OT: Pliny the Younger

[pdmtong]

In line early enough for first seating on the last day. Raining but close enough to be sitting under the overhang before the patio. Two more hours before my triple IPA

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Normal sunny day there'd be a huge crowd but the cell dead center has everyone against the building

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[dzxc]

Solid beer, enjoy! I've had it at that exact location. I think my favorite is the Heady Topper and perhaps Bell's Hopslam depending on the year.

[pdmtong]

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[beeemmjay]

I'm familiar with The Elder...
What's The Younger all about?
Wristband tastings? I've never seen that!

[45K10]

Nice!
Yeah I have only had the elder as well, good beer. Give us a taste report on the younger

[pdmtong]

Delicious
This year 10.25%

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[45K10]

Oh that's not even fair! Isn't like 11 am out there?

[pdmtong]

Yes 11:00am and triple IPA in hand

[superbowlpats]

Damn I'm jealous. Younger is only available on tap. I've had Elder before (friend brought it back from CA) and it was fantastic. Right up there with Heady and Maine Lunch. Enjoy!!:beer:

[572cv]

Sonat valde bonum!:beer:

Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus.

[pdmtong]

Left to Right

Pliny the Younger triple IPA 10.25%

Pliny the Elder double IPA 8.00%

Blind Pig IPA 6.25%

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[ptourkin]

Left to Right

Pliny the Younger triple IPA 10.25%

Pliny the Elder double IPA 8.00%

Blind Pig IPA 6.25%

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This is how you do it. Headed out for some secret Younger for lunch. It's out and about if you look.

[pdmtong]

Oh yes. It's a great day to indulge

[livingminimal]

Nice. Ive had the pleasure of having PTY a few times.

I wont wait in insane lines anymore for it, but its still a pretty cool thing.

My favorite RR beer is actually Row 2 Hill 56! I wish I had more regular access to it.

Enjoy!!!!

[ptourkin]

Nice. Ive had the pleasure of having PTY a few times.

I wont wait in insane lines anymore for it, but its still a pretty cool thing.

My favorite RR beer is actually Row 2 Hill 56! I wish I had more regular access to it.

Enjoy!!!!

Row 2 Hill 56 is delicious.

Toronado San Diego just tapped a PTY for lunch. It was gone fairly quickly and no Blind Pig, so just a PTE PTY vertical. I love February.

[pdmtong]

Go big or go home
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[rwsaunders]

dawg.

[fuzzalow]

Living well is the best revenge. Which is a phrase I don't like or agree with because who the hell is being venged upon if you do this anyway?!

But nice goin' and it is nice to earn a life well lived. Dang, it sure seems like it is cheap to go out for lunch in the Bay area. Most of the bill was the 24 you took home.

[Louis]

Go big or go home

$1.20 - Hey big tipper! (just kidding - I know that's the CRV tax, not the tip)

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[ptourkin]

Got my tickets for charity to have more on Sunday at Blind Lady Ale House. May skip making it into a michelada this year :hello:

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[MikeD]

If you like really hoppy brews, go for it. I tried most of Russian River's beers/ales in a sampler and didn't like any of them. Lagunitas or Sierra Nevada for me.

[Tony T]

If you like really hoppy brews, go for it. I tried most of Russian River's beers/ales in a sampler and didn't like any of them. Lagunitas or Sierra Nevada for me.

Try some "gateway" white IPAs :)

[pdmtong]

Living well is the best revenge. Which is a phrase I don't like or agree with because who the hell is being venged upon if you do this anyway?!

But nice goin' and it is nice to earn a life well lived. Dang, it sure seems like it is cheap to go out for lunch in the Bay area. Most of the bill was the 24 you took home.

Funny how a $26 pizza turns into pints and bottles and of course a few tee-shirts because it's 75d here when it's not raining and it didn't happen unless you got the shirt and some beer glasses which I impulse bought because they say Pliny the elder on them

Truth is, the PTY excursion is just a now that we are married and have families excuse for my buddy and I go go hang out like we used to way back when we did road bike mtb bike ski and windsurf trips. Lots of windsurf trips from dawn patrol to baja to the gorge to Maui

I well realize that this beer is a bucket list item for many folks and I guess after 30oz of 10.25% I got excited and listed the receipt but that's an answer to the question folks wonder. Yea $5 per pour.

Even better is on my way home I bought a bottle of hibiki 17. Now that's a great ending to a great day

[pdmtong]

If you like really hoppy brews, go for it. I tried most of Russian River's beers/ales in a sampler and didn't like any of them. Lagunitas or Sierra Nevada for me.

So I snuck some PTY out in a stainless thermos so my wife would try it five hours later. It was a bit flat but she didn't care for it and prefers elder.

She's honest about her tastes and isnt swayed by the masses

[ptourkin]

If you like really hoppy brews, go for it. I tried most of Russian River's beers/ales in a sampler and didn't like any of them. Lagunitas or Sierra Nevada for me.
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[pdmtong]

Got my tickets for charity to have more on Sunday at Blind Lady Ale House. May skip making it into a michelada this year :hello:


I left my house at 5:30am to head across the bay pick up my pal and go to Santa Rosa. Started this thread via tapatalk since I've found way easier to post pics off my phone. Got home late and saw your thread started while I was driving. I was spending the time in line not reading the GD of classifieds for once. Iirc you are regular for the charity. It's fun to make the effort and be amongst the buzz literally and figuratively

Would love to have your impressions of this years PTY

Each year we do the BP PTE PTY side-side figured that'd be a good thing to try and there it is in your thread. Woot!

[fuzzalow]

I well realize that this beer is a bucket list item for many folks and I guess after 30oz of 10.25% I got excited and listed the receipt but that's an answer to the question folks wonder. Yea $5 per pour.

No, no explanation needed. I was interested and amused by the receipt. I gotta tel ya, with 30oz of 10.25% I'd be thinking less straight than you. I don't drink much these days and my indulgence to a stray Grey Goose martini has the right narcotic effect in taking the edge off. Anymore than that and I'll have wandered off into something afield from being Comfortably Numb.

I gotta pick your brain on some of this stuff. You are leagues ahead me on anything to do with this stuff.

[likebikes]

There's a tapping here Sunday at 11am. Might wake up early to go, might not, haven't decided.

[AngryScientist]

I well realize that this beer is a bucket list item for many folks

really?

i'm a scotch/wine guy. someone enlighten me, what's so great/exclusive about this stuff?

[Tony T]

really?

i'm a scotch/wine guy. someone enlighten me, what's so great/exclusive about this stuff?

http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/863/7971/

[ptourkin]

I left my house at 5:30am to head across the bay pick up my pal and go to Santa Rosa. Started this thread via tapatalk since I've found way easier to post pics off my phone. Got home late and saw your thread started while I was driving. I was spending the time in line not reading the GD of classifieds for once. Iirc you are regular for the charity. It's fun to make the effort and be amongst the buzz literally and figuratively

Would love to have your impressions of this years PTY

Each year we do the BP PTE PTY side-side figured that'd be a good thing to try and there it is in your thread. Woot!

These are heady times. It's nice getting the sneaky unannounced lunch kegs but a couple places I patronize put up tix for charity. The ones I got last night sold out in less than a minute but both me and my gf scored 2. We don't get Blind Pig in our flight, you are fortunate. If you added Row 2 - I'd be asleep after that flight. You guys did it right.

[AngryScientist]

You guys did it right.

Yea, those may be good and all, but as far as I know, only one brew gets the blue ribbon, am I right?

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[pdmtong]

really? i'm a scotch/wine guy. someone enlighten me, what's so great/exclusive about this stuff?
whats going on here is RRBC/Vinnie was at the forefront fo the double IPA revolution and PTE got massive national acclaim because it was double hopped and supremely balanced. instead of just getting an alcohol blast, you got flavor on top of the ABV.

PTY takes it to 11. It is a triple hopped IPA - very difficult to produce. Same thing - beautifully balanced. Big mouth feel. long finish. Richness and layers of flavors, The usual adjectives that describe better wines and spirits.

In addition, there is the exclusivity marketing. On tap only. First Friday in February to coincide with SF Beer Week, for two weeks only. Beer week got moved up to piggy on the Super Bowl but RRBC held the traditional date.

On opening day the line was down the block around the corner to the next block and halfway up the block behind the brewery. People have waited 8+ hours.

[Tony T]

Yea, those may be good and all, but as far as I know, only one brew gets the blue ribbon, am I right?


The company has historically claimed that its flagship beer was renamed Pabst Blue Ribbon following its win as "America’s Best" at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Whether the brand actually won an award in 1893 is unclear. Some contemporaneous accounts indicate that many vendors were frustrated by the fair's refusal to award such prizes. One account says that the only prizes awarded by the executive committee were bronze medals, in recognition of "some independent and essential excellence in the article displayed", rather than "merely to indicate the relative merits of competing exhibits"

[pdmtong]

Just noticed a label change
November bottling on left
February bottling on right
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[ojingoh]

really?

i'm a scotch/wine guy. someone enlighten me, what's so great/exclusive about this stuff?

Most IPAs are really poorly balanced, and that's bieng nice. I've had PTE and it was special, very much the archetype of fancy pants IPAs. Nose was orange marmalade, passion fruit and thick marijuana in the bag, not smoked. I don't like IPA at all, much less double IPA (tastes like altoids) but I really enjoyed the bottle I had.

Closest scotch equivalent would be cask strength islay like Lagavulin 12 or maybe an old Ardbeg. Wine would be a Mclaren Vale Shiraz. So BIG but balanced.

[beeatnik]

^damn, I like this dude's master somm style.

oh, angry, Pabst has been based in LA (near Century City in the old WB Records headquarters) for a few years now. That and the hipster connection are abominations in my book. Miller High Life por vida.

[pdmtong]

Most IPAs are really poorly balanced, and that's bieng nice. I've had PTE and it was special, very much the archetype of fancy pants IPAs. Nose was orange marmalade, passion fruit and thick marijuana in the bag, not smoked. I don't like IPA at all, much less double IPA (tastes like altoids) but I really enjoyed the bottle I had.

Closest scotch equivalent would be cask strength islay like Lagavulin 12 or maybe an old Ardbeg. Wine would be a Mclaren Vale Shiraz. So BIG but balanced.
^ this +1000

^damn, I like this dude's master somm style.
yea, I wish i wrote that. makes me feel like poseur.