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[Donoghus]

Lost Coast Tangerine Wheat.



Not overly citrusy, very smooth.  Solid aftertaste too.  Highly recommend.

I see the Lost Coast bombers in my beer place, and often think about picking them up, but never do, for some reason.

I've only seen the Tangerine Wheat out here in Chicago but I'd be very interested to try their other stuff. 

[Neurotic Guy]

I had a couple of Middle Ages ImPaled Ale last week on a visit to my in-laws (upstate NY).   Good and bitter -- enjoyed it a lot.   

[bballdog384]

Had a Sam Adams Norse Legend on tap in Portsmouth NH last week. Dark but extremely smooth ale with citrus and malty flavors. And don't forget the Juniper Berries! Needless to say, it was a great beer.

http://www.samueladams.com/enjoy-our-beer/beer-detail.aspx?id=0fc45789-d769-4741-9d71-d9377c4f5edd

[Lucky17]

Lost Coast Tangerine Wheat.



Not overly citrusy, very smooth.  Solid aftertaste too.  Highly recommend.

I see the Lost Coast bombers in my beer place, and often think about picking them up, but never do, for some reason.

I've only seen the Tangerine Wheat out here in Chicago but I'd be very interested to try their other stuff.

Thanks for the tip, Dons. Hit the spot on a hot summer night. Apricot is usually the fruit wheat beer I go to during the summer, so this was a nice change.

I'll try some of the other Lost Coast beers and report some findings later. There were a few available.

[Lucky17]

I love this beer. Been buying these by the 12s for the past 6 weeks or so; it's what I drink when I'm not drinking homebrew.

[Eja117]

Super Bock Sabor Autentico from Portugal. It was ok. Assuming I paid import price I probably won't get it again

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bock

[Ogaju]

Rochefort 10. Pricey but good if you want to get drunk in a hurry.

[fairweatherfan]

My wife loves this stuff - I like it too but not quite as much:



This is an excellent seasonal:



Also, my designated lawn-mowing beer of the summer and fall:

[Donoghus]

My wife loves this stuff - I like it too but not quite as much:



This is an excellent seasonal:



Also, my designated lawn-mowing beer of the summer and fall:

The last one (New Belgium) is good stuff.

As an aside: So close to pumpkin season now.... I can almost taste it!

[Chris]

My wife loves this stuff - I like it too but not quite as much:



This is an excellent seasonal:



Also, my designated lawn-mowing beer of the summer and fall:

The last one (New Belgium) is good stuff.

As an aside: So close to pumpkin season now.... I can almost taste it!

So close?  I saw Pumpkinhead a couple weeks ago. 

[Donoghus]

My wife loves this stuff - I like it too but not quite as much:



This is an excellent seasonal:



Also, my designated lawn-mowing beer of the summer and fall:

The last one (New Belgium) is good stuff.

As an aside: So close to pumpkin season now.... I can almost taste it!

So close?  I saw Pumpkinhead a couple weeks ago.

Solid. I know the Dogfishhead Punkin Ale is supposed to start shipping around the 1st. Also looking forward to my first Pumking of the season.

[thirstyboots18]

Sorry to report...I really wouldn't know the difference.  Cold, good...warm, bad.   

[indeedproceed]

My honeymoon to Cape Cod was a little busy, and pretty much every free second I had on the phone was devoted to the CelticsBlog draft, but I tried pretty much all the Cape Cod beers, and even some from breweries that don't distribute in NY from the Midwest.

First, a note on Cape Cod/Eastern Mass breweries in general:

They suck. They're not very good. It is so typically Cape Cod though.

Person who makes a crapton of money from tourists: "Hey, people seem to be jumping on this whole microbrew train. Maybe we should start selling it."

Person who makes slightly more money from tourists: "No, Percy, you simpering idiot, you provincial piece of garbage. We should MAKE it. Wait! NO! We should MAKE OTHER CRAPPY BREWERIES MAKE IT! AND PRETEND WE MAKE IT! AND SELL IT!!!!!"

I tried a lot of these kinds of beers. Naukabout  Pale Ale (brewed by Paper City), Cape Cod Red (link), Cape Cod IPA, Mayflower IPA..the list goes on.

They all sucked. It was like someone found all the crappy toothless IPA's and had a party.

I liked three 'Cape Cod' beers; here they are:

1) Captain Swain's Extra Stout: Cisco Brewing
http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/261/768

Loved everything about it. Heady, strong, complex layered taste with the boozy kind of after-taste I associate with true imperials. The kind of beer that makes you think, "Hey! If I play 'Hello' by Lionel Ritchie, I bet the whole bar will break out in song with me!"

2) Mayflower Summer Rye: Wasn't the best Rye I'd ever had. Wasn't the worst. Was very drinkable though.

3) Mayflower Porter: Wasn't the best Porter I'd ever had, wasn't the worst. Was very drinkable.

Other beers I tried for the first time that were not from Cape Cod and did not pretend to be:

1) Boulevard Brewing Company's Double Wide IPA (Courtesy of Redz**): http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/423/39639

Beer was fantastic, very strong, and not just the 8.5%. Taste was not overwhelming, but I don't think I could drink a sixer in one sitting, crappy tolerance notwithstanding. I will buy this again though, great "Im gonna sit here and relax and have a beer, maybe two" kind of beer.

Boulevard Brewing Company's Tankhouse 7 Farm Ale: http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/423/50570

I liked this beer, it wasn't super-hoppy or anything but a saison shouldn't be. It was kind of dry, citrusy, clean, just very good. Very affordable as well.

Boulevard Brewing Company's The Sixth Glass: Its a 'Quad Style' (never had one before) beer that just..

Well I poured it into a pint glass (would've used a snifter if I'd had one available), and took a sip while my brother expounded upon the virtues of..something. I still have no idea what the crap he was talking about because I got lost in the beer.

I interrupted him, exclaiming, "(Pluck) me, that's a (plucking) great (plucking) beer! (Pluck)!"

I did not do this quietly. I love how beeradvocate breaks everything down to notes of plums or hints of figs or whatever, but I'm not that guy. I veer more towards the more hyperbolic, more abstract and ultimately useless metaphors when describing me beers, and here is my own little take:

The Sixth Glass from Boulevard Brewing is smoother than any 10.5% alcoholic beverage ought to be. Its cleaner, but not in a 'malt liquor' or 4-Lokos kind of way. Taking your first sip of it, not knowing what a 'quad' is supposed to be, and knowing what 10 or 12% usually tastes like, it is unexpectedly refreshing. Like the first time you got a lap-dance but realized that somehow, strippers smell REALLY GOOD. 

Its not really complex, a lot less to handle than your typical ambition DIPA (think like Dogfish 90-minute), but it is so incredibly well-made that you can just get lost in it, taking small sips and grinning knowingly at God because now you know his little secret too.

Here is what the label looks like:



Its pretty serious.

**I have Redz to thank for all the Boulevard Brewing beers out there. The wife and I met up with him for an afternoon and he gave me the Double-Wide. I cannot emphasize with words how disappointed beer-wise I'd been on the honeymoon to that point. turned my whole vacation around, beer-wise. I tried everything from boulevard I could find.

[fairweatherfan]

Boulevard is pretty great stuff across the board, they've been the one silver lining of moving to a dry county.  You had maybe their 3 best brews, too.  I just tried their Nomme Dubbel and it was also excellent. 

BTW you may have had this already, but Three Philosophers by Ommegang is another excellent quad that's probably a lot easier to get where you are.

[thirstyboots18]

Redz (CB's own Superman) saves the day (vacation, honeymoon...) again!