wow, I can't believe I've never seen this thread. glad I found it tonight!
I've been in the beer biz for a long time in many different capacities. My latest gig has been bartending and resident beer geek at a decent upscale beer joint. Over the last 6 or so months, I've been doing a lot of "volunteer" work at a local brewpub as well as
St. Somewhere, a nice microbrewery in my area, with the goal of learning to brew on a commercial level in mind.
A few weeks ago I brewed my first commercially available beer with Bob at St. Somewhere. It's a limited-release Belgian Pale Ale to celebrate the One Year Anniversary of the place I've been working.
Here's the
ratebeer listing, which doesn't have much on it yet since the only people who have tried it yet are folks who bottled beer at the brewery Saturday and those who attended a party I took a keg to the same night.
I made 8 kegs. We killed one over the weekend, the rest went to the bar. The early reviews have all been pretty positive. I haven't read through all the posts yet, but if any of y'all are in the Tampa Bay Area, let me know and I'd be happy to buy your first pint.
Thanks for reading my blatant brag.
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Originally Posted by JohnnyRyall
I've been on a stout kick recently, which is why I picked it up. I checked out beer advocate and it got great reviews. This is the first time I'll be having a beer with such high alcohol, let me know what I'm getting into lol.
I'm not really a stout fan, but two I've found recently which I absolutely love are Lagunitas Imperial Stout and Weyerbacher Heresy. They're not as strong as that DFH you mentioned, clocking in around 10-11%, but that's certainly on the strong side of things. I highly recommend giving these a try if you haven't already.