I just want to thank you guys for not letting this terrible series of posts stagnate while I was gone. I especially want to thank . . .
/scans posts
//sees no one did the Beer Barrel
///sees Magic Mike XXL review apparently written by a bi-curious Leon Phelps
////shakes damn head
Today, I review a local Colorado favorite, Dale’s Pale Ale. Away we go to the land of STRONG BEER TAEKS.
NAME: Dale’s Pale Ale
SOURCE: Oskar Blues Brewery, Lyons, Colorado; Lyons is a small town twenty minutes north of Boulder where a lot of hippies and yuppies live that can’t afford a place in Boulder. Also, a lot of bikers (motor and pedal) stop there on the way to Rocky Mountain National Park. Congratulations, you learned something about a town to which you will never go!
TYPE: American India Pale Ale
REVIEW: Dale’s Pale Ale is probably the second Colorado beer that everyone tries after Fat Tire. It is basically a hoppy version of an American Pale Ale with all the piney and citrusy notes of an IPA. It is a good go-to choice when you can’t decide what to get. This is what I choose to drink last weekend at the “Fare Thee Well” Dead shows in Chicago once we got inside the venue. By the luck of the draw, the seats we got were in the club level at Soldier Field. I had never been up there before because I have no corporate friends in Chicago. It was really nice. We were on the east side, so we had a great view of the lake and downtown, and were able to walk between the columns and the spaceship parts of the stadium, as pictured.
Pictured: hippies
Also, there were leather recliners everywhere, and the bathroom lines were non-existent, which was nice! But the beers were TEN FUCKING DOLLARS AND FIFTY FUCKING CENTS. For any kind. Including Miller Lite. $10.50! For one! Anyway, the club level is about 18 stories tall on the east side of the stadium and one of the floors has really weird caricatures of famous Bears players, past and present.
I like how George McAfee looks pissed he has to stand next to Urlacher’s stupid tattoo, and how Gayle Sayers is trying to comfort him.
GRADE: B+
Was the B+ for the beer or the mural?
Question: Do you guys want me to start doing more small batch, weirder beers, or do you like the more easily available craft beers? I try a lot of bombers of unique stuff, so I can make this about rarer finds if you want.
I’d rather hear about something I actually have a chance of finding.
So…no G-spot reviews, then!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji-cT58rgNc
Cool. I will also branch out a bit more. I have been talking a lot about IPAs and APAs lately, so I need to mix it up.
I do like hearing about weirder beers, but if I can’t taste them, that’s a downer. Maybe a mix of both? One accessible, one not?
We have some specialty shops out here that I can order from, so wax esoteric if you want, boss. I’m usually the guy with the craft beer at whatever party I show up to, anyhoo.
I’m looking forward to trying Ballast Point’s Calm Before the Storm.
I’m always interested in weird stuff I cannot get access to, especially styles I haven’t tried or the like. We get a good amount of beer exposure here, so if the rarer out of state stuff shows up, it’s always good to know ahead of time what to look out for .
Whatever you’re drinking is fine by me. I like the learnin’ thing.
I’ve had their Mama’s Little Pils and liked it. I was wondering how the canned pales and IPAs were in comparison to the bottles. Ballast Point started canning some of their beers so you could take them to the beach. I have yet to try one.
Welcome back, hippie.
I think the cans taste just as good as bottles. I actually prefer them because they are easy to bring to the pool/beach/camping, and are easier to crush and recycle. Oskar Blues has been canning since the beginning, and a lot of companies have followed their lead (like New Belgium, Santa Fe, etc.)
Nice to be able to chuck into the bin without worrying they will shatter, no doubt. And Dale’s in a can does indeed hold up very well against anything I’ve had in a bottle. Having a keg in the house isn’t really that practical, sadly.
Nice leadoff pic off America’s favourite cartoon cuckold, too. The show that served as the bridge from Beavis and Butthead to Silicon Valley ,, ppl forget that.
I’m not sure what you’re talking about – they were just good pals.
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Stupid Tumblr link…
They just started brewing Dale’s Pale Ale in the NC mountains, too – it’s very popular here amongst the quasi-hipster set.
/hangs head in shame
//pulls up Sufjan Stevens on YouTube
Yeah, Asheville seems to be the town of choice for expanding western breweries. You’ve got Oskar Blues, New Belgium, and Sierra Nevada, at the least. The toothless, banjo-playing moonshiners must be pissed that they are losing part of their market share.
I hear they are meeting right now:
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Asheville proper is quite the artist/hippie commune in its own right, or is rapidly turning so. Quite a change from the town my parents grew up in! And I do believe a few generations back on my mom’s side in Madison County, there were some moonshiner kinfolk. Woo!
Saaa-LUTE! Lived in Madison Co. for a bit, Right off 209 about 15 miles from Hot Springs. In the winter got to see the sun for maybe 4 hours, which sounds good right about now. That and a beer.
The last memories I have of Madison County are from being really young, but I remember purty farms and unlimited glass bottle Cokes.
It’s mostly the same except where they widened Hwy 25 so retirees from Chicago and dentists from Miami could come in and build 6000 sq. ft log cabins with satellite dishes and come down to the convenience store and ask for artisanal (thanks to Moose’s gif I’ll never forget how to spell that) cheeses.
The last time I was on a full-day hike in the Blowing Rock area, I came up with the idea of a novel told from the perspective of local mountain man turned serial killer of folks like that. Twas a satisfying thought.
Wait, you’re not dead? Huh.
I prefer “hetero-flexible Chris Evans”, by the way.
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That is awesome! The stadium looks really cool with the mix of old architecture and new.
Didya clean the patchouli smell off you yet?
The smell is still lingering, but it was worth it. I have to say it was probably the best time I have ever had at a concert. Except the Congress Plaza Hotel. That place is a shithole (a haunted shithole, apparently).
You want haunted? My wife and I stayed at the Lizzie Borden house and slept in the room where Mamma Borden took 41 ax blows to the head.
I was up most of the night because I’m 6’1″ and that goddamn bed is at best 5’10”. Didn’t see or hear a goddamn thing.
You went and didn’t bother to do a recap post? Asshole!
I will do one. Still tripping. Needed Balls of Steel there to take pictures. Mine are not good. Drugs were involved.
Also, I went to all five. Scroll down and look for the bear.