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3/2/2009 4:01:51 PM

Arrived today in Charlotte, got some Fat Tire, 1554 & Mothership Wit



[Edited on March 3, 2009 at 1:24 PM. Reason : pic]

3/3/2009 1:22:29 PM

i got fat tire and mothership wit yesterday... i didn't see any of the 1554.

3/3/2009 1:29:58 PM

I used to live about 5 minutes away from New Belgium Brewery (or a 2 minute ride on your cruiser bike). While their beers are excellent (1554 especially), there are much better colorado beers. If you can get your hands on anything brewed by Odells, you'll find its infinitely better. New Belgium does contribute a lot to the city of Fort Collins, their brewery is amazing, so i love them.

3/3/2009 1:57:25 PM

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"While their beers are excellent (1554 especially), there are much better colorado beers. If you can get your hands on anything brewed by Odells, you'll find its infinitely better."

nobody that actually knows anything about beer is going to tell you that New Belgium is the best brewery in Colorado, and Colorado isn't even one of the best states as far as local breweries are concerned (Michigan, California, and Oregon come to mind), but New Belgium wasn't available here before yesterday so there is understandably some hype and anticipation regarding their beers even if they aren't that great.

3/3/2009 2:04:40 PM

I think the New Belgium beers are great beers. I will admit that it may have something to do with the nostalgia associated with going out to Colorado on snowboarding trips to Breck, and drinking Fat Tire out there. But I also remember the first time I had it years ago was in San Antonio and I remember thinking how good it was, and I had never heard of it at that point.

1554 is still my fav. dark beer of all time, especially on draft.

3/3/2009 2:14:47 PM

I never said Fat Tire or any other New Belgium beer was the best beer of all time. It is good though, and I'm happy it will be a part of my selection here in Raleigh now.

My dad lives in Fort Collins.

3/3/2009 2:42:34 PM

had it last night at the saucer here in raleigh. it was the debut night for it, got to keep the bottle too.

im not a fan of IPAs but this beer was pretty damn good, it was $8 but its in a 22oz bottle, i must say it was kinda worth it for all the hype and hell its almost the size of two beers.

would drink again, going again tonight to get the pint glass

3/3/2009 2:56:07 PM

isn't wednesday glass night?

3/3/2009 3:00:35 PM

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"isn't wednesday glass night? "

yes

3/3/2009 3:02:24 PM

Thursday is the release party @ the Charlotte Saucer... show up at 5, be one of the first 100 or so, and get a free glass

3/3/2009 3:04:12 PM

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"im not a fan of IPAs but this beer was pretty damn good"

it's not an IPA, not even close

3/3/2009 3:42:36 PM

why the fuck did i say that.

not a fan of amber ales, or anything from belguim as i feel they are too heavy, but this is really good.

3/3/2009 3:52:11 PM

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"my uncle goes hunting with the guy who owns fat tire... he was supposed to send me a couple of cases, but never did "

i can relate. i guy with whom i work has been best friends with the guy since youth and used to ride fat tires with him around CO state during college.

Perhaps he just got a lot of requests from people a few degrees of separation and decided to distribute here rather than just keep sending random boxes.

3/3/2009 4:17:47 PM

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"had it last night at the saucer here in raleigh. it was the debut night for it, got to keep the bottle too. im not a fan of IPAs but this beer was pretty damn good, it was $8 but its in a 22oz bottle, i must say it was kinda worth it for all the hype and hell its almost the size of two beers. would drink again, going again tonight to get the pint glass "

ha

I bought 22oz bottles at the grocery store for like 3 bucks. (I got to keep the bottle too!)
Not an IPA, but i'm sure it was a brainfart.
Wednesdays are pint nights.

3/3/2009 4:19:54 PM

This is kind of like when Coors was only available in Colorado and people used to fly out there with empty suitcases to bring it back to the east coat, it's decent beer but no better than half of the other thousands of brands already on sale in NC

That said, I fill my trunk to the brim with 12 packs of Sweetwater 420 everytime I go to my lake house in the mountains

3/3/2009 4:24:49 PM

oh word...i sipped on this while out in oregon

3/3/2009 4:26:29 PM

^^Fat Tire >> Coors.


oh, and

I actually made a thread on here about smokey and banditing some Fat Tire several years ago.

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3/3/2009 4:28:05 PM

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"it's decent beer but no better than half of the other thousands of brands already on sale in NC "

truth

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"That said, I fill my trunk to the brim with 12 packs of Sweetwater 420 everytime I go to my lake house in the mountains"

Sweetwater IPA >>>> 420

3/3/2009 4:34:34 PM

is Sweetwater sold anywhere in the Charlotte-metro area?

3/3/2009 4:40:40 PM

Saucer just made some big fuss about it a few weeks ago, and I think I might've seen it at the Harris Teeter @ 49 and Harris

3/3/2009 4:42:57 PM

So I heard that Fat Tire has finally made it to Raleigh.

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3/3/2009 4:43:51 PM

^^^Yeah, it's available in Charlotte now too, saw it at Harris Teeter @ Park Road Shopping Center and Total Wine.

[Edited on March 3, 2009 at 4:44 PM. Reason : ^]

3/3/2009 4:44:15 PM

awesome, thanks guys.

3/3/2009 4:46:02 PM

I fuckin' love Sweetwater.

3/3/2009 5:08:06 PM

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"Sweetwater IPA >>>> 420"

Negative on that

3/3/2009 5:16:17 PM

how weird. i was leaving for work yesterday morning and saw a fat tire truck driving down the road. i thought of you, tww.

3/3/2009 6:24:55 PM

EIGHT BUCKS???

goddamn, seattle aint cheap, but we can get a pint of Fat Tire for $4.

you people are gulliable.

and yeah, its a decent ale, but it's not worth blowing a nut on your grandma about.

3/3/2009 9:44:54 PM

^that was for a 22. and Flying Saucer is overpriced on a lot of their beers. (but they do have good prices on some of their other beers)

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3/3/2009 10:13:44 PM

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"goddamn, seattle aint cheap, but we can get a pint of Fat Tire for $4."

if you had actually read the post you are referring to you would realize that it was a 22oz bottle and not a pint, big bottles are always pretty expensive at a bar no matter where you go.

3/3/2009 11:37:17 PM

I hope Flying Saucer gets it soon for pint night.

3/3/2009 11:38:59 PM

uh they have it for pint night tonight.

3/4/2009 10:29:41 AM

just bought four 22's at HT for tailgating tonight

$2.99 a pop. this shit better be good

3/4/2009 5:07:27 PM

^^dammit! I'm in charlotte tonight....


^have fun-boobs is gonna be up there too

[Edited on March 4, 2009 at 5:14 PM. Reason : j]

3/4/2009 5:14:06 PM

Greetings fellow Charlottean... I'm gonna see if there be any outside the local Saucer in the U-City.

3/4/2009 5:14:54 PM

^i haven't been to that one in yeeears

3/4/2009 5:19:22 PM

It's my home away from home since it's in-sight from my back window

3/4/2009 5:20:05 PM

i don't know anyone up in that area these days... and I my mom lives all the ways down by ballentine, so that is a bit of a drive to go up there for a few beers by myself

[Edited on March 4, 2009 at 5:23 PM. Reason : i am visiting]

3/4/2009 5:22:00 PM

Fat tire was pretty good going down, but wasn't very good coming back up

3/5/2009 1:56:39 PM

that one beer really filled me up no homo. if you eat dinner and can usually have a few beer afterwards, guess again.

3/5/2009 2:04:02 PM

I've been wanting to try this, but not sure it will be my thing. I had the sunshine wheat before but I can't get into those wheat fruity beers, and I think I had the 1554 on tap once but my beer palette wasn't very sophisticated at the time and I couldn't get into it. I'll give it another shot.

3/5/2009 2:33:44 PM

drinking fat tire is like drinking bread.

3/5/2009 2:37:37 PM

whatkind of bread?

3/5/2009 2:38:35 PM

all i gotta say is Budlight >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Guinness

3/5/2009 2:56:26 PM

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"they aren't even the same style of beer, SN is a hoppy pale ale and Fat Tire is an amber ale, apples and oranges"

Ugh, I know that... I like the Sierra craft brews better than New Belgium (I should have obviously written the brewery rather than just Fat Tire -- I didn't look at this thread again though) is what I meant...

3/5/2009 3:00:41 PM

i enjoyed fat tire

3/5/2009 3:04:08 PM

^^they are still two very different style of breweries


you should try Avery's stuff if you prefer hop-heavy breweries

3/5/2009 3:12:22 PM

Avery's? I wonder if BevMo would have that... I gotta go there for some beer today anyway for my Tahoe trip this weekend...

3/5/2009 3:17:24 PM

they had one of their owners/creators come to raleigh for a private beer tasting, and I got tickets to it- they are very heavy-hop heads... they had some stuff I really liked (more of the higher % alcohol stuff) as well as some stuff that I didn't like too much (it was good, but I prefer a milder hop taste). They even brought some stuff in that was technically illegal to sell here in NC that put me on my ass


all in all, a good brewery, and I'm sure they will have something that will be of great interest to ya

3/5/2009 3:26:06 PM

set em up

3/5/2009 3:31:58 PM