Good afternoon, beer coin-a-suers. [DFO’s] resident drunk beer reviewer, Make It Snow, is an a lot of something else right now apparently, and as BFC pointed out last week, guest posts are a happenin’. I am your Low Commander of the Super Soldiers, and this week you are stuck with ME!
It has been a while since an IPA has found its way into the Barrel, so I decided to change that this week with a review of one of up and coming Beachwood BBQ & Brewing’s beers. Located right in the heart of downtown Long Beach, I have not yet made the pilgrimage North to peruse their boozey wares, but that will likely be changing soon. I have been rather impressed with their bottle selections so far, all of which I have had being IPAs, so I figured why break that trend now? It also gives me an excuse to use one of my fancy IPA glasses that I got for Xmas last year.
Thrillseeker is a double dry-hopped IPA that sits at 7.1% ABV and over 100 IBUs. The initial dry-hop contains Chinook, Summit, Centennial, and Simcoe, and the second doubles down on the Simcoe and Chinook. That’s a lotta hops! My bottle had a date code of 5/23/17, and it’s hard to get much fresher than that. It pours a fairly light orange and the head maintains a good half inch of foam after coming down a little. The smell is powerfully hoppy with a kick of citrus, which is about exactly what I was expecting with this beer. My initial sip started very clean; you get all the taste of the sweet malts and tropical citrus up front, before quickly giving way to a mild bitter earthiness on the back of the tongue. And let me tell you, that bitter bite isn’t going anywhere for a while. Each sip afterwards builds upon it, and even if you take a break for a minute or two, you’re going to have that lingering in the back of your mouth.
I let this beer warm up a bit to see how it would change, and my did it. After a good 30-45 minutes, this thing became the definition of a hop bomb. That lingering backend bitterness changed to a kick in the teeth that encompassed my entire mouth, and I couldn’t taste any other damn thing. If that’s what you’re going for, have at it, but this quickly went back in my fridge for a bit to round out those sharp edges.
Overall, it’s a pretty tasty IPA with a not overpowering bitter bite, but I didn’t find it particularly special among a lot of the other offerings available today. If I happened to find it on tap anywhere, it certainly would be a go-to, but I wouldn’t necessarily be tracking this down. That being said, it is a solid addition to the quality line up of Beachwood’s growing selections and if you happen to find something by them, I sincerely doubt that you would be disappointed.
Low Commander of the Super Soldiers is a somewhat of beer and drank a can of Stone Ripper in the shower before this 22 oz of Beachwood Thrillseeker. He enjoys talking in the third-person a little bit too much, and drank the majority of this Thrillseeker while finally completing Mass Effect: Andromeda. He recommends the beer, not the game.
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Good shit, LC. Thanks for filling in this week!
My dad proposed to me a new idea for a site that uses facial recognition software to match people that look alike called doppleganger. To see who you look like. Then a second layer DNA search to find who you are related with around the world. His way of monetizing it was once you get a database sell it to the US government. If they say no sell it to Russia or China or whatever government would pay the most.
That is treason, right? Is that just ok now with Trump as President?
The first half is a hokey Facebook app, the second is Ancestry, and the third is… the NSA?
yes
Sounds pretty kosher. Given your government demands passwords for entry, they’d say yes
Brick, FWIW, I truly appreciate your airplane porn entries.
And I think this is the most beautiful machine forged by the hands of man:
http://www.ml407.co.uk/ml407wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/IMG_7303-1024×683.jpg
My proudest moment today was walking to the gym where I noticed they had a brand new heavy bag.
Untouched it was.
I went 3 rounds with it.
It’s been fucking touched.
Phrasing?
It’ll never do that again.
So I started my day doing my normal sunday brunch with my mom, except today I ended up with a few volunteers from the events I got stuck doing because my mom always over schedules herself. I am apparently the “Armenian Meatball Soup” guy. I always make most of it but it is always my moms thing but she never stays in the booth
Holy shit, we’ve got three at the table. Paging Ayo and others…
Can’t. I have to be up early for a 12 hour drive.
No Veep tonight? This is the worst thing in the world.
The Leftovers finale was good, though.
If anyone wants to take my fake money, see MTWV at the DFO poker table
I am doing a GoT Season 6 RW until someone shows up at the poker table or I drink myself to death with this new plan that I will follow through with for too long.
I rooted for that asshole kid that betrays Jon to die since the ep he was introduced
Enjoy your shot sir.
I am playing now, still took the next 2
So no one is up for poker tonight? I have sat alone for hours now. Ok, instead I am going for creating a drinking game where I drink whenever someone other than me posts a comment
Drink!
(I’ll try and make a brief appearance at the table)
Double drink!
I am doing this with shots, both are done now
You know what the NBA needs? More concussions.
“This is why I don’t play checker. Too dangerous.” — Trent Green
Evening lizard people. As I wrote, have two genuinely good teams ever generated more of a resounding meh?
Well having to watch 82 + 12 (13 for the guys getting blown out this series) before the finals when every single person assumed they would get here might have something to do with it
http://2static.fjcdn.com/pictures/Wildcats+rawr_640d12_6055434.jpg
Time for Top Chef, where there is actually some amount of suspense as to who is going to win.
So there is no new TV, and I have a shit ton of free time (that I should be spending looking for a job) and am counting down the days until new GoT. I have spent the last 6 hours watching fan theories on youtube on what will happen.
/The 6 hours previously listed was actually 10, but the other 4 was listening to my dad randomly be for or against the same action by a world leader based on their party. Yelling at me when I basically agreed with him. And saying Fox News is the only network that can be trusted.
//”There is no evidence for man made climate change”
“You studied to be a fucking rocket scientist at Northwestern”
Watch American Gods.
You don’t watch Veep or Silicon Valley?
This reminds me to watch Veep.
Quit Veep season 3 I think. I didn’t hate it just never bothered to watch new eps. Silicon Valley I should watch, if only for TJ Miller
http://www.thesmokersclub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Arnold-Smoking-Weed-1024×866.jpeg
The ESPN crew is announcing the Cubs game from a reserved section of the bleachers and when they loosen the shot enough you see this busty woman sitting to their right and boobs.
“Today’s NBA-without the cult of personality we’d be as popular as mixed-doubles table tennis!”
The NBA is broken.
I’m actually hoping for Golden State to take a 3-0 lead just so they can blow it and birth an even more hilarious meme.
Oh, Lord. Let it happen.
Don’t let the Warriors potentially blowing a 3-0 lead distract you from the Warriors blowing a 3-1 lead.
I’m just here for the meme-able blown leads.
I said that in the early 2000s.
and it is more popular/ raking in more $s than ever.
Another thing I won’t miss about this dump I live in now: It retains heat like no place I’ve ever lived. It’s nice in the winter, but in the summer it means if it gets above 80 outside, it’ll stay above 80 inside well past sunset even as the temperature falls outside.
Damn you heat. DISSIPATE!
OK, mold and moist heat? Fuck that noise. You also need a place with a BBQ grill; I will throw in $10.
What I imagine when ya’ll talk about playing poker together
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=02222005
You are so correct its not even funny.
How is your mom’s MS and why aren’t you at the table?
It’s clearing up, thanks!
Thats basically the tagline for achewood
http://achewood.com/index.php?date=12042006
You gotta use Bing for that stuff.
You nailed it. Precisely, just add addictions.
Someone at this Cubs game is wearing what appears to be a Milton Bradley jersey.
Milton Fucking Bradley.
Are you saying that people that lack impulse control can’t have heroes?
Think I can forget about that beer. Fortunately, I didn’t say a damn thing about whiskey!