Craft beer junkies unite!
 

So after spending four hours in line outside in a cold, windy alley I got my hands on the latest craft beer special release: The Bruery Black Tuesday. A Russian Imperial Stout with 19.5% ABV. Today, I lined up a group of RIS from my collection:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...out-lineup.jpg

From Left to Right:
Brooklyn Black Ops
Stone Imperial Russian Stout
Deschutes The Abyss
Foothills Sexual Chocolate
Three Floyds Dark Lord
The Bruery Black Tuesday
Surly Darkness
Portsmouth Kate the Great
Alesmith Speedway Stout
Port Older Viscosity
Rouge XS Imperial Stout

So, anyone else here a big craft beer junkie? Post your latest find!

Holy crap! I want it. All of it.

We've not been out tasting as much as usual lately, but this has inspired me to go to the beer store tomorrow and pick out something for this weekend. I'll let you know what I find.

19.5%? holy crap. what Snowy said too.

Yea, it is nuts. I had about 16oz of beer total at the release and I could hardly walk. :eek:

Geez the Fin du Monde I just picked up seems weak at "only" 9%

I forgot a few in my previous photo:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/08...ut-lineup2.jpg

:D

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Great!! I love to drink beer in free time. I want to have it NOW!

You can send me that bottle of anniversary Old Rasputin. I do love me some Old Rasputin on a cold day. Or any time, really.

Tell you what, we'll split up the beers, im2smrt. You can have the stouts and porters, I'll have the IPAs and Wheats. I like stout okay, but I prefer something with some hops.

I'm amazed you've got the Foothills Sexual Chocolate out where you are. They're from right here in Winston-Salem, and I had no idea they had that kind of retail reach.

I'm still debating whether or not to plunk down the cash for this year's Sam Adams Utopia.

I did in '07 and it was unbelievable. But $160 for a bottle of beer IS a bit steep, eh? :o

I am also a craft beer junkie and my favorite brewery has to be the Three Floyds' Brewery in Munster, Indiana. All the beers I've tried from them are excellent, but sadly, they're a bit hard to come by here in downstate Illinois, which is a beer drinker's wasteland (unless you live in Champaign/Urbana, Bloomington/Normal, or Springfield, but I live in an incredibly redneck part of the region), so every time I go out of town, I make an effort to hit up a halfway decent liquor store to see if I can pick up the stuff or any other microbrewed beer.

Another brewery I really like is the Brugge Brasserie in Indianapolis, which is a good Belgian inspired brewpub with excellent food as well. The beer they're most well known for is the Tripel Del Ripple, which is like 11% alc, but you would never know it from the taste. I've had their other beers and far as I can tell, you can't go wrong with any of them. It's somewhat depressing because I haven't gotten a chance to go to Indy recently and hit up any of their bars and microbreweries ever since the economy slowed down, so I'm stuck here in my hometown where most of the bars are dive bars infested with white trash and where the patrons consider BMC to be the best beers ever. In spite of that, I try to get ahold of as much microbrewed beer as possible.