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@offcolorbrewing Dino S’mores is all the fun of summer camp with 100% less molestation.

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This is exceedingly tasty, not overly sweet, not overtly smoky, makes the Campfire stout from high water look like a KIA to this Infiniti level shit.

It is attenuated down to a manageable level with a clean slick mouthfeel that resonates with a toastiness, them Grammy grams provide a grittiness to the mouthfeel and a touch of breadiness.

This begs for a rum or cognac treatment, the mallowfoam notes need to be ratcheted back with some barrel. Plus this brewer probably hates DDB so there’s also that.

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@hillfarmstead An incredible Blaugies job by way of Vermont. Sarrasin slays.

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This beer is the closest approximation to Ann’s perfect Carbonation. If nothing else this gentle crackle of those microbead Dove bubbles just send wafts of apricot and peach rings, French oak, peach jolly ranchers, and Riesling grapes. I came into this with Vermontoise expectations and holy fuck this is way, way beyond that. This is better than E and just a step below art and Ann. Intensely drinkable, huge citrus flavor profile and wait for this: AN AMERICAN SAISON THAT ISNT JUST LACTIC SINGLE CULTURE ACIDITY. There is legit musk and leather like a Jansport left in the rain.

There is a lime finish that is dry and lingers like vintage Mid 2000s Printemps. It is absolutely phenomenal and without a direct analog of recent memory. This synthesis of Belgian musk and complexity with the brightness of American execution is what Vermontoise should have been, a flawless dance across the Atlantic.

As a final note, the unfermentable tannins from the buckwheat contributes a protein creaminess with that soapy carb that slays. If you blended saison d’erpeteau with art, you would have an inferior version of this excellent farmhouse ale.

I shouldn’t have to write you a narrative to summarize the foregoing. Do what you know you need to do. Don’t miss this shit. If you do I will ravage all that come across my grasp.

Also don’t tell anyone about this. Pls. Srs.

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BEACH de Garde, a classic French farmhouse ale I.e. A high temp fermented lager,

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Ah yes.

Just like the farm hands of northern France, this Biere de Garde was made right near the coastal beaches of the Pacific Ocean. The field workers would harvest in the morning and grind on sick halibut tacos by the pier after their toil in the rolling verdant hillsides.

To maintain authenticity to style they have used a lager yeast and fermented high, as is appropriate for lager yeast.

IT IS LIKE I AM ACTUALLY THERE IN NORTHERN FRANCE. I won’t even make any D-Day parallels, because ddb keeps it classy.

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TWELVE BEERS TO GET THOSE OVARIES THROBBING

OH SHIT TWELVE BEERS TO GET THOSE XX CHROMOSOMES ABUZZ. This Summer Shandy will make that completely different female class of humans TOTALLY INTO THESE UNAPPROACHABLE SERVINGS OF SUGAR WATER.

lol like beer nerds are even interacting with females, much less locking down IRL girlfriends outside of Secondlife/WoW.

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From this list I can gather that women apparently:

1) love wheat based beers

2) hate anything with a high SRM (except CHOCOLATE amirite)

3) apparently hate anything with a high original gravity

4) love fruit, especially in the chemical/Torani syrup form, all up in their beer

5) And they fucking LOVE SAM ADAMS.

 

Putting aside the age old criticism of these sexist lists, and all thatjapery, I just dont see why that would be the definitive list for women to jock.  I should ask DING to write a guest column for me on this subject since his previous post about the female segment went over so well.

In the end, I think we all know that  no one likes Rare VOS.  Come on now, not even Delta Gammas will fall for that ruse.