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camhead
Dec 14, 2009, 3:43 PM
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Good subject. There are a lot of beers/breweries I associate with specific climbing areas. Moab Brewery Scorpion Pale Ale: Indian Creek Anything from the Howe Sound Brewery: Squamish Seasonal Pumpkin Ale from the Gilded Otter: Gunks Magic Hat #9: New River Gorge Any German beer from the Fredericksburg Brewery: Enchanted Rock, TX 32 oz Caguamas of Cerveza Sol or Carta Blanca: Potrero Chico Sierra Nevada Pale Ale: standby for unfamiliar areas, and when I have money PBR (preferably tallboys)-- any time I am on a budget/long term roadtrip/Utah.
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macherry
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dlintz wrote: Sitting around a campfire after a day of climbing: 1. Good bourbon. It warms me up, it's compact, doesn't need a cooler, and unlike drinking a bunch of beers I don't have to get out of my sleeping bag in the middle of the night to pee. 2. Old Chub Scottish Ale by Oskar Blues. It's become a part of our climbing trips over the past few years. Even after the ice has melted in the cooler it still tastes great. 3. PBR. Pure nostalgia. d. i agree with the bourbon statement. my favorite brews are from the northwest. i love most beers from dechutes, especially their black butte porter. for a light beer session lager and dark larger from full sail brewery are great. Dechutes and full sail are oregon based
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jcrew
Dec 14, 2009, 3:57 PM
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Fat tire is so Boulder, '95. Arrogant Bastard, "you're not worthy"
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Alpine07
Dec 14, 2009, 4:08 PM
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blueeyedclimber wrote: The Beer Sampler at The Moat Mountain House in North Conway, NH. This is a tradition after climbing on Cathedral or Whitehorse. It's about 1 1/2 pints split up between 6 beers from Light (i.e. hefeweisen) to Dark (i.e. stout). There is usually one or 2 beers that I would never order on their own but who can resist 6 beers at once? I'd forgotten about the Beer Sampler at The Moat. Definitely awesome, and related to climbing. Slightly different topic. I associate the Shannon Door Pub, in Jackson, with climbing. Would always go there after a day of climbing and order one of those awesome pizzas. So good. Love that place.
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nkane
Dec 14, 2009, 4:11 PM
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macherry wrote: i agree with the bourbon statement. my favorite brews are from the northwest. i love most beers from dechutes, especially their black butte porter. for a light beer session lager and dark larger from full sail brewery are great. Dechutes and full sail are oregon based Word. Nothing brings back memories of sitting around the picnic tables at the Smith Rock campground like Black Butte porter. I also have to add Alaskan Amber - not that I've ever been to Alaska, but a lot of the random bars and saloons in central Oregon seem to have it, and it's great accompaniment to a post-climb burger.
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zealotnoob
Dec 14, 2009, 5:26 PM
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It's not my favorite, but I'm surprised Dale's Pale Ale hasn't been mentioned. It's the only decent ale I can think of that comes in a can. I love a good IPA after climbing. Harpoon, Redhook and Long Trail make good ones. If it was a hot day and I need something refreshing, wheat beer often hits the spot. Not to offend, but Magic Hat #9 often makes these lists, and I I just think that is a horrible horrible beer.
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camhead
Dec 14, 2009, 5:28 PM
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zealotnoob wrote: It's not my favorite, but I'm surprised Dale's Pale Ale hasn't been mentioned. It's the only decent ale I can think of that comes in a can. I love a good IPA after climbing. Harpoon, Redhook and Long Trail make good ones. If it was a hot day and I need something refreshing, wheat beer often hits the spot. Not to offend, but Magic Hat #9 often makes these lists, and I I just think that is a horrible horrible beer. Yeah, I've noticed that Magic Hat has very little middle ground; you either love it or hate it. I'll have to try Dale's, though, I've never had it and am a huge fan of Pale Ales.
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gmggg
Dec 14, 2009, 6:05 PM
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shoo wrote: gmggg wrote: On a slightly more esoteric note I would have to say that I have always associated IPA's, as a general style, with climbing more than any other beer. I agree with you there. Outdoorsy Americans in general, myself included, love their hoppy beers. Unfortunately, the two IPAs I have brewed to date have been pretty mediocre. Not terrible, but certainly not what I was looking for. It's the cascades bro, the cascades! The hops, not the mountains. I will not sully my posts with climbing talk. Many of the best IPA's use ONLY cascades. You can fine tune a lot of the character with attentiveness and planning and some software. Promash rocks, but any online IBU calc should work fine. Always great to hear of another brewer! Full mash or extract?
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areyoumydude
Dec 14, 2009, 6:28 PM
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Miller High Life. The champagne of low lifes. For obvious reasons.
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jolery
Dec 14, 2009, 6:31 PM
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Sierra Nevada Pale Ale reminds me of Yosemite every time I taste it. A random climbing partner hooked me up with my first taste of this beer in Yosemite, at the time I wasn't really much of a beer drinker. I have since enjoyed this beer on my trips to Yosemite, and can feel the thrills with every sip, no matter where I am.
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mr.tastycakes
Dec 14, 2009, 8:26 PM
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zealotnoob wrote: It's not my favorite, but I'm surprised Dale's Pale Ale hasn't been mentioned. It's the only decent ale I can think of that comes in a can. Butternuts makes good beer in a can, cheap too. I don't know how available it is if you're not in the northeast though. http://www.butternutsbeerandale.com/ I love beer, and drink a lot of it. The Dusseldorf Altbier at the Gilded Otter is bangin'....tastes like a biscuit. I've always thought that as far as cheap, ubiquitous beer goes Budweiser is pretty palatable. Straight-up bud though, none of that bud light swill.
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shoo
Dec 14, 2009, 10:38 PM
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gmggg wrote: It's the cascades bro, the cascades! The hops, not the mountains. I will not sully my posts with climbing talk. Many of the best IPA's use ONLY cascades. You can fine tune a lot of the character with attentiveness and planning and some software. Promash rocks, but any online IBU calc should work fine. Always great to hear of another brewer! Full mash or extract? You are absolutely right about that. The first one (my second batch ever) was pure cascade, partial mash, two hop additions. The second one was all grain, 4 hop additions (cascade for bittering at ~60; cascade, amarillo, and simcoe at ~10; cascade and amarillo at ~5; dry hopped with cascade and amarillo, then oaked). A little grapefruitier than I would have liked, probably due to the amarillo. However, I think it was the grain bill that was the real problem with this batch. Grains were a bit too heavy, so the whole thing didn't balance quite as well as I would have liked. I probably should have stuck to US 2-row and cara-pils. Lesson learned. Just bottled: remake of my toasty irish red, which was a big hit with people the first time i made it. This one turned out a little sweeter than the first batch. Whatever. In secondary: Beelzebub's Breakfast Stout (oaked coffee / chocolate oatmeal stout, a take on Founder's Breakfast Stout) Next up: smoky Scotch ale I'm thinking my first lager should be the next one. We have a room in our apartment that is consistently around 45 degrees. Marzens are the natural choice, but I might do a Euro honey pilsner instead.
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the_climber
Dec 14, 2009, 10:51 PM
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Big Rock Traditional Ale, "Trad" as locals call it. Brewed in Calgary, Alberta. http://www.bigrockbeer.com/#/beer/traditional The name says enough, and it is an excellent brew. The brewery is named after this: The Okotoks Erratic weighs 16,500 tons. It measures 9 metres high, 41 metres long and 18 metres wide.
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Dec 14, 2009, 11:59 PM
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I know its predictable, but I really like guinness, in the big can. 1.) Its tasty, including when its warm. 2.) I can actually boulder a bit better if I enjoy one while bouldering. 3.) They are pretty loud when you open them, and you can hear it if your partner is in the beer stash down at the belay. Also, 102 Brew. It's cheap, potent, and it says "Extra High Gravity" right on the can.
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Dec 15, 2009, 12:07 AM
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My friends' drink St. Arnold's, and since I don't like beer, but I drink the St. Arnold's Root Beer. http://www.saintarnold.com/
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Dec 15, 2009, 12:08 AM
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beton wrote: As I'm a Belgian guy, I sadly don't really know, nor have tasted any of the beers that have been mentioned above. We might live in a tiny country, but we do brew excellent beer (or at least think we do so), so the idea is that we don't need to import inferior beer from anywhere else in the world. :) I do however link one particular beer to climbing. It's called 'Duvel' (free translation : Devil) from the Moortgat brewery. It doesn't matter whether I was doing indoor bouldering, or sportclimbing outdoors in the southern regions of our country, .. all climbing sessions usually end with one (or a few) of those Duvels. The beer is incredibly refreshing (although it's pretty heavy, with 8,5% alcohol.), so it's perfect to consume after a few hours of sports. We might find our tongues a bit loosened too, which stimulates storytelling and male bonding. Hooray for male bonding! Duvel is an awesome beer! Definitely one of my favourites, I wish I could get it in Canada! Personally I don't have any specific beer I associate with climbing. Maybe if I had to choose I'd say india beer. Don't ask me "do you mean IPA? what brand?" it's just india beer. I'm not even sure if it is actually an IPA, it's just called india beer and has a newfoundland dog on the box. Sold only in Newfoundland. It's great when you're checking out some music after a day of climbing.
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pbnjonny
Dec 15, 2009, 4:52 AM
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gmggg wrote: It's the cascades bro, the cascades! The hops, not the mountains. I will not sully my posts with climbing talk. Many of the best IPA's use ONLY cascades. You can fine tune a lot of the character with attentiveness and planning and some software. Promash rocks, but any online IBU calc should work fine. Always great to hear of another brewer! Full mash or extract? another homebrewer here, and I fully support this sentiment. Almost every pale ale and IPA I make, which is also most of what I brew, use cascades. It was a happy day when my friend found a local group buy that we got in on for $16/lb. To the main topic though, there aren't too many good beers that I really associate with climbing, although there are a number of bad ones. Golden Anniversary Beer and Black Label beer: Anytime I go down to the New with my friend Andy we always stop at the Walmart in Summersville and pick up a 12pack of whatevers decent, and a 12 pack of whatever the cheapest stuff is. At $5 a 12 pack these beers are part of the latter, and its really just the association of buying some unknown shitty beer that I remember. PBR: a stable on most climbing trips. Magic Hat #9: if I'm in the mood to drink something good this is what I usually go for, tend to drink it more in the fall at Seneca.
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milesenoell
Dec 15, 2009, 6:39 AM
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Hops of any kind or quality for 16 bucks a pound?! Damn. I haven't brewed in a little over a year and a half, but when I was brewing I was paying around that per ounce. I guess the hop shortage is over, eh?
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milesenoell wrote: Hops of any kind or quality for 16 bucks a pound?! Damn. I haven't brewed in a little over a year and a half, but when I was brewing I was paying around that per ounce. I guess the hop shortage is over, eh? Pellets. Old stale pellets.
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shoo wrote: gmggg wrote: It's the cascades bro, the cascades! The hops, not the mountains. I will not sully my posts with climbing talk. Many of the best IPA's use ONLY cascades. You can fine tune a lot of the character with attentiveness and planning and some software. Promash rocks, but any online IBU calc should work fine. Always great to hear of another brewer! Full mash or extract? You are absolutely right about that. The first one (my second batch ever) was pure cascade, partial mash, two hop additions. The second one was all grain, 4 hop additions (cascade for bittering at ~60; cascade, amarillo, and simcoe at ~10; cascade and amarillo at ~5; dry hopped with cascade and amarillo, then oaked). A little grapefruitier than I would have liked, probably due to the amarillo. However, I think it was the grain bill that was the real problem with this batch. Grains were a bit too heavy, so the whole thing didn't balance quite as well as I would have liked. I probably should have stuck to US 2-row and cara-pils. Lesson learned. Just bottled: remake of my toasty irish red, which was a big hit with people the first time i made it. This one turned out a little sweeter than the first batch. Whatever. In secondary: Beelzebub's Breakfast Stout (oaked coffee / chocolate oatmeal stout, a take on Founder's Breakfast Stout) Next up: smoky Scotch ale I'm thinking my first lager should be the next one. We have a room in our apartment that is consistently around 45 degrees. Marzens are the natural choice, but I might do a Euro honey pilsner instead. Lagers are tough. Or at least, I don't have the patience. Good luck!
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Avery's Redpoint Ale. In fact, pretty much anything put out by Avery's.
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agent0069 wrote: Great thread. Soon as I read the post I thought of these three beers. Pumpkin Ale at Guilded Otter- For me, this seasonally brewed beer is synonomous with Gunks climbing. Mac & Jack African Amber- PNW area beer only available on tap, my beverage of choice after coming down from the mountains in the Cascades. Sweetwater 420- Brewed in Atlanta, they usually donate a keg for climber fundraiser events and the beer is very good. Can't think of the last time I went to a climber event and did not drink Sweetwater. Sweetwater is great! I was in Atlanta for a tradeshow and my hotel was right next to the brewery. It's a crummy area of a crummy town; but the only redeeming feature of my trip.
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Gotta be a Shiner: Bock, Commemorator, or the seasonal favorite, Cheer!
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milesenoell wrote: Hops of any kind or quality for 16 bucks a pound?!..... I was paying around that per ounce. damn, CrazyPeite sould be growing this shit...
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