next to the SAP Center. 'Cause that's OUR place.
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In news that could range from major to nothing, Sixpoint (who are mostly big-ish and not great) have hired away the Trillium head brewer.
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Don't really want to start a new thread, but wanted to know if it would be a bad idea to go to the craft brewery place for lunch before I get a crown put on this afternoon. Do IPAs and novocaine mix?
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Giff wrote:Don't really want to start a new thread, but wanted to know if it would be a bad idea to go to the craft brewery place for lunch before I get a crown put on this afternoon. Do IPAs and novocaine mix?


Funny, I was at my dentist yesterday and he now stocks a mini-fridge with local crafts in the waiting area. Gonna go early next time.
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P.D.X. wrote:
Giff wrote:Don't really want to start a new thread, but wanted to know if it would be a bad idea to go to the craft brewery place for lunch before I get a crown put on this afternoon. Do IPAs and novocaine mix?


Funny, I was at my dentist yesterday and he now stocks a mini-fridge with local crafts in the waiting area. Gonna go early next time.


I'm going to take this as a yes. If no one sees me posting after 8:30am CST or so tomorrow, you know what to ask.
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Just an email from GABF. I go in and help sort some beer for a few hours and they give me a case of beer. Two shifts 2 cases and a GABF ticket!

Finally, a email list that I want to be on!
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Giff wrote:Don't really want to start a new thread, but wanted to know if it would be a bad idea to go to the craft brewery place for lunch before I get a crown put on this afternoon. Do IPAs and novocaine mix?


2 schools of thought here. First, novocaine is a topical/local anesthesia, so I don't think it would mix with the alcohol. Second, if I'm wrong, mixing alcohol and painkillers are ALWAYS a great idea.


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"Mixing alcohol and novocaine reminds me of one night hanging out with Jimmy 'Toy Cannon' Wynn and Otis Redding's cousin Dave ..."
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mister d wrote:"Mixing alcohol and novocaine reminds me of one night hanging out with Jimmy 'Toy Cannon' Wynn and Otis Redding's cousin Dave ..."

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I've been to this place, and had a good time and enjoyed some of their beers, and have even enjoyed the occasional michelada, but...

https://twitter.com/MotherEarthBrew/sta ... 8304842754
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You've been to Kinston?
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govmentchedda wrote:You've been to Kinston?


My sister and BIL live in Goldsboro (for the time being).
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govmentchedda wrote:You've been to Kinston?


My sister and BIL live in Goldsboro (for the time being).


Kinston's depressing to drive through. I didn't realize they had a hip brewery. Goldsboro's not much better. Good barbecue though.
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govmentchedda wrote:You've been to Kinston?


My sister and BIL live in Goldsboro (for the time being).


Kinston's depressing to drive through. I didn't realize they had a hip brewery. Goldsboro's not much better. Good barbecue though.


Yeah. They live outside Goldsboro (near the Cliffs of the Neuse park), and it's...rural. Though I love all of the little roadside Mexican places.

He just retired from the USAF and they're looking to move to the Pittsburgh area, so I likely made my last trip down there this past summer.
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My Greenville cousins used to talk about going to Kinston Indians games.
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Had this tasty brew with dinner last night. From Fairfield, CA - just east of Oakland where the Bay Area becomes the Central Valley.
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So looking to brew a big Double IPA who's should I emulate?
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Double Sunshine is pretty sexual.
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Rush's Finest Liquids, eh?
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Kane Drift Line is very brown. Very fall (unless you're zman).
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Trillium is still as good as ever and I have a new favorite from them: DDH Fort Point Pale Ale. Lamplighter is very solid, only had their Major Tom which is a tier 2 NEIPA and its infuriatingly close to my old place. Aeronaut is even closer but the line was like 75 deep to get in because of capacity and didn't seem to be moving.

On the downside, both Maine Lunch and Lawson's Sip of Sunshine both paled (beer pun) in comparison to the stuff above. An ever-changing world, it is.
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So, right now, they've got pledges worth 0.00000427 of the money they need.
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sancarlos wrote:

So, right now, they've got pledges worth 0.00000427 of the money they need.


I don't think Mr. Delaware has seen the post yet.
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So I think it's a pretty funny gag, but who would actually donate real money for that?
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Seems like a stupid gimmick.
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brian wrote:So I think it's a pretty funny gag, but who would actually donate real money for that?


Well, they aren't actually collecting money just "pledges." I emailed the marketing director for the BA and he said that it's to up awareness, plus send out some free swag to people.
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brian wrote:So I think it's a pretty funny gag, but who would actually donate real money for that?


Well, they aren't actually collecting money just "pledges." I emailed the marketing director for the BA and he said that it's to up awareness, plus send out some free swag to people.

So, if we pledge, we get swag?
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That's my understanding.
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Any of you Jersey folk been to the Growler & Gill in Nanuet, NY (just up the road from Paramus.) Supposedly a fantastic spot.
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Never even heard of it but the website looks pretty cool. That whole Bergen/Rockland area is a total dead zone for me.
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mister d wrote:Never even heard of it but the website looks pretty cool. That whole Bergen/Rockland area is a total dead zone for me.


Saw it on a beer board, evidently, they have a beer mailing list to let you know what's coming in....and they get Lawson's regularly.

ETA: Am going Sip route for the homebrew, but going Triple Sip. 10% or so DIPA.
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