Chicago FanGraphs/BeerGraphs Meetup: Tonight

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July 18, 2013

Yes. We will do more of these. Because they are fun. On July 18th, we won’t have baseball to watch, and that will make this a support group meetup of sorts. Come talk to us about the first half of real baseball, or fantasy baseball, or about brewing, or about beer, or about life.

Thanks to all of these great writers that have agreed to come for this informal Q&A session. Ask for the FanGraphs event, as we’ll have our own space. Sorry youngsters, this is a 21 and over event.

July 18, 4pm — 8+pm, Fizz, Chicago

Eno Sarris (BeerGraphs, FanGraphs)
Michael Bates (NotGraphs, SBNation)
Carson Cistulli (FanGraphs)
Dayn Perry (FanGraphs, CBS Sports)
David Wiers (FanGraphs)
Bradley Woodrum (FanGraphs)
Cee Angi (SBNation)
T.K. Gore (CSNChicago/NBCSports)
Dan Hayes (CSNChicago)
Kevin Holden (CBS Milwaukee)
Harry Pavlidis (BrooksBaseball)
Sahadev Sharma (ESPNChicago)
Scott Skillings (STATS)
JJ Stankevitz (CSNChicago)
Matt Dennewitz (BeerGraphs, Pitchfork)
Greg Sasso (BeerGraphs)
J.R. Shirt (BeerGraphs)
Jeff Gross (Hardball Times, SaBEERmetrics)





 

With a phone full of pictures of pitchers' fingers, strange beers, and his two toddler sons, Eno Sarris can be found at the ballpark or a brewery most days. Read him here, writing about the A's or Giants at The Athletic, or about beer at October. Follow him on Twitter @enosarris if you can handle the sandwiches and inanity.

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bjs2025
10 years ago

Crowdsourcing: Best beer you’ve ever drank:

Troeg’s Perpetual IPA – Double IPA – Harrisburg, PA

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Well-Beered Englishman
10 years ago
Reply to  bjs2025

Favourites, at least. (I don’t much drink lagers, and dislike IPAs.)

Wheat: Live Oak Hefeweizen (Austin, TX)
Belgian: Trappistes Rochefort 10
Lager: Lakewood Lager (Dallas, TX)
Ale: Riggwelter Strong Yorkshire Ale (Masham, UK)
Porter: 512 Pecan, barrel aged (Austin, TX)
Stout: 512 Cascabel Cream (Austin, TX)
Limited Release: Stone Collaborations Mint Chocolate Imperial Stout (San Diego, CA)
At-Large: St Bernardus Abt 12 (Belgium)

No trouble singling out Trappistes Rochefort 10 as the finest of these.

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juan pierres mustachemember
10 years ago
Reply to  Well-Beered Englishman

That’s an impressive list. I feel that we have entirely opposite taste in beer styles–I’m an IPA guy, though I can appreciate good examples of other styles. I’m also a more recent initiate to good beer, so I don’t think I have nearly the breadth of experience you do. For me:

Saison: Saison Dupont Dry-Hopped
DIPA: Stone Ruination (as well as the more recent RuinTen, which is fantastic) (I might have said Firestone Walker Double Jack, but I feel the need to not just steal all of Eno’s favorites)
IPA: Bell’s Two Hearted / Ithaca Flower Power
Stout: AleSmith Speedway Stout
Red: Lagunitas Lucky 13
Lager: Southern Tier Krampus

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Dr_Caligari
10 years ago
Reply to  juan pierres mustache

Well, I love me both some baseball talk and beer drinking, but a Thursday may cause me a bit of trouble at getting there. I’ll put myself as a definite maybe for right now, since I am unsure of scheduling a full week and change ahead.

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Dr_Caligari
10 years ago
Reply to  juan pierres mustache

And for my actual answer, to Well-Beered’s question (how’s it going WBE?), here’s some of my favorites:

Wheat: Three Floyd’s Gumballhead
Lager: Southern Tier Krampus (totally agree, mustache, it’s delicious)
Dortmunder: Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold
DIPA: Great Lakes Lake Erie Moster
Rye: Two Brothers Cane and Ebel
Imperial Stout: Two Brothers North Wind, followed closely by Founders Breakfast Stout
Russian Imperial Stout: Old Rasputin
Porter: Bell’s Porter and Founders Porter are kind of a tossup
Scottish: Three Floyd’s Robert the Bruce
Pumpkin: Schlafly Pumpkin Ale (Although I also enjoy some Pumking)
Limited release: Goose Island Bourbon County is spectacular, but also as smoked stout collaboration that I had from Westbrook Brewing in South Carolina with Evil Twin was amazing.

Basically, I’m from the midwest so that’s most of what I drink.

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Dr_Caligari
10 years ago
Reply to  juan pierres mustache

And I still managed to not include WBE’s answer for most disappointing:

I’m going to have to go with Delirium Tremens. It’s just not a flavor that I enjoy even if other folks think it’s delicious. But man, I suck at replying.

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Well-Beered Englishman
10 years ago
Reply to  juan pierres mustache

Dr Caligari! I’d been wondering where you’d gone. Yes, our locations are evident in our choices; I yearn for the day when Founders Breakfast Stout, Krampus, or Three Floyd’s anything are find-able in the South.

I believe my father had Delirium Tremens and reported to me that it is citrusy, or lemony, in an intense way?

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Dr_Caligari
10 years ago
Reply to  juan pierres mustache

Yeah, it is strong on a combination of citrus (which really isn’t bad, as I’ve had a number of citrusy beers that I do like) and a kind of floral taste. And that mixture just doesn’t work for me. I think either one of those tastes separately would be ok for me, but that was just not pleasant. Luckily, my buddy paid for it, so it wasn’t a complete loss on my end.

And hopefully I have a bit more time to comment here, as I am done teaching for the semester and have taken care of the couple projects I needed to handle.

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Wobatus
10 years ago
Reply to  juan pierres mustache

Love the Old Rasputin. Also Cigar City’s Zhukov’s Final Push. A current favorite as a summer beer is Carton’s Boat Beer, from Atlantic Highland’s, NJ. Peekskill is a current favorite brewer. I think the guy from Ithaca is there now.

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Wobatus
10 years ago
Reply to  juan pierres mustache

When I moved to New York in 1987, I started getting the old Thomas Hardy’s by Eldridge Pope. Those were amazing. Those and the Corsendonks, Orval’s and Westmalles at a Belgian place in the Village, and Schenkterlas in Yorkville started me on a beer odyssey.

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Wobatus
10 years ago
Reply to  juan pierres mustache

Schlenkerla.

And the Belgian place in the Village was Cafe de Bruxelles on Greenwich Ave and 13th Street. Was there for years then became Lyon in 2010 or 11 and is now a place called Cole’s. More of a cocktail-y place.

A good place for belgians now in Manhattan is B cafe on East 74th, although a tad pricey.

By the way, not sure of the worst beer i ever had, although Buster Poindexter used to do a song, in the style of Noel Coward, called “The Worst Beer That I’ve Ever Had.” Invariably introduced by a story about rehabbing at Duffy’s Dry-Out Clinic on Montserrat and running into Morey Amsterdam.

The lines were something like:

I’ve had Pilsner Urquell brewed in a Communist hell [which after the fall of the soviet union became a “former communist hell”]

I’ve imbibed a Newcastle brown
It’s the only way to bear that old town
and Fosters from down under
that would make an abo chunder
and tie his kangaroo down

etc.

Not as great on the page but it was a fun drinking song.

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tonycmember
10 years ago
Reply to  bjs2025

Brouwerij Oud Beersel Oude Geuze__Geuze__Beersel, Belgium

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John Choiniere
10 years ago
Reply to  bjs2025

Stone’s Sublimely Self-Righteous black IPA on tap at the brewery. And it’s not really that close.

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Ben
10 years ago
Reply to  bjs2025

La Trappe Quadrupel Oak Aged. Ridiculously expensive, but amazingly complex.

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Jeffrey Gross
10 years ago
Reply to  bjs2025

Excluding one offs and super limited beers such as BCS Rare/Vanilla, BA Vanilla DL and even tough to get brews likdouble sunshine?

Among beers folks have an easy shot at trying, my top 3:
1. Abrasive Ale
2. Abraxas
3. Consecration,
4. Head Hunter IPA
5. Zombie Dust

I swear that this list is not intentionally IPA heavy, as I like plenty of non-hoppy beers.

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Eminor3rdmember
10 years ago
Reply to  bjs2025

Bell’s Black Note Stout

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