Great Beer - down the street edition

[LordEgg_rivals16573]

west Sixth has a fabolous cocoa porter out. Drank enough of em to forget the name. Check it out.

Still say blue stallion nails a pilsner better than anyone else local

Life brew (off Richmond road) has a fabulous American brown ale. They also run a pilsner that ain't bad, but isn't as good as blue stallion in my opinion.

Still like shotgun wedding from country boy.

Ethereal has a great stout.

 

[Nuke99m.]

Still my favorite.

 

[Rebelfreedomeagle]

west Sixth has a fabolous cocoa porter out. Drank enough of em to forget the name. Check it out.

Still say blue stallion nails a pilsner better than anyone else local

Life brew (off Richmond road) has a fabulous American brown ale. They also run a pilsner that ain't bad, but isn't as good as blue stallion in my opinion.

Still like shotgun wedding from country boy.

Ethereal has a great stout.

Pay it Forward Cocoa Porter. Their coffee stout is really good, has very strong but smooth coffee flavor, but I've only seen it on tap at their be location.

Most of the time I drink Keystone.
Ice.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Pay it Forward Cocoa Porter. Their coffee stout is really good, has very strong but smooth coffee flavor, but I've only seen it on tap at their be location.

Most of the time I drink Keystone.
Ice.

Drank a 6 of Pay it Forward 2 years ago while back in KY. Above average, as I recall..

 

[Bill@ModernThirst]

Pay it Forward is a completely different beer when fresh on draft versus what's in cans. The cans are fine, but the draft is a really good porter.

To be honest, West 6th used to be infuriating. Go to the brewery and there were 10-15 great beers on tap. I mean great. The ones that went into cans were almost always the ones I liked the least at the brewery.

Then Heller Heaven came out. Then Pennyrile. Now the sour. They've started to figure it out.

 

[LordEgg_rivals16573]

I had it on draft.

 

[Bill@ModernThirst]

I had it on draft.

Yeah, that's the way to do it. It's really tasty on draft. It's fine in cans, but the flavors seem a little muted.

 

[LordEgg_rivals16573]

West sixth did a tap takeover out at Brooklyn Pizza is where I had it. I'm not much on IPA s so that was my go to.

 

[domino79]

Looks like I made a good decision to include cocoa porter in my sixer.

 

[Johns721]

So multiple "beer snob" groups I follow are all in a frenzy over Homestyle IPA from Bearded Iris in Nashville. Anyone tried it, and is it worthy of the hype it seems to be getting?

 

[LordEgg_rivals16573]

Not to belabor this but a canned porter just doesn't sound right. Do they not do bottles at all?

 

[UnfrozenCatfanLawyer]

West Sixth's canned sour is really good if you like that kind of thing.

 

[weused2luvhim2]

So multiple "beer snob" groups I follow are all in a frenzy over Homestyle IPA from Bearded Iris in Nashville. Anyone tried it, and is it worthy of the hype it seems to be getting?

Haven't seen that, but will be on the lookout for it.

 

[weused2luvhim2]

Cigar City is now available in Tennessee, so I got a sixer of Jai Alai.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Cigar City is now available in Tennessee, so I got a sixer of Jai Alai.

I drink Jai Alai every visit to FL. Good stuff.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Not to belabor this but a canned porter just doesn't sound right. Do they not do bottles at all?

They may. I really wanted to hit up West Sixth during my last visit to Lex, which happened this past November. Ran out of time. Settled for craft beers from Kroger and Trader Joe's.

 

[Free_Salato_Blue]

Bubba next door in his basement does a good amber ale.

 

[bigblueinsanity_rivals250340]

Country boy

Nacho bait
Smoked jalapeño Porter
Cougar bait
Shotgun wedding
Pappys red
Country western (collaboration)

Atg
Bo and luke
35k
70k
Numerous, numerous others.

Apocalypse
Watermelon crack
Green chili wheat
Cream ale
Any variation of their red

Monnik
King George
His dark materials
Their saison

West 6th
Amber
Oktoberfest
Lemongrass wheat

 

[LordEgg_rivals16573]

Apocalypse 1912 is cool. Very minerally. The brewer told me it was actually a 1912 recipe - hence the name. Heavy gypsum. But it is still good.

 

[bigblueinsanity_rivals250340]

Apocalypse 1912 is cool. Very minerally. The brewer told me it was actually a 1912 recipe - hence the name. Heavy gypsum. But it is still good.

Yes it's good too. I think it's the old oertels recipe. They initially kept the name, but then changed it