hey beer snobs! got a question for ya...

[Iommic Pope]

Yeah that's really cool.
We don't get badass options like that down here because...going to the pub is now a heinous and expensive ordeal instead of the national past time it used to be.

Plus every dickhead now thinks they're a cider/IPA/craft beer aficionado. Shit's fucking annoying.

[pelliott]

i already have bodhi waiting!
sucks they only do it in half kegs.
CBC IPA is a "meh" one in my books.
and i'm an IPA junkie.

Columbus IPA fresh is super drinkable and balanced and the nose is sooo good man. It's not gonna blow you away with hoppiness but it's just an excellent, balanced beer. Super sessionable. Out of all the Ohio IPAs you can find all the time I like White Rajah and Fat Head's more but that's cuz I loooove me some tropical hop profiles, but I figure with it right around the corner, CBC would be so fresh.

Bodhi, though, is >>>>>> and I've only had a few ounces of it. I like it more than Pliny

[space6oy]

dude it's just how everyone's tastebuds are different. i have a collection of a couple hundred beer bottles, probably 90% IPA. i joke about being a snob, have only brewed my own once (ingredients for batch 2 have been waiting on me...), but we all can be picky. i've just never been impressed by theirs. not a big fan of 60 minute either, for example, but it IS a good IPA. i just never buy it anymore because of so many others i like better... (and i've even read two books by sam calagimionelicious or whatever the fuck his last name is.)

[space6oy]

re: ohio iPAs, find jackie o's mystic mama. it's awesome and once upon a time an old band of mine did shows w/ their brewmaster's old band.

buckeye lake brewing is picking up too, growler i had of theirs was very good...

[pelliott]

Oh no I understand, I'm just spouting my admiration for it. I don't actually judge anyone's taste (sorry, I didn't mean to come off rude). I figure it'd be a solid beer to stock though since it's easily accessible, well-known in the area, and really sessionable.

Buckeye Brewing is good... I haven't had anything from them in years but I remember a few ('76 IPA) being very solid.

Mystic Mama is good as heeeeell too. My sister and I got some over the holidays and loved it. I know what you mean about 60 Minute: there's so many good options out there that it's hard to choose.

[pelliott]

And the next time I'm in Columbus I'm coming by your venue and drinking A MILLION BEERS

[space6oy]

nah this is buckeye LAKE brewing, they just got running a year or so ago.

that's awesome about you stopping by when you're in the area!

[pelliott]

Ohhhh I'll have to check that out.

[technicoloraudio]

i get the flights thing, but i really wish that all taps everywhere had a 4oz pour available so I could just try one or two at a time. by the time you get to that fourth or fifth beer on the flight, its small size and small non-insulative glass usually means that its quite warm. a little warm can be good for tasting subtle flavors, but all carbonation leaves a small sample quickly when it heats up to room temp.


fuck flights, just have small pours, then you don't need those lame ass paddles to put the beers on and people can have the things that they want and nothing they don't. depending on how many taps you have this can be extremely profitable, and no one ever has a reason to send a beer back like "oh, this wasn't for me." too late motherfucker, i already got your $2.25.

[Chankgeez]

I like bars that sell half pints.

[Krosis]

Screw the flights, give me a pint (or three).

In all seriousness, I vote for the 5oz flights.

[Inconuucl]

I wish more bars had Old Rasputin on tap, their stuff is way better on tap than on bottle. 8D

[jfrey]

i'm hoping to do BIG sampler flights at my bar. is 3oz enough to discern & debate a taste? or should i go with 5oz? know it really takes at least two sips.
i was hoping to make it a 10 sample scenario. with 3oz that's just under two pints. 5oz it'd be just over 3.
might be better off going with fewer samples at the 5oz so people will still wanna buy a pint of one they liked after... but that'd be a bummer to me.
i like 10.
hmm...

I have never been to a place that does flights of more than 3 or 4 samples. Even 5 samples would still be large for a flight. You could do 2 different kinds of flights, each of 5 samples, 5 oz.

[t-rey]

I wish more bars had Old Rasputin on tap, their stuff is way better on tap than on bottle. 8D

There is a bar in town that keeps it on tap with nitro. So. Effing. Good.

[futuresailors]

also, see ones like this look boring and too common to me and a risk of one of them being a beer i think sucks and then not bothering with finishing it off. waste...

I've had a flight like this, and as a non-beer aficionado (gimme my liquor), thought the serving size was wayy too large as a sampler. On the particular one I had, each glass was like a half or third pint, more than enough for a taste, and on the one I didn't like, more than enough to feel wasteful if I didn't down the stuff.

fuck flights, just have small pours, then you don't need those lame ass paddles to put the beers on and people can have the things that they want and nothing they don't. depending on how many taps you have this can be extremely profitable, and no one ever has a reason to send a beer back like "oh, this wasn't for me." too late motherfucker, i already got your $2.25.

Science says this would be the best thing to do (read this if you don't know what the jam study is: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/your- ... .html?_r=0).