My, y'all have been busy. I've got some catching up to do!
Christening the new Charred Beer Scout.
My new Gec Beer Scout #108 of 225 in charred beer barrel oak with Factory oil and all.
Buzzbait, TheFactor, and Travman, congrats on your new Charred Barrel Oak Beer Scouts. They look lovely, as do the brews with which they're proudly displayed!
I have not had many of Ninkasi's beers but that sounds like a very solid oatmeal stout. In 2015 I did try their Ground Control a stout who's yeast was sent into space then recovered and used to brew. It was a good beer with a very interesting story that anyone who enjoys both beer and science would like. I believe they followed suit in 2016 with a barrel aged version. I hope that your new arrival shows up soon and gets some use during the holidays. In the mean time there's nothing wrong with your stunt double, how can you not like a knife that comes with a toothpick!!
Their Tricerahops Double IPA is also good stuff. That reminds me, I haven't had it in quite a while... Thanks for the info on the Ground Control stout. I remember seeing it in the stores, but had no idea about its origin story. I'll do some searching at the good beer stores here to see if I can track down the 2016 edition.
And yeah, it's good to have a stunt double that can also play a leading role.
That's a wonderful picture of your gunscout with the fire in the background. It makes me feel all warm and cozy just looking at it. :thumbup:
#7 and a cold one. This was from Thursday, temps were below zero, so it really was a cold one. Switching over to bottles for the foreseeable future.
This was from a 30 day one knife challenge on another forum. I chose to use the Opinel to force me to use it for all my cutting duties.
Yikes that's cold! I'm really happy that good beer is available in cans these days, but never considered the freeze-your-lips-to-the-can possibilities.
Bottles do seem like the superior option in that situation...
Nice looking #7. I haven't yet tried that size, but I think it might be perfect for me.
BTW, I've enjoyed your other posts in this thread as well. Good stuff! And, I've added Founder's Backwoods Bastards to my lists of beers to try soon. :thumbup:
Honored that I could be an inspiration, Greg!
That vanilla oatmeal stout looks good! :thumbup:
It reminds me of an unfortunate discovery I made yesterday, though.
Each Saturday for the past month, I've headed to the grocery store anticipating the arrival of Leinenkugel's Vanilla Snowdrift Porter, one of my favorite "seasonal" beers that I remembered as showing up in November or December each of the past few years. But no luck so far this year. I finally checked the brewery's website, and that porter is on longer to be found among their list of beers! :thumbdn: It's apparently been replaced by Bavarian Dunkel, a pleasant enough dark lager, but it's no porter!
- GT
Very sorry to hear that, GT. I remember you mentioning a month or so ago that you were looking forward to it. I hope that this leads to the search for a new favorite to take its place and that you discover something you enjoy even more.
Little Jack with a rather "little" (abv-wise) Coffee Milk Stout.
Knife and brew look great! I appreciate it when really tasty beers are brewed at a low enough ABV that you could enjoy a couple if you were so inclined.
Loving the pics of the blades and brews guys :thumbup: When I went out on Sunday evening, I switched to a vintage W.Green MOP Penknife and my Radio Jack. I was mainly drinking Vocation Bread & Butter on draught, and the odd Ardbeg 10, but I did sample a few cans and bottles, including these (excuse the phone pics). The 9% Founders was a stunner :thumbup:
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Sounds like a nice evening, Jack. I'll keep a lookout for the Founders. Would you mind telling me a little more about the Bombay Dazzler? I'm trying to imagine what an Indian Witbier would be... Is it heavily hopped like an IPA?
An oldie but a goodie. (The ale, the Schrade, and the old club 1911).
Nothing wrong with tried and true.
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My brother and his wife and daughter flew in from England a couple days ago and will be staying with us for Christmas. We went to the liquor store and picked up several mix-and-match six packs. Last year I got my brother one of those large Beer Cap Maps of the US for Christmas, which holds somewhere in the neighborhood of 175 beer caps. At the time they were still living here in the States, but now that they've moved across the pond, it's a little more difficult for him to add to it, so we selected beers based on the state in which they were brewed to help him fill in some gaps. (It's hard work, but someone has to do it.)
We've already put a good dent in the beers we bought, but I haven't managed to take any photos while we were actually drinking them, so here's a photo with the contributions to the map so far. (Although I've been carrying the Ebony Crown Lifter in the photo, I haven't been using it on these because the caps need to be kept pretty flat, and the narrow pocket knife cap lifter bends them too much, unfortunately.)
Sounds like you're making the best of your opportunity to catch up with your brother. I recognize a lot of those caps, but many are new to me as well. It's great how many great beers there are these days and the fact that many are regional makes traveling even more fun!
My Charred Barrel Oak Beer Scout arrived on Saturday and it's had the opportunity to lift a couple of caps so far:
This choice was inspired by Jack's posting it a week or so ago and StoneBeard's comment that it was among his absolute favorite winter beers. I was not disappointed. Thanks fellas.
The picture isn't great, but the beer was excellent and I'm excited about discovering the brewery. I'm a big fan of English bitters, but I haven't found many good examples available in the states. Certainly not what like you'd get on draught in a pub in the UK. So, imagine my delight when I discovered this bottle from a local brewery tucked away in the beer fridge at one of the better beer stores in the area. It's a quite good bitter and clocks in at only 3.5% ABV. It looks a bit cloudy because it is bottle conditioned and I was too impatient to wait for the yeast to properly settle.
Unbeknownst to me, the brewery has been in operation since 2012, focuses on English-style beers, and has a pubserving cask beers from six hand-pull beer engines!that is close by. I'm already making plans with a friend to meet up there soon in the New Year.
First Christmas with your little girl, right? :thumbup::thumbup: I'm sure the proud parents won't be going overboard with the gifts. 
:thumbup: A quick check of Founders' website indicated that both are seasonal beers, as Lost Viking noted, with the Redankulous supposedly available in July-August and the Backwoods Bastard available in Nov-Dec. They certainly don't show up in my usual grocery store's extensive beer display. I'll probably just be satisfied with consuming my more quotidian All-Day IPA and occasional 12-packs of Dirty Bastard Scotch-style ale.
Yessir, this will be baby girl's first Christmas! 
