Trying Super Bock Abadia tonight - One of the cheapest beers here. So far not too bad for 5.37 euro a six pack. From their website : (33cl about 11.15 ounces)
"Super Bock Abadia is a journey to the artisanal flavour of the best beers produced in the Middle Ages. A beer of outstanding quality, produced with a special variety of malt and spices that give it an unmistakable ruby colour.."
Do they have a preferred spirit over there? Rum, maybe?
Trying Super Bock Abadia tonight - One of the cheapest beers here. So far not too bad for 5.37 euro a six pack. From their website : (33cl about 11.15 ounces) "Super Bock Abadia is a journey to the artisanal flavour of the best beers produced in the Middle Ages. A beer of outstanding quality, produced with a special variety of malt and spices that give it an unmistakable ruby colour.."
Hard to go wrong on a six pack that costs less than 6 bucks.
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Jan 29, 2023 - 11:41am
Trying Super Bock Abadia tonight - One of the cheapest beers here. So far not too bad for 5.37 euro a six pack. From their website : (33cl about 11.15 ounces)
"Super Bock Abadia is a journey to the artisanal flavour of the best beers produced in the Middle Ages. A beer of outstanding quality, produced with a special variety of malt and spices that give it an unmistakable ruby colour.."
So file this one under "how much would you pay for a beer"?
This picture is from the past few days. I don't know who they are, but I know precisely where they are and what they are drinking. The 3 yellow glasses contain a beer called "Ann", which was brewed in 2017 at Hill Farmstead Brewing in Northern VT. It started life as Anna (a honey farmstead ale)...but dropped the "a" when it was selected as "special".
The description of the beer by Hill is:
Ann is a wine barrel fermented and aged version of Anna (1902-1993), our grandfatherâs sister as well as the name of our honey Farmstead® ale. In honor of Anna, her namesake beer is the result of patiently waiting and then selecting our very best wine barrels of Anna â barrels that have been aged and conditioned for between 1 and 3 years. After being placed in wine barrels, the evolution of Anna into Ann is an indeterminate and metamorphic occurrence. Only a single digit percentage of all wine barrel-aged Anna becomes what is unmistakably identifiable as Ann. The beer, the barrel, and some yet unknown, unquantifiable condition seems to dictate its path and appearance. It is identified and selected only through the emotional response that it induces during barrel tasting.
So how much would you spend?
Those 15cl pours (just over 5 ozs) cost $30 each. If you doubt that...zoom in on the document and look at Ann. Limit 1 pour per day.
The 750ml bottles are $95 each (limit one for the year).
I love their beer and wouldn't argue with anyone who says Shaun Hill is the best brewer on the planet (he's won that title a bunch of times... here's the first that popped up)...but $95? For reference, Anna is awesome and $12/bottle.
Yesterday I was talking to a friend of mine who is a beer buyer for the local Whole Foods. It turns out Stone Brewing seems to have expanded its presence too quickly into other markets (Berlin, Shanghai?) and found themselves over $450M in the red, as well as engaging in a few large, costly lawsuits. Apparently being bought out was their best option.
Yeah I can't find it now but I was reading something about Koch's constant bleating about other breweries being sellouts; that article was as amused about it as yours.
I see a $56million settlementin the Molson/Coors lawsuit over their rebranding Keystone Light as "(key)STONE"
Did you know New Belgium got bought up by Kirin? They were employee owned; wonder how that sorts out. And Stone just sold to Sapporo. Doesn't matter as long as it's good, I guess. These buyouts do bring beer to the hinterlands so I guess I shouldn't gripe...
Yesterday I was talking to a friend of mine who is a beer buyer for the local Whole Foods. It turns out Stone Brewing seems to have expanded its presence too quickly into other markets (Berlin, Shanghai?) and found themselves over $450M in the red, as well as engaging in a few large, costly lawsuits. Apparently being bought out was their best option.
Yes, I think so. It was odd, clicking another thread from the RAFT was going to the brewery site...
any link, really, and when I replied to the post, dragging to select the text in the Visual editor instead dragged that image that I posted. So it was embedded and covering everything, but invisible.
Please edit or delete your post! There's some code in it that's hijacking the links on the page and sending people to the brewery. This image is in it, hidden somewhere. Weird.
Looked like there was no closing anchor tag in there.
Please edit or delete your post! There's some code in it that's hijacking the links on the page and sending people to the brewery. This image is in it, hidden somewhere. Weird.
Did you know New Belgium got bought up by Kirin? They were employee owned; wonder how that sorts out. And Stone just sold to Sapporo. Doesn't matter as long as it's good, I guess. These buyouts do bring beer to the hinterlands so I guess I shouldn't gripe...
Didn't know that about either of them. I guess as long as they don't mess with the recipes it's ultimately better to have wider distribution and availability. Wicked Weed - also from Asheville - was acquired by Anheuser Busch, but it's still made the same way in the same brewery. Very good beers though pricier than most others.
This session ale that they make is usually on sale for a week or two a month though - tasty stuff:
I haven't seen that one yet, but the Little Yella Pils is still around here - Oskar's has an "East Coast" brewery out near Asheville, NC now (as do Sierra and New Belgium). I like that more of them a trying to do lagers, but it's not as easy as it may seem - and they can't mask the mistakes by overloading the hops. Still, imported German pilsener for the price I paid is a good "in-between".
Did you know New Belgium got bought up by Kirin? They were employee owned; wonder how that sorts out. And Stone just sold to Sapporo. Doesn't matter as long as it's good, I guess. These buyouts do bring beer to the hinterlands so I guess I shouldn't gripe...
A cold, refreshing Warsteiner in the backyard lounge yesterday afternoon - complete with condensation and lens flair.
If I could still drink beer, it would be mostly German lagers (Paulaner was a favorite), Guinness, and an occasional IPA like Little Sumpin or Dogfish Head.
I found most craft beers to be a either too malty/sweet, heavy, or bitter...not good drinking beers.
Being from New England (well...almost...NJ is mid-Atlantic, but my maternal family is Northern VT), we've had a good run of NEIPA's. It's the go-to everywhere, and there are some great ones. That said... it's getting harder to enjoy them in the summer.
A friend started a brewery 6 years ago, and when the pandemic hit, he and several other breweries did a version of "stimulus beer". My recollection is that they were selling it for $3/six-pack...as one would for "stimulus" beer. It was a hit. A nice, light, pils. Bud-esque, but a little bit more depth to it. It was so popular, they added it to their core rotation. I like it more and more the warmer it gets outside.
I haven't seen that one yet, but the Little Yella Pils is still around here - Oskar's has an "East Coast" brewery out near Asheville, NC now (as do Sierra and New Belgium). I like that more of them a trying to do lagers, but it's not as easy as it may seem - and they can't mask the mistakes by overloading the hops. Still, imported German pilsener for the price I paid is a good "in-between".
