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Apparently the beer gods have decided that this week will be the time they reach down and grip me in their malty embrace. My dad and I trade beers with a guy we know, and this week he got hold of not one, but two bottles of KBS. Two! And to think I got to try CBS a couple days ago as well. In addition, he decided to throw in a can of Heady Topper because, why the hell not? Needless to say, I will be spending Valentines with my one true love.

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What you are looking at is the tapping of Founders’ Canadian Breakfast Stout. I made sure I was one of the first people in, since my bartender said it would be gone within an hour. If you’ve heard of CBS, then you know that you can’t pass up an opportunity to have it.

This may be the best stout I’ve ever had, if not the best beer. They poured it about 15 minutes before they gave it to me, so it was slightly below cellar temperature. It’s like watching a water ballet, only the dancers are vanilla and maple and they are dancing in a pool of whiskey and coffee.

Founders said that they were only able to distribute kegs of CBS to 32 states, which makes this treasure even more special to me. If you know your local watering hole is going to carry this, make sure you arrive in time to get one for yourself.

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Hodor Craft Beer holder, Designer: Karolis Stalnionis

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A really bad picture of my second homebrew: Foamdrinker. It was a brown ale that turned more into an English Brown Porter. It had some juniper and candied macadamias in it, but it was a little heavier than I wanted to be. Also it was bottle conditioned so there was a yeast prescence. All in all, I'm happy with it.

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I told my bartender that I've never had a good Italian beer and he gave me this. Needless to say, he got an outstanding tip.

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Ommegang Brewery - Valar Morghulis Dubbel

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St. Arnold's Brewing Company - Santo Schwarzkölsch

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No Label Brewery - Don Jalapeño

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My first beer! Golden Storm Pale Ale. I used the ingredients that came with the kit I bought, which weren't particularly amazing, and I also threw in some honey and grapefruit zest to liven it up. No Irish moss and a difficult manual siphoning into the bottles caused it to be a lot hazier than I wanted it, but it was a passable first attempt. It was definitely a thick, yeasty beer, which isn't terribly appropriate for the style, but I have a lot of means now to prevent this in the future. The taste was pretty good, the grapefruit blended well with the hops and and the transition to maltiness was followed by some light honey. It wasn't extremely aromatic, but I'm not disappointed with it.

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